Friday Crossword — October 18, 1996 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 10/18/1996. By M. Gaffney.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Seven-time Wimbledon champ (10)
- STEFFIGRAF
- 11 Across: Dam up (4)
- STEM
- 15 Across: "Greetings!" (10)
- HELLOTHERE
- 16 Across: Off (4)
- AWAY
- 17 Across: "The Breakfast Club" actress (10)
- ALLYSHEEDY
- 18 Across: Emperor in a Mozart opera (4)
- TITO
- 19 Across: Microscopic (3)
- WEE
- 20 Across: Evening, in Avila (5)
- TARDE
- 21 Across: Beat by a tiny bit (3)
- NIP
- 22 Across: Spot (5)
- SPECK
- 24 Across: Greenness (7)
- NAIVETE
- 28 Across: Kurosawa characters (8)
- SAMURAIS
- 31 Across: Foe of 26-Down (4)
- IRAN
- 32 Across: Writer Waugh (4)
- ALEC
- 33 Across: Capt.'s heading (3)
- NNW
- 34 Across: Mild oath (6)
- DANGIT
- 37 Across: Dating term (5)
- CIRCA
- 39 Across: Word in many cathedral names (3)
- SAN
- 41 Across: Andean city (5)
- QUITO
- 42 Across: Rathskeller items (6)
- STEINS
- 44 Across: "Huh-uh" (3)
- NAH
- 46 Across: Over (4)
- ANEW
- 47 Across: Fascinated by (4)
- INTO
- 48 Across: Derisive ones (8)
- SNORTERS
- 50 Across: Court stat (7)
- ASSISTS
- 53 Across: Thoroughly enjoyed (5)
- ATEUP
- 54 Across: "Macarena" singers Los ___ Rio (3)
- DEL
- 55 Across: Bracing (5)
- TONIC
- 57 Across: Bar work (3)
- LAW
- 60 Across: Term terminator (4)
- EXAM
- 62 Across: Run up to the Hill? (10)
- SENATERACE
- 64 Across: World's seventh-longest river (4)
- LENA
- 65 Across: "Cimarron" co-star, 1931 (10)
- IRENEDUNNE
- 66 Across: Christian Science founder (4)
- EDDY
- 67 Across: It's on a roll (10)
- SESAMESEED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: "Heartbreak House" playwright (4)
- SHAW
- 2 Down: Conference lead-in (4)
- TELE
- 3 Down: Part of Canada's Arctic Archipelago (15)
- ELLESMEREISLAND
- 4 Down: The birds and the bees do it (3)
- FLY
- 5 Down: Promote (6)
- FOSTER
- 6 Down: Penelope, for one (7)
- ITHACAN
- 7 Down: Deli supply (8)
- GHERKINS
- 8 Down: Oliver of "Oliver!" (4)
- REED
- 9 Down: "As You Like It" forest (5)
- ARDEN
- 10 Down: Whimsically strange (3)
- FEY
- 11 Down: Remained idle (3)
- SAT
- 12 Down: Piper PA-31P Navajo, e.g. (15)
- TWINENGINEPLANE
- 13 Down: Weird Al Yankovic parody (5)
- EATIT
- 14 Down: Shortsighted person (5)
- MYOPE
- 23 Down: Contemporary of Leoncavallo (7)
- PUCCINI
- 25 Down: Relief (3)
- AID
- 26 Down: Foe of 31-Across (4)
- IRAQ
- 27 Down: Republic formerly called New Hebrides (7)
- VANUATU
- 28 Down: Body cavities (4)
- SACS
- 29 Down: Got down (4)
- ALIT
- 30 Down: Trumpeters, e.g. (5)
- SWANS
- 35 Down: Road to Rome (4)
- ITER
- 36 Down: Lugs (4)
- TOWS
- 38 Down: Red army members? (4)
- ANTS
- 40 Down: "Hey Jude" chorus (8)
- NANANANA
- 43 Down: Sir Toby Belch, e.g. (3)
- SOT
- 45 Down: Quite the dish or hunk (7)
- HOTITEM
- 49 Down: Hairlines do it (6)
- RECEDE
- 50 Down: Rochester's ward (5)
- ADELE
- 51 Down: Part of a sch. health class (5)
- SEXED
- 52 Down: Unit of cordwood (5)
- STERE
- 56 Down: Kind of column (4)
- ONES
- 58 Down: Tetracycline target (4)
- ACNE
- 59 Down: Herbicide target (4)
- WEED
- 61 Down: New Jersey's Cape ___ (3)
- MAY
- 62 Down: Nickname in the family (3)
- SIS
- 63 Down: Toys ___ (3)
- RUS
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