Saturday Crossword — August 14, 1982 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/14/1982. By Robert Katz.

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Across Answers

1 Across: He took Romulus to heaven (4)
MARS
5 Across: Denizens of the Rockies (5)
PIKAS
10 Across: In the league's cellar (4)
LAST
14 Across: Ludwig or Jannings (4)
EMIL
15 Across: Wind: Comb. form (5)
ANEMO
16 Across: "It ___ laugh": Pinero (4)
ISTO
17 Across: ___-da (highfalutin) (4)
LADI
18 Across: Summer TV program (5)
RERUN
19 Across: Fissure; crack (4)
CHAP
20 Across: Comical trio (15)
THEMARXBROTHERS
23 Across: Question in a children's game (4)
MAYI
24 Across: Hannibal, to Scipio (3)
FOE
25 Across: Paint-plant employee (5)
TONER
28 Across: Check erosion (3)
SOD
31 Across: James Dean role: 1955 (5)
REBEL
35 Across: Vous ___ (4)
ETES
36 Across: Small evergreens (6)
ATLEES
38 Across: Mayan, e.g. (3)
ERA
39 Across: Comical trio (15)
THETHREESTOOGES
42 Across: Glowing (3)
RED
43 Across: "___ Song," John Denver hit (6)
ANNIES
44 Across: Dicer's verb (4)
FADE
45 Across: Indo-European (5)
ARYAN
47 Across: Inquiry sent out at the P.O. re a lost letter (3)
TCR
48 Across: Word with noon or math (5)
AFTER
49 Across: Ballet point (3)
TOE
51 Across: Speaker of a Hall of Fame (4)
TRIS
53 Across: Comical trio (15)
THERITZBROTHERS
61 Across: Fabled snowman (4)
YETI
62 Across: Oriental rug (5)
HERAT
63 Across: "Step ___!" (4)
ONIT
64 Across: Preprandial request (4)
MENU
65 Across: Santa ___ Park (5)
ANITA
66 Across: Where the Tevere flows (4)
ROMA
67 Across: Baby buggy in Bath (4)
PRAM
68 Across: Gallows item (5)
NOOSE
69 Across: Gershwin biographer (4)
EWEN

Down Answers

1 Down: Dissolve (4)
MELT
2 Down: Eastern nurse (4)
AMAH
3 Down: Tease (4)
RIDE
4 Down: Least obese (8)
SLIMMEST
5 Down: Evasive reply (5)
PARRY
6 Down: Like a dodo since 1681 (10)
INEXISTENT
7 Down: London sidewalk part (4)
KERB
8 Down: Sino-Russian river (4)
AMUR
9 Down: Sequel words (5)
SONOF
10 Down: Chinese nut (6)
LICHEE
11 Down: Court name (4)
ASHE
12 Down: What 11 Down was in the 70's (4)
STAR
13 Down: Aces' places (4)
TOPS
21 Down: Thun's stream (3)
AAR
22 Down: Body part (5)
TORSO
25 Down: Tropical fish (5)
TETRA
26 Down: ___ side of the tracks (5)
OTHER
27 Down: Indigent (5)
NEEDY
29 Down: Derived from oil (5)
OLEIC
30 Down: Prospectors (10)
DESERTRATS
32 Down: Sired (5)
BEGAT
33 Down: Noted conductor from Genoa (5)
EREDE
34 Down: ___ beam (5)
LASER
36 Down: Scottish alder (3)
ARN
37 Down: Diminutive suffixes (3)
ETS
40 Down: Southeast Asian capital (5)
HANOI
41 Down: Kind of breeze at Nantucket (8)
OFFSHORE
46 Down: Hall for Nero (6)
ATRIUM
48 Down: River island (3)
AIT
50 Down: Allen or Frome (5)
ETHAN
52 Down: Ben-Hur's wheels (5)
ROTAE
53 Down: Blast-furnace part (4)
TYMP
54 Down: German army (4)
HEER
55 Down: Heater of a sort (4)
ETNA
56 Down: Greek Stoic (4)
ZENO
57 Down: Vivacity (4)
BRIO
58 Down: Enough, to FitzGerald (4)
ENOW
59 Down: Snow crust (4)
RIME
60 Down: Stella's man in "A Streetcar . . . " (4)
STAN

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