Wednesday Crossword — September 24, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 9/24/1980. By Kathryn Righter.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Garret (5)
- ATTIC
- 6 Across: Part of a window blind (4)
- SLAT
- 10 Across: Narrow opening (4)
- SLIT
- 14 Across: Goddess of the hunt (5)
- DIANA
- 15 Across: Surface undulation (4)
- WAVE
- 16 Across: Milne's "When We ___ Very Young" (4)
- WERE
- 17 Across: Official receiving a 19-gun salute (10)
- AMBASSADOR
- 19 Across: In the distance (4)
- AFAR
- 20 Across: French possessive pronoun (3)
- MES
- 21 Across: Holographic (11)
- HANDWRITTEN
- 23 Across: Ventilates (4)
- AIRS
- 24 Across: Part of the foot (4)
- ARCH
- 25 Across: Made a touchdown (6)
- SCORED
- 28 Across: Kind of tennis stroke (8)
- BACKHAND
- 32 Across: Player of pibrochs (5)
- PIPER
- 33 Across: Strives successfully (5)
- COPES
- 34 Across: Conjunction (3)
- NOR
- 35 Across: Prayers (4)
- AVES
- 36 Across: Is concerned (5)
- CARES
- 37 Across: Icelandic literary work (4)
- EDDA
- 38 Across: X (3)
- TEN
- 39 Across: Blanket or lid (5)
- COVER
- 40 Across: Sound from an unoiled hinge (5)
- CREAK
- 41 Across: King of England: 978–1016 (8)
- ETHELRED
- 43 Across: Cook gently (6)
- CODDLE
- 44 Across: Wing-shaped (4)
- ALAR
- 45 Across: Lake, source of the Blue Nile (4)
- TANA
- 46 Across: Garb for "Second Hand Rose" (11)
- HANDMEDOWNS
- 50 Across: Rex's Gallic relative (3)
- ROI
- 53 Across: Wavy, in heraldry (4)
- UNDE
- 54 Across: Be received; arrive (10)
- COMETOHAND
- 56 Across: One on the move (4)
- GOER
- 57 Across: Arboret, e.g. (4)
- TREE
- 58 Across: Even (5)
- LEVEL
- 59 Across: Finishes (4)
- ENDS
- 60 Across: Ingredient of mortar (4)
- SAND
- 61 Across: Mineral for grinding and polishing (5)
- EMERY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: "Supermoney" author, ___ Smith (4)
- ADAM
- 2 Down: Kind of keeper (4)
- TIME
- 3 Down: Small flaps (4)
- TABS
- 4 Down: "___ Mist," 1928 song (3)
- INA
- 5 Down: Supermarket employee (7)
- CASHIER
- 6 Down: Producers of cygnets (5)
- SWANS
- 7 Down: His gun was for hire in 1942 (4)
- LADD
- 8 Down: Declare (4)
- AVOW
- 9 Down: Galleries or colonnades (8)
- TERRACES
- 10 Down: Cloth sample (6)
- SWATCH
- 11 Down: Like an insincere compliment (10)
- LEFTHANDED
- 12 Down: Dies ___ (4)
- IRAE
- 13 Down: Sea bird (4)
- TERN
- 18 Down: Red chalcedony (4)
- SARD
- 22 Down: Annoys (4)
- IRKS
- 23 Down: The Greek Tiu (4)
- ARES
- 25 Down: Sudden outpouring (5)
- SPATE
- 26 Down: Little spotted skunk (5)
- CIVET
- 27 Down: Liberal; generous (10)
- OPENHANDED
- 28 Down: World-weary (5)
- BORED
- 29 Down: Mimicker (4)
- APER
- 30 Down: Pertaining to knots or bumps (5)
- NODAL
- 31 Down: Male mallard (5)
- DRAKE
- 33 Down: Home to a Paleolithic man (4)
- CAVE
- 36 Down: Emends (8)
- CORRECTS
- 37 Down: Wagnerian role (4)
- ERDA
- 39 Down: Quahog (4)
- CLAM
- 40 Down: Comfort or cheer (7)
- CONSOLE
- 42 Down: Church officials (6)
- ELDERS
- 43 Down: Argot (4)
- CANT
- 45 Down: "Ring" leader of Tammany Hall (5)
- TWEED
- 46 Down: Enormous (4)
- HUGE
- 47 Down: "___, good nurse!": Juliet (4)
- ANON
- 48 Down: One of the Copperfields (4)
- DORA
- 49 Down: Straw in the wind (4)
- OMEN
- 50 Down: Talk wildly (4)
- RAVE
- 51 Down: Unique item or person (4)
- ONER
- 52 Down: In a lazy manner (4)
- IDLY
- 55 Down: Couturier's line (3)
- HEM
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