Wednesday Crossword — November 26, 1980 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 11/26/1980. By Judson G. Trent.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Boys' ammo (3)
BBS
4 Across: Tooth part (4)
CUSP
8 Across: Faux pas (5)
GAFFE
13 Across: Pelage (4)
COAT
14 Across: Glacial ridges (4)
OSAR
15 Across: Town in S Calif. (5)
ELRIO
16 Across: Ponte Vecchio's river (4)
ARNO
17 Across: Guido of Bologna (4)
RENI
18 Across: "Deirdre" playwright (5)
YEATS
19 Across: Syllogism's opener (12)
MAJORPREMISE
22 Across: Uris novel (6)
EXODUS
23 Across: M. Coty (4)
RENE
24 Across: ___ gratia artis (3)
ARS
27 Across: Pedagogue's deg. (3)
MED
29 Across: Mason's tool (6)
TROWEL
31 Across: Improvise (5)
ADLIB
35 Across: Fiscal or academic follower (4)
YEAR
38 Across: Ming treasure (4)
VASE
39 Across: Sign warning poachers and trespassers (15)
PRIVATEPROPERTY
42 Across: "City of Kings" (4)
LIMA
43 Across: Holy ___ (4)
WRIT
44 Across: Locale of Pili and Pular (5)
ANDES
45 Across: Retaliate (6)
AVENGE
47 Across: ___ volatile (3)
SAL
49 Across: Browning's "___ Bratts" (3)
NED
50 Across: Fast time (4)
LENT
53 Across: Surpassed (6)
BESTED
58 Across: Rural mart (12)
GENERALSTORE
60 Across: Mamba's kin (5)
COBRA
63 Across: Liana, e.g. (4)
VINE
64 Across: Furniture style (4)
ADAM
65 Across: Kind of jumper (5)
CLAIM
66 Across: Heroic poetry (4)
EPOS
67 Across: Damsel (4)
LASS
68 Across: Primitive chisels (5)
CELTS
69 Across: Let (4)
RENT
70 Across: Spud bud (3)
EYE

Down Answers

1 Down: Cleansing agent (5)
BORAX
2 Down: "___ Eyes" (Cantor) (5)
BANJO
3 Down: Tolerated (5)
STOOD
4 Down: Carr's "The ___ in the Waxworks" (6)
CORPSE
5 Down: Coleridge, with regard to opium (4)
USER
6 Down: More rational (5)
SANER
7 Down: Kind of time (5)
PRIME
8 Down: Old Faithful, e.g. (6)
GEYSER
9 Down: America's Cup term (4)
ALEE
10 Down: Ecclesiastical title (3)
FRA
11 Down: Healthy (3)
FIT
12 Down: She changed a king into a grasshopper (3)
EOS
13 Down: "I ___, I saw . . . " (4)
CAME
20 Down: Mambo's kin (5)
RUMBA
21 Down: Emcee's spiel (5)
INTRO
24 Down: Oscar or Tony (5)
AWARD
25 Down: Residue, in Rouen (5)
RESTE
26 Down: Weavers' reeds (5)
SLEYS
28 Down: Beautician, at times (4)
DYER
30 Down: Microwave or Dutch ___ (4)
OVEN
31 Down: "A man, ___, a canal, Panama" (5)
APLAN
32 Down: Get-up-and-go (5)
DRIVE
33 Down: Treated the lawn (5)
LIMED
34 Down: Czarist name (4)
IVAN
36 Down: Prefix for center or graph (3)
EPI
37 Down: Some are fine (4)
ARTS
40 Down: 'Twixt (5)
TWEEN
41 Down: Pickets (5)
PALES
46 Down: " . . . gracious, golden, glittering ___": Shak. (6)
GLEAMS
48 Down: Most capable (6)
ABLEST
51 Down: " . . . ___ the twain . . . " (5)
NEVER
52 Down: Balderdash (5)
TRIPE
54 Down: Vapid (5)
STALE
55 Down: Brokaw show (5)
TODAY
56 Down: Cancel (5)
ERASE
57 Down: H.S.T. and J.F.K. (4)
DEMS
58 Down: Horatio Alger hero's virtue (4)
GRIT
59 Down: Soon (4)
ANON
60 Down: Depression ecology org. (3)
CCC
61 Down: Bull of Bergen (3)
OLE
62 Down: Robe de ___, dance frock (3)
BAL

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