Wednesday Crossword — July 22, 1981 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 7/22/1981. By Louis Sabin.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Append (3)
ADD
4 Across: Quaffer's choice (5)
LAGER
9 Across: Roster (4)
LIST
13 Across: Arrange sails (4)
TRIM
15 Across: Zola (5)
EMILE
16 Across: "Render therefore ___ Caesar . . . " (4)
UNTO
17 Across: Dolly of musical fame (4)
LEVI
18 Across: Sauce for pasta (5)
SALSA
19 Across: Shade of red (4)
PUCE
20 Across: Broadway hit: 1957 (13)
WESTSIDESTORY
23 Across: Tune from "A Little Night Music" (4)
SOON
24 Across: More rational (5)
SANER
25 Across: Alphonse's sidekick (6)
GASTON
28 Across: Shade of brown (5)
BEIGE
30 Across: Musical group (5)
OCTET
31 Across: Vocalized "Send in the Clowns" (4)
SANG
32 Across: Union in D.C. is one (3)
STA
35 Across: Lyricist for 20 and 48 Across (15)
STEPHENSONDHEIM
39 Across: Margin for milady (3)
HEM
40 Across: "O! that way madness ___": King Lear (4)
LIES
41 Across: Medicine: Comb. form (5)
IATRO
42 Across: Criminally assists (5)
ABETS
44 Across: Bacon piece (6)
RASHER
45 Across: State in NE India (5)
ASSAM
47 Across: Certain progeny (4)
SONS
48 Across: Broadway hit: 1965 (13)
DOIHEARAWALTZ
53 Across: Chesterfield or davenport (4)
SOFA
54 Across: Mythological weeper (5)
NIOBE
55 Across: Jug (4)
EWER
57 Across: Hibernia (4)
ERIN
58 Across: ___ of thought (5)
TRAIN
59 Across: Bell the cat (4)
DARE
60 Across: Genteel repasts (4)
TEAS
61 Across: Drug-yielding plant (5)
SENNA
62 Across: Red and White of baseball (3)
SOX

Down Answers

1 Down: About 32 million sq. mi. of water (3)
ATL
2 Down: Famed name in stage lore (4)
DREW
3 Down: Plunge (4)
DIVE
4 Down: Teacher's plan (6)
LESSON
5 Down: At full speed (5)
AMAIN
6 Down: Try in vain to improve a lily (4)
GILD
7 Down: Other (4)
ELSE
8 Down: Put on a different task (8)
REASSIGN
9 Down: Patti of "Evita" (6)
LUPONE
10 Down: Harden (5)
INURE
11 Down: French counterpart of U.S.M.A. (5)
STCYR
12 Down: Kind of dance (3)
TOE
14 Down: False move (7)
MISSTEP
21 Down: Gear part (5)
TOOTH
22 Down: Child's game (3)
TAG
25 Down: Cry of surprise (4)
GOSH
26 Down: Feat in France (4)
ACTE
27 Down: The Main ___ (Broadway) (4)
STEM
28 Down: First, second and third (5)
BASES
29 Down: Biblical patriarch (4)
ENOS
31 Down: In a ___ (upset) (4)
SNIT
32 Down: Fourth man (4)
SETH
33 Down: Weaken (4)
TIRE
34 Down: Love, to Lucila (4)
AMOR
36 Down: Gold and silver (8)
ELEMENTS
37 Down: Sands or Ross (5)
DIANA
38 Down: Swapped angry words (7)
HASSLED
42 Down: Chinese and Japanese (6)
ASIANS
43 Down: Humbug's partner (3)
BAH
44 Down: Lady in "Ivanhoe" (6)
ROWENA
45 Down: Idolize (5)
ADORE
46 Down: Capital of Bulgaria (5)
SOFIA
47 Down: Discoverer of a polio vaccine (5)
SABIN
49 Down: English river (4)
AIRE
50 Down: Reddish-brown horse (4)
ROAN
51 Down: "___ the night before . . . " (4)
TWAS
52 Down: Mostel (4)
ZERO
53 Down: Scene shifter's concern (3)
SET
56 Down: Harrison (3)
REX

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