Thursday Crossword — August 4, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/4/1977. By Barbara Lunder Gillis.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Place to buy cold cuts (4)
- DELI
- 5 Across: Slightly open (4)
- AJAR
- 9 Across: House of clay (5)
- ADOBE
- 14 Across: Clear from blame (9)
- EXONERATE
- 16 Across: Stay suspended (5)
- HOVER
- 17 Across: What hypocrites lack (9)
- SINCERITY
- 18 Across: Anoint, old style (5)
- ANELE
- 19 Across: Briny droplet (4)
- TEAR
- 20 Across: Literary collection (3)
- ANA
- 22 Across: Sevareid (4)
- ERIC
- 23 Across: Battologize (7)
- ITERATE
- 27 Across: Fondle (3)
- PET
- 28 Across: Neoteric (6)
- MODERN
- 31 Across: Absolute (5)
- UTTER
- 33 Across: Like a Conestoga wagon (7)
- COVERED
- 34 Across: Flowers or purple shades (7)
- DAHLIAS
- 37 Across: Avouch (4)
- AVER
- 38 Across: Sour; biting (4)
- ACID
- 39 Across: Balcony (7)
- TERRACE
- 43 Across: Lists, as of teams (7)
- ROSTERS
- 46 Across: Neighbor of Lebanon (5)
- SYRIA
- 47 Across: Beliefs (6)
- CREEDS
- 48 Across: Talent (3)
- ART
- 50 Across: Wood measure (7)
- CORDAGE
- 52 Across: Conservative (4)
- TORY
- 54 Across: Wind dir. (3)
- NNE
- 55 Across: Prefix for cycle (4)
- MEGA
- 59 Across: Foolish person (5)
- IDIOT
- 61 Across: Overflowing with fervor (9)
- EBULLIENT
- 65 Across: Opposite of 55 Across (5)
- MICRO
- 66 Across: Dancer who has very few fans (9)
- SALLYRAND
- 67 Across: Penetrate (5)
- ENTER
- 68 Across: Trample (4)
- TROD
- 69 Across: Topic of Plato's "Symposium" (4)
- EROS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: ___ Moines, Iowa (3)
- DES
- 2 Down: Sign in a theater (4)
- EXIT
- 3 Down: Isolated (4)
- LONE
- 4 Down: Andean sun-worshiper (4)
- INCA
- 5 Down: Timetable abbr. (3)
- ARR
- 6 Down: ___ alai (3)
- JAI
- 7 Down: Perfume from flowers (5)
- ATTAR
- 8 Down: French Premier in 1940 (7)
- REYNAUD
- 9 Down: Villain's cry (3)
- AHA
- 10 Down: Finished (4)
- DONE
- 11 Down: Too costly (10)
- OVERPRICED
- 12 Down: Prove false (5)
- BELIE
- 13 Down: Build (5)
- ERECT
- 15 Down: More phantasmal (6)
- EERIER
- 21 Down: "___ boy!" (4)
- ATTA
- 24 Down: Three, in Torino (3)
- TRE
- 25 Down: Remnant (3)
- END
- 26 Down: Numerical suffix (3)
- ETH
- 28 Down: Stir (4)
- MOVE
- 29 Down: Too rigorous (10)
- OVERSTRICT
- 30 Down: Irish county, for short (5)
- DERRY
- 32 Down: Lift up one's spirits (5)
- ELATE
- 33 Down: Japanese bobtail (3)
- CAT
- 35 Down: Ventilates (4)
- AIRS
- 36 Down: Campus militants: Abbr. (3)
- SDS
- 40 Down: Parabola (3)
- ARC
- 41 Down: Shoot cut for grafting (4)
- CION
- 42 Down: Far from flippant (7)
- EARNEST
- 43 Down: Letters on N.Y.C. skyline (3)
- RCA
- 44 Down: OPEC is one: Abbr. (3)
- ORG
- 45 Down: Becoming (6)
- SEEMLY
- 48 Down: One at ___ (singly) (5)
- ATIME
- 49 Down: Sculptor of "Le Penseur" (5)
- RODIN
- 51 Down: Exclude (5)
- DEBAR
- 53 Down: Long ago (4)
- YORE
- 56 Down: Republic since 1949 (4)
- EIRE
- 57 Down: Equipment (4)
- GEAR
- 58 Down: Part of A.D. (4)
- ANNO
- 60 Down: Rocky hill (3)
- TOR
- 62 Down: Relating to gums: Comb. form (3)
- ULO
- 63 Down: Law degree (3)
- LLD
- 64 Down: Football scores: Abbr. (3)
- TDS
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