NY TIMES, FRI, MAY 14, 1976 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 5/14/1976. By Maura B. Jacobson.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "I never ___ purple cow" (4)
- SAWA
- 5 Across: Verbal rubbish (5)
- BILGE
- 10 Across: Tattle (4)
- TELL
- 14 Across: Sevareid (4)
- ERIC
- 15 Across: Eye parts (5)
- UVEAS
- 16 Across: "Essays of ___" (4)
- ELIA
- 17 Across: Tom (15)
- MASCULINETURKEY
- 20 Across: Encroached (8)
- IMPINGED
- 21 Across: Storks' relatives (6)
- HERONS
- 22 Across: Slave Scott (4)
- DRED
- 23 Across: Fountain order (4)
- COLA
- 24 Across: Go ___ (deteriorate) (6)
- TOSEED
- 27 Across: Russell or Powell (4)
- JANE
- 28 Across: Time initials (3)
- CST
- 31 Across: " . . . live as cheaply ___" (5)
- ASONE
- 32 Across: Indira's robe (4)
- SARI
- 33 Across: Top-notch (4)
- AONE
- 34 Across: Dick (15)
- SCOTLANDYARDMAN
- 37 Across: Does work on a doily (4)
- TATS
- 38 Across: Bishoprics (4)
- SEES
- 39 Across: Dispossess (5)
- EVICT
- 40 Across: After mock or crock (3)
- ERY
- 41 Across: Boer town (4)
- STAD
- 42 Across: Atelier garb (6)
- SMOCKS
- 43 Across: Copied (4)
- APED
- 44 Across: Senate faction (4)
- BLOC
- 45 Across: Better ventilated (6)
- AIRIER
- 48 Across: Tolerable (8)
- BEARABLE
- 52 Across: Harry (15)
- CAUSEIRRITATION
- 54 Across: Actor Jannings (4)
- EMIL
- 55 Across: Ladd film (5)
- SHANE
- 56 Across: Miss Bagnold (4)
- ENID
- 57 Across: Borge, for one (4)
- DANE
- 58 Across: King and Hong (5)
- KONGS
- 59 Across: Cub Scout units (4)
- DENS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Half: Prefix (4)
- SEMI
- 2 Down: Thomas Hood hero (4)
- ARAM
- 3 Down: Fragment (4)
- WISP
- 4 Down: Highway statistics (9)
- ACCIDENTS
- 5 Down: Protruded (6)
- BULGED
- 6 Down: Covered with vines (5)
- IVIED
- 7 Down: ___ a hand (4)
- LEND
- 8 Down: Proceed, Scottish style (3)
- GAE
- 9 Down: Neighbor of Latvia: Var. (8)
- ESTHONIA
- 10 Down: Earth, to Caesar (5)
- TERRA
- 11 Down: Nevada city (4)
- ELKO
- 12 Down: Mortgage (4)
- LIEN
- 13 Down: Minstrel poems (4)
- LAYS
- 18 Down: Let out, as fishline (6)
- UNREEL
- 19 Down: Congo river (4)
- UELE
- 23 Down: Grant et al. (5)
- CARYS
- 24 Down: Discernment (5)
- TASTE
- 25 Down: Hollywood plum (5)
- OSCAR
- 26 Down: Begrimed (5)
- SOOTY
- 27 Down: Blasé (5)
- JADED
- 28 Down: Kind of strip (5)
- COMIC
- 29 Down: Tidbit (5)
- SNACK
- 30 Down: Khayyám products (5)
- TENTS
- 32 Down: Golf V.I.P. (5)
- SNEAD
- 33 Down: Supported (9)
- ADVOCATED
- 35 Down: Reference symbol (8)
- ASTERISK
- 36 Down: Shark passenger (6)
- REMORA
- 41 Down: Graf ___ (4)
- SPEE
- 42 Down: Election lists (6)
- SLATES
- 43 Down: Bride's milieu (5)
- AISLE
- 44 Down: Human or time (5)
- BEING
- 45 Down: Executed a tennis coup (4)
- ACED
- 46 Down: "___ Camera" (4)
- IAMA
- 47 Down: Partner of wrack (4)
- RUIN
- 48 Down: Grain husk (4)
- BRAN
- 49 Down: Spiral stem (4)
- BINE
- 50 Down: Meat cut (4)
- LOIN
- 51 Down: Pass catchers (4)
- ENDS
- 53 Down: After pi (3)
- RHO
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