Thursday Crossword — October 24, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 10/24/1985. By Dorothy Elliott.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Kind of suit (5)
- LIBEL
- 6 Across: Create edgings (3)
- TAT
- 9 Across: Tree of the custard-apple family (5)
- PAPAW
- 14 Across: " . . . to get you in ___, honey" (5)
- ATAXI
- 15 Across: Mature (3)
- AGE
- 16 Across: Calvino or Balbo (5)
- ITALO
- 17 Across: "Beat it!" (5)
- SCRAM
- 18 Across: Turpin or Vereen (3)
- BEN
- 19 Across: Wakefield personage (5)
- VICAR
- 20 Across: Hope movie: 1951 (15)
- THELEMONDROPKID
- 23 Across: Half-inning ender (8)
- THIRDOUT
- 24 Across: Sounds of surprise (3)
- OHS
- 27 Across: About 70 percent of the globe (6)
- OCEANS
- 28 Across: Caesar's co-star (4)
- COCA
- 32 Across: Citrus fruit (7)
- KUMQUAT
- 34 Across: Attack (7)
- SETUPON
- 36 Across: Early A.D. theologian (5)
- ARIUS
- 37 Across: Tolerate (5)
- ABIDE
- 38 Across: Most inclined to dawdle (7)
- POKIEST
- 41 Across: Allen film: 1971 (7)
- BANANAS
- 43 Across: Agnes, in Avila (4)
- INEZ
- 44 Across: Saxe-___ (6)
- COBURG
- 46 Across: Superlative finisher (3)
- EST
- 47 Across: Prussian city, famed for cutlery (8)
- SOLINGEN
- 49 Across: Burgess work, with "A" (15)
- CLOCKWORKORANGE
- 56 Across: SE Asian capital (5)
- HANOI
- 57 Across: Sma (3)
- WEE
- 58 Across: Paragon (5)
- IDEAL
- 59 Across: Squash variety (5)
- ACORN
- 60 Across: "A Q O T W F" novelist (3)
- EMR
- 61 Across: Halos (5)
- NIMBS
- 62 Across: Revengers in a recent film (5)
- NERDS
- 63 Across: ___ gestae (3)
- RES
- 64 Across: Notched (5)
- EROSE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Fitzgerald's "The ___ Tycoon" (4)
- LAST
- 2 Down: Hankering (4)
- ITCH
- 3 Down: Expose (4)
- BARE
- 4 Down: Glorify (5)
- EXALT
- 5 Down: "___ Blues," 1924 song (9)
- LIMEHOUSE
- 6 Down: Potted-plant stand (7)
- TABORET
- 7 Down: Schedule (6)
- AGENDA
- 8 Down: Hamstrings (7)
- TENDONS
- 9 Down: Turn (5)
- PIVOT
- 10 Down: Very eager (4)
- ATIP
- 11 Down: Roller-derby grouping (4)
- PACK
- 12 Down: Jai ___ (4)
- ALAI
- 13 Down: Promise (4)
- WORD
- 21 Down: Muscovite (4)
- MICA
- 22 Down: Stratagem (4)
- RUSE
- 24 Down: Giraffe's kin (5)
- OKAPI
- 25 Down: Lake or Indian (5)
- HURON
- 26 Down: Nickleby's companion (5)
- SMIKE
- 28 Down: Largest of the West Indies (4)
- CUBA
- 29 Down: Express a viewpoint (5)
- OPINE
- 30 Down: Ballet finales (5)
- CODAS
- 31 Down: "___ of robins . . . " (5)
- ANEST
- 33 Down: Exam (4)
- QUIZ
- 35 Down: Jimmy Dorsey hit of 1942 (9)
- TANGERINE
- 39 Down: Flat-bottomed boat (4)
- SCOW
- 40 Down: "When the night is beginning ___": Longfellow (7)
- TOLOWER
- 41 Down: Edith and Archie (7)
- BUNKERS
- 42 Down: Ex-constellation (4)
- ARGO
- 45 Down: Vessel that saw action a Actium (6)
- BIREME
- 47 Down: K.P. residue (5)
- SKINS
- 48 Down: Zenith's opposite (5)
- NADIR
- 49 Down: Fictional sleuth (4)
- CHAN
- 50 Down: Limerick product (4)
- LACE
- 51 Down: ___ about (approximately) (4)
- ONOR
- 52 Down: String (4)
- CORD
- 53 Down: Nautilus captain (4)
- NEMO
- 54 Down: Wags the tongue (4)
- GABS
- 55 Down: Otherwise (4)
- ELSE
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