Thursday Crossword — May 14, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 5/14/1981. By Eli Wesoff.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Ayres and Gen. Wallace (4)
- LEWS
- 5 Across: Skip over (4)
- OMIT
- 9 Across: Scott Joplin's music (3)
- RAG
- 12 Across: Mt. Ida maiden of myths (5)
- OREAD
- 14 Across: Deadly poison (4)
- BANE
- 15 Across: Skylab astronaut: 1973 (4)
- CARR
- 16 Across: Passageway (5)
- AISLE
- 17 Across: Brooklyn–Manhattan divider (9)
- EASTRIVER
- 19 Across: Bedding (8)
- MATTRESS
- 21 Across: Trojan hero (6)
- AENEAS
- 22 Across: Gracie Mansion occupant before Koch (5)
- BEAME
- 23 Across: United (4)
- ONED
- 24 Across: Tease (6)
- NEEDLE
- 26 Across: What Blake called "a rich, ugly old maid" (8)
- PRUDENCE
- 30 Across: Opposite of lve. (3)
- ARR
- 31 Across: Henry VII et al. (6)
- TUDORS
- 33 Across: Some marsupials, familiarly (4)
- ROOS
- 34 Across: Hull's lowest point (5)
- BILGE
- 36 Across: Common Moslem name (3)
- ALI
- 37 Across: ___ Raymond Cobb (5)
- TYRUS
- 38 Across: Depression migrant (4)
- OKIE
- 39 Across: In rapid tempo (6)
- PRESTO
- 41 Across: Prefix with foil (3)
- TRE
- 42 Across: Ireland's baleful wailers (8)
- BANSHEES
- 44 Across: Subjects of 10 amendments (6)
- RIGHTS
- 46 Across: Duds (4)
- TOGS
- 47 Across: U.S.S.R. or Lebanese statesman (5)
- MALIK
- 48 Across: Cornell site (6)
- ITHACA
- 51 Across: Bottle encased in wickerwork (8)
- DEMIJOHN
- 54 Across: Part of the Pacific (9)
- SOUTHSEAS
- 56 Across: Bucketed water wheel (5)
- NORIA
- 57 Across: To ___ (exactly) (4)
- ATEE
- 58 Across: "___ the pure all things are pure" (4)
- UNTO
- 59 Across: Simpletons (5)
- GEESE
- 60 Across: Word before West or Largo (3)
- KEY
- 61 Across: Observed (4)
- SEEN
- 62 Across: Back talk (4)
- SASS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Brick mixture (4)
- LOAM
- 2 Down: Silkworm (4)
- ERIA
- 3 Down: Part of a divided city (10)
- WESTBERLIN
- 4 Down: ___ peanuts (6)
- SALTED
- 5 Down: Needing a diet (5)
- OBESE
- 6 Down: He wrote "The Valachi Papers" (4)
- MAAS
- 7 Down: Reagan et al. (3)
- INS
- 8 Down: Lockjaw (7)
- TETANUS
- 9 Down: Type of review (4)
- RAVE
- 10 Down: Space (4)
- AREA
- 11 Down: Shelties' surly sounds (4)
- GRRS
- 13 Down: Adenauer (7)
- DERALTE
- 15 Down: Like a well-used fireplace (7)
- CINDERY
- 18 Down: Donna or Rex (4)
- REED
- 20 Down: Flightless bird (4)
- EMEU
- 23 Down: Oil used in perfumes (5)
- ORRIS
- 24 Down: Big shot (5)
- NABOB
- 25 Down: Violinist Morini (5)
- ERIKA
- 26 Down: Vaulting equipment (5)
- POLES
- 27 Down: Pyongyang is its capital (10)
- NORTHKOREA
- 28 Down: Woo (5)
- COURT
- 29 Down: Letters (5)
- ESSES
- 32 Down: Challenges (5)
- DARES
- 35 Down: Conceive and gradually develop (7)
- GESTATE
- 37 Down: Peon's lot (7)
- TOILING
- 39 Down: Winged steed (7)
- PEGASUS
- 40 Down: Cable car (4)
- TRAM
- 43 Down: Lofty, in Leipzig (4)
- HOCH
- 45 Down: Doughboys of W.W. II (6)
- GIJOES
- 47 Down: Subatomic particle (5)
- MESON
- 48 Down: Author Dinesen (4)
- ISAK
- 49 Down: Word with bag or board (4)
- TOTE
- 50 Down: One of the Longs (4)
- HUEY
- 51 Down: Oct. 12, 1492, e.g. (4)
- DATE
- 52 Down: Derisive sound (4)
- HISS
- 53 Down: Denials in Glasgow (4)
- NAES
- 55 Down: Weathercock indication (3)
- ENE
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