Friday Crossword — October 2, 1998 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 10/2/1998. By John Wolting.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Musical with the song "Why Should I Wake Up?" (7)
- CABARET
- 8 Across: Drape (6)
- SWATHE
- 14 Across: Hero-worships (8)
- ADULATES
- 16 Across: Consumed flakes (6)
- CEREAL
- 17 Across: Situation, informally (8)
- BALLGAME
- 18 Across: Site of Atatürk's mausoleum (6)
- ANKARA
- 19 Across: New Mexico State player (5)
- AGGIE
- 20 Across: Lift up (5)
- EXALT
- 22 Across: Whack (3)
- RAP
- 23 Across: It may be on the house (4)
- LIEN
- 24 Across: Traffic (5)
- TRADE
- 25 Across: Some traps (4)
- GINS
- 26 Across: Settler's building material (3)
- SOD
- 27 Across: Magpie's building material (5)
- TWIGS
- 28 Across: Take a stab (at) (5)
- LUNGE
- 29 Across: Not fresh (5)
- TRITE
- 30 Across: Break (6)
- HIATUS
- 31 Across: Andy Warhol subject (13)
- MARILYNMONROE
- 34 Across: Northern (6)
- BOREAL
- 35 Across: Saw the sights? (5)
- AIMED
- 36 Across: Broke off (5)
- ENDED
- 37 Across: "Stormy Weather" composer (5)
- ARLEN
- 38 Across: Break (3)
- GAP
- 41 Across: A long time (4)
- AGES
- 42 Across: Like some punk hairdos (5)
- SPIKY
- 43 Across: Mendelssohn's "Fingal's ___" (4)
- CAVE
- 44 Across: Slew (3)
- TON
- 45 Across: Particle displacement symbols, in physics (5)
- ZETAS
- 46 Across: Deduces, with "out" (5)
- DOPES
- 47 Across: It may be crazy (6)
- NOTION
- 49 Across: Anticlimax (8)
- NONEVENT
- 51 Across: Montreal, for one (6)
- ISLAND
- 52 Across: 1950's to today (8)
- SPACEAGE
- 53 Across: "Treatise on Money" author (6)
- KEYNES
- 54 Across: Gymnastics coach, often (7)
- SPOTTER
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Leagues of intrigue (6)
- CABALS
- 2 Down: Slow work (6)
- ADAGIO
- 3 Down: Projected (6)
- BULGED
- 4 Down: Ready to drop (5)
- ALLIN
- 5 Down: Blow up (4)
- RAGE
- 6 Down: Station letters (3)
- ETA
- 7 Down: Rashness (8)
- TEMERITY
- 8 Down: Step on it! (5)
- SCALE
- 9 Down: Collapsed (4)
- WENT
- 10 Down: Slow-moving vessel (3)
- ARK
- 11 Down: Attack (8)
- TEARINTO
- 12 Down: Philippic (8)
- HARANGUE
- 13 Down: Runs out (7)
- ELAPSES
- 15 Down: Some new retirees (13)
- SEXAGENARIANS
- 21 Down: Most junk mail, essentially (3)
- ADS
- 24 Down: Fine suit, maybe (5)
- TWILL
- 25 Down: Kind of dog (5)
- GUARD
- 27 Down: Jazz chord (5)
- TRIAD
- 28 Down: Chambermaid's charge (5)
- LINEN
- 29 Down: Plain lack (5)
- TREES
- 30 Down: Snug (5)
- HOMEY
- 31 Down: Ferret look-alike (8)
- MONGOOSE
- 32 Down: With fire (8)
- ARDENTLY
- 33 Down: Wimps (8)
- MILKSOPS
- 34 Down: Coffeehouse poet (7)
- BEATNIK
- 37 Down: Well-chosen (3)
- APT
- 38 Down: Eye in awe (6)
- GAPEAT
- 39 Down: Requite (6)
- AVENGE
- 40 Down: Bug (6)
- PESTER
- 42 Down: Telegraphs (5)
- SENDS
- 43 Down: Break the Tenth Commandment (5)
- COVET
- 45 Down: Time ___ (4)
- ZONE
- 46 Down: Like the Normandie, stylewise (4)
- DECO
- 48 Down: Charleson of "Chariots of Fire" (3)
- IAN
- 50 Down: Downy surface (3)
- NAP
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