Wednesday Crossword — March 13, 1996 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 3/13/1996. By W. R. Williams.

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Across Answers

1 Across: What hopes may do (4)
SOAR
5 Across: Word with code or colony (5)
PENAL
10 Across: Copied (4)
APED
14 Across: Tours to be? (4)
ETRE
15 Across: ___Gay (5)
ENOLA
16 Across: Get along (4)
FARE
17 Across: Have-___(the poor) (4)
NOTS
18 Across: First two of a short-story writer and poet (10)
EDGARALLAN
20 Across: London area (4)
SOHO
21 Across: Grounded ship's helper (3)
TUG
22 Across: ___-Magnon (3)
CRO
23 Across: Jewish month (4)
ELUL
24 Across: First two of a novelist (10)
ERICHMARIA
29 Across: Put the ball in play (5)
SERVE
31 Across: Opposite of WSW (3)
ENE
32 Across: Liz Taylor's third (4)
TODD
33 Across: Surrendered (5)
CEDED
35 Across: Recede (3)
EBB
38 Across: Physique, briefly (3)
BOD
39 Across: Lacking spontaneity (6)
WOODEN
41 Across: Display stands (6)
EASELS
43 Across: Arab name part (3)
IBN
44 Across: Forty winks (3)
NAP
46 Across: Conductor Kurt (5)
ADLER
47 Across: Drench (4)
SOAK
49 Across: Serving of 61-Across (3)
EAR
51 Across: NBC newsman Lauer et al. (5)
MATTS
54 Across: First two of an essayist (10)
HENRYDAVID
58 Across: Twist around an axis (4)
SLUE
59 Across: Abu Dhabi's land: Abbr. (3)
UAE
60 Across: Swiss river (3)
AAR
61 Across: It's both grown and eaten in rows (4)
CORN
62 Across: First two of an essayist and poet (10)
RALPHWALDO
66 Across: Ambience (4)
AURA
67 Across: Resting on (4)
ATOP
68 Across: Three English rivers (5)
AVONS
69 Across: Artist Mondrian (4)
PIET
70 Across: Seabirds (4)
MEWS
71 Across: Descartes and Auberjonois (5)
RENES
72 Across: Ferrara family name (4)
ESTE

Down Answers

1 Down: Intuits (6)
SENSES
2 Down: "My Favorite Year" star (6)
OTOOLE
3 Down: First two of a mystery writer (11)
ARTHURCONAN
4 Down: Motion's start (8)
RESOLVED
5 Down: P.G.A.'s Calvin (5)
PEETE
6 Down: Lived through (7)
ENDURED
7 Down: Bean (6)
NOGGIN
8 Down: Resembling (3)
ALA
9 Down: Tough-wooded conifer (5)
LARCH
10 Down: Still not sunk (6)
AFLOAT
11 Down: Crony (3)
PAL
12 Down: 70's-80's pol. cause (3)
ERA
13 Down: Lion's home (3)
DEN
19 Down: Send weapons to (3)
ARM
25 Down: So-so mark (3)
CEE
26 Down: First two of a novelist (11)
ROBERTLOUIS
27 Down: Biblical no-no (4)
IDOL
28 Down: Tacks on (4)
ADDS
30 Down: Paradise (4)
EDEN
34 Down: Spanish queen until 1931 (3)
ENA
36 Down: Breakfast's partner (3)
BED
37 Down: Ointment (4)
BALM
39 Down: Hankering (4)
WISH
40 Down: "O" to ham operators, once (4)
OBOE
42 Down: Winslow Homer's "The Gulf Stream," e.g. (8)
SEASCAPE
45 Down: Garden sphere (3)
PEA
46 Down: Daughter of Minos (7)
ARIADNE
48 Down: Noted Essen family (6)
KRUPPS
50 Down: King Arthur's destination (6)
AVALON
52 Down: Gunner's station (6)
TURRET
53 Down: Capitol body (6)
SENATE
55 Down: "Uh-huh" (3)
YAH
56 Down: Double-walled flask (5)
DEWAR
57 Down: Smelting waste (5)
DROSS
62 Down: Dodge pickup (3)
RAM
63 Down: Had a bite (3)
ATE
64 Down: Volume setting (3)
LOW
65 Down: Roman greeting (3)
AVE

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