Friday Crossword — October 14, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 10/14/1977. By Herb L. Risteen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Strikes (4)
- HITS
- 5 Across: Lake herring (5)
- CISCO
- 10 Across: Alaskan island (4)
- ATTU
- 14 Across: Oral carbon copy (4)
- ECHO
- 15 Across: Famed fur merchant (5)
- ASTOR
- 16 Across: Accordingly (4)
- THUS
- 17 Across: Strip (4)
- PEEL
- 18 Across: Gay ___ (playboy) (5)
- BLADE
- 19 Across: Coop group (4)
- HENS
- 20 Across: More cloudy (7)
- SMOKIER
- 22 Across: Model (5)
- POSER
- 23 Across: Prayer word (4)
- AMEN
- 24 Across: Goldlike alloy (6)
- ORMOLU
- 27 Across: Criteria; general rules (6)
- CANONS
- 29 Across: Umpire's cry (4)
- FOUL
- 30 Across: Find fault with on petty grounds (3)
- NAG
- 33 Across: ___ acids (5)
- AMINO
- 34 Across: Maltreat (5)
- ABUSE
- 35 Across: "Stay Alive ___ Your Life": Peale (3)
- ALL
- 36 Across: Telescope part (4)
- LENS
- 37 Across: Where Mt. Ida is (5)
- CRETE
- 38 Across: Muse of history (4)
- CLIO
- 39 Across: Omaha Beach craft (3)
- LST
- 40 Across: Commonplace (5)
- TRITE
- 41 Across: Barrister's bread and butter (5)
- CASES
- 42 Across: Ski wood (3)
- ASH
- 43 Across: Jumble (4)
- HASH
- 44 Across: Fraternal order (6)
- MASONS
- 45 Across: Glossy paint (6)
- ENAMEL
- 47 Across: Affirm (4)
- AVER
- 48 Across: Exorcist's target (5)
- DEMON
- 50 Across: Peculiar to a particular people or locality (7)
- ENDEMIC
- 53 Across: Reputation (4)
- ODOR
- 54 Across: Orchard pest (5)
- APHID
- 56 Across: Court star (4)
- ASHE
- 58 Across: Biblical oldster (4)
- ENOS
- 59 Across: "Goodnight" girl (5)
- IRENE
- 60 Across: Small duck (4)
- TEAL
- 61 Across: Showing good sense (4)
- SANE
- 62 Across: Appian Way traveler (5)
- ROMAN
- 63 Across: Catch sight of (4)
- ESPY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Informed: Slang (3)
- HEP
- 2 Down: Frozen desserts (4)
- ICES
- 3 Down: Outer-space illusion (15)
- THEMANINTHEMOON
- 4 Down: Pacific island group (8)
- SOLOMONS
- 5 Down: Frontier abodes (6)
- CABINS
- 6 Down: ___ of Pines, in the Caribbean (4)
- ISLE
- 7 Down: Plant also called "summer snowflake" (15)
- STAROFBETHLEHEM
- 8 Down: Cape shaped like a lobster's claw (3)
- COD
- 9 Down: Mine output (3)
- ORE
- 10 Down: Massachusetts city (5)
- ATHOL
- 11 Down: Novel about "the lost generation" (15)
- THESUNALSORISES
- 12 Down: Platter matter (4)
- TUNE
- 13 Down: World power (4)
- USSR
- 21 Down: Gambling game (4)
- KENO
- 22 Down: Person from Poznán (4)
- POLE
- 25 Down: Chisholm Trail, e.g. (5)
- ROUTE
- 26 Down: Meditate (4)
- MUSE
- 27 Down: Species of lily (5)
- CALLA
- 28 Down: Make ___ of (foul up) (5)
- AMESS
- 31 Down: Foreign (5)
- ALIEN
- 32 Down: Explanation or sleekness (5)
- GLOSS
- 34 Down: Have origin (5)
- ARISE
- 37 Down: Study strenuously (4)
- CRAM
- 38 Down: Bombproof chamber in a fort (8)
- CASEMATE
- 40 Down: Holier ___ thou (4)
- THAN
- 41 Down: Bear ___ (police station, in C.B. lingo) (4)
- CAVE
- 44 Down: Make furious (6)
- MADDEN
- 46 Down: Crew for Eric the Red (5)
- NORSE
- 48 Down: Performs (4)
- DOES
- 49 Down: Novelist Ferber (4)
- EDNA
- 51 Down: Ship on which Columbus returned (4)
- NINA
- 52 Down: Roughen, as skin, from cold (4)
- CHAP
- 54 Down: Word with lane or line (3)
- AIR
- 55 Down: Bear or Lion (3)
- PRO
- 57 Down: English cathedral town (3)
- ELY
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