Thursday Crossword — July 30, 1981 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 7/30/1981. By Emory H. Cain.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Border (3)
HEM
4 Across: Kobe quaff (4)
SAKE
8 Across: Tallinn native (4)
ESTH
12 Across: Bye-bye (4)
TATA
13 Across: Dismounted (4)
ALIT
14 Across: Rapidity (5)
SPEED
16 Across: Arena in Atlanta (4)
OMNI
17 Across: Joust (4)
TILT
18 Across: Earl or duke (5)
TITLE
19 Across: With 46 Across, quotation from Cicero (15)
AMANOFCOURAGEIS
22 Across: ___ gin (4)
SLOE
23 Across: Ike's W.W. II command (3)
ETO
24 Across: "___, is it I?": Matt. 26:25 (6)
MASTER
27 Across: Fast cat (7)
CHEETAH
31 Across: Tittles (5)
IOTAS
32 Across: Wire nails (5)
BRADS
33 Across: A gift that some possess (3)
GAB
35 Across: Playing card (4)
TREY
36 Across: He wrote "A Mind That Found Itself" (5)
BEERS
37 Across: Had on one's person (4)
WORE
38 Across: Paris season (3)
ETE
39 Across: Moderated (5)
BATED
40 Across: Begat (5)
SIRED
41 Across: Place for matériel (7)
ARSENAL
43 Across: Kind of seed (6)
SESAME
44 Across: Canoodle (3)
PET
45 Across: Little chief ___ (the pika) (4)
HARE
46 Across: See 19 Across (15)
ALSOFULLOFFAITH
54 Across: Electron tube (5)
DIODE
55 Across: Comfort (4)
EASE
56 Across: Singer Laine (4)
CLEO
57 Across: Winsor heroine (5)
AMBER
58 Across: Let it stand (4)
STET
59 Across: " . . . shall ___ the whirlwind": Hos. 8:7 (4)
REAP
60 Across: Oldest living First Lady (4)
BESS
61 Across: Slithery (4)
EELY
62 Across: Diminutive suffixes (3)
ETS

Down Answers

1 Down: City in NW Germany (4)
HAMM
2 Down: Borough near Pittsburgh (4)
ETNA
3 Down: Principal support (8)
MAINSTAY
4 Down: Obliged a portraitist (6)
SATFOR
5 Down: Kramden's mate (5)
ALICE
6 Down: Prefix for watt (4)
KILO
7 Down: Brute predecessors (4)
ETTU
8 Down: Landed properties (7)
ESTATES
9 Down: Peg for a keg (6)
SPIGOT
10 Down: What Danton lost in 1794 (4)
TETE
11 Down: Prefix for copter (4)
HELI
12 Down: Shelley's "___ Skylark" (3)
TOA
15 Down: ___ Arc, Ark. (3)
DES
20 Down: Fronton cries (4)
OLES
21 Down: Bamboolike grasses (5)
REEDS
24 Down: Minute arachnid (4)
MITE
25 Down: Artery (5)
AORTA
26 Down: Ox (5)
STEER
27 Down: Wickerwork basket (5)
CREEL
28 Down: Darlene of tennis fame (4)
HARD
29 Down: Greek assembly (5)
AGORA
30 Down: Where a khanum presides (5)
HAREM
32 Down: Phi ___ Kappa (4)
BETA
34 Down: Eliot hero (4)
BEDE
36 Down: Language spoken in Malawi (5)
BANTU
37 Down: Know-it-all (8)
WISEACRE
39 Down: Grumblebrains (7)
BEEFERS
40 Down: Toiler of 1066 (4)
SERF
42 Down: Famed English potters (6)
SPODES
43 Down: Gun part (6)
SAFETY
45 Down: Golf club part (5)
HOSEL
46 Down: "___ from Decatur" (3)
ADA
47 Down: Fin or wing (4)
LIMB
48 Down: "___ it!" (4)
SOBE
49 Down: ___-majesté (4)
LESE
50 Down: Not on time (4)
LATE
51 Down: "___ a Song Go . . . " (4)
ILET
52 Down: Socials (4)
TEAS
53 Down: Flight on a shuttle (3)
HOP

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