Thursday Crossword — July 7, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 7/7/1977. By Allan Blackman.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Hang about (5)
- HOVER
- 6 Across: Tub rub (4)
- BATH
- 10 Across: Five-time Presidential candidate (4)
- DEBS
- 14 Across: Be devoted to (5)
- ADORE
- 15 Across: Medicinal plant (4)
- ALOE
- 16 Across: Quod ___ demonstrandum (4)
- ERAT
- 17 Across: Assail (5)
- SETAT
- 18 Across: Old salt's tale (4)
- YARN
- 19 Across: Author Gardner (4)
- ERLE
- 20 Across: "All the ___ Men" (10)
- PRESIDENTS
- 22 Across: Pretense (4)
- POSE
- 23 Across: Color of a fez (3)
- RED
- 24 Across: Group of four (6)
- TETRAD
- 26 Across: Surprise for a bride-to-be (6)
- SHOWER
- 30 Across: Mecca in summer (5)
- BEACH
- 32 Across: Doc and Hemingway (5)
- PAPAS
- 33 Across: Museum workers (9)
- RESTORERS
- 37 Across: A son of Hera (4)
- ARES
- 38 Across: Beat (5)
- PULSE
- 39 Across: Shortening (4)
- OLEO
- 40 Across: Shakespearean protagonist (9)
- RICHARDII
- 42 Across: Daughter of David (5)
- TAMAR
- 43 Across: ___ France (5)
- ILEDE
- 44 Across: Comeback (6)
- RETORT
- 45 Across: Glistens (6)
- SHINES
- 48 Across: Bryant's "___ Waterfowl" (3)
- TOA
- 49 Across: Engine knock (4)
- PING
- 50 Across: Cornfield figures (10)
- SCARECROWS
- 57 Across: In ___ (on a dull course) (4)
- ARUT
- 58 Across: Tom, Dick or Harry (4)
- MALE
- 59 Across: Tumbledown shack (5)
- HOVEL
- 60 Across: Game fish (4)
- CERO
- 61 Across: Environs (4)
- AREA
- 62 Across: Scottish capital, to poets (5)
- EDINA
- 63 Across: Paradise (4)
- EDEN
- 64 Across: Barber's question (4)
- NEXT
- 65 Across: Aussie songbird (5)
- REDDY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Luggage fastener (4)
- HASP
- 2 Down: Frankfurt's river (4)
- ODER
- 3 Down: Ballot (4)
- VOTE
- 4 Down: Historical periods (4)
- ERAS
- 5 Down: Calls it a day (7)
- RETIRES
- 6 Down: Reacted to a full moon (5)
- BAYED
- 7 Down: Comedian King (4)
- ALAN
- 8 Down: Civil-suit basis (4)
- TORT
- 9 Down: Blue ___ (Delaware) (8)
- HENSTATE
- 10 Down: Informer, in 20 Across (10)
- DEEPTHROAT
- 11 Down: Muffed fly, e.g. (5)
- ERROR
- 12 Down: Kon-Tiki material (5)
- BALSA
- 13 Down: War-horse (5)
- STEED
- 21 Down: "___ Bingle" (Crosby) (3)
- DER
- 25 Down: Habitat: Prefix (3)
- ECO
- 26 Down: Wrangle (4)
- SPAR
- 27 Down: Mata ___ (4)
- HARI
- 28 Down: Oil cartel (4)
- OPEC
- 29 Down: Beat for Bernstein and Woodward (10)
- WASHINGTON
- 30 Down: Misrepresent (5)
- BELIE
- 31 Down: They, in Torino (4)
- ESSI
- 33 Down: European fish (4)
- RUDD
- 34 Down: Sailors' patron (4)
- ELMO
- 35 Down: Hindmost (4)
- REAR
- 36 Down: Type (4)
- SORT
- 38 Down: Printer (8)
- PRESSMAN
- 41 Down: Falstaff's drink (3)
- ALE
- 42 Down: Plato, to Aristotle (7)
- TEACHER
- 44 Down: Sterlet delicacy (3)
- ROE
- 45 Down: Modern frontier (5)
- SPACE
- 46 Down: Took on hands (5)
- HIRED
- 47 Down: Habituate (5)
- INURE
- 48 Down: Wine and dine (5)
- TREAT
- 51 Down: Solicitude (4)
- CARE
- 52 Down: Author Comfort (4)
- ALEX
- 53 Down: Followed the hounds (4)
- RODE
- 54 Down: "Amores" poet (4)
- OVID
- 55 Down: Pursue one's way (4)
- WEND
- 56 Down: Do in (4)
- SLAY
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