Thursday Crossword — November 19, 1981 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 11/19/1981. By George P. Sphicas.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Long story (4)
SAGA
5 Across: Plant louse (5)
APHID
10 Across: Mondale's successor (4)
BUSH
14 Across: Bionomics: Abbr. (4)
ECOL
15 Across: June V.I.P. (5)
BRIDE
16 Across: Singer James (4)
ETTA
17 Across: Literary scholar (10)
PHILOLOGER
19 Across: Nobelist in Literature: 1925 (4)
SHAW
20 Across: Prof's security (6)
TENURE
21 Across: Lab animals (8)
HAMSTERS
23 Across: Something done by Donne (5)
VERSE
25 Across: ___ latitudes (5)
HORSE
26 Across: Member of a certain class (5)
PUPIL
29 Across: Heretofore, poetically (6)
ERENOW
32 Across: Capital of Western Samoa (4)
APIA
33 Across: Word blindness (6)
ALEXIA
34 Across: Old French coin (3)
ECU
37 Across: Possessions of certain bachelors (15)
COLLEGEDIPLOMAS
40 Across: Chemical suffix (3)
ENE
41 Across: Crescent-shaped ornament (6)
LUNULA
42 Across: Small flute (4)
FIFE
43 Across: Raw wool (6)
FLEECE
44 Across: Following (5)
AFTER
45 Across: Frighten (5)
SCARE
48 Across: Saw (5)
ADAGE
50 Across: Prospector in 1848–49 (8)
ARGONAUT
53 Across: Alit (6)
LANDED
57 Across: Majors and Trevino (4)
LEES
58 Across: Dean's milieu (10)
UNIVERSITY
60 Across: Give ___ to (express) (4)
VENT
61 Across: One of Zeno's followers (5)
STOIC
62 Across: Slave of yore (4)
ESNE
63 Across: Chooses (4)
OPTS
64 Across: Color variations (5)
TONES
65 Across: Saurel (4)
SCAD

Down Answers

1 Down: Clan (4)
SEPT
2 Down: Yearn (4)
ACHE
3 Down: Enter (4)
GOIN
4 Down: Kind of deposit (8)
ALLUVIAL
5 Down: More qualified (5)
ABLER
6 Down: Expert (3)
PRO
7 Down: Certain schooling (15)
HIGHEREDUCATION
8 Down: Thought (4)
IDEA
9 Down: Skin: Comb. form (4)
DERM
10 Down: Confer; award (6)
BESTOW
11 Down: King Arthur's father (5)
UTHER
12 Down: Partner of stripes (5)
STARS
13 Down: Part of a ship's bow (5)
HAWSE
18 Down: City on the Oka (4)
OREL
22 Down: Reef (5)
SHOAL
24 Down: Moon goddess (6)
SELENE
26 Down: What the leader sets (4)
PACE
27 Down: Frequent follower of once (4)
UPON
28 Down: Heap (4)
PILE
30 Down: Banished (6)
EXILED
31 Down: Asiatic palm (4)
NIPA
33 Down: Chills and fever (4)
AGUE
34 Down: Discharge (4)
EMIT
35 Down: Bistro (4)
CAFE
36 Down: Buyer or borrower (4)
USER
38 Down: Actress Burstyn (5)
ELLEN
39 Down: Violations (8)
OFFENSES
43 Down: Adorns a cake (6)
FROSTS
44 Down: Culture medium (4)
AGAR
45 Down: Gun salute (5)
SALVO
46 Down: Fawn (5)
CREEP
47 Down: Proxy (5)
AGENT
49 Down: Guinness et al. (5)
ALECS
51 Down: Neighbor of W. Ger. (4)
AUST
52 Down: Biblical preposition (4)
UNTO
54 Down: Frisbee (4)
DISC
55 Down: Where Vulcan forged (4)
ETNA
56 Down: Like some hair (4)
DYED
59 Down: Contend (3)
VIE

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