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Sunday, 17th May 1987

There are 73 across clues and 70 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Sunday, 17th May 1987. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Lycurgus's last letter
AAcross 6:	Word with energy or system
AAcross 11:	N.Y.C. flics
AAcross 15:	Rurik ruler
AAcross 19:	Open-weave fabrics
AAcross 20:	Kind of acid
AAcross 21:	A father-in-law of Esau	ANAH
AAcross 22:	Mediterranean seaport
AAcross 23:	Crooked
AAcross 24:	"Revenge of the ___"
AAcross 25:	Paul Bunyan's hound dog
AAcross 26:	Rail
AAcross 27:	Canio's wife	NEDDA
AAcross 28:	Taper a timber	SNAPE
AAcross 29:	Stupid
AAcross 31:	Contemporary of Ngaio and Agatha	ERLE
AAcross 33:	Tantamount
AAcross 35:	Mimieux of Hollywood	YVETTE
AAcross 36:	Pa.'s state flower
AAcross 41:	Game with stakes and forfeits
AAcross 42:	"The Neon Wilderness" author
AAcross 43:	Chilean Indian	AUCAN
AAcross 44:	Token, perhaps
AAcross 48:	"Fiesque" composer	LALO
AAcross 49:	Second: Comb. form	DEUTER
AAcross 51:	Bootlicker
AAcross 53:	City near Jerusalem
AAcross 54:	Hot
AAcross 55:	Egad or dang
AAcross 56:	Like some tissues
AAcross 58:	Gilead's lack
AAcross 59:	Neighbor of Eur.	AFR
AAcross 60:	Fresh air
AAcross 61:	Meadowsweet
AAcross 63:	State flower of Tex.
AAcross 69:	Alaska's state fish
AAcross 71:	Order at Fenway Park
AAcross 71:	Order at Fenway Park
AAcross 72:	Professes
AAcross 74:	Doing poorly
AAcross 74:	Doing poorly
AAcross 75:	Theatrical award	OBIE
AAcross 76:	Chasten
AAcross 78:	Rajah's helpmate
AAcross 80:	Clerical title, in Caen
AAcross 84:	"___ y Plata," Mont.'s motto	ORO
AAcross 85:	Sum
AAcross 86:	Finsteraarhorn feature
AAcross 86:	Finsteraarhorn feature
AAcross 88:	Look closely
AAcross 89:	Set of teeth
AAcross 91:	Muscle fiber
AAcross 92:	"The Valachi ___"
AAcross 94:	Mel of baseball	OTT
AAcross 95:	Kan.'s state song	HOMEONTHERANGE
AAcross 98:	Where the Sèvre Nantaise flows
AAcross 101:	Riyadh residents	ARABS
AAcross 102:	Orenburg's river	URAL
AAcross 103:	Kind of overcoat or cape
AAcross 105:	Log huts in Sverdlovsk
AAcross 108:	Bandleader Ray ___
AAcross 112:	Austrian statesman	RAAB
AAcross 113:	Proportion words	ISTO
AAcross 114:	Respond
AAcross 115:	More irritated
AAcross 116:	Singer Simone
AAcross 117:	Govt. tecs	TMEN
AAcross 118:	Apostle to the Slavs
AAcross 119:	Man of Manchuria, e.g.
AAcross 120:	Run ___ (frolic)	ARIG
AAcross 121:	Urges
AAcross 122:	Wiesbaden is its capital
AAcross 123:	Cornmeal porridges
DDown 1:	Radio actor Soule	OLAN
DDown 2:	Measure
DDown 3:	Character from "The Mabinogion"
DDown 4:	Neb.'s state flower
DDown 5:	Phoenician goddess
DDown 6:	Nisei offspring
DDown 7:	Sign
DDown 8:	Lucre, in Livorno
DDown 9:	Tolstoy's "War ___"	ANDPEACE
DDown 10:	S.D.'s state mineral
DDown 11:	Punic War battle site
DDown 12:	"Lazarus Laughed" playwright
DDown 13:	Role
DDown 14:	Minn.'s state flower
DDown 15:	Delaney's "A ___ Honey"	TASTEOF
DDown 16:	Author of "The Abbot"
DDown 17:	Court decree
DDown 18:	"Hard Cash" author	READE
DDown 30:	Scrimshaw's medium
DDown 32:	Ark.'s nickname
DDown 34:	Museum piece, sometimes
DDown 36:	Actress Powers
DDown 37:	King of Norway	OLAV
DDown 38:	Jamaican citrus fruit
DDown 39:	Of seamen or ships: Abbr.	NAUT
DDown 40:	Leatherback turtle	LUTH
DDown 44:	Golfer Peete	CAL
DDown 45:	Frighten
DDown 46:	Loggers' jamboree	ROLEO
DDown 47:	He wrote "Philosopher's Quest"	EDMAN
DDown 50:	Merit
DDown 51:	Author Morrison	TONI
DDown 52:	Word with shop or sea
DDown 57:	Chinese cooking pans
DDown 58:	Puppeteer Baird	BIL
DDown 59:	Father, in Arabia	ABU
DDown 60:	Neb. Indians	OTOS
DDown 62:	"___ Joey"
DDown 63:	Kin
DDown 64:	Cuba ___, rum drink	LIBRE
DDown 65:	Debs's delight
DDown 66:	Opposite of AAA	EEE
DDown 67:	Barrie canine
DDown 68:	Nefarious
DDown 70:	"___ body . . . ": Burns	GINA
DDown 73:	N.H.'s state tree
DDown 77:	Indian language
DDown 78:	Check
DDown 79:	"What though care killed ___ . . . ": Shak.	ACAT
DDown 80:	Idaho's state horse
DDown 81:	Has attachment
DDown 82:	Floe
DDown 83:	Gaelic
DDown 85:	Don
DDown 87:	Squint
DDown 90:	Popular carryall
DDown 91:	Wee, in Ayr
DDown 93:	Tex. bay or river	ARANSAS
DDown 95:	Expedite
DDown 96:	Bean and Welles	ORSONS
DDown 97:	Shake a leg
DDown 98:	German city on the Elbe	PIRNA
DDown 99:	Walking ___ (elated)
DDown 100:	Grand duke of Moscow: 1328-41	IVANI
DDown 104:	Short story by Saki	ESME
DDown 106:	Challenges for Retton
DDown 107:	Handel's "___ and Galatea"	ACIS
DDown 109:	Edge
DDown 110:	Saltate
DDown 111:	Pelagic predators

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