Tuesday Crossword — January 11, 1983 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 1/11/1983. By Martin Fass.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Pleat (5)
CRIMP
6 Across: Beast of burden (3)
ASS
9 Across: Dispatch (4)
SHIP
13 Across: Rajah's wife (5)
RANEE
14 Across: Cause of dampness (8)
MOISTURE
16 Across: Event in 1980 (6)
CENSUS
17 Across: Rural picture (8)
PASTORAL
18 Across: Confronts (7)
ACCOSTS
20 Across: One conditionally freed (7)
PAROLEE
21 Across: Entire (5)
WHOLE
22 Across: Durocher's nickname (6)
THELIP
24 Across: Dried out (4)
SERE
25 Across: Wire nail (4)
BRAD
26 Across: "Absinthe" painter (5)
DEGAS
30 Across: Polo team (4)
FOUR
31 Across: Lead astray (6)
SEDUCE
32 Across: Underground colonist (3)
ANT
35 Across: Ridicule (7)
LAMPOON
37 Across: Far East holiday (3)
TET
38 Across: McCormick machine (6)
REAPER
40 Across: Certain biog. sketch (4)
OBIT
41 Across: Primitive familial symbol (5)
TOTEM
42 Across: Arab-Berber descendant (4)
MOOR
43 Across: Intensively attentive (4)
RAPT
47 Across: An early creed (6)
NICENE
49 Across: Instrument for Yo-Yo Ma (5)
CELLO
50 Across: First Lady for 13 years (7)
ELEANOR
53 Across: Speak spasmodically (7)
SPUTTER
55 Across: A pledging document (8)
MORTGAGE
57 Across: This isn't Occidental (6)
ORIENT
58 Across: Ate (8)
INGESTED
59 Across: Between Chris and Lloyd (5)
EVERT
60 Across: A Hardy lass (4)
TESS
61 Across: Wrath (3)
IRE
62 Across: Unclean (5)
MESSY

Down Answers

1 Down: Yuletide display (6)
CRECHE
2 Down: Ill will (6)
RANCOR
3 Down: Shoe component (6)
INSOLE
4 Down: French river (5)
MEUSE
5 Down: DDT target (4)
PEST
6 Down: Elec. term (3)
AMP
7 Down: Coated for washing (6)
SOAPED
8 Down: Rope fiber (5)
SISAL
9 Down: What Goldsmith's lady did (7)
STOOPED
10 Down: Pitch (4)
HURL
11 Down: "Dies ___" (Latin hymn) (4)
IRAE
12 Down: Soccer's #1, once (4)
PELE
15 Down: Noisy; harsh (8)
STRIDENT
16 Down: Corvine sounds (4)
CAWS
19 Down: Play, in a way (5)
STRUM
23 Down: Weapon on the Pequod (7)
HARPOON
25 Down: Black Forest beast (4)
BOAR
27 Down: Fishing-tackle material (3)
GUT
28 Down: Top of a suit (3)
ACE
29 Down: Grouping at Wimbledon (3)
SET
30 Down: Certain Belgians (8)
FLEMINGS
31 Down: Evening in Paris (4)
SOIR
32 Down: Skill (3)
ART
33 Down: Avant-gardist (3)
NEO
34 Down: Use a shuttle (3)
TAT
36 Down: Chinese horns (5)
OBOES
39 Down: Roman household gods (7)
PENATES
42 Down: Commercial combo (6)
MERGER
43 Down: Binds again (6)
RETIES
44 Down: Changes (6)
ALTERS
45 Down: More than enough (6)
PLENTY
46 Down: A civil wrongdoing (4)
TORT
48 Down: Raccoonlike mammal (5)
COATI
49 Down: Flexure (5)
CURVE
50 Down: Give out (4)
EMIT
51 Down: Like an anchorite (4)
LONE
52 Down: Units of work (4)
ERGS
54 Down: Houseman product (4)
POEM
56 Down: Noted painter of birds (3)
EDE

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