Friday Crossword — November 28, 1980 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 11/28/1980. By Eli Wesoff.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Button Gwinnett was one (6)
SIGNER
7 Across: Desert rat's quest (4)
LODE
11 Across: Séance sound (3)
RAP
14 Across: Achieve success (6)
ARRIVE
15 Across: Tel ___ (4)
AVIV
16 Across: High note (3)
ELA
17 Across: Devotee of Bantingism (6)
DIETER
18 Across: Asbestos, asphalt, etc. (8)
MINERALS
20 Across: Denticulate (7)
SERRATE
22 Across: Subjects to detrition (6)
ERODES
23 Across: Caught a monarch (6)
NETTED
24 Across: Cheap booze (6)
REDEYE
25 Across: Suffix with lemon or cannon (3)
ADE
27 Across: China, for one (3)
SEA
28 Across: ___ d'Or, French wine area (4)
COTE
29 Across: Famous clinic (4)
MAYO
31 Across: Teutonic trio (4)
DREI
33 Across: Forum garb (5)
TOGAE
37 Across: Expert (5)
ADEPT
39 Across: Table scrap (3)
ORT
40 Across: Uncivil (5)
SURLY
41 Across: Actor George of "Away All Boats" (5)
NADER
42 Across: Phocid (4)
SEAL
44 Across: "So long" (4)
TATA
45 Across: Abounding (4)
RIFE
47 Across: Cockchafer (3)
DOR
49 Across: Aye (3)
YES
50 Across: Loser in 1588 (6)
ARMADA
53 Across: Seek release from an obligation (6)
BEGOFF
55 Across: Post-riot criminal (6)
LOOTER
56 Across: Cure-alls (7)
ELIXIRS
58 Across: Puritanical person (8)
BLUENOSE
60 Across: Dental problem (6)
CARIES
62 Across: Cubit (3)
ELL
63 Across: Race track, with "the" (4)
TURF
64 Across: Arabian romance (6)
ANTARA
65 Across: Silent assent (3)
NOD
66 Across: Satisfy for a time (4)
STAY
67 Across: Schoolmaster, in Stuttgart (6)
LEHRER

Down Answers

1 Down: Disconsolate (3)
SAD
2 Down: Rainbow (4)
IRIS
3 Down: Kind of monster (9)
GREENEYED
4 Down: Saltpeter, in Southampton (5)
NITRE
5 Down: Turns inside out (6)
EVERTS
6 Down: Changed an evaluation (7)
RERATED
7 Down: Disabled (5)
LAMED
8 Down: Egg: Comb. form (3)
OVI
9 Down: Moola, in Mexico (6)
DINERO
10 Down: Men's lounging slippers (8)
EVERETTS
11 Down: Aptly named novelist (5)
READE
12 Down: Allen's or Gasoline ___ (5)
ALLEY
13 Down: Effete (5)
PASSE
19 Down: ___ the storm (survived) (7)
RODEOUT
21 Down: Flower named for its scent (7)
TEAROSE
25 Down: "___ for All Seasons" (4)
AMAN
26 Down: Nursery sound (4)
DADA
28 Down: Fortress (7)
CITADEL
30 Down: Function (7)
OPERATE
32 Down: Before, to the Bard (3)
ERE
34 Down: Franciscan (9)
GRAYFRIAR
35 Down: Familiar term for Adenauer (4)
ALTE
36 Down: Unfledged bird (4)
EYAS
38 Down: Fish spears (8)
TRIDENTS
43 Down: Reasonable (7)
LOGICAL
46 Down: Avant-garde, in street lingo (6)
FAROUT
48 Down: Cyrano's beloved (6)
ROXANE
50 Down: First name of "the Veep" (5)
ALBEN
51 Down: Jacob Abbott's juvenile hero (5)
ROLLO
52 Down: "The glass of fashion and the ___ of form": Shak. (5)
MOULD
53 Down: Thickset (5)
BEEFY
54 Down: Narrow arm of the sea (5)
FIRTH
57 Down: Dry (4)
SERE
59 Down: Mrs. below the border (3)
SRA
61 Down: Patriotic org. (3)
SAR

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