Saturday Crossword — March 20, 1976 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 3/20/1976. By Allan Blackman.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Metal beam (4)
TBAR
5 Across: "The Wreck of the Mary ___" (5)
DEARE
10 Across: Contend with (4)
COPE
14 Across: Between theta and kappa (4)
IOTA
15 Across: Writer Horatio (5)
ALGER
16 Across: Eye: Prefix (4)
OCUL
17 Across: Famous group of ten (15)
THEBILLOFRIGHTS
20 Across: State: Abbr. (3)
ORE
21 Across: Movies' Ma Kettle (4)
MAIN
22 Across: Discontinue (5)
CEASE
23 Across: Droops (4)
SAGS
24 Across: Ribbon: Prefix (4)
TAEN
26 Across: Eucharistic plates (6)
PATENS
29 Across: Envoys (7)
LEGATES
32 Across: Resembling: Suffix (4)
ULAR
33 Across: Writer Lafcadio (5)
HEARN
34 Across: Mil. address (3)
APO
36 Across: Landmark case (15)
MARBURYVMADISON
40 Across: Cast ___ vote (oppose) (3)
ANO
41 Across: Stem joints (5)
NODES
42 Across: Parched (4)
SERE
43 Across: Speak in a way (7)
STUTTER
45 Across: Fortune or bank (6)
TELLER
47 Across: Island off Sumatra (4)
NIAS
48 Across: Sarazen (4)
GENE
49 Across: Demean (5)
ABASE
52 Across: Salvation or Coxey's (4)
ARMY
53 Across: Scarf (3)
BOA
56 Across: One of nine (15)
MRJUSTICEPOWELL
60 Across: Diamond shape (4)
PEAR
61 Across: Of a space (5)
AREAL
62 Across: Genesis name (4)
ABEL
63 Across: ___ Coburg (4)
SAXE
64 Across: Discernment (5)
TASTE
65 Across: Lily of West (4)
SEGO

Down Answers

1 Down: Broz (4)
TITO
2 Down: Physicist Niels (4)
BOHR
3 Down: Suit to ___ (4)
ATEE
4 Down: Mortar beater (3)
RAB
5 Down: Fish of P.I. (6)
DALAGS
6 Down: Havelock ___ (5)
ELLIS
7 Down: Literary struggle (4)
AGON
8 Down: Arbiter (3)
REF
9 Down: Sin (3)
ERR
10 Down: Convincing (6)
COGENT
11 Down: Turkish weight (4)
OCHA
12 Down: Calls' cousins (4)
PUTS
13 Down: Or ___ (4)
ELSE
18 Down: "___ old cow hand . . . " (4)
IMAN
19 Down: ___ snow (6)
ICEAND
23 Down: Balkan native (4)
SERB
24 Down: Mets and Nets (5)
TEAMS
25 Down: Taj Mahal locale (4)
AGRA
26 Down: Cougar (4)
PUMA
27 Down: Page and King (5)
ALANS
28 Down: Mystic card (5)
TAROT
29 Down: Crowbar (5)
LEVER
30 Down: Studio piece (5)
EASEL
31 Down: Germ cell (5)
SPORE
33 Down: Jekyll's alter ego et al. (5)
HYDES
35 Down: Exceptional person (4)
ONER
37 Down: Loosens (6)
UNTIES
38 Down: Church court (4)
ROTA
39 Down: ___ of Wight (4)
ISLE
44 Down: Hesitant (6)
UNSURE
45 Down: ___ of Artemis (6)
TEMPLE
46 Down: Greek war goddess (4)
ENYO
48 Down: Dane or Divide (5)
GREAT
49 Down: Elec. units (4)
AMPS
50 Down: Town near L.A. (4)
BREA
51 Down: Trojan-War figure (4)
AJAX
52 Down: Honor cards (4)
ACES
53 Down: Rebozo (4)
BEBE
54 Down: Cassini (4)
OLEG
55 Down: Brisk, in music: Abbr. (4)
ALLO
57 Down: Swap for tit (3)
TAT
58 Down: Gershwin (3)
IRA
59 Down: "There ___ an old . . . " (3)
WAS

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