Wednesday Crossword — August 20, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 8/20/1980. By I. Judah Koolyk.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" author (4)
- BACH
- 5 Across: Wealth (4)
- PELF
- 9 Across: Mont Blanc is France's highest (4)
- PEAK
- 13 Across: Author Wiesel (4)
- ELIE
- 14 Across: "Take ___ leave it" (4)
- ITOR
- 15 Across: "Texaco Star Theater" star on TV (5)
- BERLE
- 16 Across: Prepare for a struggle (4)
- GIRD
- 17 Across: "___ Homo," Titian painting (4)
- ECCE
- 18 Across: End of a well-known Stein line (5)
- AROSE
- 19 Across: Parents' break (15)
- SECONDHONEYMOON
- 22 Across: Olfactory organ (4)
- NOSE
- 23 Across: Irish Gaelic (4)
- ERSE
- 24 Across: Of the eye (5)
- OPTIC
- 27 Across: Goddess wearing a cow's horns (4)
- SATI
- 29 Across: Skillful (4)
- DEFT
- 33 Across: Seward's coup (6)
- ALASKA
- 35 Across: Isinglass (4)
- MICA
- 37 Across: Contend (3)
- VIE
- 38 Across: Students' breaks (15)
- SUMMERVACATIONS
- 41 Across: " . . . appetyt hath he to ___ a mous": Chaucer (3)
- ETE
- 42 Across: Edwardian expletive (4)
- DRAT
- 43 Across: Bulb's holder (6)
- SOCKET
- 44 Across: Scotch's partner (4)
- SODA
- 46 Across: Richthofen and Rickenbacker (4)
- ACES
- 48 Across: Requisites (5)
- NEEDS
- 49 Across: Seat for Burger (4)
- BANC
- 51 Across: Ruth's birthplace (4)
- MOAB
- 53 Across: Professor's break (15)
- SABBATICALLEAVE
- 60 Across: Word with ear or tube (5)
- INNER
- 61 Across: Standard (4)
- NORM
- 62 Across: "Life is ___!": Longfellow (4)
- REAL
- 63 Across: Charter (5)
- LEASE
- 64 Across: Tittle (4)
- IOTA
- 65 Across: Auctioneer's final word (4)
- GONE
- 66 Across: Former A.F.B. on Cape Cod (4)
- OTIS
- 67 Across: Part of A.B.A. (4)
- ASSN
- 68 Across: Old-time weapon (4)
- SNEE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: ___ off (declines) (4)
- BEGS
- 2 Down: "I cannot tell ___" (4)
- ALIE
- 3 Down: Newspaper's average sales: Abbr. (4)
- CIRC
- 4 Down: Epicurean doctrine (8)
- HEDONISM
- 5 Down: Frenchmen's feet (5)
- PIEDS
- 6 Down: Draws finely (6)
- ETCHES
- 7 Down: Bonkers (4)
- LOCO
- 8 Down: Wild and excited (8)
- FRENETIC
- 9 Down: Did a beautician's job: Colloq. (6)
- PERMED
- 10 Down: Sock's slangy suffix (4)
- EROO
- 11 Down: "They ___ serve . . . ": Milton (4)
- ALSO
- 12 Down: Sharp (4)
- KEEN
- 15 Down: Buzzards and Sheepshead (4)
- BAYS
- 20 Down: Set an arrow into a bowstring (6)
- NOCKED
- 21 Down: Heaths (6)
- ERICAS
- 24 Down: Saharan stopovers (5)
- OASES
- 25 Down: Tombaugh's 1930 discovery (5)
- PLUTO
- 26 Down: No longer feral (5)
- TAMED
- 28 Down: C.A. timber tree (5)
- AMATE
- 30 Down: Elicit (5)
- EVOKE
- 31 Down: Charged for an overdue book (5)
- FINED
- 32 Down: Acid and rabbit (5)
- TESTS
- 34 Down: Out-and-out (6)
- ARRANT
- 36 Down: Without a keynote (6)
- ATONAL
- 39 Down: Cowpox (8)
- VACCINIA
- 40 Down: North Atlantic hazards (8)
- ICEBERGS
- 45 Down: Convent head (6)
- ABBESS
- 47 Down: Causes sharp pain (6)
- SMARTS
- 50 Down: River to the Rhine (4)
- AARE
- 52 Down: Kern's "___ River" (5)
- OLMAN
- 53 Down: Missile's home (4)
- SILO
- 54 Down: "They have prepared ___": Psalms (4)
- ANET
- 55 Down: ___ B'rith (4)
- BNAI
- 56 Down: Cote sounds (4)
- COOS
- 57 Down: Immeasurable time (4)
- AEON
- 58 Down: Roof adjunct on a barn (4)
- VANE
- 59 Down: Robert ___ (4)
- ELEE
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