Friday Crossword — September 30, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 9/30/1977. By Kathryn Righter.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Tread the boards (3)
- ACT
- 4 Across: General's asst. (3)
- ADC
- 7 Across: Food fish (5)
- SMELT
- 12 Across: Norma or Moira (7)
- SHEARER
- 14 Across: More thorny (7)
- SPINIER
- 16 Across: Amass (7)
- COMPILE
- 17 Across: Hospital worker who sounds neat (7)
- ORDERLY
- 18 Across: Cast-iron plants (11)
- ASPIDISTRAS
- 20 Across: Pub potable (3)
- ALE
- 21 Across: Fiesta lover (4)
- PEON
- 22 Across: Ensnared (6)
- CAUGHT
- 24 Across: Chairpersons' mallets (6)
- GAVELS
- 27 Across: Having conniptions (5)
- IRATE
- 31 Across: Sofa extremity (3)
- ARM
- 34 Across: Number of Muses (4)
- NINE
- 35 Across: Helix (6)
- SPIRAL
- 36 Across: They sing Adeline's praises (7)
- QUARTET
- 38 Across: Man, mandrill and 60 Across (7)
- MAMMALS
- 39 Across: Tacit (6)
- UNSAID
- 40 Across: Met star (4)
- DIVA
- 41 Across: Trygve ___ (3)
- LIE
- 42 Across: Lofty storage place (5)
- ATTIC
- 43 Across: Take umbrage (6)
- RESENT
- 45 Across: Ornamental recesses (6)
- NICHES
- 47 Across: Mine entrance (4)
- ADIT
- 51 Across: Tool in Markham poem (3)
- HOE
- 54 Across: Nearness (11)
- PROPINQUITY
- 57 Across: Forbear (7)
- ABSTAIN
- 59 Across: Wash (7)
- LAUNDER
- 60 Across: Sea cow (7)
- MANATEE
- 61 Across: Abridgement (7)
- EPITOME
- 62 Across: "I'll ___ Smile Again," 1939 song (5)
- NEVER
- 63 Across: Exercise for Evert (3)
- SET
- 64 Across: Gen. Hershey's post in W.W. II (3)
- SSS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Tin Pan Alley acronym (5)
- ASCAP
- 2 Down: Elected (5)
- CHOSE
- 3 Down: Pace (5)
- TEMPO
- 4 Down: Like the Spanish Sahara (4)
- ARID
- 5 Down: Where to get cold cuts (4)
- DELI
- 6 Down: Emblem of Turkey (8)
- CRESCENT
- 7 Down: Prop in a mine (5)
- SPRAG
- 8 Down: U.S.N.A. student (10)
- MIDSHIPMAN
- 9 Down: Compass reading (3)
- ENE
- 10 Down: Money, in Naples (4)
- LIRA
- 11 Down: Marksman who foiled Gessler (4)
- TELL
- 13 Down: David Frye's forte (5)
- APING
- 14 Down: Cluster of plant spores (5)
- SORUS
- 15 Down: Cereal grass (3)
- RYE
- 19 Down: "Decameron" unit (4)
- TALE
- 23 Down: Shipshape (4)
- TRIM
- 25 Down: Foretaste (10)
- ANTICIPATE
- 26 Down: Contended (4)
- VIED
- 28 Down: Soviet inland sea (4)
- ARAL
- 29 Down: Anklebones (4)
- TALI
- 30 Down: Follower of somebody or nobody (4)
- ELSE
- 31 Down: Greenish-blue (4)
- AQUA
- 32 Down: Small or stunted animal (4)
- RUNT
- 33 Down: Gin pole (4)
- MAST
- 35 Down: Event on a rink (4)
- SAVE
- 37 Down: Weather word (4)
- RAIN
- 38 Down: Subject of SALT talks (8)
- MISSILES
- 40 Down: Profound (4)
- DEEP
- 43 Down: River at Avignon (5)
- RHONE
- 44 Down: Mock (5)
- TAUNT
- 46 Down: Quondam announcer (5)
- CRIER
- 48 Down: Capers (5)
- DIDOS
- 49 Down: List components (5)
- ITEMS
- 50 Down: British radials (5)
- TYRES
- 51 Down: Tapper in a "shack" (3)
- HAM
- 52 Down: Character in "The Iceman Cometh" (4)
- OBAN
- 53 Down: Anglo-Saxon laborer (4)
- ESNE
- 55 Down: Nucha (4)
- NAPE
- 56 Down: Pick up one's marbles (4)
- QUIT
- 58 Down: Twenty-third Hebrew letter (3)
- TAV
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