Tuesday Crossword — April 14, 1981 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 4/14/1981. By Christy Ridley.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Chest; strongbox (4)
ARCA
5 Across: Cuban crop (4)
CANE
9 Across: Pre-1917 Russian ruler (4)
TSAR
13 Across: Animal called "bashful Billy" (4)
LORI
14 Across: Relish (5)
SAVOR
15 Across: Tramp (4)
HOBO
16 Across: A sign of elation or optimism (15)
STARSINONESEYES
19 Across: Unit of electrical resistance (3)
OHM
20 Across: Expiate (5)
ATONE
21 Across: Eucalyptus consumer (5)
KOALA
22 Across: Caper (4)
SKIP
23 Across: Through (3)
PER
24 Across: What "smoke" does in a 1933 song (14)
GETSINYOUREYES
31 Across: "Little Things Mean ___," Kallen hit (4)
ALOT
32 Across: Intrigue (4)
PLOT
33 Across: Fairies' queen (3)
MAB
35 Across: Girl (4)
LASS
36 Across: Bonzo, for one (5)
CHIMP
38 Across: Fired clay (4)
TILE
39 Across: List-ending abbr. (3)
ETC
40 Across: ___ Quivira National Monument, N.M. (4)
GRAN
41 Across: Thomas ___ Edison (4)
ALVA
42 Across: "I Only ___," 1934 song (14)
HAVEEYESFORYOU
47 Across: Compass pt. (3)
ENE
48 Across: Dash (4)
ELAN
49 Across: Island near Sorrento (5)
CAPRI
52 Across: Thessalian, e.g. (5)
GREEK
54 Across: Clinker's relative (3)
ASH
57 Across: Deliberately ignore (15)
CLOSEONESEYESTO
60 Across: Kind of walk (4)
CAKE
61 Across: Charged (5)
RANAT
62 Across: Sign of our times (4)
NEON
63 Across: Competed (4)
VIED
64 Across: Forehead (4)
BROW
65 Across: Baronet's wife (4)
DAME

Down Answers

1 Down: Too (4)
ALSO
2 Down: "Goodbye, Columbus" author (4)
ROTH
3 Down: Crush; stuff (4)
CRAM
4 Down: Manner; style (3)
AIR
5 Down: Awning; marquee (6)
CANOPY
6 Down: River or earldom (4)
AVON
7 Down: Not any (4)
NONE
8 Down: Before, in poesy (3)
ERE
9 Down: Hypothesis (6)
THEORY
10 Down: Bean variety (4)
SOYA
11 Down: Inventor of cordite (4)
ABEL
12 Down: Soprano Ponselle (4)
ROSA
14 Down: Kind of organized protest (5)
SITIN
17 Down: Pseudonym of H.H. Munro (4)
SAKI
18 Down: Trapshooting (5)
SKEET
22 Down: Fast jets (4)
SSTS
23 Down: Strengthen (4)
PROP
24 Down: Nor'easter (4)
GALE
25 Down: Ambassador to U.S. before Eban (5)
ELATH
26 Down: Puccini opera (5)
TOSCA
27 Down: State (5)
OPINE
28 Down: Danube city (3)
ULM
29 Down: Dickinson or Brontë (5)
EMILY
30 Down: Salute; tribute (5)
SALVO
34 Down: Courter (4)
BEAU
36 Down: Amerind (4)
CREE
37 Down: U.S. Secretary of State: 1898–1905 (3)
HAY
38 Down: Small mountain lake (4)
TARN
40 Down: Spirit in Aladdin's lamp (5)
GENIE
43 Down: Experienced, with "in" (6)
VERSED
44 Down: Teeter-totter (6)
SEESAW
45 Down: Swift (5)
FLEET
46 Down: Of certain trees (4)
OAKY
49 Down: Half of DCX (4)
CCCV
50 Down: Jai ___ (4)
ALAI
51 Down: Jab; prod (4)
POKE
52 Down: Growl (4)
GNAR
53 Down: Where Johnson beat Jeffries (4)
RENO
54 Down: On the Red (4)
ASEA
55 Down: Mouth: Comb. form (4)
STOM
56 Down: Sharpen (4)
HONE
58 Down: Globe (3)
ORB
59 Down: Eligible pass receiver (3)
END

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