Thursday Crossword — October 15, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 10/15/1981. By Christy Ridley.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Ruth's native land (4)
- MOAB
- 5 Across: Stitched (4)
- SEWN
- 9 Across: Rhyme scheme (4)
- ABBA
- 13 Across: This place has a lock on New Haven (4)
- YALE
- 14 Across: Number in a tub (5)
- THREE
- 15 Across: Frond bearer (4)
- FERN
- 16 Across: One of Blake's "Songs of Innocence" (15)
- THEECHOINGGREEN
- 19 Across: Color (3)
- HUE
- 20 Across: Lubricated (5)
- OILED
- 21 Across: Ransack (5)
- RIFLE
- 22 Across: ___ qua non (4)
- SINE
- 23 Across: Part of a min. (3)
- SEC
- 24 Across: Place "above the fruited plain" (14)
- PURPLEMOUNTAIN
- 31 Across: Largest of seven (4)
- ASIA
- 32 Across: Prayer (4)
- PLEA
- 33 Across: Gist (3)
- NUB
- 35 Across: Pair (4)
- DUAD
- 36 Across: Ring a bell (5)
- CHIME
- 38 Across: Means of self-defense (4)
- JUDO
- 39 Across: Posed (3)
- SAT
- 40 Across: Mint (4)
- COIN
- 41 Across: Argus galley (4)
- ARGO
- 42 Across: "Dilly dilly" followers in a song (14)
- LAVENDERSGREEN
- 47 Across: Charles Schulz's need (3)
- INK
- 48 Across: Suffix with poet (4)
- ICAL
- 49 Across: Constructed (5)
- BUILT
- 52 Across: Wooden shoe (5)
- SABOT
- 54 Across: Buffalo's relative (3)
- YAK
- 57 Across: Rarely (15)
- ONCEINABLUEMOON
- 60 Across: Sapphic songs (4)
- ODES
- 61 Across: Glowing coal (5)
- EMBER
- 62 Across: First of the James Bond films (4)
- DRNO
- 63 Across: Palos, once (4)
- PORT
- 64 Across: Garden vegetable (4)
- BEET
- 65 Across: Twist (4)
- SKEW
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Orpheus-Eurydice tale, e.g. (4)
- MYTH
- 2 Down: Honolulu's island (4)
- OAHU
- 3 Down: To the sheltered side (4)
- ALEE
- 4 Down: Spelldown (3)
- BEE
- 5 Down: Author Asch (6)
- SHOLEM
- 6 Down: Canal, lake or city (4)
- ERIE
- 7 Down: One of the Slavs (4)
- WEND
- 8 Down: Opposite of pos. (3)
- NEG
- 9 Down: Second largest of seven (6)
- AFRICA
- 10 Down: Bouillon base (4)
- BEEF
- 11 Down: Memorable Belgian musician (4)
- BREL
- 12 Down: Maxwell Anderson heroine (4)
- ANNE
- 14 Down: "To ___ own self be true": Shak. (5)
- THINE
- 17 Down: Wind (4)
- COIL
- 18 Down: Actress Nissen (5)
- GRETA
- 22 Down: Fokker fighter in W.W. I (4)
- SPAD
- 23 Down: Large knife of yore (4)
- SNEE
- 24 Down: Hippies' homes (4)
- PADS
- 25 Down: Customary (5)
- USUAL
- 26 Down: Lariat in Laredo (5)
- RIATA
- 27 Down: State one's view (5)
- OPINE
- 28 Down: Danube city (3)
- ULM
- 29 Down: Habituate (5)
- INURE
- 30 Down: Gentle push (5)
- NUDGE
- 34 Down: Benefit (4)
- BOON
- 36 Down: Kin of bop (4)
- CONK
- 37 Down: Concealed (3)
- HID
- 38 Down: Norse chieftain (4)
- JARL
- 40 Down: Hundred: Comb. form (5)
- CENTI
- 43 Down: Of least worth (6)
- VILEST
- 44 Down: Cut of meat (6)
- RIBLET
- 45 Down: Search hurriedly (5)
- SCOUR
- 46 Down: Golden ___ (4)
- GATE
- 49 Down: Betty ___ of old comics (4)
- BOOP
- 50 Down: Solve a mystery (4)
- UNDO
- 51 Down: Bakery specialist (4)
- ICER
- 52 Down: Identical (4)
- SAME
- 53 Down: Cleric in Caen (4)
- ABBE
- 54 Down: Eponym for a great city (4)
- YORK
- 55 Down: First-rate (4)
- AONE
- 56 Down: Be cognizant of (4)
- KNOW
- 58 Down: Pen point (3)
- NEB
- 59 Down: Elizabeth Blackwell's colleagues: Abbr. (3)
- MDS
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