Wednesday Crossword — January 21, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 1/21/1981. By Marie West.
Classic newspaper crossword from the archive. About our puzzle library.
Want to try solving it yourself first? Play this puzzle
Across Answers
- 1 Across: Associate of Manet (5)
- DEGAS
- 6 Across: Viziers' superiors (4)
- AGAS
- 10 Across: Ancient Semitic deity (4)
- BAAL
- 14 Across: Prevent (5)
- AVERT
- 15 Across: Arrearage (4)
- DEBT
- 16 Across: Where Vulcan forged (4)
- ETNA
- 17 Across: Title for a caballero (5)
- SENOR
- 18 Across: Like a human dynamo (9)
- ENERGETIC
- 20 Across: Pitch (5)
- RESIN
- 22 Across: List-ending abbr. (4)
- ETAL
- 23 Across: Cry in a frontón (3)
- OLE
- 24 Across: Fix (6)
- REPAIR
- 26 Across: Scored between birdie and bogey (6)
- PARRED
- 28 Across: Saratoga, e.g. (3)
- SPA
- 30 Across: Alone onstage, as a diva (4)
- SOLA
- 31 Across: Oxford fellow (3)
- DON
- 32 Across: Soapstone (4)
- TALC
- 34 Across: Shed (4)
- MOLT
- 36 Across: " . . . care's an ___ to life": Shak. (5)
- ENEMY
- 39 Across: "Lohengrin," to Wagner (4)
- OPER
- 40 Across: Arabian Sea feeder (5)
- INDUS
- 42 Across: Fuchsin and eosin (4)
- DYES
- 43 Across: Part of a sunflower (5)
- PALEA
- 45 Across: Of aircraft (4)
- AERO
- 46 Across: Monster (4)
- OGRE
- 47 Across: Poetic time (3)
- EEN
- 48 Across: Personage (4)
- LION
- 50 Across: Suffix with sonnet (3)
- EER
- 51 Across: St. Thomas à ___ (6)
- BECKET
- 54 Across: Detain, as an alien (6)
- INTERN
- 56 Across: Informer (3)
- RAT
- 57 Across: Con's knife (4)
- SHIV
- 59 Across: Bullock (5)
- STEER
- 61 Across: Athenian statesman called "the Just" (9)
- ARISTIDES
- 64 Across: Region in Austria and Italy (5)
- TIROL
- 66 Across: ___-eyed (4)
- SLOE
- 67 Across: Agrippina's son (4)
- NERO
- 68 Across: Growing out (5)
- ENATE
- 69 Across: Film editor's concern, for short (4)
- SYNC
- 70 Across: What Aussies call a stonker (4)
- KAYO
- 71 Across: Valleys (5)
- DALES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Sudermann's "___ hohe Lied" (3)
- DAS
- 2 Down: ___ and anon (4)
- EVER
- 3 Down: November event (15)
- GENERALELECTION
- 4 Down: Originated (5)
- AROSE
- 5 Down: What an ecdysiast does (6)
- STRIPS
- 6 Down: Drink (3)
- ADE
- 7 Down: Post office department (15)
- GENERALDELIVERY
- 8 Down: Help an arsonist (4)
- ABET
- 9 Down: Item wielded in a woodshed (5)
- STRAP
- 10 Down: Drone, for one (3)
- BEE
- 11 Down: Chief law officer (15)
- ATTORNEYGENERAL
- 12 Down: Infirm (5)
- ANILE
- 13 Down: Added cognac (5)
- LACED
- 19 Down: Open space in a woods (5)
- GLADE
- 21 Down: Ruth's mother-in-law (5)
- NAOMI
- 25 Down: Actress Massey (5)
- ILONA
- 27 Down: Musical composition (5)
- RONDO
- 28 Down: Cease (4)
- STOP
- 29 Down: One of the Goldbergs (4)
- PAPA
- 33 Down: Inlet (5)
- CREEK
- 35 Down: "The Detroit of Italy" (5)
- TURIN
- 37 Down: Apt rhyme for sheer (4)
- MERE
- 38 Down: Battle site: 1914–18 (4)
- YSER
- 41 Down: "It ___ me!" (chimney sweep's cry) (5)
- SOOTS
- 44 Down: "___ of robins . . . ": Kilmer (5)
- ANEST
- 49 Down: Caught (6)
- NETTED
- 51 Down: Gall (5)
- BRASS
- 52 Down: Primitive (5)
- EARLY
- 53 Down: Cogitate (5)
- THINK
- 55 Down: Sophia is one (5)
- REINA
- 58 Down: Concept (4)
- IDEA
- 60 Down: Learning method (4)
- ROTE
- 62 Down: Dry, as wine (3)
- SEC
- 63 Down: Canals in U.S. and Canada (3)
- SOO
- 65 Down: "___ Misérables": Hugo (3)
- LES
Ready to play?
Try solving this puzzle yourself, or explore more crosswords.