Saturday Crossword — June 22, 1996 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 6/22/1996. By B. White.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Upper Great Lakes Indian (6)
OJIBWA
7 Across: Cheat (7)
DEFRAUD
14 Across: "Mme. Charpentier and Her Children" artist (6)
RENOIR
15 Across: Flirt (8)
COQUETTE
16 Across: Chemical warfare gas (6)
ARSINE
17 Across: Weathercock's roost (8)
HOUSETOP
18 Across: Chisels, e.g. (5)
TOOLS
19 Across: Famously touchy one? (5)
MIDAS
20 Across: Address abbr. (3)
APO
21 Across: Apple alternatives (4)
IBMS
22 Across: Kind of colony (5)
PENAL
23 Across: Tommy Atkins, e.g. (4)
BRIT
24 Across: United Nations vote (3)
NON
25 Across: Went off course (5)
ERRED
26 Across: Homes abroad (5)
CASAS
27 Across: Merrymaking (8)
GAIETIES
29 Across: Car engine part (3)
FAN
30 Across: Object of a hunt in a 1929 mystery (13)
MALTESEFALCON
34 Across: Intl. org. based in D.C. (3)
OAS
35 Across: Forty-niners' equipment (8)
PICKAXES
37 Across: Brews (5)
BEERS
40 Across: Naval personnel (5)
WAVES
41 Across: Evil spirit (3)
IMP
42 Across: Color in a Spanish sunset (4)
ROJO
43 Across: Leftover (5)
SHRED
44 Across: Wife of Lamech, in the Bible (4)
ADAH
45 Across: War hero (3)
ACE
46 Across: Bake, in a way (5)
SHIRR
47 Across: Photographic surface (5)
PLATE
48 Across: Gold coin of old (8)
ZECCHINO
50 Across: Beau (6)
SUITOR
51 Across: Modern time-waster? (8)
INTERNET
52 Across: Consent (6)
ACCEDE
53 Across: Pre-Life picture magazine (7)
LESLIES
54 Across: Removed, with "out" (6)
WEEDED

Down Answers

1 Down: Panegyrics (7)
ORATING
2 Down: Three-liter bottle (8)
JEROBOAM
3 Down: Sometime woe for Thurber (8)
INSOMNIA
4 Down: Is angry (5)
BOILS
5 Down: Sports page stats (4)
WINS
6 Down: "You___" (1983 Lionel Richie hit) (3)
ARE
7 Down: Thingamajig (6)
DOODAD
8 Down: Uniform (5)
EQUAL
9 Down: Stew (4)
FUSS
10 Down: Female sandpiper (3)
REE
11 Down: Scents (6)
ATTARS
12 Down: No man's land? (6)
UTOPIA
13 Down: Stopping points (6)
DEPOTS
15 Down: Subject of a 1926 Charlie Chan mystery (13)
CHINESEPARROT
19 Down: Famille members (5)
MERES
22 Down: Crowbars (5)
PRIES
23 Down: ___di Roma (Italian financial giant) (5)
BANCA
25 Down: Sundance Kid's girlfriend and others (5)
ETTAS
26 Down: Repairs, in a way: Var. (5)
CALKS
28 Down: Gold-mining province of Ecuador (5)
ELORO
29 Down: Dared (5)
FACED
31 Down: Fin (5)
FIVER
32 Down: Became rusty (8)
OXIDATED
33 Down: Roundworm (8)
NEMATODE
36 Down: Made round (7)
SPHERED
37 Down: 1985 Jonathan Pryce film (6)
BRAZIL
38 Down: Epoch in which mamals arose (6)
EOCENE
39 Down: Boots (6)
EJECTS
40 Down: Complains feebly (6)
WHINES
43 Down: Fancy (5)
SHINE
44 Down: "Falstaff" soprano (5)
ALICE
46 Down: Mister, in Madras: Var. (4)
SHRI
47 Down: Purplish brown (4)
PUCE
49 Down: Animation frame (3)
CEL
50 Down: Crosscut (3)
SAW

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