Saturday Crossword — December 19, 1998 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 12/19/1998. By Frank Longo and Dave Tuller.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "Home, ___!" (5)
- JAMES
- 6 Across: Finish for Jacob or Joseph (3)
- ITE
- 9 Across: Meat avoider (5)
- VEGAN
- 14 Across: St. Teresa's birthplace (5)
- AVILA
- 15 Across: Kill (3)
- NIX
- 16 Across: Phantasm, e.g. (5)
- IMAGE
- 17 Across: Sole food? (15)
- PICKLEDPIGSFEET
- 20 Across: Dir. the Ebro flows (3)
- ESE
- 21 Across: "Orlando Furioso" poet (7)
- ARIOSTO
- 22 Across: The junk of junk mail (3)
- ADS
- 23 Across: Constitution writer (7)
- DRAFTER
- 24 Across: Hind's partner (4)
- STAG
- 28 Across: French caricaturist Comte de ___ (3)
- NOE
- 29 Across: Faithful dog, affectionately (4)
- SHEP
- 33 Across: Whence the song "Mack the Knife," with "The" (15)
- THREEPENNYOPERA
- 38 Across: Dog used as a wartime dispatch bearer (15)
- AIREDALETERRIER
- 39 Across: What some paths offer (15)
- LEASTRESISTANCE
- 40 Across: Crescent (4)
- LUNE
- 41 Across: Mom-and-pop org.? (3)
- PTA
- 42 Across: Guillotined part (4)
- TETE
- 43 Across: Witnesses (7)
- BEHOLDS
- 47 Across: Bit of pollution (3)
- ASH
- 50 Across: Like some Kurds (7)
- IRANIAN
- 51 Across: Hollywood employee: Abbr. (3)
- AGT
- 54 Across: Small toy, at times (15)
- STOCKINGSTUFFER
- 57 Across: Souchong alternative (5)
- PEKOE
- 58 Across: Sound of reproach (3)
- TUT
- 59 Across: Strength (5)
- FORTE
- 60 Across: Issues (forth) (5)
- SPEWS
- 61 Across: "Le coeur a ___ raisons..." (3)
- SES
- 62 Across: Stood still (5)
- FROZE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Make fun of (4)
- JAPE
- 2 Down: Dollar competitor (4)
- AVIS
- 3 Down: Nursery rhyme threesome (4)
- MICE
- 4 Down: Soft leather (3)
- ELK
- 5 Down: Kind of plate (5)
- SALAD
- 6 Down: Howdah holders (15)
- INDIANELEPHANTS
- 7 Down: Where the right word is, often (15)
- TIPOFONESTONGUE
- 8 Down: Karl Jaspers and others (15)
- EXISTENTIALISTS
- 9 Down: Helmet part (5)
- VISOR
- 10 Down: It's expressed in volts: Abbr. (3)
- EMF
- 11 Down: Mother of the Titans (4)
- GAEA
- 12 Down: Let sit (4)
- AGED
- 13 Down: Trawlers' trailers (4)
- NETS
- 18 Down: Be off base (3)
- ERR
- 19 Down: WorldCom competitor (3)
- GTE
- 24 Down: Hold off (5)
- STALL
- 25 Down: Vietnam War name (5)
- THIEU
- 26 Down: Firth of Clyde island (5)
- ARRAN
- 27 Down: Ones in a flight pattern? (5)
- GEESE
- 29 Down: Lover of lean cuisine (5)
- SPRAT
- 30 Down: "Buch der Lieder" poet (5)
- HEINE
- 31 Down: Set up (5)
- ERECT
- 32 Down: 1929 Cole Porter song (5)
- PAREE
- 34 Down: It starts in April in Fla. (3)
- EDT
- 35 Down: Bond principal (3)
- PAR
- 36 Down: Final word of "Ulysses" (3)
- YES
- 37 Down: Crumb (3)
- ORT
- 43 Down: Common campus transportation (5)
- BIKES
- 44 Down: Verdi's "___ tu" (3)
- ERI
- 45 Down: "Can't Help Lovin' ___ Man" (3)
- DAT
- 46 Down: Put (out) (5)
- SNUFF
- 47 Down: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" menaces (4)
- ASPS
- 48 Down: Part of an aerobics exercise (4)
- STEP
- 49 Down: Nonsense (4)
- HOKE
- 51 Down: Old-fashioned do (4)
- AFRO
- 52 Down: Noted Woody Herman band member (4)
- GETZ
- 53 Down: Kind of diagram (4)
- TREE
- 55 Down: Bully (3)
- COW
- 56 Down: Because (3)
- FOR
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