Wednesday Crossword — August 3, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 8/3/1977. By Alfio Micci.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Round of applause (4)
- HAND
- 5 Across: Number after "siete" (4)
- OCHO
- 9 Across: Ease; subside (5)
- ABATE
- 14 Across: Table fat (4)
- OLEO
- 15 Across: Cartoonist Addams (4)
- CHAS
- 16 Across: Eatery (5)
- DINER
- 17 Across: Heavy on the bromides (15)
- PLATITUDINIZING
- 20 Across: Swift's forte (6)
- SATIRE
- 21 Across: Streetcar (4)
- TRAM
- 22 Across: ___ Canals (3)
- SOO
- 23 Across: Turner or Cole (3)
- NAT
- 24 Across: Towel word (3)
- HIS
- 25 Across: Courteous bloke (4)
- GENT
- 26 Across: Property divider, sometimes (5)
- HEDGE
- 29 Across: Nun, for one (6)
- VESTAL
- 31 Across: Ethiopian river (3)
- OMO
- 32 Across: Diamond ___ (3)
- LIL
- 33 Across: Lizard in a T. Williams title (6)
- IGUANA
- 37 Across: People who think and act alike (15)
- BIRDSOFAFEATHER
- 41 Across: Gilded metal (6)
- ORMOLU
- 42 Across: Patriotic org. (3)
- SAR
- 43 Across: Mine deposit (3)
- ORE
- 44 Across: Slender poles (6)
- STILTS
- 46 Across: Famed Minnesota medics (5)
- MAYOS
- 48 Across: Weaken (4)
- FADE
- 51 Across: Producer Hurok (3)
- SOL
- 52 Across: Trouble (3)
- AIL
- 53 Across: Past (3)
- AGO
- 54 Across: Corn lily (4)
- IXIA
- 55 Across: Russian peninsula (6)
- CRIMEA
- 59 Across: Walks once taken by Truman (15)
- CONSTITUTIONALS
- 62 Across: Figure of speech (5)
- TROPE
- 63 Across: Old oath (4)
- EGAD
- 64 Across: Selves (4)
- EGOS
- 65 Across: Butterfly (5)
- SATYR
- 66 Across: The sumacs (4)
- RHUS
- 67 Across: Force (4)
- DINT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Ale ingredient (4)
- HOPS
- 2 Down: Nazimova (4)
- ALLA
- 3 Down: Uncluttered (4)
- NEAT
- 4 Down: Like many a granny (6)
- DOTING
- 5 Down: Musical combo (5)
- OCTET
- 6 Down: ___ Teh, early Mao comrade (3)
- CHU
- 7 Down: Triumphed, in a way (15)
- HADTHELASTLAUGH
- 8 Down: Egyptian god of the underworld (6)
- OSIRIS
- 9 Down: Take ___ view of (be skeptical) (4)
- ADIM
- 10 Down: Show ___ (3)
- BIZ
- 11 Down: Aromatic plant (5)
- ANISE
- 12 Down: Fitted joint (5)
- TENON
- 13 Down: Rye fungus (5)
- ERGOT
- 18 Down: "Dies ___," ancient hymn (4)
- IRAE
- 19 Down: Less cordial (7)
- NASTIER
- 25 Down: Overeat (4)
- GLUT
- 26 Down: Bindle stiff (4)
- HOBO
- 27 Down: Eastern ruler (4)
- EMIR
- 28 Down: Relative of a frat house (4)
- DORM
- 29 Down: Lively, in Paris (3)
- VIF
- 30 Down: ___ Khan (3)
- AGA
- 32 Down: French monarch (foe of Charles the Bold) (7)
- LOUISXI
- 34 Down: Nautical cry (4)
- AHOY
- 35 Down: Famed fiddler (4)
- NERO
- 36 Down: "Scourge of mortals": Homer (4)
- ARES
- 38 Down: Medicinal unit (4)
- DOSE
- 39 Down: Precipitation: Abbr. (3)
- SLT
- 40 Down: Scale notes (3)
- FAS
- 45 Down: Dawdle (6)
- LOITER
- 46 Down: Spanish author: 1879–1930 (4)
- MIRO
- 47 Down: Straightened (6)
- ALINED
- 48 Down: Data (5)
- FACTS
- 49 Down: Marketplace (5)
- AGORA
- 50 Down: "I ___ choose to run": Coolidge (5)
- DONOT
- 52 Down: Amino and others (5)
- ACIDS
- 54 Down: Roman road (4)
- ITER
- 56 Down: Crèche figures (4)
- MAGI
- 57 Down: N.C. college (4)
- ELON
- 58 Down: Aide: Abbr. (4)
- ASST
- 60 Down: Hari, for one (3)
- SPY
- 61 Down: Letter after sigma (3)
- TAU
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