Thursday Crossword — October 24, 1985
Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1572 clues~15-30 minBy Dorothy Elliott10/24/1985
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Kind of suit (5 letters)
- 6 Across
- Create edgings (3 letters)
- 9 Across
- Tree of the custard-apple family (5 letters)
- 14 Across
- " . . . to get you in ___, honey" (5 letters)
- 15 Across
- Mature (3 letters)
- 16 Across
- Calvino or Balbo (5 letters)
- 17 Across
- "Beat it!" (5 letters)
- 18 Across
- Turpin or Vereen (3 letters)
- 19 Across
- Wakefield personage (5 letters)
- 20 Across
- Hope movie: 1951 (15 letters)
- 23 Across
- Half-inning ender (8 letters)
- 24 Across
- Sounds of surprise (3 letters)
- 27 Across
- About 70 percent of the globe (6 letters)
- 28 Across
- Caesar's co-star (4 letters)
- 32 Across
- Citrus fruit (7 letters)
- 34 Across
- Attack (7 letters)
- 36 Across
- Early A.D. theologian (5 letters)
- 37 Across
- Tolerate (5 letters)
- 38 Across
- Most inclined to dawdle (7 letters)
- 41 Across
- Allen film: 1971 (7 letters)
- 43 Across
- Agnes, in Avila (4 letters)
- 44 Across
- Saxe-___ (6 letters)
- 46 Across
- Superlative finisher (3 letters)
- 47 Across
- Prussian city, famed for cutlery (8 letters)
- 49 Across
- Burgess work, with "A" (15 letters)
- 56 Across
- SE Asian capital (5 letters)
- 57 Across
- Sma (3 letters)
- 58 Across
- Paragon (5 letters)
- 59 Across
- Squash variety (5 letters)
- 60 Across
- "A Q O T W F" novelist (3 letters)
- 61 Across
- Halos (5 letters)
- 62 Across
- Revengers in a recent film (5 letters)
- 63 Across
- ___ gestae (3 letters)
- 64 Across
- Notched (5 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Fitzgerald's "The ___ Tycoon" (4 letters)
- 2 Down
- Hankering (4 letters)
- 3 Down
- Expose (4 letters)
- 4 Down
- Glorify (5 letters)
- 5 Down
- "___ Blues," 1924 song (9 letters)
- 6 Down
- Potted-plant stand (7 letters)
- 7 Down
- Schedule (6 letters)
- 8 Down
- Hamstrings (7 letters)
- 9 Down
- Turn (5 letters)
- 10 Down
- Very eager (4 letters)
- 11 Down
- Roller-derby grouping (4 letters)
- 12 Down
- Jai ___ (4 letters)
- 13 Down
- Promise (4 letters)
- 21 Down
- Muscovite (4 letters)
- 22 Down
- Stratagem (4 letters)
- 24 Down
- Giraffe's kin (5 letters)
- 25 Down
- Lake or Indian (5 letters)
- 26 Down
- Nickleby's companion (5 letters)
- 28 Down
- Largest of the West Indies (4 letters)
- 29 Down
- Express a viewpoint (5 letters)
- 30 Down
- Ballet finales (5 letters)
- 31 Down
- "___ of robins . . . " (5 letters)
- 33 Down
- Exam (4 letters)
- 35 Down
- Jimmy Dorsey hit of 1942 (9 letters)
- 39 Down
- Flat-bottomed boat (4 letters)
- 40 Down
- "When the night is beginning ___": Longfellow (7 letters)
- 41 Down
- Edith and Archie (7 letters)
- 42 Down
- Ex-constellation (4 letters)
- 45 Down
- Vessel that saw action a Actium (6 letters)
- 47 Down
- K.P. residue (5 letters)
- 48 Down
- Zenith's opposite (5 letters)
- 49 Down
- Fictional sleuth (4 letters)
- 50 Down
- Limerick product (4 letters)
- 51 Down
- ___ about (approximately) (4 letters)
- 52 Down
- String (4 letters)
- 53 Down
- Nautilus captain (4 letters)
- 54 Down
- Wags the tongue (4 letters)
- 55 Down
- Otherwise (4 letters)
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