Wednesday Crossword — April 21, 1982 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 4/21/1982. By Bette Sue Cohen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: On (4)
ATOP
5 Across: Calm precedes this (5)
STORM
10 Across: Actor Estrada (4)
ERIK
14 Across: Do a clerical job (4)
FILE
15 Across: Capital of Vietnam (5)
HANOI
16 Across: In the buff (4)
NUDE
17 Across: Secretary of a sort (10)
AMANUENSIS
19 Across: ___ in one's bonnet (4)
ABEE
20 Across: Elegant (7)
REFINED
21 Across: Necessity for 53 Across (6)
RIBBON
23 Across: Microscopic (4)
TINY
24 Across: Veil fabric (5)
TULLE
25 Across: Painter Claude's works (6)
MONETS
28 Across: Cried out (8)
HOLLERED
31 Across: Suppose (5)
OPINE
32 Across: Composer of "Sally in Our Alley" (5)
CAREY
33 Across: J. Arness to P. Graves (3)
BRO
34 Across: Outlet (4)
VENT
35 Across: A producer of protein (3)
RNA
36 Across: European river (4)
SAAR
37 Across: Before, to Spenser (3)
ERE
38 Across: Beginners at Ole Miss (5)
FROSH
40 Across: Solution that tints hair (5)
RINSE
41 Across: News-story inclusion (8)
DATELINE
43 Across: Craze (6)
MADDEN
44 Across: Popeye's girl (5)
OLIVE
45 Across: Homophone for seed (4)
CEDE
46 Across: Steno's milieu (6)
OFFICE
48 Across: Harte's "The Luck of ___ Camp" (7)
ROARING
52 Across: Anagram for dial (4)
LAID
53 Across: Machine in use since the 1860's (10)
TYPEWRITER
56 Across: Exist (4)
LIVE
57 Across: Ham it up (5)
EMOTE
58 Across: Fictional plantation (4)
TARA
59 Across: A son of Zeus (4)
ARES
60 Across: Evaluated an employee (5)
RATED
61 Across: Character actor Jack (4)
ELAM

Down Answers

1 Down: From a distance (4)
AFAR
2 Down: ___ clock (4)
TIME
3 Down: Norwegian king (4)
OLAF
4 Down: Remorseful (8)
PENITENT
5 Down: Martin and Fulton (6)
SHEENS
6 Down: Actress in "The Gin Game" (5)
TANDY
7 Down: Switch positions (3)
ONS
8 Down: French king (3)
ROI
9 Down: Anarchy (7)
MISRULE
10 Down: Give power (6)
ENABLE
11 Down: Elastic (10)
RUBBERBAND
12 Down: Thought: Comb. form (4)
IDEO
13 Down: Sharp (4)
KEEN
18 Down: Merge (5)
UNITE
22 Down: In a bad way (4)
ILLY
24 Down: Holy scroll (5)
TORAH
25 Down: Changed one's locale (5)
MOVED
26 Down: "Ernani," for one (5)
OPERA
27 Down: A 1980 film (10)
NINETOFIVE
28 Down: Medieval merchants' guild (5)
HANSE
29 Down: Fix a typo (5)
ERASE
30 Down: Mamie Van ___ (5)
DOREN
32 Down: Hag (5)
CRONE
36 Down: Valuable ore of iron (8)
SIDERITE
38 Down: Parisian cop (4)
FLIC
39 Down: W.W. II's Rosie the ___ (7)
RIVETER
40 Down: Relative of sonar (5)
RADAR
42 Down: Curtails (6)
ELIDES
43 Down: Spoke up, as a feline (6)
MEOWED
45 Down: Greek island (5)
CRETE
46 Down: Señora's pot (4)
OLLA
47 Down: "My ___ Lady" (4)
FAIR
49 Down: Garibaldi was one: Abbr. (4)
ITAL
50 Down: Tiber tributary (4)
NERA
51 Down: Chickpea, e.g. (4)
GRAM
54 Down: Singer Sumac (3)
YMA
55 Down: Poker player's prize (3)
POT

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