Tuesday Crossword — June 16, 1981 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/16/1981. By Maloney.

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Across Answers

1 Across: They josh the frosh (5)
SOPHS
6 Across: "___ ever so humble . . . " (4)
BEIT
10 Across: Trudge (4)
PLOD
14 Across: Ice hut (5)
IGLOO
15 Across: Whale of filmdom (4)
ORCA
16 Across: Unusual (4)
RARE
17 Across: Adult; mature (5)
GROWN
18 Across: Mashie or niblick (4)
IRON
19 Across: Welsh equivalent of John (4)
EVAN
20 Across: Area named by Capt. John Smith (10)
NEWENGLAND
22 Across: Bogs (4)
FENS
23 Across: River spanned by the Brooklyn Bridge (4)
EAST
24 Across: Come out (6)
EMERGE
26 Across: Adjusts (6)
ADAPTS
30 Across: Turkish seaport (5)
IZMIR
32 Across: Enameled metalware (4)
TOLE
33 Across: Gait (4)
PACE
35 Across: Smallest (5)
LEAST
39 Across: Burden (7)
OPPRESS
41 Across: Come in again (7)
REENTER
43 Across: Untidy (5)
MESSY
44 Across: Child's plaything (4)
HOOP
46 Across: Erstwhile capital of Venezuela (4)
CORO
47 Across: Command (5)
ORDER
49 Across: Began, as a meeting (6)
OPENED
51 Across: Former mayor of N.Y.C. (6)
WAGNER
54 Across: Extinct bird (4)
DODO
56 Across: City of northern India (4)
AGRA
57 Across: St. John's, e.g. (10)
UNIVERSITY
63 Across: "The Ballad of Reading ___" (4)
GAOL
64 Across: Hebrides island (4)
IONA
65 Across: Headdress seen at the Met (5)
TIARA
66 Across: Sinful (4)
EVIL
67 Across: Mild expletive (4)
DRAT
68 Across: Backer on Broadway (5)
ANGEL
69 Across: Refute (4)
DENY
70 Across: This is taxed in N.Y.C. (4)
SALE
71 Across: Unattached (5)
LOOSE

Down Answers

1 Down: S.R.O. ___ (4)
SIGN
2 Down: Repulsive creature (4)
OGRE
3 Down: Turn over the soil (4)
PLOW
4 Down: His men occupied N.Y.C. in '76 (4)
HOWE
5 Down: "Bright Star" by Keats, e.g. (6)
SONNET
6 Down: Is hot under the collar (5)
BOILS
7 Down: Irregular; queer (7)
ERRATIC
8 Down: The Iberian Madonna is one (4)
ICON
9 Down: In single file (6)
TANDEM
10 Down: Choice (10)
PREFERENCE
11 Down: Rod of tennis (5)
LAVER
12 Down: Chimp's cousin (5)
ORANG
13 Down: Thick (5)
DENSE
21 Down: Labored breaths (5)
GASPS
25 Down: Linear measure (4)
MILE
26 Down: Minute particle (4)
ATOM
27 Down: "Big A" info (4)
DOPE
28 Down: Swiss mountains (4)
ALPS
29 Down: Speaking for oneself (10)
PERSONALLY
31 Down: Naught (4)
ZERO
34 Down: She wrote "Moths" (4)
ASHE
36 Down: Like ___ of bricks (4)
ATON
37 Down: Withered (4)
SERE
38 Down: Walked all over (4)
TROD
40 Down: Rochester's Jane (4)
EYRE
42 Down: Kind of lyric poem (5)
EPODE
45 Down: Kind of number (7)
ORDINAL
48 Down: Ancient order of priests, etc. (6)
DRUIDS
50 Down: Door or gate (6)
PORTAL
51 Down: Carried out (5)
WAGED
52 Down: A daughter of Cadmus (5)
AGAVE
53 Down: Curved edge formed by intersecting vaults (5)
GROIN
55 Down: Egg-shaped (5)
OVATE
58 Down: Writer Ephron (4)
NORA
59 Down: Chinese: Comb. form (4)
SINO
60 Down: Villain ordered to be executed (4)
IAGO
61 Down: Very, in Versailles (4)
TRES
62 Down: Mythical beast (4)
YALE

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