Complete Clue List
Across
1. Relaxation, sometimes seen (with "off") when an athlete knows they've qualified or won
5. Resembling a phallus
10. Animal house
14. Country with "FRA" IOC code
15. IOC country code for Trinidad and Tobago
16. Go to extremes, as athletes can do with exercise
17. Nursing need
18. Some Winter Olympians, though roller exponents competed in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
21. Shaker stuff
22. Climactic musical finales
23. Exercise that's good for the heart and lungs
24. Quadrennial (usually) summer or winter sports events: ____ Games
27. First name in gravity
30. Country with "NEP" IOC code
31. Thane (alt.), feudal lord or baron
34. Land clumsily and noisily
36. IOC country code for Mauritania
37. Country with "LAO" IOC code
38. Stadium sound
40. IOC code at 2016 Summer Olympics for athletes displaced from home countries
42. Recycling receptacle
43. Playground game
45. Roused
46. Former British colony, now part of China with "HKG" IOC code (4,4)
47. Naval rank (abbr.) or printing widths
48. IOC country code for Saint Lucia
50. IOC country code for Turkey
51. IOC country code for New Zealand
52. Athletes from the ____ of Man compete at the Olympics as part of Team GB (GBR)
54. Satisfied sigh
56. Country with "MLI" IOC code
58. Athlete competing under the "IRQ" IOC code
60. A sucking insect of the order Thysanoptera
62. Butcher's wares
64. Basic dance move (3-4)
66. One-celled swimmers
68. Knocking sound (3-1-3)
71. Gun barrel measure relevant in shooting sports
72. Country with "BLR" IOC code
75. "Well played!"
76. Country with "BRA" IOC code
77. IOC country code for East Timor (Timor-Leste)
78. Events at the Olympic Games
79. Breathing sound
80. Use as a model
81. Hatchling's home
Down
1. Young newts
2. Rugged ridges
3. Protectorate (1947-1956) competing in 1952 Summer Olympics before rejoining West Germany
4. Relating to the intestines
5. Basil-based sauce
6. IOC country code for Italy
7. Separate tries allowed in field events
8. Baltimore bard
9. Trig function, reciprocal of sin
10. Country with "LES" IOC code
11. Middle word in "UAE" and formerly "UAR" (1964 and 1968)
12. Inactivity, taking it easy, such as when waiting to compete
13. US campus military org.
19. Good place for a firing
20. Skateboarding obstacle suitable for grinding
25. IOC country code for Yemen
26. IOC country code for Panama
27. Person competing under the "ISR" IOC code
28. Loss of speech
29. Baroque composer Arcangelo, or Captain with a mandolin in a 2001 film
31. Seven-piece Chinese puzzle
32. Olympians from this Baltic country wear the "EST" IOC code
33. Minor injuries carried by some athletes
35. Explorer Juan ____ de León (1474-1521)
37. Herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves
39. Barley bristle
41. Leaves for a drink
42. IOC country code for Botswana
44. IOC country code for Australasia when Australia and New Zealand competed together in 1908 and 1912
49. Olympic official or athletes from the ____ Islands (MHL) in the Pacific
53. Tight spot
54. Historic IOC country code for Netherlands Antilles
55. A strike seen in some Olympic sports
57. Country with "LBN" IOC code
59. Shark hanger-on
60. Affectedly quaint, in England
61. Country with "PER" IOC code
63. Stretches of land in the equestrian eventing cross-country round
64. Graphical device for comparing Olympic medals won by countries
65. No longer done (eg Olympic sports like tug-of-war, live pigeon shooting, ...)
66. E.g., e.g.
67. Word-of-mouth
69. Essential "spare" equipment for cyclists? (Var.)
70. Challenge or trial
73. IOC country code for Lithuania
74. IOC country code for South Africa