Saturday Crossword — July 15, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 7/15/1978. By Kenneth Haxton.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Old chest for valuables (4)
- ARCA
- 5 Across: Price or Sutherland (4)
- DIVA
- 9 Across: Reporter's quarry (5)
- FACTS
- 14 Across: Peau de ___ (4)
- SOIE
- 15 Across: Land of O'Casey (4)
- ERIN
- 16 Across: "Wozzeck" or "Vanessa" (5)
- OPERA
- 17 Across: Humperdinck duo (15)
- HANSELANDGRETEL
- 20 Across: Salad ingredient (6)
- ENDIVE
- 21 Across: Lake fed by the Maumee River (4)
- ERIE
- 22 Across: Squeak by (3)
- EKE
- 23 Across: One of Mnemosyne's daughters (5)
- ERATO
- 25 Across: Dele or rewrite (4)
- EDIT
- 27 Across: Anderson's "High ___" (3)
- TOR
- 29 Across: Croat's relative (4)
- SERB
- 31 Across: Affected by wind or water (6)
- ERODED
- 35 Across: Malachite and bauxite (4)
- ORES
- 37 Across: Spore (4)
- SEED
- 39 Across: Speak one's mind (5)
- OPINE
- 40 Across: "Bubbles" of the Met (5)
- SILLS
- 42 Across: Swiss river (3)
- AAR
- 43 Across: Requirements (5)
- NEEDS
- 44 Across: Mulligrubs (5)
- COLIC
- 45 Across: Vestige (4)
- DREG
- 47 Across: Letters on a billet-doux's envelope (4)
- SWAK
- 48 Across: Pineapples (6)
- ANANAS
- 50 Across: Costume for Lakme (4)
- SARI
- 52 Across: Bottom acquired its head (3)
- ASS
- 53 Across: Feds (4)
- GMEN
- 55 Across: Fable addendum (5)
- MORAL
- 57 Across: Words with king or carte (3)
- ALA
- 60 Across: Homophone for pale (4)
- PAIL
- 62 Across: "The ___ Zorro" (6)
- MARKOF
- 65 Across: Wagner's "twilight of the gods" (15)
- GOTTERDAMMERUNG
- 68 Across: Liquor component (5)
- ESTER
- 69 Across: Medicinal lily (4)
- ALOE
- 70 Across: Smell ___ (be suspicious) (4)
- ARAT
- 71 Across: Lonigan of literature (5)
- STUDS
- 72 Across: Gelt; moola (4)
- LOOT
- 73 Across: Hankerings (4)
- YENS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Court celebrity (4)
- ASHE
- 2 Down: Relative of a sorrel (4)
- ROAN
- 3 Down: Subject of many operas (10)
- CINDERELLA
- 4 Down: Group led by Odin (5)
- AESIR
- 5 Down: Expunges (7)
- DELETES
- 6 Down: "Porgy and Bess" lyricist (3)
- IRA
- 7 Down: Transportation for Tarzan (4)
- VINE
- 8 Down: First name of 19 Down (5)
- ANDRE
- 9 Down: Cutting tool on a plow (8)
- FOREIRON
- 10 Down: Gibbon or orang (3)
- APE
- 11 Down: Whale (4)
- CETE
- 12 Down: Arduous journey (4)
- TREK
- 13 Down: Retail consummation (4)
- SALE
- 18 Down: Pogner's daughter et al. (4)
- EVAS
- 19 Down: Librettist for Stravinsky's "Persephone" (4)
- GIDE
- 24 Down: Mountain nymph (5)
- OREAD
- 26 Down: Hits the bottle (5)
- TOPES
- 27 Down: Mario's Floria (5)
- TOSCA
- 28 Down: Conspicuous constellation (5)
- ORION
- 30 Down: Chicago eleven (5)
- BEARS
- 32 Down: Second of a musical tetralogy (10)
- DIEWALKURE
- 33 Down: Willingham's "___ a Man" (5)
- ENDAS
- 34 Down: Classroom equipment (5)
- DESKS
- 36 Down: First-aid contrivance (5)
- SLING
- 38 Down: Elsa has one in "Lohengrin" (5)
- DREAM
- 41 Down: Flees (8)
- SCAMPERS
- 46 Down: Metal eyelet (7)
- GROMMET
- 49 Down: Dessicate (4)
- SEAR
- 51 Down: Dies ___ (4)
- IRAE
- 54 Down: Nestlike (5)
- NIDAL
- 56 Down: Deck out (5)
- ARRAY
- 57 Down: Subject of Jaques' speech (4)
- AGES
- 58 Down: "___ Horizon" (4)
- LOST
- 59 Down: Farthest of the Near Islands (4)
- ATTU
- 61 Down: "Fiesque" was his first opera (4)
- LALO
- 63 Down: ___ even keel (4)
- ONAN
- 64 Down: Trains with cabooses: Abbr. (4)
- FGTS
- 66 Down: Sorensen or Kennedy (3)
- TED
- 67 Down: Bovine sound (3)
- MOO
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