Saturday Crossword — March 26, 1983 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 3/26/1983. By Sam Bellotto, Jr..

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Across Answers

1 Across: Snug as ___ . . . (4)
ABUG
5 Across: Vestments (4)
ALBS
9 Across: N.Y.C. airport (3)
JFK
12 Across: Diners' cartes (5)
MENUS
14 Across: Compass point, in Cancun (5)
NORTE
16 Across: Rubber tree (3)
ULE
17 Across: Web-footed choristers? (11)
PELICANTORS
19 Across: Pay or hey follower (3)
DAY
20 Across: Book backs (6)
SPINES
21 Across: Small portions (8)
SOUPCONS
23 Across: Mephitis (6)
STENCH
25 Across: Year in the reign of Gregory I (4)
DCII
26 Across: Comrade of d'Artagnan (5)
ATHOS
28 Across: Cudgels or cleats (6)
KEVELS
32 Across: Elgar subject (4)
POMP
35 Across: This precedes Obadiah (4)
AMOS
37 Across: Displaced turf on a course (5)
DIVOT
38 Across: Et ___ (plus, in a way) (4)
ALII
39 Across: Honeydew, e.g. (5)
MELON
41 Across: Mother of Castor and Pollux (4)
LEDA
42 Across: Places for kayos (5)
RINGS
44 Across: Aggravate (4)
RILE
45 Across: Songbird (4)
WREN
46 Across: Cowboy meets (6)
RODEOS
48 Across: Andrea ___ (5)
DORIA
50 Across: Tryggvesson (4)
OLAF
52 Across: Brahman precepts (6)
SUTRAS
55 Across: Prior to birth (8)
PRENATAL
59 Across: Used a powder puff (6)
DABBED
61 Across: Suffix with baron (3)
IAL
62 Across: Daffy Duck? (11)
CINEMALLARD
64 Across: Wood: Comb. form (3)
XYL
65 Across: Director Lubitsch (5)
ERNST
66 Across: "___ pray" (5)
LETUS
67 Across: Reply to Virginia (3)
YES
68 Across: Cyclone centers (4)
EYES
69 Across: Dream states (4)
REMS

Down Answers

1 Down: A.C. amounts (4)
AMPS
2 Down: Horn signals (5)
BEEPS
3 Down: Not fired (5)
UNLIT
4 Down: Test-tube turbit? (12)
GUINEAPIGEON
5 Down: Actress Sothern (3)
ANN
6 Down: Draw ___ (decide) (4)
LOTS
7 Down: Mope (5)
BROOD
8 Down: Held a job action (6)
STRUCK
9 Down: Martial art (4)
JUDO
10 Down: Tart (4)
FLAN
11 Down: Ivories (4)
KEYS
13 Down: Get wind of (5)
SCENT
15 Down: Detected (6)
ESPIED
18 Down: He tutored Queen Elizabeth I (6)
ASCHAM
22 Down: Extinct Dixie redstart? (12)
CIVILWARBLER
24 Down: Slugger's quest (5)
HOMER
27 Down: Unanimous (5)
SOLID
29 Down: Word with green or glade (4)
EVER
30 Down: Mine mother (4)
LODE
31 Down: Ollie's pal (4)
STAN
32 Down: Samlet (4)
PARR
33 Down: Hodgepodge (4)
OLIO
34 Down: Matter's master (4)
MIND
36 Down: Goes it alone (5)
SOLOS
40 Down: Chilean Nobelist: 1971 (6)
NERUDA
43 Down: Relief (6)
SOLACE
47 Down: Trenchant wit (6)
SATIRE
49 Down: "The Thrill of ___," Doris Day film (5)
ITALL
51 Down: Marcel Pagnol comedy (5)
FANNY
53 Down: Let up (5)
ABATE
54 Down: Whey of milk (5)
SERUM
55 Down: Fairy (4)
PIXY
56 Down: Martha from Butte (4)
RAYE
57 Down: Lowell has three (4)
ELLS
58 Down: ___-majesté (4)
LESE
60 Down: Drillers' degs. (4)
DDSS
63 Down: Rocky elevs. (3)
MTS

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