Thursday Crossword — October 15, 1981

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy Christy Ridley10/15/1981

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Ruth's native land (4 letters)
5 Across
Stitched (4 letters)
9 Across
Rhyme scheme (4 letters)
13 Across
This place has a lock on New Haven (4 letters)
14 Across
Number in a tub (5 letters)
15 Across
Frond bearer (4 letters)
16 Across
One of Blake's "Songs of Innocence" (15 letters)
19 Across
Color (3 letters)
20 Across
Lubricated (5 letters)
21 Across
Ransack (5 letters)
22 Across
___ qua non (4 letters)
23 Across
Part of a min. (3 letters)
24 Across
Place "above the fruited plain" (14 letters)
31 Across
Largest of seven (4 letters)
32 Across
Prayer (4 letters)
33 Across
Gist (3 letters)
35 Across
Pair (4 letters)
36 Across
Ring a bell (5 letters)
38 Across
Means of self-defense (4 letters)
39 Across
Posed (3 letters)
40 Across
Mint (4 letters)
41 Across
Argus galley (4 letters)
42 Across
"Dilly dilly" followers in a song (14 letters)
47 Across
Charles Schulz's need (3 letters)
48 Across
Suffix with poet (4 letters)
49 Across
Constructed (5 letters)
52 Across
Wooden shoe (5 letters)
54 Across
Buffalo's relative (3 letters)
57 Across
Rarely (15 letters)
60 Across
Sapphic songs (4 letters)
61 Across
Glowing coal (5 letters)
62 Across
First of the James Bond films (4 letters)
63 Across
Palos, once (4 letters)
64 Across
Garden vegetable (4 letters)
65 Across
Twist (4 letters)

Down

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Orpheus-Eurydice tale, e.g. (4 letters)
2 Down
Honolulu's island (4 letters)
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To the sheltered side (4 letters)
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Spelldown (3 letters)
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Author Asch (6 letters)
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Canal, lake or city (4 letters)
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One of the Slavs (4 letters)
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Opposite of pos. (3 letters)
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Second largest of seven (6 letters)
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Bouillon base (4 letters)
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Memorable Belgian musician (4 letters)
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Maxwell Anderson heroine (4 letters)
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"To ___ own self be true": Shak. (5 letters)
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Wind (4 letters)
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Actress Nissen (5 letters)
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Fokker fighter in W.W. I (4 letters)
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Large knife of yore (4 letters)
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Hippies' homes (4 letters)
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Customary (5 letters)
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Lariat in Laredo (5 letters)
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State one's view (5 letters)
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Danube city (3 letters)
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Habituate (5 letters)
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Gentle push (5 letters)
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Benefit (4 letters)
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Kin of bop (4 letters)
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Concealed (3 letters)
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Norse chieftain (4 letters)
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Hundred: Comb. form (5 letters)
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Of least worth (6 letters)
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Cut of meat (6 letters)
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Search hurriedly (5 letters)
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Golden ___ (4 letters)
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Betty ___ of old comics (4 letters)
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Solve a mystery (4 letters)
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Bakery specialist (4 letters)
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Identical (4 letters)
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Cleric in Caen (4 letters)
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Eponym for a great city (4 letters)
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First-rate (4 letters)
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Be cognizant of (4 letters)
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Pen point (3 letters)
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Elizabeth Blackwell's colleagues: Abbr. (3 letters)

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