Saturday Crossword — August 21, 1982 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 8/21/1982. By Peter Swift.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Some G.I.'s (4)
- PFCS
- 5 Across: ___ grano salis (3)
- CUM
- 8 Across: Mean, voracious lackey (6)
- JACKAL
- 14 Across: Oeillade (4)
- OGLE
- 15 Across: U.N. member (3)
- USA
- 16 Across: In (6)
- ATHOME
- 17 Across: East Indian food (4)
- DHAL
- 18 Across: Scud (3)
- RUN
- 19 Across: Pompadour, to Louis XV (6)
- CHERIE
- 20 Across: Manatee or dugong (8)
- SIRENIAN
- 22 Across: Composers Bernhard and Bruno (6)
- KLEINS
- 23 Across: Ignis fatuus (12)
- JACKOLANTERN
- 25 Across: They're in 98% of Amer. homes (3)
- TVS
- 26 Across: Use up (3)
- EAT
- 27 Across: Brace (3)
- TWO
- 30 Across: Invited (5)
- ASKED
- 33 Across: ___ Coeur, Paris (5)
- SACRE
- 35 Across: Hampshire, e.g. (3)
- HOG
- 36 Across: Adequately cooked (4)
- DONE
- 37 Across: Schoolyard game (5)
- JACKS
- 38 Across: Gloomy (4)
- DOUR
- 39 Across: Playwright Akins (3)
- ZOE
- 40 Across: Knights' counterparts (5)
- DAMES
- 41 Across: Actress Minnie Maddern (5)
- FISKE
- 42 Across: La saison chaude (3)
- ETE
- 43 Across: Silver five-franc piece (3)
- ECU
- 44 Across: Type of lettuce (3)
- COS
- 45 Across: Burglar's tool (12)
- JACKINTHEBOX
- 51 Across: Fishline leaders (6)
- SNELLS
- 53 Across: Deletions (8)
- ERASURES
- 55 Across: Tether for a grazing horse (6)
- LARIAT
- 56 Across: Infant's food (3)
- PAP
- 57 Across: ___ avis (4)
- RARA
- 58 Across: Place to spend liras (6)
- ANKARA
- 59 Across: Lifetime (3)
- AGE
- 60 Across: Monoski, e.g. (4)
- SLED
- 61 Across: Actor in "East of Eden" (6)
- MASSEY
- 62 Across: Diamond ___ (3)
- LIL
- 63 Across: Being, to Aquinas (4)
- ESSE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Schools of seals (4)
- PODS
- 2 Down: E–K connection (5)
- FGHIJ
- 3 Down: A Schumann (5)
- CLARA
- 4 Down: One caught in a draft (8)
- SELECTEE
- 5 Down: Rare bric-a-brac (6)
- CURIOS
- 6 Down: Customary (5)
- USUAL
- 7 Down: Unexpected plenty (5)
- MANNA
- 8 Down: Sailors (8)
- JACKTARS
- 9 Down: Jenner, for one (7)
- ATHLETE
- 10 Down: "The best of healers is good ___": Pindar (5)
- CHEER
- 11 Down: Corinth, to a native (9)
- KORINTHOS
- 12 Down: Deposed Ugandan ruler (4)
- AMIN
- 13 Down: Dregs (4)
- LEES
- 21 Down: O.G.P.U. successor (4)
- NKVD
- 24 Down: Narrow strips of land (5)
- NECKS
- 28 Down: Novelist Herman (4)
- WOUK
- 29 Down: Man-eating giant (4)
- OGRE
- 30 Down: Carpenter's tool (4)
- ADZE
- 31 Down: Fireplace residue (4)
- SOOT
- 32 Down: Involuntary reactions (9)
- KNEEJERKS
- 33 Down: Island in the Gulf of Siam (5)
- SAMUI
- 34 Down: Pip (3)
- ACE
- 37 Down: Part of a ship's rigging (8)
- JACKSTAY
- 38 Down: Pay out (8)
- DISBURSE
- 40 Down: Reveal to a customs inspector (7)
- DECLARE
- 41 Down: Arduin and Henry II (4)
- FOES
- 44 Down: Oratory (6)
- CHAPEL
- 46 Down: Cover-up name (5)
- ALIAS
- 47 Down: Everest borders it (5)
- NEPAL
- 48 Down: Prefix with comedy (5)
- TRAGI
- 49 Down: Certain tests (5)
- ORALS
- 50 Down: Town for which sherry was named (5)
- XERES
- 51 Down: Bridge coup (4)
- SLAM
- 52 Down: Nursemaid (4)
- NANA
- 54 Down: Hebrew letter (4)
- SADE
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