Wednesday Crossword — November 6, 1996 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 80 clues). Published 11/6/1996. By M. E. Skolsky.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Inside the foul line (4)
FAIR
5 Across: Like Ionesco's soprano (4)
BALD
9 Across: Romantic actor Charles (5)
BOYER
14 Across: It parallels the radius (4)
ULNA
15 Across: Perlman of "Pearl" (4)
RHEA
16 Across: A month in Madrid (5)
ENERO
17 Across: Robin (9)
REDBREAST
19 Across: Actress Shire (5)
TALIA
20 Across: Wall Street order (3)
BUY
21 Across: Brain test results, for short (4)
EEGS
23 Across: Some linemen: Abbr. (3)
LTS
24 Across: Hopes (7)
ASPIRES
28 Across: School failure (7)
DROPOUT
30 Across: Alphabetic run (3)
STU
31 Across: Kind of summit (4)
ARAB
33 Across: All over (4)
ANEW
34 Across: Pinkish color (5)
CORAL
36 Across: Custard tart (4)
FLAN
38 Across: Longtime Israeli foreign minister (4)
EBAN
41 Across: Rock concert equipment (4)
AMPS
42 Across: See 32-Down (5)
BEARD
43 Across: Start of a Latin boast (4)
VENI
44 Across: ___ Alto, Calif. (4)
PALO
45 Across: Mobil rival (4)
ARCO
46 Across: E-mail predecessor (5)
TELEX
47 Across: Oklahoma city (4)
ENID
49 Across: 1995 earthquake site (4)
KOBE
51 Across: Potash (3)
LYE
52 Across: Conniver (7)
SCHEMER
55 Across: Having deep pockets (7)
MONEYED
57 Across: Miler Sebastian (3)
COE
58 Across: French tire (4)
PNEU
60 Across: Shot over the head (3)
LOB
61 Across: D-Day beach (5)
OMAHA
63 Across: Legal-tender bill (9)
GREENBACK
68 Across: Situation for Pauline? (5)
PERIL
69 Across: Ice cream thickener (4)
AGAR
70 Across: Industrial show (4)
EXPO
71 Across: First name in cosmetics (5)
ESTEE
72 Across: Mother of Apollo (4)
LETO
73 Across: ___ ex machina (4)
DEUS

Down Answers

1 Down: Raccoon, e.g. (3)
FUR
2 Down: Bitter (3)
ALE
3 Down: Not the party type: Abbr. (3)
IND
4 Down: Browning's Ben Ezra, e.g. (5)
RABBI
5 Down: Supreme Court Justice Stephen (6)
BREYER
6 Down: "Gotcha!" (3)
AHA
7 Down: ___-majeste (4)
LESE
8 Down: Saw (5)
DATED
9 Down: Trusts (6)
BETSON
10 Down: ___ roll (3)
ONA
11 Down: Chicken, so to speak (11)
YELLOWBELLY
12 Down: "A Masked Ball" aria (5)
ERITU
13 Down: Friars Club event (5)
ROAST
18 Down: Part of R.F.D. (5)
RURAL
22 Down: Super-duper (5)
GRAND
24 Down: Royalties org. (5)
ASCAP
25 Down: Pore in a leaf (5)
STOMA
26 Down: Service award (11)
PURPLEHEART
27 Down: "60 Minutes" newsman (5)
SAFER
29 Down: Irk (5)
PEEVE
32 Down: With 42-Across, a famous pirate (5)
BLACK
35 Down: Together (5)
ASONE
37 Down: Woolf's "___ of One's Own" (5)
AROOM
39 Down: Words before and after "for" (5)
ANEYE
40 Down: Forbade (5)
NIXED
42 Down: When doubled, a German city (5)
BADEN
46 Down: Mortise's mate (5)
TENON
48 Down: Stick (6)
IMPALE
50 Down: Ravel composition (6)
BOLERO
52 Down: Sub's eye, for short (5)
SCOPE
53 Down: Shows up (5)
COMES
54 Down: Buick model (5)
REGAL
56 Down: Fell off (5)
EBBED
59 Down: Feel the ___ (4)
URGE
62 Down: Make haste (3)
HIE
64 Down: Dinner table exhortation (3)
EAT
65 Down: Fire (3)
AXE
66 Down: Computer's heart, for short (3)
CPU
67 Down: Dempsey stat (3)
KOS

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