Wednesday Crossword — June 11, 1980 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/11/1980. By Carlyle.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Presque ___, city in Maine (4)
ISLE
5 Across: Wild sheep of India (5)
URIAL
10 Across: Depression agcy. (3)
WPA
13 Across: Speakers' platform (4)
DAIS
14 Across: Income, in Paris (5)
RENTE
15 Across: Cool one's heels (4)
WAIT
16 Across: Famed theatrical duo (15)
LUNTANDFONTANNE
19 Across: One of the Plinys (5)
ELDER
20 Across: Drillers and fillers (8)
DENTISTS
21 Across: Suffix with an ordinal number (3)
ETH
23 Across: Third ___ (5)
REICH
24 Across: Milwaukee product (3)
ALE
27 Across: Dawn goddess (3)
EOS
29 Across: Describing a Venetian blind (7)
SLATTED
33 Across: Sine qua ___ (3)
NON
34 Across: Famed miler (4)
RYUN
36 Across: Top A.L. pitcher: 1926 (4)
UHLE
37 Across: Famed movie duo (15)
TRACYANDHEPBURN
42 Across: Creep (4)
INCH
43 Across: Word with dough or grapes (4)
SOUR
44 Across: Prefix with deed or lead (3)
MIS
45 Across: Connected series of related things (7)
CATENAE
49 Across: Opposite of post (3)
PRE
50 Across: "Ulalume" poet (3)
POE
51 Across: Eves' opposites (5)
MORNS
53 Across: U.S.S.R. silk city (3)
OSH
55 Across: Checked a horse (8)
REINEDIN
58 Across: " . . . ___ passion to tatters" (5)
TEARA
62 Across: Famed fictional duo (15)
WATSONANDHOLMES
64 Across: Pay up (4)
ANTE
65 Across: Swamp growths (5)
ALGAE
66 Across: ___ jab (4)
LEFT
67 Across: Actor Erwin, to friends (3)
STU
68 Across: Quench (5)
SLAKE
69 Across: Two prepositions in one (4)
ONTO

Down Answers

1 Down: Recumbent (4)
IDLE
2 Down: Biblical king (4)
SAUL
3 Down: Singer Jenny (4)
LIND
4 Down: One of the Lauders (5)
ESTEE
5 Down: Ossuary (3)
URN
6 Down: Comedian Foxx (4)
REDD
7 Down: Conclude or construe (5)
INFER
8 Down: Expiates (6)
ATONES
9 Down: Soup ingredient (6)
LENTIL
10 Down: Indigence (4)
WANT
11 Down: Items at Doral (4)
PINS
12 Down: Broke bread (3)
ATE
15 Down: Laundry adjunct (7)
WASHTUB
17 Down: Blood channel (6)
ARTERY
18 Down: Children's game in Honduras (4)
TICA
22 Down: Georgetown U. athlete (4)
HOYA
24 Down: Huxley's "___ Hay" (5)
ANTIC
25 Down: Miss Doone (5)
LORNA
26 Down: Play (5)
ENACT
28 Down: What Romeo compared Juliet to (3)
SUN
30 Down: Thrash (5)
THUMP
31 Down: Town in southern Calif. (5)
ELRIO
32 Down: Obtuse (5)
DENSE
35 Down: Endings with 22, 32, etc. (3)
NDS
38 Down: Shift (7)
CHEMISE
39 Down: "___ on Pop": Dr. Seuss (3)
HOP
40 Down: Large kangaroo (4)
EURO
41 Down: Immediately (6)
PRESTO
46 Down: Mommy's admonition (4)
NONO
47 Down: Areas of action (6)
ARENAS
48 Down: Ultimate goal (6)
ENDALL
52 Down: "___ song of sixpence . . . " (5)
SINGA
54 Down: Italian's "pronto" on the phone (5)
HELLO
55 Down: Rage verbally (4)
RANT
56 Down: Ides of March words (4)
ETTU
57 Down: Neighbor of Minn. (4)
NDAK
59 Down: Church corner (4)
AMEN
60 Down: Appropriate rhyme for cleft (4)
REFT
61 Down: Concerning (4)
ASTO
62 Down: What, in Weimar (3)
WAS
63 Down: Half a bray (3)
HEE

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