Wednesday Crossword — February 27, 1980

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy Rae2/27/1980

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Actor-playwright Guitry (5 letters)
6 Across
Forerunner of waste (5 letters)
11 Across
Quick to learn (3 letters)
14 Across
Relaxes (5 letters)
15 Across
Misbehave (5 letters)
16 Across
Landing spot for Glenn (3 letters)
17 Across
Adjective for some stars (5 letters)
18 Across
Polaris (9 letters)
20 Across
Vocal hesitation (3 letters)
21 Across
Tidal flood (5 letters)
23 Across
Title Drake held (3 letters)
24 Across
Celestial; heavenly (10 letters)
27 Across
"High" time (4 letters)
30 Across
TV spoof (4 letters)
31 Across
Prefix with begotten (3 letters)
33 Across
Cpl. or sgt. (3 letters)
34 Across
Single aircraft mission (6 letters)
37 Across
Rise and float in air (8 letters)
39 Across
Trapped aloft (5 letters)
40 Across
Cable ___ (3 letters)
41 Across
Cornmeal or oatmeal (5 letters)
42 Across
Person at the controls (8 letters)
44 Across
Shallow African salt lakes (6 letters)
45 Across
What Wafs are not (3 letters)
46 Across
Moon buggy (3 letters)
47 Across
Dog-show pariah (4 letters)
48 Across
Thespians' org. (4 letters)
50 Across
Modern transportation (10 letters)
55 Across
House extension (3 letters)
57 Across
Official decree (5 letters)
58 Across
Sound around a gridiron (3 letters)
59 Across
Carried supplies by plane (9 letters)
62 Across
Foil von Richthofen (5 letters)
64 Across
Top fighter pilot (3 letters)
65 Across
Author ___ Rogers St. Johns (5 letters)
66 Across
Prefix with rocket (5 letters)
67 Across
The ___ Baron (3 letters)
68 Across
Palindromic title (5 letters)
69 Across
Material for a launching pad (5 letters)

Down

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Bridge of ___, Venice (5 letters)
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Goodbye, in Grenoble (5 letters)
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Holding device (5 letters)
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More frier than flier (3 letters)
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Of small planets like Ceres (10 letters)
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Mental or emotional quirk (6 letters)
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It fell on Chicken Little (5 letters)
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Defective parachute (8 letters)
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Famous mummy (3 letters)
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Williams athletes (4 letters)
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Modern explorer (9 letters)
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Play-gun ammo (3 letters)
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Cousin of a gob (3 letters)
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Original ___ (3 letters)
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Wings (4 letters)
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Organic compound (5 letters)
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Broadway's "6 Rms ___ Vu" (3 letters)
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Double quartet (5 letters)
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Carols (5 letters)
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Tourists (10 letters)
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Small plant orifice (5 letters)
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Irish painter: 1878–1931 (5 letters)
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Returned to Earth's atmosphere (9 letters)
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Roman household deity (3 letters)
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Something to pledge (5 letters)
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Did some sums (8 letters)
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Thy, in Paris (3 letters)
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Help from prompters (4 letters)
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Famed name in road building (6 letters)
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Part of A-O.K. (3 letters)
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Leader of a Cub Scout pack (5 letters)
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Very angry (5 letters)
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Sky pilot (5 letters)
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O.T. nether world (5 letters)
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Writer O'Flaherty (4 letters)
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Longest Swiss river (3 letters)
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Winter wing hazard (3 letters)
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Agcy. controlling narcotics (3 letters)
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War pilot today (3 letters)

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