Wednesday Crossword — March 25, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/25/1981. By Bernice Gordon.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Handle clumsily (3)
- PAW
- 4 Across: Minute groove (5)
- STRIA
- 9 Across: "For whither ___ goest . . . " (4)
- THOU
- 13 Across: Skating star Heiden (4)
- ERIC
- 15 Across: Chant merrily (5)
- TROLL
- 16 Across: ___ Beauty (apple) (4)
- ROME
- 17 Across: Out of dough (10)
- ONTHEROCKS
- 19 Across: Birthstone for October (4)
- OPAL
- 20 Across: Valentine gifts, perhaps (8)
- NOSEGAYS
- 21 Across: A series of curls (5)
- SPIRE
- 22 Across: "Gosh darn it!" (4)
- RATS
- 23 Across: Three, in Munich (4)
- DREI
- 25 Across: José ___, flamenco dancer (6)
- MOLINA
- 28 Across: Deplorably bad (8)
- WRETCHED
- 32 Across: Singletons (4)
- ONES
- 33 Across: Palace for which Goya designed tapestries (5)
- PRADO
- 34 Across: Gardner (3)
- AVA
- 35 Across: Readily (15)
- ATTHEDROPOFAHAT
- 39 Across: Wooden pin (3)
- NOG
- 40 Across: Singer Frankie or Cleo (5)
- LAINE
- 41 Across: Assured of success (4)
- MADE
- 42 Across: Flashy (8)
- SPORTING
- 44 Across: Kind of shop or circuit (6)
- CLOSED
- 46 Across: TV emcee (4)
- HOST
- 47 Across: Lecturing trip (4)
- TOUR
- 48 Across: Soap scent (5)
- LEMON
- 51 Across: Having a less healthy-looking complexion (8)
- SALLOWER
- 55 Across: Elderly (4)
- AGED
- 56 Across: Left ___ (deserted) (10)
- INTHELURCH
- 58 Across: Lion's pride (4)
- MANE
- 59 Across: Mississippi, the ___ State (5)
- BAYOU
- 60 Across: Six, in old dice games (4)
- SICE
- 61 Across: Positive quantity (4)
- PLUS
- 62 Across: Pointed arches (5)
- OGEES
- 63 Across: Jasmine, e.g. (3)
- TEA
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Foot soldier, in India (4)
- PEON
- 2 Down: River through Firenze (4)
- ARNO
- 3 Down: Retorts are their fortes (4)
- WITS
- 4 Down: Layers (6)
- STRATA
- 5 Down: Cities in N.Y., Ala., Ohio, etc. (5)
- TROYS
- 6 Down: Fabled birds (4)
- ROCS
- 7 Down: Kind (3)
- ILK
- 8 Down: Jolson and Pacino (3)
- ALS
- 9 Down: Cancer or Capricorn (6)
- TROPIC
- 10 Down: Snake-dance specialist (4)
- HOPI
- 11 Down: Bradley (4)
- OMAR
- 12 Down: Long river in Zaire (4)
- UELE
- 14 Down: Think of fondly (7)
- CHERISH
- 18 Down: First elected governor of Alaska (4)
- EGAN
- 21 Down: ___ day (sundown) (5)
- SETOF
- 23 Down: Window adornment (5)
- DRAPE
- 24 Down: Renovate (4)
- REDO
- 25 Down: Sounds in a ghost story (5)
- MOANS
- 26 Down: Sitting pretty (5)
- ONTOP
- 27 Down: Released (5)
- LETGO
- 28 Down: Like Corrigan's "way" (5)
- WRONG
- 29 Down: Sunken fences (5)
- HAHAS
- 30 Down: Get away from (5)
- EVADE
- 31 Down: Out of style (5)
- DATED
- 33 Down: Photographer's product (5)
- 36 Down: Singer John (5)
- ELTON
- 37 Down: Place for the speaker (4)
- DAIS
- 38 Down: Lovey-dovey (7)
- AMOROUS
- 43 Down: Home of the Colossus (6)
- RHODES
- 44 Down: Plant with showy leaves (6)
- COLEUS
- 45 Down: Period before the storm (4)
- LULL
- 47 Down: Lake on Calif.-Nev. border (5)
- TAHOE
- 48 Down: Genie's abode (4)
- LAMP
- 49 Down: Equal, in France (4)
- EGAL
- 50 Down: Bill of fare (4)
- MENU
- 51 Down: Eye problem (4)
- STYE
- 52 Down: Formal document (4)
- WRIT
- 53 Down: ___ homo (4)
- ECCE
- 54 Down: Mother of Zeus (4)
- RHEA
- 56 Down: Group on the lower Niger (3)
- IBO
- 57 Down: Riding pony (3)
- NAG
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