Wednesday Crossword — August 7, 1985

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1576 clues~15-30 minBy Wilson McBeath8/7/1985

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Foundations (5 letters)
6 Across
Book by Julian Huxley (4 letters)
10 Across
Part of a harness (4 letters)
14 Across
Expenditure (5 letters)
15 Across
___ Baltea, Po feeder (4 letters)
16 Across
Press (4 letters)
17 Across
Go silently (5 letters)
18 Across
Declare frankly (4 letters)
19 Across
African big game (4 letters)
20 Across
Yippee! (10 letters)
22 Across
Charter (4 letters)
23 Across
Hamilton-Burr contest (4 letters)
24 Across
Consumed (5 letters)
26 Across
Neck ruff in Shakespeare's day (6 letters)
30 Across
City in SE Spain (5 letters)
32 Across
Bereft (4 letters)
33 Across
Restrain (4 letters)
35 Across
Hot under the collar (5 letters)
39 Across
Kin of a quahog (7 letters)
41 Across
Use of new words (7 letters)
43 Across
Canadian peninsula (5 letters)
44 Across
"___ go bragh" (4 letters)
46 Across
___ fixe (4 letters)
47 Across
Pointless (5 letters)
49 Across
Paint solvents (6 letters)
51 Across
Choler (5 letters)
53 Across
Jardin public (4 letters)
55 Across
Liquid refreshments (4 letters)
56 Across
Drugstore cowboys' glances (10 letters)
62 Across
Actor Edmund ___: 1892–1971 (4 letters)
63 Across
The Adamsons' pet (4 letters)
64 Across
Simile, e.g. (5 letters)
65 Across
Victim (4 letters)
66 Across
___-do-well (4 letters)
67 Across
Frost's "The Road Not ___" (5 letters)
68 Across
Withered (4 letters)
69 Across
Mary ___ Lincoln (4 letters)
70 Across
Some Nebraskans (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Trough for cooling metal (4 letters)
2 Down
Auburn or Marmon (4 letters)
3 Down
Manuscript mark (4 letters)
4 Down
Old mild expletive (4 letters)
5 Down
Three-dimensional figures (6 letters)
6 Down
Saw (5 letters)
7 Down
Boccaccio's tales (7 letters)
8 Down
Meadowlands gait (4 letters)
9 Down
He painted a fence (6 letters)
10 Down
Absquatulate (10 letters)
11 Down
Slammin' Sam rival (5 letters)
12 Down
Emulate Electra (5 letters)
13 Down
"___ Petit Placidam . . . " (Mass. motto) (4 letters)
21 Down
Poet Edgar ___ (5 letters)
25 Down
Height: Prefix (4 letters)
26 Down
Droop (4 letters)
27 Down
Diva Ponselle (4 letters)
28 Down
Garfunkel and Linkletter (4 letters)
29 Down
No way! (10 letters)
31 Down
Present preceder (4 letters)
34 Down
Carl Ed's comical creation (4 letters)
36 Down
Vein of glory (4 letters)
37 Down
City SW of Miskolc (4 letters)
38 Down
Fuchsin and woad (4 letters)
40 Down
Quebec's Lévesque (4 letters)
42 Down
First month in Córdoba (5 letters)
45 Down
Took a nap (7 letters)
48 Down
Silver (6 letters)
50 Down
Renata of the Met (6 letters)
51 Down
Revere (5 letters)
52 Down
More recent (5 letters)
54 Down
Henry ___ Wallace (5 letters)
55 Down
Range in Europe (4 letters)
57 Down
Kitchen staple (4 letters)
58 Down
Part of Q.E.D. (4 letters)
59 Down
First name of Lennon's widow (4 letters)
60 Down
Blunted sword (4 letters)
61 Down
City of the Huguenots (4 letters)

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