Wednesday Crossword — November 2, 1977 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 11/2/1977. By Bartholomew.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Bad news for yachtsmen (4)
GALE
5 Across: " . . . and the ___ walk": Matthew 11:5 (4)
LAME
9 Across: W. Va. product (5)
GLASS
14 Across: Turkish title (4)
EMIR
15 Across: Holm oak (4)
ILEX
16 Across: Moroccan port (5)
RABAT
17 Across: Director Wertmüller (4)
LINA
18 Across: Mediocre (4)
SOSO
19 Across: Goddess of peace (5)
IRENE
20 Across: Chilled (4)
ICED
21 Across: U.N. employee (10)
TRANSLATOR
23 Across: Obtains from a source (7)
DERIVES
25 Across: Voracious fish (3)
EEL
26 Across: Maxwell or Nash (3)
CAR
27 Across: Some atomic reactors (8)
BREEDERS
32 Across: Combustible turf (4)
PEAT
34 Across: Gad about (4)
ROAM
35 Across: Melee (4)
RIOT
36 Across: Jar (4)
JOLT
37 Across: Kipling poem (5)
BOOTS
38 Across: Sole (4)
ONLY
39 Across: African plant (4)
ALOE
40 Across: Tear down (4)
RAZE
41 Across: Pintail duck (4)
SMEE
42 Across: Ballet step (8)
GLISSADE
44 Across: Pair (3)
DUO
45 Across: "___ folly to be wise": Gray (3)
TIS
46 Across: Lindbergh's cargo in 1926 (7)
AIRMAIL
50 Across: Outlandish or barbarous (10)
TRAMONTANE
55 Across: Part of A.P.O. (4)
ARMY
56 Across: On pins and needles (5)
EAGER
57 Across: Give off (4)
EMIT
58 Across: Word with beer or miss (4)
NEAR
59 Across: Say it with feeling (5)
EMOTE
60 Across: Get one's goat (4)
RILE
61 Across: He wrote "A Loss of Roses" (4)
INGE
62 Across: Romans' ancestral spirits (5)
MANES
63 Across: Nostradamus was one (4)
SEER
64 Across: Philippine tree (4)
ATES

Down Answers

1 Down: Cold (5)
GELID
2 Down: Priestly vestment (5)
AMICE
3 Down: The Rotterdam, e.g. (5)
LINER
4 Down: Wipes out (10)
ERADICATES
5 Down: Father of modern antiseptic surgery (6)
LISTER
6 Down: Then, in Toulon (5)
ALORS
7 Down: Big butte (4)
MESA
8 Down: Absolve (9)
EXONERATE
9 Down: Metal grating (6)
GRILLE
10 Down: Dr. Zhivago's love (4)
LARA
11 Down: Support (4)
ABET
12 Down: "Mens sana in corpore ___" (4)
SANO
13 Down: Ending with hip or tip (4)
STER
22 Down: "I know not '___' ": Hamlet (5)
SEEMS
24 Down: Keeve (3)
VAT
27 Down: Giggle water (5)
BOOZE
28 Down: Passion for travel (10)
DROMOMANIA
29 Down: "___ kleine Nachtmusik": Mozart (4)
EINE
30 Down: It's made to be played (4)
ROLE
31 Down: Pen (3)
STY
32 Down: Head (4)
POLL
33 Down: Victims in Wells's "The Time Machine" (4)
ELOI
34 Down: Sporty old cars (9)
ROADSTERS
36 Down: Spree (3)
JAG
37 Down: Site of the pineal gland (5)
BRAIN
41 Down: Prefix with name or charge (3)
SUR
43 Down: Caches (6)
STORES
44 Down: He practices girth control (6)
DIETER
46 Down: Old-womanish (5)
ANILE
47 Down: "___ We All?": 1929 song (5)
ARENT
48 Down: Likeness (5)
IMAGE
49 Down: Kissars (5)
LYRES
50 Down: Abound (4)
TEEM
51 Down: Hero of Hindu epics (4)
RAMA
52 Down: Chariot race (4)
AGON
53 Down: Measure out (4)
METE
54 Down: Parisian confidante (4)
AMIE

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