Thursday Crossword — August 20, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 8/20/1981. By Whelan.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Iridescent gem (4)
- OPAL
- 5 Across: Frat-party garments (5)
- TOGAS
- 10 Across: Orlando rarity (4)
- SNOW
- 14 Across: Local food store, for short (4)
- DELI
- 15 Across: Old-womanish (5)
- ANILE
- 16 Across: Fundy phenomenon (4)
- TIDE
- 17 Across: Flap, as a sail (4)
- SLAT
- 18 Across: Bogged down (5)
- MIRED
- 19 Across: Mucho (4)
- ALOT
- 20 Across: Terpsichorean twosome (13)
- FREDANDGINGER
- 23 Across: Irks (5)
- RILES
- 24 Across: Jerry Pate's turf piercer (3)
- TEE
- 25 Across: Getaway (6)
- ESCAPE
- 28 Across: Noxious vapors (7)
- MIASMAS
- 32 Across: Pillage (4)
- LOOT
- 33 Across: O'Neill's "___ for the Misbegotten" (5)
- AMOON
- 35 Across: Carney or Buchwald (3)
- ART
- 36 Across: Hit film of 1933 (15)
- FLYINGDOWNTORIO
- 40 Across: "There! ___ Said It Again": Mann-Evans song (3)
- IVE
- 41 Across: He spoke for Standish (5)
- ALDEN
- 42 Across: Two-toed sloth (4)
- UNAU
- 43 Across: Chilean poet's family (7)
- NERUDAS
- 45 Across: Abominate (6)
- DETEST
- 47 Across: Nest (3)
- NID
- 48 Across: Centers (5)
- CORES
- 50 Across: Sometime co-star with 20 Across (13)
- EDWARDEHORTON
- 55 Across: Becloud (4)
- BLUR
- 56 Across: ___-visual equipment (5)
- AUDIO
- 57 Across: Fracas (4)
- RIOT
- 59 Across: On the Caspian (4)
- ASEA
- 60 Across: Tree lump (5)
- GNARL
- 61 Across: Caribbean sight (4)
- ISLE
- 62 Across: Servants (4)
- HELP
- 63 Across: Teasdale and a Roosevelt (5)
- SARAS
- 64 Across: Lowly laborer (4)
- PEON
Down Answers
- 1 Down: "___ bodkins!" (3)
- ODS
- 2 Down: Riches (4)
- PELF
- 3 Down: Winglike (4)
- ALAR
- 4 Down: Educated class (8)
- LITERATI
- 5 Down: Mexican dish (6)
- TAMALE
- 6 Down: Cat-___-tails (5)
- ONINE
- 7 Down: Strengthens (5)
- GIRDS
- 8 Down: Give ___ up (assist) (4)
- ALEG
- 9 Down: Political agitation (8)
- SEDITION
- 10 Down: Western vehicles (6)
- STAGES
- 11 Down: Egyptian delta (4)
- NILE
- 12 Down: Aroma (4)
- ODOR
- 13 Down: Moist (3)
- WET
- 21 Down: Brief swim (3)
- DIP
- 22 Down: Sartre's "Nothingness" (5)
- NEANT
- 25 Down: Puckish (5)
- ELFIN
- 26 Down: Find the answers (5)
- SOLVE
- 27 Down: More bashful (5)
- COYER
- 28 Down: Cut, as a lawn (4)
- MOWN
- 29 Down: W.W. I battle site (5)
- MARNE
- 30 Down: Diva's numbers (5)
- ARIAS
- 31 Down: Chubby (5)
- STOUT
- 33 Down: Appends (4)
- ADDS
- 34 Down: One of the Three Stooges (3)
- MOE
- 37 Down: Comaneci or Boulanger (5)
- NADIA
- 38 Down: Sunday best (8)
- GLADRAGS
- 39 Down: Surpass (8)
- OUTSTRIP
- 44 Down: Disclose (6)
- UNWRAP
- 45 Down: Prattles foolishly (6)
- DROOLS
- 46 Down: Poetic contraction (3)
- EER
- 48 Down: Fragrant wood (5)
- CEDAR
- 49 Down: Prime Minister before Suzuki (5)
- OHIRA
- 50 Down: Otherwise (4)
- ELSE
- 51 Down: One-on-one encounter (4)
- DUEL
- 52 Down: The Danube, in Hungary (4)
- DUNA
- 53 Down: Seine tributary (4)
- OISE
- 54 Down: ___ contendere (4)
- NOLO
- 55 Down: Scrooge's expression (3)
- BAH
- 58 Down: Decimal base (3)
- TEN
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