Thursday Crossword — November 12, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 11/12/1981. By Robert Katz.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Semiprecious stone (4)
- OPAL
- 5 Across: Succotash ingredients (5)
- LIMAS
- 10 Across: Uses a ray gun (4)
- ZAPS
- 14 Across: Sugarcane shoot (4)
- LALO
- 15 Across: U.S.S.R. river (5)
- ONEGA
- 16 Across: What Idaho and Oregon do (4)
- ABUT
- 17 Across: Part of U.A.R. (4)
- ARAB
- 18 Across: Brenda of comics (5)
- STARR
- 19 Across: Defense against a mugger (4)
- MACE
- 20 Across: Irresponsible person (15)
- FLIBBERTIGIBBET
- 23 Across: Days of ___ (4)
- YORE
- 24 Across: ___ Wantanabe, Japanese figure skater (3)
- EMI
- 25 Across: Earn (5)
- MERIT
- 28 Across: Light blow (3)
- PAT
- 31 Across: Former Turkish bigwig (5)
- PASHA
- 35 Across: One of Cleopatra's maids (4)
- IRAS
- 36 Across: Like a life span (6)
- FINITE
- 38 Across: Human dynamo's asset (3)
- PEP
- 39 Across: Ragamuffins (15)
- TATTERDEMALIONS
- 42 Across: Sedan summer (3)
- ETE
- 43 Across: Lack of color (6)
- PALLOR
- 44 Across: Homophone for a convent dweller (4)
- NONE
- 45 Across: Wyoming event (5)
- RODEO
- 47 Across: Suffix with law or saw (3)
- YER
- 48 Across: Ayn Rand's shrugger (5)
- ATLAS
- 49 Across: Biol. or chem. (3)
- SCI
- 51 Across: Seine feeder (4)
- OISE
- 53 Across: Beautiful (15)
- PULCHRITUDINOUS
- 61 Across: Road for Caesar (4)
- ITER
- 62 Across: Irregularly incised (5)
- EROSE
- 63 Across: Portuguese landlady (4)
- DONA
- 64 Across: One-billionth: Comb. form (4)
- NANO
- 65 Across: Paton heroine (5)
- NELLA
- 66 Across: Oklahoma city (4)
- ENID
- 67 Across: Sign of spring (4)
- THAW
- 68 Across: Nelson and Mary Baker (5)
- EDDYS
- 69 Across: What demographers gather (4)
- DATA
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Kingly name (4)
- OLAF
- 2 Down: British cong. (4)
- PARL
- 3 Down: Jai ___ (4)
- ALAI
- 4 Down: Washington agent (8)
- LOBBYIST
- 5 Down: Cornwallis at Yorktown (5)
- LOSER
- 6 Down: How heroes act (10)
- INTREPIDLY
- 7 Down: Protein source (4)
- MEAT
- 8 Down: Kind of culture (4)
- AGRI
- 9 Down: Nickname for Bilko (5)
- SARGE
- 10 Down: Lusaka is its capital (6)
- ZAMBIA
- 11 Down: Rhyme scheme (4)
- ABAB
- 12 Down: Brownish purple (4)
- PUCE
- 13 Down: Let it be (4)
- STET
- 21 Down: Asa Gray's forte: Abbr. (3)
- BOT
- 22 Down: Drive forward (5)
- IMPEL
- 25 Down: Kind of box (5)
- MITER
- 26 Down: "The lovely Muse" (5)
- ERATO
- 27 Down: Judged (5)
- RATED
- 29 Down: Anoint, old style (5)
- ANELE
- 30 Down: How cowards act (10)
- TIMOROUSLY
- 32 Down: Wire holder (5)
- SPOOL
- 33 Down: Beautician's purchase (5)
- HENNA
- 34 Down: Areas in basilicas (5)
- APSES
- 36 Down: Angelo or Dominic (3)
- FRA
- 37 Down: Do roadwork (3)
- TAR
- 40 Down: Golden age, e.g. (5)
- EPOCH
- 41 Down: Meant (8)
- INTENDED
- 46 Down: In ___ (in trust, as funds) (6)
- ESCROW
- 48 Down: "___ was saying . . . " (3)
- ASI
- 50 Down: Drama by Samuel Johnson (5)
- IRENE
- 52 Down: Brainstorms (5)
- IDEAS
- 53 Down: Milk measure (4)
- PINT
- 54 Down: Beehive State (4)
- UTAH
- 55 Down: Heroine of Conrad's "Victory" (4)
- LENA
- 56 Down: Incensed (4)
- IRED
- 57 Down: "I ___ you so!" (4)
- TOLD
- 58 Down: Chaplin's widow (4)
- OONA
- 59 Down: One is one (4)
- UNIT
- 60 Down: Actress Thompson (4)
- SADA
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