Wednesday Crossword — January 7, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 1/7/1981. By Joy L. Wouk.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Org. in Africa, S.A. and Asia (4)
- OPEC
- 5 Across: Dissolve (4)
- MELT
- 9 Across: British ___ (5)
- ISLES
- 14 Across: Tiresome one (4)
- PILL
- 15 Across: ___ patriae (patriotism) (4)
- AMOR
- 16 Across: Jabiru's relative (5)
- STORK
- 17 Across: "Hard ___!" (4)
- ALEE
- 18 Across: Costa ___ (4)
- RICA
- 19 Across: Arouse to action (5)
- RALLY
- 20 Across: Calculator's aid (14)
- LOGARITHMTABLE
- 23 Across: He wrote "Sophie's Choice" (6)
- STYRON
- 24 Across: Decorticate (4)
- PEEL
- 25 Across: Foretold (4)
- READ
- 28 Across: Opts (6)
- ELECTS
- 32 Across: " . . . ___ angel faces smile": Newman (5)
- THOSE
- 36 Across: "___ we forget!" (4)
- LEST
- 38 Across: Adriatic wind (4)
- BORA
- 39 Across: Algebraic formula discovered by Omar Khayyám (15)
- BINOMIALTHEOREM
- 42 Across: Brother of Evelyn Waugh (4)
- ALEC
- 43 Across: Brief autobiography (4)
- VITA
- 44 Across: Force units (5)
- DYNES
- 45 Across: Pianist Lhevinne (6)
- ROSINA
- 47 Across: ___ in one's bonnet (4)
- ABEE
- 49 Across: Eldest, in Colmar (4)
- AINE
- 51 Across: Muscat residents (6)
- OMANIS
- 56 Across: Cottontail's specialty? (14)
- MULTIPLICATION
- 60 Across: Teutonic gods (5)
- AESIR
- 61 Across: Beget (4)
- SIRE
- 62 Across: Ulna, e.g. (4)
- BONE
- 63 Across: White mark on a horse's face (5)
- BLAZE
- 64 Across: Host at Valhalla (4)
- ODIN
- 65 Across: Hershfield's "agent" (4)
- ABIE
- 66 Across: Some are on sidewalks (5)
- CAFES
- 67 Across: ___ in Japan (4)
- MADE
- 68 Across: Word with leap or lunar (4)
- YEAR
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Girasols (5)
- OPALS
- 2 Down: Cooper's "The ___": 1823 (5)
- PILOT
- 3 Down: Gray's greatest (5)
- ELEGY
- 4 Down: Far from foggy (5)
- CLEAR
- 5 Down: Seascape (6)
- MARINE
- 6 Down: Issue (4)
- EMIT
- 7 Down: ___ Lomond (4)
- LOCH
- 8 Down: Hike (5)
- TRAMP
- 9 Down: Where to see a kibbutz (6)
- ISRAEL
- 10 Down: Young currier or groomer (9)
- STABLEBOY
- 11 Down: Dangle (4)
- LOLL
- 12 Down: Writer Gardner (4)
- ERLE
- 13 Down: Word with light or line (3)
- SKY
- 21 Down: Composer Ned (5)
- ROREM
- 22 Down: Sprockets (5)
- TEETH
- 26 Down: Jai ___ (4)
- ALAI
- 27 Down: Mekong ___ (5)
- DELTA
- 29 Down: Cure by salting (4)
- CORN
- 30 Down: Word with axle or shoe (4)
- TREE
- 31 Down: Browne and Houston (4)
- SAMS
- 32 Down: Ski-lift part (4)
- TBAR
- 33 Down: Hawaiian city (4)
- HILO
- 34 Down: Units (4)
- ONES
- 35 Down: Mix (9)
- SOCIALIZE
- 37 Down: A go at it (4)
- STAB
- 40 Down: Grand duke of Moscow: 1328–41 (5)
- IVANI
- 41 Down: This attacks tomatoes and humans (5)
- EDEMA
- 46 Down: British imports (6)
- NITRES
- 48 Down: Epoch in the Tertiary Period (6)
- EOCENE
- 50 Down: Downs or salts (5)
- EPSOM
- 52 Down: Like cornered prey (5)
- ATBAY
- 53 Down: Legendary weeper (5)
- NIOBE
- 54 Down: Locale of ancient Ephesus (5)
- IONIA
- 55 Down: Show contempt (5)
- SNEER
- 56 Down: Indian fair (4)
- MELA
- 57 Down: Group to which SAC belongs (4)
- USAF
- 58 Down: "___ Rose," 1957 song (4)
- LIDA
- 59 Down: Lilylike plant (4)
- IRID
- 60 Down: Start of tot's refrain (3)
- ABC
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