Thursday Crossword — October 27, 1983 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 10/27/1983. By Bernice Gordon.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Afire (3)
- LIT
- 4 Across: Catch (3)
- BAG
- 7 Across: Fragrant compound (5)
- ESTER
- 12 Across: Medial quantity (7)
- AVERAGE
- 14 Across: Modified (7)
- ALTERED
- 16 Across: Keep watch on (7)
- MONITOR
- 17 Across: Day that Durocher married (7)
- LARAINE
- 18 Across: Soup (5)
- BROTH
- 19 Across: Battleship destroyed in 1898 (5)
- MAINE
- 21 Across: Like Marvell's mistress (3)
- COY
- 22 Across: Since: Scot. (4)
- SYNE
- 23 Across: City in Nigeria (6)
- IBADAN
- 25 Across: Catapult ammo (6)
- STONES
- 28 Across: Malone of the 76ers (5)
- MOSES
- 32 Across: Cry of contempt (3)
- BOO
- 35 Across: Roberts (4)
- ORAL
- 36 Across: Loni Anderson, e.g. (6)
- BLONDE
- 37 Across: Garb (7)
- APPAREL
- 39 Across: Minting of money (7)
- COINAGE
- 40 Across: They come in flights (6)
- STAIRS
- 41 Across: Admonish (4)
- WARN
- 42 Across: Workout loc. (3)
- GYM
- 43 Across: One-time Italian coins (5)
- SOLDI
- 44 Across: Have amnesia (6)
- FORGET
- 46 Across: Name of eight post-Norman kings (6)
- EDWARD
- 48 Across: Rooms in a harem (4)
- ODAS
- 52 Across: Get-up-and-go (3)
- VIM
- 55 Across: "The Prisoner of ___": Hope (5)
- ZENDA
- 56 Across: Live from day to day (5)
- EXIST
- 57 Across: Fatty (7)
- ADIPOSE
- 59 Across: Act as an agent (7)
- MEDIATE
- 61 Across: Caligula and Nero (7)
- TYRANTS
- 62 Across: Circular Greek letter (7)
- OMICRON
- 63 Across: Easy gaits (5)
- LOPES
- 64 Across: Wife of Amen-Ra (3)
- MUT
- 65 Across: Jan.–Dec. periods (3)
- YRS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Charles and Mary (5)
- LAMBS
- 2 Down: Africa's ___ Coast (5)
- IVORY
- 3 Down: Projecting part, in carpentry (5)
- TENON
- 4 Down: English spa (4)
- BATH
- 5 Down: Past (3)
- AGO
- 6 Down: Embryonic (8)
- GERMINAL
- 7 Down: Beast with twisted horns (5)
- ELAND
- 8 Down: Make more efficient (10)
- STREAMLINE
- 9 Down: Congou, e.g. (3)
- TEA
- 10 Down: Actor Porter (4)
- ERIC
- 11 Down: Site for certain bandits (4)
- RENO
- 13 Down: Bar mitzvahs, e.g. (5)
- RITES
- 14 Down: Type of writ (5)
- ALIAS
- 15 Down: Ottoman official of yore (3)
- DEY
- 20 Down: First shepherd (4)
- ABEL
- 24 Down: Time of day (4)
- NOON
- 26 Down: Belt of the earth (10)
- TORRIDZONE
- 27 Down: Mine finds (4)
- ORES
- 29 Down: Stump of a tooth (4)
- SNAG
- 30 Down: Tense (4)
- EDGY
- 31 Down: Appear (4)
- SEEM
- 32 Down: Deep tone (4)
- BASS
- 33 Down: Vision: Comb. form (4)
- OPTO
- 34 Down: Geyserite (4)
- OPAL
- 36 Down: Court name (4)
- BORG
- 38 Down: ___-mémoire (memorandum) (4)
- AIDE
- 39 Down: Plant with spicy or medicinal seeds (8)
- CARDAMOM
- 41 Down: This was "in the beginning" (4)
- WORD
- 44 Down: Temples of yore (5)
- FANES
- 45 Down: Poisonous (5)
- TOXIC
- 47 Down: Rebecca and Benjamin (5)
- WESTS
- 49 Down: Pepys work (5)
- DIARY
- 50 Down: Former N.Y.C. hotel (5)
- ASTOR
- 51 Down: Some carbines (5)
- STENS
- 52 Down: Container for wine (3)
- VAT
- 53 Down: Romantic interlude (4)
- IDYL
- 54 Down: Contemporary of Chagall (4)
- MIRO
- 56 Down: Blue-pencil (4)
- EDIT
- 58 Down: Soft food (3)
- PAP
- 60 Down: Rhea's cousin (3)
- EMU
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