Thursday Crossword — July 20, 1978 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 7/20/1978. By William Lutwiniak.

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Across Answers

1 Across: ___ spumante (4)
ASTI
5 Across: Cease (4)
HALT
9 Across: Suffix with pop or cell (4)
ULAR
13 Across: Actor Ives (4)
BURL
14 Across: D-Day beach (5)
OMAHA
16 Across: Mrs. Helmer (4)
NORA
17 Across: Reykjavik's country: Abbr. (4)
ICEL
18 Across: "M*A*S*H" role (5)
RADAR
19 Across: Materials for making glass (4)
FRIT
20 Across: Trilogy re three generations (14)
THEFORSYTESAGA
23 Across: Freeman Gosden role (4)
AMOS
24 Across: Glossy fabric (5)
SATIN
25 Across: Thelma or Tex (6)
RITTER
28 Across: Common contraction (6)
WERENT
31 Across: Pallid (5)
ASHEN
32 Across: Sacajawea was one (5)
SQUAW
35 Across: Haul (3)
TOW
36 Across: Peerage type (4)
LORD
37 Across: Devoutness (5)
PIETY
38 Across: Gudrun's husband (4)
ATLI
39 Across: Arafat's org. (3)
PLO
40 Across: Juan's afternoon (5)
TARDE
41 Across: Food fish (5)
SMELT
42 Across: Mooring line (6)
HAWSER
44 Across: Follies (6)
LAPSES
45 Across: Utter (5)
SPEAK
47 Across: Tops (4)
AONE
48 Across: Author of 20 Across (14)
JOHNGALSWORTHY
53 Across: Pueblo Indian (4)
HOPI
54 Across: Air a view (5)
OPINE
55 Across: Good student's report card quartet (4)
AAAA
56 Across: Indian Ocean gulf (4)
ADEN
57 Across: Certain works of art (5)
NUDES
58 Across: Lass (4)
GIRL
59 Across: Wildcat (4)
LYNX
60 Across: A wrongful act, to a lawyer (4)
TORT
61 Across: Robt. ___ (4)
ELEE

Down Answers

1 Down: Wait-___ (thorny plant) (4)
ABIT
2 Down: "___ men are dangerous" (4)
SUCH
3 Down: Teil or carob (4)
TREE
4 Down: Star-crossed (8)
ILLFATED
5 Down: Dread (6)
HORROR
6 Down: Accumulate (5)
AMASS
7 Down: "Tramp" in a 1937 song (4)
LADY
8 Down: "___ Amore" (5)
THATS
9 Down: Not equitable (6)
UNFAIR
10 Down: Eyeglasses mounted on handles (10)
LORGNETTES
11 Down: Sills's forte (4)
ARIA
12 Down: Turncoat (3)
RAT
15 Down: Basement access (7)
AREAWAY
21 Down: Straw in the wind (4)
OMEN
22 Down: Swivet or tizzy (4)
STEW
25 Down: Bellamy from Chicago (5)
RALPH
26 Down: Ischia is one (5)
ISOLA
27 Down: Removes restrictions from (10)
THROWSOPEN
29 Down: ___ prosequi (court-record entry) (5)
NOLLE
30 Down: Needles (5)
TWITS
32 Down: Eden or Olivier (3)
SIR
33 Down: Euclidean abbr. (3)
QED
34 Down: All-purpose truck (3)
UTE
37 Down: Model of excellence (7)
PARAGON
38 Down: Strength of an electrical current (8)
AMPERAGE
40 Down: Numerical ending (4)
TEEN
41 Down: Sound, in Seville (4)
SANO
43 Down: Enigmatic one (6)
SPHINX
44 Down: At the nadir (6)
LOWEST
46 Down: Gone phfft (5)
KAPUT
47 Down: He plays Lou Grant on TV (5)
ASNER
48 Down: Powell of the White House (4)
JODY
49 Down: Adriatic resort (4)
LIDO
50 Down: Shadow (4)
TAIL
51 Down: Leveret (4)
HARE
52 Down: Ivy League member (4)
YALE
53 Down: Holbrook from Cleveland (3)
HAL

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