Saturday Crossword — January 10, 1976 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 1/10/1976. By H. Hastings Reddall.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Talks on and on (6)
PRATES
7 Across: Meal (6)
REPAST
13 Across: Kind of control (6)
REMOTE
14 Across: Springy (7)
ELASTIC
16 Across: Patriots of 1776 (15)
CONTINENTALARMY
18 Across: Consumed (3)
ATE
19 Across: Giveaway-ad words (7)
TAKEONE
20 Across: Poet's word (3)
EER
21 Across: Parishioner's place (3)
PEW
22 Across: German article (3)
EIN
23 Across: ___ the line (3)
TOE
24 Across: Nautical reading (3)
ESE
25 Across: Like some seals (7)
EARLESS
29 Across: Large cask (3)
TUN
30 Across: Meanders (7)
STROLLS
32 Across: Give orders (7)
DICTATE
34 Across: City way: Abbr. (3)
AVE
35 Across: Chinese leader (3)
MAO
36 Across: Have (7)
POSSESS
40 Across: Certain musician (7)
HARPIST
44 Across: Emmet (3)
ANT
45 Across: Protestant nonconformist (7)
SECTARY
47 Across: French sea (3)
MER
48 Across: Certain vote (3)
YEA
49 Across: Morsel (3)
ORT
50 Across: Be indebted (3)
OWE
51 Across: "___ in the stilly night" (3)
OFT
52 Across: ___ pensée (hidden motive) (7)
ARRIERE
56 Across: Channel (3)
GAT
57 Across: Declaration signers (15)
FOUNDINGFATHERS
60 Across: Interdicted (7)
FORBADE
61 Across: Let go (6)
UNHAND
62 Across: Joined up with (6)
TEAMED
63 Across: Hosiery threads (6)
LISLES

Down Answers

1 Down: Dissent (7)
PROTEST
2 Down: Library user, at times (7)
RENEWER
3 Down: Quantity: Abbr. (3)
AMT
4 Down: Roof, in Paris (4)
TOIT
5 Down: Lab vessel (4)
ETNA
6 Down: Ones with a quest (7)
SEEKERS
7 Down: Modified colors again (7)
RETONED
8 Down: Spirit (4)
ELAN
9 Down: Lacking vigor (4)
PALE
10 Down: Blind ___ bat (3)
ASA
11 Down: Musical passage (7)
STRETTA
12 Down: Recess (7)
TIMEOUT
15 Down: Libyan resort (6)
CYRENE
16 Down: Matadors' needs (5)
CAPES
17 Down: Armstrong (4)
NEIL
25 Down: Little people (5)
ELVES
26 Down: Scabbard lining: Fr. (5)
ALESE
27 Down: Loose jacket (5)
SIMAR
28 Down: Frightening (5)
SCARY
31 Down: Western alliance (3)
OAS
33 Down: Spinner (3)
TOP
36 Down: Retribution (6)
PAYOFF
37 Down: Twelve inches (7)
ONEFOOT
38 Down: Importance (7)
STATURE
39 Down: " . . . like a woman ___" (7)
SCORNED
40 Down: Odious (7)
HATEFUL
41 Down: Miss Coca (7)
IMOGENE
42 Down: ___ Folly (Alaska) (7)
SEWARDS
43 Down: Waste allowances (5)
TRETS
46 Down: Neat (4)
TRIG
52 Down: Genesis man (4)
ADAM
53 Down: Take for a ___ (4)
RIDE
54 Down: Hindu queen (4)
RANI
55 Down: Anglo-Saxon letters (4)
ETHS
58 Down: Knicks' league: Abbr. (3)
NBA
59 Down: Prince ___ (3)
HAL

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