Thursday Crossword — April 30, 1998 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 4/30/1998. By Kelly Clark.

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Across Answers

1 Across: "Hasta luego!" (4)
TATA
5 Across: Like Mozart's flute (5)
MAGIC
10 Across: Elhi orgs. (4)
PTAS
14 Across: Riffraff (4)
SCUM
15 Across: College town near Bangor (5)
ORONO
16 Across: Mock words of enlightenment (4)
AHSO
17 Across: Prefix with lateral (4)
AMBI
18 Across: Position (5)
STAND
19 Across: Summer job seeker, often (4)
TEEN
20 Across: Don sackcloth and ashes (6)
REPENT
22 Across: Lunchbox alternative (8)
PAPERBAG
24 Across: Trojans' sch. (3)
USC
25 Across: Porky's love (7)
PETUNIA
26 Across: Blvd. crossers (3)
STS
28 Across: Mary Todd's love (3)
ABE
30 Across: Shakespearean suffix (3)
EST
31 Across: Big bang producer (3)
TNT
34 Across: It's dead, some say (8)
CHIVALRY
37 Across: Overly (6)
TOOTOO
39 Across: Penta- plus one (4)
HEXA
40 Across: Last of a series (5)
OMEGA
42 Across: Coal site (4)
VEIN
43 Across: Gilligan's boat (6)
MINNOW
45 Across: Run through (8)
REHEARSE
47 Across: Pedro might pan for it (3)
ORO
48 Across: Clock-setting std. (3)
GMT
50 Across: Erie Lackawanna, e.g.: Abbr. (3)
RWY
51 Across: Toady's response (3)
YES
52 Across: Publicist's handout (7)
RELEASE
55 Across: Two-time U.S. Open winner (3)
ELS
57 Across: Added to a recording (8)
DUBBEDIN
59 Across: "Hurray!" (6)
IDIDIT
62 Across: Black-and-white treat (4)
OREO
63 Across: Vastness (5)
OCEAN
65 Across: Pro ___ (4)
BONO
66 Across: Govt. watchdog (4)
OSHA
67 Across: Hit plenty hard (5)
WHACK
68 Across: Feminine org. since the 1850's (4)
YWCA
69 Across: Dillon of "Wild Things" (4)
MATT
70 Across: Some shoes (5)
NIKES
71 Across: Art school subj. (4)
ANAT

Down Answers

1 Down: Peter, for one (4)
TSAR
2 Down: Ne plus ultra (4)
ACME
3 Down: With 11-Down, "On the Town" lyric, appropriately (15)
TUBPUSIXNORBEHT
4 Down: Cannes confidantes (5)
AMIES
5 Down: Lion's share (4)
MOST
6 Down: Emerson's "jealous mistress" (3)
ART
7 Down: Freak out (5)
GOAPE
8 Down: Not learned (6)
INNATE
9 Down: O'Neal/Streisand comedy, appropriately (10)
CODPUSTAHW
10 Down: Gloria ___ (lesser doxology) (5)
PATRI
11 Down: See 3-Down (15)
THEBATTERYSDOWN
12 Down: Between ports (4)
ASEA
13 Down: Tin Pan Alley product (4)
SONG
21 Down: Orange Bowl org. (4)
NCAA
23 Down: Opposite of exo- (4)
ENTO
25 Down: Salon service (4)
PERM
26 Down: Jerk (5)
SCHMO
27 Down: Not our (5)
THEIR
29 Down: Comment from Popeye, appropriately (10)
BLOWMEDOWN
32 Down: Kind of pollution (5)
NOISE
33 Down: Steps on a scale? (5)
TONES
35 Down: U-Haul unit (3)
VAN
36 Down: "So's ___ old man!" (3)
YER
38 Down: Macrogametes (3)
OVA
41 Down: "Sommersby" star (4)
GERE
44 Down: Rubberneck (4)
OGLE
46 Down: Argus-___ (vigilant) (4)
EYED
49 Down: Chinese exercises (6)
TAICHI
53 Down: W.W. II torpedo vessel (5)
EBOAT
54 Down: Kind of preview (5)
SNEAK
56 Down: Gulf of Sidra locale (5)
LIBYA
57 Down: Bad end (4)
DOOM
58 Down: ___ Minor (4)
URSA
59 Down: Some are indelible (4)
INKS
60 Down: Machu Picchu resident (4)
INCA
61 Down: Exactly (4)
TOAT
64 Down: Whiz (3)
ACE

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