Friday Crossword — January 16, 1981 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 1/16/1981. By Dorothea E. Shipp.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Escapees from a mythical box (4)
ILLS
5 Across: Averages (5)
NORMS
10 Across: Street sound (4)
BEEP
14 Across: One of the tides (4)
NEAP
15 Across: Heep of fiction (5)
URIAH
16 Across: ___ time (never) (4)
ATNO
17 Across: Emerson at Concord (4)
SAGE
18 Across: ___ macabre (5)
DANSE
19 Across: Ironwood (4)
ACLE
20 Across: Fished with a moving line (7)
TROLLED
22 Across: Part of a min. (3)
SEC
24 Across: Kind of show or record (3)
HIT
25 Across: ___ Gay, Col. Tibbets's mother (5)
ENOLA
26 Across: Causing to rust (7)
EROSIVE
28 Across: Stylograph's relative (3)
PEN
29 Across: Org. in which Larry Bird plays (3)
NBA
32 Across: Jan. 5 in old Rome (5)
NONES
33 Across: Militant campus org. of the 60's (3)
SDS
34 Across: Dip bait lightly (3)
DAP
35 Across: Pennants (7)
ENSIGNS
37 Across: D-day craft (4)
LSTS
38 Across: Like George Apley (4)
LATE
39 Across: Flamboyance (7)
PANACHE
42 Across: Library collection (3)
ANA
43 Across: Eiger is one (3)
ALP
46 Across: Kemper Memorial ___ in Kansas City (5)
ARENA
47 Across: Nail (3)
NAB
48 Across: Grand occasion in France (3)
BAL
49 Across: Skyline sight (7)
STEEPLE
52 Across: Actor Greene (5)
LORNE
54 Across: Dry hay (3)
TED
55 Across: Site of the semicircular canal (3)
EAR
56 Across: Famous sailing yacht (7)
AMERICA
58 Across: Welty's Edna ___ Ponder (4)
ERLE
60 Across: Aphorism (5)
GNOME
62 Across: Jan. 13 in old Rome (4)
IDES
63 Across: Mortgage (4)
LIEN
64 Across: Down from a duck (5)
EIDER
65 Across: Grimm character (4)
OGRE
66 Across: Do a post-office job (4)
SORT
67 Across: Singer Della (5)
REESE
68 Across: Cape (4)
NESS

Down Answers

1 Down: Parts of shoes (7)
INSTEPS
2 Down: Erudite (7)
LEARNED
3 Down: Haffs (7)
LAGOONS
4 Down: Circe's magic (5)
SPELL
5 Down: Duchamp's staircase-descender (4)
NUDE
6 Down: Toward the mouth (4)
ORAD
7 Down: ___ Tin Tin (3)
RIN
8 Down: Billiard stroke (5)
MASSE
9 Down: Like some hose (5)
SHEER
10 Down: Romney Marsh's call (3)
BAA
11 Down: A Whistler opus (7)
ETCHING
12 Down: Perk up (7)
ENLIVEN
13 Down: Amy Lowell or H.D., formerly (7)
POETESS
21 Down: A typical Corot (9)
LANDSCAPE
23 Down: Painter of the "The Hay Wain" (9)
CONSTABLE
27 Down: Lyon product (4)
SOIE
30 Down: British honorary order (4)
BATH
31 Down: Part of St. Peter's (4)
APSE
35 Down: Animated style (4)
ELAN
36 Down: Zola demimondaine (4)
NANA
37 Down: Place to bowl (4)
LANE
39 Down: Some of Cassatt's works (7)
PASTELS
40 Down: Blood vessel: Comb. form (7)
ARTERIO
41 Down: Tease (7)
NEEDLER
43 Down: Shorten (7)
ABRIDGE
44 Down: Set of quadrilles (7)
LANCERS
45 Down: Makes happy (7)
PLEASES
50 Down: Light beer (5)
LAGER
51 Down: Pyle or Banks (5)
ERNIE
53 Down: Sky hunter (5)
ORION
56 Down: Nancy or Ed of songdom (4)
AMES
57 Down: Pond, in poesy (4)
MERE
59 Down: Suffix with persist (3)
ENT
61 Down: Keatsian gem (3)
ODE

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