Wednesday Crossword — October 5, 1983 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 10/5/1983. By Barbara Lunder Gillis.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Cut (4)
- GASH
- 5 Across: Fictional sleuth and sons (5)
- CHANS
- 10 Across: Vipers (4)
- ASPS
- 14 Across: Grampus (4)
- ORCA
- 15 Across: Boundary (5)
- LIMIT
- 16 Across: Nobelist German physicist: 1914 (4)
- LAUE
- 17 Across: Cicatrix (4)
- SCAR
- 18 Across: Expunge (5)
- ERASE
- 19 Across: Handle for an ancient vase (4)
- ANSA
- 20 Across: Finest, noblest humans (14)
- SALTOFTHEEARTH
- 23 Across: Book section (5)
- INDEX
- 24 Across: Not well (3)
- ILL
- 25 Across: Perfect-launching expression (3)
- AOK
- 27 Across: Area below the crus (3)
- PES
- 28 Across: Shine (4)
- BEAM
- 32 Across: Cheer (5)
- BRAVO
- 34 Across: Garment for autumn (7)
- TOPCOAT
- 37 Across: Singles (4)
- ONES
- 38 Across: Wouk work (13)
- THEWINDSOFWAR
- 41 Across: ___ Islands, off Ireland (4)
- ARAN
- 42 Across: Puget Sound port (7)
- SEATTLE
- 43 Across: Capital of Western Australia (5)
- PERTH
- 45 Across: Stead (4)
- LIEU
- 46 Across: Residue (3)
- ASH
- 49 Across: Tot or jot (3)
- TAD
- 50 Across: Sin (3)
- ERR
- 53 Across: Talent (5)
- FORTE
- 55 Across: Award-winning 1981 film (14)
- CHARIOTSOFFIRE
- 60 Across: Whaler in a Melville book (4)
- AHAB
- 61 Across: Society (5)
- GUILD
- 62 Across: Mare's toddler (4)
- FOAL
- 63 Across: Network of nerves (4)
- RETE
- 64 Across: Glanced amorously (5)
- OGLED
- 65 Across: Laborer of yore (4)
- ESNE
- 66 Across: Once, once (4)
- ERST
- 67 Across: Donna and Walter (5)
- REEDS
- 68 Across: Comedian Foxx (4)
- REDD
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Rumormonger's delight (6)
- GOSSIP
- 2 Down: Secret (6)
- ARCANE
- 3 Down: Heats, as milk (6)
- SCALDS
- 4 Down: " . . . Poker Flat" writer (5)
- HARTE
- 5 Down: Musical symbol (4)
- CLEF
- 6 Down: Trumpeter from New Orleans (4)
- HIRT
- 7 Down: Nurse in the Far East (4)
- AMAH
- 8 Down: Japanese-American (5)
- NISEI
- 9 Down: "___ and Glass," Lennon song (5)
- STEEL
- 10 Down: Winged (4)
- ALAR
- 11 Down: City near Long Beach (8)
- SANTAANA
- 12 Down: Cinch (8)
- PUSHOVER
- 13 Down: Celebes, for one (3)
- SEA
- 21 Down: "The ___ Incident," 1943 film (5)
- OXBOW
- 22 Down: Church vestment (3)
- ALB
- 26 Down: Greek island (3)
- KOS
- 29 Down: Finials (4)
- EPIS
- 30 Down: Teen-ager's woe (4)
- ACNE
- 31 Down: Of form, as opposed to substance (5)
- MODAL
- 33 Down: Poet Nicholas: 1674–1718 (4)
- ROWE
- 34 Down: Big top (4)
- TENT
- 35 Down: Piedmontese city (4)
- ASTI
- 36 Down: Kind of bag or board (4)
- TOTE
- 38 Down: Actor Arthur: 1894–1975 (8)
- TREACHER
- 39 Down: Construction workers (8)
- HARDHATS
- 40 Down: Down (5)
- FLUFF
- 41 Down: Deft (3)
- APT
- 44 Down: "And love but ___ forever": Burns (3)
- HER
- 46 Down: Melodious (6)
- ARIOSE
- 47 Down: Maroon (6)
- STRAND
- 48 Down: Listed (6)
- HEELED
- 51 Down: Severity (5)
- RIGOR
- 52 Down: ___ et noir (gambling game) (5)
- ROUGE
- 54 Down: Tender (5)
- OFFER
- 56 Down: Support a swindler (4)
- ABET
- 57 Down: Baked clay (4)
- TILE
- 58 Down: Pung or luge (4)
- SLED
- 59 Down: Las Vegas term (4)
- ODDS
- 60 Down: Metric unit (3)
- ARE
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