Wednesday Crossword — June 12, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 6/12/1985. By Eugene T. Maleska.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Gooseneck (4)
- LAMP
- 5 Across: La Croce ___ (5)
- ROSSA
- 10 Across: Deportment (4)
- MIEN
- 14 Across: Ripley's "Believe ___ Not" (4)
- ITOR
- 15 Across: A Mercer collaborator (5)
- ARLEN
- 16 Across: Suffix with persist (4)
- ENCE
- 17 Across: Sleep-inducing medicaments (10)
- SOPORIFICS
- 19 Across: " . . . she bare ___": Gen. 4:25 (4)
- ASON
- 20 Across: Wielded the gavel (8)
- PRESIDED
- 21 Across: City in Minn. (6)
- WINONA
- 23 Across: R.W.R. is one (4)
- PRES
- 24 Across: Obscure (5)
- BEDIM
- 25 Across: Antique owner's concern (6)
- VENEER
- 28 Across: First name of "The Blue Angel" star (7)
- MARLENE
- 30 Across: Great Persian poet (4)
- OMAR
- 31 Across: Thinly populated (6)
- SPARSE
- 33 Across: Seine sight (3)
- ILE
- 35 Across: Director Mervyn (5)
- LEROY
- 37 Across: Poker player's "bullet" (3)
- ACE
- 38 Across: Sewer (5)
- DRAIN
- 40 Across: Ref. book (3)
- ENC
- 41 Across: Birch-family members (6)
- ALDERS
- 44 Across: Cicero's VIII (4)
- OCTO
- 45 Across: Bills passed by all Congressmen (7)
- DOLLARS
- 47 Across: They hustle after rustlers (6)
- POSSES
- 49 Across: Singer Frankie (5)
- LAINE
- 50 Across: Stream at Leeds (4)
- AIRE
- 51 Across: Spied (6)
- PEEPED
- 53 Across: Historian (8)
- ANNALIST
- 57 Across: Coleridge's "sacred river" (4)
- ALPH
- 58 Across: Sleepiness (10)
- SOMNOLENCE
- 60 Across: City NNE of Livorno (4)
- PISA
- 61 Across: Kin of Dakotas (5)
- OTOES
- 62 Across: In the distance (4)
- AFAR
- 63 Across: Uneven: Abbr. (4)
- ASYM
- 64 Across: Nightingale, e.g. (5)
- NURSE
- 65 Across: Ritual (4)
- FORM
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Say "th" for "s" (4)
- LISP
- 2 Down: Suffix with comment (4)
- ATOR
- 3 Down: Dawdle; brood (4)
- MOPE
- 4 Down: Caliban's master (8)
- PROSPERO
- 5 Down: Super Bowl XI champs (7)
- RAIDERS
- 6 Down: Some fishbowl occupants (5)
- ORFES
- 7 Down: Glissaded (4)
- SLID
- 8 Down: Dry, as wine (3)
- SEC
- 9 Down: Replies (7)
- ANSWERS
- 10 Down: Villain (6)
- MEANIE
- 11 Down: Morpheus's resisters (10)
- INSOMNIACS
- 12 Down: A social sci. (4)
- ECON
- 13 Down: Señora's baby girl (4)
- NENA
- 18 Down: Laughter, in Lyon (4)
- RIRE
- 22 Down: Loafed (5)
- IDLED
- 24 Down: Less furnished (5)
- BARER
- 25 Down: Field mouse (4)
- VOLE
- 26 Down: Correct texts (5)
- EMEND
- 27 Down: Tendency to deep sleep (10)
- NARCOLEPSY
- 28 Down: Clubs (5)
- MACES
- 29 Down: Crème de la crème (5)
- ELITE
- 32 Down: G.I.'s chaplain (5)
- PADRE
- 34 Down: Biblical oldster (4)
- ENOS
- 36 Down: An Ivy Leaguer (5)
- YALIE
- 39 Down: Shade of pink (8)
- ROSELEAF
- 42 Down: Criticizes sharply (7)
- LANDSON
- 43 Down: Armed like a porcupine (7)
- SPINOSE
- 46 Down: Howells hero (6)
- LAPHAM
- 48 Down: Viva-voce (4)
- ORAL
- 50 Down: Baxter and Boleyn (5)
- ANNES
- 51 Down: Haydn's nickname (4)
- PAPA
- 52 Down: Site of the first Olympics (4)
- ELIS
- 53 Down: Ovid topic (4)
- AMOR
- 54 Down: Lowdown (4)
- INFO
- 55 Down: Steep cliff (4)
- SCAR
- 56 Down: Something to serve (4)
- TERM
- 59 Down: Start of a Verdi aria (3)
- OTU
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