Wednesday Crossword — October 12, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 10/12/1977. By Tap Osborn.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Pictorial riddle (5)
- REBUS
- 6 Across: Use a No. 8 iron (4)
- CHIP
- 10 Across: Gluck of operatic fame (4)
- ALMA
- 14 Across: "___ want to set the world . . . " (5)
- IDONT
- 15 Across: Chatty Barrett (4)
- RONA
- 16 Across: Slaughter (4)
- DOIN
- 17 Across: These may cause applause or a flapping of jaws (10)
- SENSATIONS
- 19 Across: Hit with a hard blow (4)
- JOLT
- 20 Across: Very involved (8)
- KNEEDEEP
- 21 Across: "Rug" on a pate (6)
- TOUPEE
- 23 Across: Has the sniffles (4)
- AILS
- 24 Across: Pans' partner (4)
- POTS
- 25 Across: Kind of clerk or card (6)
- POSTAL
- 28 Across: Annual event in Boston (8)
- MARATHON
- 32 Across: "Rule Britannia" composer (4)
- ARNE
- 33 Across: Hairy (5)
- PILAR
- 34 Across: Chemical suffix (3)
- ASE
- 35 Across: Post-holiday sigh, à la Roth? (15)
- GOODBYECOLUMBUS
- 39 Across: Wine: Comb. form (3)
- ENO
- 40 Across: Salad vegetables (5)
- LEEKS
- 41 Across: "___ fit night . . . " (4)
- AINT
- 42 Across: Unstable (8)
- TOPHEAVY
- 44 Across: Cloaks or devilfish (6)
- MANTAS
- 46 Across: Rhine tributary (4)
- AARE
- 47 Across: Rimbaud's forte (4)
- VERS
- 48 Across: Investor's concern (6)
- RETURN
- 51 Across: Docker's need (8)
- BOATHOOK
- 55 Across: Test of a sort (4)
- ORAL
- 56 Across: Inconsiderable (10)
- FRACTIONAL
- 58 Across: Hop-O'-My-Thumb's foe (4)
- OGRE
- 59 Across: Mrs. Chaplin (4)
- OONA
- 60 Across: Flood (5)
- SPATE
- 61 Across: Revolving item (4)
- DOOR
- 62 Across: Wind (4)
- REEL
- 63 Across: Anxious (5)
- TENSE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: What a funambulist takes (4)
- RISK
- 2 Down: She wrote "The Salamanca Drum" (1977) (4)
- EDEN
- 3 Down: ___ china (4)
- BONE
- 4 Down: Removed from power (8)
- UNSEATED
- 5 Down: Rod for surveying (6)
- STADIA
- 6 Down: "___ and Whispers," Bergman film (5)
- CRIES
- 7 Down: Dr. J.'s target (4)
- HOOP
- 8 Down: Hostelry (3)
- INN
- 9 Down: Idyllic (8)
- PASTORAL
- 10 Down: Change with the times (6)
- ADJUST
- 11 Down: Fold (4)
- LOOP
- 12 Down: Relative of a knot (4)
- MILE
- 13 Down: Prior: Prefix (4)
- ANTE
- 18 Down: What some bussers do (4)
- TELL
- 22 Down: Hokkaido port (5)
- OTARU
- 24 Down: ___ Verdes Estates, Calif. town (5)
- PALOS
- 25 Down: Statesman in Henry VIII's day (5)
- PAGET
- 26 Down: Maine college town (5)
- ORONO
- 27 Down: Town gossip (5)
- SNOOP
- 28 Down: Roasted potato (5)
- MICKY
- 29 Down: "How use doth breed a ___ in a man!": Shakespeare (5)
- HABIT
- 30 Down: 1963 U.S. men's singles champ (5)
- OSUNA
- 31 Down: Hotbeds (5)
- NESTS
- 33 Down: Gripe (5)
- PEEVE
- 36 Down: Dim (5)
- BLEAR
- 37 Down: Miss something sorely (8)
- YEARNFOR
- 38 Down: Malraux classic: 1937 (8)
- MANSHOPE
- 43 Down: Van man (6)
- HAULER
- 44 Down: Word with grinder or packer (4)
- MEAT
- 45 Down: Lely or Peale (6)
- ARTIST
- 47 Down: Outspoken (5)
- VOCAL
- 48 Down: Large crucifix (4)
- ROOD
- 49 Down: Hence (4)
- ERGO
- 50 Down: Plant of the arum family (4)
- TARO
- 51 Down: Poison or curse (4)
- BANE
- 52 Down: Judah's son (Gen. 38:4) (4)
- ONAN
- 53 Down: Dinner for Dobbin (4)
- OATS
- 54 Down: He painted "Twittering Machine" (4)
- KLEE
- 57 Down: Potential swimmers (3)
- ROE
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