Thursday Crossword — January 5, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 1/5/1978. By Sidney L. Robbins.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Desert steed (4)
- ARAB
- 5 Across: Cheese (4)
- EDAM
- 9 Across: Word with P.G., R or X (5)
- RATED
- 14 Across: Spatiate (4)
- ROVE
- 15 Across: "A bad excuse is better than ___" (4)
- NONE
- 16 Across: Antelope (5)
- ELAND
- 17 Across: Gas-company customer (4)
- USER
- 18 Across: Region (4)
- AREA
- 19 Across: Knights of ___ (5)
- MALTA
- 20 Across: Famed entrepreneurs (15)
- BARNUMANDBAILEY
- 23 Across: Star: Comb. form (6)
- ASTERO
- 24 Across: Wide-awake (4)
- TERN
- 25 Across: Writer Wolfert (3)
- IRA
- 27 Across: Main port for grain from the Ukraine (6)
- ODESSA
- 32 Across: Breath suspension (5)
- APNEA
- 36 Across: Scram! (4)
- BLOW
- 39 Across: Chinese pagodas (4)
- TAAS
- 40 Across: "Pagliacci" theme (15)
- LAUGHCLOWNLAUGH
- 43 Across: Church booklet (4)
- ORDO
- 44 Across: Youth goddess (4)
- HEBE
- 45 Across: Narrow back street (5)
- ALLEY
- 46 Across: ___-et-quarante (gambling game) (6)
- TRENTE
- 48 Across: Water carrier (3)
- DIN
- 50 Across: Elongated fish (4)
- EELS
- 53 Across: City south of Roma (6)
- NAPOLI
- 58 Across: Confusion in profusion (15)
- THREERINGCIRCUS
- 63 Across: Jack's relative (5)
- HOIST
- 64 Across: Reno game (4)
- FARO
- 65 Across: "Fine women ___ crazy salad": Yeats (4)
- EATA
- 66 Across: Book by Byrd (5)
- ALONE
- 67 Across: Trolley (4)
- TRAM
- 68 Across: Seattle ___ (4)
- SLEW
- 69 Across: Restrain (5)
- DETER
- 70 Across: Dog named for an island (4)
- SKYE
- 71 Across: Kálmán operetta (4)
- SARI
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Isle famed for oil refining (5)
- ARUBA
- 2 Down: Bouquet for a señorita (5)
- ROSAS
- 3 Down: Prevent (5)
- AVERT
- 4 Down: He wrote "Games People Play" (5)
- BERNE
- 5 Down: Make overly fond (6)
- ENAMOR
- 6 Down: Copperfield's "child-wife" (4)
- DORA
- 7 Down: Concerning (5)
- ANENT
- 8 Down: Civil War general (5)
- MEADE
- 9 Down: Order back (6)
- REMAND
- 10 Down: Soviet range (4)
- ALAI
- 11 Down: ___ in the saddle (4)
- TALL
- 12 Down: Duck, in Dessau (4)
- ENTE
- 13 Down: W.W. II date (4)
- DDAY
- 21 Down: Bathsheba's mate (5)
- URIAH
- 22 Down: University at Providence (5)
- BROWN
- 26 Down: Senator's adjective for a colleague (4)
- ABLE
- 28 Down: Useful bit of Latin (4)
- ETAL
- 29 Down: He died fighting Philistines (4)
- SAUL
- 30 Down: Russell ___, U.S. financier (4)
- SAGE
- 31 Down: Pale (4)
- ASHY
- 32 Down: "Thanks ___!" (4)
- ALOT
- 33 Down: Young salmon (4)
- PARR
- 34 Down: Dufy's "___ with Raised Arms" (4)
- NUDE
- 35 Down: Pianist Petri (4)
- EGON
- 37 Down: Tennis word (3)
- LOB
- 38 Down: Was indebted (4)
- OWED
- 41 Down: Gladden (5)
- CHEER
- 42 Down: Hawaiian veranda (5)
- LANAI
- 47 Down: Seesaw (6)
- TEETER
- 49 Down: Black-ink side of a ledger (6)
- INCOME
- 51 Down: Uses barbells (5)
- LIFTS
- 52 Down: Boojum's relative (5)
- SNARK
- 54 Down: Wine maker's rig (5)
- PRESS
- 55 Down: Neighbor of Silver Springs (5)
- OCALA
- 56 Down: Minstrel, at times (5)
- LUTER
- 57 Down: "I came, ___ conquered" (5)
- ISAWI
- 58 Down: Abolitionist Stevens, for short (4)
- THAD
- 59 Down: What a dibble makes (4)
- HOLE
- 60 Down: Vivid display (4)
- RIOT
- 61 Down: Serf (4)
- ESNE
- 62 Down: Uniform color of 1861 (4)
- GRAY
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