Friday Crossword — April 7, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 4/7/1978. By Jim Page.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Black Sea port (6)
- ODESSA
- 7 Across: "O Sole ___" (3)
- MIO
- 10 Across: Golf ball position (3)
- LIE
- 13 Across: Equip anew, as a machine shop (6)
- RETOOL
- 14 Across: Like some youths (8)
- MISSPENT
- 16 Across: Perform, in charades (6)
- ACTOUT
- 17 Across: Dime, to a dollar (8)
- ONETENTH
- 18 Across: Heel-and-___ (jogger's stride) (3)
- TOE
- 19 Across: Leningrad's Winter ___ (6)
- PALACE
- 21 Across: Thirst quenchers (4)
- ADES
- 22 Across: Journalist Pyle: 1900–45 (5)
- ERNIE
- 24 Across: Wind dir. (3)
- ENE
- 25 Across: "___ right with the world" (4)
- ALLS
- 26 Across: Year of Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot (4)
- MDCV
- 28 Across: Argosies (6)
- FLEETS
- 30 Across: Parseghian (3)
- ARA
- 32 Across: Wrangle (6)
- HASSLE
- 35 Across: River to the Rhine (3)
- AAR
- 36 Across: Kennan and Harriman (15)
- KREMLINOLOGISTS
- 39 Across: Fort near Monterey (3)
- ORD
- 40 Across: Trophy part (6)
- ANTLER
- 41 Across: Grant's adversary (3)
- LEE
- 42 Across: Roll garnish (6)
- SESAME
- 44 Across: Dumbo feature (4)
- EARS
- 46 Across: Cicero's drink (4)
- AQUA
- 47 Across: Rainbow or Third: Abbr. (3)
- DIV
- 49 Across: Cowboy flick (5)
- OATER
- 53 Across: In ___ (bogged down) (4)
- ARUT
- 54 Across: U.S.S.R. river (6)
- DONETS
- 56 Across: United (3)
- ONE
- 57 Across: German state (8)
- SAARLAND
- 59 Across: Gets together with other old grads (6)
- REUNES
- 61 Across: "___ differ": Southey (8)
- AGREEDTO
- 62 Across: Garb (6)
- ATTIRE
- 63 Across: Becky Crawley, ___ Sharp (3)
- NEE
- 64 Across: Thickwit (3)
- ASS
- 65 Across: "Mission to ___," 1943 film (6)
- MOSCOW
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Hold forth, à la Douglas (5)
- ORATE
- 2 Down: Window dressing (5)
- DECOR
- 3 Down: Yanks' '44 home-run champ (5)
- ETTEN
- 4 Down: ___ Canals (3)
- SOO
- 5 Down: ___-up, as a hot rod (6)
- SOUPED
- 6 Down: Deep-powder ski area (4)
- ALTA
- 7 Down: Thanksgiving Day pie (5)
- MINCE
- 8 Down: "Is this a dagger which ___ . . . " (4)
- ISEE
- 9 Down: Bone: Comb. form (3)
- OST
- 10 Down: Act of 1941, giving aid to Allies (9)
- LENDLEASE
- 11 Down: Without a will (9)
- INTESTATE
- 12 Down: Old English letters (4)
- ETHS
- 14 Down: Pun reaction (4)
- MOAN
- 15 Down: Washington posed for him (5)
- PEALE
- 20 Down: Composer-pianist Oscar: 1906–72 (6)
- LEVANT
- 23 Down: Moslem prayer leader (4)
- IMAM
- 25 Down: "Shake ___!" (4)
- ALEG
- 27 Down: Backbone (5)
- CHINE
- 28 Down: Linnaeus's fauna companion (5)
- FLORA
- 29 Down: Last year's jrs. (3)
- SRS
- 30 Down: State of indebtedness (9)
- ARREARAGE
- 31 Down: Lenin Mausoleum site (9)
- REDSQUARE
- 33 Down: Impresario Hurok: 1888–1974 (3)
- SOL
- 34 Down: Place for a chevron (6)
- SLEEVE
- 36 Down: Delivers a haymaker (3)
- KOS
- 37 Down: Dalai ___ (4)
- LAMA
- 38 Down: Fräulein's name (4)
- ILSA
- 43 Down: Other, in Paris (5)
- AUTRE
- 45 Down: ___ the occasion (met a challenge) (6)
- ROSETO
- 47 Down: "Stop!," "Hands off!," etc. (5)
- DONTS
- 48 Down: Prefix with China (4)
- INDO
- 50 Down: Summer drink mix (5)
- TONIC
- 51 Down: January, in Santiago (5)
- ENERO
- 52 Down: Stitch in time (5)
- RESEW
- 53 Down: "Pure ___ angel . . . " (4)
- ASAN
- 54 Down: Honorees in the sixth month (4)
- DADS
- 55 Down: Soho streetcar (4)
- TRAM
- 58 Down: Grassy field (3)
- LEA
- 60 Down: Ma Bell et al.: Abbr. (3)
- UTS
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