Wednesday Crossword — April 22, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 4/22/1981. By Jean J. Davison.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Is adjacent to (5)
- ABUTS
- 6 Across: Small flounder (3)
- DAB
- 9 Across: Liquidate Darth Vader (3)
- ZAP
- 12 Across: Use a Jacuzzi (5)
- BATHE
- 13 Across: Dyed rabbit fur (4)
- CONY
- 14 Across: Sped (4)
- TORE
- 15 Across: In ___ (agitated) (5)
- ASTEW
- 16 Across: Status of the Colosseum (4)
- RUIN
- 17 Across: Turgenev's birthplace (4)
- OREL
- 18 Across: Even (4)
- TIED
- 19 Across: Like underhanded advertising (10)
- SUBLIMINAL
- 21 Across: Carpentry, e.g. (5)
- CRAFT
- 23 Across: Licit (5)
- LEGAL
- 24 Across: Teed off (5)
- IRATE
- 26 Across: Psychic, at times (6)
- HEALER
- 30 Across: Carved slab (5)
- STELA
- 33 Across: Strigine sound (4)
- HOOT
- 35 Across: Blue or White body (4)
- NILE
- 36 Across: Salvers (5)
- TRAYS
- 37 Across: Cause supported by Maureen Reagan (3)
- ERA
- 38 Across: Secretary of Interior: 1961–69 (5)
- UDALL
- 39 Across: Animal fat (4)
- LARD
- 40 Across: Domestic retreats (4)
- DENS
- 41 Across: Err (5)
- STRAY
- 42 Across: Vote no (6)
- OPPOSE
- 44 Across: Different (5)
- OTHER
- 46 Across: Incompetent (5)
- UNFIT
- 48 Across: Espouse (5)
- ADOPT
- 51 Across: Scarlet pimpernels (10)
- EYEBRIGHTS
- 55 Across: Relating to: Suffix (4)
- ULAR
- 57 Across: Give each player a hand (4)
- DEAL
- 58 Across: Inter ___ (4)
- ALIA
- 59 Across: Degrade (5)
- ABASE
- 60 Across: Paris RR station (4)
- GARE
- 61 Across: "___ but the brave . . . " (4)
- NONE
- 62 Across: Type of type (5)
- ELITE
- 63 Across: Ending with east or west (3)
- ERN
- 64 Across: Dress, with "up" (3)
- TOG
- 65 Across: Wined and dined (5)
- FETED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Like ___ out of hell (4)
- ABAT
- 2 Down: Fundamental (5)
- BASIC
- 3 Down: Speak (5)
- UTTER
- 4 Down: Track attraction (14)
- THEDAILYDOUBLE
- 5 Down: Backstitch (3)
- SEW
- 6 Down: Gambler's all-out plunge (15)
- DOUBLEORNOTHING
- 7 Down: Old-womanish (5)
- ANILE
- 8 Down: " . . . where ignorant armies clash ___": Arnold (7)
- BYNIGHT
- 9 Down: Seattle's QB (4)
- ZORN
- 10 Down: Range (4)
- AREA
- 11 Down: Senator from R.I. (4)
- PELL
- 13 Down: French vineyard (3)
- CRU
- 14 Down: Phrase used by Macbeth's witches (14)
- TOILANDTROUBLE
- 19 Down: As written: Mus. dir. (3)
- STA
- 20 Down: Marsh or Murray (3)
- MAE
- 22 Down: Monastery group (4)
- FRAS
- 25 Down: "Utah, We Love ___," state song (4)
- THEE
- 27 Down: Fibber (4)
- LIAR
- 28 Down: Fitzgerald (4)
- ELLA
- 29 Down: Depend (4)
- RELY
- 30 Down: Town on the Vire (4)
- STLO
- 31 Down: Light carriage (4)
- TRAP
- 32 Down: Wyatt, the lawman (4)
- EARP
- 34 Down: Hot spot in a brewery (4)
- OAST
- 38 Down: Secondhand (4)
- USED
- 40 Down: Rebellious (7)
- DEFIANT
- 43 Down: Last year's jr. (3)
- SNR
- 45 Down: Owns (3)
- HAS
- 47 Down: Arctic abode (5)
- IGLOO
- 49 Down: Braid (5)
- PLAIT
- 50 Down: Sample (5)
- TASTE
- 51 Down: Rim (4)
- EDGE
- 52 Down: Unit in many a sentence (4)
- YEAR
- 53 Down: Merit (4)
- EARN
- 54 Down: Monogram of a Menlo Park man (3)
- TAE
- 56 Down: Oboe, e.g. (4)
- REED
- 59 Down: Pershing's trps (3)
- AEF
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