Wednesday Crossword — December 3, 1980 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 12/3/1980. By Pollard.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Cordage fiber (4)
- JUTE
- 5 Across: What brats do (5)
- ACTUP
- 10 Across: Smear (4)
- DAUB
- 14 Across: Monogram: Abbr. (4)
- INIT
- 15 Across: Tableware (5)
- CHINA
- 16 Across: Shiftless; slothful (4)
- IDLE
- 17 Across: Wallace of TV (4)
- MIKE
- 18 Across: Ships' launcher (5)
- HELEN
- 19 Across: Ennead (4)
- NINE
- 20 Across: Cooking direction (8)
- STIRWELL
- 22 Across: Card game featuring sevens (6)
- FANTAN
- 24 Across: One of a 15th-century trio (4)
- NINA
- 25 Across: "Judith" composer (4)
- ARNE
- 26 Across: Cooking plan (6)
- RECIPE
- 29 Across: Oscar Wilde forte (8)
- EPIGRAMS
- 33 Across: Weld (5)
- UNITE
- 34 Across: "A billboard lovely as ___": Nash (5)
- ATREE
- 35 Across: Pastry often filled with fruit (3)
- PIE
- 36 Across: None, in Dogpatch (4)
- NARY
- 37 Across: Pomologist's bane (5)
- APHID
- 38 Across: Her fans protected her to a degree (4)
- RAND
- 39 Across: And other things: Abbr. (3)
- ETC
- 40 Across: Drive forward (5)
- IMPEL
- 41 Across: Forcemeat (5)
- FARCE
- 42 Across: Container for a fish canapé (8)
- SEASHELL
- 44 Across: Less fresh (6)
- TRITER
- 45 Across: Gnawing mammal (4)
- HARE
- 46 Across: Cézanne or Gauguin (4)
- PAUL
- 47 Across: Washday in Milano (6)
- LUNEDI
- 50 Across: Sinker (8)
- DOUGHNUT
- 54 Across: Acidity after gluttony (4)
- ACOR
- 55 Across: Part of an indictment (5)
- COUNT
- 57 Across: Freedom from the rat race (4)
- EASE
- 58 Across: Pebble-in-pond sound (4)
- PLOP
- 59 Across: Swiftly (5)
- APACE
- 60 Across: "Hardly ___ is now alive . . . ": Longfellow (4)
- AMAN
- 61 Across: Actor Andrews (4)
- DANA
- 62 Across: Consumers' amicus curiae (5)
- NADER
- 63 Across: Adroit (4)
- DEFT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Bowie and Backus (4)
- JIMS
- 2 Down: Constituent of a whole (4)
- UNIT
- 3 Down: "Kon-___," Heyerdahl book (4)
- TIKI
- 4 Down: "The sea," according to Rimbaud (8)
- ETERNITY
- 5 Down: Fruit of a buttercup (6)
- ACHENE
- 6 Down: Lobster's claw (5)
- CHELA
- 7 Down: Cash register (4)
- TILL
- 8 Down: One, in Auvergne (3)
- UNE
- 9 Down: Sautéed (8)
- PANFRIED
- 10 Down: "A ___ lubricates business": Boswell (6)
- DINNER
- 11 Down: Approach to a mine (4)
- ADIT
- 12 Down: Bone from elbow to wrist (4)
- ULNA
- 13 Down: "It might have ___" (4)
- BEEN
- 21 Down: Dry the dishes (4)
- WIPE
- 23 Down: Spirit in Notre Dame (4)
- ANGE
- 25 Down: Showers time (5)
- APRIL
- 26 Down: Finnish poems (5)
- RUNES
- 27 Down: Growing outward (5)
- ENATE
- 28 Down: About (5)
- CIRCA
- 29 Down: Lucy's TV friend (5)
- ETHEL
- 30 Down: Separated (5)
- APART
- 31 Down: Filling for 35 Across (5)
- MINCE
- 32 Down: Ritual feast (5)
- SEDER
- 34 Down: Kind of turnover (5)
- APPLE
- 37 Down: ___ plan, including meals (8)
- AMERICAN
- 38 Down: Military supply point (8)
- RAILHEAD
- 40 Down: "___ a little pony" (4)
- IHAD
- 41 Down: Dance of the 60's (4)
- FRUG
- 43 Down: Everest guide (6)
- SHERPA
- 44 Down: Less loose (6)
- TAUTER
- 46 Down: City in Puerto Rico (5)
- PONCE
- 47 Down: Columbo's hangout (4)
- LAPD
- 48 Down: West Coast inst. (4)
- UCLA
- 49 Down: Hour of sext (4)
- NOON
- 50 Down: Pair (4)
- DUAD
- 51 Down: Reputation (4)
- NAME
- 52 Down: Dept. of Defense arm (4)
- USAF
- 53 Down: Spot for a Mongol's meals (4)
- TENT
- 56 Down: ___-Locka, Fla. (3)
- OPA
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