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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 30, 1998

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Sunday, August 30, 1998

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, August 30, 1998. The daily crossword is the classic: a 15×15 grid on weekdays and a larger Sunday puzzle, with difficulty rising from a gentle Monday to a fiendish Saturday. Hints come first and the solution stays hidden until you ask for it.

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Saturday, August 29, 1998

across

1. Pop music's Bananarama and Salt-N-Pepa: TRIOS
6. Lighter cargo: SHIPLOAD
14. "Roxanne" star: HANNAH
16. Acquire: COMEINTO
17. "Immaculate Conception" artist José de ___: RIBERA
18. Gallant: ROMANCER
19. Annual sports event: USOPEN
20. Vice: EVILNESS
21. Lumberjacks: AXMEN
22. Very early: WEE
23. Urchins: IMPS
25. Gave two aspirin, say: DOSED
30. Where Mimmsie Starr got pinched, in a Cole Porter lyric: ASTORBAR
35. Swindle: EUCHRE
36. Hofburg Palace Chapel performers: VIENNABOYSCHOIR
38. Stamp, as a document: ENSEAL
39. Puff piece?: PIPESTEM
40. Alternating work periods: ROTAS
41. Debtor's woe: REPO
42. Genealogical datum: Abbr.: REL
43. Defunct def. pact: SEATO
48. "You're on!": ITSADEAL
53. Jawaharlal's daughter: INDIRA
55. 1989 feel-good film: LEANONME
56. Dance technique: TOETAP
57. One with an address: KEYNOTER
58. Opera set in Cyprus: OTELLO
59. Millionaires in the making: AMASSERS
60. They lack cutting edges: EPEES

down

1. Drive-___: THRU
2. Last First Lady of the U.S.S.R.: RAISA
3. Where work may be waiting: INBOX
4. Afternoon hour: ONEPM
5. Ranee's wrap: SAREE
6. Paddle wheels' superseders: SCREWPROPELLERS
7. Shoe sites: HOOVES
8. Mib's relative: IMMIE
9. Clap: PEAL
10. Actor Mark ___-Baker: LINN
11. Enough, for some: ONCE
12. Suffixes with consul: ATES
13. Gobel's "I Married a Woman" co-star: DORS
15. Scipio defeated him: HANNIBAL
24. Dream producer of folklore: MAB
25. Mussolini moniker: DUCE
26. Baron of "Der Rosenkavalier": OCHS
27. Opportunity: SHOT
28. Gannon University locale: ERIE
29. Covering: Suffix: DERM
30. Say so: AVER
31. Chinese leader?: SINO
32. Kind of pilot: TEST
33. Fit for service: ONEA
34. Cytoplasmic molecules: RNAS
35. Five-time Art Ross Trophy winner: ESPOSITO
37. Poodle's cry: YIP
41. Dentist's drill: REAMER
42. Annuité, par exemple: RENTE
44. Certain govt. issue: ENOTE
45. Take ___ breath: ADEEP
46. Ring reward: TITLE
47. Alb coverer: ORALE
48. Novelist Chase: ILKA
49. Crawl (with): TEEM
50. Dionne Warwick's "I ___ Little Prayer": SAYA
51. Richards and Miller: ANNS
52. Whoop-dee-___: DOOS
54. Mil. addresses: APOS

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