Saturday Crossword — January 16, 1999 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 1/16/1999. By Rich Norris.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Auditing technique (9)
- SPOTCHECK
- 10 Across: Polar irregularity (5)
- SERAC
- 15 Across: Pretentious (9)
- HIFALUTIN
- 16 Across: Ring (5)
- ARENA
- 17 Across: Sway (9)
- INFLUENCE
- 18 Across: Obscure (5)
- BEDIM
- 19 Across: Greek letters (3)
- MUS
- 20 Across: Grp. emphasizing citizenship (3)
- BSA
- 21 Across: Trial response? (7)
- WOEISME
- 23 Across: Part of a proposal (5)
- SPECS
- 25 Across: Speaker on the road (4)
- CBER
- 26 Across: Diner, for one (3)
- CAR
- 27 Across: Stop on a line: Abbr. (3)
- STA
- 28 Across: Bit (5)
- SHRED
- 30 Across: Figures (4)
- DATA
- 31 Across: "Hold on!" (6)
- NOTYET
- 33 Across: Wounds (5)
- SORES
- 34 Across: Trifling consideration (13)
- SMALLPOTATOES
- 37 Across: Map feature (5)
- SCALE
- 38 Across: 1993 A.L. batting champ John (6)
- OLERUD
- 39 Across: Old flatboats (4)
- ARKS
- 40 Across: About 1.3 cubic yards (5)
- STERE
- 41 Across: Mil. transport (3)
- LST
- 44 Across: Early (3)
- WEE
- 45 Across: "The Highwayman" singer (4)
- OCHS
- 46 Across: Nursery rhyme food (5)
- PEASE
- 48 Across: Hit 1976 self-titled R. & B. album (7)
- NATALIE
- 50 Across: U.S.C.G. rank (3)
- CPO
- 52 Across: Had an edge (3)
- LED
- 53 Across: Misses (5)
- OMITS
- 54 Across: "Tigrane" composer (9)
- SCARLATTI
- 57 Across: "Une ___ mariée" (1964 Godard film) (5)
- FEMME
- 58 Across: Part of some examinations (9)
- ESSAYTEST
- 59 Across: Commercial fluorocarbon (5)
- FREON
- 60 Across: Horse races? (9)
- STAMPEDES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Leveling devices (5)
- SHIMS
- 2 Down: Big pictures (6)
- PINUPS
- 3 Down: Counterbalance (6)
- OFFSET
- 4 Down: He defeated Botvinnik in 1960 (3)
- TAL
- 5 Down: Some meeting places (5)
- CLUBS
- 6 Down: Shades (4)
- HUES
- 7 Down: Valle del Bove locale (4)
- ETNA
- 8 Down: The Pres., militarily speaking (3)
- CIC
- 9 Down: Understood one did wrong (10)
- KNEWBETTER
- 10 Down: Cavalryman (5)
- SABER
- 11 Down: James Whitcomb Riley's "___ Went Mad" (4)
- EREI
- 12 Down: 1950's political phenomenon (8)
- REDSCARE
- 13 Down: Breathes life into (8)
- ANIMATES
- 14 Down: Flash producers (7)
- CAMERAS
- 22 Down: Lib. reference (3)
- OED
- 24 Down: Lock sites (6)
- CANALS
- 25 Down: Many Jamaicans (7)
- CREOLES
- 28 Down: N.L. team: Abbr. (3)
- STL
- 29 Down: Assumptions (10)
- HYPOTHESES
- 30 Down: It may result from a long phone conversation (6)
- DOODLE
- 32 Down: Encouraging word (3)
- OLE
- 33 Down: Good name for a hash house employee (3)
- STU
- 34 Down: Hard hit, in baseball slang (8)
- SCREAMER
- 35 Down: Speed along (8)
- MAKETIME
- 36 Down: Art, these days (3)
- ARE
- 37 Down: Shortened (7)
- SAWNOFF
- 40 Down: High school subj. (3)
- SCI
- 42 Down: Put (away) (6)
- SALTED
- 43 Down: ___ fly (6)
- TSETSE
- 45 Down: "Hellzapoppin'" star, of the 1940's (5)
- OLSEN
- 46 Down: Hydra, e.g. (5)
- POLYP
- 47 Down: Changes a Life sentence (5)
- EDITS
- 49 Down: Prefix with sphere (4)
- ATMO
- 50 Down: Hernando's hideaway? (4)
- CASA
- 51 Down: Item on a park walk (4)
- PRAM
- 55 Down: Hrs. on the 90th meridian (3)
- CST
- 56 Down: Bolted down (3)
- ATE
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