Thursday Crossword — February 23, 1978

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1574 clues~15-30 minBy Ruth Lake Tepper2/23/1978

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Fiddlesticks! (4 letters)
5 Across
Kind of hammer (4 letters)
9 Across
Hebrew dry measure (4 letters)
13 Across
Ascent (4 letters)
14 Across
Swearword (4 letters)
15 Across
Parisian trunk (5 letters)
17 Across
Villain's look (4 letters)
18 Across
Phrase with work or eat (10 letters)
20 Across
"Rumanian Rhapsodies" composer (6 letters)
22 Across
Prefix for hero or knock (4 letters)
23 Across
But, to Brutus (3 letters)
24 Across
Millennia (3 letters)
25 Across
Stick together (6 letters)
27 Across
Contemptibility (7 letters)
31 Across
Star of movie "Fiddler" (5 letters)
32 Across
Apropos of (4 letters)
33 Across
Derby (9 letters)
37 Across
Boswell or Burns (4 letters)
38 Across
Characteristic (5 letters)
39 Across
Koran chapter (4 letters)
40 Across
Apartment aerie (9 letters)
42 Across
River to the Elbe (4 letters)
43 Across
Swedish hot punch (5 letters)
44 Across
Stills (7 letters)
47 Across
" . . . forsaking all ___" (6 letters)
49 Across
Shade tree (3 letters)
50 Across
Also (3 letters)
51 Across
Custodian: Abbr. (4 letters)
54 Across
Microscopic animal (6 letters)
58 Across
Unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second (10 letters)
61 Across
Single (4 letters)
62 Across
Beginning (5 letters)
63 Across
Swingy rhythm (4 letters)
64 Across
Abecedarian (4 letters)
65 Across
Saarinen (4 letters)
66 Across
Exclusively (4 letters)
67 Across
Claptrap, for short (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Whimper (4 letters)
2 Down
Unobstructed (4 letters)
3 Down
S-shaped molding (4 letters)
4 Down
Prickly weed (11 letters)
5 Down
Punctuation marks (6 letters)
6 Down
Medieval French poem (3 letters)
7 Down
One of the Aleutians (4 letters)
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Companion of where (4 letters)
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Haile Selassie, for one (7 letters)
10 Down
Member of the P.G.A. (3 letters)
11 Down
Guffaw (10 letters)
12 Down
Goose genus (5 letters)
16 Down
Give up (4 letters)
19 Down
Sell ___ (make no profit) (6 letters)
21 Down
College in Iowa (3 letters)
26 Down
Supposedly reliable source of info (11 letters)
27 Down
Speech defect (4 letters)
28 Down
Formerly (4 letters)
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Back the ___ (err) (10 letters)
30 Down
Gesture of indifference (5 letters)
31 Down
Puts to the proof (5 letters)
34 Down
Western Hemisphere org. (3 letters)
35 Down
Algonquian Indian (4 letters)
36 Down
Pitcher adjuncts (4 letters)
38 Down
Dresses (6 letters)
41 Down
" . . . bring a ___ the water . . . " (7 letters)
45 Down
Vigorous (6 letters)
46 Down
City on the Danube (3 letters)
47 Down
H.R.E. emperor (4 letters)
48 Down
Hundred-___ shot (long odds) (5 letters)
52 Down
Kind of shirt (4 letters)
53 Down
Romulus, e.g. (4 letters)
55 Down
Mother of Ares (4 letters)
56 Down
Arf or woof (4 letters)
57 Down
Lily plant (4 letters)
59 Down
To be, in Barcelona (3 letters)
60 Down
Annex (3 letters)

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