Thursday Crossword — April 10, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 4/10/1980. By Ruth N. Schultz.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Eight: Prefix (4)
- OCTA
- 5 Across: Coleridge's "sacred river" (4)
- ALPH
- 9 Across: Mischievous child (3)
- ELF
- 12 Across: Weak; slight (5)
- FRAIL
- 13 Across: Balkan ridged area (4)
- BILO
- 14 Across: Understand (3)
- SEE
- 15 Across: Triple Crown winner: 1977 (11)
- SEATTLESLEW
- 17 Across: Beach acquisition (3)
- TAN
- 18 Across: Shepherd boy of rhyme (13)
- LITTLEBOYBLUE
- 20 Across: Yoko (3)
- ONO
- 21 Across: Equal, in Lille (4)
- EGAL
- 22 Across: Ancient monk (6)
- ESSENE
- 25 Across: Raison d'___ (4)
- ETRE
- 27 Across: Ballade's final stanza (5)
- ENVOI
- 29 Across: "You said it!" (4)
- AMEN
- 30 Across: "Auld Lang ___" (4)
- SYNE
- 32 Across: It was, to Ovid (4)
- ERAT
- 34 Across: Red or Dead (3)
- SEA
- 35 Across: Henry VIII's ailment (4)
- GOUT
- 38 Across: Turn over ___ leaf (4)
- ANEW
- 40 Across: Neighbor of Miss. (3)
- ALA
- 43 Across: Stocking-run cause (4)
- SNAG
- 45 Across: "Red Roses for a Blue ___" (4)
- LADY
- 48 Across: Bow (4)
- BEND
- 50 Across: Jewish feast (5)
- PURIM
- 53 Across: Relative of okeh (4)
- YEAH
- 55 Across: Saint's home in Umbria (6)
- ASSISI
- 57 Across: Common abbr. (4)
- ETAL
- 59 Across: Ohm's antithesis (3)
- MHO
- 60 Across: Milne opus (13)
- WINNIETHEPOOH
- 63 Across: Letter after wye (3)
- ZEE
- 65 Across: "Tippecanoe ___" (11)
- ANDTYLERTOO
- 66 Across: Poetic word (3)
- OER
- 67 Across: Edson Arantes do Nascimento (4)
- PELE
- 68 Across: Iroquoians (5)
- ERIES
- 69 Across: City RR's (3)
- ELS
- 70 Across: German river (4)
- EDER
- 71 Across: Cereal grasses (4)
- RYES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Bryan's forte (7)
- ORATORY
- 2 Down: Carrie Chapman ___ (4)
- CATT
- 3 Down: Baron, e.g. (5)
- TITLE
- 4 Down: State as an excuse (6)
- ALLEGE
- 5 Down: Pardon (7)
- ABSOLVE
- 6 Down: TV's Tomlin (4)
- LILY
- 7 Down: Common (8)
- PLEBEIAN
- 8 Down: Lupine cries (5)
- HOWLS
- 9 Down: Thinks highly of (7)
- ESTEEMS
- 10 Down: Meadow (3)
- LEA
- 11 Down: Marsh (3)
- FEN
- 12 Down: Tricks an opposing boxer (6)
- FEINTS
- 15 Down: Plum type (4)
- SLOE
- 16 Down: Abba (4)
- EBAN
- 19 Down: Neighbor of Can. (3)
- USA
- 23 Down: Maiden-name word (3)
- NEE
- 24 Down: Alfonso's queen (3)
- ENA
- 26 Down: Chang's twin (3)
- ENG
- 28 Down: A feast ___ famine (3)
- ORA
- 31 Down: Dawn goddess (3)
- EOS
- 33 Down: Far: Prefix (3)
- TEL
- 36 Down: Free flowing, as hair (8)
- UNPINNED
- 37 Down: Sigma follower (3)
- TAU
- 39 Down: What John O'Hara's horse knows (3)
- WAY
- 40 Down: Arab cloak (3)
- ABA
- 41 Down: "___ Misérables" (3)
- LES
- 42 Down: Replies (7)
- ANSWERS
- 44 Down: Person with a mat (7)
- GREETER
- 46 Down: Takes down a peg (7)
- DEMOTES
- 47 Down: Gulliver discovered them (6)
- YAHOOS
- 49 Down: Twice CCLI (3)
- DII
- 51 Down: ___-bitty (4)
- ITTY
- 52 Down: Composer of 10 symphonies (6)
- MAHLER
- 54 Down: Sounds of merriment (4)
- HOHO
- 56 Down: Taper a timber (5)
- SNAPE
- 58 Down: Suspicious (5)
- LEERY
- 61 Down: Not working (4)
- IDLE
- 62 Down: ___-dieu (4)
- PRIE
- 63 Down: Caldwell or Akins (3)
- ZOE
- 64 Down: Moray (3)
- EEL
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