Tuesday Crossword — April 20, 1976 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 4/20/1976. By Jim Page.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Nile denizen, for short (4)
CROC
5 Across: Houston and Adams (4)
SAMS
9 Across: Kind of door (4)
TRAP
13 Across: Cotton variety (4)
PIMA
14 Across: Third: Prefix (4)
TRIT
15 Across: Mine cars (5)
TRAMS
16 Across: " . . . it becomes necessary for ___ to dissolve . . . " (9)
ONEPEOPLE
18 Across: Counterpart of Saigon (5)
HANOI
19 Across: English monarch (13)
KINGGEORGEIII
21 Across: Spahn's pitching partner (4)
SAIN
22 Across: Squeal on (3)
RAT
23 Across: Library sounds (3)
SHS
26 Across: L.I. cager (3)
NET
27 Across: Stand ___ (3)
PAT
28 Across: Troy, N.Y., campus (3)
RPI
31 Across: Side dish, in France (4)
POIS
33 Across: Original number for a nation (8)
THIRTEEN
35 Across: Certain reprisals (15)
INTOLERABLEACTS
39 Across: Social affair (8)
TEAPARTY
40 Across: Kind of crasher (4)
GATE
41 Across: Stray (3)
ERR
42 Across: En tout ___ (3)
CAS
43 Across: Official group: Abbr. (3)
BRD
46 Across: Kind of luck (3)
POT
47 Across: Teacher's ___ (3)
PET
48 Across: Kind of gun or act (4)
RIOT
50 Across: English festival presider (13)
LORDOFMISRULE
56 Across: Toast words (5)
TOYOU
57 Across: Sailors' delights (9)
LIBERTIES
59 Across: Cruising, to poets (5)
ADEEP
60 Across: Standout (4)
ONER
61 Across: Prefix for graph (4)
TELE
62 Across: Hair job, for short (4)
PERM
63 Across: Meeting: Abbr. (4)
SESS
64 Across: Part of M.I.T.: Abbr. (4)
INST

Down Answers

1 Down: Navy N.C.O. (3)
CPO
2 Down: Orr milieu (4)
RINK
3 Down: Sacred Chinese mountain (4)
OMEI
4 Down: Ship V.I.P.'s (5)
CAPNS
5 Down: Cigar (6)
STOGIE
6 Down: French land measure (6)
ARPENT
7 Down: Venus de ___ (4)
MILO
8 Down: Suffix for gang or road (4)
STER
9 Down: Characteristic (5)
TRAIT
10 Down: Hindu queen (4)
RANI
11 Down: Mine, in France (4)
AMOI
12 Down: Greek letter (3)
PSI
15 Down: Savoy or Globe, e.g. (7)
THEATRE
17 Down: Actor Richard (4)
EGAN
20 Down: Galahad's quest (5)
GRAIL
23 Down: Kind of fence (5)
SPITE
24 Down: One who sharpens (5)
HONER
25 Down: Stringed instrument (5)
SITAR
27 Down: College degree (3)
PHB
28 Down: Sum up (5)
RECAP
29 Down: In ___ (secretly) (5)
PETTO
30 Down: Map part (5)
INSET
32 Down: Drench (3)
SOP
33 Down: River of Scotland (3)
TAY
34 Down: Windshield décor, at times (3)
TAG
36 Down: Fastened, as ski boots (7)
LACEDUP
37 Down: Muse (5)
ERATO
38 Down: Football linemen: Abbr. (3)
RTS
43 Down: Sub-rosa deals (6)
BRIBES
44 Down: Stair parts (6)
RISERS
45 Down: U.S. rebellion leader (4)
DORR
47 Down: Literary intro (5)
PROEM
49 Down: All, in music (5)
TUTTI
50 Down: Comstock, for one (4)
LODE
51 Down: ___ and terminer (4)
OYER
52 Down: Ziegfeld et al. (4)
FLOS
53 Down: Kimberley, e.g. (4)
MINE
54 Down: Legal right (4)
LIEN
55 Down: Slippery ones (4)
EELS
56 Down: Wire job (3)
TAP
58 Down: Solidify (3)
SET

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