Thursday Crossword — May 14, 1981

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1574 clues~15-30 minBy Eli Wesoff5/14/1981

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Ayres and Gen. Wallace (4 letters)
5 Across
Skip over (4 letters)
9 Across
Scott Joplin's music (3 letters)
12 Across
Mt. Ida maiden of myths (5 letters)
14 Across
Deadly poison (4 letters)
15 Across
Skylab astronaut: 1973 (4 letters)
16 Across
Passageway (5 letters)
17 Across
Brooklyn–Manhattan divider (9 letters)
19 Across
Bedding (8 letters)
21 Across
Trojan hero (6 letters)
22 Across
Gracie Mansion occupant before Koch (5 letters)
23 Across
United (4 letters)
24 Across
Tease (6 letters)
26 Across
What Blake called "a rich, ugly old maid" (8 letters)
30 Across
Opposite of lve. (3 letters)
31 Across
Henry VII et al. (6 letters)
33 Across
Some marsupials, familiarly (4 letters)
34 Across
Hull's lowest point (5 letters)
36 Across
Common Moslem name (3 letters)
37 Across
___ Raymond Cobb (5 letters)
38 Across
Depression migrant (4 letters)
39 Across
In rapid tempo (6 letters)
41 Across
Prefix with foil (3 letters)
42 Across
Ireland's baleful wailers (8 letters)
44 Across
Subjects of 10 amendments (6 letters)
46 Across
Duds (4 letters)
47 Across
U.S.S.R. or Lebanese statesman (5 letters)
48 Across
Cornell site (6 letters)
51 Across
Bottle encased in wickerwork (8 letters)
54 Across
Part of the Pacific (9 letters)
56 Across
Bucketed water wheel (5 letters)
57 Across
To ___ (exactly) (4 letters)
58 Across
"___ the pure all things are pure" (4 letters)
59 Across
Simpletons (5 letters)
60 Across
Word before West or Largo (3 letters)
61 Across
Observed (4 letters)
62 Across
Back talk (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Brick mixture (4 letters)
2 Down
Silkworm (4 letters)
3 Down
Part of a divided city (10 letters)
4 Down
___ peanuts (6 letters)
5 Down
Needing a diet (5 letters)
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He wrote "The Valachi Papers" (4 letters)
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Reagan et al. (3 letters)
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Lockjaw (7 letters)
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Type of review (4 letters)
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Space (4 letters)
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Shelties' surly sounds (4 letters)
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Adenauer (7 letters)
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Like a well-used fireplace (7 letters)
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Donna or Rex (4 letters)
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Flightless bird (4 letters)
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Oil used in perfumes (5 letters)
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Big shot (5 letters)
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Violinist Morini (5 letters)
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Vaulting equipment (5 letters)
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Pyongyang is its capital (10 letters)
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Woo (5 letters)
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Letters (5 letters)
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Challenges (5 letters)
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Conceive and gradually develop (7 letters)
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Peon's lot (7 letters)
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Winged steed (7 letters)
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Cable car (4 letters)
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Lofty, in Leipzig (4 letters)
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Doughboys of W.W. II (6 letters)
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Subatomic particle (5 letters)
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Author Dinesen (4 letters)
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Word with bag or board (4 letters)
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One of the Longs (4 letters)
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Oct. 12, 1492, e.g. (4 letters)
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Derisive sound (4 letters)
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Denials in Glasgow (4 letters)
55 Down
Weathercock indication (3 letters)

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