Wednesday Crossword — September 23, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 9/23/1981. By A. J. Santora.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Now (5)
- TODAY
- 6 Across: Emulate James F. Fixx (3)
- JOG
- 9 Across: Noggin (4)
- HEAD
- 13 Across: Get on a soapbox (5)
- ORATE
- 14 Across: Makes ___ day (delights) (4)
- ONES
- 16 Across: Forever ___ day (4)
- ANDA
- 17 Across: Spanish kings (5)
- REYES
- 18 Across: Pop song by the Beatles (9)
- YESTERDAY
- 20 Across: Moslem religion (5)
- ISLAM
- 21 Across: "___ child has to work . . . " (9)
- SATURDAYS
- 22 Across: Olympic god (4)
- ARES
- 24 Across: Kin of day rooms (4)
- DENS
- 25 Across: Where a chemist may spend the day (3)
- LAB
- 27 Across: Space agcy. (4)
- NASA
- 29 Across: Braggart (6)
- GASCON
- 34 Across: Desire (4)
- EROS
- 36 Across: Foremost painter of Spanish national customs (4)
- GOYA
- 38 Across: Pester (5)
- TEASE
- 39 Across: Bacteria that die without free oxygen (7)
- AEROBES
- 41 Across: Ariel (7)
- GAZELLE
- 43 Across: Stone monument (5)
- STELA
- 44 Across: Canzones (4)
- ODES
- 46 Across: Dogboat (4)
- SLED
- 47 Across: Avant-courier (6)
- HERALD
- 49 Across: Size (4)
- AREA
- 51 Across: Govt. agency (3)
- IRS
- 52 Across: ___ Day (Annunciation) (4)
- LADY
- 54 Across: He loves, to Ovid (4)
- AMAT
- 56 Across: "___ Time," TV show (9)
- ONEDAYATA
- 61 Across: Suit to (5)
- ADAPT
- 64 Across: "___ Ice," 1965–69 show (9)
- HOLIDAYON
- 65 Across: Lowest point (5)
- NADIR
- 66 Across: Part of the eye (4)
- IRIS
- 67 Across: Singer Turner (4)
- TINA
- 68 Across: Hang loosely (5)
- DRAPE
- 69 Across: City on the Irtysh (4)
- OMSK
- 70 Across: Turner of a best seller (3)
- NAT
- 71 Across: Up to now (5)
- ASYET
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Convex moldings (4)
- TORI
- 2 Down: Paco and galena (4)
- ORES
- 3 Down: Worker for wages (10)
- DAYLABORER
- 4 Down: On ___ (carousing) (5)
- ATEAR
- 5 Down: Sycophants (6)
- YESMEN
- 6 Down: Pleasures (4)
- JOYS
- 7 Down: Pharmacy directive (7)
- ONEADAY
- 8 Down: P. C. Wren's "Beau ___" (5)
- GESTE
- 9 Down: "A ___ Day's Night," Beatles song (4)
- HARD
- 10 Down: "En ___ Natt," Ingrid Bergman film: 1938 (4)
- ENDA
- 11 Down: "Queen for ___" (4)
- ADAY
- 12 Down: Doris and Dennis (4)
- DAYS
- 15 Down: Bitten (5)
- STUNG
- 19 Down: Synthetic (6)
- ERSATZ
- 23 Down: Judicious (4)
- SAGE
- 25 Down: Restraint (5)
- LEASH
- 26 Down: Crest in the Dolomites (5)
- ARETE
- 28 Down: Nothing to write home about (4)
- SOSO
- 30 Down: Bishoprics (4)
- SEES
- 31 Down: Retire (10)
- CALLITADAY
- 32 Down: Sir William of Canada (5)
- OSLER
- 33 Down: Requires (5)
- NEEDS
- 35 Down: Alone onstage, as Scotto (4)
- SOLA
- 37 Down: Ripener (4)
- AGER
- 40 Down: "When Day is Done" is one (6)
- BALLAD
- 42 Down: On the Baltic (4)
- ASEA
- 45 Down: Beach city of racing fame (7)
- DAYTONA
- 48 Down: "A ___ the Races," Marx Brothers film (5)
- DAYAT
- 50 Down: Blake of "Gunsmoke" (6)
- AMANDA
- 53 Down: Have one's ___ court (5)
- DAYIN
- 55 Down: Hebrew months (5)
- ADARS
- 56 Down: Where Dayton is (4)
- OHIO
- 57 Down: Comic Crosby (4)
- NORM
- 58 Down: Their mascot is a bulldog (4)
- ELIS
- 59 Down: Thin, flat, circular object (4)
- DISK
- 60 Down: Med. school subject (4)
- ANAT
- 62 Down: Put in a waterline (4)
- PIPE
- 63 Down: Waste allowance (4)
- TRET
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