Friday Crossword — June 5, 1998 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 6/5/1998. By Manny Nosowsky.

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Across Answers

1 Across: "Please be ___" (6)
SEATED
7 Across: Understandable (8)
COHERENT
15 Across: Plenary (6)
ENTIRE
16 Across: Start of Barney's theme song (8)
ILOVEYOU
17 Across: Beating (6)
ATHROB
18 Across: Pre-meltdown signal, maybe (8)
REDALERT
19 Across: Part of the food pyramid (6)
BREADS
20 Across: "Misery" star (4)
CAAN
21 Across: Rouge or noir, e.g. (3)
BET
22 Across: "Rawhide" singer (5)
LAINE
23 Across: Native of Kirkuk (4)
KURD
24 Across: River crossed in the Korean War (4)
YALU
25 Across: Child-rearer's comment? (9)
UPSADAISY
27 Across: Swindle (5)
MULCT
28 Across: Planner's fig. (3)
EST
29 Across: Name, either good or bad (3)
REP
30 Across: Ring responses? (6)
HELLOS
31 Across: Talus (9)
ANKLEBONE
34 Across: James and Jackson (6)
JESSES
37 Across: Have, as a fever (3)
RUN
38 Across: Touch of Jack Frost (3)
NIP
41 Across: Just vegetate (5)
EXIST
42 Across: Cape Dutch (9)
AFRIKAANS
45 Across: Give ___ on the back (4)
APAT
46 Across: Mate's call (4)
AHOY
47 Across: The unmarried woman in "An Unmarried Woman" (5)
ERICA
48 Across: Escape (3)
LAM
49 Across: Collection agent's target (4)
OWER
50 Across: Rough voice, metaphorically (6)
GRAVEL
51 Across: Low-grade, as conflagrations go (8)
ONEALARM
53 Across: Straight (6)
UNBENT
54 Across: 1898 ship in the news (8)
USSMAINE
55 Across: Oder-___ Line (German-Polish border) (6)
NEISSE
56 Across: Take care of (8)
SEEAFTER
57 Across: Roofing specialist (6)
SLATER

Down Answers

1 Down: Aquamarine (7)
SEABLUE
2 Down: Gets in a sting (7)
ENTRAPS
3 Down: Evangelist's target (7)
ATHEIST
4 Down: European capital (6)
TIRANA
5 Down: Gradually disappeared (6)
ERODED
6 Down: Ball girls? (4)
DEBS
7 Down: Seal, e.g. (15)
CIRCUSPERFORMER
8 Down: Mrs. of legend (6)
OLEARY
9 Down: Surfer wannabe (5)
HODAD
10 Down: Hunter of fiction (4)
EVAN
11 Down: Bapt. or Episc. (3)
REL
12 Down: Socket filler (7)
EYEBALL
13 Down: Razor brand (7)
NORELCO
14 Down: Chiding remarks (7)
TUTTUTS
23 Down: German canal city (4)
KIEL
24 Down: Kind of tide (4)
YULE
26 Down: Safe places (4)
ARKS
27 Down: Husbands (3)
MEN
30 Down: Daughter of Hägar the Horrible (4)
HONI
31 Down: Second: Abbr. (4)
ASST
32 Down: ABC, e.g. (3)
NET
33 Down: Repress in memory (4)
BURY
34 Down: Green, in a way (7)
JEALOUS
35 Down: Great Plains, e.g. (7)
EXPANSE
36 Down: Popular cat (7)
SIAMESE
38 Down: Least worldly (7)
NAIVEST
39 Down: More than displease (7)
INCENSE
40 Down: Church book (7)
PSALTER
42 Down: Pipe-smoking actor Brian (6)
AHERNE
43 Down: Part of an ear (6)
KERNEL
44 Down: Home of the descendants of Ishmael (6)
ARABIA
46 Down: Anticipate (5)
AWAIT
49 Down: Minnesota's St. ___ College (4)
OLAF
50 Down: Aims (for) (4)
GUNS
52 Down: Journal publisher, for short (3)
AMA

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