NY TIMES, FRI, MAR 26, 1976 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 3/26/1976. By George Madrid.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Comedian Bert (4)
LAHR
5 Across: Settled a debt (6)
PAIDUP
11 Across: ___ the deck (3)
HIT
14 Across: Spread (4)
OLEO
15 Across: Obscure (6)
ARCANE
16 Across: Holiday time (3)
EVE
17 Across: Start of a gourmand's cop-out (11)
TISBETTERTO
19 Across: Careless (3)
LAX
20 Across: Constant (6)
STABLE
21 Across: Pain (7)
TORMENT
23 Across: Tin and rabbit (4)
EARS
25 Across: Actor Hunter (3)
IAN
26 Across: More of quote (14)
BURPANDBEARTHE
33 Across: Chair and Street (5)
EASYS
34 Across: Shoe widths (4)
AAAS
35 Across: Spoil (3)
ROT
36 Across: Prior to (3)
ERE
37 Across: Suffer humiliation (7)
EATCROW
40 Across: Sheep (3)
EWE
41 Across: British version of inc. (3)
LTD
42 Across: Resound (4)
ECHO
43 Across: Reminders (5)
HINTS
45 Across: More of quote (14)
SHAMETHANNOTTO
49 Across: Charged atom (3)
ION
50 Across: Seven ___ (4)
SEAS
51 Across: More of quote (7)
BURPAND
55 Across: Independence name (6)
TRUMAN
59 Across: Math course (3)
ALG
60 Across: End of quote (11)
BEARTHEPAIN
63 Across: Wildebeest (3)
GNU
64 Across: Poe maiden (6)
LENORE
65 Across: Current (4)
TIDE
66 Across: ___ Remo (3)
SAN
67 Across: More anxious (6)
EDGIER
68 Across: Bills (4)
ONES

Down Answers

1 Down: Great many (4)
LOTS
2 Down: Noticed by chance (4)
ALIT
3 Down: "For ___ jolly good . . . " (4)
HESA
4 Down: What a fair exchange isn't (7)
ROBBERY
5 Down: Old Roman cup (6)
PATERA
6 Down: Dance or music, e.g. (3)
ART
7 Down: Drink addition (3)
ICE
8 Down: Pub-game item (4)
DART
9 Down: "Do ___ others . . . " (4)
UNTO
10 Down: "But will it play in ___?" (6)
PEORIA
11 Down: Radio soap-opera heroine (10)
HELENTRENT
12 Down: Russian czar (4)
IVAN
13 Down: Subject (4)
TEXT
18 Down: Slip by (6)
ELAPSE
22 Down: Month: Abbr. (3)
MAR
24 Down: Grab (6)
SNATCH
26 Down: Swiss theologian (5)
BARTH
27 Down: Child's offering for a swap (10)
USEDAIRGUN
28 Down: Russian villa (5)
DACHA
29 Down: Münchhausen et al. (6)
BARONS
30 Down: Inner: Prefix (3)
ESO
31 Down: "___ Succeed in Business . . . " (5)
HOWTO
32 Down: Seasons, in Nice (4)
ETES
33 Down: Morays (4)
EELS
38 Down: At the age of: Abbr. (3)
AET
39 Down: "We ___ about to die . . . " (6)
WHOARE
44 Down: "___ you" (your option) (7)
ITSUPTO
46 Down: Cleaner's tool (3)
MOP
47 Down: Authorize (6)
ENABLE
48 Down: Infernal (6)
NETHER
51 Down: Bean and feed (4)
BAGS
52 Down: Arm bone (4)
ULNA
53 Down: Require (4)
NEED
54 Down: Mild oath (4)
DANG
56 Down: Leading (4)
MAIN
57 Down: Helper (4)
AIDE
58 Down: Compass points (4)
NNES
61 Down: French monarch (3)
ROI
62 Down: Three, in Milan (3)
TRE

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