Wednesday Crossword — March 11, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 3/11/1981. By Eli Wesoff.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Successor of Bess (5)
- MAMIE
- 6 Across: Theda of the silents (4)
- BARA
- 10 Across: Unravel (4)
- FRAY
- 14 Across: Dodgson's girl (5)
- ALICE
- 15 Across: Musical composition (4)
- OPUS
- 16 Across: Prefix with gram or dyne (4)
- AERO
- 17 Across: Jury list (5)
- PANEL
- 18 Across: Small suitcase (9)
- WEEKENDER
- 20 Across: West Indies product (3)
- RUM
- 21 Across: Imogene's partner (3)
- SID
- 22 Across: Pusher's victim (6)
- ADDICT
- 23 Across: French family member (5)
- TANTE
- 25 Across: Forever ___ (7)
- ANDADAY
- 26 Across: Word following raw or burnt (6)
- SIENNA
- 28 Across: Old Nick (5)
- SATAN
- 29 Across: ___ de guerre (3)
- NOM
- 30 Across: Penetrate (5)
- ENTER
- 32 Across: Dope (5)
- SCHMO
- 36 Across: "Sliding ___," Paul Simon song (4)
- AWAY
- 38 Across: Wicked biblical city (5)
- SODOM
- 40 Across: Of the dawn (4)
- EOAN
- 41 Across: Sections often made of mica in old Rome (5)
- PANES
- 43 Across: Pavarotti, e.g. (5)
- TENOR
- 45 Across: Numero ___ (3)
- UNO
- 46 Across: Change (5)
- ALTER
- 48 Across: Start of Sarah Adams's well-known hymn (6)
- NEARER
- 50 Across: "The Face on the ___ Floor" (7)
- BARROOM
- 53 Across: Bees do it (5)
- STING
- 54 Across: Microscopic animals (6)
- AMEBAE
- 55 Across: Scrooge utterance (3)
- BAH
- 56 Across: ___ de France (3)
- ILE
- 58 Across: Wherein the Balcony Scene occurs (9)
- SECONDACT
- 60 Across: Mixed alcoholic drink (5)
- SMASH
- 62 Across: Double preposition (4)
- INTO
- 63 Across: ___ 500 (4)
- INDY
- 64 Across: Ballet ___ (5)
- RUSSE
- 65 Across: Between Mont. and Minn. (4)
- NDAK
- 66 Across: ___-do-well (4)
- NEER
- 67 Across: ___ bridge (Euclidean proposition) (5)
- ASSES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Tourist's need (3)
- MAP
- 2 Down: Resembling a wing (4)
- ALAR
- 3 Down: Armed civilian of 1776 (9)
- MINUTEMAN
- 4 Down: "The ___ Cometh": O'Neill (6)
- ICEMAN
- 5 Down: Sniggler's victim (3)
- EEL
- 6 Down: Kind of knife (5)
- BOWIE
- 7 Down: Mimicked (4)
- APED
- 8 Down: ___ de la Paix (3)
- RUE
- 9 Down: "And I saw ___ the armies": Whitman (6)
- ASKANT
- 10 Down: For which Rand got a hand (8)
- FANDANCE
- 11 Down: Decorated again (5)
- REDID
- 12 Down: Betel palm (5)
- ARECA
- 13 Down: L.A. mayor in the 60's (5)
- YORTY
- 19 Down: Icelandic literary works (5)
- EDDAS
- 21 Down: Musial and Laurel (5)
- STANS
- 24 Down: Weathercock dir. (3)
- NNE
- 25 Down: Burr or Copland (5)
- AARON
- 26 Down: Photo (4)
- SNAP
- 27 Down: Harry Hershfield's home state (4)
- IOWA
- 28 Down: Jewish feast (5)
- SEDER
- 31 Down: Type of pole (5)
- TOTEM
- 33 Down: What a Gay Nineties belle resembled (9)
- HOURGLASS
- 34 Down: Simba's tresses (4)
- MANE
- 35 Down: ___ about (4)
- ONOR
- 37 Down: School days' souvenir (8)
- YEARBOOK
- 39 Down: Updike's "A ___ of Sundays" (5)
- MONTH
- 42 Down: U.S. "ashcan" painter (5)
- SLOAN
- 44 Down: King David ally (3)
- REI
- 47 Down: Walked like a pigeon (6)
- TOEDIN
- 49 Down: Hostility (6)
- ANIMUS
- 50 Down: Washbowl (5)
- BASIN
- 51 Down: Improve (5)
- AMEND
- 52 Down: "Right on!" to Cicero (5)
- RECTA
- 53 Down: Brown-winged butterfly (5)
- SATYR
- 55 Down: A–F connection (4)
- BCDE
- 57 Down: Existence (4)
- ESSE
- 59 Down: Chemical suffix (3)
- ANE
- 60 Down: Mrs., in Sevilla (3)
- SRA
- 61 Down: Men (3)
- HES
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