Saturday Crossword — May 13, 1978 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 5/13/1978. By Tap Osborn.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Cowardly Lion, in a Garland film (4)
LAHR
5 Across: Rich tapestry (5)
ARRAS
10 Across: Weapon, to René (4)
ARME
14 Across: Malaria symptom (4)
AGUE
15 Across: Summer-weight fabric (5)
VOILE
16 Across: Twofold (4)
DUAL
17 Across: Quakers in a ring? (15)
CIRCLEOFFRIENDS
20 Across: Race participant (7)
ENTRANT
21 Across: Hit song of 1958 (6)
VOLARE
22 Across: Up-tight (4)
EDGY
23 Across: Widens, as pupils (7)
DILATES
24 Across: Perfumed ointment (6)
POMADE
27 Across: Lecture material (5)
NOTES
28 Across: Pahlavi, for one (5)
IRANI
29 Across: Prank (4)
DIDO
30 Across: Tangled mass (3)
MAT
33 Across: AVI (15)
CENTEROFGRAVITY
37 Across: Bar order (3)
ALE
38 Across: Villa d'___, in Tivoli (4)
ESTE
39 Across: Downey was one (5)
TENOR
40 Across: Marquand's George (5)
APLEY
42 Across: Reliquary (6)
SHRINE
43 Across: Lattice arrangement (7)
TRELLIS
46 Across: Major poem (4)
EPOS
47 Across: Proportions (6)
RATIOS
48 Across: Rhine siren (7)
LORELEI
52 Across: Soda jerk's routine? (15)
AMONTHOFSUNDAES
55 Across: Oenologist's specialty (4)
WINE
56 Across: She wrote "Adam Bede" (5)
ELIOT
57 Across: Tidbit for Rona Barrett (4)
ITEM
58 Across: Diminished by (4)
LESS
59 Across: Mends socks (5)
DARNS
60 Across: Cape (4)
NESS

Down Answers

1 Down: Chantilly, for one (4)
LACE
2 Down: Not "fer" (4)
AGIN
3 Down: Injured (4)
HURT
4 Down: Cowardly (8)
RECREANT
5 Down: Retaliate (6)
AVENGE
6 Down: Having bulbs, tubers, etc. (5)
ROOTY
7 Down: Range in Morocco (3)
RIF
8 Down: Landon (3)
ALF
9 Down: Butler or waiter (8)
SERVITOR
10 Down: Writer St. Johns et al. (6)
ADELAS
11 Down: Charge (5)
RUNAT
12 Down: Sierra ___ (5)
MADRE
13 Down: " . . . in someone ___ arms" (5)
ELSES
18 Down: Boy, to Burns (6)
LADDIE
19 Down: Princess of Greek mythology (4)
IOLE
23 Down: Evade (5)
DODGE
24 Down: Printer's measure (4)
PICA
25 Down: City on the Oka (4)
OREL
26 Down: Ponytail, in a way (4)
MANE
27 Down: Super! (5)
NIFTY
29 Down: Medicates (5)
DOSES
30 Down: Prefix for bus or skirt (4)
MINI
31 Down: Egyptian solar deity (4)
ATON
32 Down: In England, a whitewall (4)
TYRE
34 Down: Savored (8)
RELISHED
35 Down: "Hath not thy rose ___ . . . ?": Shak. (6)
ATHORN
36 Down: Very familiar with (a subject) (8)
VERSEDIN
40 Down: Puts straight (6)
ALINES
41 Down: Story line (4)
PLOT
42 Down: Harangues (6)
SPOUTS
43 Down: Drag for fish (5)
TRAWL
44 Down: Kind of hemp (5)
RAMIE
45 Down: Jackets or collars (5)
ETONS
46 Down: Noted U.S. musicologist (5)
ELSON
49 Down: Behindhand (4)
LATE
50 Down: Shoe sizes (4)
EEES
51 Down: Doctrines (4)
ISMS
53 Down: Biographer Winslow (3)
OLA
54 Down: Balsam ___ (3)
FIR

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