Saturday Crossword — February 1, 1997 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 2/1/1997. By R. H. Burns.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Entertainer whose given names were Wladziu Valentino (8)
- LIBERACE
- 9 Across: Break (6)
- ESCAPE
- 15 Across: Glutton's opposite (8)
- ANOREXIC
- 16 Across: Klink's clink (6)
- STALAG
- 17 Across: Music to ease the second-job blues? (15)
- MOONLIGHTSONATA
- 19 Across: Tempers (7)
- ANNEALS
- 20 Across: Saw again (7)
- REDATED
- 21 Across: Cardinal's insignia (3)
- STL
- 22 Across: They create a sensation (8)
- TINGLERS
- 23 Across: The old man in "The Old Man and the Sea" (8)
- SANTIAGO
- 27 Across: Piston's place: Abbr. (3)
- CYL
- 28 Across: Flap (3)
- ADO
- 29 Across: Temple ___ (6)
- ORANGE
- 31 Across: Touch of acrimony (4)
- EDGE
- 35 Across: Language for the masses (5)
- LATIN
- 37 Across: Small buzzer (3)
- BEE
- 38 Across: Practice (5)
- DRILL
- 39 Across: Bootleggers' bane (4)
- TMEN
- 40 Across: Executorial concern (6)
- ESTATE
- 42 Across: Hero (3)
- SUB
- 43 Across: Spanish replies (3)
- SIS
- 45 Across: Betting option (8)
- TRIFECTA
- 47 Across: Royalty payer (8)
- LICENSEE
- 51 Across: Squirt (3)
- TOT
- 52 Across: Rap sheet list (7)
- ALIASES
- 53 Across: On the line (7)
- WAGERED
- 57 Across: Colonel Sanders at a hen party? (15)
- PERSONANONGRATA
- 59 Across: Sentence shortener (6)
- PAROLE
- 60 Across: Floor decoration (8)
- ORIENTAL
- 61 Across: They're served at Fortnum and Mason (6)
- SCONES
- 62 Across: Cut (8)
- DECREASE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Shangri-La cleric (4)
- LAMA
- 2 Down: Sharing (4)
- INON
- 3 Down: Godsend (4)
- BOON
- 4 Down: Tubb, "The Texas Troubadour" (6)
- ERNEST
- 5 Down: Blood (8)
- RELATION
- 6 Down: Pertaining to the armpit (7)
- AXILLAR
- 7 Down: They come in a pack (4)
- CIGS
- 8 Down: Level of hierarchy: Abbr. (3)
- ECH
- 9 Down: Quiddity (7)
- ESSENCE
- 10 Down: Victorian, in a way (6)
- STODGY
- 11 Down: Bargeman (8)
- CANALLER
- 12 Down: Sporting wings (5)
- ALATE
- 13 Down: Charles, to William (5)
- PATER
- 14 Down: "Holy moly!" (5)
- EGADS
- 18 Down: Prefix with state (3)
- TRI
- 22 Down: Simple flute (7)
- TONETTE
- 23 Down: Ionic compound (4)
- SALT
- 24 Down: 1910 Rodin sculpture at the Met (4)
- ADAM
- 25 Down: Quaver, e.g. (4)
- NOTE
- 26 Down: Yaks (4)
- GABS
- 30 Down: Duds (4)
- GEAR
- 32 Down: Platter (4)
- DISC
- 33 Down: Nimiety (4)
- GLUT
- 34 Down: Napoleon's empire of 1814-15 (4)
- ELBA
- 36 Down: Available (8)
- INSEASON
- 38 Down: Visibility aid (8)
- DEFOGGER
- 40 Down: Presumed authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls (7)
- ESSENES
- 41 Down: Subject of a Clive Cussler best seller, with "the" (7)
- TITANIC
- 44 Down: Bottom part of a pump (6)
- INSOLE
- 46 Down: Perpetual, in poesy (6)
- ETERNE
- 47 Down: They're pulled in pulkas (5)
- LAPPS
- 48 Down: Of the small intestine (5)
- ILEAC
- 49 Down: Meteorologist's prefix (5)
- CIRRO
- 50 Down: Hockey's Tikkanen (3)
- ESA
- 53 Down: Abraded (4)
- WORE
- 54 Down: Pro ___ (4)
- RATA
- 55 Down: Greek letters (4)
- ETAS
- 56 Down: ___ Arden, Flash Gordon companion (4)
- DALE
- 58 Down: Signal at Sotheby's (3)
- NOD
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