Saturday Crossword — November 12, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 11/12/1977. By Kathryn Righter.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Carry lightly through the air (4)
- WAFT
- 5 Across: Nap (4)
- DOZE
- 9 Across: Warm-water fish (4)
- SCAD
- 13 Across: Cupid, in art (4)
- AMOR
- 14 Across: Finely ground quartz or flint (5)
- SILEX
- 15 Across: Garb for Lucullus (4)
- TOGA
- 16 Across: Part of a bureaucracy (10)
- DEPARTMENT
- 18 Across: Organic compound (4)
- ENOL
- 19 Across: Catches (8)
- ENSNARES
- 20 Across: Color for William (6)
- ORANGE
- 22 Across: Not big, to Burns (3)
- SMA
- 23 Across: Male mallard (5)
- DRAKE
- 24 Across: Kinship (11)
- PROPINQUITY
- 29 Across: Kind of int. (3)
- CPD
- 32 Across: "My ___," Straus song (4)
- HERO
- 33 Across: Sight at Provincetown (4)
- DUNE
- 34 Across: Peter in re pumpkins (5)
- EATER
- 36 Across: North Caucasian language (4)
- AVAR
- 37 Across: Denominations (5)
- SECTS
- 39 Across: Golconda (4)
- MINE
- 40 Across: Paving stones (5)
- SETTS
- 42 Across: Guideway in a knitting machine (4)
- SLEY
- 43 Across: Mouth: Sp. (4)
- BOCA
- 44 Across: Ike's command in W.W. II (3)
- ETO
- 45 Across: Pollution-control device (11)
- AFTERBURNER
- 48 Across: Raises (5)
- REARS
- 50 Across: Mil. address (3)
- APO
- 51 Across: Eldest Karamazov (6)
- DMITRI
- 53 Across: Verse that spells words vertically (8)
- ACROSTIC
- 58 Across: Sumptuous (4)
- RICH
- 59 Across: Large flowerpot (10)
- JARDINIERE
- 61 Across: Dies ___ (4)
- IRAE
- 62 Across: Olfactology topics (5)
- ODORS
- 63 Across: Bitter drug (4)
- ALOE
- 64 Across: Buoy attachment (4)
- BELL
- 65 Across: Striplings (4)
- LADS
- 66 Across: Telescope part (4)
- LENS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: ___ in (attack) (4)
- WADE
- 2 Down: Church "corner" (4)
- AMEN
- 3 Down: Toffs (4)
- FOPS
- 4 Down: Enrapture (9)
- TRANSPORT
- 5 Down: Mint product (4)
- DIME
- 6 Down: Corrida cheers (4)
- OLES
- 7 Down: Mahayana movement (3)
- ZEN
- 8 Down: Wrest (6)
- EXTORT
- 9 Down: Kind of knife (5)
- STEAK
- 10 Down: "The French ___" (10)
- CONNECTION
- 11 Down: Highly excited (4)
- AGOG
- 12 Down: Hill's counterpart (4)
- DALE
- 14 Down: Tresses (7)
- STRANDS
- 17 Down: Branches (4)
- RAMI
- 21 Down: Martha from Butte (4)
- RAYE
- 23 Down: Calorie counter (6)
- DIETER
- 24 Down: Aspect (5)
- PHASE
- 25 Down: Face with masonry (5)
- REVET
- 26 Down: Adjective for Bryan (10)
- ORATORICAL
- 27 Down: Pursuits of knights-errant (6)
- QUESTS
- 28 Down: Cry in conceding defeat (5)
- UNCLE
- 30 Down: Part of L.S.D. (5)
- PENCE
- 31 Down: Dismal, to Keats (5)
- DREAR
- 35 Down: Very delicious or fragrant (9)
- AMBROSIAL
- 38 Down: Ancient city, noted for wealth and luxury (7)
- SYBARIS
- 41 Down: European coal basin (4)
- SAAR
- 46 Down: Kidney bean of the Southwest (6)
- FRIJOL
- 47 Down: Second word of a fairy tale (4)
- UPON
- 49 Down: Merman or Kennedy (5)
- ETHEL
- 51 Down: Small amount (4)
- DRIB
- 52 Down: Bog (4)
- MIRE
- 53 Down: Grandson of Jacob (4)
- AROD
- 54 Down: Naval officers: Abbr. (4)
- CDRS
- 55 Down: Distant: Prefix (4)
- TELE
- 56 Down: Mangle (4)
- IRON
- 57 Down: So-so grades (4)
- CEES
- 60 Down: "Tobacco Road" character (3)
- ADA
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