Friday Crossword — January 2, 1981

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1574 clues~30-60 minBy Hal R. Hollinger1/2/1981

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Biblical dreamer (5 letters)
6 Across
Capp and Jolson (3 letters)
9 Across
Billiard shot (5 letters)
14 Across
Red ___, oil-fire fighter (5 letters)
15 Across
Quick trip (3 letters)
16 Across
Benefit (5 letters)
17 Across
Beethoven's "___ Solemnis" (5 letters)
18 Across
Suite movement (3 letters)
19 Across
Nicolai of the Met (5 letters)
20 Across
Vehicle for Barrymore, Davis and Hepburn (14 letters)
23 Across
Jackie Coogan role, with "The" (3 letters)
24 Across
Pfc.'s mentors (4 letters)
25 Across
Compensated (6 letters)
29 Across
Governor's pin-up (8 letters)
33 Across
Some original New Yorkers (5 letters)
34 Across
Like a Hammett character (4 letters)
35 Across
"The Greatest" (3 letters)
36 Across
Holden Caulfield (15 letters)
40 Across
___ loss (perplexed) (3 letters)
41 Across
"Not with a ___ but a whimper": Eliot (4 letters)
42 Across
Chosen few (5 letters)
43 Across
Procrastinate (8 letters)
46 Across
TV's Dr. Gillespie (6 letters)
47 Across
Nonworking days, in Londonese (4 letters)
48 Across
Morsel for Spectacular Bid (3 letters)
49 Across
Unfinished trilogy by Frank Norris (14 letters)
56 Across
O.K.'s of a sort (5 letters)
57 Across
Feminist's cause, for short (3 letters)
58 Across
Part of ESP (5 letters)
60 Across
Parisian's partition (5 letters)
61 Across
Worry (3 letters)
62 Across
Saltpeter (5 letters)
63 Across
Ole of vaudeville (5 letters)
64 Across
H.S.T. successor (3 letters)
65 Across
Special interest (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Spread or crisis (3 letters)
2 Down
Mine passage (4 letters)
3 Down
Hard stuff (4 letters)
4 Down
French river (4 letters)
5 Down
Like the Dead Sea (8 letters)
6 Down
Beatles' "___ Day's Night" (5 letters)
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Kind of chop (4 letters)
8 Down
Action at a track (9 letters)
9 Down
Obsessive idea (6 letters)
10 Down
Disinclined (6 letters)
11 Down
Marquis de ___ (4 letters)
12 Down
Kind of show or walk (4 letters)
13 Down
Entertainer's asset (4 letters)
21 Down
Suffix with human or planet (3 letters)
22 Down
Brief (5 letters)
25 Down
Sum up (5 letters)
26 Down
One of nine sisters (5 letters)
27 Down
Century plants (5 letters)
28 Down
Predecessor of the N.R.C. (3 letters)
29 Down
Take a ___ to (fancy) (5 letters)
30 Down
Grown fillies (5 letters)
31 Down
___ clover, forage plant (5 letters)
32 Down
Devoutness (5 letters)
34 Down
Overcome limitations (9 letters)
37 Down
Levi's "Christ Stopped at ___" (5 letters)
38 Down
Missionary's concerns (8 letters)
39 Down
City overheads (3 letters)
44 Down
Markham's "The Man with ___" (6 letters)
45 Down
Visits briefly or unexpectedly (6 letters)
46 Down
Symbol of voracity (3 letters)
48 Down
Mead's "Coming ___ in Samoa" (5 letters)
49 Down
Steno's mishap (4 letters)
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Mend (4 letters)
51 Down
Lugs of jugs (4 letters)
52 Down
Towards the mouth (4 letters)
53 Down
Sartre's "No ___" (4 letters)
54 Down
"___ boy!" (4 letters)
55 Down
Arduous journey (4 letters)
59 Down
"Friends ___ all . . . ": G. Burgess (3 letters)

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