Thursday Crossword — September 23, 1982 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 9/23/1982. By Jeanne Wilson.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Bishop's assistant (5)
- VICAR
- 6 Across: Egyptian deity (4)
- PTAH
- 10 Across: Ferrer and Torme (4)
- MELS
- 14 Across: " . . . gift is from ___": James 1:17 (5)
- ABOVE
- 15 Across: Italian river (4)
- ARNO
- 16 Across: Elliptical (4)
- OVAL
- 17 Across: Gracefully draped garments (5)
- SARIS
- 18 Across: Like Salome (9)
- SEDUCTIVE
- 20 Across: Disquisition (8)
- TREATISE
- 22 Across: Needing to be taken to the cleaners (6)
- SOILED
- 23 Across: Kind of bag (4)
- TOTE
- 24 Across: Ego (4)
- SELF
- 25 Across: "Blue book" family (6)
- ASTORS
- 28 Across: No, no, no (8)
- REFUSALS
- 32 Across: ___ Haute (5)
- TERRE
- 33 Across: Sphere (5)
- REALM
- 34 Across: Party mixture (3)
- DIP
- 35 Across: Twists the truth (4)
- LIES
- 36 Across: Circumspect (5)
- CHARY
- 37 Across: Cornea irritant (4)
- MOTE
- 38 Across: Literary oddments (3)
- ANA
- 39 Across: Actors Blore and Fleming (5)
- ERICS
- 40 Across: "Judith" actress: 1965 (5)
- LOREN
- 41 Across: Dregs (8)
- SEDIMENT
- 43 Across: Overfond lovers (6)
- DOTERS
- 44 Across: Half gainer, e.g. (4)
- DIVE
- 45 Across: Clusters of cells on ferns (4)
- SORI
- 46 Across: 100 centimos (6)
- PESETA
- 49 Across: Push a button (8)
- ACTIVATE
- 53 Across: Unresponding (9)
- IMPASSIVE
- 55 Across: Hides (5)
- MASKS
- 56 Across: Pianist Gilels (4)
- EMIL
- 57 Across: Explorer Hedin (4)
- SVEN
- 58 Across: Societal character (5)
- ETHOS
- 59 Across: "Darn!" (4)
- RATS
- 60 Across: Jane Rochester, nee ___ (4)
- EYRE
- 61 Across: Former vocalist for Erskine Hawkins (5)
- REESE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Boundless (4)
- VAST
- 2 Down: Constructional piece (4)
- IBAR
- 3 Down: Center (4)
- CORE
- 4 Down: Balbo, Mitchell, Post et al. (8)
- AVIATORS
- 5 Down: What a spa might do (7)
- RESTORE
- 6 Down: Outmoded (5)
- PASSE
- 7 Down: What Daphne became (4)
- TREE
- 8 Down: Conjunction (3)
- AND
- 9 Down: Dipterous insect (8)
- HOUSEFLY
- 10 Down: Recurring themes (6)
- MOTIFS
- 11 Down: Baseness (4)
- EVIL
- 12 Down: Wash (4)
- LAVE
- 13 Down: Kane's "Rosebud" (4)
- SLED
- 19 Down: Padraic ___, Irish poet (5)
- COLUM
- 21 Down: "___ a warm wind . . . ": Masefield (3)
- ITS
- 24 Down: ___Tower, world's tallest building (5)
- SEARS
- 25 Down: Rockefeller Center statue (5)
- ATLAS
- 26 Down: Net (5)
- SEINE
- 27 Down: Tire pattern (5)
- TREAD
- 28 Down: Become innervated (5)
- REACT
- 29 Down: Honor piously (5)
- ADORE
- 30 Down: Successor to our quart? (5)
- LITER
- 31 Down: Sir Patrick of balladry (5)
- SPENS
- 33 Down: "Watch on the ___" (5)
- RHINE
- 36 Down: Break in a dike (8)
- CREVASSE
- 37 Down: Impel (8)
- MOTIVATE
- 39 Down: Issues (5)
- EMITS
- 40 Down: Harness-hardware maker (7)
- LORIMER
- 42 Down: Ultimates (6)
- IDEALS
- 43 Down: Period (3)
- DOT
- 45 Down: Tantrum (5)
- SCENE
- 46 Down: Marina mole (4)
- PIER
- 47 Down: Madame Bovary (4)
- EMMA
- 48 Down: Rod for a roast (4)
- SPIT
- 49 Down: Say it is so (4)
- AVER
- 50 Down: Tennis great (4)
- ASHE
- 51 Down: Fight endings, for short (4)
- TKOS
- 52 Down: Actual existence (4)
- ESSE
- 54 Down: ___ League (3)
- IVY
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