Thursday Crossword — September 4, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 9/4/1980. By Jim Modney.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: When day meets night (4)
- DUSK
- 5 Across: Round pod (4)
- BOLL
- 9 Across: Engrave (4)
- ETCH
- 13 Across: This, in Toledo (4)
- ESTA
- 14 Across: Drug or heartwood (5)
- ALOES
- 16 Across: Half a child's toy (4)
- CHOO
- 17 Across: Word with red or sugar (4)
- BEET
- 18 Across: Cow catcher (5)
- RIATA
- 19 Across: Crooner Columbo: 1908–34 (4)
- RUSS
- 20 Across: Ideas generated by two-track minds? (15)
- TRAINSOFTHOUGHT
- 23 Across: Fuse (5)
- SMELT
- 24 Across: Novelist Haggard's title (3)
- SIR
- 25 Across: One place to catch a rapido at a stazione (4)
- ROMA
- 28 Across: Adverb applying to a caboose (6)
- BEHIND
- 33 Across: Call at a station (9)
- ALLABOARD
- 38 Across: Brown of songdom (5)
- LEROY
- 39 Across: What daydreamers gather (4)
- WOOL
- 40 Across: State flower of N.H. (5)
- LILAC
- 42 Across: Speck (4)
- MOTE
- 43 Across: Now and then: Abbr. (5)
- OCCAS
- 45 Across: Got off a Pullman (9)
- DETRAINED
- 47 Across: Big name in toy trains (6)
- LIONEL
- 49 Across: European industrial area (4)
- SAAR
- 50 Across: "Mamma ___!" (3)
- MIA
- 52 Across: Place for a bust (5)
- NICHE
- 56 Across: Monopoly industry? (15)
- READINGRAILROAD
- 63 Across: Word with Minor or Major (4)
- URSA
- 64 Across: Col. Tibbets's mother, ___ Gay (5)
- ENOLA
- 65 Across: Hence (4)
- ERGO
- 66 Across: Air (4)
- MIEN
- 67 Across: Terminal (5)
- DEPOT
- 68 Across: "___ Death": Grieg (4)
- ASES
- 69 Across: Crest (4)
- PEAK
- 70 Across: Cloy (4)
- SATE
- 71 Across: Pond, in poesy (4)
- MERE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Loan, e.g. (4)
- DEBT
- 2 Down: Employers (5)
- USERS
- 3 Down: Power for some trains (5)
- STEAM
- 4 Down: Porter's "___ Went to Haiti": 1939 (5)
- KATIE
- 5 Down: Perch in a club car (8)
- BARSTOOL
- 6 Down: Miscellany (4)
- OLIO
- 7 Down: Take it easy (4)
- LOAF
- 8 Down: Eastern Europeans (5)
- LETTS
- 9 Down: Yellowish brown (4)
- ECRU
- 10 Down: Ruffian (4)
- THUG
- 11 Down: Blackjack, in Soho (4)
- COSH
- 12 Down: Large number (4)
- HOST
- 15 Down: Master, in New Delhi (5)
- SAHIB
- 21 Down: Govt. agency established in 1935 (4)
- NLRB
- 22 Down: Turgenev's birthplace (4)
- OREL
- 26 Down: ___ of honor (4)
- MAID
- 27 Down: Site of Van Gogh's bridge (5)
- ARLES
- 29 Down: Prefix with sphere (4)
- HEMI
- 30 Down: With 54 Down, nickname for an engine (4)
- IRON
- 31 Down: Renown (4)
- NOTE
- 32 Down: Recolored (4)
- DYED
- 33 Down: Off base sans a pass (4)
- AWOL
- 34 Down: Areas (4)
- LOCI
- 35 Down: Word form with motive (4)
- LOCO
- 36 Down: King often seen at Vegas (4)
- ALAN
- 37 Down: Information (4)
- DATA
- 41 Down: Having a skull (8)
- CRANIATE
- 44 Down: Prefix with conductor or trailer (4)
- SEMI
- 46 Down: Seed covering (4)
- ARIL
- 48 Down: Bordered (5)
- LINED
- 51 Down: Actress Moorehead: 1906–74 (5)
- AGNES
- 53 Down: Elite (5)
- CREAM
- 54 Down: See 30 Down (5)
- HORSE
- 55 Down: Avid (5)
- EAGER
- 56 Down: ___ Parliament: 17th century (4)
- RUMP
- 57 Down: Railroad guided by Jay Gould (4)
- ERIE
- 58 Down: Sailing down to Rio (4)
- ASEA
- 59 Down: Cold and wet (4)
- DANK
- 60 Down: Clothing, in Madrid (4)
- ROPA
- 61 Down: "Thanks ___!" (4)
- ALOT
- 62 Down: Medicinal measure (4)
- DOSE
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