Wednesday Crossword — January 6, 1982 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 1/6/1982. By Lois Sidway.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Composed (5)
STAID
6 Across: Basics (4)
ABCS
10 Across: Epithet for Alexander Pope (4)
WASP
14 Across: TV's Mrs. Muir, Hope ___ (5)
LANGE
15 Across: Dragnet (4)
TRAP
16 Across: What hip-huggers hug (4)
ILIA
17 Across: Finished (15)
OUTOFTHERUNNING
20 Across: Kin of epsilon (3)
ETA
21 Across: Schubert specialty (4)
LIED
22 Across: Jamaican rock style (6)
REGGAE
23 Across: Bossy's abode (4)
BARN
24 Across: Pose (3)
SIT
25 Across: ___-nod (drowse) (3)
NID
26 Across: Finish (12)
COMETOACLOSE
31 Across: Fanon (5)
ORALE
32 Across: Author Santha Rama ___ (3)
RAU
33 Across: H.R.E. name (4)
OTTO
37 Across: Fields, to Agrippa (4)
AGRI
38 Across: Shiite V.I.P.'s (5)
IMAMS
40 Across: Stunt plane's maneuver (4)
LOOP
41 Across: Shaver (4)
TYKE
42 Across: Coppola's "Apocalypse ___" (3)
NOW
43 Across: Epithet for Clemenceau (5)
TIGRE
44 Across: Finis (12)
FINALCURTAIN
48 Across: Some day times (3)
PMS
51 Across: Bask (3)
SUN
52 Across: Colorful food fish (4)
OPAH
53 Across: Fetter for a steed or a steer (6)
HOPPLE
55 Across: Spill over (4)
SLOP
56 Across: See (3)
GET
59 Across: Fini (15)
OVERANDDONEWITH
62 Across: Trivet piece (4)
TILE
63 Across: "___ Heart," 1964 song (4)
DEAR
64 Across: Fairbanks role: 1920 (5)
ZORRO
65 Across: Sole (4)
ONLY
66 Across: Targets of gypsy moths, e.g. (4)
OAKS
67 Across: Pierce (5)
ENTER

Down Answers

1 Down: Wild plum (4)
SLOE
2 Down: Tight as a drum (4)
TAUT
3 Down: Theater org. (4)
ANTA
4 Down: Kelly's "___ Pogo" (3)
IGO
5 Down: Take the air out (7)
DEFLATE
6 Down: Goddess of wisdom (6)
ATHENA
7 Down: Engendered (4)
BRED
8 Down: Pony ___ (3)
CAR
9 Down: Fraudulent (8)
SPURIOUS
10 Down: Kind of nut (4)
WING
11 Down: True (5)
ALIGN
12 Down: Peninsula often in the news (5)
SINAI
13 Down: Called via a bellhop (5)
PAGED
18 Down: Cicero's famous scribe (4)
TIRO
19 Down: N.B.A. team (4)
NETS
23 Down: Opinion (6)
BELIEF
24 Down: Knock verbally (4)
SLAM
26 Down: Primer, for one (4)
COAT
27 Down: Bacchanal's bash (4)
ORGY
28 Down: Z, for 64 Across (4)
MARK
29 Down: Traffic-jam verb (5)
CRAWL
30 Down: Prehistoric tool (6)
EOLITH
34 Down: Vestment for Virgil (4)
TOGA
35 Down: Convex moldings (4)
TORI
36 Down: Command from a D.D.S. (4)
OPEN
38 Down: Derogatory suggestion (8)
INNUENDO
39 Down: Wind sound (4)
MOAN
43 Down: On which daring people fly (7)
TRAPEZE
45 Down: Spanish land area (4)
ISLA
46 Down: Side that a person is on (6)
COLORS
47 Down: Atop (4)
UPON
48 Down: Kind of finish (5)
PHOTO
49 Down: "___ On," Claude Akins TV series (5)
MOVIN
50 Down: What Circe cast (5)
SPELL
54 Down: The hunted (4)
PREY
55 Down: Where Mt. Rushmore looms (4)
SDAK
56 Down: Prepared for action (4)
GIRT
57 Down: To be, to Beauvoir (4)
ETRE
58 Down: Thunderous charioteer (4)
THOR
60 Down: Ceres or Luna (3)
DEA
61 Down: Finished first (3)
WON

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