Friday Crossword — August 15, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 8/15/1980. By Joy L. Wouk.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Thin sheet placed over stage lights (3)
- GEL
- 4 Across: Flying jib or spanker (4)
- SAIL
- 8 Across: First words of "A Tale of Two Cities" (5)
- ITWAS
- 13 Across: Caesar's wife, e.g. (4)
- UXOR
- 15 Across: Radius's neighbor (4)
- ULNA
- 16 Across: Spell of duty (5)
- TRICK
- 17 Across: Wash (4)
- LAVE
- 18 Across: Belfry residents (4)
- BATS
- 19 Across: Game ragout (5)
- SALMI
- 20 Across: "Mid ___ and palaces . . . ": Payne (9)
- PLEASURES
- 22 Across: Done (5)
- ENDED
- 23 Across: Tourist, at times (6)
- STARER
- 24 Across: Bagels, e.g. (5)
- ROLLS
- 26 Across: Old fiddle (5)
- REBEC
- 28 Across: Furnish (6)
- AFFORD
- 32 Across: Opposite a ship's middle (5)
- ABEAM
- 35 Across: Its capital is N'Djamena (4)
- CHAD
- 37 Across: Theater award (4)
- OBIE
- 38 Across: Follower of high or base (4)
- BORN
- 39 Across: Haircut's companion (5)
- SHAVE
- 40 Across: It bestrides the Tevere (4)
- ROMA
- 41 Across: Ship's jail (4)
- BRIG
- 42 Across: Corn bread (4)
- PONE
- 43 Across: Daub (5)
- SMEAR
- 44 Across: Lamb, at Maxim's (6)
- AGNEAU
- 46 Across: Garbo (5)
- GRETA
- 48 Across: Subdivide minutely (5)
- MINCE
- 50 Across: Behrman's "___ for Comedy" (6)
- NOTIME
- 54 Across: Site of the House of Seven Gables (5)
- SALEM
- 57 Across: Narrow margins (9)
- HAIRLINES
- 59 Across: Families (5)
- CLANS
- 60 Across: Spain's longest river (4)
- EBRO
- 61 Across: Rows (4)
- OARS
- 62 Across: Trunk vessel (5)
- AORTA
- 63 Across: Greek political org. (4)
- ELAS
- 64 Across: Garibaldi's birthplace (4)
- NICE
- 65 Across: Beauty's companion (5)
- BEAST
- 66 Across: Actor Holliday (4)
- KENE
- 67 Across: Tyrannosaurus ___ (3)
- REX
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Swigs (5)
- GULPS
- 2 Down: Aggrandize (5)
- EXALT
- 3 Down: "I ___ Parade," 1931 song (5)
- LOVEA
- 4 Down: Scarsdale or Shaker Heights (6)
- SUBURB
- 5 Down: Wing-shaped (4)
- ALAR
- 6 Down: Like some machine parts (15)
- INTERCHANGEABLE
- 7 Down: Riata (5)
- LASSO
- 8 Down: "For love is still most precious in ___": Shak. (6)
- ITSELF
- 9 Down: Potion's effect on Dr. Jekyll (14)
- TRANSFORMATION
- 10 Down: Like "the blue yonder" (4)
- WILD
- 11 Down: Peak (4)
- ACME
- 12 Down: Supporting plank (4)
- SKID
- 14 Down: New dispositions (14)
- REARRANGEMENTS
- 21 Down: Look (4)
- SEEM
- 25 Down: Burden (4)
- LADE
- 27 Down: High-low signal, in bridge (4)
- ECHO
- 29 Down: Electronic navigation system (4)
- OBOE
- 30 Down: "Green Mansions" girl (4)
- RIMA
- 31 Down: Letter opener (4)
- DEAR
- 32 Down: Popular Swedish quartet (4)
- ABBA
- 33 Down: King of the courts (4)
- BORG
- 34 Down: "Come Back to ___" (4)
- ERIN
- 36 Down: Affirm (4)
- AVER
- 39 Down: Kind of glass or sugar (4)
- SPUN
- 43 Down: Aircraft acronym (4)
- STOL
- 45 Down: Draws a bead on (6)
- AIMSAT
- 47 Down: "La Vie ___," 1946 song (6)
- ENROSE
- 49 Down: Nerve (5)
- CHEEK
- 51 Down: " . . . bombs bursting ___" (5)
- INAIR
- 52 Down: Choreographer Cunningham (5)
- MERCE
- 53 Down: Favorite of Elizabeth I (5)
- ESSEX
- 54 Down: Nonstriker (4)
- SCAB
- 55 Down: Lily's relative (4)
- ALOE
- 56 Down: Pasternak heroine (4)
- LARA
- 58 Down: Land bordering the Caspian (4)
- IRAN
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