Thursday Crossword — May 12, 1983 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/12/1983. By Bert Rosenfield.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: ___ del Sol (5)
- COSTA
- 6 Across: Lunar rover's unit (3)
- LEM
- 9 Across: Philippine Moslem (4)
- MORO
- 13 Across: Played the Old Vic (5)
- ACTED
- 14 Across: Site of Ohio Northern U. (3)
- ADA
- 15 Across: Fertilizer (5)
- GUANO
- 17 Across: G.I.'s newspaper (15)
- STARSANDSTRIPES
- 20 Across: Fictive trader (4)
- HORN
- 21 Across: Vaquero's necessity (5)
- REATA
- 22 Across: Partner of polish (4)
- SPIT
- 23 Across: Beseech (6)
- OBTEST
- 25 Across: Command to Rover (3)
- SIT
- 26 Across: Bulldog (3)
- ELI
- 27 Across: Relative of Saul (3)
- NER
- 28 Across: ___ tracks (scrawls) (3)
- HEN
- 30 Across: It's 45 light-years away (7)
- CAPELLA
- 33 Across: It's 84 light-years away (7)
- REGULUS
- 36 Across: West Coast footballer (3)
- RAM
- 37 Across: Blackout, e.g. (4)
- SKIT
- 38 Across: Pollinizer (3)
- BEE
- 40 Across: Galileo's home town (4)
- PISA
- 43 Across: This was cut in the 40's (3)
- RUG
- 45 Across: It's 520 light-years away (7)
- ANTARES
- 47 Across: It's 98 light-years away (7)
- CANOPUS
- 51 Across: North African V.I.P. of yore (3)
- DEY
- 52 Across: Biblical ending for speak (3)
- ETH
- 54 Across: Preacher of Flatbush (3)
- ROE
- 55 Across: Showy flower, for short (3)
- MUM
- 57 Across: Resort in the Bahamas (6)
- NASSAU
- 59 Across: Planetarium objects (4)
- ORBS
- 61 Across: Spoiled tots (5)
- BRATS
- 63 Across: Revolutionary pamphleteer (4)
- OTIS
- 64 Across: Astronomy (15)
- STUDYOFTHESTARS
- 67 Across: Kind of bar (5)
- SALAD
- 68 Across: Compass pt. (3)
- ESE
- 69 Across: Up ___ (trapped) (5)
- ATREE
- 70 Across: "Mame" director: 1974 (4)
- SAKS
- 71 Across: ___ the day (regret) (3)
- RUE
- 72 Across: Bryophyte-covered (5)
- MOSSY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: ___ the barrelhead (6)
- CASHON
- 2 Down: Tailgate-picnic months (8)
- OCTOBERS
- 3 Down: Voyage for Kirk and Spock (8)
- STARTREK
- 4 Down: Coated steel (5)
- TERNE
- 5 Down: Mag's moneymakers (3)
- ADS
- 6 Down: Surface for Dick Weber (4)
- LANE
- 7 Down: Old Icelandic poems (5)
- EDDAS
- 8 Down: Varnish component (6)
- MASTIC
- 9 Down: Houk or LaSorda: Abbr. (3)
- MGR
- 10 Down: Avignon assents (4)
- OUIS
- 11 Down: Maneuver for Hillary (6)
- RAPPEL
- 12 Down: "Ile" playwright (6)
- ONEILL
- 16 Down: Ancient Rome's port (5)
- OSTIA
- 18 Down: Russian labor group (5)
- ARTEL
- 19 Down: Turkic language (5)
- TATAR
- 24 Down: Imprisoned (6)
- SHUTUP
- 29 Down: Gist (3)
- NUB
- 31 Down: Melonlike fruit (6)
- PAPAYA
- 32 Down: Moslem boss (4)
- EMIR
- 34 Down: Whirlybird (4)
- GIRO
- 35 Down: Coral, e.g. (3)
- SEA
- 39 Down: Split or tight one (3)
- END
- 41 Down: React after getting conked (8)
- SEESTARS
- 42 Down: Famed dancing duo (8)
- ASTAIRES
- 44 Down: New Orleans treat (5)
- GUMBO
- 46 Down: Up-tight (5)
- TENSE
- 47 Down: Kind of punch (5)
- CROSS
- 48 Down: Blood lines of sorts (6)
- AORTAS
- 49 Down: Cloudlike patch in the night sky (6)
- NEBULA
- 50 Down: Comber jockey (6)
- SURFER
- 53 Down: Actress Ruth (6)
- HUSSEY
- 56 Down: Quemoy's partner (5)
- MATSU
- 58 Down: ___ voce (5)
- SOTTO
- 60 Down: Neighbor of Minn. (4)
- SDAK
- 62 Down: "Of ___ I Sing" (4)
- THEE
- 65 Down: Gridiron divs. (3)
- YDS
- 66 Down: TV newsman Donaldson (3)
- SAM
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