Tuesday Crossword — February 3, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 2/3/1981. By Lytle.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Theme for a sermon (4)
- TEXT
- 5 Across: Police alerts, for short (4)
- APBS
- 9 Across: Spice (4)
- MACE
- 13 Across: Finished (4)
- OVER
- 14 Across: Quell, as fears (5)
- ALLAY
- 15 Across: Affirm (4)
- AVER
- 16 Across: Short skirt, for short (4)
- MINI
- 17 Across: Raises (5)
- REARS
- 18 Across: Expensive (4)
- DEAR
- 19 Across: Romeo-Juliet secret (9)
- ELOPEMENT
- 21 Across: Succinct (5)
- TERSE
- 22 Across: Grenoble father (4)
- PERE
- 23 Across: Rend (4)
- TEAR
- 25 Across: Spread to dry (3)
- TED
- 26 Across: Tough tree (3)
- ASH
- 28 Across: Supplement (8)
- ADDENDUM
- 31 Across: Clodhopper (4)
- BOOR
- 33 Across: Increase (8)
- ADDITION
- 36 Across: Protein in milk and eggs (7)
- ALBUMIN
- 39 Across: Felix Adler's ___ Culture movement (7)
- ETHICAL
- 41 Across: Champion (8)
- DEFENDER
- 43 Across: "___ Lovely Day Today," 1950 song (4)
- ITSA
- 44 Across: Argumentative (8)
- FORENSIC
- 47 Across: Devoured (3)
- ATE
- 48 Across: Opposite of fore (3)
- AFT
- 51 Across: Tuesday (4)
- WELD
- 52 Across: ___ Kingman, noted watercolorist (4)
- DONG
- 54 Across: Sholokhov's "And Quiet ___ the Don" (5)
- FLOWS
- 56 Across: Overbearing (9)
- IMPERIOUS
- 60 Across: Ruckus (4)
- TODO
- 61 Across: "Give us the ___ . . . ": Churchill (5)
- TOOLS
- 62 Across: Within: Comb. form (4)
- ENTO
- 63 Across: Church calendar (4)
- ORDO
- 64 Across: Assault (5)
- ONSET
- 65 Across: Site of the tomb of William the Conqueror (4)
- CAEN
- 66 Across: Capitol Hill responses (4)
- NAYS
- 67 Across: This, in Taxco (4)
- ESTA
- 68 Across: Otherwise (4)
- ELSE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Weighty volume (4)
- TOME
- 2 Down: Apt anagram for vile (4)
- EVIL
- 3 Down: One who fears foreigners (9)
- XENOPHOBE
- 4 Down: Rubbish (5)
- TRIPE
- 5 Down: Away from the ocean's winds (4)
- ALEE
- 6 Down: Did some sowing (7)
- PLANTED
- 7 Down: They should be good mixers (10)
- BARTENDERS
- 8 Down: An acre has 4,840: Abbr. (3)
- SYS
- 9 Down: Produced (4)
- MADE
- 10 Down: Ward off (5)
- AVERT
- 11 Down: Discontinue (5)
- CEASE
- 12 Down: Miscalculated (5)
- ERRED
- 14 Down: Kind of band (5)
- ARMED
- 20 Down: Horse and buggy, e.g. (3)
- ERA
- 21 Down: Veracity (5)
- TRUTH
- 24 Down: Mine access (4)
- ADIT
- 26 Down: Arabian garment (3)
- ABA
- 27 Down: Convinced (4)
- SOLD
- 29 Down: Flowering weeds (10)
- DANDELIONS
- 30 Down: Year in the reign of Henry II of Germany (4)
- MIII
- 32 Down: Lace collar (4)
- RUFF
- 34 Down: Eight-sided (9)
- OCTAGONAL
- 35 Down: First to draw Santa as he looks today (4)
- NAST
- 37 Down: Grimalkin's complaints (5)
- MEOWS
- 38 Down: Concerning (4)
- INRE
- 40 Down: New Guinea seaport (3)
- LAE
- 42 Down: Adjective for a caboose (7)
- ENDMOST
- 45 Down: That is: Lat. (5)
- IDEST
- 46 Down: Heart (3)
- COR
- 48 Down: "___ Water," Burns poem (5)
- AFTON
- 49 Down: Ecologist's concern (5)
- FLORA
- 50 Down: Hot drink containing alcohol (5)
- TODDY
- 53 Down: Relative (5)
- NIECE
- 55 Down: Courts (4)
- WOOS
- 57 Down: Solicitation (4)
- PLEA
- 58 Down: Shoshoneans (4)
- UTES
- 59 Down: Unit of loudness (4)
- SONE
- 61 Down: Low digit (3)
- TOE
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