Saturday Crossword — August 13, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 8/13/1977. By Alfio Micci.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Light-switch position (3)
- OFF
- 4 Across: Bridegroom's buss fare (4)
- KISS
- 8 Across: Apportion (5)
- ALLOT
- 13 Across: Ne ___ ultra (acme) (4)
- PLUS
- 15 Across: Part of Q.E.D. (4)
- ERAT
- 16 Across: Silly one (5)
- GOOSE
- 17 Across: Anthony's female counterpart (4)
- TONI
- 18 Across: Star that brightens, then fades (4)
- NOVA
- 19 Across: Frome or Allen (5)
- ETHAN
- 20 Across: Tchaikovsky hero (11)
- EUGENONEGIN
- 23 Across: Stretch (with "out") (3)
- EKE
- 24 Across: Italian composer Riccardo (5)
- DRIGO
- 25 Across: Dispatch (4)
- SEND
- 26 Across: Turner or Cole (3)
- NAT
- 27 Across: Kind of market (4)
- FLEA
- 30 Across: Famed puppeteer (4)
- SARG
- 32 Across: Make limp and soiled (9)
- BEDRAGGLE
- 37 Across: Lorelei (5)
- SIREN
- 40 Across: Thine: Fr. (4)
- ATOI
- 41 Across: Gratings (5)
- GRIDS
- 43 Across: Relative of a 'copter (4)
- GIRO
- 44 Across: Sharpened (5)
- HONED
- 46 Across: Implications (9)
- OVERTONES
- 48 Across: Double CCII (4)
- CDIV
- 50 Across: Yule song (4)
- NOEL
- 51 Across: Half a dance (3)
- CHA
- 53 Across: Weak-eyed worm hunter (4)
- MOLE
- 56 Across: Pierre's dreams (5)
- REVES
- 60 Across: "Leave ___ to heaven . . . ": Hamlet's father's ghost (3)
- HER
- 61 Across: Rossini hero (11)
- WILLIAMTELL
- 64 Across: Chou ___ (5)
- ENLAI
- 66 Across: Totals (4)
- ADDS
- 67 Across: Server (4)
- TRAY
- 68 Across: Derisive sound (5)
- SNORT
- 69 Across: Liquefy (4)
- MELT
- 70 Across: Bone: Prefix (4)
- OSTE
- 71 Across: Chores (5)
- TASKS
- 72 Across: Alaska's is 585,412 sq. mi. (4)
- AREA
- 73 Across: Poet's "forever" (3)
- EER
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Chose (5)
- OPTED
- 2 Down: Cooking staple (5)
- FLOUR
- 3 Down: Mushrooms, e.g. (5)
- FUNGI
- 4 Down: Bingo's relative (4)
- KENO
- 5 Down: Shackle (4)
- IRON
- 6 Down: Makes a bank deposit (5)
- SAVES
- 7 Down: Actors' milieu (5)
- STAGE
- 8 Down: Orders of business (7)
- AGENDAS
- 9 Down: Destiny (3)
- LOT
- 10 Down: Wagner hero (9)
- LOHENGRIN
- 11 Down: Honshu city (5)
- OSAKA
- 12 Down: Belief (5)
- TENET
- 14 Down: Wagner hero (9)
- SIEGFRIED
- 21 Down: Popular piano number (4)
- NOLA
- 22 Down: Those elected (3)
- INS
- 28 Down: Breakfast item (3)
- EGG
- 29 Down: Field: Comb. form (4)
- AGRO
- 31 Down: Verdi hero (9)
- RIGOLETTO
- 32 Down: Scrooge utterance (3)
- BAH
- 33 Down: Ike's command (3)
- ETO
- 34 Down: Verdi hero (9)
- DONCARLOS
- 35 Down: Ullmann of films (3)
- LIV
- 36 Down: Idyllic place (4)
- EDEN
- 38 Down: "Maid of Athens, ___ we part . . . " (3)
- ERE
- 39 Down: 1, 2, etc.: Abbr. (3)
- NOS
- 42 Down: Producer's favorite letters (3)
- SRO
- 45 Down: Fools; blockheads (7)
- DIMWITS
- 47 Down: School session (4)
- TERM
- 49 Down: "___, che sapete" (Mozart aria) (3)
- VOI
- 51 Down: Word with hope or treasure (5)
- CHEST
- 52 Down: Hair rinse (5)
- HENNA
- 54 Down: Andean denizen (5)
- LLAMA
- 55 Down: Church official (5)
- ELDER
- 57 Down: Frost forte (5)
- VERSE
- 58 Down: Puff up (5)
- ELATE
- 59 Down: Not so straightforward (5)
- SLYER
- 62 Down: Inactive (4)
- IDLE
- 63 Down: ___ de bandera (Spanish flagstaff) (4)
- ASTA
- 65 Down: Noah's refuge (3)
- ARK
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