Saturday Crossword — July 12, 1997 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 7/12/1997. By Richard Silvestri.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Emergency treatment (8)
FIRSTAID
9 Across: Products of planning (5)
LISTS
14 Across: Kind of correspondence (8)
ONETOONE
15 Across: Authors (6)
PENMEN
16 Across: Key locale? (8)
RAMPARTS
17 Across: City on Lake Michigan (6)
RACINE
18 Across: Dance lesson (4)
STEP
19 Across: Maxwell Perkins, for a famous example (6)
EDITOR
20 Across: Horn sound (7)
TANTARA
23 Across: Watch mechanism (6)
DETENT
24 Across: Southeastern salamander (6)
MUDEEL
25 Across: Empty (5)
INANE
27 Across: "Damn Yankees" composer (5)
ADLER
28 Across: Montana tribe (4)
CROW
29 Across: Vegas opening (3)
LAS
32 Across: Not so fine (7)
COARSER
34 Across: Clear (7)
UNBLOCK
37 Across: Asian honorific (3)
SRI
38 Across: Suburban sight (4)
LAWN
40 Across: Milk: Prefix (5)
LACTI
41 Across: Algae eater (5)
AMEBA
43 Across: Trust (6)
BANKON
44 Across: It might make your hair stand on end (6)
STATIC
47 Across: Scornful sound (7)
SNICKER
49 Across: Scout's discovery, maybe (6)
TALENT
50 Across: Wind indicator (4)
SOCK
51 Across: Flattened at the poles (6)
OBLATE
52 Across: Important prefix (8)
AREACODE
57 Across: Dark, on Broadway (6)
CLOSED
58 Across: New partner (8)
IMPROVED
59 Across: Attuned (5)
KEYED
60 Across: Definitive statement (8)
LASTWORD

Down Answers

1 Down: Backing (3)
FOR
2 Down: Concert finale (3)
INA
3 Down: "The One I Love" group (3)
REM
4 Down: Indy 500 letters (3)
STP
5 Down: They speak and drink (8)
TOASTERS
6 Down: Of a blood line (6)
AORTAL
7 Down: Lay low? (5)
INTER
8 Down: Give up (7)
DESPAIR
9 Down: Spiritless (6)
LEADEN
10 Down: Stir up (6)
INCITE
11 Down: Cuff (5)
SMITE
12 Down: Part of a joint (5)
TENON
13 Down: Comic strip canine (5)
SNERT
15 Down: Early (7)
PREDAWN
20 Down: Home style (5)
TUDOR
21 Down: Name in 50's politics (5)
ADLAI
22 Down: Poetic adverb (4)
NEER
24 Down: Brolly alternatives (4)
MACS
26 Down: Common thing? (4)
NOUN
28 Down: Callaloo ingredient (4)
CRAB
29 Down: "The Gauntlet" actress, 1977 (5)
LOCKE
30 Down: Ford or Hudson (5)
ACTOR
31 Down: Excoriate (4)
SKIN
33 Down: Kind of official (7)
ELECTED
35 Down: Magic (8)
BLACKART
36 Down: Like young Abe Lincoln (4)
LANK
39 Down: Christmas drink (7)
WASSAIL
41 Down: Military command (6)
ATEASE
42 Down: Made cents (6)
MINTED
43 Down: They have pull (6)
BICEPS
44 Down: Standard (5)
STOCK
45 Down: Put on ice (5)
TABLE
46 Down: Solder, e.g. (5)
ALLOY
48 Down: Marilyn, originally (5)
NORMA
53 Down: Bully (3)
COW
54 Down: Ab ___ (from the beginning) (3)
OVO
55 Down: Article written by Freud (3)
DER
56 Down: Roush of baseball fame (3)
EDD

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