Wednesday Crossword — December 3, 1980

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy Pollard12/3/1980

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Cordage fiber (4 letters)
5 Across
What brats do (5 letters)
10 Across
Smear (4 letters)
14 Across
Monogram: Abbr. (4 letters)
15 Across
Tableware (5 letters)
16 Across
Shiftless; slothful (4 letters)
17 Across
Wallace of TV (4 letters)
18 Across
Ships' launcher (5 letters)
19 Across
Ennead (4 letters)
20 Across
Cooking direction (8 letters)
22 Across
Card game featuring sevens (6 letters)
24 Across
One of a 15th-century trio (4 letters)
25 Across
"Judith" composer (4 letters)
26 Across
Cooking plan (6 letters)
29 Across
Oscar Wilde forte (8 letters)
33 Across
Weld (5 letters)
34 Across
"A billboard lovely as ___": Nash (5 letters)
35 Across
Pastry often filled with fruit (3 letters)
36 Across
None, in Dogpatch (4 letters)
37 Across
Pomologist's bane (5 letters)
38 Across
Her fans protected her to a degree (4 letters)
39 Across
And other things: Abbr. (3 letters)
40 Across
Drive forward (5 letters)
41 Across
Forcemeat (5 letters)
42 Across
Container for a fish canapé (8 letters)
44 Across
Less fresh (6 letters)
45 Across
Gnawing mammal (4 letters)
46 Across
Cézanne or Gauguin (4 letters)
47 Across
Washday in Milano (6 letters)
50 Across
Sinker (8 letters)
54 Across
Acidity after gluttony (4 letters)
55 Across
Part of an indictment (5 letters)
57 Across
Freedom from the rat race (4 letters)
58 Across
Pebble-in-pond sound (4 letters)
59 Across
Swiftly (5 letters)
60 Across
"Hardly ___ is now alive . . . ": Longfellow (4 letters)
61 Across
Actor Andrews (4 letters)
62 Across
Consumers' amicus curiae (5 letters)
63 Across
Adroit (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Bowie and Backus (4 letters)
2 Down
Constituent of a whole (4 letters)
3 Down
"Kon-___," Heyerdahl book (4 letters)
4 Down
"The sea," according to Rimbaud (8 letters)
5 Down
Fruit of a buttercup (6 letters)
6 Down
Lobster's claw (5 letters)
7 Down
Cash register (4 letters)
8 Down
One, in Auvergne (3 letters)
9 Down
Sautéed (8 letters)
10 Down
"A ___ lubricates business": Boswell (6 letters)
11 Down
Approach to a mine (4 letters)
12 Down
Bone from elbow to wrist (4 letters)
13 Down
"It might have ___" (4 letters)
21 Down
Dry the dishes (4 letters)
23 Down
Spirit in Notre Dame (4 letters)
25 Down
Showers time (5 letters)
26 Down
Finnish poems (5 letters)
27 Down
Growing outward (5 letters)
28 Down
About (5 letters)
29 Down
Lucy's TV friend (5 letters)
30 Down
Separated (5 letters)
31 Down
Filling for 35 Across (5 letters)
32 Down
Ritual feast (5 letters)
34 Down
Kind of turnover (5 letters)
37 Down
___ plan, including meals (8 letters)
38 Down
Military supply point (8 letters)
40 Down
"___ a little pony" (4 letters)
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Dance of the 60's (4 letters)
43 Down
Everest guide (6 letters)
44 Down
Less loose (6 letters)
46 Down
City in Puerto Rico (5 letters)
47 Down
Columbo's hangout (4 letters)
48 Down
West Coast inst. (4 letters)
49 Down
Hour of sext (4 letters)
50 Down
Pair (4 letters)
51 Down
Reputation (4 letters)
52 Down
Dept. of Defense arm (4 letters)
53 Down
Spot for a Mongol's meals (4 letters)
56 Down
___-Locka, Fla. (3 letters)

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