WEATHER REPORTS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 164 clues). Published 1/15/1978. By Alex F. Black.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Abrade (4)
- RASP
- 5 Across: Gentle soul (4)
- LAMB
- 9 Across: Filleted (5)
- BONED
- 14 Across: Fortify (3)
- ARM
- 17 Across: Opposed (4)
- ANTI
- 18 Across: Chime in (6)
- PIPEUP
- 20 Across: Showy butterfly (7)
- VICEROY
- 22 Across: Shell-game object (3)
- PEA
- 23 Across: Report from Hades (19)
- WEREHAVINGAHEATWAVE
- 26 Across: Séance sound (3)
- RAP
- 27 Across: Anatolian inn (6)
- IMARET
- 28 Across: Wise old men (7)
- NESTORS
- 29 Across: Canning factory group (8)
- STEMMERS
- 31 Across: Watch the baby (3)
- SIT
- 32 Across: State treasury (4)
- FISC
- 34 Across: Mil. officer (3)
- CPT
- 35 Across: Homophone for seize (4)
- CEES
- 36 Across: Report from the White House (14)
- HAILTOTHECHIEF
- 41 Across: Units of speech (8)
- PHONEMES
- 45 Across: Artificial satellite (4)
- ESSA
- 46 Across: Giant of yesteryear (4)
- MAYS
- 47 Across: Blockhead (5)
- IDIOT
- 49 Across: Stable morsel (3)
- OAT
- 50 Across: Belfry group (4)
- BATS
- 53 Across: "Gil ___" (4)
- BLAS
- 55 Across: Vow (6)
- PLEDGE
- 56 Across: Prank (4)
- DIDO
- 57 Across: "Green Mansions" hero (4)
- ABEL
- 58 Across: Report from Cambridge (11)
- FAIRHARVARD
- 61 Across: Gallimaufry (4)
- OLIO
- 62 Across: Trucking rig (4)
- SEMI
- 63 Across: Seine season (3)
- ETE
- 64 Across: Keep a tryst (4)
- MEET
- 65 Across: Grandfather of Priam (4)
- ILUS
- 68 Across: Knicks' coach (4)
- REED
- 69 Across: Abrogate (6)
- REPEAL
- 71 Across: Suffix with dull (3)
- ARD
- 72 Across: Writing accessory (7)
- DESKPAD
- 74 Across: Supped (3)
- ATE
- 75 Across: Report from Kelly (15)
- SINGININTHERAIN
- 81 Across: Cold cubes in Köln (3)
- EIS
- 84 Across: Accra or Lagos (7)
- SEAPORT
- 86 Across: Agreement in Amiens (3)
- OUI
- 87 Across: Flagstad role (6)
- ISOLDE
- 89 Across: Kett of comics (4)
- ETTA
- 91 Across: Norse redhead (4)
- ERIC
- 92 Across: Mil. backup group (4)
- USNR
- 93 Across: Coal storage (3)
- BIN
- 95 Across: Golden or slide (4)
- RULE
- 96 Across: Journalist Jacob (4)
- RIIS
- 97 Across: Traveler's report after visit to Pa.? (11)
- PHILEASFOGG
- 100 Across: "By the time ___ to Phoenix" (4)
- IGET
- 101 Across: Carry on (4)
- RANT
- 102 Across: Most subdued (6)
- TAMEST
- 104 Across: ___ Ude, Russian city (4)
- ULAN
- 105 Across: Saarinen (4)
- EERO
- 106 Across: "___ pro nobis" (3)
- ORA
- 107 Across: Japanese Prime Minister: 1934–36 (5)
- OKADA
- 108 Across: Island group off Timor (4)
- LETI
- 110 Across: Middle East land (4)
- OMAN
- 113 Across: "Separate Tables" playwright (8)
- RATTIGAN
- 116 Across: Report from Berlin (14)
- WHITECHRISTMAS
- 122 Across: Ideas, to Plato (4)
- EIDE
- 123 Across: List ender: Abbr. (3)
- ETC
- 124 Across: Counting-out word (4)
- EENY
- 125 Across: Inquired in Dogpatch (3)
- AST
- 126 Across: Coarse-ground sherbets (8)
- GRANITAS
- 130 Across: Gibson and others (7)
- ALTHEAS
- 133 Across: Blue mineral (6)
- IOLITE
- 135 Across: Fold over (3)
- LAP
- 136 Across: Report from Oklahoma (19)
- OHWHATABEAUTIFULDAY
- 139 Across: Pizarro's pelf (3)
- ORO
- 140 Across: Glass collars (7)
- MERESES
- 141 Across: Dotty (6)
- SCREWY
- 142 Across: Swiss capital (4)
- BERN
- 143 Across: Thai temple (3)
- WAT
- 144 Across: Cup prized by golfers (5)
- RYDER
