Saturday Crossword — May 7, 1983 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 5/7/1983. By Nancy McCarthy.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Agreement (4)
- PACT
- 5 Across: Indifferent (4)
- SOSO
- 9 Across: "The Admirable Doctor" (5)
- BACON
- 14 Across: Tree ___ (quiver tree) (4)
- ALOE
- 15 Across: Of an epoch (4)
- ERAL
- 16 Across: Shad (5)
- ALOSE
- 17 Across: Pivot (4)
- SLUE
- 18 Across: Preakness winner: 1963 (10)
- CANDYSPOTS
- 20 Across: Yurt (4)
- TENT
- 21 Across: Explosive initials (3)
- TNT
- 22 Across: Passageways (6)
- AISLES
- 23 Across: Place a horse in a race (5)
- ENTER
- 25 Across: Zigzags on a cat (5)
- TACKS
- 27 Across: Sudermann's "___ Sorge" (4)
- FRAU
- 29 Across: "Cherry Orchard" quartet (3)
- ARS
- 30 Across: Quatrain scheme (4)
- ABAB
- 34 Across: Hole puncher (3)
- AWL
- 36 Across: ___ ear and . . . (5)
- INONE
- 38 Across: Island off Venezuela (5)
- ARUBA
- 39 Across: Gulf Stream stakes race (15)
- THEFLORIDADERBY
- 42 Across: Suggestive looks (5)
- LEERS
- 43 Across: British weight unit (5)
- STONE
- 44 Across: Methane, for one (3)
- GAS
- 45 Across: Division preposition (4)
- INTO
- 46 Across: Region in SW India (3)
- GOA
- 47 Across: Until (4)
- UPTO
- 49 Across: Practices telegraphy (5)
- SENDS
- 51 Across: Synecdoche, e.g. (5)
- TROPE
- 54 Across: Spinner of sorts (6)
- SPIDER
- 58 Across: Kennedy abbr. (3)
- ETA
- 60 Across: Cognate (4)
- AKIN
- 61 Across: Triple Crown winner: 1937 (10)
- WARADMIRAL
- 63 Across: The Swedish Nightingale (4)
- LIND
- 64 Across: The Summit, at Houston (5)
- ARENA
- 65 Across: Dugout (4)
- ABRI
- 66 Across: Grafted, in heraldry (4)
- ENTE
- 67 Across: Jewish month (5)
- NISAN
- 68 Across: No, in Minsk (4)
- NYET
- 69 Across: Curser's euphemism (4)
- EGAD
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Sticky stuff (5)
- PASTE
- 2 Down: Singer-pianist Peter (5)
- ALLEN
- 3 Down: Kentucky Derby winner: 1943 (10)
- COUNTFLEET
- 4 Down: Seesaw (6)
- TEETER
- 5 Down: Jacob Ammann's followers, e.g. (4)
- SECT
- 6 Down: Praying figure (5)
- ORANT
- 7 Down: California stakes race (15)
- SANTAANITADERBY
- 8 Down: ___ Rosebud, 1914 Kentucky Derby winner (3)
- OLD
- 9 Down: Fundamental principle (5)
- BASIS
- 10 Down: Castor and Pollux (4)
- ALPS
- 11 Down: Composed (4)
- COOL
- 12 Down: Bone: Comb. form (4)
- OSTE
- 13 Down: Famed crime fighter (4)
- NESS
- 19 Down: "Mirthquakes" (4)
- YAKS
- 24 Down: Marsh birds (5)
- RAILS
- 26 Down: Belief formula (5)
- CREDO
- 28 Down: One, in Apulia (3)
- UNO
- 30 Down: 100 square meters (3)
- ARE
- 31 Down: Kentucky Derby winner: 1932 (10)
- BURGOOKING
- 32 Down: Swedish rock group (4)
- ABBA
- 33 Down: Horses or trees (4)
- BAYS
- 34 Down: Gudrun's victim (4)
- ATLI
- 35 Down: "Say ___" (4)
- WHEN
- 37 Down: Funny Bean (5)
- ORSON
- 38 Down: Skilled (5)
- ADEPT
- 40 Down: To's companion (3)
- FRO
- 41 Down: Babylonian sky god (3)
- ANU
- 46 Down: Bud (4)
- GERM
- 48 Down: Irish seaport (6)
- TRALEE
- 49 Down: Jampan (5)
- SEDAN
- 50 Down: Gaze at steadily (5)
- STARE
- 52 Down: 15th-century ship (5)
- PINTA
- 53 Down: Over (5)
- ENDED
- 54 Down: Ballet bird (4)
- SWAN
- 55 Down: Prefix with mutuel (4)
- PARI
- 56 Down: Incenses (4)
- IRES
- 57 Down: Actress Wynter (4)
- DANA
- 59 Down: Completed a hurdle (4)
- ALIT
- 62 Down: Hunter or Fleming (3)
- IAN
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