Friday Crossword — May 26, 1978 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/26/1978. By Dorothea E. Shipp.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Live ___ (have a ball) (4)
ITUP
5 Across: Azalea's cousin (5)
ERICA
10 Across: Repartee (3)
WIT
13 Across: Loon's relative (5)
GREBE
14 Across: "Star Wars" figure (5)
ROBOT
15 Across: Exist (3)
ARE
16 Across: Everywhere (11)
OMNIPRESENT
18 Across: Enthusiast (3)
FAN
19 Across: Ghost in "Macbeth" (6)
BANQUO
20 Across: Parseghian (3)
ARA
21 Across: Tennis champion Lacoste (4)
RENE
22 Across: Downs' companion (3)
UPS
23 Across: Come into, as money (7)
INHERIT
25 Across: One-man performances (4)
SOLI
28 Across: Invents (7)
CREATES
31 Across: Oaf (4)
LOUT
32 Across: Suffix with slander and thunder (3)
OUS
33 Across: Friend of D'Artagnan (5)
ATHOS
37 Across: Higgledy-piggledy (15)
ALLOVERTHEPLACE
41 Across: Rate (5)
VALUE
42 Across: Poetic contraction (3)
EER
43 Across: Punta del ___ (4)
ESTE
44 Across: Swizzle stick (7)
STIRRER
47 Across: Spick's companion (4)
SPAN
48 Across: Storm that goes round and round (7)
CYCLONE
51 Across: Horace's "___ Poetica" (3)
ARS
53 Across: Suave and glib (4)
OILY
54 Across: Crow's next of kin (3)
DAW
56 Across: Pavarotti and Domingo (6)
TENORS
60 Across: "___ Clown," pop song (3)
BEA
61 Across: Itinerant (11)
PERIPATETIC
63 Across: Literary monogram (3)
RLS
64 Across: Dodger of the 40's (5)
REESE
65 Across: U.S. satellite (5)
ISISI
66 Across: Sales aids, for short (3)
ADS
67 Across: More bizarre (5)
ODDER
68 Across: Sum, ___, fui (4)
ESSE

Down Answers

1 Down: "La Douce" (4)
IRMA
2 Down: Vols' state (4)
TENN
3 Down: Adverbial relative of 16 Across (12)
UBIQUITOUSLY
4 Down: Enliven (5)
PEPUP
5 Down: " . . . ___ I saw Elba" (3)
ERE
6 Down: Soprano Ponselle (4)
ROSA
7 Down: Modern Georgia (6)
IBERIA
8 Down: Harvard prexy: 1933–53 (6)
CONANT
9 Down: Holder of an L.L.B. (3)
ATT
10 Down: Cookie (5)
WAFER
11 Down: Native of Teheran (5)
IRANI
12 Down: Doctrine (5)
TENET
13 Down: Swabbie (3)
GOB
17 Down: Gangster's gat (6)
ROSCOE
21 Down: Perpetual-motion state (12)
RESTLESSNESS
24 Down: Great deal (4)
HEAP
25 Down: Tito, for one (4)
SLAV
26 Down: Girlfriend of Alley Oop (4)
OOLA
27 Down: Conversational gap (4)
LULL
29 Down: Capek play (3)
RUR
30 Down: Glyceride (5)
ESTER
34 Down: Door fastener (4)
HASP
35 Down: Eight: Comb. form (4)
OCTA
36 Down: Understood (4)
SEEN
38 Down: Kill a bill from the Hill (4)
VETO
39 Down: Half a bray (3)
HEE
40 Down: List of corrigenda (6)
ERRATA
45 Down: Positively (6)
INDEED
46 Down: Set up (6)
REARED
48 Down: Charmer's "stooge" (5)
COBRA
49 Down: Cede (5)
YIELD
50 Down: Elegance (5)
CLASS
52 Down: Bind anew (5)
RETIE
55 Down: Overworked suffix (4)
WISE
57 Down: A.F.B. on Cape Cod (4)
OTIS
58 Down: Shine's partner (4)
RISE
59 Down: Sch. subject (3)
SCI
61 Down: One in the big leagues (3)
PRO
62 Down: Prefix with chance or adventure (3)
PER

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