Saturday Crossword — June 12, 1982 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/12/1982. By Kay Sullivan.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Stele (4)
SLAB
5 Across: Twilled silk fabric (5)
SURAH
10 Across: In re (4)
ASTO
14 Across: Pacific island dance (4)
HULA
15 Across: ___ Gay (5)
ENOLA
16 Across: Not barefoot (4)
SHOD
17 Across: Sevareid (4)
ERIC
18 Across: Edwin Newman's "A ___ Tongue" (5)
CIVIL
19 Across: One and only (4)
SOLE
20 Across: Bernard Berenson was one (8)
AESTHETE
22 Across: Marguerite, e.g. (6)
FLOWER
24 Across: Swaggered (6)
STRODE
25 Across: Hamlet of former times (5)
THORP
26 Across: One of the Brit. Isles (3)
IRE
27 Across: South Slavic language (8)
CROATIAN
30 Across: Highway to Fairbanks (5)
ALCAN
33 Across: Obscure (5)
CLOUD
34 Across: Kind of trip (3)
EGO
35 Across: Diving bird (4)
LOON
36 Across: Farina (5)
FLOUR
37 Across: James M. Barrie, e.g. (4)
SCOT
38 Across: Dockers' org. (3)
ILA
39 Across: New England poet (5)
FROST
40 Across: Oft-cited last letteer (5)
OMEGA
41 Across: Berlin song of the 20's (8)
ALLALONE
43 Across: Pair (3)
DUO
44 Across: Ski resort (5)
STOWE
45 Across: Bed canopy (6)
TESTER
48 Across: Subway sign (6)
UPTOWN
50 Across: Roman temple (8)
PANTHEON
52 Across: Kind of light (4)
NEON
53 Across: Highly prized Japanese porcelain (5)
IMARI
55 Across: Hence (4)
ERGO
56 Across: Antithesis of a hawk (4)
DOVE
57 Across: Button material (5)
NACRE
58 Across: It means nothing to a Frenchman (4)
RIEN
59 Across: Exceptional person (4)
ONER
60 Across: Lady Jane and Zane (5)
GREYS
61 Across: Withered (4)
SERE

Down Answers

1 Down: Where George Foster plays (4)
SHEA
2 Down: Tied flies (5)
LURES
3 Down: Tilted, as a tanker (5)
ALIST
4 Down: Two-humped camel (8)
BACTRIAN
5 Down: Break up an alliance, in a way (6)
SECEDE
6 Down: Debs's exhortation (5)
UNITE
7 Down: Wander aimlessly (4)
ROVE
8 Down: Ring master, once (3)
ALI
9 Down: Sitcom span (8)
HALFHOUR
10 Down: Classify (6)
ASSORT
11 Down: Something for a vitrine (9)
SHOWPIECE
12 Down: Painted tinware (4)
TOLE
13 Down: River between Poland and E. Germany (4)
ODER
21 Down: Sharp peak (4)
HORN
23 Down: Burden (4)
LOAD
25 Down: "The ___," Schubert quintet (5)
TROUT
27 Down: Stuffy (5)
CLOSE
28 Down: Eager (4)
AGOG
29 Down: "___ creature . . . " (4)
NOTA
30 Down: Inter ___ (4)
ALIA
31 Down: Droop (4)
LOLL
32 Down: Potbelly that needs constant feeding (9)
COALSTOVE
33 Down: Produce by parthenogenesis (5)
CLONE
36 Down: Not in a merry mood (8)
FROWNING
37 Down: Tom or Dick, but not Harry (8)
SMOTHERS
39 Down: Scapa or cash (4)
FLOW
40 Down: Boot (4)
OUST
42 Down: His trespasses may be forgiven (6)
ATONER
43 Down: Gainsays (6)
DENIES
45 Down: Linger (5)
TARRY
46 Down: Weird (5)
EERIE
47 Down: Radio code word (5)
ROGER
48 Down: Ravel (4)
UNDO
49 Down: Foot soldier in India (4)
PEON
50 Down: Gait (4)
PACE
51 Down: " . . . then there were ___" (4)
NONE
54 Down: Pisces–Aries mo. (3)
MAR

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