Wednesday Crossword — August 9, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/9/1978. By Herb L. Risteen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: North Sea feeder (3)
- EMS
- 4 Across: "Big A" sound (4)
- CLOP
- 8 Across: Leather named for a Western city (4)
- NAPA
- 12 Across: Electrical unit (4)
- VOLT
- 14 Across: Regional (5)
- AREAL
- 15 Across: Muscat is its capital (4)
- OMAN
- 16 Across: On ___ with (equal to) (4)
- APAR
- 17 Across: Alpinist's challenge (10)
- MATTERHORN
- 19 Across: Highest spot on earth (7)
- EVEREST
- 21 Across: Site of Bogus Basin ski resort (5)
- BOISE
- 22 Across: ___ libre (4)
- VERS
- 23 Across: Throw things at (4)
- PELT
- 24 Across: ___ Islands, supposed Fountain of Youth site (6)
- BIMINI
- 27 Across: Money in Madrid (7)
- PESETAS
- 30 Across: Mauna ___ (3)
- LOA
- 31 Across: Silver Springs neighbor (5)
- OCALA
- 33 Across: Made tucks (5)
- SEWED
- 35 Across: G.I. offense (4)
- AWOL
- 37 Across: Stubborn as ___ (5)
- AMULE
- 39 Across: Be worthy of (4)
- RATE
- 40 Across: Exposes (5)
- BARES
- 42 Across: Improve (5)
- AMEND
- 44 Across: Give ___ try (3)
- ITA
- 45 Across: Any undesirable locale (7)
- SIBERIA
- 47 Across: Ohio home of the Wrights (6)
- DAYTON
- 49 Across: River of "The Bard" (4)
- AVON
- 50 Across: Kind of moth (4)
- LUNA
- 51 Across: Crete's capital (5)
- CANEA
- 53 Across: ___ Lake, N.Y. spa (7)
- SARANAC
- 56 Across: Industrial suburb of Detroit (10)
- RIVERROUGE
- 58 Across: "Twittering Machine" painter (4)
- KLEE
- 60 Across: Salt Lake City team (4)
- UTES
- 61 Across: Blundered (5)
- ERRED
- 62 Across: East or West in N.Y.C. (4)
- SIDE
- 63 Across: Jane of fiction (4)
- EYRE
- 64 Across: Maine's ___ Island (4)
- DEER
- 65 Across: ___ Aviv (3)
- TEL
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Girl saved by Uncle Tom (3)
- EVA
- 2 Down: Act listlessly (4)
- MOPE
- 3 Down: Dubrovnik resident (4)
- SLAV
- 4 Down: Stupid; oafish (5)
- CRASS
- 5 Down: Baltic dweller (4)
- LETT
- 6 Down: Word with cake or meal (3)
- OAT
- 7 Down: New West Pointers (6)
- PLEBES
- 8 Down: Hurler's dream (8)
- NOHITTER
- 9 Down: Biblical book (4)
- AMOS
- 10 Down: Reduce (4)
- PARE
- 11 Down: Massachusetts cape (3)
- ANN
- 13 Down: Rome's Fountain of ___ (5)
- TREVI
- 14 Down: "The Beautiful" (7)
- AMERICA
- 18 Down: Play parts (5)
- ROLES
- 20 Down: City once called Lake's Crossing (4)
- RENO
- 23 Down: Washington posed for him (5)
- PEALE
- 24 Down: Spill the beans (4)
- BLAB
- 25 Down: Midwest Indians (5)
- IOWAS
- 26 Down: N.Z. Polynesian (5)
- MAORI
- 27 Down: Pen for Pedro (5)
- PLUMA
- 28 Down: Be in store for (5)
- AWAIT
- 29 Down: Bout (5)
- SETTO
- 32 Down: Violently (5)
- AMAIN
- 34 Down: Doyen (4)
- DEAN
- 36 Down: Natives of Beirut (8)
- LEBANESE
- 38 Down: Lasted (7)
- ENDURED
- 41 Down: Cut (5)
- SEVER
- 43 Down: Artist Charles ___ Gibson (4)
- DANA
- 46 Down: Uttered loudly (6)
- ROARED
- 48 Down: Pershing's men (5)
- YANKS
- 50 Down: Brewery product (5)
- LAGER
- 51 Down: Gary or Eugene (4)
- CITY
- 52 Down: Affirm (4)
- AVER
- 53 Down: Word with fire or footed (4)
- SURE
- 54 Down: Left the bus (4)
- ALIT
- 55 Down: Hand over (4)
- CEDE
- 56 Down: Scribe or de Rivoli (3)
- RUE
- 57 Down: Pitchblende, e.g. (3)
- ORE
- 59 Down: Snakelike fish (3)
- EEL
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