Saturday Crossword — November 27, 1976 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 11/27/1976. By Dorothea E. Shipp.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Mary's hanger-on (4)
LAMB
5 Across: Horned creature: Suffix (4)
CERA
9 Across: Biblical prophet (4)
AMOS
13 Across: Sheltered (4)
ALEE
14 Across: Colander features (5)
HOLES
15 Across: Sly (4)
FOXY
16 Across: Kind of bag or stalk (4)
BEAN
17 Across: Praying figure (5)
ORANT
18 Across: Summers, in Nice (4)
ETES
19 Across: Film of 1954 (15)
ONTHEWATERFRONT
22 Across: Précis (6)
RESUME
23 Across: Sponsorship (4)
EGIS
24 Across: Gad (4)
ROVE
26 Across: Train (7)
EDUCATE
31 Across: Company, usually (3)
TWO
34 Across: Neighbor of Ark. (4)
TENN
36 Across: Overdo a steak (4)
CHAR
37 Across: What 19 and 57 Across and 4 Down were (15)
WINNERSOFOSCARS
42 Across: Common cliché (4)
ISEE
43 Across: Byproduct of an eruption (4)
LAVA
44 Across: Take a chance (3)
BET
45 Across: Menances (7)
THREATS
49 Across: Kinfolk: Abbr. (4)
RELS
51 Across: La ___ (L.A. tar-pit area) (4)
BREA
53 Across: Go on a pension (6)
RETIRE
57 Across: Film of 1965 (15)
THESOUNDOFMUSIC
62 Across: Kind of house or mark (4)
HASH
63 Across: Hebrew letter (5)
TSADE
64 Across: Updike novel (4)
BECH
65 Across: Bone: Prefix (4)
OSTE
66 Across: Returned, as a pigeon (5)
HOMED
67 Across: Vivacity (4)
BRIO
68 Across: Hurried (4)
SPED
69 Across: Upper-house action: Abbr. (4)
SRES
70 Across: Upper-house members: Abbr. (4)
SENS

Down Answers

1 Down: One of the days (5)
LABOR
2 Down: Coeur d'___ (5)
ALENE
3 Down: Sweet and nut (5)
MEATS
4 Down: Film of 1959 (6)
BENHUR
5 Down: Miss Baird (4)
CORA
6 Down: Give heart to (5)
ELATE
7 Down: Make a bridge error (6)
RENEGE
8 Down: Belgian queen (6)
ASTRID
9 Down: Southwest wind (4)
AFER
10 Down: Con ___ (spiritedly) (4)
MOTO
11 Down: Draft animals (4)
OXEN
12 Down: Part of C.B.S.: Abbr. (4)
SYST
14 Down: Word of reservation (7)
HOWEVER
20 Down: Act the ham (5)
EMOTE
21 Down: Tallahassee campus (3)
FSU
25 Down: Abstract being (3)
ENS
27 Down: New Deal org. (3)
CCC
28 Down: King of Israel (4)
AHAB
29 Down: Biblical weed (4)
TARE
30 Down: Formerly, once (4)
ERST
31 Down: Tease (4)
TWIT
32 Down: Kind of bone (4)
WISH
33 Down: K.O. blow (4)
ONER
35 Down: ___ pros. (3)
NOL
38 Down: Word in a marriage notice (3)
NEE
39 Down: Certain cry (3)
FAR
40 Down: Sated (7)
OVERFED
41 Down: Western capital (5)
SALEM
46 Down: Australian native (3)
ABO
47 Down: Obvious facts (6)
TRUTHS
48 Down: Light-detecting device (6)
SENSOR
50 Down: British painter of horses (6)
STUBBS
52 Down: " . . . nothing like ___" (5)
ADAME
54 Down: River of France (5)
ISERE
55 Down: Castor-bean product (5)
RICIN
56 Down: Nymph and namesakes (5)
ECHOS
57 Down: Part of Jefferson's sig. (4)
THOS
58 Down: Fastener (4)
HASP
59 Down: Italian family (4)
ESTE
60 Down: Lean-to (4)
SHED
61 Down: Poetic works (4)
ODES

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