Wednesday Crossword — October 19, 1983 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 10/19/1983. By William Canine.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Ready money (4)
- CASH
- 5 Across: Rudiments (4)
- ABCS
- 9 Across: Polite (5)
- CIVIL
- 14 Across: Vocal range (4)
- ALTO
- 15 Across: Brandy type (4)
- MARC
- 16 Across: Lower (5)
- ABASE
- 17 Across: Street sign (4)
- STOP
- 18 Across: Restricted ___ (4)
- AREA
- 19 Across: Ball star (5)
- BELLE
- 20 Across: "Decameron" unit (4)
- TALE
- 21 Across: Shaw's "___ House" (10)
- HEARTBREAK
- 23 Across: Construct (5)
- ERECT
- 25 Across: Victim of Corday (5)
- MARAT
- 26 Across: Chief (4)
- HEAD
- 29 Across: Panhandle (3)
- BEG
- 30 Across: What fireworks evoke (3)
- AHS
- 33 Across: Emulated Daniel Shays (8)
- REBELLED
- 37 Across: Soft, sweet and juicy (6)
- MELLOW
- 39 Across: War god (4)
- ARES
- 40 Across: Bitter (5)
- ACERB
- 42 Across: Notion (4)
- IDEA
- 43 Across: Jacuzzi's cousin (6)
- HOTTUB
- 45 Across: Like glands aiding digestion (8)
- SALIVARY
- 47 Across: "Silence, please!" (3)
- SSH
- 48 Across: Berate regularly (3)
- NAG
- 50 Across: Something from a parent (4)
- GENE
- 51 Across: Knight's necessity (5)
- ARMOR
- 53 Across: Kind of diet (5)
- CRASH
- 57 Across: Seed of a legume (10)
- KIDNEYBEAN
- 62 Across: Walesa, for one (4)
- POLE
- 63 Across: Alpha's opposite (5)
- OMEGA
- 64 Across: Tibetan monk (4)
- LAMA
- 65 Across: Spoken (4)
- ORAL
- 66 Across: Located (5)
- BASED
- 67 Across: When Brutus became brutal (4)
- IDES
- 68 Across: Conductor Klemperer (4)
- OTTO
- 69 Across: A Brontë (5)
- EMILY
- 70 Across: Following (4)
- NEXT
- 71 Across: Final (4)
- LAST
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Class distinction (5)
- CASTE
- 2 Down: Place of worship (5)
- ALTAR
- 3 Down: Filched (5)
- STOLE
- 4 Down: Layaway plan of a sort (9)
- HOPECHEST
- 5 Down: Asian nurse (4)
- AMAH
- 6 Down: Like Godiva (4)
- BARE
- 7 Down: Quintessence (5)
- CREAM
- 8 Down: Image of a beetle (6)
- SCARAB
- 9 Down: Item in Mrs. Wiggs's patch (7)
- CABBAGE
- 10 Down: French composer Jacques (5)
- IBERT
- 11 Down: Lowland (4)
- VALE
- 12 Down: One of the Balearics (4)
- ISLA
- 13 Down: Soup ingredient (4)
- LEEK
- 22 Down: Show dread (7)
- TREMBLE
- 24 Down: ___ Aviv (3)
- TEL
- 27 Down: "___ Bound," 1925 song (7)
- ALABAMY
- 28 Down: Nov. chaser (3)
- DEC
- 30 Down: He was a smash on "M*A*S*H" (4)
- ALDA
- 31 Down: Garden worker (4)
- HOER
- 32 Down: Influence (4)
- SWAY
- 33 Down: What touchdowns bring (4)
- RAHS
- 34 Down: February 14 favorite (4)
- EROS
- 35 Down: Hebrew letter (4)
- BETH
- 36 Down: ___ Moines (3)
- DES
- 38 Down: Where baby Beatles crawled (9)
- LIVERPOOL
- 41 Down: Yellow-journalism product (3)
- RAG
- 44 Down: Epithet for Ethelred II (7)
- UNREADY
- 46 Down: Business abbr. (3)
- INC
- 49 Down: Evil sprite (6)
- GOBLIN
- 51 Down: Raphael or Israfil (5)
- ANGEL
- 52 Down: English novelist: 1814–84 (5)
- READE
- 54 Down: Major artery (5)
- AORTA
- 55 Down: Strips of wood (5)
- SLATS
- 56 Down: Serf in Laconia (5)
- HELOT
- 57 Down: Honshu port (4)
- KOBE
- 58 Down: Moslem priest (4)
- IMAM
- 59 Down: Lucille's ex (4)
- DESI
- 60 Down: Wall St. acronym (4)
- AMEX
- 61 Down: Tweed twitter (4)
- NAST
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