Monday Crossword — September 27, 1982 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 9/27/1982. By Nancy McCarthy.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Merry sound (4)
HAHA
5 Across: Levant or Wilde (5)
OSCAR
10 Across: Unadorned (4)
BALD
14 Across: Ripening agent (4)
AGER
15 Across: ___ metal (tin-lead alloy) (5)
TERNE
16 Across: Where Laos is (4)
ASIA
17 Across: College gp. (4)
FRAT
18 Across: Prep-school V.I.P. (10)
HEADMASTER
20 Across: Youngster (3)
TAD
21 Across: Hypochondriac's dread (4)
GERM
22 Across: Kind of kickoff (6)
ONSIDE
23 Across: Suggestive glances (5)
LEERS
25 Across: Brink (4)
EDGE
26 Across: Projecting corners (6)
COIGNS
28 Across: Fired past the target (8)
OVERSHOT
32 Across: Pyle or Kovacs (5)
ERNIE
33 Across: Newspaper of a sort (5)
DAILY
34 Across: Buffalo-to-Rochester dir. (3)
ENE
35 Across: War god (4)
ARES
36 Across: Records (5)
DISCS
37 Across: Pomander (4)
CASE
38 Across: Knight's title (3)
SIR
39 Across: Civetlike animal (5)
GENET
40 Across: Former German state (5)
BADEN
41 Across: Intrinsic natures (8)
ESSENCES
43 Across: A half (6)
MOIETY
44 Across: Electric catfish (4)
RAAD
45 Across: Pitcher's perch (5)
MOUND
46 Across: Unhorsed (6)
THROWN
49 Across: Drawn tight (4)
TAUT
50 Across: Amateur radio operator (3)
HAM
53 Across: Handicap advantages (10)
HEADSTARTS
55 Across: Closing musical passage (4)
CODA
56 Across: "Abel" composer (4)
ARNE
57 Across: Upper crust (5)
ELITE
58 Across: Hebrew measure (4)
OMER
59 Across: Team coached by Larry Brown (4)
NETS
60 Across: More mature (5)
RIPER
61 Across: Beach grass (4)
BENT

Down Answers

1 Down: Sickle handle (4)
HAFT
2 Down: Site of the Taj Mahal (4)
AGRA
3 Down: Stars (10)
HEADLINERS
4 Down: Skilled execution (3)
ART
5 Down: Different ones (6)
OTHERS
6 Down: Prophets (5)
SEERS
7 Down: Fill by force (4)
CRAM
8 Down: Also (3)
AND
9 Down: Makes over (8)
REMODELS
10 Down: Choir voices (6)
BASSES
11 Down: Italian wine center (4)
ASTI
12 Down: Fibbed (4)
LIED
13 Down: Bell the cat (4)
DARE
19 Down: Irate (5)
ANGRY
21 Down: Littler or Wilder (4)
GENE
24 Down: Shield (4)
EGIS
25 Down: Expel (5)
EVICT
26 Down: Desist (5)
CEASE
27 Down: Variety of iris (5)
ORRIS
28 Down: Watering places (5)
OASES
29 Down: Made for port (10)
HEADEDHOME
30 Down: Attack (5)
ONSET
31 Down: Quite diminutive (5)
TEENY
33 Down: Ate (5)
DINED
36 Down: Carafe's cousin (8)
DECANTER
37 Down: First tiller or killer (4)
CAIN
39 Down: Bites persistently (5)
GNAWS
40 Down: Event at Caesar's Palace (4)
BOUT
42 Down: Wears away (6)
ERODES
43 Down: Mickey's nemesis (6)
MOUSER
45 Down: Smelter's impure mixture (5)
MATTE
46 Down: Word of comparison (4)
THAN
47 Down: At this place (4)
HERE
48 Down: Declaim violently (4)
RANT
49 Down: Scenery changer (4)
TRIP
51 Down: Arabia's Gulf of ___ (4)
ADEN
52 Down: Modern agora (4)
MART
54 Down: "Open sesame" lad (3)
ALI
55 Down: Male swan (3)
COB

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