Friday Crossword — December 25, 1981

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1574 clues~30-60 minBy C. J. Angio12/25/1981

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Food for hogs (4 letters)
5 Across
Mount for Gaspar (5 letters)
10 Across
Twinkler over Bethlehem (4 letters)
14 Across
Turn over ___ leaf (4 letters)
15 Across
"___ Autumn": Keats (5 letters)
16 Across
"A Christmas Carol" is one (4 letters)
17 Across
Famed children's magazine: 1873–1940 (10 letters)
19 Across
Square column (4 letters)
20 Across
Alden, John Smith et al. (8 letters)
21 Across
Sawbuck (6 letters)
23 Across
Flag (4 letters)
24 Across
Spot (5 letters)
25 Across
Trig ratio (6 letters)
28 Across
Type of carriage (8 letters)
31 Across
Praying female figure (5 letters)
32 Across
Wends one's weary way (5 letters)
33 Across
Dutch painter, pupil of Rembrandt (3 letters)
34 Across
"___ out the old!" (4 letters)
35 Across
Devoutness (5 letters)
36 Across
Heavy hammer (4 letters)
37 Across
Canoodle (3 letters)
38 Across
Side dishes (5 letters)
39 Across
Jeweler's lens (5 letters)
40 Across
Lets up (8 letters)
42 Across
Beatty and his aides (6 letters)
43 Across
Small Chinese coin (5 letters)
44 Across
___ pot (deteriorate) (4 letters)
45 Across
Sky ___ (chaplains) (6 letters)
47 Across
Abide (8 letters)
51 Across
Steeplejack's item (4 letters)
52 Across
Last words of Clement Moore's poem (10 letters)
54 Across
Hawkshaw's aid (4 letters)
55 Across
Tie; bond (5 letters)
56 Across
Pew (4 letters)
57 Across
Hardy's "Pure Woman" (4 letters)
58 Across
One holding the bag (5 letters)
59 Across
Head: Fr. (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Midnight ___ (4 letters)
2 Down
Prefix with chapel (4 letters)
3 Down
Mailed (4 letters)
4 Down
Teaser's delight (8 letters)
5 Down
Stick (6 letters)
6 Down
"O come let us ___ Him" (5 letters)
7 Down
Brooks and Tillis (4 letters)
8 Down
Greek letter (3 letters)
9 Down
Cather novel, with "A" (8 letters)
10 Down
Golfer's concern (6 letters)
11 Down
Berliner's Christmas tree (10 letters)
12 Down
"Der ___" (Adenauer) (4 letters)
13 Down
Foster (4 letters)
18 Down
Eastwood (5 letters)
22 Down
Lugs of jugs (4 letters)
24 Down
What Christie wove (5 letters)
25 Down
Peace ___ (5 letters)
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Mirador (5 letters)
27 Down
North Pole resident (10 letters)
28 Down
Balls of yarn (5 letters)
29 Down
Creamy dessert (5 letters)
30 Down
Burstyn (5 letters)
32 Down
Grand follower (5 letters)
35 Down
Amiable (8 letters)
36 Down
One for the road (8 letters)
38 Down
Short comic piece (4 letters)
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Grow toward sunset (5 letters)
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Errands (6 letters)
42 Down
Fall forcast (6 letters)
44 Down
Yule pièce de résistance (5 letters)
45 Down
He picked on the Britons (4 letters)
46 Down
Suffix with access (4 letters)
47 Down
Cause of being lit up like a Christmas tree (4 letters)
48 Down
He wrote "Polly of Hollywood" (4 letters)
49 Down
"All ___ Jazz" (4 letters)
50 Down
Diminutive ending (4 letters)
53 Down
Baby's word, in comics (3 letters)

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