Thursday Crossword — February 23, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 2/23/1978. By Ruth Lake Tepper.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Fiddlesticks! (4)
- POOH
- 5 Across: Kind of hammer (4)
- CLAW
- 9 Across: Hebrew dry measure (4)
- EPHA
- 13 Across: Ascent (4)
- UPGO
- 14 Across: Swearword (4)
- OATH
- 15 Across: Parisian trunk (5)
- TRONC
- 17 Across: Villain's look (4)
- LEER
- 18 Across: Phrase with work or eat (10)
- LIKEAHORSE
- 20 Across: "Rumanian Rhapsodies" composer (6)
- ENESCO
- 22 Across: Prefix for hero or knock (4)
- ANTI
- 23 Across: But, to Brutus (3)
- SED
- 24 Across: Millennia (3)
- EON
- 25 Across: Stick together (6)
- COHERE
- 27 Across: Contemptibility (7)
- LOWNESS
- 31 Across: Star of movie "Fiddler" (5)
- TOPOL
- 32 Across: Apropos of (4)
- INRE
- 33 Across: Derby (9)
- HORSERACE
- 37 Across: Boswell or Burns (4)
- SCOT
- 38 Across: Characteristic (5)
- TRAIT
- 39 Across: Koran chapter (4)
- SURA
- 40 Across: Apartment aerie (9)
- PENTHOUSE
- 42 Across: River to the Elbe (4)
- EGER
- 43 Across: Swedish hot punch (5)
- GLOGG
- 44 Across: Stills (7)
- SHUSHES
- 47 Across: " . . . forsaking all ___" (6)
- OTHERS
- 49 Across: Shade tree (3)
- ELM
- 50 Across: Also (3)
- TOO
- 51 Across: Custodian: Abbr. (4)
- SUPT
- 54 Across: Microscopic animal (6)
- AMOEBA
- 58 Across: Unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second (10)
- HORSEPOWER
- 61 Across: Single (4)
- UNAL
- 62 Across: Beginning (5)
- ONSET
- 63 Across: Swingy rhythm (4)
- LILT
- 64 Across: Abecedarian (4)
- TYRO
- 65 Across: Saarinen (4)
- EERO
- 66 Across: Exclusively (4)
- ONLY
- 67 Across: Claptrap, for short (4)
- HOKE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Whimper (4)
- PULE
- 2 Down: Unobstructed (4)
- OPEN
- 3 Down: S-shaped molding (4)
- OGEE
- 4 Down: Prickly weed (11)
- HORSENETTLE
- 5 Down: Punctuation marks (6)
- COLONS
- 6 Down: Medieval French poem (3)
- LAI
- 7 Down: One of the Aleutians (4)
- ATKA
- 8 Down: Companion of where (4)
- WHEN
- 9 Down: Haile Selassie, for one (7)
- ETHIOPE
- 10 Down: Member of the P.G.A. (3)
- PRO
- 11 Down: Guffaw (10)
- HORSELAUGH
- 12 Down: Goose genus (5)
- ANSER
- 16 Down: Give up (4)
- CEDE
- 19 Down: Sell ___ (make no profit) (6)
- ATCOST
- 21 Down: College in Iowa (3)
- COE
- 26 Down: Supposedly reliable source of info (11)
- HORSESMOUTH
- 27 Down: Speech defect (4)
- LISP
- 28 Down: Formerly (4)
- ONCE
- 29 Down: Back the ___ (err) (10)
- WRONGHORSE
- 30 Down: Gesture of indifference (5)
- SHRUG
- 31 Down: Puts to the proof (5)
- TRIES
- 34 Down: Western Hemisphere org. (3)
- OAS
- 35 Down: Algonquian Indian (4)
- CREE
- 36 Down: Pitcher adjuncts (4)
- EARS
- 38 Down: Dresses (6)
- TOGSUP
- 41 Down: " . . . bring a ___ the water . . . " (7)
- HORSETO
- 45 Down: Vigorous (6)
- HEARTY
- 46 Down: City on the Danube (3)
- ULM
- 47 Down: H.R.E. emperor (4)
- OTHO
- 48 Down: Hundred-___ shot (long odds) (5)
- TOONE
- 52 Down: Kind of shirt (4)
- POLO
- 53 Down: Romulus, e.g. (4)
- TWIN
- 55 Down: Mother of Ares (4)
- ENYO
- 56 Down: Arf or woof (4)
- BARK
- 57 Down: Lily plant (4)
- ALOE
- 59 Down: To be, in Barcelona (3)
- SER
- 60 Down: Annex (3)
- ELL
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