Thursday Crossword — July 4, 1985

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1574 clues~15-30 minBy A. J. Santora7/4/1985

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Defect (4 letters)
5 Across
S.A. country (3 letters)
8 Across
Groove (4 letters)
12 Across
Knobby of Joe Palooka strip (5 letters)
13 Across
Actor Gorcey (3 letters)
14 Across
Bob of U.S.O. fame (4 letters)
15 Across
Dejected (6 letters)
16 Across
Map abbr. (3 letters)
17 Across
Kind of hygiene (4 letters)
18 Across
Start of a patriotic song (15 letters)
21 Across
Song: Part II (5 letters)
22 Across
Start a paragraph (6 letters)
23 Across
Not Dem. or Rep. (3 letters)
24 Across
Tidies (6 letters)
25 Across
Latin I word (3 letters)
28 Across
Panorama (5 letters)
30 Across
Wind a rod after a bite (6 letters)
32 Across
The George ___ (7 letters)
35 Across
Bargain (7 letters)
36 Across
Hate (6 letters)
37 Across
Light raft (5 letters)
38 Across
Hardened (3 letters)
39 Across
Job security (6 letters)
41 Across
Give ___ try (3 letters)
44 Across
Hemingway (6 letters)
45 Across
"No ___ an island": Donne (5 letters)
47 Across
More of the song (15 letters)
51 Across
Congregation word (4 letters)
52 Across
Ending for Jersey (3 letters)
53 Across
Still more of the song (6 letters)
54 Across
Bill of bites? (4 letters)
55 Across
Kind of American (3 letters)
56 Across
Helpful (5 letters)
57 Across
Opposed (4 letters)
58 Across
Bandleader Brown (3 letters)
59 Across
Sheer nonsense (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
___ wide (extensively) (6 letters)
2 Down
Actor Nolan (5 letters)
3 Down
Test (5 letters)
4 Down
Declaration starter (4 letters)
5 Down
New owner, in law (7 letters)
6 Down
Mignonette (6 letters)
7 Down
"Do unto others . . . " (10 letters)
8 Down
Discharge a musket (5 letters)
9 Down
Olivier is one (4 letters)
10 Down
Gemstone (4 letters)
11 Down
Part of TV (4 letters)
12 Down
Helen Reddy's "I Am ___" (5 letters)
15 Down
South of France (4 letters)
19 Down
Drying ovens (5 letters)
20 Down
Attacks (6 letters)
24 Down
1876, e.g. (10 letters)
25 Down
Part of the U.S.A. (3 letters)
26 Down
Cambridge inst. (3 letters)
27 Down
"___ if by land . . . " (3 letters)
28 Down
Pronoun for Old Ironsides (3 letters)
29 Down
His orientation came in Oriente (6 letters)
31 Down
Monroe's ___ of Good Feeling (3 letters)
32 Down
A.M.A. people (3 letters)
33 Down
So-so mark (3 letters)
34 Down
Mel of Cooperstown (3 letters)
35 Down
Word before blanche (5 letters)
37 Down
Large amounts (7 letters)
40 Down
Irritate (6 letters)
41 Down
Implosion (6 letters)
42 Down
Championship (5 letters)
43 Down
Pale (4 letters)
44 Down
Boredom (5 letters)
45 Down
Soprano Anna (5 letters)
46 Down
Cookery term (5 letters)
47 Down
Crimson Tide (4 letters)
48 Down
Portent (4 letters)
49 Down
Lease (4 letters)
50 Down
Kind of soldier (4 letters)

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