Friday Crossword — June 23, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 6/23/1978. By Hallie & Gerald Parsons.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Wanders at will (5)
- ROVES
- 6 Across: Neck of land (4)
- SPIT
- 10 Across: Flow's partner (3)
- EBB
- 13 Across: Dispatch boat (5)
- AVISO
- 14 Across: "They ___ serve . . . ": Milton (4)
- ALSO
- 15 Across: Twofold (4)
- DUAL
- 17 Across: Annoyed (5)
- VEXED
- 18 Across: Re-election losers, finishing their terms (9)
- LAMEDUCKS
- 20 Across: Middle of a well-known palindrome (3)
- ERE
- 21 Across: Italian wine center (4)
- ASTI
- 23 Across: Perfumed powder (6)
- SACHET
- 24 Across: British child's nursemaid (4)
- NANA
- 26 Across: Highway sound (4)
- HONK
- 28 Across: ___ culpa (3)
- MEA
- 29 Across: Fortune (6)
- CHANCE
- 31 Across: The ___ Scott case (4)
- DRED
- 34 Across: In the phone book (6)
- LISTED
- 37 Across: Apollo's mother (4)
- LETO
- 40 Across: Inner: Prefix (3)
- ESO
- 41 Across: Margaret Mead's colleagues (15)
- ANTHROPOLOGISTS
- 44 Across: NBC owner (3)
- RCA
- 45 Across: Long baseball hit (4)
- SWAT
- 46 Across: Put garments on (6)
- CLOTHE
- 47 Across: Computer food (4)
- DATA
- 49 Across: "Many are called but few are ___" (6)
- CHOSEN
- 51 Across: Worldwide workers' gp. (3)
- ILO
- 53 Across: Air: Comb. form (4)
- AERI
- 54 Across: Of grandparents (4)
- AVAL
- 58 Across: Valuable possessions (6)
- ASSETS
- 61 Across: ___ die (4)
- SINE
- 63 Across: Winner in Mailer's "The Fight" (3)
- ALI
- 64 Across: Kind of timekeeper (9)
- METRONOME
- 66 Across: Quiverleaf (5)
- ASPEN
- 68 Across: Skip (4)
- OMIT
- 69 Across: Arabian port (4)
- ADEN
- 70 Across: Roi's spouse (5)
- REINE
- 71 Across: Suffix for sciences (3)
- ICS
- 72 Across: Lady's escort, for short (4)
- GENT
- 73 Across: Burdened (5)
- LADEN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Black bird (5)
- RAVEN
- 2 Down: Turn ___ new leaf (5)
- OVERA
- 3 Down: Female fox (5)
- VIXEN
- 4 Down: Suffix with Japan or Nippon (3)
- ESE
- 5 Down: Kitchen staple (4)
- SODA
- 6 Down: ___ Sea, lake in southern Calif. (6)
- SALTON
- 7 Down: Detectives (15)
- PLAINCLOTHESMEN
- 8 Down: School of thought (3)
- ISM
- 9 Down: Ten that may be socked (4)
- TOES
- 10 Down: Elicited (6)
- EDUCED
- 11 Down: Rumanian capital (9)
- BUCHAREST
- 12 Down: Make bread (4)
- BAKE
- 16 Down: Naval vessel (3)
- LST
- 19 Down: Project of the Corps of Engineers (3)
- DAM
- 22 Down: Follow secretly (6)
- SHADOW
- 25 Down: Kind of hormone (4)
- ACTH
- 27 Down: Ship part (4)
- KEEL
- 30 Down: Pronoun (4)
- HERS
- 32 Down: Native of Tallinn (4)
- ESTH
- 33 Down: Give medicine to (4)
- DOSE
- 34 Down: Hog fat (4)
- LARD
- 35 Down: Member of a former Peruvian empire (4)
- INCA
- 36 Down: R.B.I., for one (9)
- STATISTIC
- 38 Down: Alarm bell (6)
- TOCSIN
- 39 Down: Eye amorously (4)
- OGLE
- 42 Down: Declaration signer from Md. (4)
- PACA
- 43 Down: College in New Rochelle, N.Y. (4)
- IONA
- 48 Down: Warns (6)
- ALERTS
- 50 Down: Express now used as a Japanese hotel (6)
- ORIENT
- 52 Down: Siouan (3)
- OTO
- 55 Down: Inane (5)
- VAPID
- 56 Down: Coeur d'___, Idaho (5)
- ALENE
- 57 Down: Word after bed or table (5)
- LINEN
- 58 Down: I love: Lat. (3)
- AMO
- 59 Down: Freight trailer, for short (4)
- SEMI
- 60 Down: Jagged protuberance (4)
- SNAG
- 62 Down: Eden's title (4)
- EARL
- 65 Down: Verse form (3)
- ODE
- 67 Down: Daedalus flew over it (3)
- SEA
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