Thursday Crossword — October 1, 1981

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1574 clues~15-30 minBy Martha J. DeWitt10/1/1981

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Finishing nail (4 letters)
5 Across
Disguised prince (4 letters)
9 Across
Kind of cherry or chestnut (5 letters)
14 Across
Rich material (4 letters)
15 Across
Regan's father (4 letters)
16 Across
Epicure, e.g. (5 letters)
17 Across
Ancient coin (4 letters)
18 Across
Family that lost Modena in 1803 (4 letters)
19 Across
Beldame (5 letters)
20 Across
Reprimand (15 letters)
23 Across
Fives and nines, e.g. (5 letters)
24 Across
Miami's county (4 letters)
25 Across
Of flying: Prefix (4 letters)
28 Across
Landlord's income (6 letters)
32 Across
Israel's first ambassador to U.S. (5 letters)
36 Across
Result of a hole in a molar (4 letters)
38 Across
Volume (4 letters)
39 Across
Write a malicious, destructive critique (15 letters)
42 Across
Awful (4 letters)
43 Across
Señor, in Stuttgart (4 letters)
44 Across
Dull; slow (5 letters)
45 Across
Small opening, as on a cactus (6 letters)
47 Across
Merit (4 letters)
49 Across
Baff the golf ball (4 letters)
51 Across
Guam's capital (5 letters)
55 Across
Censures (15 letters)
61 Across
Get up (5 letters)
62 Across
He wrote "Metamorphoses" (4 letters)
63 Across
Monk parrot (4 letters)
64 Across
Kind of house (5 letters)
65 Across
City of Seven Hills (4 letters)
66 Across
V.I.P. at Kabul (4 letters)
67 Across
Writer Terkel (5 letters)
68 Across
___ Islands (part of the Aleutians) (4 letters)
69 Across
Left or right, e.g. (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Political alliance (4 letters)
2 Down
City on the Bou Regreg (5 letters)
3 Down
Soap plant (5 letters)
4 Down
Reese or Street (5 letters)
5 Down
Cut blubber from a whale (6 letters)
6 Down
Advice to an energumen (4 letters)
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Curser's mouthing (4 letters)
8 Down
One cause of corruption (5 letters)
9 Down
1971–80, e.g. (6 letters)
10 Down
City in Ga. or Mo. (9 letters)
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On (4 letters)
12 Down
Coty or Clair (4 letters)
13 Down
Worry (4 letters)
21 Down
___ Beach, of D-day fame (5 letters)
22 Down
Proofreader's mark (5 letters)
26 Down
Foot or potato follower (4 letters)
27 Down
Pigment for Opie (5 letters)
29 Down
Soliloquy starter (4 letters)
30 Down
Cupid (4 letters)
31 Down
Period after Mardi Gras (4 letters)
32 Down
Norse heroic song (4 letters)
33 Down
European dormouse (4 letters)
34 Down
Alpine stream (4 letters)
35 Down
Emerald Isle (9 letters)
37 Down
Juno's Greek counterpart (4 letters)
40 Down
Illegal lifting (5 letters)
41 Down
Chauvinist (5 letters)
46 Down
Proverbial weepers (6 letters)
48 Down
Jim Plunkett is one (6 letters)
50 Down
Rose's seamy side (5 letters)
52 Down
Great burden-bearer (5 letters)
53 Down
Elimelech's wife (5 letters)
54 Down
Biting (5 letters)
55 Down
Eleven in L.A. (4 letters)
56 Down
He was: Lat. (4 letters)
57 Down
Aborigine of Japan (4 letters)
58 Down
"Whoopee!" in Pan's parties (4 letters)
59 Down
Hudson heroine (4 letters)
60 Down
Sped (4 letters)

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