Thursday Crossword — May 7, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/7/1981. By Kathryn Righter.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Line of cliffs (5)
- SCARP
- 6 Across: Greek letter (3)
- ETA
- 9 Across: Nitwits (4)
- SAPS
- 13 Across: Goof (5)
- ERROR
- 14 Across: Terrible czar (4)
- IVAN
- 15 Across: Late queen of Jordan (4)
- ALIA
- 16 Across: Division of a poem (5)
- CANTO
- 17 Across: Heaviest U.S. President (4)
- TAFT
- 18 Across: Depend (4)
- RELY
- 19 Across: Opulence (6)
- WEALTH
- 21 Across: Haberdasher's display (7)
- FEDORAS
- 23 Across: Angry (5)
- IRATE
- 25 Across: Pop song lead-in (5)
- INTRO
- 26 Across: Heady (12)
- INTOXICATING
- 31 Across: What to show an unwanted visitor (4)
- DOOR
- 32 Across: Hat made from jipijapa leaves (6)
- PANAMA
- 33 Across: Id's cousin (3)
- EGO
- 36 Across: Songlike (6)
- ARIOSO
- 38 Across: Elementary textbook (6)
- PRIMER
- 40 Across: Pharmacist's word for salt (3)
- SAL
- 41 Across: Delight (6)
- PLEASE
- 45 Across: Actress Lollobrigida (4)
- GINA
- 46 Across: Headwaiter (12)
- MAITREDHOTEL
- 48 Across: John Jacob ___ (5)
- ASTOR
- 51 Across: Letters in Einstein's famous formula (5)
- EMCEE
- 52 Across: Butcherbirds (7)
- SHRIKES
- 54 Across: Abhorrent (6)
- ODIOUS
- 58 Across: Duo (4)
- PAIR
- 59 Across: National emblem of Great Britain (4)
- LION
- 61 Across: Termagant; virago (5)
- SHREW
- 63 Across: Fencing item (4)
- EPEE
- 64 Across: Praise (4)
- LAUD
- 65 Across: Jeweled headdress (5)
- TIARA
- 66 Across: Headland (4)
- NESS
- 67 Across: Termite (3)
- ANT
- 68 Across: Destroyer installation (5)
- SONAR
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Dry, as wine (3)
- SEC
- 2 Down: Bird's crop (4)
- CRAW
- 3 Down: "Abel" composer (4)
- ARNE
- 4 Down: Roster (4)
- ROTA
- 5 Down: Verbose (6)
- PROLIX
- 6 Down: Stowe heroine (3)
- EVA
- 7 Down: Fine, rather stiff fabric (7)
- TAFFETA
- 8 Down: Pay up (4)
- ANTE
- 9 Down: Malay garment (6)
- SARONG
- 10 Down: On the qui vive (5)
- ALERT
- 11 Down: Hairy (5)
- PILAR
- 12 Down: Dictum (5)
- SAYSO
- 14 Down: Home of Odysseus (6)
- ITHACA
- 20 Down: City in Libya or Lebanon (7)
- TRIPOLI
- 22 Down: Middle Eastern monetary unit (5)
- DINAR
- 24 Down: Shoe color (3)
- TAN
- 26 Down: A Cantor and an Eisenhower (4)
- IDAS
- 27 Down: Ibsen heroine (4)
- NORA
- 28 Down: Serf's lot (4)
- TOIL
- 29 Down: Gold, in Genova (3)
- ORO
- 30 Down: Hindered (7)
- IMPEDED
- 33 Down: Give off (4)
- EMIT
- 34 Down: Hereditary factor (4)
- GENE
- 35 Down: Nuncupative (4)
- ORAL
- 37 Down: Kind of plug (5)
- SPARK
- 39 Down: "But ___ on forever": Tennyson (3)
- IGO
- 42 Down: Recurring annually (7)
- ETESIAN
- 43 Down: Firth (3)
- ARM
- 44 Down: Aide for Holmes (6)
- SECOND
- 46 Down: Watered-silk fabrics (6)
- MOIRES
- 47 Down: Stickups (6)
- HEISTS
- 48 Down: Colorado resort (5)
- ASPEN
- 49 Down: Form (5)
- SHAPE
- 50 Down: Attempts (5)
- TRIES
- 53 Down: Singer Fitzgerald (4)
- ELLA
- 55 Down: One of Cairo's rivers (4)
- OHIO
- 56 Down: Monitor lizard (4)
- URAN
- 57 Down: Antibodies (4)
- SERA
- 60 Down: Umpire's call (3)
- OUT
- 62 Down: Whitman's "The Real ___" (3)
- WAR
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