Saturday Crossword — August 6, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 8/6/1977. By Jack Luzzatto.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Religious mendicant (5)
- FRIAR
- 6 Across: Army bombs (4)
- ROCS
- 10 Across: Building sections (4)
- ELLS
- 14 Across: Soup dipper (5)
- LADLE
- 15 Across: Assert (4)
- AVOW
- 16 Across: Check a horse (4)
- REIN
- 17 Across: "Tempest" sprite (5)
- ARIEL
- 18 Across: Think hard (9)
- CEREBRATE
- 20 Across: Little Washington (3)
- GEO
- 21 Across: More watchful (7)
- ALERTER
- 23 Across: Pronoun for a ship (3)
- SHE
- 24 Across: A clash of symbols (13)
- MIXEDMETAPHOR
- 27 Across: Sets up a patsy (6)
- FRAMES
- 29 Across: Guam's capital (5)
- AGANA
- 30 Across: Old stringsman (6)
- LUTIST
- 31 Across: Cuddlers (8)
- NESTLERS
- 35 Across: Handle copy (4)
- EDIT
- 36 Across: Hawaiian island (4)
- MAUI
- 37 Across: Shrimp, lobster, crab, etc. (8)
- DECAPODS
- 42 Across: Hot-dish stand (6)
- TRIVET
- 44 Across: Belief (5)
- TENET
- 45 Across: Meditators (6)
- MUSERS
- 46 Across: Voters' exams (13)
- LITERACYTESTS
- 50 Across: Anger (3)
- IRE
- 51 Across: Strong consonant (7)
- SPIRANT
- 52 Across: Oxford fellow (3)
- DON
- 55 Across: Sight "hearer" (9)
- LIPREADER
- 57 Across: Slow movement, in music (5)
- LARGO
- 59 Across: On the briny (4)
- ASEA
- 60 Across: Mailed (4)
- SENT
- 61 Across: French school (5)
- ECOLE
- 62 Across: Quid of tobacco (4)
- CHEW
- 63 Across: Madrileños: Abbr. (4)
- SRES
- 64 Across: Fight off (5)
- REPEL
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Subject of a Cohan song (4)
- FLAG
- 2 Down: Almost extinct (4)
- RARE
- 3 Down: Colloquial (9)
- IDIOMATIC
- 4 Down: Pub serving (3)
- ALE
- 5 Down: Loosens up (7)
- RELAXES
- 6 Down: Revved (5)
- RACED
- 7 Down: Featherbed (7)
- OVERMAN
- 8 Down: Sad procession (7)
- CORTEGE
- 9 Down: " . . . ___ apple cider" (7)
- SWEETAS
- 10 Down: Misfigure (3)
- ERR
- 11 Down: Lead for a dog (5)
- LEASH
- 12 Down: Big colored poster (5)
- LITHO
- 13 Down: Derisive look (5)
- SNEER
- 19 Down: Wild goose (5)
- BRANT
- 22 Down: "___ we forget" (4)
- LEST
- 25 Down: Do likewise (7)
- IMITATE
- 26 Down: Diviner of hands (7)
- PALMIST
- 27 Down: Scrammed (4)
- FLED
- 28 Down: Less than urbane (4)
- RUDE
- 32 Down: Spy aurally (9)
- EAVESDROP
- 33 Down: Sorry fellow (4)
- RUER
- 34 Down: Takes a chair (4)
- SITS
- 38 Down: In itself (5)
- PERSE
- 39 Down: Cheap way to see the game (7)
- ONAPASS
- 40 Down: Judge (7)
- DECIDER
- 41 Down: Plastics ingredient (7)
- STYRENE
- 42 Down: Treasury agents (4)
- TMEN
- 43 Down: Crooked cowboy (7)
- RUSTLER
- 46 Down: Delicate purple (5)
- LILAC
- 47 Down: Kind of lace or potato (5)
- IRISH
- 48 Down: Plains dwelling (5)
- TEPEE
- 49 Down: Fruit pastries (5)
- TARTS
- 53 Down: Eye with pleasure (4)
- OGLE
- 54 Down: December song (4)
- NOEL
- 56 Down: Unrefined (3)
- RAW
- 58 Down: Superb serve (3)
- ACE
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