Wednesday Crossword — June 28, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/28/1978. By Herb L. Risteen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Periods of prosperity (3)
- UPS
- 4 Across: Chick's comment to a frugal farmer (5)
- CHEEP
- 9 Across: Dramatis personae (4)
- CAST
- 13 Across: Green guard (4)
- TRAP
- 14 Across: Legal paper (5)
- LEASE
- 15 Across: Singer Guthrie (4)
- ARLO
- 16 Across: Perfectly matched (15)
- ASLIKEASTWOPEAS
- 19 Across: Relieve without curing (8)
- PALLIATE
- 20 Across: Averse (5)
- LOATH
- 21 Across: Microscope part (4)
- LENS
- 22 Across: Front edge of the tibia (4)
- SHIN
- 24 Across: Conspiracies (6)
- CABALS
- 27 Across: Ullmann (3)
- LIV
- 28 Across: Dijon dance (3)
- BAL
- 31 Across: Monitor lizard (4)
- URAN
- 32 Across: Maid of paradise (5)
- HOURI
- 34 Across: Del ___, Texas (3)
- RIO
- 35 Across: Size up a person (15)
- TAKEONESMEASURE
- 39 Across: Oahu instrument, for short (3)
- UKE
- 40 Across: Appropriate anagram for notes (5)
- TONES
- 41 Across: Makes tracks (4)
- HIES
- 42 Across: Word with diem or annum (3)
- PER
- 43 Across: Part of pewter (3)
- TIN
- 44 Across: Depletes one's cash (6)
- SPENDS
- 46 Across: Festive (4)
- GALA
- 47 Across: Pleasing to see (4)
- FAIR
- 48 Across: Tropical bird (5)
- MACAW
- 51 Across: Vague discomforts (8)
- MALAISES
- 55 Across: In actuality (15)
- ASAMATTEROFFACT
- 58 Across: "The ___ Love" (4)
- MANI
- 59 Across: Male seal's surrounders (5)
- HAREM
- 60 Across: Noisy quarrel (4)
- FRAY
- 61 Across: Prolific author (4)
- ANON
- 62 Across: Overweight (5)
- OBESE
- 63 Across: Grieving (3)
- SAD
Down Answers
- 1 Down: ___ Minor (4)
- URSA
- 2 Down: Grow wearisome (4)
- PALL
- 3 Down: Writer of hard-boiled fiction (8)
- SPILLANE
- 4 Down: Sandblasts (6)
- CLEANS
- 5 Down: Preliminary races (5)
- HEATS
- 6 Down: Soothe (4)
- EASE
- 7 Down: Superlative ending (3)
- EST
- 8 Down: Fixed bench (3)
- PEW
- 9 Down: Plump roasting fowl (5)
- CAPON
- 10 Down: Field (4)
- AREA
- 11 Down: Louver board (4)
- SLAT
- 12 Down: Sheer nonsense (4)
- TOSH
- 13 Down: Bar item (3)
- TAP
- 17 Down: German seaport (4)
- KIEL
- 18 Down: "Twelfth Night" countess (6)
- OLIVIA
- 22 Down: The shame of cities (5)
- SLUMS
- 23 Down: Employ (4)
- HIRE
- 24 Down: Lampshade wearer at a party (5)
- CUTUP
- 25 Down: As lean as ___ (5)
- ARAKE
- 26 Down: Muffin man (5)
- BAKER
- 28 Down: Bear (5)
- BRUIN
- 29 Down: Made public (5)
- AIRED
- 30 Down: Yellowish loam (5)
- LOESS
- 32 Down: Kind of rinse (5)
- HENNA
- 33 Down: Chemical suffix (3)
- OSE
- 36 Down: Pontiac was one (6)
- OTTAWA
- 37 Down: Fiber spun into yarn (4)
- NOIL
- 38 Down: County officers (8)
- SHERIFFS
- 44 Down: Herod's dancer (6)
- SALOME
- 45 Down: Singer Edith: 1914–63 (4)
- PIAF
- 46 Down: Homeless lad (5)
- GAMIN
- 47 Down: Gets along (5)
- FARES
- 48 Down: Sound from a doll (4)
- MAMA
- 49 Down: As wise ___ owl (4)
- ASAN
- 50 Down: Third word of "The Aeneid" (4)
- CANO
- 51 Down: Having no admixture (4)
- MERE
- 52 Down: A Roosevelt (4)
- SARA
- 53 Down: Plant form (4)
- ECAD
- 54 Down: Unkempt abode (3)
- STY
- 56 Down: Conjunction, for short (3)
- THO
- 57 Down: Filer's aid (3)
- TAB
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