Thursday Crossword — June 4, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/4/1981. By Hugh McElroy.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: One of the Chaplins (3)
- SYD
- 4 Across: Door position (4)
- AJAR
- 8 Across: Eight: Prefix (4)
- OCTO
- 12 Across: Shelley's "___ Skylark" (3)
- TOA
- 13 Across: Totally united (5)
- ASONE
- 14 Across: On one's uppers (4)
- POOR
- 15 Across: Start of a Sam Levenson book title (15)
- YOUDONTHAVETOBE
- 18 Across: Time out of mind (3)
- EON
- 19 Across: Restriction (4)
- REIN
- 20 Across: One of two play-writing Spewacks (5)
- BELLA
- 21 Across: Math subj. (3)
- ALG
- 22 Across: Book by Nabokov (3)
- DAR
- 23 Across: "I ___ an Angel" (7)
- MARRIED
- 25 Across: Railroad-switch rod (6)
- TIEBAR
- 27 Across: Sonny of TV (4)
- BONO
- 28 Across: Before tee (3)
- ESS
- 29 Across: Turkish palace (5)
- SERAI
- 30 Across: Wrenched (4)
- TORE
- 31 Across: Writers' submissions to eds. (3)
- MSS
- 32 Across: More of book title (9)
- INWHOSWHO
- 35 Across: Attention-getting sound (3)
- PST
- 37 Across: Sound of surf (4)
- ROTE
- 38 Across: ___ Bell (Emily Brontë's pen name) (5)
- ELLIS
- 42 Across: ___ masqué (3)
- BAL
- 43 Across: Gainsay (4)
- DENY
- 44 Across: Kind of medicine (6)
- PATENT
- 45 Across: Dodger's forte (7)
- EVADING
- 47 Across: Vandalize (3)
- MAR
- 48 Across: Island of the South Seas (3)
- ARU
- 49 Across: Far North highway (5)
- ALCAN
- 50 Across: A memorable Mae (4)
- WEST
- 51 Across: Bon ___ (3)
- TON
- 52 Across: End of book title (15)
- TOKNOWWHATSWHAT
- 56 Across: Serene (4)
- EVEN
- 57 Across: Armadillo (5)
- APARA
- 58 Across: Like some carpets (3)
- RED
- 59 Across: Not one, to Ozark Ike (4)
- NARY
- 60 Across: Vasco da ___ (4)
- GAMA
- 61 Across: Parts of a cen. (3)
- YRS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Rat (7)
- STOOLIE
- 2 Down: "___ Than Springtime" (7)
- YOUNGER
- 3 Down: Family member (3)
- DAD
- 4 Down: No longer sleeping (5)
- ASTIR
- 5 Down: Pop singer from Middlesex (4)
- JOHN
- 6 Down: Notes and anecdotes (3)
- ANA
- 7 Down: Gun an engine (3)
- REV
- 8 Down: To choose: Fr. (5)
- OPTER
- 9 Down: Their wages are outrageous (7)
- COOLIES
- 10 Down: "A heart to pity, and a hand ___": C. Churchill (7)
- TOBLESS
- 11 Down: Some of Pan's entourage (6)
- OREADS
- 13 Down: Lend ___ (listen) (5)
- ANEAR
- 15 Down: Irish poet-dramatist (5)
- YEATS
- 16 Down: Confer priesthood upon (6)
- ORDAIN
- 17 Down: Longest river within Spain (4)
- EBRO
- 23 Down: Dit-dah man (5)
- MORSE
- 24 Down: Over again (4)
- ANEW
- 26 Down: "Fish or cut ___!" (4)
- BAIT
- 27 Down: Swag (5)
- BOOTY
- 30 Down: Snowshoe strap (5)
- THONG
- 31 Down: Shed (4)
- MOLT
- 33 Down: He wrote "Beau Geste" (4)
- WREN
- 34 Down: Card game (6)
- HEARTS
- 35 Down: Great dancer of W.W. I era (7)
- PAVLOVA
- 36 Down: Goof-off (7)
- SLACKER
- 39 Down: Jacket material (7)
- LEATHER
- 40 Down: Forays (7)
- INROADS
- 41 Down: Impede growth (5)
- STUNT
- 42 Down: Like many a path (6)
- BEATEN
- 43 Down: Nickname for one of the Martins (4)
- DINO
- 44 Down: Ristorante's pride (5)
- PASTA
- 46 Down: Thomas or Kaye (5)
- DANNY
- 47 Down: Cook for O'Connor on TV (5)
- MEARA
- 50 Down: Kerspang! (4)
- WHAM
- 53 Down: Funny fellow (3)
- WAG
- 54 Down: Agcy. dissolved in 1943 (3)
- WPA
- 55 Down: Distorted (3)
- WRY
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