Thursday Crossword — April 11, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 4/11/1985. By Brian G. Tyler.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Counterpart of fraternal (7)
- SORORAL
- 8 Across: Idle chatter (7)
- PALAVER
- 15 Across: Run-of-the-mill (7)
- AVERAGE
- 16 Across: Raise (7)
- ELEVATE
- 17 Across: Threatens (7)
- MENACES
- 18 Across: Guided (7)
- STEERED
- 19 Across: Blab (5)
- PRATE
- 20 Across: Purvey (5)
- CATER
- 22 Across: Anger (3)
- IRE
- 23 Across: Kind of duck (4)
- LAME
- 24 Across: Candle (5)
- TAPER
- 25 Across: More than some (4)
- MANY
- 26 Across: Opposite of hiver (3)
- ETE
- 27 Across: Hen (5)
- LAYER
- 28 Across: Curriculum ___ (5)
- VITAE
- 29 Across: Renovates (8)
- RESTORES
- 31 Across: Highway havens (6)
- MOTELS
- 32 Across: Exclamation of disgust (4)
- RATS
- 33 Across: Quote (4)
- CITE
- 34 Across: Treats a violin bow (6)
- ROSINS
- 37 Across: Live with (8)
- TOLERATE
- 41 Across: A constellation (5)
- ARIES
- 42 Across: Fathered (5)
- SIRED
- 43 Across: Word with power or handle (3)
- MAN
- 44 Across: Tend (4)
- MIND
- 45 Across: Certain sports events (5)
- OPENS
- 46 Across: Ste. Jeanne ___ (4)
- DARC
- 47 Across: Kind of salad (3)
- EGG
- 48 Across: Bjorn Borg, for one (5)
- SWEDE
- 49 Across: ___ voce (5)
- SOTTO
- 50 Across: Cracker (7)
- SALTINE
- 52 Across: Tire type (7)
- RETREAD
- 54 Across: Edited critically (7)
- EMENDED
- 55 Across: Mistake indication (7)
- ERASURE
- 56 Across: Antigone and Ismene (7)
- SISTERS
- 57 Across: Wishes (7)
- DESIRES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Wall ornament (7)
- SAMPLER
- 2 Down: Yielded to esurience (7)
- OVERATE
- 3 Down: Appoints anew (7)
- RENAMES
- 4 Down: Speak pompously (5)
- ORATE
- 5 Down: Dash (4)
- RACE
- 6 Down: Mature (3)
- AGE
- 7 Down: Haitian seaport (8)
- LESCAYES
- 8 Down: Badger (6)
- PESTER
- 9 Down: Tailor (5)
- ALTER
- 10 Down: Salacious look (4)
- LEER
- 11 Down: Map abbr. (3)
- AVE
- 12 Down: Statistics term (7)
- VARIATE
- 13 Down: "Love Is ___," I. Stone book (7)
- ETERNAL
- 14 Down: Rock bass and rudd (7)
- REDEYES
- 21 Down: Imitates (4)
- APES
- 24 Down: Bakery items (5)
- TARTS
- 25 Down: Liturgical headdress (5)
- MITER
- 27 Down: Advances made by bankers (5)
- LOANS
- 28 Down: Performed a civic duty (5)
- VOTED
- 30 Down: True's partner (5)
- TRIED
- 31 Down: What an odometer measures (5)
- MILES
- 33 Down: At bay (8)
- CORNERED
- 34 Down: Abu Simbel figure (7)
- RAMESES
- 35 Down: Oriental art (7)
- ORIGAMI
- 36 Down: Kind of bar (7)
- SINGLES
- 37 Down: What some are fit to be (4)
- TIED
- 38 Down: Olympics competitor (7)
- AMATEUR
- 39 Down: Steak order (7)
- TARTARE
- 40 Down: Does a cryptographer's job (7)
- ENCODES
- 42 Down: Exceeds 55 (6)
- SPEEDS
- 45 Down: One of the English gentry (5)
- OWNER
- 46 Down: Back: Comb. form (5)
- DORSI
- 48 Down: Kind of walk or wall (4)
- SIDE
- 49 Down: Stops on a RR (4)
- STAS
- 51 Down: Trinitrotoluene, for short (3)
- TNT
- 53 Down: Poetic palindrome (3)
- ERE
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