Wednesday Crossword — January 5, 1977 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 1/5/1977. By H. Hastings Reddall.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Holzman and Grange (4)
REDS
5 Across: Lion trainers (6)
TAMERS
11 Across: G.I. address (3)
APO
14 Across: Table item (4)
OLEO
15 Across: Tinder (6)
AMADOU
16 Across: Haw's partner (3)
HEM
17 Across: A.L. athlete (15)
BALTIMOREORIOLE
20 Across: Compass reading (3)
ENE
21 Across: Avoid sameness (4)
VARY
22 Across: Young chicken (5)
FRYER
23 Across: Sentry's cry (4)
HALT
24 Across: Vitiates (7)
DEBASES
26 Across: Chant (6)
INTONE
29 Across: Actor Toomey (5)
REGIS
30 Across: Keats output (4)
POEM
31 Across: Dueling sword (5)
SABER
32 Across: Vital statistic (3)
AGE
35 Across: N.L. athlete (15)
STLOUISCARDINAL
39 Across: Fish (3)
EEL
40 Across: River of Africa (5)
NIGER
41 Across: U.S. inventor (4)
OTIS
42 Across: Tombstone writings: Abbr. (5)
EPITS
43 Across: Woolly (6)
LANATE
45 Across: Journeys for T.R. (7)
SAFARIS
48 Across: Lulus (4)
PIPS
49 Across: Grand or light (5)
OPERA
50 Across: L.A. athletes (4)
RAMS
51 Across: Pronoun (3)
SHE
54 Across: Flying version of a pneumatic drill (15)
DOWNYWOODPECKER
58 Across: Land measure (3)
ARE
59 Across: Spartan magistrates (6)
EPHORI
60 Across: Reel-like device (4)
PIRN
61 Across: Ship: Abbr. (3)
STR
62 Across: Held back, as water (6)
DAMMED
63 Across: Biblical book (4)
AMOS

Down Answers

1 Down: Garment (4)
ROBE
2 Down: Ardor (4)
ELAN
3 Down: Take out (4)
DELE
4 Down: Toper (3)
SOT
5 Down: Hot ___ (6)
TAMALE
6 Down: Lifeless (5)
AMORT
7 Down: Contrary girl (4)
MARY
8 Down: Dutch town (3)
EDE
9 Down: Down-under animal (3)
ROO
10 Down: Coastal flier (8)
SURFBIRD
11 Down: Sea calls (5)
AHOYS
12 Down: Caribbean volcano (5)
PELEE
13 Down: Hebrew measures (5)
OMERS
18 Down: Russian leader (4)
IVAN
19 Down: Writer Wolfert et al. (4)
IRAS
23 Down: ___ sapiens (4)
HOMO
24 Down: Prohibit (5)
DEBAR
25 Down: Elbe feeder (4)
EGER
26 Down: ___ dixit (4)
IPSE
27 Down: Grace or foot (4)
NOTE
28 Down: Blab (4)
TELL
29 Down: Pimlico offerings (5)
RACES
31 Down: Certain N.C.O.'s (5)
SSGTS
32 Down: Theater org. (4)
ANTA
33 Down: Gallop or canter (4)
GAIT
34 Down: "You and who ___?" (4)
ELSE
36 Down: ___ for (not wanted) (8)
UNPRAYED
37 Down: Sundial number (4)
IIII
38 Down: Charged atoms (4)
IONS
42 Down: Deserve (4)
EARN
43 Down: Like some prose (6)
LIMPID
44 Down: Church part (4)
APSE
45 Down: Fountain offerings (5)
SODAS
46 Down: Sea direction (5)
APORT
47 Down: Not so many (5)
FEWER
48 Down: San Diego player (5)
PADRE
50 Down: Board's partner (4)
ROOM
51 Down: Read casually (4)
SKIM
52 Down: Leander's friend (4)
HERO
53 Down: Sea eagles (4)
ERNS
55 Down: Depression agency (3)
WPA
56 Down: Electrical unit (3)
OHM
57 Down: Auditor: Abbr. (3)
CPA

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