Thursday Crossword — March 12, 1981
Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1576 clues~15-30 minBy Mazarakes3/12/1981
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Put on a play (5 letters)
- 6 Across
- Sloping passage (4 letters)
- 10 Across
- Russian ruler: 879–912 (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- Cut off (5 letters)
- 15 Across
- Humorous suffix (4 letters)
- 16 Across
- News-gathering asset (4 letters)
- 17 Across
- Odets play: 1935 (15 letters)
- 20 Across
- Con man (5 letters)
- 21 Across
- ___ a pin (6 letters)
- 22 Across
- Intense state (4 letters)
- 24 Across
- Flightless bird of N.Z. (4 letters)
- 27 Across
- Osprey or European buzzard (5 letters)
- 28 Across
- Burma's first prime minister (3 letters)
- 29 Across
- Past, e.g. (5 letters)
- 31 Across
- June bug (3 letters)
- 32 Across
- Upright (6 letters)
- 36 Across
- Nixon Cabinet member (5 letters)
- 38 Across
- Knott play: 1966 (13 letters)
- 42 Across
- Setting in "The Petrified Forest" (5 letters)
- 43 Across
- Mount (6 letters)
- 45 Across
- C.P.A.'s abbr. (3 letters)
- 48 Across
- Word with maid or man (5 letters)
- 50 Across
- Actress Britt (3 letters)
- 51 Across
- French comic of yore (5 letters)
- 53 Across
- Seattle ___ of racing fame (4 letters)
- 55 Across
- ___ Straits, rock group (4 letters)
- 56 Across
- History (6 letters)
- 58 Across
- Kind of terrier (5 letters)
- 60 Across
- Beckett play: 1952 (15 letters)
- 65 Across
- Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 (4 letters)
- 66 Across
- "Das Rheingold," e.g. (4 letters)
- 67 Across
- Month before febrero (5 letters)
- 68 Across
- "Poor Richard" playwright: 1964 (4 letters)
- 69 Across
- Fleming hero (4 letters)
- 70 Across
- Great English actress: 1848–1928 (5 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- N.Y.C.–D.C. direction (3 letters)
- 2 Down
- "___ and Sympathy," 1953 hit (3 letters)
- 3 Down
- Ornis (8 letters)
- 4 Down
- Reach (5 letters)
- 5 Down
- Composer Satie (4 letters)
- 6 Down
- Misgiving (6 letters)
- 7 Down
- Sound in "Annie" (3 letters)
- 8 Down
- Cow's call (3 letters)
- 9 Down
- Smut, for short (4 letters)
- 10 Down
- "Love Story" actor (5 letters)
- 11 Down
- Hit the ball upward (6 letters)
- 12 Down
- New Mexico, to a Mexican (6 letters)
- 13 Down
- Yellowstone feature (6 letters)
- 18 Down
- "___ Girl in Town," 1957 musical (3 letters)
- 19 Down
- Tales of Camelot (7 letters)
- 22 Down
- "Come again?" (3 letters)
- 23 Down
- Adequate, once (4 letters)
- 25 Down
- European falcon (7 letters)
- 26 Down
- ___-Saloon League (4 letters)
- 30 Down
- Large room or hall (4 letters)
- 33 Down
- Leif ___, former news commentator (3 letters)
- 34 Down
- Sources of excitement (7 letters)
- 35 Down
- Musical-comedy item (4 letters)
- 37 Down
- Botanical pouch (3 letters)
- 39 Down
- Knicks' rivals (4 letters)
- 40 Down
- Mnemonic device (8 letters)
- 41 Down
- Knot in wood (4 letters)
- 44 Down
- Eosin, e.g. (3 letters)
- 45 Down
- Colombian Indian (6 letters)
- 46 Down
- Emulate Earl Weaver (6 letters)
- 47 Down
- More minute (6 letters)
- 49 Down
- Best-known performance (6 letters)
- 52 Down
- Etonian's parent (5 letters)
- 54 Down
- "___ Games," 1969 play (3 letters)
- 55 Down
- Pilotless plane (5 letters)
- 57 Down
- Hoity-toity person (4 letters)
- 59 Down
- "___ Around," 1964 song (4 letters)
- 61 Down
- Postmaster's post: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 62 Down
- Marsh (3 letters)
- 63 Down
- He put on a show for hockey fans (3 letters)
- 64 Down
- Trifle (3 letters)
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