Friday Crossword — February 6, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 2/6/1981. By Dorothea E. Shipp.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Pull Pauline off the tracks (6)
- RESCUE
- 7 Across: Ancient galley (6)
- BIREME
- 13 Across: Small spaces (7)
- AREOLAE
- 15 Across: Andiron (7)
- FIREDOG
- 16 Across: "___, the Light Brigade!" (7)
- FORWARD
- 17 Across: Like some lights (7)
- LEADING
- 18 Across: Tic-___-toe (3)
- TAC
- 19 Across: Largest land in Africa (5)
- SUDAN
- 21 Across: Mel or Ed of baseball (3)
- OTT
- 22 Across: Bank of the Tiberis (4)
- RIPA
- 23 Across: Part of an archipelago (3)
- CAY
- 24 Across: Suffix with president (3)
- IAL
- 26 Across: Vinegar: Prefix (4)
- ACET
- 27 Across: Did featherstitching (5)
- SEWED
- 29 Across: Theater part (4)
- LOGE
- 30 Across: Bat boys (7)
- MASCOTS
- 32 Across: Did a lexicographer's job (7)
- DEFINED
- 34 Across: Sacred mountain of China (3)
- HWA
- 35 Across: Alley Oop's kingdom (3)
- MOO
- 36 Across: Seconds (7)
- MOMENTS
- 40 Across: A Celtic language (7)
- CORNISH
- 44 Across: Armadillo (4)
- APAR
- 45 Across: Lawgiver (5)
- SOLON
- 47 Across: Widgeon (4)
- SMEE
- 48 Across: Home of the Braves: Abbr. (3)
- ATL
- 49 Across: ___ a plea (3)
- COP
- 50 Across: Part of a schooner (4)
- SPAR
- 51 Across: Org. for peers on piers (3)
- ILA
- 53 Across: Events in a mad, mad, mad world (5)
- RIOTS
- 55 Across: Fruit found in a hedgerow (3)
- HAW
- 56 Across: Mental deficiency (7)
- AMENTIA
- 58 Across: Enclosed (7)
- INCASED
- 61 Across: Marsh plant (7)
- CATTAIL
- 62 Across: Not so refined (7)
- COARSER
- 63 Across: Dinsmore and Janis (6)
- ELSIES
- 64 Across: Angus and Hereford (6)
- BREEDS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Few who did much for many (3)
- RAF
- 2 Down: Some Ovidian works (7)
- EROTICA
- 3 Down: Sonorans' shawls (7)
- SERAPES
- 4 Down: Brief TV plug for a minor sponsor (10)
- COWCATCHER
- 5 Down: Gums, to an M.D. (3)
- ULA
- 6 Down: What walls have, proverbially (4)
- EARS
- 7 Down: Très ___ (4)
- BIEN
- 8 Down: Levin or Allen (3)
- IRA
- 9 Down: Fix over (4)
- REDO
- 10 Down: Bulldog, for one (7)
- EDITION
- 11 Down: Composite picture (7)
- MONTAGE
- 12 Down: Shampoo additive (3)
- EGG
- 14 Down: Infers (6)
- EDUCES
- 15 Down: Censured severely (6)
- FLAYED
- 20 Down: Nursery-rhyme name (3)
- DAW
- 22 Down: ___ Jam, rock group (3)
- RAM
- 25 Down: Was winning (3)
- LED
- 27 Down: Office copies, for short (5)
- STATS
- 28 Down: "Paradise Lost" figure (5)
- DEMON
- 29 Down: Goodly part (10)
- LIONSSHARE
- 31 Down: Have (3)
- OWN
- 33 Down: Pro (3)
- FOR
- 36 Down: Bleat (3)
- MAA
- 37 Down: Most satisfactory (7)
- OPTIMAL
- 38 Down: "With ___ aforethought," croquet shark's slogan? (7)
- MALLETS
- 39 Down: Friendly (6)
- SOCIAL
- 40 Down: Egypt's ___ Church (6)
- COPTIC
- 41 Down: Deadlock (7)
- IMPASSE
- 42 Down: Shore sight (7)
- SEAWEED
- 43 Down: Pronoun (3)
- HER
- 46 Down: Looby-___, children's game (3)
- LOO
- 52 Down: Prefix for body or type (4)
- ANTI
- 53 Down: Journalist Jacob August: 1849–1914 (4)
- RIIS
- 54 Down: One with a nose in the air (4)
- SNOB
- 56 Down: ___ in the hole (3)
- ACE
- 57 Down: To. in Dundee (3)
- TAE
- 59 Down: Lucrative Japanese product (3)
- CAR
- 60 Down: G.P.'s (3)
- DRS
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