Wednesday Crossword — March 15, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/15/1978. By Beverly J. Seward.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "Yes, yes," in Yucatan (4)
- SISI
- 5 Across: Insipid (5)
- BANAL
- 10 Across: Deck post for cables (4)
- BITT
- 14 Across: Start the bidding (4)
- OPEN
- 15 Across: Lucine of the Met (5)
- AMARA
- 16 Across: Singular achiever (4)
- ONER
- 17 Across: Secondhand (4)
- USED
- 18 Across: Approach perfection (5)
- RIPEN
- 19 Across: Stare amorously (4)
- OGLE
- 20 Across: Divisions of a hockey game (7)
- PERIODS
- 22 Across: With intensity (7)
- ACUTELY
- 24 Across: Stood up (5)
- AROSE
- 26 Across: Tenth N.T. book (3)
- EPH
- 27 Across: Fish-eating sea bird (6)
- GANNET
- 30 Across: Elite athlete (7)
- ALLSTAR
- 34 Across: O. Henry's "___ Jimmy Valentine" (5)
- ALIAS
- 35 Across: Martian: Comb. form (4)
- AREO
- 36 Across: ___ plaisir (4)
- AVEC
- 38 Across: Beethoven's birthplace (4)
- BONN
- 39 Across: "Who's on ___?" (5)
- FIRST
- 40 Across: Artist Bonheur (4)
- ROSA
- 41 Across: Discard (4)
- SHED
- 42 Across: Emulate Horace Greeley (4)
- EDIT
- 43 Across: Smugglers Notch sight (5)
- SKIER
- 44 Across: Native of Damascus or Baghdad (7)
- ARABIAN
- 46 Across: "___ Seconds Over Tokyo" (6)
- THIRTY
- 47 Across: Abbr. on a gas pump (3)
- REG
- 48 Across: Putting area (5)
- GREEN
- 50 Across: Copper (7)
- REDCENT
- 54 Across: Rolls with the punches (7)
- HANGSIN
- 58 Across: Fail to include (4)
- OMIT
- 59 Across: Mundane ___ Alexandria (5)
- ERAOF
- 61 Across: ___ down (modify) (4)
- TONE
- 62 Across: Rodolfo's beloved (4)
- MIMI
- 63 Across: What Victor Emmanuel once ruled (5)
- REGNO
- 64 Across: "Beetle Bailey" dog (4)
- OTTO
- 65 Across: One of the Waughs (4)
- ALEC
- 66 Across: Bullock (5)
- STEER
- 67 Across: "High" time (4)
- NOON
Down Answers
- 1 Down: First course (4)
- SOUP
- 2 Down: "Ego" follower in Caesar's narratives (4)
- IPSE
- 3 Down: Merlin or Dixon (4)
- SEER
- 4 Down: Two of five expanses (15)
- INDIANANDARCTIC
- 5 Down: Actress from Paris (6)
- BARDOT
- 6 Down: Imperfectly (5)
- AMISS
- 7 Down: Part of a baby's day (3)
- NAP
- 8 Down: Notation in a realtor's notebook (4)
- AREA
- 9 Down: Father of Galahad (8)
- LANCELOT
- 10 Down: "Seventeen" author (15)
- BOOTHTARKINGTON
- 11 Down: "Bus Stop" author (4)
- INGE
- 12 Down: Spill the beans (4)
- TELL
- 13 Down: It beats the deuce (4)
- TREY
- 21 Down: Bornite and stibnite (4)
- ORES
- 23 Down: Bullish times (3)
- UPS
- 25 Down: Pirate's ornament (7)
- EARRING
- 27 Down: Tittle-tattles (4)
- GABS
- 28 Down: Greeting from the 50th (5)
- ALOHA
- 29 Down: Forty follower (5)
- NINER
- 31 Down: "___ we forget" (4)
- LEST
- 32 Down: Assets, in Arles (5)
- AVOIR
- 33 Down: Do a composing room job (5)
- RESET
- 35 Down: Radames's beloved (4)
- AIDA
- 37 Down: Golf announcer Middlecoff (4)
- CARY
- 39 Down: Put-on artists (8)
- FEIGNERS
- 43 Down: ___ Nung, legendary Chinese emperor (4)
- SHEN
- 45 Down: Bonnet visitor (3)
- BEE
- 46 Down: "___ Two," 1942 song (6)
- TEAFOR
- 49 Down: Arles's stream (5)
- RHONE
- 50 Down: Ballet by Balanchine (4)
- ROMA
- 51 Down: Oscar-winner Jannings (4)
- EMIL
- 52 Down: Item to "spare" in 1932 (4)
- DIME
- 53 Down: Tare's partner (4)
- TRET
- 55 Down: Pepys's "And ___ bed" (4)
- SOTO
- 56 Down: "Come ___ the garden, Maud": Tennyson (4)
- INTO
- 57 Down: Relative of argon (4)
- NEON
- 60 Down: Cycle (3)
- AGE
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