Thursday Crossword — November 12, 1981

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1576 clues~15-30 minBy Robert Katz11/12/1981

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Semiprecious stone (4 letters)
5 Across
Succotash ingredients (5 letters)
10 Across
Uses a ray gun (4 letters)
14 Across
Sugarcane shoot (4 letters)
15 Across
U.S.S.R. river (5 letters)
16 Across
What Idaho and Oregon do (4 letters)
17 Across
Part of U.A.R. (4 letters)
18 Across
Brenda of comics (5 letters)
19 Across
Defense against a mugger (4 letters)
20 Across
Irresponsible person (15 letters)
23 Across
Days of ___ (4 letters)
24 Across
___ Wantanabe, Japanese figure skater (3 letters)
25 Across
Earn (5 letters)
28 Across
Light blow (3 letters)
31 Across
Former Turkish bigwig (5 letters)
35 Across
One of Cleopatra's maids (4 letters)
36 Across
Like a life span (6 letters)
38 Across
Human dynamo's asset (3 letters)
39 Across
Ragamuffins (15 letters)
42 Across
Sedan summer (3 letters)
43 Across
Lack of color (6 letters)
44 Across
Homophone for a convent dweller (4 letters)
45 Across
Wyoming event (5 letters)
47 Across
Suffix with law or saw (3 letters)
48 Across
Ayn Rand's shrugger (5 letters)
49 Across
Biol. or chem. (3 letters)
51 Across
Seine feeder (4 letters)
53 Across
Beautiful (15 letters)
61 Across
Road for Caesar (4 letters)
62 Across
Irregularly incised (5 letters)
63 Across
Portuguese landlady (4 letters)
64 Across
One-billionth: Comb. form (4 letters)
65 Across
Paton heroine (5 letters)
66 Across
Oklahoma city (4 letters)
67 Across
Sign of spring (4 letters)
68 Across
Nelson and Mary Baker (5 letters)
69 Across
What demographers gather (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Kingly name (4 letters)
2 Down
British cong. (4 letters)
3 Down
Jai ___ (4 letters)
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Washington agent (8 letters)
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Cornwallis at Yorktown (5 letters)
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How heroes act (10 letters)
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Protein source (4 letters)
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Kind of culture (4 letters)
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Nickname for Bilko (5 letters)
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Lusaka is its capital (6 letters)
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Rhyme scheme (4 letters)
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Brownish purple (4 letters)
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Let it be (4 letters)
21 Down
Asa Gray's forte: Abbr. (3 letters)
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Drive forward (5 letters)
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Kind of box (5 letters)
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"The lovely Muse" (5 letters)
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Judged (5 letters)
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Anoint, old style (5 letters)
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How cowards act (10 letters)
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Wire holder (5 letters)
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Beautician's purchase (5 letters)
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Areas in basilicas (5 letters)
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Angelo or Dominic (3 letters)
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Do roadwork (3 letters)
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Golden age, e.g. (5 letters)
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Meant (8 letters)
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In ___ (in trust, as funds) (6 letters)
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"___ was saying . . . " (3 letters)
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Drama by Samuel Johnson (5 letters)
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Brainstorms (5 letters)
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Milk measure (4 letters)
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Beehive State (4 letters)
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Heroine of Conrad's "Victory" (4 letters)
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Incensed (4 letters)
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"I ___ you so!" (4 letters)
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Chaplin's widow (4 letters)
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One is one (4 letters)
60 Down
Actress Thompson (4 letters)

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