Saturday Crossword — October 23, 1976 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 10/23/1976. By Mike Leifer.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Gardener's bane (9)
- CRABGRASS
- 10 Across: Matrons (5)
- DAMES
- 15 Across: Forms anew (9)
- RECREATES
- 16 Across: Chris of the courts (5)
- EVERT
- 17 Across: Personified (9)
- INCARNATE
- 18 Across: ___ Wences (5)
- SENOR
- 19 Across: Brewing grain (4)
- MALT
- 20 Across: Roman 151 (3)
- CLI
- 21 Across: Diatribe (6)
- TIRADE
- 22 Across: Ivy Leaguer (3)
- ELI
- 23 Across: Haggard's "___" (3)
- SHE
- 24 Across: Public law: Abbr. (3)
- ORD
- 25 Across: Mountain ___ (3)
- DEW
- 26 Across: ___-believe (4)
- MAKE
- 28 Across: Used a lever (5)
- PRIED
- 30 Across: Showing no chagrin (9)
- UNABASHED
- 33 Across: Kind of active (5)
- RADIO
- 37 Across: Lucifer (5)
- SATAN
- 38 Across: "We ___ one" (3)
- ARE
- 39 Across: Bitter (5)
- ACERB
- 40 Across: Well rounded (5)
- OBESE
- 41 Across: Exaggerates (9)
- STRETCHES
- 43 Across: "The Good ___" (5)
- EARTH
- 45 Across: Wharf (4)
- QUAY
- 46 Across: Hat or banana (3)
- TOP
- 49 Across: Bauble (3)
- TOY
- 50 Across: Kind of steer or rap (3)
- BUM
- 51 Across: Corgi, e.g. (3)
- DOG
- 54 Across: Deemed (6)
- OPINED
- 56 Across: Agreeable French word (3)
- OUI
- 57 Across: Novelist Shirley Ann (4)
- GRAU
- 58 Across: Asian land (5)
- NEPAL
- 59 Across: Come to pass (9)
- EVENTUATE
- 61 Across: Mountain ridge (5)
- ARETE
- 62 Across: Reveres (9)
- VENERATES
- 63 Across: Roman spirits (5)
- LARES
- 64 Across: Obliteration (9)
- ERASEMENT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Police target (5)
- CRIME
- 2 Down: Of the kidney (5)
- RENAL
- 3 Down: Adapt (9)
- ACCLIMATE
- 4 Down: Nasty child (4)
- BRAT
- 5 Down: Ruhr native: Abbr. (3)
- GER
- 6 Down: Western holdings (7)
- RANCHES
- 7 Down: "___ of Two Cities" (5)
- ATALE
- 8 Down: Bristle: Prefix (4)
- SETI
- 9 Down: Compass reading (3)
- SSE
- 10 Down: Something wanted (11)
- DESIDERATUM
- 11 Down: Affirm (4)
- AVER
- 12 Down: Greek nymph: Var. (5)
- MENAD
- 13 Down: Impair (5)
- ERODE
- 14 Down: Scatter (5)
- STREW
- 21 Down: Numerical prefix (3)
- TRI
- 23 Down: Finger Lake (11)
- SKANEATELES
- 24 Down: Arrangement (5)
- ORDER
- 27 Down: Lower (5)
- ABASE
- 28 Down: ___ Amboy (5)
- PERTH
- 29 Down: Bangladesh capital (5)
- DACCA
- 30 Down: Entertainment org. (3)
- USO
- 31 Down: Arrest (3)
- NAB
- 32 Down: Kind of pudding (5)
- HASTY
- 34 Down: Lose moisture (9)
- DEHYDRATE
- 35 Down: Wrath (3)
- IRE
- 36 Down: Outmoded: Abbr. (3)
- OBS
- 42 Down: Horses (7)
- EQUINES
- 44 Down: Laver of tennis (3)
- ROD
- 46 Down: Of sound (5)
- TONAL
- 47 Down: It's usually grand (5)
- OPERA
- 48 Down: Tom's father (5)
- PIPER
- 50 Down: ___ Vista (5)
- BUENA
- 52 Down: Containing a grain (5)
- OATEN
- 53 Down: Visitor (5)
- GUEST
- 55 Down: Nickname for Hale (4)
- NATE
- 56 Down: Above's companion (4)
- OVER
- 57 Down: Pacific island of W.W. II (4)
- GUAM
- 59 Down: Arden (3)
- EVE
- 60 Down: Three, in Parma (3)
- TRE
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