Thursday Crossword — October 29, 1981
Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy John Greenman10/29/1981
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Blockhead (4 letters)
- 5 Across
- Chatter indiscreetly (4 letters)
- 9 Across
- Schoolgoer of rhyme (4 letters)
- 13 Across
- Having side petals (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- "The City in the Sea" poet (5 letters)
- 16 Across
- Slangy suffix with switch (4 letters)
- 17 Across
- First of the Astaire-Rogers films: 1933 (15 letters)
- 20 Across
- Kind of bud (5 letters)
- 21 Across
- Gland: Comb. form (5 letters)
- 22 Across
- Globe (3 letters)
- 23 Across
- H, to Hippocrates (3 letters)
- 25 Across
- Fugitive (7 letters)
- 27 Across
- Erica Jong novel: 1973 (12 letters)
- 32 Across
- Certain means: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 33 Across
- Stick for señor (4 letters)
- 34 Across
- Bed of roses (4 letters)
- 37 Across
- Wedding-cake feature (4 letters)
- 39 Across
- Part of R.A.F. (5 letters)
- 42 Across
- Places (4 letters)
- 44 Across
- Land west of Vietnam (4 letters)
- 46 Across
- One of a radio pair (4 letters)
- 48 Across
- Gold, to Cortés (3 letters)
- 49 Across
- TV sitcom: 1967–70 (12 letters)
- 53 Across
- Fife's cousin (7 letters)
- 56 Across
- Inits. of a teaching group (3 letters)
- 57 Across
- Número ___ (3 letters)
- 58 Across
- Forward a message (5 letters)
- 61 Across
- Clean up after a chalk talk (5 letters)
- 65 Across
- Rodents that glide through the air (15 letters)
- 68 Across
- Columbo portrayer (4 letters)
- 69 Across
- Letter closure (5 letters)
- 70 Across
- A son of Aphrodite (4 letters)
- 71 Across
- ___ Pea, Popeye's "adoptic infink" (4 letters)
- 72 Across
- Possible coll. major (4 letters)
- 73 Across
- Kind of bag (4 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Dotty (4 letters)
- 2 Down
- Stewing pot (4 letters)
- 3 Down
- Ballads (4 letters)
- 4 Down
- More commonplace (6 letters)
- 5 Down
- Panhandle (3 letters)
- 6 Down
- Terhune's "___ Dog" (4 letters)
- 7 Down
- Two peas in ___ (4 letters)
- 8 Down
- Section of Manhattan (6 letters)
- 9 Down
- Zodiacal sign (3 letters)
- 10 Down
- Sherwood Forest missile (5 letters)
- 11 Down
- Ballerina Shearer (5 letters)
- 12 Down
- Kind of trap (5 letters)
- 15 Down
- Boredom (5 letters)
- 18 Down
- Pilgrim greeting to an Indian (5 letters)
- 19 Down
- One thousand kilograms (5 letters)
- 24 Down
- From a distance (4 letters)
- 26 Down
- Arab's headband (4 letters)
- 27 Down
- Superfluity (3 letters)
- 28 Down
- Ominous (4 letters)
- 29 Down
- On a cruise (4 letters)
- 30 Down
- Polly Holliday TV role (3 letters)
- 31 Down
- Allegiant (5 letters)
- 35 Down
- Presently (4 letters)
- 36 Down
- Not quite off-white (4 letters)
- 38 Down
- U.S. Army training branch (4 letters)
- 40 Down
- Alcott of the links (3 letters)
- 41 Down
- Kind of cloth (4 letters)
- 43 Down
- Charged atom (3 letters)
- 45 Down
- Fleeced (5 letters)
- 47 Down
- Scornful expression (5 letters)
- 50 Down
- Lamentation (5 letters)
- 51 Down
- Noted N.M. archeological site (6 letters)
- 52 Down
- Attic (6 letters)
- 53 Down
- Inflates (5 letters)
- 54 Down
- Sargent Shriver, to E.M.K. (5 letters)
- 55 Down
- Irish novelist Kathleen ___ (5 letters)
- 59 Down
- Greenish hue (4 letters)
- 60 Down
- Portable tent (4 letters)
- 62 Down
- Prefix with sol or space (4 letters)
- 63 Down
- Piggy-bank aperture (4 letters)
- 64 Down
- Latin ancestor of "essence" (4 letters)
- 66 Down
- Newscaster Pappas (3 letters)
- 67 Down
- Ending for bull or bear (3 letters)
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