Tuesday Crossword — March 3, 1981 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 3/3/1981. By Charles Engler.

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Across Answers

1 Across: June 6, 1944 (4)
DDAY
5 Across: Encore (3)
BIS
8 Across: ___ Iowa, Mississippi feeder (5)
UPPER
13 Across: Hawser (4)
ROPE
14 Across: Time spans (4)
ERAS
16 Across: Nerve: Comb. form (5)
NEURO
17 Across: "Celeste Aïda," e.g. (4)
ARIA
18 Across: Shoemaker's form (4)
LAST
19 Across: Farm workers (5)
HANDS
20 Across: What 1980 was in Chinatown (15)
YEAROFTHEMONKEY
23 Across: Italian cash (4)
LIRE
24 Across: Huascarán is its highest peak (4)
PERU
25 Across: The Elder or the Younger (5)
PLINY
27 Across: Fylfot (8)
SWASTIKA
31 Across: Tin Lizzie starter (5)
CRANK
32 Across: Backbone (5)
CHINE
33 Across: Hack (3)
CAB
34 Across: Sharp pain (4)
PANG
35 Across: Chanticleer's domain (5)
ROOST
36 Across: Erudition (4)
LORE
37 Across: Burlesque's Corio (3)
ANN
38 Across: Salted, as a noix (5)
SALEE
39 Across: Punitive (5)
PENAL
40 Across: Aviator (8)
SKYRIDER
42 Across: Take it easy (5)
COAST
43 Across: Former A.F.B. on Cape Cod (4)
OTIS
44 Across: Fastener (4)
HASP
45 Across: Old Ebbets Field cry (15)
WAITTILNEXTYEAR
52 Across: Happify (5)
ELATE
53 Across: Close relative (4)
AUNT
54 Across: Sailors' patron saint (4)
ELMO
55 Across: Kitchen device (5)
TIMER
56 Across: Skid-row sight (4)
WINO
57 Across: Similar (4)
AKIN
58 Across: Fallers on Alabama in a Mitchell Parish song (5)
STARS
59 Across: Thrash (3)
TAN
60 Across: Gats (4)
RODS

Down Answers

1 Down: Wagon without sides (4)
DRAY
2 Down: Noted French illustrator: 1833–83 (4)
DORE
3 Down: Samoan port (4)
APIA
4 Down: "The ___," Rawlings novel (8)
YEARLING
5 Down: A pealing place (6)
BELFRY
6 Down: Wroth (5)
IRATE
7 Down: Cummerbund (4)
SASH
8 Down: Dislodge from a saddle (7)
UNHORSE
9 Down: Goober (6)
PEANUT
10 Down: Touchwood (4)
PUNK
11 Down: Soil, in Essen (4)
ERDE
12 Down: Blushing (4)
ROSY
15 Down: Gradual (8)
STEPWISE
21 Down: Sow sound (4)
OINK
22 Down: Intended (5)
MEANT
25 Down: Antic (5)
PRANK
26 Down: Tenor Ross of radio fame (5)
LANNY
27 Down: Smith (5)
SHOER
28 Down: Religious images (5)
ICONS
29 Down: Jeweler's measure of fineness (5)
KARAT
30 Down: First shepherd (4)
ABEL
31 Down: Some math experts (4)
CPAS
32 Down: Fish-fry dish, usually (8)
COLESLAW
35 Down: Spokes (5)
RADII
36 Down: Quadrennial occurrence (8)
LEAPYEAR
38 Down: They stay while parents play (7)
SITTERS
39 Down: Station (4)
POST
41 Down: Scoundrel (6)
ROTTER
42 Down: First English printer (6)
CAXTON
44 Down: Hair dye (5)
HENNA
45 Down: Volstead's opponents (4)
WETS
46 Down: Lodged (4)
ALIT
47 Down: "___ Liberal": Matthew Arnold (4)
IAMA
48 Down: Night, in Nancy (4)
NUIT
49 Down: City on the Humboldt (4)
ELKO
50 Down: During (4)
AMID
51 Down: Ex-Mets Hunt and Swoboda (4)
RONS

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