Wednesday Crossword — October 19, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 10/19/1977. By Sara V. Tuckerman.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Audacious (4)
- BOLD
- 5 Across: Ironically extravagant (4)
- CAMP
- 9 Across: Cutting tool (4)
- ADZE
- 13 Across: Shipworm or boll weevil (5)
- BORER
- 14 Across: Plant with fleshy leaves (4)
- ALOE
- 15 Across: Bird with a weird cry (4)
- LOON
- 16 Across: Capital of Guam (5)
- AGANA
- 17 Across: Loch's relative (4)
- TARN
- 18 Across: Set right (4)
- MEND
- 19 Across: Useless search (14)
- WILDGOOSECHASE
- 22 Across: ___ Antilles (6)
- LESSER
- 23 Across: Spare (4)
- LEAN
- 24 Across: Old oath (4)
- EGAD
- 27 Across: Inhalant (5)
- VAPOR
- 31 Across: Salmagundi (4)
- OLIO
- 35 Across: Comstock ingress (4)
- ADIT
- 37 Across: Yellow pigment (5)
- OCHRE
- 38 Across: Houseleeks (15)
- HENSANDCHICKENS
- 41 Across: Prime minister who resigned after Cornwallis's surrender (5)
- NORTH
- 42 Across: O'Casey or O'Kelly (4)
- SEAN
- 43 Across: Sultanate of Babe Ruth (4)
- SWAT
- 44 Across: Burdens: Lat. (5)
- ONERA
- 45 Across: Main veins of leaves (4)
- RIBS
- 47 Across: Pay up (4)
- ANTE
- 50 Across: Novelist Welty (6)
- EUDORA
- 55 Across: Play ___ with (squander) (14)
- DUCKSANDDRAKES
- 59 Across: Rajah's spouse (4)
- RANI
- 60 Across: Parisian's "Help!" (4)
- AMOI
- 61 Across: Rub out (5)
- ERASE
- 62 Across: Track figures (4)
- ODDS
- 63 Across: Small recess (4)
- NOOK
- 64 Across: Dark brown shade (5)
- SEPIA
- 65 Across: TV studio device (4)
- BOOM
- 66 Across: Poet Sexton (4)
- ANNE
- 67 Across: One of triplets (4)
- TRIN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Apparition (5)
- BOGIE
- 2 Down: Certain tests (5)
- ORALS
- 3 Down: Imparts (5)
- LENDS
- 4 Down: Sugarcoated nut (6)
- DRAGEE
- 5 Down: Roman consul (4)
- CATO
- 6 Down: Word of regret (4)
- ALAS
- 7 Down: Mushroom (5)
- MOREL
- 8 Down: The "d" in l.s.d. (5)
- PENCE
- 9 Down: Franklin's annual compilations (9)
- ALMANACKS
- 10 Down: Suffices (4)
- DOES
- 11 Down: Kind of defense, in sports (4)
- ZONE
- 12 Down: Tackle's neighbor (3)
- END
- 13 Down: Bellow (4)
- BAWL
- 20 Down: Church fixture (5)
- ORGAN
- 21 Down: "Cry '___!' and let slip the dogs of war": Shak. (5)
- HAVOC
- 25 Down: Increases (4)
- ADDS
- 26 Down: Las Vegas patron (5)
- DICER
- 28 Down: Hot-weather word (4)
- PHEW
- 29 Down: Trieste wine measure (4)
- ORNA
- 30 Down: Musical sign (4)
- REST
- 31 Down: "Decidedly not!" (4)
- OHNO
- 32 Down: Biographer Edel (4)
- LEON
- 33 Down: Dictator's phrase (4)
- INRE
- 34 Down: Fate of one sent to Coventry (9)
- OSTRACISM
- 36 Down: Bangkok man (4)
- THAI
- 39 Down: " . . . and ___ of hair": Kipling (5)
- AHANK
- 40 Down: "___ We Cry," book by Ilka Chase (5)
- INBED
- 46 Down: Most certain (6)
- SUREST
- 48 Down: Ethiopian Lake, source of the Blue Nile (5)
- TSANA
- 49 Down: De Valera (5)
- EAMON
- 51 Down: Venturesome one (5)
- DARER
- 52 Down: Giraffelike animal (5)
- OKAPI
- 53 Down: Violinist's need (5)
- RESIN
- 54 Down: In Neptune's realm (4)
- ASEA
- 55 Down: Pedestal part (4)
- DADO
- 56 Down: Loosen (4)
- UNDO
- 57 Down: When both hands are up (4)
- NOON
- 58 Down: Flood fighter's barrier (4)
- DIKE
- 59 Down: What footpads do (3)
- ROB
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