Friday Crossword — June 12, 1981 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/12/1981. By Mary Virginia Orna.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Attend, with "on" (4)
WAIT
5 Across: Malayan craft (4)
PROA
9 Across: Fact (5)
DATUM
14 Across: Recorded proceedings (4)
ACTA
15 Across: Vault (4)
LEAP
16 Across: Thrill (5)
ELATE
17 Across: Bit of news (4)
ITEM
18 Across: Soldiers and slaves, e.g. (4)
ANTS
19 Across: Amassed (5)
PILED
20 Across: FitzGerald's Pulitzer Prize work: 1973 (13)
FIREINTHELAKE
23 Across: Matter, for Marshall (3)
RES
24 Across: Dark place en route to Hades (6)
EREBUS
27 Across: Pine martens (6)
SABLES
31 Across: Fight for breath (4)
PANT
33 Across: Wine: Comb. form (3)
ENO
34 Across: Suffix with sect (5)
ARIAN
35 Across: Follower of Middle or Far (4)
EAST
36 Across: Elephant boy of films (4)
SABU
37 Across: Caught in the middle (15)
BETWEENTWOFIRES
40 Across: Spoils (4)
ROTS
41 Across: Be overly fond (4)
DOTE
42 Across: Field (5)
ARENA
43 Across: Porter (3)
ALE
44 Across: Holly of Dixie (4)
ASSI
45 Across: Sirens (6)
ALERTS
46 Across: "Being and Nothingness" author (6)
SARTRE
48 Across: Architectural addition (3)
ELL
49 Across: "Full Disclosure" author (13)
WILLIAMSAFIRE
56 Across: Poet Marianne (5)
MOORE
58 Across: Hudson heroine (4)
RIMA
59 Across: Pteric (4)
ALAR
60 Across: O'Neill's "___ for the Misbegotten'' (5)
AMOON
61 Across: Waugh or Templcton (4)
ALEC
62 Across: Kind of hour (4)
ZERO
63 Across: Tureen's companion (5)
LADLE
64 Across: Ancient Roman fortress near Padua (4)
ESTE
65 Across: Former spouses (4)
EXES

Down Answers

1 Down: Stray (4)
WAIF
2 Down: Part of "Parsifal" (4)
ACTI
3 Down: Journey for Juvenal (4)
ITER
4 Down: Do some broncobusting (4)
TAME
5 Down: DC-10's (6)
PLANES
6 Down: Fissures (5)
RENTS
7 Down: Expletive (4)
OATH
8 Down: Nave ending (4)
APSE
9 Down: Retire (6)
DEPART
10 Down: Similar (5)
ALIKE
11 Down: Gossip (10)
TALEBEARER
12 Down: Shoshonean (3)
UTE
13 Down: Kind of student, for short (3)
MED
21 Down: Daughter of Zeus and Themis (5)
IRENE
22 Down: Direction from Dvorák (5)
LENTO
25 Down: Relaxed (6)
UNBENT
26 Down: "The March King" and family (6)
SOUSAS
27 Down: Natanya natives (6)
SABRAS
28 Down: Small hollow (6)
AREOLA
29 Down: The paradise tree (10)
BITTERWOOD
30 Down: Canons (4)
LAWS
31 Down: One of the Reagans (5)
PATTI
32 Down: "God ha' mercy on such ___" (4)
ASWE
35 Down: "Country" Slaughter (4)
ENOS
36 Down: His Majesty, to Pleasant Colony (4)
SIRE
38 Down: Ford flop (5)
EDSEL
39 Down: Manuel de ___, operatic composer (5)
FALLA
44 Down: Dahl or Francis (6)
ARLENE
45 Down: Lorraine's partner (6)
ALSACE
47 Down: The Inn flows here (5)
TIROL
48 Down: Playwright Robert ___ Sherwood (5)
EMMET
50 Down: Dies ___ (4)
IRAE
51 Down: Suffers (4)
AILS
52 Down: Daunt (4)
FAZE
53 Down: Holm oak (4)
ILEX
54 Down: Choice (4)
RARE
55 Down: Friend of Antony (4)
EROS
56 Down: ___ de tête (headache) (3)
MAL
57 Down: German granny (3)
OMA

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