Saturday Crossword — August 17, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 8/17/1985. By Virginia P. Abelson.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Twerps (5)
- DRIPS
- 6 Across: Soprano Gluck (4)
- ALMA
- 10 Across: "The ___ 'e knows . . . ": Kipling (4)
- ORSE
- 14 Across: Author of "Gods, Graves and Scholars" (5)
- CERAM
- 15 Across: "Billy ___": Courtenay film (4)
- LIAR
- 16 Across: Seines (4)
- NETS
- 17 Across: One-time Globetrotter (15)
- MEADOWLARKLEMON
- 20 Across: Flower chain (7)
- FESTOON
- 21 Across: Put on a pedestal (5)
- ADORE
- 22 Across: "Scarface" director (11)
- HOWARDHAWKS
- 25 Across: Scraped (6)
- RASPED
- 29 Across: Widely outspread (4)
- OARY
- 30 Across: Less cordial (5)
- ICIER
- 31 Across: Locarno event: 1925 (4)
- PACT
- 33 Across: Beame or Burrows (3)
- ABE
- 36 Across: Designer of St. Paul's Cathedral (15)
- CHRISTOPHERWREN
- 40 Across: Half a bray (3)
- HEE
- 41 Across: To ___ (exactly) (4)
- ATEE
- 42 Across: Healing: Comb. form (5)
- IATRO
- 43 Across: Gambling game (4)
- FARO
- 45 Across: Bitterns' kin (6)
- EGRETS
- 46 Across: Nixon's first Secretary of HEW (11)
- ROBERTFINCH
- 51 Across: Houston's The Summit, e.g. (5)
- ARENA
- 52 Across: Sporting dogs (7)
- SETTERS
- 56 Across: Pope John Paul II, once (15)
- CARDINALWOJTYLA
- 60 Across: Pronoun for Piaf (4)
- ELLE
- 61 Across: Incite (4)
- ABET
- 62 Across: Mr. T's group (5)
- ATEAM
- 63 Across: Bambi, e.g. (4)
- DEER
- 64 Across: Rods (4)
- GATS
- 65 Across: Outdoes (5)
- BESTS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Brit. mil. award (3)
- DCM
- 2 Down: "Donovan's ___": 1963 film (4)
- REEF
- 3 Down: Dies ___ (4)
- IRAE
- 4 Down: Tablets (4)
- PADS
- 5 Down: Entertainer Tom or Dick (8)
- SMOTHERS
- 6 Down: Let (5)
- ALLOW
- 7 Down: Climbing plant (5)
- LIANA
- 8 Down: Damage (3)
- MAR
- 9 Down: Barn-voyage craft? (3)
- ARK
- 10 Down: "___ at a Time" (6)
- ONEDAY
- 11 Down: Cut grass again (5)
- REMOW
- 12 Down: Adjutant (5)
- STORK
- 13 Down: Anglo-Saxon laborers (5)
- ESNES
- 18 Down: Irwin's driver, e.g. (4)
- WOOD
- 19 Down: Author of "Notes on a Cowardly Lion" (4)
- LAHR
- 23 Down: Rock for René (5)
- ROCHE
- 24 Down: Kind of palm (4)
- DATE
- 25 Down: Affluent (4)
- RICH
- 26 Down: Word after back or head (4)
- ACHE
- 27 Down: Secretariat's retirement role (4)
- SIRE
- 28 Down: Architect I.M. ___ (3)
- PEI
- 31 Down: Rainbow's ___ gold (5)
- POTOF
- 32 Down: Wou-wou (3)
- APE
- 33 Down: Pitti Palace display (4)
- ARTE
- 34 Down: Convy or Wheeler (4)
- BERT
- 35 Down: Simian space traveler (4)
- ENOS
- 37 Down: Caustic (4)
- TART
- 38 Down: Weapon for Hearns (8)
- RIGHTJAB
- 39 Down: "Ares' chick": Aristophanes (3)
- WAR
- 43 Down: Fireplace screen (6)
- FENDER
- 44 Down: Goddesses of vengeance (4)
- ARAI
- 45 Down: Outside: Comb. form (4)
- ECTO
- 46 Down: Sped (5)
- RACED
- 47 Down: Fanon (5)
- ORALE
- 48 Down: Adolf or Milton (5)
- BERLE
- 49 Down: Eyot (5)
- ISLET
- 50 Down: Tritons (5)
- NEWTS
- 53 Down: Suffix for cigar (4)
- ETTE
- 54 Down: Bread and whisky (4)
- RYES
- 55 Down: Louver board (4)
- SLAT
- 57 Down: Faultfinder (3)
- NAG
- 58 Down: Arabian garment (3)
- ABA
- 59 Down: Morning hrs. (3)
- AMS
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