Saturday Crossword — November 28, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 11/28/1981. By George P. Sphicas.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: ___ Willard, champ before Dempsey (4)
- JESS
- 5 Across: His Monday is our Sunday (5)
- ASIAN
- 10 Across: ___ California (4)
- BAJA
- 14 Across: Star with a tail (4)
- ASTA
- 15 Across: Chutzpah (5)
- NERVE
- 16 Across: Moreno of the Pirates (4)
- OMAR
- 17 Across: Place to play water polo (4)
- POOL
- 18 Across: Appraises (10)
- TAKESSTOCK
- 20 Across: Says "Bah!" or "Ah!" (8)
- EXCLAIMS
- 22 Across: What to give a paraclete (6)
- THANKS
- 23 Across: Kansas City five (5)
- KINGS
- 24 Across: Comedienne Rivers (4)
- JOAN
- 25 Across: ___ the occasion (6)
- RISETO
- 27 Across: Conjectured (8)
- SURMISED
- 31 Across: Word with dog or line (3)
- HOT
- 32 Across: Writer Loos (5)
- ANITA
- 34 Across: Nitrite is one (5)
- ESTER
- 35 Across: He got Thor (4)
- ODIN
- 37 Across: Gluck heroine (5)
- ELENA
- 39 Across: Thatcher, e.g. (4)
- TORY
- 40 Across: V.I.P.'s in Hawaii and Kansas (5)
- DOLES
- 42 Across: A brig has two (5)
- MASTS
- 44 Across: Co. in Cannes (3)
- CIE
- 45 Across: Distributed (8)
- ALLOTTED
- 47 Across: Sight on the Suez Canal (6)
- TANKER
- 49 Across: Mexican muzhik (4)
- PEON
- 50 Across: Papa Bear of football fame (5)
- HALAS
- 51 Across: More beloved (6)
- DEARER
- 54 Across: The take (8)
- RECEIPTS
- 57 Across: Mountain climber's staff (10)
- ALPENSTOCK
- 59 Across: Poorly proportioned (4)
- ALOP
- 60 Across: Appearance (4)
- MIEN
- 61 Across: Declaim (5)
- ORATE
- 62 Across: Author S. S. Van ___ (4)
- DINE
- 63 Across: Greenish blue (4)
- SAXE
- 64 Across: Church assembly (5)
- SYNOD
- 65 Across: Mythical river (4)
- STYX
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Mock (4)
- JAPE
- 2 Down: Pickerels' genus (4)
- ESOX
- 3 Down: Motionless (10)
- STOCKSTILL
- 4 Down: Ballerina Wilson (6)
- SALLIE
- 5 Down: Daughter of Oedipus (8)
- ANTIGONE
- 6 Down: Skirt sides (5)
- SEAMS
- 7 Down: Vexes (4)
- IRKS
- 8 Down: "Hail!" (3)
- AVE
- 9 Down: King who counseled Agamemnon (6)
- NESTOR
- 10 Down: Asa Gray was one (8)
- BOTANIST
- 11 Down: Egyptian supreme deity (4)
- AMON
- 12 Down: Young pike (4)
- JACK
- 13 Down: Havens (4)
- ARKS
- 19 Down: Disgrace (5)
- SHAME
- 21 Down: Theater acronym (4)
- ANTA
- 24 Down: Don and San (5)
- JUANS
- 25 Down: Harper's TV role (5)
- RHODA
- 26 Down: Compound used as antiseptic (5)
- IODOL
- 27 Down: Behalf (5)
- STEAD
- 28 Down: Wall St. news item (10)
- STOCKSPLIT
- 29 Down: Ghostly (5)
- EERIE
- 30 Down: Laundromat appliance (5)
- DRYER
- 33 Down: Russian lake (5)
- ILMEN
- 36 Down: Synthetic rubber (8)
- NEOPRENE
- 38 Down: What G. W. did at Trenton (8)
- ATTACKED
- 41 Down: She wrote "The Sun Is My Undoing" (5)
- STEEN
- 43 Down: Store event (4)
- SALE
- 46 Down: Museum pieces (6)
- TORSOS
- 48 Down: Water nymphs (6)
- NAIADS
- 50 Down: Hundred: Comb. form (5)
- HECTO
- 51 Down: Hoover and Aswan (4)
- DAMS
- 52 Down: Bruce ___ of gridiron fame (4)
- ELIA
- 53 Down: Top (4)
- APEX
- 54 Down: Sheepskin used in bookbinding (4)
- ROAN
- 55 Down: Award named for Antoinette Perry (4)
- TONY
- 56 Down: Eyeglasses, in slanguage (4)
- SPEX
- 58 Down: Afflict (3)
- TRY
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