- 145 Across: ___-kiri (4)
- HARA
- 146 Across: Koko's weapon (4)
- SNEE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Somewhat bleak (6)
- RAWISH
- 2 Down: Lack of vigor (6)
- ANEMIA
- 3 Down: Cloud forms (6)
- STRATI
- 4 Down: Mole (4)
- PIER
- 5 Down: Ullmann (3)
- LIV
- 6 Down: With ___ of salt (6)
- APINCH
- 7 Down: Word on a wall (4)
- MENE
- 8 Down: Bunny or Baer (4)
- BUGS
- 9 Down: Slant (4)
- BIAS
- 10 Down: Fall mo. (3)
- OCT
- 11 Down: Man bites dog (4)
- NEWS
- 12 Down: He was, to Cicero (4)
- ERAT
- 13 Down: Settled, harmonious group (8)
- DOVECOTE
- 14 Down: Report from Louis XV (16)
- APRESMOILEDELUGE
- 15 Down: Construct (4)
- REAR
- 16 Down: Atlas material (4)
- MAPS
- 18 Down: Places for "steak-outs" (6)
- PATIOS
- 19 Down: Uneven (6)
- PATCHY
- 20 Down: Green in Grenoble (5)
- VERTE
- 21 Down: Saudi Arabia neighbor (5)
- YEMEN
- 24 Down: Weighs (5)
- HEFTS
- 25 Down: Pueblo Indians (5)
- HOPIS
- 30 Down: Author of "Meeting at Potsdam" (3)
- MEE
- 33 Down: "___ Mater" (6)
- STABAT
- 37 Down: Entertainer Uggams (6)
- LESLIE
- 38 Down: "Cielo ___!" (Ponchielli aria) (4)
- EMAR
- 39 Down: Wayne of N.H.L. (7)
- CASHMAN
- 40 Down: Threadlike structures (4)
- FILA
- 41 Down: Puttering person (7)
- PIDDLER
- 42 Down: Monopolize (3)
- HOG
- 43 Down: "Lady" of songdom (5)
- EADIE
- 44 Down: Endured (5)
- STOOD
- 48 Down: Mock (6)
- DERIDE
- 50 Down: Iraqi port (5)
- BASRA
- 51 Down: Red as ___ (5)
- ABEET
- 52 Down: Report from Lilliput (16)
- TEMPESTINATEAPOT
- 54 Down: Taradiddle (3)
- LIE
- 55 Down: G.I. under an N.C.O. (3)
- PVT
- 56 Down: Tennyson poem (4)
- DORA
- 58 Down: One of the Alou brothers (6)
- FELIPE
- 59 Down: Air: Comb. form (4)
- AERI
- 60 Down: Rudolph's asset (7)
- REDNOSE
- 66 Down: Can. neighbor (3)
- USA
- 67 Down: Fun at Jay Peak (6)
- SKIING
- 70 Down: Biblical king (3)
- ASA
- 73 Down: I.O.U.'s of a kind (3)
- PNS
- 76 Down: Conjunction (3)
- NOR
- 77 Down: Cable-car operator (7)
- GRIPMAN
- 78 Down: Had a restless yen (6)
- ITCHED
- 79 Down: Albacore (4)
- TUNA
- 80 Down: Hairy (7)
- HIRSUTE
- 82 Down: Lounge lizard (5)
- IDLER
- 83 Down: Take care of (5)
- SEETO
- 85 Down: Shrine Bowl team (4)
- EAST
- 88 Down: Lustrous pearl (6)
- ORIENT
- 89 Down: Bobble (5)
- ERROR
- 90 Down: Dressy headdress (5)
- TIARA
- 92 Down: Final: Abbr. (3)
- ULT
- 93 Down: Stole (3)
- BOA
- 94 Down: Neglect (6)
- IGNORE
- 98 Down: Between "ere" and "Elba" (4)
- ISAW
- 99 Down: Cannes cop (4)
- FLIC
- 102 Down: As one (8)
- TOGETHER
- 103 Down: Alias, for short (3)
- AKA
- 108 Down: Well-read grad. (5)
- LITTB
- 109 Down: Does aquatints (6)
- ETCHES
- 111 Down: Lessen (6)
- MINIFY
- 112 Down: "___ Like It" (5)
- ASYOU
- 114 Down: Stannum (3)
- TIN
- 115 Down: Dialect (5)
- IDIOM
- 117 Down: Alas, in Alsace (5)
- HELAS
- 118 Down: Hawthorne's Prynne (6)
- HESTER
- 119 Down: Race horse that has never won (6)
- MAIDEN
- 120 Down: Gazing steadily (6)
- ASTARE
- 121 Down: Thackeray's Marquis of ___ (6)
- STEYNE
- 126 Down: Shine (4)
- GLOW
- 127 Down: ___ avis (4)
- RARA
- 128 Down: Out of kilter (4)
- AWRY
- 129 Down: Molt (4)
- SHED
- 130 Down: Biblical character (4)
- ATER
- 131 Down: Apiece (4)
- EACH
- 132 Down: Nimbus (4)
- AURA
- 134 Down: Law school alumni (4)
- LLBS
- 137 Down: Enzyme: Suffix (3)
- ASE
- 138 Down: Sight for Waikiki bird watchers (3)
- IWA
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