Wednesday Crossword — March 23, 1977 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/23/1977. By A. J. Santora.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Plays eighteen (5)
GOLFS
6 Across: Racing boat (5)
SCULL
11 Across: Ziegfeld (3)
FLO
14 Across: Grown-up (5)
ADULT
15 Across: Asian capital (5)
HANOI
16 Across: Schoolboy (3)
LAD
17 Across: Prima ___ evidence (5)
FACIE
18 Across: Pick out (5)
ELECT
19 Across: Bar need (3)
ICE
20 Across: Like basset features (9)
FLAPEARED
22 Across: Wagoner's command (3)
HUP
24 Across: Pliant states (12)
FLOPPINESSES
28 Across: Grid group (3)
NFL
30 Across: Island country (5)
HAITI
31 Across: Dogpatch founder (4)
CAPP
32 Across: Kind of energy (5)
SOLAR
34 Across: Hawaiian goose (4)
NENE
36 Across: Half of a dance (3)
CHA
37 Across: Stands for cameras (7)
TRIPODS
40 Across: Towser's meal (7)
DOGFOOD
42 Across: Diamond off. (3)
UMP
43 Across: Slangy agreements (4)
YEHS
45 Across: Sail the skies (5)
GLIDE
46 Across: Young deer (4)
FAWN
48 Across: Eyelashes (5)
CILIA
51 Across: The electees (3)
INS
52 Across: Has conniptions (12)
FLIPSONESTOP
55 Across: Baton Rouge inst. (3)
LSU
56 Across: Clumsy dive (9)
BELLYFLOP
60 Across: "___ the season . . . " (3)
TIS
62 Across: Abscond (5)
ELOPE
64 Across: Oily resin (5)
ELEMI
65 Across: Pizarro's pelf (3)
ORO
66 Across: Belief (5)
TENET
67 Across: Curia man (5)
ROMAN
68 Across: Skillet (3)
PAN
69 Across: Swamis (5)
SEERS
70 Across: Ignite (5)
SPARK

Down Answers

1 Down: Hoax (4)
GAFF
2 Down: Medieval estate (4)
ODAL
3 Down: Painter Signorelli (4)
LUCA
4 Down: Blow to and fro (8)
FLIPFLAP
5 Down: Girder material (5)
STEEL
6 Down: Everest climber (6)
SHERPA
7 Down: Dictionary (7)
CALEPIN
8 Down: Not emended (8)
UNEDITED
9 Down: Site: Abbr. (3)
LOC
10 Down: Double-jointed (5)
LITHE
11 Down: Decides, in a way (10)
FLIPSACOIN
12 Down: Tree resin (3)
LAC
13 Down: Sappho creation (3)
ODE
21 Down: Irish org. (3)
AOH
23 Down: Trojans' inst. (3)
USC
25 Down: Boy, in Juárez (4)
NINO
26 Down: Hebrew vestments (6)
EPHODS
27 Down: Part of a black suit (5)
SPADE
28 Down: Customary (6)
NORMAL
29 Down: "Geraldine" (10)
FLIPWILSON
32 Down: Cram (5)
STUFF
33 Down: Netman Emerson (3)
ROY
35 Down: Plant or head (3)
EGG
38 Down: Art ___ (4)
DECO
39 Down: Tibia (8)
SHINBONE
41 Down: Backward somersault (8)
FLIPFLOP
44 Down: Surprise hit (7)
SLEEPER
47 Down: Notaries: Abbr. (3)
NPS
49 Down: Keys (6)
ISLETS
50 Down: Expanse west of Eur. (3)
ATL
53 Down: Tallows (5)
SUETS
54 Down: Court hearings (5)
OYERS
57 Down: Tony, of golf fame (4)
LEMA
58 Down: Sharif (4)
OMAR
59 Down: Fragrant flower (4)
PINK
60 Down: Flip-___ can (3)
TOP
61 Down: Writer Levin (3)
IRA
63 Down: Shelter (3)
LEE

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