Wednesday Crossword — December 21, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 12/21/1977. By Stephanie Spadaccini.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Villapiano of the Raiders (4)
- PHIL
- 5 Across: Breaks, as a horse (5)
- TAMES
- 10 Across: ___ Aviv (3)
- TEL
- 13 Across: Lucid (4)
- SANE
- 14 Across: Raise (5)
- HOIST
- 15 Across: Storm (4)
- RAVE
- 16 Across: Spat (4)
- TIFF
- 17 Across: Where Saul saw a seeress (5)
- ENDOR
- 18 Across: Footnote abbr. (4)
- IBID
- 19 Across: Retire (7)
- GOTOBED
- 21 Across: Hoof, claw or nail (6)
- UNGULA
- 23 Across: Sales item abbr. (3)
- IRR
- 24 Across: Device on a door (5)
- LATCH
- 26 Across: Ex-Olympic chief and family (9)
- BRUNDAGES
- 30 Across: Sistrunk of the Raiders (4)
- OTIS
- 33 Across: Companion of 15 Across (4)
- RANT
- 34 Across: Las Vegas machine (4)
- SLOT
- 35 Across: Device on a destroyer (5)
- SONAR
- 37 Across: Height of a kangaroo at birth (4)
- INCH
- 38 Across: "___, so good" (5)
- SOFAR
- 40 Across: Chimney part (4)
- FLUE
- 41 Across: Musical symbol (5)
- GCLEF
- 43 Across: Sweetsop (4)
- ATTA
- 44 Across: Cheese from milk of sheep or goats (4)
- FETA
- 45 Across: Norse goddess of the dead (4)
- HELA
- 46 Across: Graham Greene's "The Heart of ___" (9)
- THEMATTER
- 48 Across: Russian order (5)
- UKASE
- 50 Across: Ebenezer's "___! Humbug!" (3)
- BAH
- 51 Across: Frameworks (6)
- CADRES
- 54 Across: Beauty-shop equipment (7)
- ROLLERS
- 58 Across: Acronym for a fuel cartel (4)
- OPEC
- 59 Across: Feed the flames (5)
- STOKE
- 61 Across: Iris, for one (4)
- BULB
- 63 Across: ___ ha-Shanah (4)
- ROSH
- 64 Across: To ___ (perfectly) (5)
- AHAIR
- 65 Across: Mr. Levy of a Broadway play (4)
- ABIE
- 66 Across: Amin (3)
- IDI
- 67 Across: Styles (5)
- MODES
- 68 Across: Exemplar (4)
- TYPE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Attention-getter (3)
- PST
- 2 Down: British field marshal, W.W. I. (4)
- HAIG
- 3 Down: Dope (4)
- INFO
- 4 Down: Jilted (14)
- LEFTINTHELURCH
- 5 Down: Wearers of stars (8)
- THEBRASS
- 6 Down: Super! (4)
- AONE
- 7 Down: Political position (15)
- MIDDLEOFTHEROAD
- 8 Down: That: Sp. (3)
- ESO
- 9 Down: Sashay (5)
- STRUT
- 10 Down: Verboten (4)
- TABU
- 11 Down: Sinister (4)
- EVIL
- 12 Down: Mother of Castor and Pollux (4)
- LEDA
- 15 Down: Immediately (14)
- RIGHTOFFTHEBAT
- 20 Down: Fort ___, Calif. (3)
- ORD
- 22 Down: Sgts. (4)
- NCOS
- 25 Down: In ___ of nature (nude) (6)
- ASTATE
- 26 Down: Square-rigged ship (4)
- BRIG
- 27 Down: Spread in the West (5)
- RANCH
- 28 Down: Word of surrender (5)
- UNCLE
- 29 Down: Exults maliciously (6)
- GLOATS
- 31 Down: Fjord (5)
- INLET
- 32 Down: Cooking term (5)
- SAUTE
- 36 Down: Nurture (4)
- REAR
- 39 Down: Popular roses (8)
- RAMBLERS
- 42 Down: QB's feint (4)
- FAKE
- 47 Down: E. Indian shrub (3)
- AAL
- 49 Down: Valley where the Brahmaputra flows (5)
- ASSAM
- 51 Down: Nobelist in Medicine: 1947 (4)
- CORI
- 52 Down: . . . two peas in ___ (4)
- APOD
- 53 Down: Arnaz (4)
- DESI
- 55 Down: Dust Bowl fugitive (4)
- OKIE
- 56 Down: Gift for 45th anniversary (4)
- RUBY
- 57 Down: Word with cover or knot (4)
- SLIP
- 60 Down: "Sweet is true love ___ given in vain": Tennyson (3)
- THO
- 62 Down: Bonnet dweller (3)
- BEE
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