Thursday Crossword — March 31, 1983 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 3/31/1983. By Fennessy.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Large-mouthed one (4)
BASS
5 Across: Food for a bambino (5)
PAPPA
10 Across: Dwindles (4)
EBBS
14 Across: VIII (4)
OCTO
15 Across: Early epic (5)
ILIAD
16 Across: Musical twosome (4)
LALA
17 Across: Overindulgence (10)
CRAPULENCE
19 Across: Churlish child (4)
BRAT
20 Across: Small tun (3)
KEG
21 Across: Bag man (5)
SANTA
22 Across: Hard stuff (5)
BOOZE
23 Across: Speed (4)
RATE
24 Across: Chug-a-lugged (6)
DOWNED
25 Across: Thick soup (6)
POTAGE
28 Across: Pulsate (5)
THROB
30 Across: Declaim (5)
ORATE
31 Across: It makes one goggle (9)
EYEOPENER
35 Across: Addition after "after" (4)
MATH
36 Across: Belt (5)
STRAP
37 Across: Cyrano's cynosure (4)
NOSE
38 Across: Squiffed (9)
PLASTERED
40 Across: Elicit (5)
EDUCE
41 Across: Proverbially high ones (5)
KITES
42 Across: Dionysus devotee (6)
MAENAD
43 Across: Tosspots (6)
TOPERS
46 Across: Münster mister (4)
HERR
47 Across: Disney's Monstro, e.g. (5)
WHALE
48 Across: Prosit's relative (5)
SKOAL
50 Across: Jerry's mate (3)
TOM
53 Across: Nobleman (4)
EARL
54 Across: Cocktail (10)
BLOODYMARY
56 Across: Gael's tongue (4)
ERSE
57 Across: About 4% of a fifth (5)
OUNCE
58 Across: Encourage (4)
ABET
59 Across: Wapiti's kin (4)
DEER
60 Across: O.K.'s (5)
YEAHS
61 Across: Verdant (4)
LUSH

Down Answers

1 Down: Spring beer (4)
BOCK
2 Down: 160 square rods (4)
ACRE
3 Down: Kind of party or line (4)
STAG
4 Down: Bribe (3)
SOP
5 Down: Pontius ___ (6)
PILATE
6 Down: Coeur d'___ (5)
ALENE
7 Down: Pub order (4)
PINT
8 Down: S.A. rodent (4)
PACA
9 Down: Soft drink (3)
ADE
10 Down: Barfly (11)
ELBOWBENDER
11 Down: Cut of beef (5)
BARON
12 Down: Pioneer (5)
BLAZE
13 Down: Full (5)
SATED
18 Down: Fowler's concern (5)
USAGE
22 Down: Betty of comics (4)
BOOP
23 Down: Basement bar in Bonn (11)
RATHSKELLER
24 Down: Jigger unit (4)
DROP
25 Down: Vainglory (4)
POMP
26 Down: Kind of exam (4)
ORAL
27 Down: Soho so long (4)
TATA
28 Down: They're under a bonnet or boot (5)
TYRES
29 Down: Pilsener topper (4)
HEAD
31 Down: L'___ suprême (God) (4)
ETRE
32 Down: Part of speech (4)
NOUN
33 Down: Grapevine disease (4)
ESCA
34 Down: Oboe element (4)
REED
36 Down: Sound stages (4)
SETS
39 Down: ___-bouchon (corkscrew) (4)
TIRE
40 Down: Betimes (5)
EARLY
42 Down: Union general's kin (6)
MEADES
43 Down: Nast's target (5)
TWEED
44 Down: Kennedy's Chicago cousin (5)
OHARE
45 Down: Latin-test word (5)
PARSE
46 Down: Moonshine (5)
HOOCH
48 Down: Twist or veer (4)
SLUE
49 Down: Hawaiian storm (4)
KONA
50 Down: Verboten (4)
TABU
51 Down: Cinnabar and galena (4)
ORES
52 Down: Literary genre (4)
MYTH
54 Down: Jane's son in Tarzan books (3)
BOY
55 Down: " . . . qui ___ y pense" (3)
MAL

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