Saturday Crossword — January 12, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 1/12/1985. By Jack L. Steinhardt.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Deduction for shrinking (7)
- SCALAGE
- 8 Across: Passed in great numbers (7)
- TROOPED
- 15 Across: Canadian capital city (7)
- HALIFAX
- 16 Across: Noted British geneticist: 1892–1964 (7)
- HALDANE
- 17 Across: Sans living organisms (7)
- ABIOTIC
- 18 Across: Positions toward an object (7)
- ORIENTS
- 19 Across: Soviet jet (3)
- MIG
- 20 Across: Rushed to an assault (7)
- STORMED
- 22 Across: Hiemal mo. (3)
- DEC
- 23 Across: Singer Murray (4)
- ANNE
- 25 Across: Glaze for pottery (5)
- SMEAR
- 26 Across: Vexed (4)
- SORE
- 27 Across: "___ body cry?": Burns (5)
- NEEDA
- 29 Across: More, in Madrid (3)
- MAS
- 30 Across: City in S.D. (5)
- HURON
- 31 Across: Gershwin opus: 1927 (15)
- STRIKEUPTHEBAND
- 34 Across: Moravian/English weapon (4)
- BREN
- 35 Across: Chits (4)
- IOUS
- 36 Across: Cambrian and Jurassic (15)
- GEOLOGICPERIODS
- 43 Across: Develop (5)
- RIPEN
- 44 Across: Amorous sound (3)
- COO
- 45 Across: Particularly: Abbr. (5)
- ESPEC
- 46 Across: Coolers (4)
- ADES
- 47 Across: Mazo de la Roche setting (5)
- JALNA
- 49 Across: Seaport in Ghana (4)
- TEMA
- 50 Across: Meredith or Shula (3)
- DON
- 51 Across: Speaks indistinctly (7)
- MUTTERS
- 53 Across: Pejorative noun suffix (3)
- REL
- 54 Across: Unlawful, in Iberia (7)
- ILICITO
- 56 Across: Counterfeit (7)
- IMITATE
- 58 Across: Addict's antithesis (7)
- NONUSER
- 59 Across: Lightly, in prescriptions (7)
- LEVITER
- 60 Across: Occupy completely (7)
- ENGROSS
- 61 Across: Hobbers, in horseshoes (7)
- LEANERS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Medicine men (7)
- SHAMANS
- 2 Down: Presidential selections (7)
- CABINET
- 3 Down: Circuit tuner (7)
- ALIGNER
- 4 Down: Parcel for Pedro (3)
- LIO
- 5 Down: P.M. periods (4)
- AFTS
- 6 Down: Single-foot and walk (5)
- GAITS
- 7 Down: Retired hams? (15)
- EXCOMMUNICATORS
- 8 Down: House Speaker (15)
- THOMASTIPONEILL
- 9 Down: Of great singularity (5)
- RARER
- 10 Down: Fetid (4)
- OLID
- 11 Down: "___ to Billy Joe" (3)
- ODE
- 12 Down: Kind of moth (7)
- PANDORA
- 13 Down: Alimentary canal (7)
- ENTERON
- 14 Down: Stoop (7)
- DESCEND
- 21 Down: Acquire, as recompense (4)
- REAP
- 24 Down: Food (7)
- EDIBLES
- 26 Down: Support (7)
- SUBSIST
- 28 Down: Where Goodrich got rich (5)
- AKRON
- 30 Down: Ravel's "L'___ espagnole" (5)
- HEURE
- 32 Down: Brain surgeon's meas. (3)
- EEG
- 33 Down: Scuffle (3)
- HOE
- 36 Down: One of a series of steps (7)
- GRADINE
- 37 Down: Phantom (7)
- EIDOLON
- 38 Down: Broadway event (7)
- OPENING
- 39 Down: Gun manufacturer (4)
- COLT
- 40 Down: Function (7)
- OPERATE
- 41 Down: Persephone's mother (7)
- DEMETER
- 42 Down: Mountaineers, e.g. (7)
- SCALERS
- 47 Down: Germanic people who went to Kent (5)
- JUTES
- 48 Down: Napoleon's force (5)
- ARMEE
- 51 Down: With "capnist," hater of tobacco smoke (4)
- MISO
- 52 Down: Hindu "Destroyer" (4)
- SIVA
- 55 Down: Despicable person (3)
- CUR
- 57 Down: Type of type (3)
- TIN
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