Friday Crossword — June 19, 1981 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/19/1981. By Mary Virginia Orna.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Famed anthropologist (4)
BOAS
5 Across: Pros (4)
ACES
9 Across: Hatchetlike tool (4)
ADZE
13 Across: "___ plaisir!" (4)
AVEC
14 Across: Highlands hillside (4)
BRAE
15 Across: Exercised (5)
PLIED
16 Across: Character in Jonson's "Sejanus" (4)
NERO
17 Across: Sturdy fiber (4)
BAST
18 Across: River of the Argonne Forest (5)
AISNE
19 Across: Climbing spurge of Madagascar (13)
CROWNOFTHORNS
22 Across: Name in Cooperstown (3)
OTT
23 Across: "Stamboul Train" author (6)
GREENE
26 Across: Disgusts (6)
REPELS
30 Across: "In ___ Our Life": Glasgow (4)
THIS
32 Across: "Neither snow, ___ rain . . . " (3)
NOR
33 Across: Roman rooms (5)
ATRIA
34 Across: City on the Dnepr (4)
KIEV
35 Across: " . . . unto us ___ is given" (4)
ASON
36 Across: Continuous annoyance (15)
THORNINONESSIDE
39 Across: Mild (4)
TAME
40 Across: Yuletide concoctions (4)
NOGS
41 Across: Levels, e.g. (5)
TOOLS
42 Across: Duo after em (3)
ENO
43 Across: Prefix with physics (4)
META
44 Across: Deep red shade (6)
GARNET
45 Across: Boxholder (6)
RENTER
47 Across: Athenians' 300 (3)
TAU
48 Across: McCullough novel (13)
THETHORNBIRDS
55 Across: Ermine (5)
STOAT
57 Across: Jejune (4)
ARID
58 Across: Rail (4)
COOT
59 Across: Galloon (5)
ORRIS
60 Across: Behindhand (4)
LATE
61 Across: ___ May Oliver (4)
EDNA
62 Across: "Happy ___," Beckett play (4)
DAYS
63 Across: Pip (4)
ONER
64 Across: Hart or hind (4)
DEER

Down Answers

1 Down: Judgment seat (4)
BANC
2 Down: Done (4)
OVER
3 Down: Prefix with sol or space (4)
AERO
4 Down: Barge (4)
SCOW
5 Down: Priory principals (6)
ABBOTS
6 Down: Weaving or knitting, e.g. (5)
CRAFT
7 Down: Down ___ (New England or Maine) (4)
EAST
8 Down: A son of Adam (4)
SETH
9 Down: Dress style (5)
ALINE
10 Down: Strife (10)
DISSENSION
11 Down: Form of Buddhism (3)
ZEN
12 Down: City near Ibadan (3)
EDE
15 Down: Samlets (5)
PARRS
20 Down: Man in "The Man Without a Country" (5)
NOLAN
21 Down: Gothic arch (5)
OGIVE
24 Down: Bean (6)
NOODLE
25 Down: Gann or Renan (6)
ERNEST
26 Down: Stoolie (6)
RATTER
27 Down: Gaseous hydrocarbon (6)
ETHANE
28 Down: Headland (10)
PROMONTORY
29 Down: Erstwhile name of a republic (4)
EIRE
30 Down: Pennsylvania county (5)
TIOGA
31 Down: Layers (4)
HENS
34 Down: Bend or hitch (4)
KNOT
35 Down: Ancient stringed instrument (4)
ASOR
37 Down: Supine (5)
INERT
38 Down: Rusty of baseball (5)
STAUB
43 Down: Assembles (5)
MEETS
44 Down: Male graylag (6)
GANDER
46 Down: Opera by Massenet (5)
THAIS
47 Down: Shopworn (5)
TRITE
49 Down: Relative of a corona (4)
HALO
50 Down: Algerian seaport (4)
ORAN
51 Down: Chilled (4)
ICED
52 Down: Teased (4)
RODE
53 Down: Finished (4)
DONE
54 Down: Thuban, e.g. (4)
STAR
55 Down: Turf (3)
SOD
56 Down: La leader (3)
TRA

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