Saturday Crossword — August 13, 1977

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1578 clues~30-60 minBy Alfio Micci8/13/1977

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Light-switch position (3 letters)
4 Across
Bridegroom's buss fare (4 letters)
8 Across
Apportion (5 letters)
13 Across
Ne ___ ultra (acme) (4 letters)
15 Across
Part of Q.E.D. (4 letters)
16 Across
Silly one (5 letters)
17 Across
Anthony's female counterpart (4 letters)
18 Across
Star that brightens, then fades (4 letters)
19 Across
Frome or Allen (5 letters)
20 Across
Tchaikovsky hero (11 letters)
23 Across
Stretch (with "out") (3 letters)
24 Across
Italian composer Riccardo (5 letters)
25 Across
Dispatch (4 letters)
26 Across
Turner or Cole (3 letters)
27 Across
Kind of market (4 letters)
30 Across
Famed puppeteer (4 letters)
32 Across
Make limp and soiled (9 letters)
37 Across
Lorelei (5 letters)
40 Across
Thine: Fr. (4 letters)
41 Across
Gratings (5 letters)
43 Across
Relative of a 'copter (4 letters)
44 Across
Sharpened (5 letters)
46 Across
Implications (9 letters)
48 Across
Double CCII (4 letters)
50 Across
Yule song (4 letters)
51 Across
Half a dance (3 letters)
53 Across
Weak-eyed worm hunter (4 letters)
56 Across
Pierre's dreams (5 letters)
60 Across
"Leave ___ to heaven . . . ": Hamlet's father's ghost (3 letters)
61 Across
Rossini hero (11 letters)
64 Across
Chou ___ (5 letters)
66 Across
Totals (4 letters)
67 Across
Server (4 letters)
68 Across
Derisive sound (5 letters)
69 Across
Liquefy (4 letters)
70 Across
Bone: Prefix (4 letters)
71 Across
Chores (5 letters)
72 Across
Alaska's is 585,412 sq. mi. (4 letters)
73 Across
Poet's "forever" (3 letters)

Down

1 Down
Chose (5 letters)
2 Down
Cooking staple (5 letters)
3 Down
Mushrooms, e.g. (5 letters)
4 Down
Bingo's relative (4 letters)
5 Down
Shackle (4 letters)
6 Down
Makes a bank deposit (5 letters)
7 Down
Actors' milieu (5 letters)
8 Down
Orders of business (7 letters)
9 Down
Destiny (3 letters)
10 Down
Wagner hero (9 letters)
11 Down
Honshu city (5 letters)
12 Down
Belief (5 letters)
14 Down
Wagner hero (9 letters)
21 Down
Popular piano number (4 letters)
22 Down
Those elected (3 letters)
28 Down
Breakfast item (3 letters)
29 Down
Field: Comb. form (4 letters)
31 Down
Verdi hero (9 letters)
32 Down
Scrooge utterance (3 letters)
33 Down
Ike's command (3 letters)
34 Down
Verdi hero (9 letters)
35 Down
Ullmann of films (3 letters)
36 Down
Idyllic place (4 letters)
38 Down
"Maid of Athens, ___ we part . . . " (3 letters)
39 Down
1, 2, etc.: Abbr. (3 letters)
42 Down
Producer's favorite letters (3 letters)
45 Down
Fools; blockheads (7 letters)
47 Down
School session (4 letters)
49 Down
"___, che sapete" (Mozart aria) (3 letters)
51 Down
Word with hope or treasure (5 letters)
52 Down
Hair rinse (5 letters)
54 Down
Andean denizen (5 letters)
55 Down
Church official (5 letters)
57 Down
Frost forte (5 letters)
58 Down
Puff up (5 letters)
59 Down
Not so straightforward (5 letters)
62 Down
Inactive (4 letters)
63 Down
___ de bandera (Spanish flagstaff) (4 letters)
65 Down
Noah's refuge (3 letters)

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