Friday Crossword — November 18, 1977 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 11/18/1977. By William Lutwiniak.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Astor was one (6)
TRADER
7 Across: Anchovies (6)
SPRATS
13 Across: Change boundaries (6)
REZONE
14 Across: Mephitic (7)
NOISOME
16 Across: Dotage (15)
SECONDCHILDHOOD
18 Across: Play the ham (5)
EMOTE
19 Across: Emulated Seattle Slew (5)
RACED
20 Across: Certain notebooks: Abbr. (3)
LLS
21 Across: Nomadize (4)
ROVE
22 Across: Classroom equipment (5)
DESKS
23 Across: Fill the hull (4)
LADE
24 Across: Oléron, e.g. (3)
ILE
25 Across: Reefers (5)
COATS
26 Across: Badger's look-alike (5)
RATEL
27 Across: Indeed! (8)
FORSOOTH
29 Across: Madmen on the soapbox (6)
RAVERS
30 Across: Fates or Graces (9)
THREESOME
32 Across: Skeleton crews (6)
CADRES
35 Across: Inexorable (8)
RIGOROUS
39 Across: Of bees (5)
APIAN
40 Across: Endures (5)
BIDES
41 Across: Numbers man (3)
CPA
42 Across: Irritate (4)
RASP
43 Across: Engender (5)
BEGET
44 Across: Turkish army corps (4)
ORDU
45 Across: Chemists' org. (3)
ACS
46 Across: Derogatory comments (5)
BLAHS
47 Across: ___ a time (5)
ONEAT
48 Across: Press (15)
THEFOURTHESTATE
51 Across: Got (7)
SECURED
52 Across: Narcotic (6)
OPIATE
53 Across: Accent (6)
STRESS
54 Across: Twisted into a bundle (6)
WISPED

Down Answers

1 Down: Vocal effect (7)
TREMOLO
2 Down: Rescue (7)
RECOVER
3 Down: Nitrogen (5)
AZOTE
4 Down: Completed (4)
DONE
5 Down: Goal (3)
END
6 Down: Give new freshness to (8)
RECREATE
7 Down: Small cuts (6)
SNICKS
8 Down: Wroclaw natives (5)
POLES
9 Down: Lorna Doone's lover (4)
RIDD
10 Down: Hardwood tree (3)
ASH
11 Down: After the fact (7)
TOOLATE
12 Down: Show suppressed anger (7)
SMOLDER
15 Down: De Soto contemporaries (6)
EDSELS
16 Down: Letter stroke (5)
SERIF
17 Down: Is entitled (11)
HASTHERIGHT
22 Down: "All ___ open to courtesy": Fuller (5)
DOORS
23 Down: One of Borg's rivals (5)
LAVER
25 Down: Author Octavus Roy ___ (5)
COHEN
26 Down: Bartender who invented a gin drink (5)
RAMOS
28 Down: Thong (5)
STRAP
29 Down: Thesaurus man (5)
ROGET
31 Down: Circus attraction (8)
SIDESHOW
32 Down: Gem units (6)
CARATS
33 Down: Geronimo's men (7)
APACHES
34 Down: Analyze in detail (7)
DISSECT
36 Down: Sheathed, as a leafstalk (7)
OCREATE
37 Down: Modernized (7)
UPDATED
38 Down: Recipe verb (5)
SAUTE
40 Down: Defies (6)
BEARDS
43 Down: St. Louis hockey team (5)
BLUES
44 Down: Available (5)
ONTAP
46 Down: Induce ennui (4)
BORE
47 Down: Medical suffix (4)
OSIS
49 Down: Sealskin (3)
FUR
50 Down: Roof piece (3)
EPI

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