Saturday Crossword — January 26, 1980 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 1/26/1980. By William Lutwiniak.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Droplet (4)
BEAD
5 Across: Port of Spain (5)
CADIZ
10 Across: Top-notchers (4)
ACES
14 Across: Too (4)
ALSO
15 Across: Off (5)
ASIDE
16 Across: Patsy (4)
GOAT
17 Across: "March King" (15)
JOHNPHILIPSOUSA
20 Across: Vague quantity (3)
ANY
21 Across: San'a money (4)
RIAL
22 Across: Have-not (6)
PAUPER
23 Across: Baneful thing (3)
WOE
24 Across: Trapper's item (4)
PELT
25 Across: Comic-opera composer (15)
ARTHURSSULLIVAN
33 Across: Unclothed (5)
BARED
34 Across: Radioactivity unit (5)
CURIE
35 Across: Nigerian people (3)
IBO
36 Across: ___ impasse (4)
ATAN
37 Across: Engraving tool (5)
BURIN
38 Across: Splotch (4)
BLOB
39 Across: Part of R.S.V.P. (3)
SIL
40 Across: Certain containers (5)
TUBES
41 Across: Work out (5)
SOLVE
42 Across: "Rockin' Chair" composer-lyricist (15)
HOAGYCARMICHAEL
45 Across: G.I. addresses (4)
APOS
46 Across: Big ___ (3)
SUR
47 Across: Stoker's prop (6)
SHOVEL
50 Across: Afrikaans (4)
TAAL
52 Across: SHAEF sector (3)
ETO
55 Across: "The Music Man" composer (15)
MEREDITHWILLSON
58 Across: U.S.S.R. river (4)
URAL
59 Across: ___ Hills (HUD head for G.R.F.) (5)
CARLA
60 Across: Can cope with (4)
UPTO
61 Across: Colloids (4)
GELS
62 Across: Flounder through water (5)
SLOSH
63 Across: Henna user (4)
DYER

Down Answers

1 Down: ___ California (4)
BAJA
2 Down: N.C. college (4)
ELON
3 Down: Pallid (4)
ASHY
4 Down: Quiet flower (3)
DON
5 Down: Pages for binding (6)
CAHIER
6 Down: Where the Ob flows (4)
ASIA
7 Down: Deli pickle (4)
DILL
8 Down: Mar. 15, in Italia (3)
IDI
9 Down: Airship (8)
ZEPPELIN
10 Down: Grizzled fur color (6)
AGOUTI
11 Down: Achievement (4)
COUP
12 Down: Comfort (4)
EASE
13 Down: Be featured (4)
STAR
18 Down: Exultant (5)
PROUD
19 Down: Château unit (5)
SALLE
23 Down: "___ You're Smiling . . . ," 1928 song (4)
WHEN
24 Down: Rigid insistence on nicety (6)
PURISM
25 Down: Discomfit (5)
ABASH
26 Down: Two-to-one, e.g. (5)
RATIO
27 Down: Refrain syllables (5)
TRALA
28 Down: Diving apparatuses (6)
SCUBAS
29 Down: More reliable (5)
SURER
30 Down: Rural estate (5)
VILLA
31 Down: Superior (5)
ABOVE
32 Down: Dynamite man (5)
NOBEL
37 Down: Eclogues (8)
BUCOLICS
38 Down: Physics Nobelist: 1922 (4)
BOHR
40 Down: Like many manuscripts (5)
TYPED
41 Down: Certain oar (5)
SCULL
43 Down: Judges' rappers (6)
GAVELS
44 Down: Book of the Bible (6)
ISAIAH
47 Down: Complacent (4)
SMUG
48 Down: Now's partner (4)
HERE
49 Down: Nuncupative (4)
ORAL
50 Down: "Comin' ___ the Rye" (4)
THRO
51 Down: Cobbling tools (4)
AWLS
52 Down: Make out (4)
ESPY
53 Down: Kind of bag (4)
TOTE
54 Down: ___ about (4)
ONOR
56 Down: ___ qual (just as they come) (3)
TAL
57 Down: Legendary English king (3)
LUD

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