Friday Crossword — July 9, 1999 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 7/9/1999. By Ingrid Truemper.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Go postal (4)
- SNAP
- 5 Across: Airport lineup (4)
- CABS
- 9 Across: Be a successful pitcher (4)
- SELL
- 13 Across: School locale (4)
- HALL
- 14 Across: Place holder? (5)
- ATLAS
- 16 Across: Half court game? (4)
- ALAI
- 17 Across: Startup cost (4)
- ANTE
- 18 Across: Impracticality (10)
- UTOPIANISM
- 20 Across: Impractical (8)
- QUIXOTIC
- 22 Across: One of a nursery rhyme triad (6)
- KITTEN
- 23 Across: Strains (5)
- MUSIC
- 24 Across: Schoolmarm's impartation (7)
- THREERS
- 25 Across: Direction in 23-Across (6)
- PRESTO
- 27 Across: Working model (5)
- POSER
- 28 Across: Away (3)
- OUT
- 29 Across: Mark alternatives (5)
- EUROS
- 31 Across: Old whistle? (5)
- DIXIE
- 35 Across: Professor Higgins, to Eliza (4)
- ENRY
- 37 Across: Subsequently (5)
- SINCE
- 39 Across: Old-fashioned prefix with photo (4)
- AERO
- 40 Across: Job title never held by any U.S. President (5)
- MAYOR
- 42 Across: Forgoes the lyrics, perhaps (5)
- SCATS
- 44 Across: Vote in Québec (3)
- NON
- 45 Across: Merci across the river (5)
- DANKE
- 47 Across: Long-legged fishers (6)
- HERONS
- 49 Across: Drag locale (7)
- RACEWAY
- 52 Across: Advantage (5)
- LEGUP
- 53 Across: Enfants attend them (6)
- ECOLES
- 54 Across: Lasting event? (8)
- MARATHON
- 57 Across: Bureaucratic buzzwords (10)
- FEDERALESE
- 59 Across: Math models (4)
- TORI
- 60 Across: Passage in Latin (4)
- ITER
- 61 Across: "___ luck!" (5)
- LOTSA
- 62 Across: Falls (4)
- EBBS
- 63 Across: Eighty-six (4)
- TOSS
- 64 Across: Big house in London (4)
- GAOL
- 65 Across: One of a 50's sitcom couple (4)
- DESI
Down Answers
- 1 Down: "Kazaam" star, familiarly (4)
- SHAQ
- 2 Down: When doubled, an old TV signoff (4)
- NANU
- 3 Down: Boeing engineer's study (9)
- ALTIMETRY
- 4 Down: Solar ___ (6)
- PLEXUS
- 5 Down: Guarded (8)
- CAUTIOUS
- 6 Down: Destination of some flights (5)
- ATTIC
- 7 Down: Common-interest group (4)
- BLOC
- 8 Down: Forest flow (3)
- SAP
- 9 Down: Religion originating in Cuba (8)
- SANTERIA
- 10 Down: Beau monde (5)
- ELITE
- 11 Down: Kind of beam (5)
- LASER
- 12 Down: Portrays in words (5)
- LIMNS
- 15 Down: Many Punjabis (5)
- SIKHS
- 19 Down: Shown, in a way (5)
- AIRED
- 21 Down: Bone: Prefix (4)
- OSTE
- 24 Down: Teatro Costanzi premiere of 1900 (5)
- TOSCA
- 25 Down: It may scan (4)
- POEM
- 26 Down: ___ close second (4)
- RUNA
- 27 Down: Puerto Rico's chief port (5)
- PONCE
- 30 Down: Like venture capital investments (5)
- RISKY
- 32 Down: Emigrant eschewer (9)
- XENOPHOBE
- 33 Down: Resolve, with "out" (4)
- IRON
- 34 Down: Astronomical periods (4)
- EONS
- 36 Down: "The Lonely Goatherd" performers, e.g. (8)
- YODELERS
- 38 Down: Very light (8)
- ETHEREAL
- 41 Down: Comparatively crude (5)
- RAWER
- 43 Down: Big name in video games (4)
- SEGA
- 46 Down: Kind of spray (5)
- NASAL
- 48 Down: Groovy? (6)
- RUTTED
- 49 Down: Accouter anew (5)
- REFIT
- 50 Down: Vinegar: Prefix (5)
- ACETO
- 51 Down: Some are made of bars (5)
- CODES
- 52 Down: Capture, in a way (5)
- LASSO
- 54 Down: Physics opening (4)
- META
- 55 Down: Emblems of power (4)
- ORBS
- 56 Down: Unless, in law (4)
- NISI
- 58 Down: Place for a bump (3)
- LOG
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