Saturday Crossword — July 15, 1978

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1578 clues~30-60 minBy Kenneth Haxton7/15/1978

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Old chest for valuables (4 letters)
5 Across
Price or Sutherland (4 letters)
9 Across
Reporter's quarry (5 letters)
14 Across
Peau de ___ (4 letters)
15 Across
Land of O'Casey (4 letters)
16 Across
"Wozzeck" or "Vanessa" (5 letters)
17 Across
Humperdinck duo (15 letters)
20 Across
Salad ingredient (6 letters)
21 Across
Lake fed by the Maumee River (4 letters)
22 Across
Squeak by (3 letters)
23 Across
One of Mnemosyne's daughters (5 letters)
25 Across
Dele or rewrite (4 letters)
27 Across
Anderson's "High ___" (3 letters)
29 Across
Croat's relative (4 letters)
31 Across
Affected by wind or water (6 letters)
35 Across
Malachite and bauxite (4 letters)
37 Across
Spore (4 letters)
39 Across
Speak one's mind (5 letters)
40 Across
"Bubbles" of the Met (5 letters)
42 Across
Swiss river (3 letters)
43 Across
Requirements (5 letters)
44 Across
Mulligrubs (5 letters)
45 Across
Vestige (4 letters)
47 Across
Letters on a billet-doux's envelope (4 letters)
48 Across
Pineapples (6 letters)
50 Across
Costume for Lakme (4 letters)
52 Across
Bottom acquired its head (3 letters)
53 Across
Feds (4 letters)
55 Across
Fable addendum (5 letters)
57 Across
Words with king or carte (3 letters)
60 Across
Homophone for pale (4 letters)
62 Across
"The ___ Zorro" (6 letters)
65 Across
Wagner's "twilight of the gods" (15 letters)
68 Across
Liquor component (5 letters)
69 Across
Medicinal lily (4 letters)
70 Across
Smell ___ (be suspicious) (4 letters)
71 Across
Lonigan of literature (5 letters)
72 Across
Gelt; moola (4 letters)
73 Across
Hankerings (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Court celebrity (4 letters)
2 Down
Relative of a sorrel (4 letters)
3 Down
Subject of many operas (10 letters)
4 Down
Group led by Odin (5 letters)
5 Down
Expunges (7 letters)
6 Down
"Porgy and Bess" lyricist (3 letters)
7 Down
Transportation for Tarzan (4 letters)
8 Down
First name of 19 Down (5 letters)
9 Down
Cutting tool on a plow (8 letters)
10 Down
Gibbon or orang (3 letters)
11 Down
Whale (4 letters)
12 Down
Arduous journey (4 letters)
13 Down
Retail consummation (4 letters)
18 Down
Pogner's daughter et al. (4 letters)
19 Down
Librettist for Stravinsky's "Persephone" (4 letters)
24 Down
Mountain nymph (5 letters)
26 Down
Hits the bottle (5 letters)
27 Down
Mario's Floria (5 letters)
28 Down
Conspicuous constellation (5 letters)
30 Down
Chicago eleven (5 letters)
32 Down
Second of a musical tetralogy (10 letters)
33 Down
Willingham's "___ a Man" (5 letters)
34 Down
Classroom equipment (5 letters)
36 Down
First-aid contrivance (5 letters)
38 Down
Elsa has one in "Lohengrin" (5 letters)
41 Down
Flees (8 letters)
46 Down
Metal eyelet (7 letters)
49 Down
Dessicate (4 letters)
51 Down
Dies ___ (4 letters)
54 Down
Nestlike (5 letters)
56 Down
Deck out (5 letters)
57 Down
Subject of Jaques' speech (4 letters)
58 Down
"___ Horizon" (4 letters)
59 Down
Farthest of the Near Islands (4 letters)
61 Down
"Fiesque" was his first opera (4 letters)
63 Down
___ even keel (4 letters)
64 Down
Trains with cabooses: Abbr. (4 letters)
66 Down
Sorensen or Kennedy (3 letters)
67 Down
Bovine sound (3 letters)

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