Friday Crossword — July 17, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 7/17/1981. By Caroline G. Fitzgerald.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Incipient admiral, perhaps (5)
- PLEBE
- 6 Across: Avast! (4)
- STOP
- 10 Across: Persian religious leader ___ Ullah (4)
- BAHA
- 14 Across: Extend a subscription (5)
- RENEW
- 15 Across: Whet (4)
- HONE
- 16 Across: Friend of the Kingfish (4)
- AMOS
- 17 Across: Best film of 1954 (15)
- ONTHEWATERFRONT
- 20 Across: Cold wind of the Adriatic (4)
- BORA
- 21 Across: Forte or Harris of football (3)
- IKE
- 22 Across: Roscoe of tennis (6)
- TANNER
- 23 Across: ___ Islands, off Galway Bay (4)
- ARAN
- 24 Across: Zee, in Suffolk (3)
- ZED
- 25 Across: Taiwan Strait island (5)
- MATSU
- 26 Across: Bill picturing U.S. Treasury (3)
- TEN
- 27 Across: Existed (3)
- WAS
- 28 Across: German patriot-philosopher: 1762–1814 (6)
- FICHTE
- 29 Across: Common Latin verb (3)
- EST
- 30 Across: Port of entry in N Spain (4)
- IRUN
- 32 Across: Be or end follower (3)
- ALL
- 33 Across: McKenna novel, with "The" (11)
- SANDPEBBLES
- 37 Across: Balsam or alpine (3)
- FIR
- 38 Across: An Old Glory color (4)
- BLUE
- 39 Across: Agent: Suffix (3)
- URE
- 42 Across: Close (6)
- STUFFY
- 45 Across: Pacino and Smith (3)
- ALS
- 46 Across: Beaked warship (3)
- RAM
- 47 Across: The Raffaello, for one (5)
- LINER
- 48 Across: Chem., e.g. (3)
- SCI
- 49 Across: Blood condition: Suffix (4)
- EMIA
- 50 Across: ___ Doria (6)
- ANDREA
- 52 Across: Approvals (3)
- OKS
- 53 Across: Describe (4)
- LIMN
- 54 Across: Rachel Carson's tidal-zone report (15)
- THEEDGEOFTHESEA
- 57 Across: Merit (4)
- EARN
- 58 Across: Of the opposition (4)
- ANTI
- 59 Across: About (5)
- ANENT
- 60 Across: Photocopy (4)
- STAT
- 61 Across: Bridle part, in Braemar (4)
- REYN
- 62 Across: Sticky mixture (5)
- PASTE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Kind of court (7)
- PROBATE
- 2 Down: Poe's "radiant maiden" et al. (7)
- LENORES
- 3 Down: Contestants (8)
- ENTRANTS
- 4 Down: "Borstal Boy" author (5)
- BEHAN
- 5 Down: Nanny goat's relative (3)
- EWE
- 6 Down: Shocks (8)
- SHAKESUP
- 7 Down: Hauled (5)
- TOTED
- 8 Down: Before "blast off" (3)
- ONE
- 9 Down: Forward (4)
- PERT
- 10 Down: Piggyback rider on a whale (8)
- BARNACLE
- 11 Down: Turgenev's "___ in the Country" (6)
- AMONTH
- 12 Down: Upright (6)
- HONEST
- 13 Down: " . . . my man's ___ as steel": Shak. (6)
- ASTRUE
- 18 Down: Magic (8)
- WIZARDRY
- 19 Down: Bourbons et Bonapartes (8)
- FAMILLES
- 27 Down: Poet Letts (8)
- WINIFRED
- 28 Down: Aesop, for one (8)
- FABULIST
- 31 Down: Neighbor of S.D. (3)
- NEB
- 34 Down: Conveying impulses to a nerve center (8)
- AFFERENT
- 35 Down: Snapper or whitefish (8)
- BLACKFIN
- 36 Down: Guesses (8)
- SURMISES
- 40 Down: Attire (7)
- RAIMENT
- 41 Down: Come forth (7)
- EMANATE
- 42 Down: Chalk tablets (6)
- SLATES
- 43 Down: W.W. I helmet (6)
- TINHAT
- 44 Down: ___ cloud (suspected) (6)
- UNDERA
- 48 Down: Soiled, in a way (5)
- SOOTY
- 49 Down: "Maria ___," 1933 song (5)
- ELENA
- 51 Down: Product of red seaweeds (4)
- AGAR
- 55 Down: Wind dir. (3)
- ENE
- 56 Down: Luck (3)
- HAP
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