Saturday Crossword — January 17, 1998 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 1/17/1998. By Rich Norris.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Some required reading (8)
- CLASSICS
- 9 Across: They might raise quarters (6)
- SHARPS
- 15 Across: Accumulated (8)
- RACKEDUP
- 16 Across: Kitchen gadgets (6)
- PARERS
- 17 Across: Sophocles work (8)
- ANTIGONE
- 18 Across: Minister, at times (6)
- UNITER
- 19 Across: Weapons prog. since 1983 (3)
- SDI
- 20 Across: Noted adviser (10)
- ANNLANDERS
- 22 Across: Moved, nautically speaking (4)
- HOVE
- 24 Across: Cultivate (4)
- TILL
- 25 Across: Those, to Tomás (4)
- ESOS
- 26 Across: Clears (4)
- NETS
- 28 Across: Where the Gurkha reigned (5)
- NEPAL
- 30 Across: Chinchilla, for one (3)
- FUR
- 32 Across: Abject (7)
- HANGDOG
- 34 Across: Let go (4)
- FIRE
- 35 Across: 50's FireFlite (6)
- DESOTO
- 38 Across: Violent, perhaps (6)
- RRATED
- 40 Across: Rock blasters? (4)
- AMPS
- 41 Across: More than uncooperative (7)
- DEFIANT
- 45 Across: Crude meas. (3)
- BBL
- 46 Across: Put on a new staff (5)
- REMAN
- 47 Across: "No way!" (4)
- ASIF
- 50 Across: Provoked response (4)
- RISE
- 52 Across: Euterpe, e.g. (4)
- MUSE
- 54 Across: Unique (4)
- ONLY
- 56 Across: "All About Eve" actress (10)
- ANNEBAXTER
- 59 Across: Rope used in sailing (3)
- TYE
- 60 Across: Organ stop (6)
- OCTAVE
- 61 Across: Result of plotting, perhaps (8)
- PARABOLA
- 63 Across: One who hoots (6)
- JEERER
- 64 Across: Disney Studios employee (8)
- ANIMATOR
- 65 Across: Least common (6)
- ODDEST
- 66 Across: Quit (8)
- STEPDOWN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Market problem (5)
- CRASH
- 2 Down: "I Was a Teen-Age Werewolf" star, 1957 (6)
- LANDON
- 3 Down: Kind of ingredient (6)
- ACTIVE
- 4 Down: Word with bum or bunny (3)
- SKI
- 5 Down: Sonic the Hedgehog maker (4)
- SEGA
- 6 Down: "___ Wanna Cry," 1991 #1 song (5)
- IDONT
- 7 Down: Art (7)
- CUNNING
- 8 Down: Spoke literally? (7)
- SPELLED
- 9 Down: Created a web site? (4)
- SPUN
- 10 Down: Bach contemporary (6)
- HANDEL
- 11 Down: Old Dodge (5)
- ARIES
- 12 Down: Modify equipment, in a way (8)
- RETROFIT
- 13 Down: Urgency (8)
- PRESSURE
- 14 Down: Abbr. on old maps (3)
- SSR
- 21 Down: Food for Fido (4)
- ALPO
- 23 Down: Community spirit (5)
- ETHOS
- 27 Down: Met (3)
- SAT
- 29 Down: Uttar Pradesh city (4)
- AGRA
- 31 Down: River to the Mississippi (3)
- RED
- 33 Down: Protuberance (4)
- NODE
- 34 Down: "Porky" (5)
- FATSO
- 35 Down: Apply gently (3)
- DAB
- 36 Down: Adopted (8)
- EMBRACED
- 37 Down: Set, in a way (8)
- SPLINTED
- 39 Down: Genetic stuff (3)
- RNA
- 42 Down: 19th-century educator Willard (4)
- EMMA
- 43 Down: Slip (7)
- FAUXPAS
- 44 Down: Flash (7)
- INSTANT
- 46 Down: "Speed" actor (6)
- REEVES
- 48 Down: Completely (6)
- INTOTO
- 49 Down: Proceed so as to avoid radar detection (6)
- FLYLOW
- 51 Down: Hunting device (5)
- SNARE
- 53 Down: Like a Dean Koontz novel (5)
- EERIE
- 55 Down: Long (5)
- YEARN
- 57 Down: One of the Bobbsey twins (4)
- BERT
- 58 Down: Garage feature (4)
- RAMP
- 60 Down: Eye, in Iberia (3)
- OJO
- 62 Down: Ill-done (3)
- BAD
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