Saturday Crossword — June 28, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 6/28/1980. By William Lutwiniak.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "Krakatit" author (5)
- CAPEK
- 6 Across: Forum language (5)
- LATIN
- 11 Across: Feral (6)
- SAVAGE
- 12 Across: Cancels (6)
- ERASES
- 14 Across: Ready to fight (14)
- ATDAGGERSDRAWN
- 16 Across: Bovine waif (5)
- DOGIE
- 17 Across: Dinero (5)
- PESOS
- 18 Across: Bask (3)
- SUN
- 20 Across: City on the Oka (4)
- OREL
- 21 Across: Discourage (5)
- DETER
- 22 Across: Hence (4)
- ERGO
- 23 Across: But, to Ovid (3)
- SED
- 24 Across: Thermoplastic (5)
- SARAN
- 25 Across: Pensive poem (5)
- ELEGY
- 26 Across: ___ Sea, off NW Australia (5)
- TIMOR
- 27 Across: Essayist who called himself Nestor Ironside (6)
- STEELE
- 28 Across: Any imminent danger (15)
- SWORDOFDAMOCLES
- 32 Across: Sore (6)
- LESION
- 33 Across: ___-garde (5)
- AVANT
- 34 Across: Madison Ave. types (5)
- ADMEN
- 35 Across: "Took ___ . . . and broke his leg": J. Buchan (5)
- ATOSS
- 36 Across: Old freighter (3)
- TUB
- 39 Across: Dressed (4)
- CLAD
- 40 Across: Hair: Prefix (5)
- TRICH
- 41 Across: Cable (4)
- WIRE
- 42 Across: ___-Tiki (3)
- KON
- 43 Across: Pacific islands (5)
- SAMOA
- 44 Across: Scope (5)
- RANGE
- 45 Across: Like le Carré's fiction (14)
- CLOAKANDDAGGER
- 48 Across: "Who ___ Cock Robin?" (6)
- KILLED
- 49 Across: Blackbirds (6)
- OUZELS
- 50 Across: "Oft have I ___ timely-parted ghost": Shak. (5)
- SEENA
- 51 Across: Rundown (5)
- SEEDY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Sponged (6)
- CADGED
- 2 Down: Use (5)
- AVAIL
- 3 Down: Summon by intercom (4)
- PAGE
- 4 Down: "Hen fruit" (3)
- EGG
- 5 Down: "___ the Keys": E. D. Biggers (8)
- KEEPEROF
- 6 Down: Let up (6)
- LESSEN
- 7 Down: Elan (5)
- ARDOR
- 8 Down: Salts (4)
- TARS
- 9 Down: "Rose ___ rose . . . " (3)
- ISA
- 10 Down: Media vehicle (8)
- NEWSREEL
- 11 Down: Put by (5)
- STORE
- 13 Down: Get comfy (7)
- SNUGGLE
- 14 Down: Dust-ups (4)
- ADOS
- 15 Down: Slowness in progress (11)
- RETARDATION
- 19 Down: Poet who sounds unmusical (5)
- NOYES
- 21 Down: Runyon (5)
- DAMON
- 22 Down: Vote in (5)
- ELECT
- 24 Down: Neighbor of Tyre (5)
- SIDON
- 25 Down: A jacket and a collar (5)
- ETONS
- 26 Down: Attempted (5)
- TRIED
- 27 Down: Big hit (5)
- SMASH
- 28 Down: Not busy or active (5)
- SLACK
- 29 Down: Marriage (7)
- WEDLOCK
- 30 Down: Turks (8)
- OSMANLIS
- 31 Down: Alligator pears (8)
- AVOCADOS
- 35 Down: Fleet (6)
- ARMADA
- 36 Down: Stimulating (6)
- TINGLY
- 37 Down: Exhorts (5)
- URGES
- 38 Down: Tavern order (4)
- BEER
- 40 Down: Occupied (5)
- TAKEN
- 41 Down: Carried on (5)
- WAGED
- 43 Down: Word with white or fire (4)
- SALE
- 44 Down: Bring down the house (4)
- RAZE
- 46 Down: Cheer for El Cordobés (3)
- OLE
- 47 Down: Payable (3)
- DUE
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