Thursday Crossword — August 15, 1985
Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1574 clues~15-30 minBy Nancy McCarthy8/15/1985
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Menace for Cleo's subjects (4 letters)
- 5 Across
- Goof (4 letters)
- 9 Across
- Pirate pelf (4 letters)
- 13 Across
- ___ Alto (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- Cattail of India (5 letters)
- 16 Across
- "___ Smile Be . . . " (4 letters)
- 17 Across
- Oppresses (10 letters)
- 19 Across
- River isles (4 letters)
- 20 Across
- Mister, in Messina (6 letters)
- 21 Across
- Consuming totally (8 letters)
- 23 Across
- Produce Pilsner (4 letters)
- 25 Across
- Cardinal compass point (5 letters)
- 26 Across
- Blind alleys (8 letters)
- 30 Across
- Sadat's predecessor (6 letters)
- 33 Across
- Fine silk net (5 letters)
- 34 Across
- Kind of stitch or weave (5 letters)
- 36 Across
- ___ volente (3 letters)
- 37 Across
- Of a period (4 letters)
- 38 Across
- Brownish photo (5 letters)
- 39 Across
- Business abbr. (4 letters)
- 40 Across
- "Darling buds" time (3 letters)
- 41 Across
- Young haddock (5 letters)
- 42 Across
- Kind of knife (5 letters)
- 43 Across
- Soprano from W. Va. (6 letters)
- 45 Across
- Coated a soldering iron (8 letters)
- 47 Across
- Obsolete (5 letters)
- 49 Across
- Mailed (4 letters)
- 50 Across
- Some pedestrians (8 letters)
- 53 Across
- London's ___ Arch (6 letters)
- 57 Across
- Garbo film: 1927 (4 letters)
- 58 Across
- Softpedaled; de-emphasized (10 letters)
- 60 Across
- Home of the Cyclones (4 letters)
- 61 Across
- Ten in two, on an alley (5 letters)
- 62 Across
- Rough, rugged rock (4 letters)
- 63 Across
- Start suddenly (4 letters)
- 64 Across
- Lustrous mineral (4 letters)
- 65 Across
- Shoe size (4 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Naval noncoms (4 letters)
- 2 Down
- Sitarist Shankar (4 letters)
- 3 Down
- Cassini, the couturier (4 letters)
- 4 Down
- Fuddy-duddy or schmaltzer (8 letters)
- 5 Down
- Jacques et al. (6 letters)
- 6 Down
- Garland for Ho (3 letters)
- 7 Down
- Exhort (4 letters)
- 8 Down
- "Borstal Boy" playwright (5 letters)
- 9 Down
- One's opinions (6 letters)
- 10 Down
- Overburdens (10 letters)
- 11 Down
- Volcanic island near Russia (4 letters)
- 12 Down
- Inhale suddenly (4 letters)
- 15 Down
- Tallinn's locale (7 letters)
- 18 Down
- Less desirable (5 letters)
- 22 Down
- Ayatollah's land (4 letters)
- 24 Down
- German river (5 letters)
- 26 Down
- Details (5 letters)
- 27 Down
- "Dandy King" of Naples: 1808 (5 letters)
- 28 Down
- Took it from the top, musically (10 letters)
- 29 Down
- Flavor (5 letters)
- 31 Down
- Hair-raising (5 letters)
- 32 Down
- Tethered tightly (5 letters)
- 35 Down
- Proverbial non-waiters (5 letters)
- 38 Down
- Tirades (7 letters)
- 39 Down
- Kind of bridge (8 letters)
- 41 Down
- Defeats a declarer (4 letters)
- 42 Down
- Double (5 letters)
- 44 Down
- Most meanspirited (6 letters)
- 46 Down
- Moderate (6 letters)
- 48 Down
- Stage devices (5 letters)
- 50 Down
- Dressed (4 letters)
- 51 Down
- Where the Tevere flows (4 letters)
- 52 Down
- Quid-pro-quo deal (4 letters)
- 54 Down
- Stable for Jersey's Jerseys (4 letters)
- 55 Down
- Like Cassius (4 letters)
- 56 Down
- Barely beat (4 letters)
- 59 Down
- Blue Eagle inits. (3 letters)
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