Friday Crossword — December 31, 1976 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 12/31/1976. By Maura B. Jacobson.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Alda series (4)
MASH
5 Across: Delicious (5)
SAPID
10 Across: Verboten (4)
TABU
14 Across: Relative of curare (4)
INEE
15 Across: Academy rookie (5)
PLEBE
16 Across: Sharif (4)
OMAR
17 Across: Minutes (15)
NOTESOFAMEETING
20 Across: Formal wear (8)
TAILCOAT
21 Across: Frat candidate (6)
PLEDGE
22 Across: Viking I's perch (4)
MARS
23 Across: Gouda's relative (4)
EDAM
24 Across: Shaped girders (6)
IBEAMS
27 Across: "___ go bragh" (4)
ERIN
28 Across: Literary monogram (3)
GBS
31 Across: Imbibe noisily (5)
SLURP
32 Across: Huzzahs for toreros (4)
OLES
33 Across: Basic: Abbr. (4)
ELEM
34 Across: Hours (15)
WORKINGSCHEDULE
37 Across: Burden (4)
ONUS
38 Across: Mine entrance (4)
ADIT
39 Across: Lady of Lammermoor (5)
LUCIA
40 Across: Metallic elements: Abbr. (3)
NDS
41 Across: To ___ (precisely) (4)
ATEE
42 Across: Kind of spaniel (6)
COCKER
43 Across: "It's ___ to tell . . . " (4)
ASIN
44 Across: Hemingway (4)
PAPA
45 Across: Urban enclave (6)
GHETTO
48 Across: At an unknown date (8)
SOMETIME
52 Across: Days (15)
LARAINEANDDORIS
54 Across: Satan's work (4)
EVIL
55 Across: Restaurant owner (5)
ALICE
56 Across: Branch, in Avila (4)
RAMO
57 Across: Actress Patricia (4)
NEAL
58 Across: Weighted down (5)
LADEN
59 Across: Use the scissors (4)
SNIP

Down Answers

1 Down: After-dinner item (4)
MINT
2 Down: Celebes ox (4)
ANOA
3 Down: Bristle: Prefix (4)
SETI
4 Down: Parts of footprints (9)
HEELMARKS
5 Down: Animal tracks (6)
SPOORS
6 Down: African grasses (5)
ALFAS
7 Down: Plant fuel (4)
PEAT
8 Down: Big-Board monogram (3)
IBM
9 Down: Kind of apple pie (8)
DEEPDISH
10 Down: Tlingit symbol (5)
TOTEM
11 Down: In the center (4)
AMID
12 Down: Drum sound (4)
BANG
13 Down: Egg on (4)
URGE
18 Down: Prawn dish (6)
SCAMPI
19 Down: Verve (4)
ELAN
23 Down: Upright (5)
ERECT
24 Down: "The prize we sought ___" (5)
ISWON
25 Down: Towheaded (5)
BLOND
26 Down: Southeast wind (5)
EURUS
27 Down: Dinsmore (5)
ELSIE
28 Down: Soprano Alma (5)
GLUCK
29 Down: Give a false impression (5)
BELIE
30 Down: Flub a paint job (5)
SMEAR
32 Down: Nash (5)
OGDEN
33 Down: N.E.A. members (9)
EDUCATORS
35 Down: Country-wide (8)
NATIONAL
36 Down: Ran off (6)
ELOPED
41 Down: Italian wine city (4)
ASTI
42 Down: City on the Delaware (6)
CAMDEN
43 Down: To any extent (5)
ATALL
44 Down: Puerto Rican port (5)
PONCE
45 Down: Secluded valley (4)
GLEN
46 Down: "To ___ and to hold" (4)
HAVE
47 Down: Silkworm (4)
ERIA
48 Down: Port ___ (4)
SAID
49 Down: Pahlavi's realm (4)
IRAN
50 Down: Miss Benzell (4)
MIMI
51 Down: Fabulist: Var. (4)
ESOP
53 Down: High note (3)
ELA

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