Wednesday Crossword — August 9, 1978

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1576 clues~15-30 minBy Herb L. Risteen8/9/1978

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
North Sea feeder (3 letters)
4 Across
"Big A" sound (4 letters)
8 Across
Leather named for a Western city (4 letters)
12 Across
Electrical unit (4 letters)
14 Across
Regional (5 letters)
15 Across
Muscat is its capital (4 letters)
16 Across
On ___ with (equal to) (4 letters)
17 Across
Alpinist's challenge (10 letters)
19 Across
Highest spot on earth (7 letters)
21 Across
Site of Bogus Basin ski resort (5 letters)
22 Across
___ libre (4 letters)
23 Across
Throw things at (4 letters)
24 Across
___ Islands, supposed Fountain of Youth site (6 letters)
27 Across
Money in Madrid (7 letters)
30 Across
Mauna ___ (3 letters)
31 Across
Silver Springs neighbor (5 letters)
33 Across
Made tucks (5 letters)
35 Across
G.I. offense (4 letters)
37 Across
Stubborn as ___ (5 letters)
39 Across
Be worthy of (4 letters)
40 Across
Exposes (5 letters)
42 Across
Improve (5 letters)
44 Across
Give ___ try (3 letters)
45 Across
Any undesirable locale (7 letters)
47 Across
Ohio home of the Wrights (6 letters)
49 Across
River of "The Bard" (4 letters)
50 Across
Kind of moth (4 letters)
51 Across
Crete's capital (5 letters)
53 Across
___ Lake, N.Y. spa (7 letters)
56 Across
Industrial suburb of Detroit (10 letters)
58 Across
"Twittering Machine" painter (4 letters)
60 Across
Salt Lake City team (4 letters)
61 Across
Blundered (5 letters)
62 Across
East or West in N.Y.C. (4 letters)
63 Across
Jane of fiction (4 letters)
64 Across
Maine's ___ Island (4 letters)
65 Across
___ Aviv (3 letters)

Down

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Girl saved by Uncle Tom (3 letters)
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Act listlessly (4 letters)
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Dubrovnik resident (4 letters)
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Stupid; oafish (5 letters)
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Baltic dweller (4 letters)
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Word with cake or meal (3 letters)
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New West Pointers (6 letters)
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Hurler's dream (8 letters)
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Biblical book (4 letters)
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Reduce (4 letters)
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Massachusetts cape (3 letters)
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Rome's Fountain of ___ (5 letters)
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"The Beautiful" (7 letters)
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Play parts (5 letters)
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City once called Lake's Crossing (4 letters)
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Washington posed for him (5 letters)
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Spill the beans (4 letters)
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Midwest Indians (5 letters)
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N.Z. Polynesian (5 letters)
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Pen for Pedro (5 letters)
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Be in store for (5 letters)
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Bout (5 letters)
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Violently (5 letters)
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Doyen (4 letters)
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Natives of Beirut (8 letters)
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Lasted (7 letters)
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Cut (5 letters)
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Artist Charles ___ Gibson (4 letters)
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Uttered loudly (6 letters)
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Pershing's men (5 letters)
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Brewery product (5 letters)
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Gary or Eugene (4 letters)
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Affirm (4 letters)
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Word with fire or footed (4 letters)
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Left the bus (4 letters)
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Hand over (4 letters)
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Scribe or de Rivoli (3 letters)
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Pitchblende, e.g. (3 letters)
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Snakelike fish (3 letters)

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