Wednesday Crossword — October 5, 1983

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1576 clues~15-30 minBy Barbara Lunder Gillis10/5/1983

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Cut (4 letters)
5 Across
Fictional sleuth and sons (5 letters)
10 Across
Vipers (4 letters)
14 Across
Grampus (4 letters)
15 Across
Boundary (5 letters)
16 Across
Nobelist German physicist: 1914 (4 letters)
17 Across
Cicatrix (4 letters)
18 Across
Expunge (5 letters)
19 Across
Handle for an ancient vase (4 letters)
20 Across
Finest, noblest humans (14 letters)
23 Across
Book section (5 letters)
24 Across
Not well (3 letters)
25 Across
Perfect-launching expression (3 letters)
27 Across
Area below the crus (3 letters)
28 Across
Shine (4 letters)
32 Across
Cheer (5 letters)
34 Across
Garment for autumn (7 letters)
37 Across
Singles (4 letters)
38 Across
Wouk work (13 letters)
41 Across
___ Islands, off Ireland (4 letters)
42 Across
Puget Sound port (7 letters)
43 Across
Capital of Western Australia (5 letters)
45 Across
Stead (4 letters)
46 Across
Residue (3 letters)
49 Across
Tot or jot (3 letters)
50 Across
Sin (3 letters)
53 Across
Talent (5 letters)
55 Across
Award-winning 1981 film (14 letters)
60 Across
Whaler in a Melville book (4 letters)
61 Across
Society (5 letters)
62 Across
Mare's toddler (4 letters)
63 Across
Network of nerves (4 letters)
64 Across
Glanced amorously (5 letters)
65 Across
Laborer of yore (4 letters)
66 Across
Once, once (4 letters)
67 Across
Donna and Walter (5 letters)
68 Across
Comedian Foxx (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Rumormonger's delight (6 letters)
2 Down
Secret (6 letters)
3 Down
Heats, as milk (6 letters)
4 Down
" . . . Poker Flat" writer (5 letters)
5 Down
Musical symbol (4 letters)
6 Down
Trumpeter from New Orleans (4 letters)
7 Down
Nurse in the Far East (4 letters)
8 Down
Japanese-American (5 letters)
9 Down
"___ and Glass," Lennon song (5 letters)
10 Down
Winged (4 letters)
11 Down
City near Long Beach (8 letters)
12 Down
Cinch (8 letters)
13 Down
Celebes, for one (3 letters)
21 Down
"The ___ Incident," 1943 film (5 letters)
22 Down
Church vestment (3 letters)
26 Down
Greek island (3 letters)
29 Down
Finials (4 letters)
30 Down
Teen-ager's woe (4 letters)
31 Down
Of form, as opposed to substance (5 letters)
33 Down
Poet Nicholas: 1674–1718 (4 letters)
34 Down
Big top (4 letters)
35 Down
Piedmontese city (4 letters)
36 Down
Kind of bag or board (4 letters)
38 Down
Actor Arthur: 1894–1975 (8 letters)
39 Down
Construction workers (8 letters)
40 Down
Down (5 letters)
41 Down
Deft (3 letters)
44 Down
"And love but ___ forever": Burns (3 letters)
46 Down
Melodious (6 letters)
47 Down
Maroon (6 letters)
48 Down
Listed (6 letters)
51 Down
Severity (5 letters)
52 Down
___ et noir (gambling game) (5 letters)
54 Down
Tender (5 letters)
56 Down
Support a swindler (4 letters)
57 Down
Baked clay (4 letters)
58 Down
Pung or luge (4 letters)
59 Down
Las Vegas term (4 letters)
60 Down
Metric unit (3 letters)

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