Saturday Crossword — May 23, 1992 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 5/23/1992. By Ernie Furtado.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Alabama's Crimson ___ (4)
TIDE
5 Across: Did certain seeding (5)
RATED
10 Across: Cosmetic (5)
TONER
11 Across: Combat vessel (7)
FRIGATE
13 Across: Barnaby Jones of TV (5)
EBSEN
14 Across: Quashes (9)
REPRESSES
17 Across: Former Argentine President (5)
MITRE
18 Across: Botanist Gray (3)
ASA
19 Across: Journal end (3)
ESE
20 Across: Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" (4)
PERE
21 Across: St.-Tropez sight (3)
MER
22 Across: Merchant guild (5)
HANSA
24 Across: Big Ten inst. (3)
OSU
25 Across: Place to purchase pickles (4)
DELI
26 Across: Detroit dud (5)
EDSEL
27 Across: ___ en scène (4)
MISE
30 Across: Concealed explosive (8)
LANDMINE
32 Across: Perfumy (7)
SCENTED
35 Across: Nullified (7)
NEGATED
36 Across: Greatest of Arthur's knights (8)
LANCELOT
38 Across: Start of a Caesar trio (4)
VENI
39 Across: Pilasters (5)
ANTAE
40 Across: Elm, in Évian (4)
ORME
42 Across: ___ Buddhism (3)
ZEN
45 Across: Article of food (5)
VIAND
46 Across: Vintage auto (3)
REO
47 Across: ___-shanter (4)
TAMO
48 Across: Darkroom prod. (3)
ENL
49 Across: L.A.-to-Las Vegas dir. (3)
NNW
50 Across: Apportions (5)
METES
51 Across: Place in statu quo (9)
REINSTATE
55 Across: Actress MacMahon (5)
ALINE
56 Across: More wretched (7)
SORRIER
57 Across: Trudges (5)
PLODS
58 Across: Kafka novel, with "The" (5)
TRIAL
59 Across: Some crossword defs. (4)
SYNS

Down Answers

1 Down: Certain mugs (6)
TOBIES
2 Down: Tuba player, e.g. (15)
INSTRUMENTALIST
3 Down: Plow man (5)
DEERE
4 Down: Loser to Gans (4)
ERNE
5 Down: Riverbank dweller (8)
RIPARIAN
6 Down: Sci. of farming (3)
AGR
7 Down: Mimeograph inventor (3)
TAE
8 Down: French connections (3)
ETS
9 Down: Loss of feeling (15)
DESENSITIZATION
10 Down: Pace (5)
TEMPO
11 Down: In which a strike may occur (5)
FRAME
12 Down: Vend anew (6)
RESELL
15 Down: Dead Sea ascetic (6)
ESSENE
16 Down: Like Oscar-winning names (6)
SEALED
22 Down: Equivocate (5)
HEDGE
23 Down: Huckster (5)
ADMAN
25 Down: Actress-singer Sandra ___ (4)
DEEL
28 Down: Peruvian native (5)
INCAN
29 Down: Bucephalus, e.g. (5)
STEED
31 Down: Field of granular snow (4)
NEVE
32 Down: Ship of old (6)
SLAVER
33 Down: Tooth (6)
CANINE
34 Down: Dead as a ___ (8)
DOORNAIL
37 Down: Thirty, en français (6)
TRENTE
41 Down: Manicurist in the suburbs? (5)
MOWER
43 Down: Makes changes in texts (6)
EMENDS
44 Down: Anatomical numbers? (5)
NOSES
47 Down: Portrayer of a TV Theo (5)
TELLY
50 Down: Cartographers' creations (4)
MAPS
52 Down: And not (3)
NOR
53 Down: ___ Lanka (3)
SRI
54 Down: Start of a refrain (3)
TRA

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