Wednesday Crossword — August 21, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 8/21/1985. By Norma Steinberg.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Ointment (4)
- BALM
- 5 Across: Cry of a flushed snipe (5)
- SCAPE
- 10 Across: Enos's grandmother (3)
- EVE
- 13 Across: Pelvic bone (5)
- ILIUM
- 15 Across: Galsworthy novel (5)
- TOLET
- 16 Across: Res followers (3)
- MIS
- 17 Across: Uncas's friend (11)
- NATTYBUMPPO
- 19 Across: Gamp or Gummidge (3)
- MRS
- 20 Across: Lasso's sound (5)
- WHIRR
- 21 Across: Letter addenda (3)
- PSS
- 22 Across: Leaf (4)
- PAGE
- 23 Across: Unsophisticated (5)
- NAIVE
- 25 Across: Forerunner of the freezer (6)
- ICEBOX
- 27 Across: More than several (4)
- MANY
- 30 Across: Morse signal (3)
- DIT
- 31 Across: Treaty gp. (4)
- NATO
- 32 Across: Ovidian declaration (3)
- AMO
- 33 Across: MOMA piece (4)
- KLEE
- 34 Across: Live it up (5)
- REVEL
- 37 Across: Sidekick (7)
- PARTNER
- 39 Across: Hymn (7)
- CHORALE
- 41 Across: Gin (5)
- SNARE
- 42 Across: Bakery tool (4)
- PEEL
- 43 Across: Brazilian's coffee (3)
- RIO
- 44 Across: Lou Ferrigno role (4)
- HULK
- 46 Across: "___ longa . . . " (3)
- ARS
- 47 Across: Tatum's father (4)
- RYAN
- 48 Across: Thaumaturgist's word (6)
- PRESTO
- 50 Across: ___ Dame (5)
- NOTRE
- 52 Across: Motherwell medium (4)
- OILS
- 53 Across: N.Z. parrot (3)
- KEA
- 55 Across: Morbid condition: Suffix (5)
- IASIS
- 58 Across: Popular street name (3)
- ELM
- 59 Across: Cheerful fictional clerk (11)
- BOBCRATCHIT
- 62 Across: Where Wadkins starts (3)
- TEE
- 63 Across: Cornhuskers' city (5)
- OMAHA
- 64 Across: Polished (5)
- SUAVE
- 65 Across: Land south of Turk. (3)
- SYR
- 66 Across: Regions (5)
- ZONES
- 67 Across: Cheese-store purchase (4)
- EDAM
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Storage area (3)
- BIN
- 2 Down: "There ought to be ___!" (4)
- ALAW
- 3 Down: An S.S.R. (4)
- LITH
- 4 Down: Bligh's problem (6)
- MUTINY
- 5 Down: Erwin of old films (3)
- STU
- 6 Down: Run in a race (7)
- COMPETE
- 7 Down: Tyrol's locale (4)
- ALPS
- 8 Down: Important enzyme (6)
- PEPSIN
- 9 Down: Ike's domain in 1942 (3)
- ETO
- 10 Down: Subject of a Flaubert masterpiece (10)
- EMMABOVARY
- 11 Down: A September sign (5)
- VIRGO
- 12 Down: Lover of Elizabeth I (5)
- ESSEX
- 14 Down: Breckinridge or Hess (4)
- MYRA
- 18 Down: Restrain (6)
- BRIDLE
- 22 Down: Ustinov or O'Toole (5)
- PETER
- 24 Down: Contender (4)
- VIER
- 26 Down: Burnett or Channing (5)
- CAROL
- 27 Down: Charts (4)
- MAPS
- 28 Down: "___ for All Seasons" (4)
- AMAN
- 29 Down: Ibsen's "doll" (10)
- NORAHELMER
- 33 Down: Genuflected (5)
- KNELT
- 35 Down: "Roast Pig" dissertator (4)
- ELIA
- 36 Down: Uris or Goossens (4)
- LEON
- 38 Down: Tie up (5)
- TRUSS
- 39 Down: Zilch, to Zapata (4)
- CERO
- 40 Down: Vesta, to Greeks (6)
- HESTIA
- 42 Down: Flamboyance (7)
- PANACHE
- 45 Down: Ind. city (6)
- KOKOMO
- 47 Down: Save (6)
- RESCUE
- 48 Down: Wilbur and Merrill (5)
- POETS
- 49 Down: William Bendix role (5)
- RILEY
- 51 Down: Charlie Brown expletive (4)
- RATS
- 54 Down: Israeli statesman (4)
- EBAN
- 56 Down: "If ___ a Hammer" (4)
- IHAD
- 57 Down: Hindu god (4)
- SIVA
- 59 Down: Dickens's nom de plume (3)
- BOZ
- 60 Down: Ethiopian prince (3)
- RAS
- 61 Down: Pro ___ (3)
- TEM
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