Saturday Crossword — January 8, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 1/8/1977. By James Barrick.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Impair (6)
- DAMAGE
- 7 Across: Click or stag (6)
- BEETLE
- 13 Across: Small portion (7)
- MODICUM
- 14 Across: Shoulder to shoulder (7)
- ABREAST
- 16 Across: One ___ (singly) (7)
- ATATIME
- 17 Across: High-wire artist's forte (7)
- BALANCE
- 18 Across: Ran amok (5)
- RAGED
- 19 Across: Roi's mate (5)
- REINE
- 21 Across: Girl's name (3)
- NAN
- 22 Across: Rainbow (4)
- IRIS
- 23 Across: De Mille (5)
- AGNES
- 24 Across: Congress people: Abbr. (4)
- REPS
- 25 Across: Hubble-bubble (3)
- ADO
- 26 Across: Ohio players (4)
- REDS
- 27 Across: Vegetable paste (5)
- PUREE
- 28 Across: Moon goddess (6)
- SELENE
- 31 Across: Makes the grade (6)
- PASSES
- 32 Across: Ruffled drawers (9)
- PANTALETS
- 34 Across: Desert (6)
- SAHARA
- 37 Across: Superficial show (6)
- VENEER
- 39 Across: Sorrowful cry (5)
- ALACK
- 40 Across: Pear variety (4)
- BOSC
- 41 Across: Poetic word (3)
- EER
- 44 Across: Julep ingredient (4)
- MINT
- 45 Across: Certain racer (5)
- HORSE
- 46 Across: Monster (4)
- OGRE
- 47 Across: Nigerian town (3)
- ABO
- 48 Across: Brief (5)
- TERSE
- 49 Across: Koran chapters (5)
- SURAS
- 50 Across: Starchy food (7)
- RAVIOLI
- 52 Across: Best-kept (7)
- NEATEST
- 54 Across: Encouraged (7)
- ABETTED
- 55 Across: Card games for two (7)
- ECARTES
- 56 Across: Poisonous gas (6)
- ARSINE
- 57 Across: Constraint (6)
- DURESS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Old fool (6)
- DOTARD
- 2 Down: Dance duets (7)
- ADAGIOS
- 3 Down: Tiny bugs (5)
- MITES
- 4 Down: Biting (4)
- ACID
- 5 Down: Moscow's big store (3)
- GUM
- 6 Down: Like many third-world nations (8)
- EMERGENT
- 7 Down: Mollycoddles (6)
- BABIES
- 8 Down: Israel's Abba et al. (5)
- EBANS
- 9 Down: Writer Gardner (4)
- ERLE
- 10 Down: Hyson or kat (3)
- TEA
- 11 Down: Falcons (7)
- LANNERS
- 12 Down: One on the lam (7)
- ESCAPEE
- 13 Down: Santa ___ (5)
- MARIA
- 15 Down: Becomes rigid (6)
- TENSES
- 20 Down: Takes a crack at (9)
- ENDEAVORS
- 23 Down: Place of contest (5)
- ARENA
- 24 Down: Ballet ___ (5)
- RUSSE
- 27 Down: Cracker spread (4)
- PATE
- 29 Down: Solar-lunar year gap (5)
- EPACT
- 30 Down: Frolic (4)
- LARK
- 31 Down: Money in the U.K. (5)
- PENCE
- 33 Down: Waned (8)
- LESSENED
- 34 Down: Elm fruit (6)
- SAMARA
- 35 Down: "Arabian Nights" woodcutter (7)
- ALIBABA
- 36 Down: Dartmouth's home (7)
- HANOVER
- 38 Down: Send ___ (refuse politely) (7)
- REGRETS
- 40 Down: Chemical compound (6)
- BORIDE
- 42 Down: Obliterates (6)
- ERASES
- 43 Down: Pauses (5)
- RESTS
- 45 Down: Paris's prize (5)
- HELEN
- 46 Down: Unconventional (5)
- OUTRE
- 48 Down: Whole: Prefix (4)
- TOTI
- 49 Down: River to the Moselle (4)
- SAAR
- 51 Down: "___ a deal!" (3)
- ITS
- 53 Down: Old French coin (3)
- ECU
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