Saturday Crossword — August 17, 1985

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1574 clues~30-60 minBy Virginia P. Abelson8/17/1985

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Twerps (5 letters)
6 Across
Soprano Gluck (4 letters)
10 Across
"The ___ 'e knows . . . ": Kipling (4 letters)
14 Across
Author of "Gods, Graves and Scholars" (5 letters)
15 Across
"Billy ___": Courtenay film (4 letters)
16 Across
Seines (4 letters)
17 Across
One-time Globetrotter (15 letters)
20 Across
Flower chain (7 letters)
21 Across
Put on a pedestal (5 letters)
22 Across
"Scarface" director (11 letters)
25 Across
Scraped (6 letters)
29 Across
Widely outspread (4 letters)
30 Across
Less cordial (5 letters)
31 Across
Locarno event: 1925 (4 letters)
33 Across
Beame or Burrows (3 letters)
36 Across
Designer of St. Paul's Cathedral (15 letters)
40 Across
Half a bray (3 letters)
41 Across
To ___ (exactly) (4 letters)
42 Across
Healing: Comb. form (5 letters)
43 Across
Gambling game (4 letters)
45 Across
Bitterns' kin (6 letters)
46 Across
Nixon's first Secretary of HEW (11 letters)
51 Across
Houston's The Summit, e.g. (5 letters)
52 Across
Sporting dogs (7 letters)
56 Across
Pope John Paul II, once (15 letters)
60 Across
Pronoun for Piaf (4 letters)
61 Across
Incite (4 letters)
62 Across
Mr. T's group (5 letters)
63 Across
Bambi, e.g. (4 letters)
64 Across
Rods (4 letters)
65 Across
Outdoes (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Brit. mil. award (3 letters)
2 Down
"Donovan's ___": 1963 film (4 letters)
3 Down
Dies ___ (4 letters)
4 Down
Tablets (4 letters)
5 Down
Entertainer Tom or Dick (8 letters)
6 Down
Let (5 letters)
7 Down
Climbing plant (5 letters)
8 Down
Damage (3 letters)
9 Down
Barn-voyage craft? (3 letters)
10 Down
"___ at a Time" (6 letters)
11 Down
Cut grass again (5 letters)
12 Down
Adjutant (5 letters)
13 Down
Anglo-Saxon laborers (5 letters)
18 Down
Irwin's driver, e.g. (4 letters)
19 Down
Author of "Notes on a Cowardly Lion" (4 letters)
23 Down
Rock for René (5 letters)
24 Down
Kind of palm (4 letters)
25 Down
Affluent (4 letters)
26 Down
Word after back or head (4 letters)
27 Down
Secretariat's retirement role (4 letters)
28 Down
Architect I.M. ___ (3 letters)
31 Down
Rainbow's ___ gold (5 letters)
32 Down
Wou-wou (3 letters)
33 Down
Pitti Palace display (4 letters)
34 Down
Convy or Wheeler (4 letters)
35 Down
Simian space traveler (4 letters)
37 Down
Caustic (4 letters)
38 Down
Weapon for Hearns (8 letters)
39 Down
"Ares' chick": Aristophanes (3 letters)
43 Down
Fireplace screen (6 letters)
44 Down
Goddesses of vengeance (4 letters)
45 Down
Outside: Comb. form (4 letters)
46 Down
Sped (5 letters)
47 Down
Fanon (5 letters)
48 Down
Adolf or Milton (5 letters)
49 Down
Eyot (5 letters)
50 Down
Tritons (5 letters)
53 Down
Suffix for cigar (4 letters)
54 Down
Bread and whisky (4 letters)
55 Down
Louver board (4 letters)
57 Down
Faultfinder (3 letters)
58 Down
Arabian garment (3 letters)
59 Down
Morning hrs. (3 letters)

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