Thursday Crossword — September 18, 1980

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1572 clues~15-30 minBy C. J. Angio9/18/1980

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Amo, ___, amat (4 letters)
5 Across
Recycling material (5 letters)
10 Across
Emcee's place (4 letters)
14 Across
Cold, dry wind (4 letters)
15 Across
Give the ___ (prove to be false) (5 letters)
16 Across
"___ Perpetua," Idaho motto (4 letters)
17 Across
With 34 Across, doctor's question to an amnesiac (15 letters)
20 Across
Rats (8 letters)
21 Across
Héloïse and Abélard (6 letters)
22 Across
"___ Work If You Can Get It," 1937 song (4 letters)
23 Across
Hold sway (4 letters)
24 Across
Macédoine, e.g. (6 letters)
27 Across
Gas-company employee (8 letters)
31 Across
Stevedore's milieu (4 letters)
32 Across
Kierkegaard and Melchior (5 letters)
33 Across
In the past (3 letters)
34 Across
See 17 Across (15 letters)
38 Across
D.C. agency: 1948–51 (3 letters)
39 Across
Heroine of a Poe poem (5 letters)
40 Across
Forsaken (4 letters)
41 Across
Masonic order, for short (8 letters)
43 Across
Book of the Apocrypha (6 letters)
45 Across
Neural network (4 letters)
46 Across
Make cardigans (4 letters)
47 Across
Rubbernecking (6 letters)
50 Across
Most thought-provoking (8 letters)
54 Across
Amnesiac's reply (15 letters)
56 Across
Agatha Christie was one (4 letters)
57 Across
"___ evil . . . " (5 letters)
58 Across
Roof edge (4 letters)
59 Across
Rulers of a movie planet (4 letters)
60 Across
Pliny the ___ of Rome (5 letters)
61 Across
Old dagger puzzlers are stuck with (4 letters)

Down

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Pre-primer fundamentals (4 letters)
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Item under a drawbridge (4 letters)
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Pisa's river (4 letters)
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Geisha's goodbye (8 letters)
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Floodgate (6 letters)
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Person quoted or honored (5 letters)
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Pawnees' neighbors (4 letters)
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Expanse east of N.A. (3 letters)
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Like many U.S. rivers and streams (8 letters)
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Kipling's dastardly Danny (6 letters)
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Retired court star (4 letters)
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"Take ___ leave it" (4 letters)
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Their mates may be boars (4 letters)
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Reeking (4 letters)
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Harass (6 letters)
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Ballerina Jeanmaire (5 letters)
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Northern ___ (apples) (5 letters)
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It follows gee (5 letters)
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Composer of "The Merry Widow" (5 letters)
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Horace, Thomas and Delbert (5 letters)
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Koch of New York (5 letters)
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Greek marketplace (5 letters)
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These are often subjects (5 letters)
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Maker of early steel plows (5 letters)
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Mrs. Tanqueray's creator (6 letters)
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It's only make-believe (8 letters)
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What "it seems like" in a pop song (8 letters)
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Islamic flats (6 letters)
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Captivate (6 letters)
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Locale (4 letters)
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City in N.H. (5 letters)
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"On a wing ___ prayer" (4 letters)
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Product of saponification (4 letters)
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One of an impatient duo (4 letters)
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Talking horse of old TV (4 letters)
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Abba of Israel (4 letters)
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Golfer Ballesteros (4 letters)
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Word with hat or shoe (4 letters)
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___ Aviv (3 letters)

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