Thursday Crossword — July 16, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 7/16/1981. By John Greenman.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Loafed (5)
- LAZED
- 6 Across: The Boston ___ (4)
- POPS
- 10 Across: Maxims (4)
- SAWS
- 14 Across: Mistreat (5)
- ABUSE
- 15 Across: "Since Hector was ___" (4)
- APUP
- 16 Across: Migrant worker (4)
- OKIE
- 17 Across: Dissolves (5)
- MELTS
- 18 Across: " . . . ___clock scholar" (4)
- TENO
- 19 Across: Item spent in Siena (4)
- LIRA
- 20 Across: Long Island mollusk (15)
- BLUEPOINTOYSTER
- 23 Across: Spatiate (4)
- ROVE
- 24 Across: Eric Heiden's competitors (7)
- SKATERS
- 25 Across: Academic dept. head (3)
- CHM
- 28 Across: Yurt, e.g. (4)
- TENT
- 30 Across: Inventor–clock-maker Terry (3)
- ELI
- 31 Across: One of Darrow's clients (4)
- LOEB
- 33 Across: Path of trav. (3)
- RTE
- 34 Across: 520 hebdomads (6)
- DECADE
- 38 Across: Crazy as ___ (5)
- ALOON
- 40 Across: Perched (3)
- SAT
- 42 Across: Part of a blossom (5)
- SEPAL
- 43 Across: Pendulous fold near the neck (6)
- DEWLAP
- 45 Across: Testing ground, for short (3)
- LAB
- 47 Across: Darkroom fixture (4)
- SINK
- 48 Across: G tone (3)
- SOL
- 49 Across: Daube, e.g. (4)
- STEW
- 51 Across: "All is ___ and gaiters": Dickens (3)
- GAS
- 52 Across: Civil-service ringer (7)
- POSTMAN
- 56 Across: Sailors (4)
- TARS
- 58 Across: Hardly ever (15)
- ONCEINABLUEMOON
- 63 Across: Brain passage (4)
- ITER
- 64 Across: Flag (4)
- TIRE
- 65 Across: Expedient for saving face (5)
- SALVO
- 66 Across: Word after bar (4)
- NONE
- 67 Across: Constantly (4)
- EVER
- 68 Across: Partner of true (5)
- TRIED
- 69 Across: Accelerated (4)
- SPED
- 70 Across: Cincinnati team (4)
- REDS
- 71 Across: British equivalent of 14 lbs. (5)
- STONE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Mary's tagalong (4)
- LAMB
- 2 Down: He assassinated Eric IV (4)
- ABEL
- 3 Down: Bantu language (4)
- ZULU
- 4 Down: Organic compound (5)
- ESTER
- 5 Down: Autocrat (6)
- DESPOT
- 6 Down: Doctors' sine qua non (8)
- PATIENTS
- 7 Down: Sign on a store window (4)
- OPEN
- 8 Down: Fourth-down plays (5)
- PUNTS
- 9 Down: Frightened (7)
- SPOOKED
- 10 Down: June and December occurrences (9)
- SOLSTICES
- 11 Down: "Go fly ___!" (5)
- AKITE
- 12 Down: Electrician, e.g. (5)
- WIRER
- 13 Down: ___ Tower, world's highest building (5)
- SEARS
- 21 Down: Past (4)
- OVER
- 22 Down: Elihu's descendants (5)
- YALES
- 25 Down: Dressed (4)
- CLAD
- 26 Down: Follower of key or pot (4)
- HOLE
- 27 Down: Grimalkin's cry (4)
- MEOW
- 29 Down: Greenish blues (5)
- TEALS
- 32 Down: Supported, with "up" (9)
- BOLSTERED
- 35 Down: Buy ___ in a poke (4)
- APIG
- 36 Down: An Andrews (4)
- DANA
- 37 Down: Tooth fanciers (4)
- ELKS
- 39 Down: Ruth's mother-in-law (5)
- NAOMI
- 41 Down: School stoolies (8)
- TATTLERS
- 44 Down: Washington was one (7)
- PLANTER
- 46 Down: Actor Bridges (4)
- BEAU
- 50 Down: Pulls from, as a purse (6)
- WRESTS
- 52 Down: Companion of Falstaff (5)
- POINS
- 53 Down: Successful (5)
- ONTOP
- 54 Down: Public display of temper (5)
- SCENE
- 55 Down: Ingenuous (5)
- NAIVE
- 57 Down: Brainy (5)
- SMART
- 59 Down: Reared (4)
- BRED
- 60 Down: Hodgepodge (4)
- OLIO
- 61 Down: Hot spot (4)
- OVEN
- 62 Down: Protuberance (4)
- NODE
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