Saturday Crossword — April 29, 1978

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1578 clues~30-60 minBy Meltzer4/29/1978

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Fly away, fly! (4 letters)
5 Across
Emperor after Galba (4 letters)
9 Across
Iranian coins (5 letters)
14 Across
Dusting powder (4 letters)
15 Across
Jogging pace (4 letters)
16 Across
Follow (5 letters)
17 Across
Smell ___ (be suspicious) (4 letters)
18 Across
Type of salad dressing (10 letters)
20 Across
Make an all-out effort (14 letters)
22 Across
Three tsps. (4 letters)
23 Across
No longer fashionable (3 letters)
24 Across
Mexican Mrs. (3 letters)
27 Across
Some M.I.T. grads. (3 letters)
28 Across
Ten minus nine (3 letters)
29 Across
Smidgen (3 letters)
32 Across
Kind of bear or hare (5 letters)
34 Across
French pronoun (3 letters)
35 Across
___ colada (cocktail) (4 letters)
36 Across
Film based on Christie thriller (15 letters)
40 Across
Saudi sachem (4 letters)
41 Across
Subsidize (3 letters)
42 Across
Languor (5 letters)
43 Across
Prefix with drome and thesis (3 letters)
44 Across
Stretch the budget (3 letters)
45 Across
___ Clemente (3 letters)
47 Across
Start of the Three Musketeers' motto (3 letters)
48 Across
Hole-in-one (3 letters)
49 Across
Indigo source (4 letters)
51 Across
Decalogue (14 letters)
58 Across
Millipede (10 letters)
59 Across
Author Vidal (4 letters)
60 Across
French landscapist: 1811–1889 (5 letters)
61 Across
Artifice (4 letters)
62 Across
Maintain (4 letters)
63 Across
Orgs. (5 letters)
64 Across
Square-dance groups (4 letters)
65 Across
Chad or Tanganyika (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Bachelor party (4 letters)
2 Down
Mata ___ (4 letters)
3 Down
Scandinavian monarch (4 letters)
4 Down
Double quartet (5 letters)
5 Down
Idle; futile (6 letters)
6 Down
Cavalry, infantry, etc. (6 letters)
7 Down
McAdoo's target (4 letters)
8 Down
Indian or Western county (4 letters)
9 Down
Dunkirk event: 1940 (6 letters)
10 Down
Waterway (5 letters)
11 Down
" . . . ___ elephant's eye" (4 letters)
12 Down
Fontanne's late husband (4 letters)
13 Down
Latin opposite of et (3 letters)
19 Down
___ the fire (enterprise) (6 letters)
21 Down
"Escales" composer (5 letters)
24 Down
Undercover men (5 letters)
25 Down
Commodious (5 letters)
26 Down
Dog-tired (5 letters)
28 Down
Parisian's O.K. (3 letters)
29 Down
Moon goddess (5 letters)
30 Down
Cancel (5 letters)
31 Down
Sweet herb (5 letters)
33 Down
Cavatina (3 letters)
34 Down
Emulated the Pied Piper (3 letters)
35 Down
Fasten (3 letters)
37 Down
"___ to your leader" (6 letters)
38 Down
Palter (3 letters)
39 Down
Popular cloth on campus (5 letters)
44 Down
Places for étudiants (6 letters)
45 Down
Least deranged (6 letters)
46 Down
Guitarist Segovia (6 letters)
48 Down
Oak seed (5 letters)
50 Down
Word with tender or age (5 letters)
51 Down
Chits (4 letters)
52 Down
Interjection for droppers and spillers (4 letters)
53 Down
Martin and Mauch: Abbr. (4 letters)
54 Down
The shakes (4 letters)
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Star that brightens and fades (4 letters)
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Long haul (4 letters)
57 Down
Wizened (4 letters)
58 Down
Lupino (3 letters)

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