Thursday Crossword — October 1, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 10/1/1981. By Martha J. DeWitt.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Finishing nail (4)
- BRAD
- 5 Across: Disguised prince (4)
- FROG
- 9 Across: Kind of cherry or chestnut (5)
- DWARF
- 14 Across: Rich material (4)
- LAME
- 15 Across: Regan's father (4)
- LEAR
- 16 Across: Epicure, e.g. (5)
- EATER
- 17 Across: Ancient coin (4)
- OBOL
- 18 Across: Family that lost Modena in 1803 (4)
- ESTE
- 19 Across: Beldame (5)
- CRONE
- 20 Across: Reprimand (15)
- CALLONTHECARPET
- 23 Across: Fives and nines, e.g. (5)
- TEAMS
- 24 Across: Miami's county (4)
- DADE
- 25 Across: Of flying: Prefix (4)
- AERO
- 28 Across: Landlord's income (6)
- RENTAL
- 32 Across: Israel's first ambassador to U.S. (5)
- ELATH
- 36 Across: Result of a hole in a molar (4)
- ACHE
- 38 Across: Volume (4)
- TOME
- 39 Across: Write a malicious, destructive critique (15)
- DOAHATCHETJOBON
- 42 Across: Awful (4)
- DIRE
- 43 Across: Señor, in Stuttgart (4)
- HERR
- 44 Across: Dull; slow (5)
- INERT
- 45 Across: Small opening, as on a cactus (6)
- AREOLE
- 47 Across: Merit (4)
- EARN
- 49 Across: Baff the golf ball (4)
- LOFT
- 51 Across: Guam's capital (5)
- AGANA
- 55 Across: Censures (15)
- READSTHERIOTACT
- 61 Across: Get up (5)
- ARISE
- 62 Across: He wrote "Metamorphoses" (4)
- OVID
- 63 Across: Monk parrot (4)
- LORO
- 64 Across: Kind of house (5)
- MANOR
- 65 Across: City of Seven Hills (4)
- ROME
- 66 Across: V.I.P. at Kabul (4)
- AMIR
- 67 Across: Writer Terkel (5)
- STUDS
- 68 Across: ___ Islands (part of the Aleutians) (4)
- NEAR
- 69 Across: Left or right, e.g. (4)
- SIDE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Political alliance (4)
- BLOC
- 2 Down: City on the Bou Regreg (5)
- RABAT
- 3 Down: Soap plant (5)
- AMOLE
- 4 Down: Reese or Street (5)
- DELLA
- 5 Down: Cut blubber from a whale (6)
- FLENSE
- 6 Down: Advice to an energumen (4)
- REST
- 7 Down: Curser's mouthing (4)
- OATH
- 8 Down: One cause of corruption (5)
- GREED
- 9 Down: 1971–80, e.g. (6)
- DECADE
- 10 Down: City in Ga. or Mo. (9)
- WARRENTON
- 11 Down: On (4)
- ATOP
- 12 Down: Coty or Clair (4)
- RENE
- 13 Down: Worry (4)
- FRET
- 21 Down: ___ Beach, of D-day fame (5)
- OMAHA
- 22 Down: Proofreader's mark (5)
- CARET
- 26 Down: Foot or potato follower (4)
- RACE
- 27 Down: Pigment for Opie (5)
- OCHRE
- 29 Down: Soliloquy starter (4)
- TOBE
- 30 Down: Cupid (4)
- AMOR
- 31 Down: Period after Mardi Gras (4)
- LENT
- 32 Down: Norse heroic song (4)
- EDDA
- 33 Down: European dormouse (4)
- LOIR
- 34 Down: Alpine stream (4)
- AARE
- 35 Down: Emerald Isle (9)
- THEOLDSOD
- 37 Down: Juno's Greek counterpart (4)
- HERA
- 40 Down: Illegal lifting (5)
- THEFT
- 41 Down: Chauvinist (5)
- JINGO
- 46 Down: Proverbial weepers (6)
- LOSERS
- 48 Down: Jim Plunkett is one (6)
- RAIDER
- 50 Down: Rose's seamy side (5)
- THORN
- 52 Down: Great burden-bearer (5)
- ATLAS
- 53 Down: Elimelech's wife (5)
- NAOMI
- 54 Down: Biting (5)
- ACRID
- 55 Down: Eleven in L.A. (4)
- RAMS
- 56 Down: He was: Lat. (4)
- ERAT
- 57 Down: Aborigine of Japan (4)
- AINU
- 58 Down: "Whoopee!" in Pan's parties (4)
- EVOE
- 59 Down: Hudson heroine (4)
- RIMA
- 60 Down: Sped (4)
- TORE
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