Friday Crossword — August 12, 1977 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/12/1977. By Maura B. Jacobson.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Of the ear (4)
OTIC
5 Across: Coupon of a sort (5)
SCRIP
10 Across: Words of approximation (4)
ORSO
14 Across: Art cult (4)
DADA
15 Across: Unescorted (5)
ALONE
16 Across: ___ morgana (optical illusion) (4)
FATA
17 Across: Higher, in Bonn (4)
OBER
18 Across: Lawbreaker (10)
BANKROBBER
20 Across: Lawbreakers (8)
RUSTLERS
22 Across: Cool drink (5)
JULEP
23 Across: Wife of Zeus (4)
HERA
24 Across: Ballet garb (4)
TUTU
25 Across: Nosegays (6)
POSIES
28 Across: Lawbreaker (8)
MURDERER
32 Across: Verb form: Abbr. (5)
IMPER
33 Across: Star's walk-on role (5)
CAMEO
34 Across: Prefix with gram or graph (3)
EPI
35 Across: Unsophisticated (4)
NAIF
36 Across: To build, in Caen (5)
BATIR
37 Across: Andy's sidekick (4)
AMOS
38 Across: French pronoun (3)
UNE
39 Across: Acted as decoy (5)
LURED
40 Across: June V.I.P. (5)
BRIDE
41 Across: Lawbreaker (8)
PILFERER
43 Across: Use a clasp (6)
FASTEN
44 Across: Wild revelry (4)
ORGY
45 Across: Angel's prop (4)
HALO
46 Across: Flynn of film fame (5)
ERROL
48 Across: Lawbreaker (8)
MUTINEER
52 Across: Lawbreaker (10)
PLAGIARIST
54 Across: Run in neutral (4)
IDLE
55 Across: Busy place (4)
HIVE
56 Across: Shampoo follow-up (5)
RINSE
57 Across: Munro pseudonym (4)
SAKI
58 Across: Venison on the hoof (4)
DEER
59 Across: Relative of Pan (5)
SATYR
60 Across: Certain Feds (4)
TMEN

Down Answers

1 Down: Aroma (4)
ODOR
2 Down: Verboten (4)
TABU
3 Down: Caesar's doomsday (4)
IDES
4 Down: Lawbreaker (8)
CARTHIEF
5 Down: Cavalry swords (6)
SABERS
6 Down: Barton or Bow (5)
CLARA
7 Down: Nessen and Ziegler (4)
RONS
8 Down: Printer's need (3)
INK
9 Down: Lawbreaker (8)
PERJURER
10 Down: "Five foot two, eyes ___" (6)
OFBLUE
11 Down: Playwright David (4)
RABE
12 Down: Footfall (4)
STEP
13 Down: Regatta gear (3)
OAR
19 Down: Surpass (5)
OUTDO
21 Down: Lascivious look (4)
LEER
24 Down: Swollen (5)
TUMID
25 Down: Kind of lamp or girl (5)
PINUP
26 Down: Muscat native (5)
OMANI
27 Down: Pitchman's forte (5)
SPIEL
28 Down: British boy's mom (5)
MATER
29 Down: Creditor's request (5)
REMIT
30 Down: Horace's form, at times (5)
EPODE
31 Down: Up (5)
RISEN
33 Down: Top man in Albany (5)
CAREY
36 Down: Lawbreakers (8)
BURGLARS
37 Down: Lawbreaker (8)
ARSONIST
39 Down: Dramatist Jones, now Imamu Baraka (5)
LEROI
40 Down: Java's neighbor (4)
BALI
42 Down: Lawbreaker (6)
FORGER
43 Down: Having more adipose (6)
FATTER
45 Down: Brazen woman (5)
HUSSY
46 Down: Author Wiesel (4)
ELIE
47 Down: Enthusiastic review (4)
RAVE
48 Down: After-dinner item (4)
MINT
49 Down: Gouda's kin (4)
EDAM
50 Down: Ms. Sommer (4)
ELKE
51 Down: Restraint of a sort (4)
REIN
52 Down: Possibility after an M.A. (3)
PHD
53 Down: Inlet (3)
RIA

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