Wednesday Crossword — May 10, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 5/10/1978. By Jordan S. Lasher.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Tire or summary (5)
- RECAP
- 6 Across: Jai ___ (4)
- ALAI
- 10 Across: "___ the Craziest Dream" (4)
- IHAD
- 14 Across: Muezzin's prayer calls (5)
- AZANS
- 15 Across: Bruce of films (4)
- DERN
- 16 Across: Ocean sunfish (4)
- MOLA
- 17 Across: British tea merchant, born May 10, 1850 (15)
- SIRTHOMASLIPTON
- 20 Across: Ornamental weapon (6)
- POLEAX
- 21 Across: It helps a grand to stand (8)
- PIANOLEG
- 22 Across: Ruth's sultanate (4)
- SWAT
- 24 Across: Sends Fido on the attack (4)
- SICS
- 25 Across: Sault ___ Marie (3)
- STE
- 28 Across: Rainy-day racing surface (4)
- SLOP
- 30 Across: Daft (5)
- DOTTY
- 33 Across: Snail appendage (4)
- PALP
- 35 Across: Rainbow (4)
- IRIS
- 37 Across: Part of R.F.D. (5)
- RURAL
- 39 Across: Contest entered five fruitless times by 17 Across (15)
- AMERICASCUPRACE
- 42 Across: Pay the bills (5)
- REMIT
- 43 Across: Zither's relative (4)
- HARP
- 44 Across: Mimic (4)
- ECHO
- 45 Across: Items for a certain jockey (5)
- DISCS
- 47 Across: His ___ (4)
- NIBS
- 49 Across: French connections (3)
- ETS
- 50 Across: Amy's brother (4)
- CHIP
- 52 Across: Shooter fodder (4)
- PEAS
- 54 Across: Site of fierce Civil War battle (8)
- ANTIETAM
- 58 Across: Nook (6)
- ALCOVE
- 62 Across: Good-natured reputation won by 17 Across (15)
- WORLDSBESTLOSER
- 64 Across: Elliptical (4)
- OVAL
- 65 Across: Radius's neighbor (4)
- ULNA
- 66 Across: Bizarre (5)
- OUTRE
- 67 Across: "Lost Horizon" figure (4)
- LAMA
- 68 Across: A deck (4)
- POOP
- 69 Across: Songbirds (5)
- WRENS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Grate greatly (4)
- RASP
- 2 Down: Pinza (4)
- EZIO
- 3 Down: Reiner or Bernstein (4)
- CARL
- 4 Down: Ponies up (5)
- ANTES
- 5 Down: Expresses disapproval (6)
- PSHAWS
- 6 Down: U.S.N. top dog (3)
- ADM
- 7 Down: Spring (4)
- LEAP
- 8 Down: Accented syllable, in prosody (5)
- ARSIS
- 9 Down: Like some designs or tables (6)
- INLAID
- 10 Down: Ploy of many a con man (9)
- IMPOSTURE
- 11 Down: "The ___ Baltimore" of Off Broadway fame (4)
- HOTL
- 12 Down: Medicinal lily (4)
- ALOE
- 13 Down: "Darn!" (4)
- DANG
- 18 Down: ___ acid, bleaching agent (6)
- OXALIC
- 19 Down: Business abbr. (6)
- INCORP
- 23 Down: Five Books of Moses (5)
- TORAH
- 25 Down: Work out in the ring (4)
- SPAR
- 26 Down: No longer feral (5)
- TAMED
- 27 Down: Lacquer resin (5)
- ELEMI
- 29 Down: Galileo was one (5)
- PISAN
- 31 Down: Vestige (5)
- TRACE
- 32 Down: Favorite vessel of 17 Across (5)
- YACHT
- 34 Down: Alden's love (9)
- PRISCILLA
- 36 Down: Interim currency (5)
- SCRIP
- 38 Down: Thirteen popes (4)
- LEOS
- 40 Down: Had a yen (6)
- ITCHED
- 41 Down: Rosy; cheerful (6)
- UPBEAT
- 46 Down: Takes notice (6)
- SITSUP
- 48 Down: Grayish greenish yellow (6)
- SALLOW
- 51 Down: Picasso or Casals (5)
- PABLO
- 53 Down: Look high and low (5)
- SCOUR
- 54 Down: M.P.'s prey (4)
- AWOL
- 55 Down: Bossa ___ (4)
- NOVA
- 56 Down: Logger's conveyance (4)
- TRAM
- 57 Down: "Send ___ Flowers," Doris Day film (4)
- MENO
- 59 Down: Bone: Comb. form (4)
- OSTE
- 60 Down: One of the Castles, for short (4)
- VERN
- 61 Down: "___ Tu," 1932 song (4)
- ERES
- 63 Down: Lunkhead (3)
- SAP
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