Thursday Crossword — March 9, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 3/9/1978. By Bert H. Kruse.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Stamps (7)
- POSTAGE
- 8 Across: Is concerned (5)
- CARES
- 13 Across: Veracious (8)
- TRUTHFUL
- 14 Across: Hogans, igloos, etc. (6)
- ABODES
- 16 Across: Sold on Main Street (8)
- RETAILED
- 17 Across: Apennines dweller, subjugated circa 290 B.C. (6)
- SABINE
- 18 Across: Bigwigs in Kabul (5)
- AMIRS
- 19 Across: Before, to Hamlet (3)
- ERE
- 21 Across: Caesar's way (4)
- ITER
- 22 Across: Retreat (3)
- DEN
- 23 Across: Nourishment (4)
- FARE
- 25 Across: Decree ___, in divorce cases (4)
- NISI
- 26 Across: Margin (4)
- EDGE
- 28 Across: Foot part (6)
- INSTEP
- 31 Across: Wood sorrel (3)
- OCA
- 32 Across: Kerr's "Please ___ Eat the Daisies" (4)
- DONT
- 34 Across: "The Greatest" (3)
- ALI
- 35 Across: Snood (3)
- NET
- 36 Across: Serial start, e.g. (7)
- PARTONE
- 39 Across: Blind alley (7)
- IMPASSE
- 41 Across: Latin-lesson verb (3)
- AMO
- 42 Across: Wall Street term (3)
- PAR
- 43 Across: Penury (4)
- NEED
- 44 Across: Lunar vehicle (3)
- LEM
- 45 Across: Hidden marksman (6)
- SNIPER
- 47 Across: Bank item: Abbr. (4)
- ACCT
- 51 Across: "To ___ and a bone . . . ": Kipling (4)
- ARAG
- 53 Across: Gig rig (4)
- OARS
- 54 Across: Ben-___ (3)
- HUR
- 55 Across: Sup (4)
- DINE
- 56 Across: Blunder (3)
- ERR
- 57 Across: Flood (5)
- SPATE
- 59 Across: Most frigid (6)
- ICIEST
- 61 Across: Coroners' probes (8)
- INQUESTS
- 64 Across: Sadat's predecessor (6)
- NASSER
- 65 Across: Emotional disorders (8)
- NEUROSES
- 66 Across: Ancient milestone (5)
- STELE
- 67 Across: "The Grass Is Always ___ . . . " (7)
- GREENER
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Course for a would-be G.P. (6)
- PREMED
- 2 Down: Picnic (6)
- OUTING
- 3 Down: Castor or Pollux (4)
- STAR
- 4 Down: "Now hear ___!" (4)
- THIS
- 5 Down: Labor org. (3)
- AFL
- 6 Down: Former Shetland viol (3)
- GUE
- 7 Down: Church officials (6)
- ELDERS
- 8 Down: Social worker's assignment (4)
- CASE
- 9 Down: Rhyme scheme (3)
- ABA
- 10 Down: Sign of spring (5)
- ROBIN
- 11 Down: Formats for presentations of literary works (8)
- EDITIONS
- 12 Down: Grows old (8)
- SENESCES
- 13 Down: Commerce (5)
- TRADE
- 15 Down: Arrange in sequence (7)
- SERIATE
- 20 Down: Lawyer's fee (8)
- RETAINER
- 23 Down: ___ haddie (smoked haddock) (6)
- FINNAN
- 24 Down: Situated in the front (8)
- ANTERIOR
- 27 Down: "Spring ahead" time in N.Y.C. (3)
- EDT
- 29 Down: Rice and Gantry (6)
- ELMERS
- 30 Down: Meerschaum (4)
- PIPE
- 33 Down: Butterfingers' cry (4)
- OOPS
- 36 Down: Knight who will fight for what's right (7)
- PALADIN
- 37 Down: ___ Cup, yacht-racing prize (8)
- AMERICAS
- 38 Down: Student of Spanish, Italian, etc. (8)
- ROMANIST
- 40 Down: Nabokov novel (3)
- ADA
- 46 Down: K.P. activity (6)
- PARING
- 48 Down: Dance step (6)
- CHASSE
- 49 Down: Sloop's sister ship (6)
- CUTTER
- 50 Down: Part of a chignon (5)
- TRESS
- 52 Down: Graylags (5)
- GEESE
- 56 Down: Raison d'___ (4)
- ETRE
- 57 Down: Positive (4)
- SURE
- 58 Down: He toils much for little (4)
- PEON
- 60 Down: Companion of poivre (3)
- SEL
- 62 Down: Grandfather of Saul (3)
- NER
- 63 Down: Province in eastern Can. (3)
- QUE
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