Friday Crossword — July 31, 1981
Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1578 clues~30-60 minBy Nancy McCarthy7/31/1981
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Maturing agent (4 letters)
- 5 Across
- Like London in 1666 (5 letters)
- 10 Across
- Columnist's line (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- Netman Nastase (4 letters)
- 15 Across
- Limited in space (5 letters)
- 16 Across
- Soft leather (4 letters)
- 17 Across
- Opera by Kienzl: 1898 (10 letters)
- 19 Across
- Stew (4 letters)
- 20 Across
- Windmill arm (3 letters)
- 21 Across
- "It might have ___" (4 letters)
- 22 Across
- Boxers' embrace (6 letters)
- 24 Across
- Affectionate (4 letters)
- 25 Across
- Squirrel away (5 letters)
- 26 Across
- Locale for J.R. Ewing (6 letters)
- 29 Across
- Assert to be true (8 letters)
- 32 Across
- Expect (5 letters)
- 33 Across
- Tadpole, for one (5 letters)
- 34 Across
- Caucho (3 letters)
- 35 Across
- Steam-engine inventor (4 letters)
- 36 Across
- Burn superficially (5 letters)
- 37 Across
- Large land mass (4 letters)
- 38 Across
- Commit a boo-boo (3 letters)
- 39 Across
- Discontinue (5 letters)
- 40 Across
- Drudgery (5 letters)
- 41 Across
- Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose is one (8 letters)
- 43 Across
- Excoriate (6 letters)
- 44 Across
- Member of a string quartet (5 letters)
- 45 Across
- Biblical king (4 letters)
- 46 Across
- Kind of benefit (6 letters)
- 48 Across
- Kind of bridge (4 letters)
- 49 Across
- Good buddy (3 letters)
- 52 Across
- Desired role (4 letters)
- 53 Across
- Opera by Wagner: 1856 (10 letters)
- 56 Across
- Architectural pier (4 letters)
- 57 Across
- Frittered time away (5 letters)
- 58 Across
- Large lake (4 letters)
- 59 Across
- Rend (4 letters)
- 60 Across
- Comes close (5 letters)
- 61 Across
- Twelve moons (4 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Opera by Verdi: 1871 (4 letters)
- 2 Down
- Word before worm (4 letters)
- 3 Down
- German article (4 letters)
- 4 Down
- Necessary: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 5 Down
- Noncitizens (6 letters)
- 6 Down
- Outwitted (5 letters)
- 7 Down
- Graven image (4 letters)
- 8 Down
- Norway ___ (3 letters)
- 9 Down
- Choice on campus (8 letters)
- 10 Down
- Assert emphatically (6 letters)
- 11 Down
- Another opera by Wagner: 1845 (10 letters)
- 12 Down
- Grand in scope (4 letters)
- 13 Down
- School subj. (4 letters)
- 18 Down
- German naval weapon (5 letters)
- 23 Down
- One of the Woods (4 letters)
- 24 Down
- Dart (4 letters)
- 25 Down
- Looey's aide (5 letters)
- 26 Down
- Veep under Coolidge (5 letters)
- 27 Down
- Not in the dark (5 letters)
- 28 Down
- Another opera by Verdi: 1853 (10 letters)
- 29 Down
- Parsonage (5 letters)
- 30 Down
- Sacro follower (5 letters)
- 31 Down
- Below, to Byron (5 letters)
- 33 Down
- Tropical climber (5 letters)
- 36 Down
- Shut up hermetically (8 letters)
- 37 Down
- Military misdemeanor (4 letters)
- 39 Down
- Choke up (4 letters)
- 40 Down
- Kind of rowboat (5 letters)
- 42 Down
- Greek odist (6 letters)
- 43 Down
- Dinner greens (6 letters)
- 45 Down
- Farmer, at times (5 letters)
- 46 Down
- Below the true pitch (4 letters)
- 47 Down
- Poet Sully Prudhomme (1901 Nobelist) (4 letters)
- 48 Down
- Weblike tissue (4 letters)
- 49 Down
- Unadulterated (4 letters)
- 50 Down
- Opera highlight (4 letters)
- 51 Down
- Eye wickedly (4 letters)
- 54 Down
- Edible fish (3 letters)
- 55 Down
- Essential (3 letters)
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