Saturday Crossword — August 29, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 8/29/1981. By John Finch.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "___ is that music . . . ": Keats (4)
- FLED
- 5 Across: Arrangement (5)
- SETUP
- 10 Across: One of the Oceanides (4)
- ASIA
- 14 Across: Like Emerson's bridge (4)
- RUDE
- 15 Across: Red snapper (5)
- PARGO
- 16 Across: All by herself on stage (4)
- SOLA
- 17 Across: Othello's words as he stabs himself (15)
- ANDSMOTEHIMTHUS
- 20 Across: Kind of double for Goren (7)
- TAKEOUT
- 21 Across: Got up (5)
- AROSE
- 22 Across: Sight from Bern (3)
- ALP
- 23 Across: First word of "The Aeneid" (4)
- ARMA
- 25 Across: Transfer pictures (6)
- DECALS
- 29 Across: Basis of all, to Lucretius (4)
- ATOM
- 30 Across: O'Neill one-act play (3)
- ILE
- 33 Across: Slithering (4)
- EELY
- 34 Across: Plate dialogue (5)
- CRITO
- 35 Across: "O! swear ___ by the moon": Juliet (3)
- NOT
- 36 Across: Macbeth's last words (15)
- CRIESHOLDENOUGH
- 40 Across: Actor Torn (3)
- RIP
- 41 Across: Sioux dwelling (5)
- TEPEE
- 42 Across: Iroquoian group (4)
- ERIE
- 43 Across: Last word of "Ulysses" (3)
- YES
- 44 Across: "___, Lice and History," Zinsser book (4)
- RATS
- 45 Across: Something unpaid but due (6)
- ARREAR
- 47 Across: Certain ephemera (4)
- FADS
- 48 Across: Botanist Gray: 1810–88 (3)
- ASA
- 49 Across: Broadcast (5)
- STREW
- 52 Across: Gutenberg was one (7)
- PRINTER
- 56 Across: Cleopatra's last words (15)
- WHATSHOULDISTAY
- 60 Across: First-rate (4)
- AONE
- 61 Across: Path, in Paris (5)
- ALLEE
- 62 Across: "God's Little ___" (4)
- ACRE
- 63 Across: Play by Topor (4)
- NUTS
- 64 Across: Our salad days (5)
- TEENS
- 65 Across: Mother of Zeus (4)
- RHEA
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Lippo Lippi (3)
- FRA
- 2 Down: Milwaukee's gift to the theater (4)
- LUNT
- 3 Down: Icelandic collection (4)
- EDDA
- 4 Down: Kind of job or set (4)
- DESK
- 5 Down: Thread holders (6)
- SPOOLS
- 6 Down: Consume avidly (5)
- EATUP
- 7 Down: Waste allowance (4)
- TRET
- 8 Down: Sound of disgust (3)
- UGH
- 9 Down: Dish at a luau (3)
- POI
- 10 Down: Stars seen by Servius (5)
- ASTRA
- 11 Down: Where Dryden lived (4)
- SOHO
- 12 Down: Founder of Troy (4)
- ILUS
- 13 Down: Old Gynt's widow (4)
- AASE
- 18 Down: Fast breaker (4)
- MEAL
- 19 Down: Milton's "least erected spirit" (6)
- MAMMON
- 23 Down: " . . . ___ in the affairs of men" (5)
- ATIDE
- 24 Down: Sound of surf (4)
- ROTE
- 25 Down: Speak out against strongly (5)
- DECRY
- 26 Down: Eldritch (5)
- EERIE
- 27 Down: Samples of films (5)
- CLIPS
- 28 Down: Nautical affirmative (3)
- AYE
- 29 Down: Medieval kingdom (5)
- ARLES
- 30 Down: Habituate (5)
- INURE
- 31 Down: Religious maxims (5)
- LOGIA
- 32 Down: Upper regions of space (5)
- ETHER
- 34 Down: Egypt's native Christians (5)
- COPTS
- 37 Down: Grasping at ___ (6)
- STRAWS
- 38 Down: The obverse of a coin (4)
- HEAD
- 39 Down: "___ the ramparts . . . " (3)
- OER
- 45 Down: Remarks to the audience (6)
- ASIDES
- 46 Down: Hindu princess (4)
- RANI
- 47 Down: Honors with a party (5)
- FETES
- 48 Down: Author of "The Green Hat" (5)
- ARLEN
- 49 Down: Role for Pavlova (4)
- SWAN
- 50 Down: "___ Swell," Rodgers-Hart song (4)
- THOU
- 51 Down: Bombast (4)
- RANT
- 52 Down: Whimper (4)
- PULE
- 53 Down: Absolute ruler (4)
- TSAR
- 54 Down: Do aquatints (4)
- ETCH
- 55 Down: "O ___ Ben Jonson!" (4)
- RARE
- 57 Down: Bowler or sailor (3)
- HAT
- 58 Down: Violinist Bull (3)
- OLE
- 59 Down: Biblical affirmative (3)
- YEA
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