Thursday Crossword — November 28, 1991 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 11/28/1991. By Joy L. Wouk.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Family of silent actress Theda (5)
BARAS
6 Across: Switch positions (4)
OFFS
10 Across: Thanksgiving V.I.P. (4)
COOK
14 Across: Prevent (5)
AVERT
15 Across: Traditional learning (4)
LORE
16 Across: Physics Nobelist: 1944 (4)
RABI
17 Across: Part of TNT (5)
NITRO
18 Across: Macho match (4)
DUEL
19 Across: B ___ boy (4)
ASIN
20 Across: Billiard shots (6)
CAROMS
22 Across: Let up (8)
RELENTED
24 Across: Post-Thanksgiving vehicle? (8)
SNOWPLOW
26 Across: Royal symbol (3)
ORB
27 Across: ___-bel-Abbès, city near Oran (4)
SIDI
28 Across: Erose (6)
UNEVEN
32 Across: Sister of Osiris (4)
ISIS
36 Across: Wire measure (3)
MIL
37 Across: Screed (6)
TIRADE
38 Across: Pig feature (5)
SNOUT
40 Across: Alphabetic trio (3)
CDE
42 Across: Actor Flynn (5)
ERROL
43 Across: Like many a Thanksgiving pie (6)
MINCED
45 Across: Test (3)
TRY
47 Across: Thanksgiving tubers (4)
YAMS
48 Across: Typewriter bar (6)
SPACER
49 Across: Plaintiff (4)
USEE
51 Across: A Siouan (3)
OTO
52 Across: Disavows (8)
RETRACTS
57 Across: Docking tool (8)
BOATHOOK
61 Across: Tell (6)
IMPART
62 Across: Bean in 35 Down (4)
LIMA
63 Across: Appeal (4)
PLEA
65 Across: Exit (5)
ISSUE
66 Across: Elevator man (4)
OTIS
67 Across: Culbertson's namesakes (4)
ELYS
68 Across: Elizabeth II to Edward VIII (5)
NIECE
69 Across: Oxford gala (4)
BASH
70 Across: Morse-code symbol (4)
DASH
71 Across: Site of Krupp steel works (5)
ESSEN

Down Answers

1 Down: Judges' seats (5)
BANCS
2 Down: Of certain fliers (5)
AVIAN
3 Down: Kind of rocket (5)
RETRO
4 Down: Missile for Powhatan (5)
ARROW
5 Down: Jazz dances (6)
STOMPS
6 Down: Like Methuselah (3)
OLD
7 Down: Main course at the first Thanksgiving (15)
FOURWILDTURKEYS
8 Down: Release (4)
FREE
9 Down: Cause of an S.R.O. sign (7)
SELLOUT
10 Down: Thanksgiving fruit (9)
CRANBERRY
11 Down: Kiln (4)
OAST
12 Down: Tony cousin (4)
OBIE
13 Down: Class (4)
KIND
21 Down: Comedian Summerville (4)
SLIM
23 Down: Bert's TV friend (5)
ERNIE
25 Down: Lyrical (4)
ODIC
29 Down: Length unit in Vigo (4)
VARA
30 Down: King Hadad's land (4)
EDOM
31 Down: "I Remember Mama" role (4)
NELS
32 Down: Doctrines (4)
ISMS
33 Down: Bit (4)
SNIP
34 Down: Scottish island (4)
IONA
35 Down: Narragansett vegetable dish (9)
SUCCOTASH
39 Down: Thirty-two are a mouthful (5)
TEETH
41 Down: Gaelic (4)
ERSE
44 Down: Languished (7)
DROOPED
46 Down: Abominable Snowman (4)
YETI
50 Down: Royal fur (6)
ERMINE
53 Down: Point on a lunar orbit (5)
APSIS
54 Down: Lawyers' needs (5)
CASES
55 Down: Respite from conflict (5)
TRUCE
56 Down: Dutch genre painter (5)
STEEN
57 Down: Spot of color (4)
BLOB
58 Down: Kyushu port (4)
OITA
59 Down: "New Maps of Hell" author (4)
AMIS
60 Down: Spicy stew (4)
OLLA
64 Down: Residue (3)
ASH

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