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Friday, 21st August 1987

There are 40 across clues and 39 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 21st August 1987. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Very dangerous element
AAcross 6:	Wide open
AAcross 11:	___ out (plan in detail)
AAcross 14:	Lacquer resin
AAcross 15:	Overstuffed
AAcross 16:	Ab ___ (from square one)	OVO
AAcross 17:	Shade of gray	VIENNASMOKE
AAcross 19:	Wash. luminary
AAcross 20:	Each
AAcross 21:	Little specialty
AAcross 23:	With 24 Down and 55 Across, a dinner dish	BRUSS
AAcross 25:	Org. established in 1949
AAcross 26:	N.K.V.D.'s predecessor	OGPU
AAcross 29:	Erstwhile corp.	SERG
AAcross 31:	Barley beards
AAcross 34:	Bristly plant
AAcross 37:	Kabob component
AAcross 39:	Drabowsky or Berg of baseball
AAcross 40:	Rhine tributary
AAcross 41:	Extended breaks
AAcross 43:	Take advantage of
AAcross 44:	Corn or cycle starter	TRI
AAcross 45:	Friends, in Fife
AAcross 46:	Caught
AAcross 48:	Start of N.C.'s motto
AAcross 50:	Castor and Pollux
AAcross 52:	Glad or sad ending
AAcross 53:	Kind of bag
AAcross 55:	Puts to flight
AAcross 58:	Obstruction
AAcross 61:	"Three men ___"	INATUB
AAcross 64:	Becker specialty
AAcross 65:	Wrapping material
AAcross 68:	Fidel compadre
AAcross 69:	Finnish lake, to Swedes	ENARE
AAcross 70:	Vamp's relative
AAcross 71:	Old cowboy star Maynard
AAcross 71:	Old cowboy star Maynard
AAcross 72:	Ancient chariot	ESSED
AAcross 73:	Actor Ezra
DDown 1:	Gun a motor
DDown 2:	Inter ___	ALIA
DDown 3:	Profound
DDown 4:	Kind of bill
DDown 5:	Forty-___
DDown 6:	Estimate
DDown 7:	Whale group
DDown 8:	It was smashed in the 40's
DDown 9:	Hominid discovery announced in 1927
DDown 10:	Swelling
DDown 11:	Vodka and ginger beer	MOSCOWMULE
DDown 12:	Asseverate
DDown 13:	Snort glass
DDown 18:	Puncture starter	ACU
DDown 22:	Give ___ whirl (make an effort)
DDown 24:	See 23 Across	SELSSPR
DDown 26:	Mexican basket grass	OTATE
DDown 27:	They work when engaged
DDown 28:	An insecticide
DDown 30:	Betrayer
DDown 32:	Things to be counted
DDown 33:	Origins
DDown 35:	Suffix with Tonkin
DDown 36:	Sievas	LIMABEANS
DDown 38:	Good-turn org.	BSA
DDown 42:	Glass or sand chaser
DDown 47:	Twinkling
DDown 49:	Sin
DDown 51:	Besmirched
DDown 54:	Singer Mann	AIMEE
DDown 56:	___ voce (unanimously)	UNA
DDown 57:	On the ___ (under consideration)
DDown 58:	With 59 Down, a common misery
DDown 59:	See 58 Down
DDown 60:	Certain acids, for short	RNAS
DDown 62:	___ no good
DDown 63:	Swiss city
DDown 66:	Eng. neighbor
DDown 67:	Caviar

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