NY TIMES, FRI, OCT 22, 1976 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 10/22/1976. By Sidney L. Robbins.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Mecca native (4)
- ARAB
- 5 Across: Hosses (4)
- NAGS
- 9 Across: Worthless (4)
- BASE
- 13 Across: Japanese ship name (4)
- MARU
- 14 Across: Off balance (4)
- ALOP
- 15 Across: Come up again (5)
- RECUR
- 16 Across: Private eye (9)
- OPERATIVE
- 18 Across: Goofed (5)
- ERRED
- 19 Across: "Peter Piper . . . ," e.g. (13)
- TONGUETWISTER
- 21 Across: Water bird (4)
- TERN
- 22 Across: One of the degrees (3)
- NTH
- 23 Across: Biblical song: Abbr. (3)
- PSA
- 26 Across: ___ Moines (3)
- DES
- 27 Across: High note (3)
- ELA
- 28 Across: Chinese leader (3)
- MAO
- 31 Across: Particles (4)
- IONS
- 33 Across: Detesting (8)
- LOATHING
- 35 Across: "The ___" (stage blooper) (15)
- QUOONHASSWEENED
- 39 Across: Softens (8)
- UNSTEELS
- 40 Across: Upstate N.Y. city (4)
- ROME
- 41 Across: Dutch town (3)
- EDE
- 42 Across: Him, in Italy (3)
- GLI
- 43 Across: Latin goddess (3)
- DEA
- 46 Across: Nessen (3)
- RON
- 47 Across: ___ soda (3)
- SAL
- 48 Across: Trees (4)
- ELMS
- 50 Across: Famed word-warper (13)
- DOCTORSPOONER
- 56 Across: Filament: Prefix (5)
- FIBRO
- 57 Across: Eludes (9)
- SLIPSAWAY
- 59 Across: In noisy confusion (5)
- AROAR
- 60 Across: Sotto ___ (4)
- VOCE
- 61 Across: Plexus (4)
- RETE
- 62 Across: Lends a hand (5)
- HELPS
- 63 Across: Peevish fits (4)
- PETS
- 64 Across: Formerly, of old (4)
- ERST
Down Answers
- 1 Down: I love, to Livy (3)
- AMO
- 2 Down: Engrossed (4)
- RAPT
- 3 Down: Mars: Prefix (4)
- AREO
- 4 Down: Orange or offering (5)
- BURNT
- 5 Down: Mother ___ (6)
- NATURE
- 6 Down: Noncitizens (6)
- ALIENS
- 7 Down: Wash. concern (4)
- GOVT
- 8 Down: Gush out (4)
- SPEW
- 9 Down: Give a wide ___ to (5)
- BERTH
- 10 Down: Land measure (4)
- ACRE
- 11 Down: Plaintiff (4)
- SUER
- 12 Down: Common shrew (3)
- ERD
- 15 Down: Put in another way (7)
- RESTATE
- 17 Down: ___ in the wood (4)
- AGED
- 20 Down: Family addition (5)
- INLAW
- 23 Down: Excite (5)
- PIQUE
- 24 Down: Long Island or Puget (5)
- SOUND
- 25 Down: Win by ___ (5)
- ANOSE
- 27 Down: Dawn goddess (3)
- EOS
- 28 Down: Like clubs or diamonds (5)
- MINOR
- 29 Down: Wind: Prefix (5)
- ANEMO
- 30 Down: Reid or Nash (5)
- OGDEN
- 32 Down: Lush (3)
- SOT
- 33 Down: Sea-rescue branch: Abbr. (3)
- LSS
- 34 Down: Part of H.R.H. (3)
- HER
- 36 Down: Ones who deny (8)
- NEGATORS
- 37 Down: Phone-call opener (5)
- HELLO
- 38 Down: Baba (3)
- ALI
- 43 Down: Portray (6)
- DEPICT
- 44 Down: Goes to Gretna Green (6)
- ELOPES
- 45 Down: Biblical prophet (4)
- AMOS
- 47 Down: Kind of iron or heap (5)
- SCRAP
- 49 Down: Trap (5)
- SNARE
- 50 Down: Kind of straits (4)
- DIRE
- 51 Down: Old Greek coin (4)
- OBOL
- 52 Down: Comeback initials (4)
- RSVP
- 53 Down: Gin source (4)
- SLOE
- 54 Down: Pitcher (4)
- EWER
- 55 Down: Ship stowaways (4)
- RATS
- 56 Down: Temperature scale: Abbr. (3)
- FAH
- 58 Down: Still (3)
- YET
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