Friday Crossword — August 28, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 8/28/1981. By C. J. Angio.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Sort of a sortie (4)
- RAID
- 5 Across: Thurber's "The Owl in the ___" (5)
- ATTIC
- 10 Across: Interlocution (4)
- CHAT
- 14 Across: ___ spumante (4)
- ASTI
- 15 Across: Gandhi's garb (5)
- DHOTI
- 16 Across: Turkish liqueur (4)
- RAKI
- 17 Across: With 52 Across, a critical review (15)
- THISHORRORMOVIE
- 20 Across: Swoons (8)
- SYNCOPES
- 21 Across: Flick (6)
- CINEMA
- 22 Across: Scold (4)
- RATE
- 23 Across: Undiluted (4)
- PURE
- 24 Across: Men carrying symbols of authority (6)
- MACERS
- 27 Across: Willie Loman, e.g. (8)
- SALESMAN
- 31 Across: Adjective for ants and aphids (5)
- ALATE
- 32 Across: Cremona creation, for short (5)
- STRAD
- 33 Across: Basil ___, noted painter of birds (3)
- EDE
- 34 Across: An early invader of Britain (4)
- DANE
- 35 Across: Filmy (5)
- SHEER
- 36 Across: Target of Mariner IV (4)
- MARS
- 37 Across: Opposite of odi (3)
- AMO
- 38 Across: Ring (5)
- PHONE
- 39 Across: "What ___ how fair she be?": G. Wither (5)
- CAREI
- 40 Across: Winds that mean "seasons" in Arabic (8)
- MONSOONS
- 42 Across: Kind of "Game" that hit N.Y.C. in 1954 (6)
- PAJAMA
- 43 Across: Spot for a certain queen (4)
- HIVE
- 44 Across: Gleason's "And away ___!" (4)
- WEGO
- 45 Across: Cash-register recording (6)
- NOSALE
- 48 Across: Former capital of the Mountain State (8)
- WHEELING
- 52 Across: See 17 Across (15)
- ISTRULYHORRIBLE
- 54 Across: Bread; dough; moola (4)
- KALE
- 55 Across: Rousseau classic (5)
- EMILE
- 56 Across: Sonny in "The Godfather" (4)
- CAAN
- 57 Across: Conductor of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra (4)
- EROS
- 58 Across: Acted like Hotspur (5)
- RAGED
- 59 Across: Trivium and quadrivium (4)
- ARTS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Exclamation in a Schulz comic (4)
- RATS
- 2 Down: Pale as a ghost (4)
- ASHY
- 3 Down: Take ___ stride (4)
- ITIN
- 4 Down: Unrelated (8)
- DISCRETE
- 5 Down: Takes as one's own (6)
- ADOPTS
- 6 Down: Rubens's "___ Graces" (5)
- THREE
- 7 Down: Rocky formations (4)
- TORS
- 8 Down: Robert of "Quincy" (3)
- ITO
- 9 Down: Like Arthur's Table (8)
- CIRCULAR
- 10 Down: Grimalkins (6)
- CRONES
- 11 Down: "We ___ met the enemy . . . " (4)
- HAVE
- 12 Down: Actor Tamiroff: 1899–1972 (4)
- AKIM
- 13 Down: "___ Yellow Ribbon . . . " (4)
- TIEA
- 18 Down: Viscount Templewood (5)
- HOARE
- 19 Down: Snagged in a bog (5)
- MIRED
- 23 Down: Porter's "You Don't Know ___": 1929 (5)
- PAREE
- 24 Down: "___, I'm Adam" (5)
- MADAM
- 25 Down: Cottonwood (5)
- ALAMO
- 26 Down: Criterion (5)
- CANON
- 27 Down: Sheppard-Turpin guns (5)
- STENS
- 28 Down: O'Connor's cook on TV (5)
- MEARA
- 29 Down: Pertinent, to a prosecutor (5)
- ADREM
- 30 Down: Ending with Poly and Indo (5)
- NESIA
- 32 Down: Glowed (5)
- SHONE
- 35 Down: Freshwater duck (8)
- SHOVELER
- 36 Down: Variety of Italian pottery (8)
- MAJOLICA
- 38 Down: Doughboy's French ally (5)
- POILU
- 39 Down: Athlete like "Magic" (5)
- CAGER
- 41 Down: Brokers' concerns (6)
- SHARES
- 42 Down: Became a sidewalk superintendent (6)
- PEERED
- 44 Down: Totality (5)
- WHOLE
- 45 Down: Winged statue in the Louvre (4)
- NIKE
- 46 Down: Glacial ridges (4)
- OSAR
- 47 Down: Historic town in Normandy (4)
- STLO
- 48 Down: Zachary Taylor was one (4)
- WHIG
- 49 Down: Cousin of an H beam (4)
- IBAR
- 50 Down: Cartographer's abbr. (4)
- NLAT
- 51 Down: Roman family group (4)
- GENS
- 53 Down: Singer Sumac (3)
- YMA
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