Wednesday Crossword — October 12, 1977

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1574 clues~15-30 minBy Tap Osborn10/12/1977

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Pictorial riddle (5 letters)
6 Across
Use a No. 8 iron (4 letters)
10 Across
Gluck of operatic fame (4 letters)
14 Across
"___ want to set the world . . . " (5 letters)
15 Across
Chatty Barrett (4 letters)
16 Across
Slaughter (4 letters)
17 Across
These may cause applause or a flapping of jaws (10 letters)
19 Across
Hit with a hard blow (4 letters)
20 Across
Very involved (8 letters)
21 Across
"Rug" on a pate (6 letters)
23 Across
Has the sniffles (4 letters)
24 Across
Pans' partner (4 letters)
25 Across
Kind of clerk or card (6 letters)
28 Across
Annual event in Boston (8 letters)
32 Across
"Rule Britannia" composer (4 letters)
33 Across
Hairy (5 letters)
34 Across
Chemical suffix (3 letters)
35 Across
Post-holiday sigh, à la Roth? (15 letters)
39 Across
Wine: Comb. form (3 letters)
40 Across
Salad vegetables (5 letters)
41 Across
"___ fit night . . . " (4 letters)
42 Across
Unstable (8 letters)
44 Across
Cloaks or devilfish (6 letters)
46 Across
Rhine tributary (4 letters)
47 Across
Rimbaud's forte (4 letters)
48 Across
Investor's concern (6 letters)
51 Across
Docker's need (8 letters)
55 Across
Test of a sort (4 letters)
56 Across
Inconsiderable (10 letters)
58 Across
Hop-O'-My-Thumb's foe (4 letters)
59 Across
Mrs. Chaplin (4 letters)
60 Across
Flood (5 letters)
61 Across
Revolving item (4 letters)
62 Across
Wind (4 letters)
63 Across
Anxious (5 letters)

Down

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What a funambulist takes (4 letters)
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She wrote "The Salamanca Drum" (1977) (4 letters)
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___ china (4 letters)
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Removed from power (8 letters)
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Rod for surveying (6 letters)
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"___ and Whispers," Bergman film (5 letters)
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Dr. J.'s target (4 letters)
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Hostelry (3 letters)
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Idyllic (8 letters)
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Change with the times (6 letters)
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Fold (4 letters)
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Relative of a knot (4 letters)
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Prior: Prefix (4 letters)
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What some bussers do (4 letters)
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Hokkaido port (5 letters)
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___ Verdes Estates, Calif. town (5 letters)
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Statesman in Henry VIII's day (5 letters)
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Maine college town (5 letters)
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Town gossip (5 letters)
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Roasted potato (5 letters)
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"How use doth breed a ___ in a man!": Shakespeare (5 letters)
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1963 U.S. men's singles champ (5 letters)
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Hotbeds (5 letters)
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Gripe (5 letters)
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Dim (5 letters)
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Miss something sorely (8 letters)
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Malraux classic: 1937 (8 letters)
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Van man (6 letters)
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Word with grinder or packer (4 letters)
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Lely or Peale (6 letters)
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Outspoken (5 letters)
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Large crucifix (4 letters)
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Hence (4 letters)
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Plant of the arum family (4 letters)
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Poison or curse (4 letters)
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Judah's son (Gen. 38:4) (4 letters)
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Dinner for Dobbin (4 letters)
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He painted "Twittering Machine" (4 letters)
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Potential swimmers (3 letters)

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