Monday Crossword — August 31, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 8/31/1981. By Herb L. Risteen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Weight allowance (4)
- TARE
- 5 Across: Fen plant (4)
- REED
- 9 Across: Surrealist painter (4)
- DALI
- 13 Across: Persian poet (4)
- OMAR
- 14 Across: Drying device (5)
- AIRER
- 15 Across: Hodgepodge (4)
- OLIO
- 16 Across: Hopper was one (15)
- GOSSIPCOLUMNIST
- 19 Across: Slanders (8)
- ASPERSES
- 20 Across: Santa ___ Race Track (5)
- ANITA
- 21 Across: Poetic contraction (3)
- OER
- 22 Across: Get along (4)
- FARE
- 24 Across: Rejects with contempt (6)
- SPURNS
- 28 Across: Fine fur (4)
- MINK
- 29 Across: Fruit seed (3)
- PIP
- 32 Across: Siberian stream (4)
- LENA
- 33 Across: ___ Island, Canada (5)
- PELEE
- 34 Across: Epoch (3)
- ERA
- 35 Across: William Allen White was one (15)
- EDITORIALWRITER
- 39 Across: Corrode (3)
- EAT
- 40 Across: Dwarfish (5)
- RUNTY
- 41 Across: National League team (4)
- NINE
- 42 Across: Work busily (3)
- PLY
- 43 Across: Black (4)
- INKY
- 44 Across: Turned over (6)
- CANTED
- 46 Across: Payments to psychiatrists (4)
- FEES
- 47 Across: O.T. book (3)
- LAM
- 48 Across: City NW of Genoa (5)
- TURIN
- 51 Across: Lake Michigan port and resort (8)
- MANISTEE
- 56 Across: Grantland Rice et al. (15)
- SPORTSREPORTERS
- 59 Across: Tiny bit (4)
- ATOM
- 60 Across: Poet who married Thomas Mann's daughter (5)
- AUDEN
- 61 Across: Eagerly expectant (4)
- ATIP
- 62 Across: Ancient city (4)
- ROMA
- 63 Across: Strip (4)
- PEEL
- 64 Across: Disown (4)
- DENY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Clothing for Cassius (4)
- TOGA
- 2 Down: Disney's inventive mouse (4)
- AMOS
- 3 Down: Carpentry tool (4)
- RASP
- 4 Down: Gaelic (4)
- ERSE
- 5 Down: Kitchen utensil (5)
- RICER
- 6 Down: Olympian lad (4)
- EROS
- 7 Down: Wriggly swimmer (3)
- EEL
- 8 Down: Actress Joanne (3)
- DRU
- 9 Down: Metaphysical poet (5)
- DONNE
- 10 Down: Others, to Ovid (4)
- ALII
- 11 Down: Register (4)
- LIST
- 12 Down: Greek letter (4)
- IOTA
- 14 Down: Church sections (5)
- APSES
- 17 Down: Shipment to Pittsburgh (4)
- IRON
- 18 Down: "Little Miss ___," Shirley Temple film (6)
- MARKER
- 22 Down: Derby entry (5)
- FILLY
- 23 Down: Again (4)
- ANEW
- 24 Down: Rest (5)
- SLEEP
- 25 Down: Cycle (5)
- PEDAL
- 26 Down: Singleness (5)
- UNITY
- 27 Down: Sinking ship's deserter (3)
- RAT
- 28 Down: Having substance (5)
- MEATY
- 29 Down: ___ four (small cake) (5)
- PETIT
- 30 Down: " . . . Alice Blue Gown" musical (5)
- IRENE
- 31 Down: Reduced (5)
- PARED
- 33 Down: Showy flowers (5)
- PINKS
- 36 Down: Global area (6)
- ORIENT
- 37 Down: Old Norse poem (4)
- RUNE
- 38 Down: Tourist haven (3)
- INN
- 44 Down: Church law (5)
- CANON
- 45 Down: Eastern notable (4)
- AMIR
- 46 Down: Terra ___ (5)
- FIRMA
- 47 Down: Garment part (5)
- LAPEL
- 48 Down: Autocrat (4)
- TSAR
- 49 Down: ___ snuff (satisfactory) (4)
- UPTO
- 50 Down: Follower of ball or sun (4)
- ROOM
- 51 Down: Ancient Asian (4)
- MEDE
- 52 Down: South African native village (4)
- STAD
- 53 Down: Cécile's cranium (4)
- TETE
- 54 Down: Where Tralee is (4)
- ERIN
- 55 Down: Spot (4)
- ESPY
- 57 Down: A sugar source (3)
- SAP
- 58 Down: ___ anemone (perennial plant) (3)
- RUE
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