Wednesday Crossword — May 24, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 5/24/1978. By Chet Currier.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Captain of the Pequod (4)
- AHAB
- 5 Across: Small-scaled trout (4)
- CHAR
- 9 Across: "All ___," 1931 song (4)
- OFME
- 13 Across: Kind of scheme (5)
- COLOR
- 15 Across: Where Waterloo is (4)
- IOWA
- 16 Across: "Spare tire" material (4)
- FLAB
- 17 Across: Orléans's river (5)
- LOIRE
- 18 Across: Colliery vehicle (4)
- TRAM
- 19 Across: Neophyte (4)
- TYRO
- 20 Across: Unresolved (10)
- UPINTHEAIR
- 22 Across: "Look Homeward, Angel" character (3)
- BEN
- 23 Across: Certain water-tester (3)
- TOE
- 24 Across: Long-run TV show (5)
- TODAY
- 27 Across: Songbird (8)
- BOBOLINK
- 32 Across: Field grass (6)
- DARNEL
- 35 Across: Black cuckoo (3)
- ANI
- 36 Across: Sag (5)
- DROOP
- 38 Across: Silent greeting (5)
- SMILE
- 39 Across: Kind of insurance (4)
- TERM
- 41 Across: Antitoxin (5)
- SERUM
- 43 Across: Antisubmarine weapon (4)
- YGUN
- 44 Across: Wore (5)
- HADON
- 46 Across: Disabled (5)
- LAMED
- 48 Across: "Walden" author's monogram (3)
- HDT
- 49 Across: Put away (6)
- STORED
- 51 Across: Does the voice-over (8)
- NARRATES
- 53 Across: Pessimists' specialties (5)
- FEARS
- 55 Across: Chatter (3)
- GAB
- 56 Across: Matterhorn, e.g. (3)
- ALP
- 58 Across: Offstage (10)
- INTHEWINGS
- 64 Across: Poi source (4)
- TARO
- 66 Across: Ibsen girl (4)
- NORA
- 67 Across: Roman official (5)
- EDILE
- 68 Across: Prefix for head or lap (4)
- OVER
- 69 Across: Kristofferson (4)
- KRIS
- 70 Across: Archeologist's find (5)
- RELIC
- 71 Across: County of Ireland (4)
- MAYO
- 72 Across: Kind of order on Wall St. (4)
- STOP
- 73 Across: N.Y.C. problem (4)
- DEBT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Civil rights org. (4)
- ACLU
- 2 Down: Simple toy (4)
- HOOP
- 3 Down: Ovid's others (4)
- ALII
- 4 Down: "___ Dance," 30's musical (6)
- BORNTO
- 5 Down: Adduce (4)
- CITE
- 6 Down: Circle dance (4)
- HORA
- 7 Down: Be in store (5)
- AWAIT
- 8 Down: Rifle cleaner (6)
- RAMROD
- 9 Down: "What ___ was thought . . . ": Pope (3)
- OFT
- 10 Down: Transitory; unstable (10)
- FLYBYNIGHT
- 11 Down: Former filly (4)
- MARE
- 12 Down: Inky (4)
- EBON
- 14 Down: Spun a familiar yarn (6)
- RETOLD
- 21 Down: Legatees (5)
- HEIRS
- 25 Down: Wagner's "___ Rheingold" (3)
- DAS
- 26 Down: Kind of ant (4)
- ARMY
- 27 Down: Rome's ___ of Caracalla (5)
- BATHS
- 28 Down: ___ a time (5)
- ONEAT
- 29 Down: Hawk or eagle (10)
- BIRDOFPREY
- 30 Down: December word (4)
- NOEL
- 31 Down: Moslem holy book (5)
- KORAN
- 33 Down: Foil the dragnet (5)
- ELUDE
- 34 Down: Fasting periods (5)
- LENTS
- 37 Down: Cougar (4)
- PUMA
- 40 Down: Cry of the unsated (4)
- MORE
- 42 Down: Traffic sign (5)
- MERGE
- 45 Down: Teachers' org. (3)
- NEA
- 47 Down: Movable receptacle (6)
- DRAWER
- 50 Down: Bends an elbow at the bar (6)
- DRINKS
- 52 Down: Withstood (6)
- ABIDED
- 54 Down: Derisive noise (5)
- SNORT
- 56 Down: Power source (4)
- ATOM
- 57 Down: Mauna Loa output (4)
- LAVA
- 59 Down: Fates or Graces (4)
- TRIO
- 60 Down: Lid fastener (4)
- HASP
- 61 Down: River to the Mediterranean (4)
- NILE
- 62 Down: Smooth-talking (4)
- GLIB
- 63 Down: Amish, for one (4)
- SECT
- 65 Down: Granada gold (3)
- ORO
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