Thursday Crossword — June 18, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/18/1981. By Mel Rosen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Of bees (5)
- APIAN
- 6 Across: Hand or cable followers (4)
- CARS
- 10 Across: Ruth's sultanate (4)
- SWAT
- 14 Across: Numbers game (5)
- LOTTO
- 15 Across: Fruity quaffs (4)
- ADES
- 16 Across: Dasheen (4)
- TARO
- 17 Across: Kind of jury (5)
- PETIT
- 18 Across: Got out of the way (9)
- MOVEDOVER
- 20 Across: Places visited briefly (9)
- STOPOVERS
- 22 Across: "___ a customer" (5)
- ONETO
- 23 Across: Congo river (4)
- UELE
- 24 Across: Gotlanders (6)
- SWEDES
- 25 Across: Ten-point types (6)
- ELITES
- 28 Across: Half a sweet thing (3)
- BON
- 29 Across: Amanuenses of today (6)
- STENOS
- 30 Across: Pay out (8)
- DISBURSE
- 35 Across: Cudgel (5)
- STAFF
- 36 Across: Jokester (3)
- WAG
- 37 Across: Western Samoan island (5)
- UPOLU
- 38 Across: Pauline and Nancy Drew (8)
- HEROINES
- 40 Across: Fictional Yalie (6)
- STOVER
- 41 Across: Nursery-rhyme vessel (3)
- TUB
- 42 Across: Examined carefully (6)
- CONNED
- 43 Across: Brass and bronze (6)
- ALLOYS
- 47 Across: River to Cairo (4)
- OHIO
- 48 Across: Collect, as money (5)
- RAISE
- 49 Across: Implications (9)
- OVERTONES
- 54 Across: Introductions (9)
- OVERTURES
- 56 Across: Speak like Stephen Douglas (5)
- ORATE
- 57 Across: O. Henry's gift-givers (4)
- MAGI
- 58 Across: Trading center (4)
- MART
- 59 Across: Bond or bind (5)
- UNITE
- 60 Across: One of the Waughs (4)
- ALEC
- 61 Across: "The Mousetrap," for one (4)
- PLAY
- 62 Across: Of bodily tissue (5)
- TELAR
Down Answers
- 1 Down: The Cottians, e.g. (4)
- ALPS
- 2 Down: Plath was one (4)
- POET
- 3 Down: "Tell ___ Sweeney!" (4)
- ITTO
- 4 Down: On the qui vive (4)
- ATIP
- 5 Down: With "We're," last-place team's expression in June (13)
- NOTOUTOFITYET
- 6 Down: Caissons (6)
- CAMELS
- 7 Down: Worship (5)
- ADORE
- 8 Down: Guns a motor (4)
- REVS
- 9 Down: Dir. from Bismarck to Wichita (3)
- SSE
- 10 Down: Item used in curling (5)
- STONE
- 11 Down: Marcelled (5)
- WAVED
- 12 Down: Mountain spur (5)
- ARETE
- 13 Down: What picadors pick on (5)
- TOROS
- 19 Down: See 5 Down (13)
- DOWNBUTNOTOUT
- 21 Down: Letters for echelons (4)
- VEES
- 24 Down: Call for help (3)
- SOS
- 25 Down: Suffix for cigar (4)
- ETTE
- 26 Down: Regan's father (4)
- LEAR
- 27 Down: Dope (4)
- INFO
- 28 Down: Word with Ben or Ten (3)
- BIG
- 29 Down: Librarian's warning (3)
- SSH
- 30 Down: Omsk O.K.'s (3)
- DAS
- 31 Down: "Climb ___ my knee . . . " (4)
- UPON
- 32 Down: Divagate (4)
- ROVE
- 33 Down: Winter vehicle (4)
- SLED
- 34 Down: Cont. east of N.A. (3)
- EUR
- 36 Down: Network (3)
- WEB
- 39 Down: Greek letters (3)
- NUS
- 40 Down: Evening in Evian (4)
- SOIR
- 42 Down: Arrogant; conceited (6)
- CHESTY
- 43 Down: Kitchen lure (5)
- AROMA
- 44 Down: French politician executed for treason: 1945 (5)
- LAVAL
- 45 Down: Sovereign or vassal (5)
- LIEGE
- 46 Down: Courtier whom Hamlet calls a water-fly (5)
- OSRIC
- 47 Down: ___ barrel (in trouble) (5)
- OVERA
- 49 Down: Spoken (4)
- ORAL
- 50 Down: River in Normandy (4)
- ORNE
- 51 Down: Fastener (4)
- NAIL
- 52 Down: Miss Kett (4)
- ETTA
- 53 Down: Expert in cryptesthesia (4)
- SEER
- 55 Down: Grid official (3)
- UMP
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