Saturday Crossword — October 2, 1999 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 10/2/1999. By Rich Norris.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Finds, informally (8)
- SCARESUP
- 9 Across: Interruption cause, maybe (5)
- PAGER
- 14 Across: Solo (8)
- ALLALONE
- 15 Across: Cricket violation (6)
- NOBALL
- 16 Across: Traction aids (8)
- BATHMATS
- 17 Across: God represented in mummy wrappings (6)
- OSIRIS
- 18 Across: Remain (3)
- LIE
- 19 Across: Teller (6)
- SNITCH
- 21 Across: Once, once (4)
- ERST
- 22 Across: Goes off (4)
- ERRS
- 24 Across: Qaddafi, for one (6)
- DESPOT
- 26 Across: Only Super Bowl won by the Jets (3)
- III
- 27 Across: ___ Park (5)
- ESTES
- 29 Across: Five-time Iditarod winner Rick (7)
- SWENSON
- 31 Across: Start over (6)
- REOPEN
- 34 Across: 1963 Ray Charles hit (5)
- NOONE
- 35 Across: Whale's location? (4)
- THAR
- 37 Across: W.W. II battle site, for short (3)
- IWO
- 38 Across: Some servers (4)
- URNS
- 39 Across: Farsi speaker (5)
- IRANI
- 40 Across: Nuke, maybe (6)
- REWARM
- 42 Across: 1993 Peace Prize co-winner (7)
- MANDELA
- 44 Across: Passing (5)
- DEATH
- 47 Across: Dog with a curled tail (3)
- PUG
- 48 Across: Mus. direction (6)
- RITARD
- 51 Across: Lounge (4)
- LOAF
- 53 Across: Burke of "Burke's Law" (4)
- AMOS
- 55 Across: Rejected (6)
- VETOED
- 57 Across: They pass through tubes (3)
- OVA
- 58 Across: Excoriate (6)
- SAVAGE
- 60 Across: Projects (8)
- RADIATES
- 62 Across: Edberg of tennis (6)
- STEFAN
- 63 Across: Vented repressed feelings (8)
- ACTEDOUT
- 64 Across: Like most owls (5)
- EARED
- 65 Across: Times for shooting stars (8)
- PHOTOOPS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Black (5)
- SABLE
- 2 Down: Eau ___ (6)
- CLAIRE
- 3 Down: Makes fit (6)
- ALTERS
- 4 Down: "Well done!" (3)
- RAH
- 5 Down: "The moan of doves in immemorial ___": Tennyson (4)
- ELMS
- 6 Down: Stinker (7)
- SOANDSO
- 7 Down: Free (5)
- UNTIE
- 8 Down: Annoyances (5)
- PESTS
- 9 Down: Dropoff points: Abbr. (3)
- POS
- 10 Down: Anne Nichols hero (4)
- ABIE
- 11 Down: Outpost group (8)
- GARRISON
- 12 Down: Speakers' shortcuts (8)
- ELISIONS
- 13 Down: "Goosebumps" series author (7)
- RLSTINE
- 15 Down: Ever, in dialect (5)
- NOHOW
- 20 Down: "Strangers and Brothers" novelist (6)
- CPSNOW
- 23 Down: Hair piece (6)
- STRAND
- 25 Down: Staying power? (6)
- TENURE
- 28 Down: More fantastic (6)
- EERIER
- 30 Down: Standard (6)
- NORMAL
- 32 Down: Plagiarist (6)
- PIRATE
- 33 Down: One in a flock (3)
- EWE
- 35 Down: Shocks (8)
- TRAUMATA
- 36 Down: Toot follower (8)
- HANGOVER
- 39 Down: Standoff (7)
- IMPASSE
- 41 Down: Supplemented (7)
- ADDEDTO
- 43 Down: Energize (5)
- LIVEN
- 45 Down: Overly (6)
- TOOTOO
- 46 Down: Escort, as to one's flat (6)
- HAVEUP
- 49 Down: "It's ___!" (cry in a police drama) (5)
- ATRAP
- 50 Down: Kind of motel (5)
- ROACH
- 52 Down: Religious observances (5)
- FASTS
- 54 Down: Reliable (4)
- SAFE
- 56 Down: Losing proposition? (4)
- DIET
- 59 Down: Not stay at home (3)
- GAD
- 61 Down: Rumpus (3)
- ADO
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