Wednesday Crossword — July 16, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 7/16/1980. By Mary Virginia Orna.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Mild oath (4)
- EGAD
- 5 Across: Iowa campus town (4)
- AMES
- 9 Across: "The Destroyer," in Hinduism (5)
- SHIVA
- 14 Across: Kind of monster (4)
- GILA
- 15 Across: Anger (4)
- RILE
- 16 Across: Was solicitous (5)
- CARED
- 17 Across: President born at Caldwell, N.J. (15)
- GROVERCLEVELAND
- 20 Across: N.F.L. champions (8)
- STEELERS
- 21 Across: Coastline features (6)
- INLETS
- 22 Across: Same: Comb. form (3)
- ISO
- 23 Across: Red oak, e.g. (4)
- TREE
- 24 Across: Most ashen (6)
- PALEST
- 28 Across: Villains' cries (4)
- AHAS
- 29 Across: Fore and ___ (3)
- AFT
- 32 Across: Writer Segal (5)
- ERICH
- 33 Across: Joplin creation (3)
- RAG
- 34 Across: Matty, Jesus or Felipe (4)
- ALOU
- 35 Across: Declaration signer from Princeton, N.J. (15)
- RICHARDSTOCKTON
- 39 Across: Muse of history (4)
- CLIO
- 40 Across: "___ y Plata," Montana's motto (3)
- ORO
- 41 Across: Lariat (5)
- RIATA
- 42 Across: Winner over T.E.D. (3)
- HST
- 43 Across: Kind of corner (4)
- AMEN
- 44 Across: Literary types (6)
- GENRES
- 45 Across: Run like the Hackensack (4)
- FLOW
- 46 Across: ___-Magnon (3)
- CRO
- 47 Across: "Ports ___," Ibert opus: 1924 (6)
- OFCALL
- 50 Across: Cotes, cottages, etc. (8)
- SHELTERS
- 55 Across: Supreme Court Justice for whom a city in N.J. was named (15)
- WILLIAMPATERSON
- 57 Across: Eliminate (5)
- ERASE
- 58 Across: Check (4)
- REIN
- 59 Across: Northern Italian commune (4)
- ASTI
- 60 Across: Plied the needle (5)
- SEWED
- 61 Across: Blood fluids (4)
- SERA
- 62 Across: Table staple (4)
- MEAT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: ___ Benedict (4)
- EGGS
- 2 Down: Surrounded, in a way (4)
- GIRT
- 3 Down: Succulent plant (4)
- ALOE
- 4 Down: Brubeck or Garroway (4)
- DAVE
- 5 Down: Stop suddenly (6)
- ARREST
- 6 Down: Prefix with scope or phone (5)
- MICRO
- 7 Down: Wings (4)
- ELLS
- 8 Down: Understand (3)
- SEE
- 9 Down: Panoramas (6)
- SCENES
- 10 Down: Handel's birthplace (5)
- HALLE
- 11 Down: Dies ___ (4)
- IRAE
- 12 Down: Outlet (4)
- VENT
- 13 Down: Puts two and two together (4)
- ADDS
- 18 Down: O.T. prophet (6)
- ELISHA
- 19 Down: Shrew (6)
- VIRAGO
- 23 Down: "___ Championship Season," 1972 hit (4)
- THAT
- 24 Down: Spiny-finned fish (5)
- PERCH
- 25 Down: Seed coatings (5)
- ARILS
- 26 Down: O.K. to the D.A. (5)
- LICIT
- 27 Down: Nymph who loved Narcissus (4)
- ECHO
- 28 Down: Crime climbing in our time (5)
- ARSON
- 29 Down: Wedding site (5)
- ALTAR
- 30 Down: Dramatist who wrote "The Devil upon Two Sticks": 1768 (5)
- FOOTE
- 31 Down: Albacore and bluefin (5)
- TUNAS
- 34 Down: Related (4)
- AKIN
- 36 Down: Eliot novel (6)
- ROMOLA
- 37 Down: Pearson (4)
- DREW
- 38 Down: Type of cuisine (6)
- CREOLE
- 43 Down: Part of AMGOT or SHAPE (6)
- ALLIED
- 44 Down: ___ Green, Scotland (6)
- GRETNA
- 45 Down: Insincere (5)
- FALSE
- 46 Down: Professorship (5)
- CHAIR
- 47 Down: Is obligated (4)
- OWES
- 48 Down: Disemploy (4)
- FIRE
- 49 Down: Feline feature (4)
- CLAW
- 50 Down: Graf ___ (4)
- SPEE
- 51 Down: British streetcar (4)
- TRAM
- 52 Down: Being (4)
- ESSE
- 53 Down: Vatican tribunal (4)
- ROTA
- 54 Down: In a ___ (out of sorts) (4)
- SNIT
- 56 Down: Woolf's "___ Dalloway" (3)
- MRS
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