Tuesday Crossword — December 21, 1982 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 12/21/1982. By Dorothy Smitonick.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Lizard (5)
- AGAMA
- 6 Across: Be absorbent (4)
- BLOT
- 10 Across: Nigerian people (4)
- BINI
- 14 Across: Actress Leslie ___ (5)
- CARON
- 15 Across: Network of nerves (4)
- RETE
- 16 Across: Son of Aphrodite (4)
- EROS
- 17 Across: Kin of arks (10)
- HOUSEBOATS
- 19 Across: Artist who built a Dream House in N.Y. (4)
- DALI
- 20 Across: Shade tree (3)
- ELM
- 21 Across: Tends the lawn (4)
- MOWS
- 22 Across: City in Taiwan (6)
- TAINAN
- 24 Across: Party by or for new residents (12)
- HOUSEWARMING
- 26 Across: Certain lessening of tension (7)
- DETENTE
- 29 Across: Japanese statesman (3)
- ITO
- 30 Across: Unaccompanied (5)
- ALONE
- 31 Across: Winter machine (8)
- SNOWPLOW
- 36 Across: Alliance (4)
- BLOC
- 37 Across: Track (5)
- SPOOR
- 39 Across: Tear apart (4)
- RIVE
- 40 Across: Willy Loman and others (8)
- SALESMEN
- 42 Across: Sharpened (5)
- HONED
- 43 Across: Craggy hill (3)
- TOR
- 44 Across: Orphan Annie's lizards (7)
- LEAPERS
- 46 Across: Flimsy structure (12)
- HOUSEOFCARDS
- 51 Across: Join up (6)
- ENLIST
- 52 Across: Capital of Western Samoa (4)
- APIA
- 53 Across: College deg. (3)
- MBA
- 56 Across: Wagger in old films (4)
- ASTA
- 57 Across: Swatters' targets (10)
- HOUSEFLIES
- 60 Across: Sea swallow (4)
- TERN
- 61 Across: Gaelic (4)
- ERSE
- 62 Across: Poetic measures (5)
- IAMBI
- 63 Across: For men only (4)
- STAG
- 64 Across: Homophone for rise (4)
- RYES
- 65 Across: Aviary sound (5)
- TWEET
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Yearn (4)
- ACHE
- 2 Down: British prison (4)
- GAOL
- 3 Down: Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g. (4)
- ARUM
- 4 Down: Parts of yrs. (3)
- MOS
- 5 Down: Buttercup's relative (7)
- ANEMONE
- 6 Down: Spend time in a bookstore (6)
- BROWSE
- 7 Down: Rent (5)
- LEASE
- 8 Down: "McGraw's boy" (3)
- OTT
- 9 Down: Person with a will (8)
- TESTATOR
- 10 Down: Obscure (5)
- BEDIM
- 11 Down: Persian (5)
- IRANI
- 12 Down: Actor Lloyd ___ (5)
- NOLAN
- 13 Down: "Of Thee ___" (5)
- ISING
- 18 Down: Match (4)
- BOUT
- 23 Down: Like ___ of pins (4)
- AROW
- 24 Down: Therefore (5)
- HENCE
- 25 Down: Skid-row denizen (4)
- WINO
- 26 Down: Touches lightly (4)
- DABS
- 27 Down: Fitzgerald (4)
- ELLA
- 28 Down: Instrument (4)
- TOOL
- 31 Down: Scion (3)
- SON
- 32 Down: Bolsters (5)
- PROPS
- 33 Down: Masher's come-on (4)
- LINE
- 34 Down: Ham's "Your turn" (4)
- OVER
- 35 Down: Unites (4)
- WEDS
- 37 Down: More polished (8)
- SMOOTHER
- 38 Down: Flawless: Abbr. (4)
- PERF
- 41 Down: Jeanne d'Arc and others (4)
- STES
- 42 Down: Blew one's top (7)
- HADAFIT
- 44 Down: Becomes void (6)
- LAPSES
- 45 Down: Canal or lake (4)
- ERIE
- 46 Down: Preliminary events (5)
- HEATS
- 47 Down: Beginning (5)
- ONSET
- 48 Down: Extreme (5)
- ULTRA
- 49 Down: River in China (5)
- SIANG
- 50 Down: Reason (5)
- CAUSE
- 53 Down: Entertainer like Marceau (4)
- MIME
- 54 Down: Daniels or Rebozo (4)
- BEBE
- 55 Down: ___ were (seemingly) (4)
- ASIT
- 58 Down: Rossini's "Le Comte ___" (3)
- ORY
- 59 Down: Canon (3)
- LAW
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