Saturday Crossword — March 7, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 3/7/1981. By Dorothea E. Shipp.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Prefix with chapel (4)
- ANTE
- 5 Across: Nativity-play accessory (4)
- HALO
- 9 Across: Become more friendly (4)
- THAW
- 13 Across: Opposite of bust (4)
- BOOM
- 14 Across: Overleaps (5)
- OMITS
- 16 Across: Unit of loudness (4)
- SONE
- 17 Across: First of nine in "Strange Interlude" (4)
- ACTI
- 18 Across: Skewbald's relative (5)
- PINTO
- 19 Across: Dane who composed the opera "Lamia" (4)
- ENNA
- 20 Across: Actor's supreme delight (15)
- STANDINGOVATION
- 23 Across: Awl, for one (5)
- HOLER
- 24 Across: Quartet in "No, No, Nanette" (3)
- ENS
- 25 Across: Doe or Roe (4)
- NAME
- 28 Across: Goddess of the moon (7)
- ARTEMIS
- 32 Across: Pen pals' go-betweens (7)
- POSTMEN
- 35 Across: Welcoming garland (3)
- LEI
- 36 Across: Simple sugar (3)
- OSE
- 37 Across: Land unit (3)
- LOT
- 38 Across: Belli or Bailey: Abbr. (3)
- ATT
- 39 Across: Cue part (3)
- TIP
- 40 Across: "The Foggy, Foggy ___" (3)
- DEW
- 41 Across: "___ Clear Day" (3)
- ONA
- 42 Across: Prefix with foil or pan (3)
- TRE
- 43 Across: What some losers suffer (7)
- AGONIES
- 45 Across: Man on a certain path (7)
- WARRIOR
- 47 Across: ___-Aryan (4)
- INDO
- 48 Across: Force for followers of a John Paul: Abbr. (3)
- USN
- 49 Across: What Horace called "a short madness" (5)
- ANGER
- 53 Across: Comedian's delight (15)
- BURSTOFAPPLAUSE
- 60 Across: " . . . ___ for my steps": Psalm 57 (4)
- ANET
- 61 Across: Molière's Harpagon, for one (5)
- MISER
- 62 Across: Essence (4)
- GIST
- 63 Across: Catchall words (4)
- ETAL
- 64 Across: Winter period in Barcelona (5)
- ENERO
- 65 Across: Baltic feeder (4)
- ODER
- 66 Across: Took part in the Grand National (4)
- RODE
- 67 Across: Ibn-___ (4)
- SAUD
- 68 Across: Noted Danish novelist: 1869–1954 (4)
- NEXO
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Confuse (5)
- ABASH
- 2 Down: Night: Comb. form (5)
- NOCTO
- 3 Down: Destroy, as a car (5)
- TOTAL
- 4 Down: Outstanding (7)
- EMINENT
- 5 Down: Shoshonean Arizonan (4)
- HOPI
- 6 Down: Cole Porter's "I ___ Love" (4)
- AMIN
- 7 Down: Heather (4)
- LING
- 8 Down: Conductor Klemperer (4)
- OTTO
- 9 Down: Disease-carrying insect (6)
- TSETSE
- 10 Down: "___ soit qui . . . " (4)
- HONI
- 11 Down: ___ Domini (4)
- ANNO
- 12 Down: Break of a habit (4)
- WEAN
- 15 Down: Former British coin (9)
- SOVEREIGN
- 21 Down: Wycherley was one (9)
- DRAMATIST
- 22 Down: Opposed (9)
- ANTIPODAL
- 26 Down: Tapper for a tyro at the piano (9)
- METRONOME
- 27 Down: Script order (5)
- ENTER
- 28 Down: Range topped by Belukha (5)
- ALTAI
- 29 Down: ___ operandi (4)
- MODI
- 30 Down: Words of the enlightened (4)
- ISEE
- 31 Down: Machines seams (4)
- SEWS
- 32 Down: Stag gang, e.g. (4)
- PLOW
- 33 Down: Chaplin's widow (4)
- OONA
- 34 Down: Mira or Rigel (4)
- STAR
- 44 Down: Many-sided figure (7)
- NONAGON
- 46 Down: Make susurrous sounds (6)
- RUSTLE
- 50 Down: Cicerone (5)
- GUIDE
- 51 Down: Character in "Elizabeth the Queen" (5)
- ESSEX
- 52 Down: Small rocket, for short (5)
- RETRO
- 53 Down: Heavyweight champion: 1934–35 (4)
- BAER
- 54 Down: "Not ___ us the praise . . . ": Kipling (4)
- UNTO
- 55 Down: Make use of a library (4)
- READ
- 56 Down: Flippers (4)
- FINS
- 57 Down: Cruising (4)
- ASEA
- 58 Down: Tacna's country (4)
- PERU
- 59 Down: Urge (4)
- PROD
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