Friday Crossword — July 17, 1981

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1570 clues~30-60 minBy Caroline G. Fitzgerald7/17/1981

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Incipient admiral, perhaps (5 letters)
6 Across
Avast! (4 letters)
10 Across
Persian religious leader ___ Ullah (4 letters)
14 Across
Extend a subscription (5 letters)
15 Across
Whet (4 letters)
16 Across
Friend of the Kingfish (4 letters)
17 Across
Best film of 1954 (15 letters)
20 Across
Cold wind of the Adriatic (4 letters)
21 Across
Forte or Harris of football (3 letters)
22 Across
Roscoe of tennis (6 letters)
23 Across
___ Islands, off Galway Bay (4 letters)
24 Across
Zee, in Suffolk (3 letters)
25 Across
Taiwan Strait island (5 letters)
26 Across
Bill picturing U.S. Treasury (3 letters)
27 Across
Existed (3 letters)
28 Across
German patriot-philosopher: 1762–1814 (6 letters)
29 Across
Common Latin verb (3 letters)
30 Across
Port of entry in N Spain (4 letters)
32 Across
Be or end follower (3 letters)
33 Across
McKenna novel, with "The" (11 letters)
37 Across
Balsam or alpine (3 letters)
38 Across
An Old Glory color (4 letters)
39 Across
Agent: Suffix (3 letters)
42 Across
Close (6 letters)
45 Across
Pacino and Smith (3 letters)
46 Across
Beaked warship (3 letters)
47 Across
The Raffaello, for one (5 letters)
48 Across
Chem., e.g. (3 letters)
49 Across
Blood condition: Suffix (4 letters)
50 Across
___ Doria (6 letters)
52 Across
Approvals (3 letters)
53 Across
Describe (4 letters)
54 Across
Rachel Carson's tidal-zone report (15 letters)
57 Across
Merit (4 letters)
58 Across
Of the opposition (4 letters)
59 Across
About (5 letters)
60 Across
Photocopy (4 letters)
61 Across
Bridle part, in Braemar (4 letters)
62 Across
Sticky mixture (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Kind of court (7 letters)
2 Down
Poe's "radiant maiden" et al. (7 letters)
3 Down
Contestants (8 letters)
4 Down
"Borstal Boy" author (5 letters)
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Nanny goat's relative (3 letters)
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Shocks (8 letters)
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Hauled (5 letters)
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Before "blast off" (3 letters)
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Forward (4 letters)
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Piggyback rider on a whale (8 letters)
11 Down
Turgenev's "___ in the Country" (6 letters)
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Upright (6 letters)
13 Down
" . . . my man's ___ as steel": Shak. (6 letters)
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Magic (8 letters)
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Bourbons et Bonapartes (8 letters)
27 Down
Poet Letts (8 letters)
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Aesop, for one (8 letters)
31 Down
Neighbor of S.D. (3 letters)
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Conveying impulses to a nerve center (8 letters)
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Snapper or whitefish (8 letters)
36 Down
Guesses (8 letters)
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Attire (7 letters)
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Come forth (7 letters)
42 Down
Chalk tablets (6 letters)
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W.W. I helmet (6 letters)
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___ cloud (suspected) (6 letters)
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Soiled, in a way (5 letters)
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"Maria ___," 1933 song (5 letters)
51 Down
Product of red seaweeds (4 letters)
55 Down
Wind dir. (3 letters)
56 Down
Luck (3 letters)

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