Tuesday Crossword — May 3, 1977 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 5/3/1977. By Alice H. Kaufman.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Nitwit (3)
SAP
4 Across: Exclamations of disgust (4)
UGHS
8 Across: Exclude (5)
DEBAR
13 Across: Lump of clay (4)
CLOD
15 Across: Keats or Yeats (4)
POET
16 Across: Abscond (5)
ELOPE
17 Across: Exchange premium (4)
AGIO
18 Across: Osprey's cousin (4)
ERNE
19 Across: Nine-day-old porridge (5)
PEASE
20 Across: Element used by steelmakers (9)
MANGANESE
22 Across: Elected (5)
OPTED
23 Across: Caressed Fido (6)
PETTED
24 Across: Prone to imitation (5)
APISH
26 Across: Mr. Bean (5)
ORSON
28 Across: Foliage (6)
LEAVES
32 Across: Forbidden (5)
TABOO
35 Across: Sen. McGovern's state (4)
SDAK
37 Across: Site of Aswan Dam (4)
NILE
38 Across: Encourage (4)
ABET
39 Across: Pronouncements from on high (5)
DICTA
40 Across: Anatomical tissue (4)
TELA
41 Across: European country: Abbr. (4)
NETH
42 Across: Wan (4)
ASHY
43 Across: Big Bertha's birthplace (5)
ESSEN
44 Across: Drool (6)
SLAVER
46 Across: "Of Thee ___" (5)
ISING
48 Across: Style of Lincoln Memorial columns (5)
IONIC
50 Across: Esprit de corps (6)
MORALE
54 Across: Whence Columbus sailed (5)
PALOS
57 Across: Arctic transports (9)
SKIPLANES
59 Across: Levi's "Christ Stopped at ___" (5)
EBOLI
60 Across: Chanteuse Horne (4)
LENA
61 Across: Chair part (4)
SEAT
62 Across: Foreign (5)
ALIEN
63 Across: Indigo (4)
ANIL
64 Across: Obi (4)
SASH
65 Across: Items for Arabs to fold (5)
TENTS
66 Across: River in Russia (4)
MSTA
67 Across: Thing, in law (3)
RES

Down Answers

1 Down: Rascal (5)
SCAMP
2 Down: Seaweeds (5)
ALGAE
3 Down: Aim (5)
POINT
4 Down: Causes to turn turtle (6)
UPENDS
5 Down: Author Vidal (4)
GORE
6 Down: Houseleeks; runner plants (15)
HENSANDCHICKENS
7 Down: High-priced (5)
STEEP
8 Down: Testify (6)
DEPOSE
9 Down: Marsh plant used in basketry (14)
ELEPHANTSGRASS
10 Down: Dory or dinghy (4)
BOAT
11 Down: Polygonal recess (4)
APSE
12 Down: Clarinet mouthpiece (4)
REED
14 Down: Spring flower (14)
DOGTOOTHVIOLET
21 Down: Pertaining to aviation (4)
AERO
25 Down: Miss Chase (4)
ILKA
27 Down: Medical suffix (4)
OSIS
29 Down: Contends (4)
VIES
30 Down: She, in Paree (4)
ELLE
31 Down: Mr. Connery (4)
SEAN
32 Down: Converts into leather (4)
TANS
33 Down: Third man (4)
ABEL
34 Down: Letter on a key (4)
BETA
36 Down: Phrygian Adonis (4)
ATYS
39 Down: Mend socks (4)
DARN
43 Down: Organic compound (4)
ENOL
45 Down: Red dyes (6)
EOSINS
47 Down: African antelope (6)
IMPALA
49 Down: Imam's world (5)
ISLAM
51 Down: Lend ___ (listen) (5)
ANEAR
52 Down: Rent (5)
LEASE
53 Down: Baltic natives (5)
ESTHS
54 Down: Fuel from a fen (4)
PEAT
55 Down: Competent (4)
ABLE
56 Down: Cut of meat (4)
LOIN
58 Down: "What's ___ for me?" (4)
INIT

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