Thursday Crossword — August 5, 1976 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 8/5/1976. By Samuel K. Fliegner.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Dieter's target area (4)
HIPS
5 Across: Sedate (5)
STAID
10 Across: Place for two birds (4)
BUSH
14 Across: Biblical dupe (4)
ESAU
15 Across: Brahman's "club" (5)
CASTE
16 Across: Aztec's contemporary (4)
INCA
17 Across: Party pooper (10)
WETBLANKET
19 Across: Medieval land holding (4)
ODAL
20 Across: One of the genders (6)
NEUTER
21 Across: Rising (8)
EMERGENT
23 Across: Acquired family member (5)
INLAW
25 Across: ___-do-well (4)
NEER
26 Across: Walked stealthily (7)
TIPTOED
29 Across: Golf positions (7)
STANCES
32 Across: Wading bird (4)
RAIL
33 Across: Kind of board (6)
TEETER
35 Across: Mouths (3)
ORA
36 Across: Man and Emerald (5)
ISLES
38 Across: ___ Paulo (3)
SAO
39 Across: Enjoy (5)
SAVOR
41 Across: Not any, in law (3)
NUL
42 Across: Second or human (6)
NATURE
45 Across: Black-fin snapper (4)
SESI
46 Across: Sequester (7)
ISOLATE
48 Across: ___ d'hotel (7)
MAITRES
50 Across: Lie in ___ (4)
WAIT
51 Across: Partner of frankincense (5)
MYRRH
52 Across: Discolored, as by a burn (8)
USTULATE
55 Across: Founder of Taoism (6)
LAOTSE
59 Across: Item on a military shoulder (4)
STAR
60 Across: Jumble (10)
CRAZYQUILT
62 Across: Arias (4)
SOLI
63 Across: Proof mark (5)
CARET
64 Across: Mastery, in Scotland (4)
GREE
65 Across: Lothario (4)
RAKE
66 Across: Beloved, in Spain (5)
AMADO
67 Across: "___ tricks?" (4)
HOWS

Down Answers

1 Down: Chopped (4)
HEWN
2 Down: "Peekaboo, ___ you" (4)
ISEE
3 Down: Maori weapon (4)
PATU
4 Down: Foreign-language film aid (8)
SUBTITLE
5 Down: Color for a letter (7)
SCARLET
6 Down: Oak bark (3)
TAN
7 Down: Crooked (5)
ASKEW
8 Down: Agenda unit (4)
ITEM
9 Down: Easing of relations (7)
DETENTE
10 Down: Hypothetical cell unit (6)
BIOGEN
11 Down: Kind of agent (10)
UNDERCOVER
12 Down: Look over (4)
SCAN
13 Down: Drill command (4)
HALT
18 Down: Curtain fabric (4)
LENO
22 Down: Nurtures (5)
REARS
24 Down: "___ fideles" (6)
ADESTE
26 Down: Singer Lopez (5)
TRINI
27 Down: Father of Atalanta (5)
IASUS
28 Down: Boudoir chitchat (10)
PILLOWTALK
29 Down: Riotous (6)
STORMY
30 Down: Uneven (5)
EROSE
31 Down: Hindu garments (5)
SARIS
34 Down: French thirst-quencher (3)
EAU
37 Down: Slow one (5)
SNAIL
40 Down: Seemingly (8)
ASTHOUGH
43 Down: Without pause, in music (7)
ATTACCA
44 Down: Words with bed and rise (7)
EARLYTO
47 Down: Annie of song (6)
LAURIE
49 Down: Basra's land (4)
IRAQ
51 Down: Stiller's partner (5)
MEARA
52 Down: World power (4)
USSR
53 Down: Portico (4)
STOA
54 Down: Conveyance (4)
TRAM
56 Down: Novice: Var. (4)
TIRO
57 Down: Oodles (4)
SLEW
58 Down: French seasons (4)
ETES
61 Down: Last letter, to British (3)
ZED

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