Friday Crossword — October 16, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 10/16/1981. By William Canine.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Brit. fliers (3)
- RAF
- 4 Across: Fasten (5)
- CLAMP
- 9 Across: Craving for chalk, e.g. (4)
- PICA
- 13 Across: Site of Milton's Pandemonium (4)
- HELL
- 14 Across: Forearm bones (5)
- RADII
- 15 Across: Summon to court (4)
- HALE
- 16 Across: ___ the Great: 912–73 (4)
- OTTO
- 17 Across: Palm that produces nuts (5)
- ARECA
- 18 Across: Harpsichordist Kipnis (4)
- IGOR
- 19 Across: Convention activity (7)
- ORATING
- 21 Across: Partial resemblance (7)
- ANALOGY
- 23 Across: Abandon (7)
- FORSAKE
- 24 Across: Word with will or wind (3)
- ILL
- 25 Across: One "little woman" (3)
- AMY
- 26 Across: Philately and golf (8)
- PASTIMES
- 31 Across: Grimp (5)
- CLIMB
- 34 Across: Put side by side (9)
- JUXTAPOSE
- 35 Across: D.D.E.'s opponent (3)
- AES
- 36 Across: Pickets (5)
- PALES
- 37 Across: African cobra (3)
- ASP
- 38 Across: View from the George Washington Bridge (9)
- PALISADES
- 41 Across: Pulitzer poet: 1944 (5)
- BENET
- 43 Across: Painted (8)
- ENAMELED
- 44 Across: Stole (3)
- BOA
- 45 Across: Prior to: Prefix (3)
- PRE
- 46 Across: Budapest, for one (7)
- QUARTET
- 50 Across: Easy and Grub (7)
- STREETS
- 54 Across: Free of guile (7)
- ARTLESS
- 55 Across: Motor (4)
- TOUR
- 56 Across: Puts out of competition (5)
- OUSTS
- 58 Across: Information (4)
- DATA
- 59 Across: Home of the Hawks (4)
- OMNI
- 60 Across: October lollipop (5)
- TREAT
- 61 Across: Period in a Jewish year (4)
- OMER
- 62 Across: Shed (4)
- PEEL
- 63 Across: Firearm mechanisms (5)
- SEARS
- 64 Across: Homework for an ed. (3)
- MSS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Prefix with fire or choir (5)
- RETRO
- 2 Down: Where a sacerdos presides (5)
- ALTAR
- 3 Down: Vagrants (7)
- FLOTSAM
- 4 Down: Cross (6)
- CRANKY
- 5 Down: A size (5)
- LARGE
- 6 Down: Drink (3)
- ADE
- 7 Down: Silicate (4)
- MICA
- 8 Down: Arrau and Duchin (8)
- PIANISTS
- 9 Down: Painter commissioned by Victoria (7)
- PHILLIP
- 10 Down: Symbol of false friendship (4)
- IAGO
- 11 Down: Stop up (4)
- CLOG
- 12 Down: Ethereal (4)
- AERY
- 13 Down: Dance (4)
- HOOF
- 20 Down: Metrical foot (4)
- IAMB
- 22 Down: Province in Can. (4)
- ALTA
- 26 Down: Whined (5)
- PULED
- 27 Down: Removes rowans (4)
- AXES
- 28 Down: Wind sound (4)
- MOAN
- 29 Down: Being, to Aquinas (4)
- ESSE
- 30 Down: Clan branch (4)
- SEPT
- 31 Down: Fear, for one (4)
- CAPE
- 32 Down: Spare (4)
- LEAN
- 33 Down: Cuba or Menorca (4)
- ISLA
- 34 Down: Wear out (4)
- JADE
- 36 Down: Loose outer garments (8)
- PALETOTS
- 39 Down: Tie Pauline on a track (7)
- IMPERIL
- 40 Down: Withered, to George Wither (4)
- SERE
- 41 Down: Umiak or shell (4)
- BOAT
- 42 Down: Peer's realm (7)
- EARLDOM
- 44 Down: Breaks open (6)
- BURSTS
- 46 Down: State on the Persian Gulf (5)
- QATAR
- 47 Down: Lions and Tigers (5)
- TEAMS
- 48 Down: ___ Park (which is not a park) (5)
- ESTES
- 49 Down: Boris Godunov, e.g. (4)
- TSAR
- 50 Down: Tuned set of organ pipes (4)
- STOP
- 51 Down: Publisher's ponderous product (4)
- TOME
- 52 Down: Old Norse poem (4)
- RUNE
- 53 Down: Trustworthy (4)
- SURE
- 57 Down: Place for gobs of gobs (3)
- SEA
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