Friday Crossword — January 2, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 1/2/1981. By Hal R. Hollinger.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Biblical dreamer (5)
- JACOB
- 6 Across: Capp and Jolson (3)
- ALS
- 9 Across: Billiard shot (5)
- MASSE
- 14 Across: Red ___, oil-fire fighter (5)
- ADAIR
- 15 Across: Quick trip (3)
- HOP
- 16 Across: Benefit (5)
- AVAIL
- 17 Across: Beethoven's "___ Solemnis" (5)
- MISSA
- 18 Across: Suite movement (3)
- AIR
- 19 Across: Nicolai of the Met (5)
- GEDDA
- 20 Across: Vehicle for Barrymore, Davis and Hepburn (14)
- THECORNISGREEN
- 23 Across: Jackie Coogan role, with "The" (3)
- KID
- 24 Across: Pfc.'s mentors (4)
- NCOS
- 25 Across: Compensated (6)
- REPAID
- 29 Across: Governor's pin-up (8)
- STATEMAP
- 33 Across: Some original New Yorkers (5)
- ERIES
- 34 Across: Like a Hammett character (4)
- THIN
- 35 Across: "The Greatest" (3)
- ALI
- 36 Across: Holden Caulfield (15)
- CATCHERINTHERYE
- 40 Across: ___ loss (perplexed) (3)
- ATA
- 41 Across: "Not with a ___ but a whimper": Eliot (4)
- BANG
- 42 Across: Chosen few (5)
- ELECT
- 43 Across: Procrastinate (8)
- POSTPONE
- 46 Across: TV's Dr. Gillespie (6)
- MASSEY
- 47 Across: Nonworking days, in Londonese (4)
- HOLS
- 48 Across: Morsel for Spectacular Bid (3)
- OAT
- 49 Across: Unfinished trilogy by Frank Norris (14)
- THEEPICOFWHEAT
- 56 Across: O.K.'s of a sort (5)
- YEAHS
- 57 Across: Feminist's cause, for short (3)
- ERA
- 58 Across: Part of ESP (5)
- EXTRA
- 60 Across: Parisian's partition (5)
- PAROI
- 61 Across: Worry (3)
- NAG
- 62 Across: Saltpeter (5)
- NITER
- 63 Across: Ole of vaudeville (5)
- OLSEN
- 64 Across: H.S.T. successor (3)
- DDE
- 65 Across: Special interest (5)
- STAKE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Spread or crisis (3)
- JAM
- 2 Down: Mine passage (4)
- ADIT
- 3 Down: Hard stuff (4)
- CASH
- 4 Down: French river (4)
- OISE
- 5 Down: Like the Dead Sea (8)
- BRACKISH
- 6 Down: Beatles' "___ Day's Night" (5)
- AHARD
- 7 Down: Kind of chop (4)
- LOIN
- 8 Down: Action at a track (9)
- SPRINTING
- 9 Down: Obsessive idea (6)
- MAGGOT
- 10 Down: Disinclined (6)
- AVERSE
- 11 Down: Marquis de ___ (4)
- SADE
- 12 Down: Kind of show or walk (4)
- SIDE
- 13 Down: Entertainer's asset (4)
- ELAN
- 21 Down: Suffix with human or planet (3)
- OID
- 22 Down: Brief (5)
- SCANT
- 25 Down: Sum up (5)
- RECAP
- 26 Down: One of nine sisters (5)
- ERATO
- 27 Down: Century plants (5)
- PITAS
- 28 Down: Predecessor of the N.R.C. (3)
- AEC
- 29 Down: Take a ___ to (fancy) (5)
- SHINE
- 30 Down: Grown fillies (5)
- MARES
- 31 Down: ___ clover, forage plant (5)
- ALYCE
- 32 Down: Devoutness (5)
- PIETY
- 34 Down: Overcome limitations (9)
- TRANSCEND
- 37 Down: Levi's "Christ Stopped at ___" (5)
- EBOLI
- 38 Down: Missionary's concerns (8)
- HEATHENS
- 39 Down: City overheads (3)
- ELS
- 44 Down: Markham's "The Man with ___" (6)
- THEHOE
- 45 Down: Visits briefly or unexpectedly (6)
- POPSIN
- 46 Down: Symbol of voracity (3)
- MAW
- 48 Down: Mead's "Coming ___ in Samoa" (5)
- OFAGE
- 49 Down: Steno's mishap (4)
- TYPO
- 50 Down: Mend (4)
- HEAL
- 51 Down: Lugs of jugs (4)
- EARS
- 52 Down: Towards the mouth (4)
- ORAD
- 53 Down: Sartre's "No ___" (4)
- EXIT
- 54 Down: "___ boy!" (4)
- ATTA
- 55 Down: Arduous journey (4)
- TREK
- 59 Down: "Friends ___ all . . . ": G. Burgess (3)
- ARE
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