New York Times Answers - Friday, 23rd August 1985 There are 37 across clues and 39 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 23rd August 1985. View the answers below.. Also try..All New York Times AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Guinness, the knightALECAAcross 5: Buys pies or tiesSHOPSAAcross 10: Hitchcock titleROPEAAcross 14: El ___, Tex.PASOAAcross 15: Social restraintTABOOAAcross 16: EternallyEVERAAcross 17: Famous penultimate wordsETTUAAcross 18: Skull partINIONAAcross 19: Stag party, sometimesFETEAAcross 20: Erstwhile N.Y.C. newspaperHERALDTRIBUNEAAcross 23: Pinball "wrist slap"TILTAAcross 24: Serval, e.g.CATAAcross 25: FleetRAPIDAAcross 28: East, in EssenOSTAAcross 31: Flower partSEPALAAcross 35: Author EliavARIEAAcross 36: Chevron stripe, in heraldryCOTISEAAcross 38: Palindromic dir.ESEAAcross 39: Erstwhile N.Y.C. newspaperJOURNALAMERICANAAcross 42: Kiang or quaggaASSAAcross 43: Diner offeringOMELETAAcross 44: Zola bookNANAAAcross 45: Half a dozen is oneHEXADAAcross 47: Ten: Comb. formDEKAAcross 48: Lab heatersETNASAAcross 49: Lament to Bo-peepBAAAAcross 51: Little Sheba's creatorINGEAAcross 53: Erstwhile N.Y.C. newspaperWORLDTELEGRAMAAcross 59: Arp's cultDADAAAcross 60: Kind of laceLILLEAAcross 61: Black, to BlakeEBONAAcross 63: ZealousAVIDAAcross 64: Fix in the mindIMBEDAAcross 65: Wild plumSLOEAAcross 66: New Year's Eve wordSYNEAAcross 67: MaudlinBEERYAAcross 68: Ornamented wigTETEDDown 1: Act as if you're RichAPEDDown 2: Trellis componentLATHDDown 3: Varese's Palazzo d'___ESTEDDown 4: Flatterer of a sortCOURTIERDDown 5: "Mountain dew" producerSTILLDDown 6: Wrought by an artisanHANDTOOLEDDDown 7: Newspaper item, for shortOBITDDown 8: Like a student's DPOORDDown 9: Super followerSONICDDown 10: DisproveREFUTEDDown 11: Where many a host roastsOVENDDown 12: Fountain of jazzPETEDDown 13: " . . . ___ I saw Elba"EREDDown 21: Foreign ___AIDDDown 22: More shamefulBASERDDown 25: Rani's mateRAJAHDDown 26: OriginatedAROSEDDown 27: Pope proclaimed a saint in 1954PIUS XDDown 29: Like an old bialySTALEDDown 30: DiversionTIMEKILLERDDown 32: Hard nut to crackPECANDDown 33: Yoga postureASANADDown 34: Chanteuse Horne et al.LENASDDown 36: Traffic-light partCAMDDown 37: Hollywood constructionSETDDown 40: KnobbyNODALDDown 41: Bank offeringINTERESTDDown 46: GrateABRADEDDown 48: "Joe ___," Orton playEGGDDown 50: Speak off the cuffAD-LIBDDown 52: PenuriousNEEDYDDown 53: Perm termWAVYDDown 54: One-eyed godODINDDown 55: This is served in the clinkTIMEDDown 56: The Labe, to a GermanELBEDDown 57: Willing pursuerABLEDDown 58: Kind of pointMOOTDDown 59: "___ Kapital"DASDDown 62: Ellen Louise Wilson, ___ AxsonNEE