Friday Crossword — December 30, 1977 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 12/30/1977. By Bert Beaman.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Top of a shoe (4)
- VAMP
- 5 Across: Medieval silken fabric (4)
- ACCA
- 9 Across: Chat or martin (4)
- BIRD
- 13 Across: Winglike (4)
- ALAR
- 14 Across: Mexican hut-builder's vine (5)
- LIANA
- 16 Across: American Indian (4)
- ERIE
- 17 Across: Kind of drive or drawing (4)
- LINE
- 18 Across: Repeat initial sounds in neighboring words (10)
- ALLITERATE
- 20 Across: Hearken and heed (15)
- LENDAWILLINGEAR
- 22 Across: "The bombs bursting ___ . . . " (5)
- INAIR
- 23 Across: Family branch (4)
- SEPT
- 24 Across: Bandleader from Barcelona (5)
- CUGAT
- 27 Across: Siouan Sooner (5)
- OSAGE
- 32 Across: Single (10)
- UNATTACHED
- 37 Across: Buccal (4)
- ORAL
- 38 Across: Mexican Indian (4)
- SERI
- 39 Across: Source of annoyance (5)
- PEEVE
- 40 Across: "Pen" part (4)
- CELL
- 41 Across: Hence (4)
- ERGO
- 42 Across: Food, shelter, etc. (10)
- ESSENTIALS
- 44 Across: Name in "A Romance of Exmoor" (5)
- DOONE
- 46 Across: Prefix with mural (5)
- INTRA
- 47 Across: Food fish (4)
- LING
- 50 Across: Assign (5)
- ALLOT
- 54 Across: Takes verbal action (15)
- SPEAKSONESPIECE
- 60 Across: Pay (10)
- COMPENSATE
- 61 Across: South African weaverbird (4)
- TAHA
- 62 Across: This begets itself, according to Fuller (4)
- ALIE
- 63 Across: Tissues (5)
- TELAE
- 64 Across: By any chance (4)
- EVER
- 65 Across: Impudent (4)
- BOLD
- 66 Across: Controversial noisemakers (4)
- SSTS
- 67 Across: Test-tube substances (4)
- SERA
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Alida ___, Italian film star (5)
- VALLI
- 2 Down: Strange (5)
- ALIEN
- 3 Down: Heavenly diet (5)
- MANNA
- 4 Down: Cassandra's direful words (10)
- PREDICTION
- 5 Down: "There ought to be ___" (4)
- ALAW
- 6 Down: Eyelash: Comb. form (4)
- CILI
- 7 Down: Directs (15)
- CALLSTHESIGNALS
- 8 Down: Like Ulrica in "Ivanhoe" (5)
- ANILE
- 9 Down: Northern seas hazard (4)
- BERG
- 10 Down: Dies ___ (4)
- IRAE
- 11 Down: "Rio ___" (4)
- RITA
- 12 Down: Cervine creature (4)
- DEER
- 15 Down: Eagerly expecting (4)
- ATIP
- 19 Down: Within: Comb. form (4)
- ENTO
- 21 Down: In ___ (stagnating) (4)
- ARUT
- 25 Down: Dehisce (4)
- GAPE
- 26 Down: Good hole-cards in seven-card stud (4)
- ACES
- 28 Down: "The 400" (10)
- SOCIALITES
- 29 Down: Belt (4)
- AREA
- 30 Down: Chutzpah (4)
- GALL
- 31 Down: Annexes (4)
- ELLS
- 32 Down: Kind of car (4)
- USED
- 33 Down: Fanatical fiddler (4)
- NERO
- 34 Down: Ship on which Hercules sailed (4)
- ARGO
- 35 Down: Tied (4)
- EVEN
- 36 Down: Body-shop topic (4)
- DENT
- 43 Down: Kind of door or shot (4)
- TRAP
- 45 Down: Sommer from Berlin (4)
- ELKE
- 48 Down: Common contraction (4)
- ISNT
- 49 Down: Retroussé features (5)
- NOSES
- 51 Down: French ___ (5)
- LEAVE
- 52 Down: Autumn color (5)
- OCHER
- 53 Down: " . . . ___ passion to tatters": Hamlet (5)
- TEARA
- 54 Down: Strikebreaker (4)
- SCAB
- 55 Down: Noted traveler (4)
- POLO
- 56 Down: Ludwig (4)
- EMIL
- 57 Down: Copied (4)
- APED
- 58 Down: Homme d'___ (French statesman) (4)
- ETAT
- 59 Down: Spots (4)
- SEES
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