Thursday Crossword — February 19, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 2/19/1981. By Robert Katz.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Escape gradually (4)
- LEAK
- 5 Across: Fireplace fallout (5)
- ASHES
- 10 Across: Bad cut (4)
- GASH
- 14 Across: Identical (4)
- SAME
- 15 Across: Horse house (5)
- STALL
- 16 Across: Noted writer-diplomat (4)
- LUCE
- 17 Across: Ivan the Terrible, e.g. (4)
- TSAR
- 18 Across: ___ di Caracalla (Rome monument) (5)
- TERME
- 19 Across: School Shelley attended (4)
- ETON
- 20 Across: Line for Lamont Cranston (14)
- THESHADOWKNOWS
- 23 Across: Want (4)
- NEED
- 24 Across: In the dumps (3)
- SAD
- 25 Across: Lower (5)
- ABASE
- 28 Across: Ideology (3)
- ISM
- 31 Across: Person equipped for clamming (5)
- RAKER
- 35 Across: Kitchen feature (4)
- SINK
- 36 Across: Whole (6)
- ENTIRE
- 38 Across: Emulated Horner (3)
- ATE
- 39 Across: Place to which host Raymond admitted listeners (15)
- THEINNERSANCTUM
- 42 Across: Threw a hat in the ring (3)
- RAN
- 43 Across: Valuables (6)
- ASSETS
- 44 Across: Military assistant (4)
- AIDE
- 45 Across: Menu selection (5)
- ORDER
- 47 Across: Mineral spring (3)
- SPA
- 48 Across: Marksman's sport (5)
- SKEET
- 49 Across: Ballot marks (3)
- XES
- 51 Across: Dough, bread or moola (4)
- KALE
- 53 Across: Line for the Lone Ranger (14)
- HIHOSILVERAWAY
- 60 Across: Use a blue pencil (4)
- EDIT
- 61 Across: Indistinct (5)
- FAINT
- 62 Across: Kin of alack (4)
- ALAS
- 64 Across: French roast (4)
- ROTI
- 65 Across: Decision on Publishers Row (5)
- TITLE
- 66 Across: Knowledge (4)
- LORE
- 67 Across: Guinness (4)
- ALEC
- 68 Across: Doesn't go (5)
- STAYS
- 69 Across: Artist Rockwell (4)
- KENT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Omaha Beach craft (3)
- LST
- 2 Down: "___ of Suez," Maugham play (4)
- EAST
- 3 Down: Oriental nurse (4)
- AMAH
- 4 Down: Prime minister of Russia: 1917 (8)
- KERENSKI
- 5 Down: "___ World Turns," TV soap opera (5)
- ASTHE
- 6 Down: Funambulist's forte (10)
- STEADINESS
- 7 Down: Like a diamond (4)
- HARD
- 8 Down: Sailor's saint (4)
- ELMO
- 9 Down: Pivots (5)
- SLEWS
- 10 Down: Actress Jackson (6)
- GLENDA
- 11 Down: Edsel was one (4)
- AUTO
- 12 Down: Kind of barge (4)
- SCOW
- 13 Down: Pecking-order participants (4)
- HENS
- 21 Down: Cathedral (3)
- SEE
- 22 Down: Actress Black (5)
- KAREN
- 25 Down: Prefix for dome or turf (5)
- ASTRO
- 26 Down: Where Patna is (5)
- BIHAR
- 27 Down: "Let there be ___": Browning (5)
- ANEND
- 29 Down: Adjective for a sore throat (5)
- STREP
- 30 Down: By accident (10)
- MISTAKENLY
- 32 Down: Cole Porter's "___ Went to Haiti" (5)
- KATIE
- 33 Down: Musical piece (5)
- ETUDE
- 34 Down: Fought again (5)
- REMET
- 36 Down: U.S.N.A. grad (3)
- ENS
- 37 Down: Headland (3)
- RAS
- 40 Down: Breather's need (5)
- NARES
- 41 Down: Stage dance (8)
- CAKEWALK
- 46 Down: Strange or showy (6)
- EXOTIC
- 48 Down: U.S. historian ___ Marshall (3)
- SLA
- 50 Down: Examines carefully (5)
- SIFTS
- 52 Down: "___, Scientia, Veritas" (5)
- ARTES
- 53 Down: Goddess watching over Xanthippe (4)
- HERA
- 54 Down: Matinee follower (4)
- IDOL
- 55 Down: "The ___ Report": 1976 (4)
- HITE
- 56 Down: Café au ___ (4)
- LAIT
- 57 Down: Brief autobiography (4)
- VITA
- 58 Down: Perennial plant (4)
- ALOE
- 59 Down: Tale (4)
- YARN
- 63 Down: Tennis unit (3)
- SET
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