Monday Crossword — August 10, 1998 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/10/1998. By Brendan Emmett Quigley.

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Across Answers

1 Across: "Spare" items at a barbecue (4)
RIBS
5 Across: Popular athletic shoes (5)
AVIAS
10 Across: Bullets and such (4)
AMMO
14 Across: Melville tale (4)
OMOO
15 Across: Beatle with a beat (5)
RINGO
16 Across: Many a Seattle weather forecast (4)
RAIN
17 Across: Classic pickup line #1 (15)
YOURPLACEORMINE
20 Across: "Six Days, Seven Nights" co-star (9)
ANNEHECHE
21 Across: Early night, to a poet (3)
EEN
22 Across: Permit: Abbr. (3)
LIC
23 Across: Prefix with -metric (3)
ISO
24 Across: Heavy hammer (6)
SLEDGE
27 Across: Proofreader's mark (4)
STET
29 Across: Not glossy, as a photo (5)
MATTE
32 Across: Captain Morgan's drink (3)
RUM
33 Across: "Norma ___" (3)
RAE
36 Across: Dish served under glass (8)
PHEASANT
38 Across: Classic pickup line #2 (13)
WHATSYOURSIGN
41 Across: Geometric measurement (8)
DIAMETER
42 Across: What Yahoo! searches, with "the" (3)
NET
43 Across: Whichever (3)
ANY
44 Across: ___-off coupon (5)
CENTS
46 Across: Mets stadium (4)
SHEA
50 Across: Directs (to) (6)
REFERS
52 Across: Ecol. watchdog (3)
EPA
55 Across: The "I" in T.G.I.F. (3)
ITS
56 Across: Prefix with skeleton (3)
EXO
57 Across: Numbers usually in parentheses (9)
AREACODES
60 Across: Classic pickup line #3 (15)
HAVEWEMETBEFORE
63 Across: Pitcher (4)
EWER
64 Across: Genesis woman and namesakes (5)
LEAHS
65 Across: Allen of "Candid Camera" (4)
FUNT
66 Across: Smart-mouthed (4)
PERT
67 Across: Cove (5)
INLET
68 Across: Fr. holy women (4)
STES

Down Answers

1 Down: Kansas City team (6)
ROYALS
2 Down: "Consider it done" (6)
IMONIT
3 Down: Dribble (6)
BOUNCE
4 Down: Achy (4)
SORE
5 Down: City where van Gogh painted (5)
ARLES
6 Down: Broadcasting giant (6)
VIACOM
7 Down: Ruler unit (4)
INCH
8 Down: Poet and novelist James (4)
AGEE
9 Down: Michigan's ___ Canals (3)
SOO
10 Down: Napoléon led one (5)
ARMEE
11 Down: Wisconsin Avenue, in Georgetown (8)
MAINDRAG
12 Down: Opposite of max. (3)
MIN
13 Down: Washington's bill (3)
ONE
18 Down: ___ Beta Kappa (3)
PHI
19 Down: Let go of (7)
RELEASE
24 Down: Uncompromising (5)
STERN
25 Down: "Peter ___" of 50's-60's TV (4)
GUNN
26 Down: Ambulance driver, for short (3)
EMT
28 Down: Car on rails (4)
TRAM
30 Down: To the left, to sailors (5)
APORT
31 Down: Fri. preceder (3)
THU
34 Down: Suffered humiliation (7)
ATECROW
35 Down: ___ Park, Colo. (5)
ESTES
37 Down: Takes a chair (4)
SITS
38 Down: Soave, e.g. (4)
WINE
39 Down: Spring woe (8)
HAYFEVER
40 Down: Liking (3)
YEN
41 Down: Flag-waving org. (3)
DAR
45 Down: Churn (6)
SEETHE
47 Down: Went into seclusion (6)
HIDOUT
48 Down: Endless, poetically (6)
ETERNE
49 Down: Liabilities' opposites (6)
ASSETS
51 Down: Put forth, as effort (5)
EXERT
53 Down: ___ Blue Ribbon (5)
PABST
54 Down: Smashing point? (3)
ACE
57 Down: "You said it, brother!" (4)
AMEN
58 Down: Sincere (4)
REAL
59 Down: Murders, slangily (4)
OFFS
60 Down: Cool, once (3)
HEP
61 Down: Wonderment (3)
AWE
62 Down: ___ Lilly and Company (3)
ELI

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