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Friday, 5th December 1986
There are 34 across clues and 40 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 5th December 1986. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Ancient winding river (source of 70 Across)MAEANDER
AAcross 9: "It takes a ___ livin' . . . ": GuestHEAPO
AAcross 14: Rate
AAcross 15: Spanish city or province
AAcross 17: Waver
AAcross 18: Court sport
AAcross 19: Heroine of a Mancinelli operaERO
AAcross 20: One with inclined handwriting
AAcross 22: Character in "Charley's Aunt"
AAcross 23: Water surface, to MasefieldRYME
AAcross 25: Highway menace
AAcross 27: Decline
AAcross 30: Capek classicRUR
AAcross 31: "And we conquer but ___": CampbellTOSAVE
AAcross 34: Instruction
AAcross 38: Scrap
AAcross 39: ___ Thong, Thai province
AAcross 41: Haggard book
AAcross 42: Saul's grandfatherNER
AAcross 43: Like Craig's wife
AAcross 46: Certain kin
AAcross 48: A vote
AAcross 49: Most ignoble
AAcross 51: Luray Caverns material
AAcross 54: Best of the moviesEDNA
AAcross 58: Tag players
AAcross 59: Grand place in N.Y.C.
AAcross 62: The world's sine qua non
AAcross 63: "Humoresken" composer
AAcross 65: Trust
AAcross 67: A 1986 film
AAcross 68: Beneath the Baltic's surface
AAcross 69: Freshet
AAcross 70: Roams
DDown 1: ___ Pasha, Egyptian statesmanMAHER
DDown 2: Imitation
DDown 3: ___ DownsEPSOM
DDown 4: Famed Greek nicknameARI
DDown 5: Former D.C. nine
DDown 6: It's on the watch
DDown 7: Dumbarton Oaks, e.g.
DDown 8: Play it again
DDown 9: TV hit show
DDown 10: Part of Yuletide décor
DDown 11: Rhone feeder
DDown 12: Piercer
DDown 13: "Swan Lake" roleODILE
DDown 16: Glacial ridges
DDown 21: Companion of Paul
DDown 24: Vulgar, e.g.
DDown 26: Central Asiatic tentAUL
DDown 28: Vanishing
DDown 29: ___ sais quoiJENE
DDown 31: Also
DDown 32: Nickname for a Wright brotherORV
DDown 33: Ocean greyhound
DDown 35: Penn pronoun
DDown 36: Whiz preceder
DDown 37: Forage plant
DDown 40: Libreville is its capital
DDown 44: N.Y.C. suburb
DDown 45: Childish fit
DDown 47: Goddess of mischief
DDown 50: Balmy; halcyon
DDown 51: Diller's birthplace
DDown 52: Types of type: Abbr.ITALS
DDown 53: Compendious
DDown 55: ___ macabreDANSE
DDown 56: More pleasant
DDown 57: Sectors
DDown 60: Main man in "M*A*S*H"ALDA
DDown 61: Banker's protection
DDown 64: Savanna
DDown 66: Grandson of Benjamin