Friday Crossword — September 6, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 9/6/1985. By Peter Swift.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Thrall (5)
- SLAVE
- 6 Across: Mince (4)
- CHOP
- 10 Across: One of the Feds (4)
- TMAN
- 14 Across: Fictional salesman (5)
- LOMAN
- 15 Across: Gwen Verdon role (4)
- LOLA
- 16 Across: Rumanian round dance (4)
- HORA
- 17 Across: Letter-shaped fastener (5)
- UBOLT
- 18 Across: Arab garments (4)
- ABAS
- 19 Across: The old sod (4)
- ERIN
- 20 Across: Hugo novel, with "The" (15)
- TOILERSOFTHESEA
- 23 Across: Libido (4)
- EROS
- 24 Across: Tangles (6)
- RAVELS
- 25 Across: Sustained, with "up" (6)
- BUOYED
- 28 Across: Aplomb (5)
- POISE
- 30 Across: Ancient Hebrew priest's garb (5)
- EPHOD
- 31 Across: Army supply center (4)
- BASE
- 32 Across: Provender for Spend a Buck (4)
- OATS
- 36 Across: Nun's cap (4)
- COIF
- 37 Across: Moves in ripples (5)
- PURLS
- 38 Across: Mass of Arctic ice (4)
- FLOE
- 39 Across: Gordian ___ (4)
- KNOT
- 40 Across: Nobelist Wallach (4)
- OTTO
- 41 Across: Lexicographer's concern (5)
- USAGE
- 42 Across: Rash (5)
- HASTY
- 44 Across: Choice (6)
- OPTION
- 45 Across: Tension (6)
- STRESS
- 48 Across: Immunizing agents (4)
- SERA
- 49 Across: Beaumont-Fletcher play (15)
- THEMAIDSTRAGEDY
- 55 Across: Cartoonist Peter (4)
- ARNO
- 56 Across: "___ Monday," Domino song (4)
- BLUE
- 57 Across: River through Pakistan (5)
- INDUS
- 58 Across: Printing process, for short (4)
- ROTO
- 59 Across: Como coin (4)
- LIRA
- 60 Across: Mackerel fisherman's need (5)
- SEINE
- 61 Across: Nifty (4)
- KEEN
- 62 Across: Undergrad's bugbear (4)
- EXAM
- 63 Across: Organic compound (5)
- ESTER
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Hussy (4)
- SLUT
- 2 Down: Timber wolf (4)
- LOBO
- 3 Down: Mine, to Brigitte (4)
- AMOI
- 4 Down: London novel, with "The" (15)
- VALLEYOFTHEMOON
- 5 Down: Pierced (7)
- ENTERED
- 6 Down: Style (5)
- CLASS
- 7 Down: Bindlestiff (4)
- HOBO
- 8 Down: Norway's patron saint (4)
- OLAF
- 9 Down: Napoleon and others (8)
- PASTRIES
- 10 Down: Keats poem (15)
- THEEVEOFSTAGNES
- 11 Down: Samuel Finley Breese (5)
- MORSE
- 12 Down: One of the Durants (5)
- ARIEL
- 13 Down: Nursemaids (5)
- NANAS
- 21 Down: Gat (3)
- ROD
- 22 Down: Is afflicted by (3)
- HAS
- 25 Down: Call's companion (4)
- BECK
- 26 Down: Fairy tale's second word (4)
- UPON
- 27 Down: Where the Miami flows (4)
- OHIO
- 28 Down: Shower, for one (5)
- PARTY
- 29 Down: Site of the Nobel Institute (4)
- OSLO
- 31 Down: Laughingstock (4)
- BUTT
- 33 Down: Russian range (4)
- ALAI
- 34 Down: A neighbor of Ghana (4)
- TOGO
- 35 Down: Homophone for scene (4)
- SEEN
- 37 Down: "But with God all things are ___": Matt. 19:26 (8)
- POSSIBLE
- 41 Down: Elevate (7)
- UPRAISE
- 43 Down: ___ Yoelson (3)
- ASA
- 44 Down: "___ the ramparts . . . " (3)
- OER
- 45 Down: Utter (5)
- STARK
- 46 Down: Sudden pang (5)
- THROE
- 47 Down: Nice income (5)
- RENTE
- 48 Down: Exhalation (5)
- STEAM
- 50 Down: Year in the reign of Clotaire I (4)
- DLIX
- 51 Down: Koran chapter (4)
- SURA
- 52 Down: What diaskeuasts do (4)
- EDIT
- 53 Down: A 1984 film (4)
- DUNE
- 54 Down: Belgian canal connector (4)
- YSER
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