Wednesday Crossword — January 2, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 1/2/1980. By Mary Virginia Orna.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Substance for etching (4)
- ACID
- 5 Across: Make thread (4)
- SPIN
- 9 Across: N'Djamena is its capital (4)
- CHAD
- 13 Across: ___ avis (4)
- RARA
- 14 Across: A swell in Swansea (4)
- TOFF
- 15 Across: Gladiator's milieu (5)
- ARENA
- 16 Across: Faneuil Hall (15)
- CRADLEOFLIBERTY
- 19 Across: In a levelheaded way (8)
- SENSIBLY
- 20 Across: Loops formed by slipknots (6)
- NOOSES
- 21 Across: Fiver (3)
- VEE
- 22 Across: Amaze (4)
- STUN
- 23 Across: Composer Samuel (6)
- BARBER
- 27 Across: Word canceling a deletion (4)
- STET
- 28 Across: Maglie or Mineo (3)
- SAL
- 31 Across: Oxford college (5)
- ORIEL
- 32 Across: Afrikaner (4)
- BOER
- 33 Across: Verne's captain (4)
- NEMO
- 34 Across: "Annie Hall" (15)
- WOODYALLENMOVIE
- 37 Across: Italian noble house (4)
- ESTE
- 38 Across: Fat and lye product (4)
- SOAP
- 39 Across: Waugh et al. (5)
- ALECS
- 40 Across: ___ gestae (3)
- RES
- 41 Across: Agitate (4)
- STIR
- 42 Across: Saws wood with closed eyes (6)
- SNORES
- 43 Across: Mandrills, e.g. (4)
- APES
- 44 Across: Word with hole or luck (3)
- POT
- 45 Across: Charm (6)
- ENAMOR
- 48 Across: Follow a car closely (8)
- TAILGATE
- 53 Across: Gus Hall (15)
- COMMUNISTLEADER
- 55 Across: Dweller in Dalmatia (5)
- CROAT
- 56 Across: Appraise (4)
- RATE
- 57 Across: Word with ground or absolute (4)
- ZERO
- 58 Across: Merit (4)
- EARN
- 59 Across: Jejune (4)
- ARID
- 60 Across: Landers and Sheridan (4)
- ANNS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Circle parts (4)
- ARCS
- 2 Down: Concern (4)
- CARE
- 3 Down: Country on the Gulf of Oman (4)
- IRAN
- 4 Down: Pops (4)
- DADS
- 5 Down: Eleanor, the soprano (6)
- STEBER
- 6 Down: Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1918 (5)
- POOLE
- 7 Down: Uncertain (4)
- IFFY
- 8 Down: Eagles' org. (3)
- NFL
- 9 Down: Legendary Greek king (5)
- CREON
- 10 Down: Word on a bath towel (4)
- HERS
- 11 Down: Poker stake (4)
- ANTE
- 12 Down: "Long ___ Journey Into Night" (4)
- DAYS
- 15 Down: "___ face!" (5)
- ABOUT
- 17 Down: Frisky (6)
- LIVELY
- 18 Down: Apprentice of a sort (6)
- INTERN
- 22 Down: Brew (5)
- STEEP
- 23 Down: Leafy shelter (5)
- BOWER
- 24 Down: Came into being (5)
- AROSE
- 25 Down: Melees' kin (5)
- RIOTS
- 26 Down: Hetty Sorrel's lover (4)
- BEDE
- 27 Down: Kind of energy (5)
- SOLAR
- 28 Down: Cut off (5)
- SEVER
- 29 Down: Garb worn with alb and chasuble (5)
- AMICE
- 30 Down: Loam deposit (5)
- LOESS
- 32 Down: City on the Loire (5)
- BLOIS
- 33 Down: ___ contendere (4)
- NOLO
- 35 Down: Aft (6)
- ASTERN
- 36 Down: Cape or Mickey (6)
- MANTLE
- 41 Down: Teapot feature (5)
- SPOUT
- 42 Down: In need of 38 Across (6)
- SOILED
- 43 Down: Capital of Jordan (5)
- AMMAN
- 44 Down: Page from Oklahoma (5)
- PATTI
- 45 Down: "___ homo!" (4)
- ECCE
- 46 Down: Torvald Helmer's wife (4)
- NORA
- 47 Down: Cupid, in art (4)
- AMOR
- 48 Down: Aleksei Mikhailovich, e.g. (4)
- TSAR
- 49 Down: Where Samson died (4)
- GAZA
- 50 Down: Gulf or port (4)
- ADEN
- 51 Down: Relative of a jaeger (4)
- TERN
- 52 Down: Topic in a Platonic symposium (4)
- EROS
- 54 Down: Levin or Wolfert (3)
- IRA
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