Wednesday Crossword — August 7, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/7/1985. By Wilson McBeath.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Foundations (5)
- BASES
- 6 Across: Book by Julian Huxley (4)
- ANTS
- 10 Across: Part of a harness (4)
- HAME
- 14 Across: Expenditure (5)
- OUTGO
- 15 Across: ___ Baltea, Po feeder (4)
- DORA
- 16 Across: Press (4)
- IRON
- 17 Across: Go silently (5)
- STEAL
- 18 Across: Declare frankly (4)
- AVOW
- 19 Across: African big game (4)
- GNUS
- 20 Across: Yippee! (10)
- HOTDIGGETY
- 22 Across: Charter (4)
- HIRE
- 23 Across: Hamilton-Burr contest (4)
- DUEL
- 24 Across: Consumed (5)
- EATEN
- 26 Across: Neck ruff in Shakespeare's day (6)
- FRAISE
- 30 Across: City in SE Spain (5)
- LORCA
- 32 Across: Bereft (4)
- LORN
- 33 Across: Restrain (4)
- STEM
- 35 Across: Hot under the collar (5)
- RILED
- 39 Across: Kin of a quahog (7)
- ASTARTE
- 41 Across: Use of new words (7)
- NEOLOGY
- 43 Across: Canadian peninsula (5)
- GASPE
- 44 Across: "___ go bragh" (4)
- ERIN
- 46 Across: ___ fixe (4)
- IDEE
- 47 Across: Pointless (5)
- INANE
- 49 Across: Paint solvents (6)
- ESTERS
- 51 Across: Choler (5)
- ANGER
- 53 Across: Jardin public (4)
- PARC
- 55 Across: Liquid refreshments (4)
- ADES
- 56 Across: Drugstore cowboys' glances (10)
- GOOGOOEYES
- 62 Across: Actor Edmund ___: 1892–1971 (4)
- LOWE
- 63 Across: The Adamsons' pet (4)
- ELSA
- 64 Across: Simile, e.g. (5)
- TROPE
- 65 Across: Victim (4)
- PREY
- 66 Across: ___-do-well (4)
- NEER
- 67 Across: Frost's "The Road Not ___" (5)
- TAKEN
- 68 Across: Withered (4)
- SERE
- 69 Across: Mary ___ Lincoln (4)
- TODD
- 70 Across: Some Nebraskans (5)
- OTOES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Trough for cooling metal (4)
- BOSH
- 2 Down: Auburn or Marmon (4)
- AUTO
- 3 Down: Manuscript mark (4)
- STET
- 4 Down: Old mild expletive (4)
- EGAD
- 5 Down: Three-dimensional figures (6)
- SOLIDS
- 6 Down: Saw (5)
- ADAGE
- 7 Down: Boccaccio's tales (7)
- NOVELLE
- 8 Down: Meadowlands gait (4)
- TROT
- 9 Down: He painted a fence (6)
- SAWYER
- 10 Down: Absquatulate (10)
- HIGHTAILIT
- 11 Down: Slammin' Sam rival (5)
- ARNIE
- 12 Down: Emulate Electra (5)
- MOURN
- 13 Down: "___ Petit Placidam . . . " (Mass. motto) (4)
- ENSE
- 21 Down: Poet Edgar ___ (5)
- GUEST
- 25 Down: Height: Prefix (4)
- ACRO
- 26 Down: Droop (4)
- FLAG
- 27 Down: Diva Ponselle (4)
- ROSA
- 28 Down: Garfunkel and Linkletter (4)
- ARTS
- 29 Down: No way! (10)
- INAPIGSEYE
- 31 Down: Present preceder (4)
- OMNI
- 34 Down: Carl Ed's comical creation (4)
- TEEN
- 36 Down: Vein of glory (4)
- LODE
- 37 Down: City SW of Miskolc (4)
- EGER
- 38 Down: Fuchsin and woad (4)
- DYES
- 40 Down: Quebec's Lévesque (4)
- RENE
- 42 Down: First month in Córdoba (5)
- ENERO
- 45 Down: Took a nap (7)
- REPOSED
- 48 Down: Silver (6)
- ARGENT
- 50 Down: Renata of the Met (6)
- SCOTTO
- 51 Down: Revere (5)
- ADORE
- 52 Down: More recent (5)
- NEWER
- 54 Down: Henry ___ Wallace (5)
- AGARD
- 55 Down: Range in Europe (4)
- ALPS
- 57 Down: Kitchen staple (4)
- OLEO
- 58 Down: Part of Q.E.D. (4)
- ERAT
- 59 Down: First name of Lennon's widow (4)
- YOKO
- 60 Down: Blunted sword (4)
- EPEE
- 61 Down: City of the Huguenots (4)
- SENS
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