Thursday Crossword — May 8, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/8/1980. By Hoy.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Small error (4)
- SLIP
- 5 Across: "___ Man a Future?": B. Russell (3)
- HAS
- 8 Across: Court-martial (5)
- TRIAL
- 13 Across: Colonizer De La ___ (4)
- WARR
- 14 Across: Discourteous (4)
- RUDE
- 15 Across: Plant of the agave family (5)
- YUCCA
- 16 Across: Relative of the above (4)
- ALOE
- 17 Across: Beyond senescence (4)
- AGED
- 18 Across: Like some hot potatoes (5)
- RICED
- 19 Across: British warehouse or van (12)
- PANTECHNICON
- 22 Across: Imbroglio (5)
- MELEE
- 23 Across: Thrash (3)
- TAN
- 24 Across: Singer Davis (3)
- MAC
- 27 Across: Devices for removing cherry pits (7)
- STONERS
- 29 Across: Top off the cake (3)
- ICE
- 30 Across: Proposed 27th Amendment (3)
- ERA
- 31 Across: Himalayan carnivore (5)
- PANDA
- 32 Across: Tittle (3)
- JOT
- 33 Across: Greek letters (4)
- PSIS
- 34 Across: Sled used by Swiss (4)
- LUGE
- 35 Across: Native of Muscat (5)
- OMANI
- 37 Across: Floral symbol of England (4)
- ROSE
- 38 Across: Maddened (4)
- IRED
- 39 Across: Succeeded (3)
- WON
- 40 Across: Disney dwarf (5)
- DOPEY
- 41 Across: Mongrel (3)
- CUR
- 42 Across: African antelope (3)
- GNU
- 43 Across: Waiters, French style (7)
- GARCONS
- 45 Across: Curve (3)
- ESS
- 46 Across: Author Deighton (3)
- LEN
- 47 Across: William ___ Gladstone (5)
- EWART
- 48 Across: Traveling bags (12)
- PORTMANTEAUS
- 52 Across: Parrot (5)
- MACAW
- 55 Across: What a Mexican whistles (4)
- AIRE
- 56 Across: Both: Prefix (4)
- AMBI
- 57 Across: Truth, in folklore (5)
- ADAGE
- 58 Across: ___'Orléans (4)
- ILED
- 59 Across: Layer (4)
- TIER
- 60 Across: Christened (5)
- NAMED
- 61 Across: Foster's "Old Uncle ___" (3)
- NED
- 62 Across: Listening devices (4)
- EARS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Barter (4)
- SWAP
- 2 Down: Tra followers (4)
- LALA
- 3 Down: Hardware merchants, in Hampshire (11)
- IRONMONGERS
- 4 Down: Made believe (9)
- PRETENDED
- 5 Down: Howard or Langston (6)
- HUGHES
- 6 Down: Capital of South Yemen (4)
- ADEN
- 7 Down: Alien and ___ Acts (8)
- SEDITION
- 8 Down: Former county in Northern Ireland (6)
- TYRONE
- 9 Down: Destroy (4)
- RUIN
- 10 Down: RR regulator (3)
- ICC
- 11 Down: Tennis coup (3)
- ACE
- 12 Down: Stripling (3)
- LAD
- 14 Down: Type of snake (5)
- RACER
- 20 Down: Home of Zeno's philosophy (4)
- ELEA
- 21 Down: Potted plants (5)
- CACTI
- 24 Down: Christie's "Murder in ___" (11)
- MESOPOTAMIA
- 25 Down: Ascended (6)
- ARISEN
- 26 Down: Stengel and Jones (6)
- CASEYS
- 27 Down: Joint (6)
- SPLICE
- 28 Down: Zodiac sign (6)
- TAURUS
- 32 Down: Author Struther (3)
- JAN
- 33 Down: Beget (9)
- PROCREATE
- 35 Down: Possessor (5)
- OWNER
- 36 Down: Fuji is one (8)
- MOUNTAIN
- 40 Down: Expression of annoyance (4)
- DRAT
- 42 Down: Shone (6)
- GLOWED
- 43 Down: Harnessed (6)
- GEARED
- 44 Down: Bearded like the oat (5)
- AWNED
- 48 Down: Knight's attendant (4)
- PAGE
- 49 Down: Eight furlongs (4)
- MILE
- 50 Down: "Deutschland ___ alles" (4)
- UBER
- 51 Down: Olivier, Gielgud et al. (4)
- SIRS
- 52 Down: Homo sapiens (3)
- MAN
- 53 Down: Nabokov work (3)
- ADA
- 54 Down: Moving piece of machinery (3)
- CAM
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