Friday Crossword — December 30, 1977

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1572 clues~30-60 minBy Bert Beaman12/30/1977

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Top of a shoe (4 letters)
5 Across
Medieval silken fabric (4 letters)
9 Across
Chat or martin (4 letters)
13 Across
Winglike (4 letters)
14 Across
Mexican hut-builder's vine (5 letters)
16 Across
American Indian (4 letters)
17 Across
Kind of drive or drawing (4 letters)
18 Across
Repeat initial sounds in neighboring words (10 letters)
20 Across
Hearken and heed (15 letters)
22 Across
"The bombs bursting ___ . . . " (5 letters)
23 Across
Family branch (4 letters)
24 Across
Bandleader from Barcelona (5 letters)
27 Across
Siouan Sooner (5 letters)
32 Across
Single (10 letters)
37 Across
Buccal (4 letters)
38 Across
Mexican Indian (4 letters)
39 Across
Source of annoyance (5 letters)
40 Across
"Pen" part (4 letters)
41 Across
Hence (4 letters)
42 Across
Food, shelter, etc. (10 letters)
44 Across
Name in "A Romance of Exmoor" (5 letters)
46 Across
Prefix with mural (5 letters)
47 Across
Food fish (4 letters)
50 Across
Assign (5 letters)
54 Across
Takes verbal action (15 letters)
60 Across
Pay (10 letters)
61 Across
South African weaverbird (4 letters)
62 Across
This begets itself, according to Fuller (4 letters)
63 Across
Tissues (5 letters)
64 Across
By any chance (4 letters)
65 Across
Impudent (4 letters)
66 Across
Controversial noisemakers (4 letters)
67 Across
Test-tube substances (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Alida ___, Italian film star (5 letters)
2 Down
Strange (5 letters)
3 Down
Heavenly diet (5 letters)
4 Down
Cassandra's direful words (10 letters)
5 Down
"There ought to be ___" (4 letters)
6 Down
Eyelash: Comb. form (4 letters)
7 Down
Directs (15 letters)
8 Down
Like Ulrica in "Ivanhoe" (5 letters)
9 Down
Northern seas hazard (4 letters)
10 Down
Dies ___ (4 letters)
11 Down
"Rio ___" (4 letters)
12 Down
Cervine creature (4 letters)
15 Down
Eagerly expecting (4 letters)
19 Down
Within: Comb. form (4 letters)
21 Down
In ___ (stagnating) (4 letters)
25 Down
Dehisce (4 letters)
26 Down
Good hole-cards in seven-card stud (4 letters)
28 Down
"The 400" (10 letters)
29 Down
Belt (4 letters)
30 Down
Chutzpah (4 letters)
31 Down
Annexes (4 letters)
32 Down
Kind of car (4 letters)
33 Down
Fanatical fiddler (4 letters)
34 Down
Ship on which Hercules sailed (4 letters)
35 Down
Tied (4 letters)
36 Down
Body-shop topic (4 letters)
43 Down
Kind of door or shot (4 letters)
45 Down
Sommer from Berlin (4 letters)
48 Down
Common contraction (4 letters)
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Retroussé features (5 letters)
51 Down
French ___ (5 letters)
52 Down
Autumn color (5 letters)
53 Down
" . . . ___ passion to tatters": Hamlet (5 letters)
54 Down
Strikebreaker (4 letters)
55 Down
Noted traveler (4 letters)
56 Down
Ludwig (4 letters)
57 Down
Copied (4 letters)
58 Down
Homme d'___ (French statesman) (4 letters)
59 Down
Spots (4 letters)

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