Friday Crossword — December 25, 1981 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 12/25/1981. By C. J. Angio.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Food for hogs (4)
- MAST
- 5 Across: Mount for Gaspar (5)
- CAMEL
- 10 Across: Twinkler over Bethlehem (4)
- STAR
- 14 Across: Turn over ___ leaf (4)
- ANEW
- 15 Across: "___ Autumn": Keats (5)
- ODETO
- 16 Across: "A Christmas Carol" is one (4)
- TALE
- 17 Across: Famed children's magazine: 1873–1940 (10)
- STNICHOLAS
- 19 Across: Square column (4)
- ANTA
- 20 Across: Alden, John Smith et al. (8)
- SETTLERS
- 21 Across: Sawbuck (6)
- TENNER
- 23 Across: Flag (4)
- TIRE
- 24 Across: Spot (5)
- PLACE
- 25 Across: Trig ratio (6)
- COSINE
- 28 Across: Type of carriage (8)
- CLARENCE
- 31 Across: Praying female figure (5)
- ORANT
- 32 Across: Wends one's weary way (5)
- PLODS
- 33 Across: Dutch painter, pupil of Rembrandt (3)
- BOL
- 34 Across: "___ out the old!" (4)
- RING
- 35 Across: Devoutness (5)
- PIETY
- 36 Across: Heavy hammer (4)
- MAUL
- 37 Across: Canoodle (3)
- PET
- 38 Across: Side dishes (5)
- SLAWS
- 39 Across: Jeweler's lens (5)
- LOUPE
- 40 Across: Lets up (8)
- SLACKENS
- 42 Across: Beatty and his aides (6)
- CATMEN
- 43 Across: Small Chinese coin (5)
- CHIAO
- 44 Across: ___ pot (deteriorate) (4)
- GOTO
- 45 Across: Sky ___ (chaplains) (6)
- PILOTS
- 47 Across: Abide (8)
- TOLERATE
- 51 Across: Steeplejack's item (4)
- IBAR
- 52 Across: Last words of Clement Moore's poem (10)
- AGOODNIGHT
- 54 Across: Hawkshaw's aid (4)
- CLUE
- 55 Across: Tie; bond (5)
- NOOSE
- 56 Across: Pew (4)
- SEAT
- 57 Across: Hardy's "Pure Woman" (4)
- TESS
- 58 Across: One holding the bag (5)
- TOTER
- 59 Across: Head: Fr. (4)
- TETE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Midnight ___ (4)
- MASS
- 2 Down: Prefix with chapel (4)
- ANTE
- 3 Down: Mailed (4)
- SENT
- 4 Down: Teaser's delight (8)
- TWITTING
- 5 Down: Stick (6)
- COHERE
- 6 Down: "O come let us ___ Him" (5)
- ADORE
- 7 Down: Brooks and Tillis (4)
- MELS
- 8 Down: Greek letter (3)
- ETA
- 9 Down: Cather novel, with "A" (8)
- LOSTLADY
- 10 Down: Golfer's concern (6)
- STANCE
- 11 Down: Berliner's Christmas tree (10)
- TANNENBAUM
- 12 Down: "Der ___" (Adenauer) (4)
- ALTE
- 13 Down: Foster (4)
- REAR
- 18 Down: Eastwood (5)
- CLINT
- 22 Down: Lugs of jugs (4)
- EARS
- 24 Down: What Christie wove (5)
- PLOTS
- 25 Down: Peace ___ (5)
- CORPS
- 26 Down: Mirador (5)
- ORIEL
- 27 Down: North Pole resident (10)
- SANTACLAUS
- 28 Down: Balls of yarn (5)
- CLEWS
- 29 Down: Creamy dessert (5)
- COUPE
- 30 Down: Burstyn (5)
- ELLEN
- 32 Down: Grand follower (5)
- PIANO
- 35 Down: Amiable (8)
- PLEASANT
- 36 Down: One for the road (8)
- MOTORIST
- 38 Down: Short comic piece (4)
- SKIT
- 39 Down: Grow toward sunset (5)
- LATEN
- 41 Down: Errands (6)
- CHORES
- 42 Down: Fall forcast (6)
- COLDER
- 44 Down: Yule pièce de résistance (5)
- GOOSE
- 45 Down: He picked on the Britons (4)
- PICT
- 46 Down: Suffix with access (4)
- IBLE
- 47 Down: Cause of being lit up like a Christmas tree (4)
- TOOT
- 48 Down: He wrote "Polly of Hollywood" (4)
- AGEE
- 49 Down: "All ___ Jazz" (4)
- THAT
- 50 Down: Diminutive ending (4)
- ETTE
- 53 Down: Baby's word, in comics (3)
- GOO
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