Wednesday Crossword — March 27, 1985 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 3/27/1985. By Irene Smullyan.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Generally regarded (7)
REPUTED
8 Across: Musical form (7)
CHORALE
15 Across: Issue (7)
EMANATE
16 Across: Account (7)
RECITAL
17 Across: Balearic island (7)
MINORCA
18 Across: School at Annapolis (7)
ACADEMY
19 Across: "___ pro nobis" (3)
ORA
20 Across: Draws back (7)
SHRINKS
22 Across: French article (3)
LES
23 Across: City on the Danube (3)
VAC
24 Across: "___ tu," Verdi aria (3)
ERI
25 Across: Lake Balkhash feeder (3)
ILI
26 Across: Moral code (5)
ETHIC
29 Across: Large quantity (3)
SEA
30 Across: Stone pillar (5)
STELA
32 Across: Perform again (7)
REENACT
34 Across: Rome's St. John ___ (7)
LATERAN
36 Across: Queenly Spanish name (3)
ENA
37 Across: Sleep phenom. (3)
REM
38 Across: Autocrats (7)
DESPOTS
42 Across: Ready (7)
PREPARE
46 Across: Diminish (5)
ABATE
47 Across: Average (3)
PAR
49 Across: Union unit (5)
LOCAL
50 Across: TV network (3)
PBS
51 Across: River in Devon (3)
EXE
52 Across: Germ cells (3)
OVA
53 Across: Liq. measures (3)
PTS
54 Across: Library procedure (7)
RENEWAL
58 Across: Tennis term (3)
LET
59 Across: Members of a pride (7)
LIONETS
61 Across: Analgesic (7)
ANODYNE
63 Across: Descendant of Esau (7)
EDOMITE
64 Across: Celestial gateman (7)
STPETER
65 Across: Stripper (7)
DENUDER
66 Across: Toadies (7)
HEELERS

Down Answers

1 Down: This hits the spots (7)
REMOVER
2 Down: Kin of a sheikdom (7)
EMIRATE
3 Down: Flair (7)
PANACHE
4 Down: Número ___ (3)
UNO
5 Down: Salts (4)
TARS
6 Down: Engrave (4)
ETCH
7 Down: "Mommie ___," C. Crawford book (7)
DEAREST
8 Down: Pertaining to the skull (7)
CRANIAL
9 Down: Shucks! (4)
HECK
10 Down: Shamrocks' cousins (4)
OCAS
11 Down: Divest, as of pests (3)
RID
12 Down: Cézanne had one (7)
ATELIER
13 Down: Clam's plate (7)
LAMELLA
14 Down: Heavenly (7)
ELYSIAN
21 Down: Wrath (3)
IRE
27 Down: All thumbs (5)
INEPT
28 Down: Hiawatha's craft (5)
CANOE
30 Down: Lennon's "___ and Glass" (5)
STEEL
31 Down: Allegro, e.g. (5)
TEMPO
33 Down: Kind of bird or call (3)
CAT
35 Down: Travel abbr. (3)
ARR
38 Down: Spotted (7)
DAPPLED
39 Down: Hit song in 1953 (7)
EBBTIDE
40 Down: W.W. I poet (7)
SASSOON
41 Down: He wrote "Astrophel" (7)
SPENSER
42 Down: Laundry verb (7)
PREWASH
43 Down: Altar boy (7)
ACOLYTE
44 Down: Glutton (7)
RAVENER
45 Down: Some beetles (7)
ELATERS
48 Down: What the king of diamonds has (3)
AXE
54 Down: Victoria's physician (4)
REID
55 Down: Diminutive suffix (4)
ETTE
56 Down: This precedes bellum (4)
ANTE
57 Down: Canter (4)
LOPE
60 Down: Labor org. (3)
NMU
62 Down: Blue Hen St. (3)
DEL

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