Saturday Crossword — June 27, 1998 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 6/27/1998. By Alan Jay Weiss.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: One of Frank's 27-Down (3)
- AVA
- 4 Across: Movie-rating org. (4)
- MPAA
- 8 Across: Lots of lager (5)
- CASES
- 13 Across: Big pitch (9)
- BILLBOARD
- 16 Across: Duck (5)
- EVADE
- 17 Across: Source of cabinetry wood (9)
- ALDERTREE
- 18 Across: House by a church (5)
- MANSE
- 19 Across: Harbor openings (8)
- SEAGATES
- 20 Across: Gather one's strength (6)
- RESTUP
- 21 Across: Loads (4)
- ATON
- 22 Across: With 32-Down, a drugstore purchase (6)
- DENTAL
- 23 Across: Hardware purchase (5)
- BOLTS
- 25 Across: Bargain (4)
- PACT
- 26 Across: Welsh rabbit ingredient (3)
- ALE
- 28 Across: One way to be knocked (5)
- SILLY
- 29 Across: Worker's incentive (5)
- BONUS
- 30 Across: Overrule (3)
- NIX
- 31 Across: Bedfellow (4)
- ALLY
- 32 Across: Winged (5)
- FLEET
- 33 Across: Collapse (4)
- GIVE
- 34 Across: Husband of Fatima (3)
- ALI
- 35 Across: Brandy base (5)
- PLUMS
- 36 Across: ___ a fiddle (5)
- FITAS
- 37 Across: Kind of flour (3)
- RYE
- 38 Across: They may be exchanged in chambers (4)
- IONS
- 39 Across: Superhero of pulp fiction (5)
- CONAN
- 40 Across: Not AWOL (6)
- ONPOST
- 42 Across: Actress Helgenberger (4)
- MARG
- 43 Across: Boos (6)
- SCORNS
- 44 Across: Buckthorn varieties (8)
- CASCARAS
- 48 Across: Room with a view (5)
- AERIE
- 49 Across: Metalworker? (9)
- ALCHEMIST
- 50 Across: Feline, in Frankfurt (5)
- KATZE
- 51 Across: Recklessly bold (9)
- DAREDEVIL
- 52 Across: "A Flea ___ Ear" (Georges Feydeau play) (5)
- INHER
- 53 Across: Interference (4)
- SNOW
- 54 Across: W.W. II arena (3)
- ETO
Down Answers
- 1 Down: French protest phrase (4)
- ABAS
- 2 Down: Hardly honorable (4)
- VILE
- 3 Down: "Sweet Liberty" star (4)
- ALDA
- 4 Down: "Virtute et Armis" and others (6)
- MOTTOS
- 5 Down: Figure above a 9 or 0, for short (5)
- PAREN
- 6 Down: Vultures were sacred to him (4)
- ARES
- 7 Down: The Aesop of Indiana (3)
- ADE
- 8 Down: Binds (7)
- CEMENTS
- 9 Down: "Belay there!" (5)
- AVAST
- 10 Down: Arcadia racing venue (10)
- SANTAANITA
- 11 Down: "Toast of the Town" host (10)
- EDSULLIVAN
- 12 Down: Percolate (4)
- SEEP
- 14 Down: According to Hoyle (7)
- LEGALLY
- 15 Down: Impudent (6)
- BRATTY
- 20 Down: Director's prerogative (5)
- RECUT
- 22 Down: About five million Europeans (5)
- DANES
- 23 Down: "Suddenly" singer, 1985 (10)
- BILLYOCEAN
- 24 Down: Reagan Administration figure (10)
- OLLIENORTH
- 25 Down: Romantic recitals (5)
- POEMS
- 27 Down: Onetime item (4)
- EXES
- 28 Down: River from the Vosges Mountains (4)
- SAAR
- 29 Down: Like a foil (5)
- BLUNT
- 32 Down: See 22-Across (5)
- FLOSS
- 33 Down: D. L. Coburn Pulitzer play, with "The" (7)
- GINGAME
- 35 Down: Avant-gardist (7)
- PIONEER
- 36 Down: Unnatural (6)
- FORCED
- 39 Down: Kind of nut (6)
- CASHEW
- 41 Down: It may be grand (5)
- PRIZE
- 42 Down: Computer aid (5)
- MACRO
- 43 Down: "Reginald" author (4)
- SAKI
- 44 Down: MacGregor, to Rob Roy (4)
- CLAN
- 45 Down: Bank of Paris (4)
- RIVE
- 46 Down: ___ were (4)
- ASIT
- 47 Down: City on the Vire (4)
- STLO
- 49 Down: Print ___ (3)
- ADS
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