Saturday Crossword — May 5, 1984 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 5/5/1984. By Stanley Newman.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: End of a counting rhyme (6)
- FATHEN
- 7 Across: Kind of orange (5)
- NAVEL
- 12 Across: Place for an aglet (8)
- SHOELACE
- 15 Across: Mini-poem (6)
- ODELET
- 17 Across: Secular or civil (8)
- TEMPORAL
- 18 Across: Galveston sight (6)
- TANKER
- 19 Across: Lout (3)
- OAF
- 20 Across: Rabble-rouser's forte (11)
- DEMAGOGUERY
- 22 Across: Malayan transportation (4)
- PROA
- 24 Across: Sews up (7)
- SUTURES
- 25 Across: Inventory (5)
- STOCK
- 27 Across: Rig, for short (4)
- SEMI
- 28 Across: Lingerie item (3)
- BRA
- 31 Across: Furnish (4)
- LEND
- 33 Across: Fog (7)
- PEASOUP
- 36 Across: Speech teachers (7)
- RHETORS
- 39 Across: Broadcaster (7)
- STREWER
- 40 Across: Tumbler (7)
- ACROBAT
- 41 Across: Gridiron measure (4)
- YARD
- 42 Across: How come? (3)
- WHY
- 43 Across: Fifth-day creation (4)
- FOWL
- 46 Across: Cotton-spinning machines (5)
- MULES
- 49 Across: In seclusion (7)
- RETIRED
- 52 Across: Just (4)
- MERE
- 53 Across: Reckless (11)
- HARUMSCARUM
- 57 Across: Fled (3)
- RAN
- 58 Across: Garland for a poet laureate (6)
- ANADEM
- 59 Across: Neil Simon, e.g. (8)
- COMEDIST
- 61 Across: Brewer from Toledo (6)
- TERESA
- 62 Across: Poker pest (8)
- KIBITZER
- 63 Across: Useful plastic (5)
- SARAN
- 64 Across: Cantankerous (6)
- ORNERY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Settings for Steichen (6)
- FSTOPS
- 2 Down: What the Tin Man wanted (6)
- AHEART
- 3 Down: Nonsense (10)
- TOMFOOLERY
- 4 Down: Drill sergeant's word (3)
- HEP
- 5 Down: Hypothetical force (4)
- ELOD
- 6 Down: Breathing apparatus (5)
- NARES
- 7 Down: Unwanted attention (9)
- NOTORIETY
- 8 Down: Saw (5)
- ADAGE
- 9 Down: Mother of Aeneas (5)
- VENUS
- 10 Down: Sommer (4)
- ELKE
- 11 Down: Glance from Groucho (4)
- LEER
- 13 Down: Snub-nosed: Fr. (5)
- CAMUS
- 14 Down: Buoy (5)
- ELATE
- 16 Down: Go for it (3)
- TRY
- 21 Down: Sidney Smith's creations (5)
- GUMPS
- 23 Down: Vinegary: Comb. form (5)
- ACETO
- 26 Down: Dresser need (4)
- KNOB
- 28 Down: Expurgate (10)
- BOWDLERIZE
- 29 Down: Actress McClanahan (3)
- RUE
- 30 Down: The "cruellest" mo. (3)
- APR
- 32 Down: Blueprint person (9)
- DRAFTSMAN
- 34 Down: Khachaturian (4)
- ARAM
- 35 Down: Whey (5)
- SERUM
- 36 Down: Untrained (3)
- RAW
- 37 Down: Presidential monogram (3)
- HCH
- 38 Down: Firmly restrained (5)
- STOIC
- 44 Down: Torture (5)
- WRACK
- 45 Down: Poet–political activist Jones (5)
- LEROI
- 47 Down: Something to clap at school (6)
- ERASER
- 48 Down: Watch (6)
- SENTRY
- 49 Down: Not so polite (5)
- RUDER
- 50 Down: Ancient city in Syria (5)
- EMESA
- 51 Down: Disneyland denizen (5)
- DUMBO
- 53 Down: Castor or tile (3)
- HAT
- 54 Down: "___ generally shammin'. . . ": Kipling (4)
- ANES
- 55 Down: "Ta-___-Boom-De-Ré" (4)
- RARA
- 56 Down: Golda (4)
- MEIR
- 60 Down: Keep after sch. (3)
- DTN
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