Tuesday Crossword — May 3, 1983 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 5/3/1983. By Ernst Theimer.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Advantage (4)
EDGE
5 Across: Not fitting (5)
INAPT
10 Across: Spar (4)
MAST
14 Across: Mountain lake (4)
TARN
15 Across: Iraqi port (5)
BASRA
16 Across: Karenina of fiction (4)
ANNA
17 Across: An Aesopian symbol of selfishness (15)
ADOGINTHEMANGER
20 Across: Petrarch heroine (5)
LAURA
21 Across: Schisgal comedy: 1964 (3)
LUV
22 Across: Fracas (5)
MELEE
23 Across: Elapse (4)
PASS
25 Across: Vetoers (8)
NEGATORS
27 Across: Kind of pride or duty (5)
CIVIC
28 Across: Pseudonym of poet von Auersperg (4)
GRUN
29 Across: Glass plate (4)
PANE
30 Across: Like a rhino or unicorn (6)
HORNED
32 Across: XXIX x XIX (3)
DLI
35 Across: Out of sorts (15)
ASGRUMPYASABEAR
38 Across: "___ Misérables" (3)
LES
39 Across: Prickly pears (6)
NOPALS
40 Across: Bacchanalian cry (4)
EVOE
41 Across: 13 Vatican leaders (4)
LEOS
42 Across: Icelandic sagas (5)
EDDAS
44 Across: Gardner's "barefoot" role (8)
CONTESSA
48 Across: Red and Dead (4)
SEAS
49 Across: Lincoln Center attraction (5)
OPERA
50 Across: ___ Jima (3)
IWO
52 Across: Old stringed instruments (5)
LUTES
55 Across: Nibbling (15)
RISINGTOTHEBAIT
58 Across: Feed the kitty (4)
ANTE
59 Across: Adversary of U. S. Grant (5)
RELEE
60 Across: Raison d'___ (4)
ETRE
61 Across: Minus (4)
LESS
62 Across: ___ as a pig (5)
ASFAT
63 Across: Abstruse (4)
DEEP

Down Answers

1 Down: Relative of etc. (4)
ETAL
2 Down: Kind of art (4)
DADA
3 Down: Arrangements (9)
GROUPINGS
4 Down: Rembrandt, at times (8)
ENGRAVER
5 Down: ___-Saud (3)
IBN
6 Down: A maj. league (4)
NATL
7 Down: Ravenous (15)
ASHUNGRYASAWOLF
8 Down: Early blooming (9)
PREVERNAL
9 Down: Scottish cap (3)
TAM
10 Down: Artist Couture's star pupil (5)
MANET
11 Down: ___-Saxon (5)
ANGLO
12 Down: Expression of disdain (5)
SNEER
13 Down: Biblical weeds (5)
TARES
18 Down: Rumanian city (4)
IASI
19 Down: Blake of "Gunsmoke" (6)
AMANDA
24 Down: Jerks (7)
SCHMOES
26 Down: Conjectures (7)
GUESSES
27 Down: Etui or pomander (4)
CASE
29 Down: Buddy (3)
PAL
31 Down: North and south, e.g. (9)
OPPOSITES
32 Down: What tornadoes do (9)
DEVASTATE
33 Down: Asian country (4)
LAOS
34 Down: Anger (3)
IRE
36 Down: Not thin or spare (6)
UNLEAN
37 Down: Smeared (8)
BEDAUBED
43 Down: Strike out (4)
DELE
44 Down: Atoll material (5)
CORAL
45 Down: Express a view (5)
OPINE
46 Down: Aeries, e.g. (5)
NESTS
47 Down: Attempts (5)
TRIES
51 Down: Great Barrier Island (4)
OTEA
53 Down: Former official name of Ireland (4)
EIRE
54 Down: Pace (4)
STEP
56 Down: Irish sweetheart (3)
GRA
57 Down: ___ up (excited, in the Ozarks) (3)
HET

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