Friday Crossword — April 6, 1979

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1574 clues~30-60 minBy Vincent L. Osborne4/6/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Seize (4 letters)
5 Across
Ishmael's skipper (4 letters)
9 Across
Player Naismith's game (5 letters)
14 Across
Something remarkable (4 letters)
15 Across
The ___ (ditto) (4 letters)
16 Across
Crockett's last stand (5 letters)
17 Across
Site of Santa Cruz fort (4 letters)
18 Across
Crossed the plate horizontally (4 letters)
19 Across
Time for hamantaschen (5 letters)
20 Across
Designer of the Statue of Liberty (9 letters)
22 Across
Shadow (5 letters)
23 Across
Place of perfect happiness (7 letters)
24 Across
Formerly the French Sudan (4 letters)
26 Across
Farm machine, for short (4 letters)
28 Across
Fawning (6 letters)
32 Across
Tournaments like Wimbledon's (5 letters)
36 Across
One of the Cook Islands (9 letters)
38 Across
Except (4 letters)
39 Across
Ghana group (5 letters)
40 Across
Kin of "gee-tars" (4 letters)
41 Across
David Balfour's creator (9 letters)
43 Across
Until now (5 letters)
44 Across
Nod (6 letters)
45 Across
Fritz ___, film director (4 letters)
47 Across
Inroad (4 letters)
49 Across
Clique (7 letters)
54 Across
Teller's concern in the early 40's (5 letters)
57 Across
Early conquerors of Rome (9 letters)
59 Across
Orally (5 letters)
60 Across
Powell of diamond fame (4 letters)
61 Across
Beethoven composition (4 letters)
62 Across
Love, in Milano (5 letters)
63 Across
"___ Great Day for the Irish" (4 letters)
64 Across
Money in 13 Down (4 letters)
65 Across
Shone (5 letters)
66 Across
Schick ___ (4 letters)
67 Across
Churchill's successor as P.M.: 1955 (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Drake circumnavigated it (5 letters)
2 Down
Bucolic (5 letters)
3 Down
Wingy (5 letters)
4 Down
Lays one down on the infield (5 letters)
5 Down
___ as vinegar (6 letters)
6 Down
Identifying devices (9 letters)
7 Down
" . . . dark, ___ the blaze of noon": Milton (4 letters)
8 Down
Obscure (5 letters)
9 Down
Juliet's surname (7 letters)
10 Down
Of a common metallic element (9 letters)
11 Down
Costume (4 letters)
12 Down
Bahrain potentate (4 letters)
13 Down
Trastevere's città (4 letters)
21 Down
Grammy winners (4 letters)
25 Down
Old radio character (4 letters)
27 Down
Noel (5 letters)
29 Down
Black (4 letters)
30 Down
He wrote the screenplay for "The African Queen" (4 letters)
31 Down
Cobbler's aid (4 letters)
32 Down
Scapulae, e.g. (4 letters)
33 Down
Walks with light footsteps (4 letters)
34 Down
Times like Halloween (4 letters)
35 Down
Raven's word (9 letters)
37 Down
Chanced upon (9 letters)
39 Down
Filibusterer, e.g. (4 letters)
42 Down
Empowered (7 letters)
43 Down
C.I.A. operatives (4 letters)
46 Down
Chewy confection (6 letters)
48 Down
Bookkeeping term (5 letters)
50 Down
Eleve's milieu (5 letters)
51 Down
Kind of fire or transit (5 letters)
52 Down
Harden (5 letters)
53 Down
Site of the Villa Hugel (5 letters)
54 Down
On ___ with (4 letters)
55 Down
Bear Bryant's team (4 letters)
56 Down
"___ Plata," Montana motto (4 letters)
58 Down
Pack (4 letters)

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