Thursday Crossword — April 27, 1978 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 4/27/1978. By Martha J. DeWitt.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Israeli news maker (5)
BEGIN
6 Across: Electric measure (3)
OHM
9 Across: Newcastle's nonrequirement (5)
COALS
14 Across: Hammed it up (9)
OVERACTED
16 Across: Llama's habitat (5)
ANDES
17 Across: Misses, in Madrid (9)
SENORITAS
18 Across: Egyptian news maker (5)
SADAT
19 Across: Having a scalloped edge (8)
CRENATED
20 Across: Shipment from Tampa (6)
CIGARS
21 Across: Three: Prefix (3)
TRI
22 Across: Antique auto (7)
ERSKINE
24 Across: Scored with one stroke (4)
ACED
26 Across: Recommended (8)
ENDORSED
30 Across: Part of a petunia (5)
PETAL
32 Across: " . . . ___ of sympathy with other men": Emerson (4)
ATIE
33 Across: Boise's county (3)
ADA
34 Across: Sang a vibrato (7)
TRILLED
36 Across: Like some bulbs (7)
FROSTED
39 Across: In the past (3)
AGO
40 Across: Like Goya's "Maja" (4)
NUDE
42 Across: Cubic meter (5)
STERE
43 Across: In all truth (8)
HONESTLY
46 Across: Device used in winding yarn (4)
REEL
47 Across: Retinue (7)
CORTEGE
49 Across: Guido's highest note (3)
ELA
51 Across: Pulitzer Prize winner: 1923 (6)
MILLAY
54 Across: Deed considered in the Nuremberg trials (8)
WARCRIME
57 Across: Lend ___ (listen) (5)
ANEAR
58 Across: Threshing machine (9)
SEPARATOR
59 Across: Wartime riveter (5)
ROSIE
60 Across: Large group of pop music customers (9)
TEENAGERS
61 Across: Wooden wisecracker (5)
SNERD
62 Across: What a QB hopes to gain (3)
YDS
63 Across: Attack from all sides (5)
BESET

Down Answers

1 Down: Pear or its tree (4)
BOSC
2 Down: Turn inside out (5)
EVERT
3 Down: Kind of gap (10)
GENERATION
4 Down: Sarcastic (8)
IRONICAL
5 Down: Honshu city (4)
NARA
6 Down: Mink's cousin (5)
OTTER
7 Down: Oldtime radio adjunct (7)
HEADSET
8 Down: G.P. and surg. (3)
MDS
9 Down: Summerhouse (6)
CASINO
10 Down: Catapult or ass (6)
ONAGER
11 Down: Egyptian skink (4)
ADDA
12 Down: King or poet (4)
LEAR
13 Down: Controversial planes (4)
SSTS
15 Down: Mentioned for bravery (5)
CITED
20 Down: Orchard product (5)
CIDER
23 Down: Cutler's commodity (5)
KNIFE
25 Down: Building addition (3)
ELL
27 Down: Moons (10)
SATELLITES
28 Down: Largest dam in Germany (4)
EDER
29 Down: Miami's county (4)
DADE
30 Down: Memphis god (4)
PTAH
31 Down: Hence (4)
ERGO
32 Down: Fully developed (5)
ADULT
35 Down: Vestibule, e.g. (5)
ENTRY
37 Down: Carbohydrate: Suffix (3)
OSE
38 Down: Immigrant's way to get there (8)
STEERAGE
41 Down: Woodwaxen (7)
DYEWEED
44 Down: Cream puff's cousin (6)
ECLAIR
45 Down: Took off like a jet (6)
SOARED
46 Down: Showed an old film (5)
RERAN
48 Down: Yawns (5)
GAPES
50 Down: " . . . to form ___ perfect Union" (5)
AMORE
51 Down: Sci-fi site (4)
MARS
52 Down: Hep (4)
INON
53 Down: ___-majesté (4)
LESE
55 Down: Kind of grass or apple (4)
CRAB
56 Down: Formerly, old style (4)
ERST
58 Down: Swine's confines (3)
STY

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