Tuesday Crossword — October 20, 1998 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 10/20/1998. By Fred Piscop.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "Peanuts" boy (5)
- LINUS
- 6 Across: Exile of 1979 (4)
- SHAH
- 10 Across: Carry on, as a campaign (4)
- WAGE
- 14 Across: Take for one's own (5)
- ADOPT
- 15 Across: Shells, e.g. (4)
- AMMO
- 16 Across: Allege as fact (4)
- AVER
- 17 Across: With one's fingers in a lake? (15)
- FEELINGSUPERIOR
- 20 Across: Grand larceny, e.g. (6)
- FELONY
- 21 Across: "___ Darlin'" (jazz standard) (3)
- LIL
- 22 Across: Sugary drink (3)
- ADE
- 23 Across: "Relax, private!" (6)
- ATEASE
- 26 Across: Longed (for) (5)
- PINED
- 28 Across: Adorns unnecessarily (5)
- GILDS
- 31 Across: Toiletries holder (6)
- KITBAG
- 33 Across: Brouhaha (3)
- ADO
- 34 Across: A.T.M. necessity (3)
- PIN
- 35 Across: Wagnerian heroine (6)
- ISOLDE
- 39 Across: With one's fingers in a skyscraper? (15)
- TOUCHINGSTORIES
- 43 Across: Like last year's styles (6)
- OLDHAT
- 44 Across: Part of U.C.L.A. (3)
- LOS
- 45 Across: KLM competitor (3)
- SAS
- 46 Across: Echo, e.g. (6)
- ANSWER
- 48 Across: An ex of Xavier (5)
- CHARO
- 50 Across: Bob Cousy's team, for short (5)
- CELTS
- 53 Across: Duds (6)
- ATTIRE
- 55 Across: "Bravo!" (3)
- OLE
- 56 Across: Wax producer (3)
- EAR
- 58 Across: Latino lady (6)
- SENORA
- 62 Across: With one's fingers in a socket? (15)
- HANDLINGCHARGES
- 66 Across: Bering Sea island (4)
- ATTU
- 67 Across: At no time, to poets (4)
- NEER
- 68 Across: Ceramists' needs (5)
- KILNS
- 69 Across: Element #10 (4)
- NEON
- 70 Across: City to which Helen was abducted (4)
- TROY
- 71 Across: Kind of shooting (5)
- SKEET
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Joke response, informally (4)
- LAFF
- 2 Down: ___ fixe (obsession) (4)
- IDEE
- 3 Down: December air (4)
- NOEL
- 4 Down: Send to a mainframe (6)
- UPLOAD
- 5 Down: Is miserly (6)
- STINTS
- 6 Down: Decline in value (3)
- SAG
- 7 Down: Seagoing inits. (3)
- HMS
- 8 Down: Evil repeller (6)
- AMULET
- 9 Down: Pueblo dweller (4)
- HOPI
- 10 Down: Kind of chest or paint (3)
- WAR
- 11 Down: For the birds? (5)
- AVIAN
- 12 Down: Hollow rock (5)
- GEODE
- 13 Down: Blew it (5)
- ERRED
- 18 Down: "The Science Guy" on TV (3)
- NYE
- 19 Down: Ciudad Juárez neighbor (6)
- ELPASO
- 24 Down: Similar (4)
- AKIN
- 25 Down: Marathoner's shirt (7)
- SINGLET
- 27 Down: Borodin's prince (4)
- IGOR
- 28 Down: Meower, in Madrid (4)
- GATO
- 29 Down: Matinee hero (4)
- IDOL
- 30 Down: Blaring (4)
- LOUD
- 32 Down: 0's and 1's, to a programmer (4)
- BITS
- 34 Down: Absolute worst, with "the" (4)
- PITS
- 36 Down: One of the Simpsons (4)
- LISA
- 37 Down: Cherished (4)
- DEAR
- 38 Down: Sinclair rival (4)
- ESSO
- 40 Down: Cyberspace conversation (4)
- CHAT
- 41 Down: Grimm youngster (6)
- HANSEL
- 42 Down: Launderer's step (4)
- SORT
- 47 Down: ___ Brothers (6)
- WARNER
- 48 Down: Haunted house sounds (6)
- CREAKS
- 49 Down: Playwright Ibsen (6)
- HENRIK
- 50 Down: "Over There" composer (5)
- COHAN
- 51 Down: Make jubilant (5)
- ELATE
- 52 Down: Slowly, on a score (5)
- LENTO
- 54 Down: Approximation suffix (3)
- ISH
- 57 Down: "___ Too Proud to Beg" (1966 hit) (4)
- AINT
- 59 Down: Look at flirtatiously (4)
- OGLE
- 60 Down: Tennis's Lacoste (4)
- RENE
- 61 Down: Like some profs. (4)
- ASST
- 63 Down: Pester for payment (3)
- DUN
- 64 Down: Prefix with logical (3)
- GEO
- 65 Down: Have a bawl (3)
- CRY
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