Saturday Crossword — September 3, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 9/3/1977. By Bert Beaman.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: U.S. journalist, born in Denmark (4)
- RIIS
- 5 Across: A length of yarn (5)
- SKEIN
- 10 Across: One of the "three B's" (4)
- BACH
- 14 Across: Stress (10)
- ACCENTUATE
- 16 Across: Indeed, in Ireland (4)
- AROO
- 17 Across: In ___ (eventually) (15)
- THECOURSEOFTIME
- 19 Across: Long time (3)
- EON
- 20 Across: Author of "America the Beautiful" (5)
- BATES
- 21 Across: Mislays (5)
- LOSES
- 22 Across: Brassie's relative (6)
- DRIVER
- 24 Across: Artery (5)
- AORTA
- 25 Across: A second self (8)
- ALTEREGO
- 29 Across: Lexicographer's abbr. (3)
- OBS
- 31 Across: Rudiments (4)
- ABCS
- 34 Across: Prevailed (5)
- RULED
- 35 Across: Exceedingly (3)
- TOO
- 36 Across: Wings (4)
- ALAE
- 37 Across: Iraqi money (5)
- DINAR
- 38 Across: Astringent (4)
- ALUM
- 39 Across: Masseur's specialty (3)
- RUB
- 40 Across: Wordless (5)
- TACIT
- 41 Across: Astronaut Conrad (4)
- PETE
- 42 Across: Poetic contraction (3)
- EER
- 43 Across: Disappear gradually (8)
- EVANESCE
- 46 Across: Foolish (5)
- SILLY
- 48 Across: Ropes with nooses (6)
- LASSOS
- 52 Across: Kind of pigeon (5)
- STOOL
- 53 Across: She wrote "Three Lives" (5)
- STEIN
- 56 Across: Rainbow (3)
- ARC
- 57 Across: Goes straight ahead, as a pilot (15)
- HOLDSONESCOURSE
- 60 Across: Arrow poison (4)
- INEE
- 61 Across: Argument (10)
- CONTENTION
- 62 Across: Cats and dogs, e.g. (4)
- PETS
- 63 Across: Doubleday (5)
- ABNER
- 64 Across: Feudal laborer (4)
- ESNE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Evaluated (5)
- RATED
- 2 Down: Blood of the gods (5)
- ICHOR
- 3 Down: Ancient British tribe (5)
- ICENI
- 4 Down: Like some wines (3)
- SEC
- 5 Down: Painter famed for Washington portraits (6)
- STUART
- 6 Down: Vonnegut or Weill (4)
- KURT
- 7 Down: Bed of roses (4)
- EASE
- 8 Down: Residents: Suffix (4)
- ITES
- 9 Down: Avant-gardist (3)
- NEO
- 10 Down: Ulan ___, Mongolian capital (5)
- BATOR
- 11 Down: Plato's outstanding student (9)
- ARISTOTLE
- 12 Down: Happen (9)
- COMEABOUT
- 13 Down: Does farm work (4)
- HOES
- 15 Down: Saul Bellow's prize (5)
- NOBEL
- 18 Down: Biblical depopulator (5)
- FLOOD
- 23 Down: Archeologist's find (4)
- VASE
- 24 Down: Dyeing equipment (4)
- AGER
- 26 Down: Heath (5)
- ERICA
- 27 Down: Spat (5)
- RUNIN
- 28 Down: Cheer (5)
- ELATE
- 30 Down: "___ are born great . . . ": Shakespeare (4)
- SOME
- 31 Down: Swiss stream (4)
- AARE
- 32 Down: Paving material (9)
- BLUESTONE
- 33 Down: Coupé's relative (9)
- CABRIOLET
- 37 Down: ___ Jones's locker (4)
- DAVY
- 38 Down: Gibbons (4)
- APES
- 40 Down: Reveals (5)
- TELLS
- 44 Down: Deli machine (6)
- SLICER
- 45 Down: Church law (5)
- CANON
- 47 Down: Veins of ore (5)
- LODES
- 49 Down: Delhi dresses (5)
- SARIS
- 50 Down: Bean or Welles (5)
- ORSON
- 51 Down: Flicks unit (5)
- SCENE
- 52 Down: "Lollipop" in a 1934 song (4)
- SHIP
- 53 Down: Hoity-toity one (4)
- SNOB
- 54 Down: State west of N.C. (4)
- TENN
- 55 Down: Ferrara family (4)
- ESTE
- 58 Down: Goose, in Genoa (3)
- OCA
- 59 Down: Western Indian (3)
- UTE
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