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Monday, 5th December 1977

There are 35 across clues and 41 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Monday, 5th December 1977. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Sit for a portrait
AAcross 5:	Fuel, in Cork
AAcross 9:	Capital of W. Australia
AAcross 14:	Ellipsoidal
AAcross 15:	"As ___ as a painted ship . . . "
AAcross 16:	C'est ___ (that is to say)	ADIRE
AAcross 17:	"___ M for Murder"
AAcross 18:	Killer: Suffix
AAcross 19:	Body tissues
AAcross 20:	With 54 Across, Ben Jonson line	DRINKTOMEONLY
AAcross 23:	Word with fire or rummage
AAcross 24:	"The Sun Also ___"
AAcross 25:	Tennis winner
AAcross 28:	Fruits resembling crab apples
AAcross 31:	Mail, in Paris	POSTE
AAcross 33:	Former name of Tokyo
AAcross 34:	October birthstone
AAcross 38:	"___ as a cloud": Wordsworth	IWANDEREDLONELY
AAcross 42:	Oversupply
AAcross 43:	Housman, in Shropshire
AAcross 44:	Swiss site of a 1431–1449 council
AAcross 45:	Wailing spirit
AAcross 48:	Gridiron gadget
AAcross 49:	Wild plums
AAcross 52:	___ Major
AAcross 54:	See 20 Across	WITHTHINEEYES
AAcross 59:	Potter's wheel
AAcross 60:	Kind of sax
AAcross 61:	Figure skater's feat
AAcross 63:	Buenos ___	AIRES
AAcross 64:	Encumbrance
AAcross 65:	Put on the payroll
AAcross 66:	Torpid
AAcross 67:	Darnel
AAcross 68:	Ragout
DDown 1:	School of whales
DDown 2:	"Metamorphoses" poet
DDown 3:	Territory in W. Germany	SAAR
DDown 4:	N.Y. island	ELLIS
DDown 5:	Awkward situation
DDown 6:	Polished, as copy
DDown 7:	Ray of movies	ALDO
DDown 8:	Pullulate
DDown 9:	Local dialect
DDown 10:	Anthony and Barbara	EDENS
DDown 11:	Valley on the moon
DDown 12:	Lazy Susans
DDown 13:	Half a bray	HEE
DDown 21:	"A Streetcar ___ Desire"
DDown 22:	Flynn of film fame	ERROL
DDown 25:	___ in a poke	APIG
DDown 26:	Monk's hood
DDown 27:	He sold his birthright
DDown 29:	British university
DDown 30:	Total
DDown 32:	Explosive
DDown 34:	Cape Horn native	ONA
DDown 35:	Sheep ked, e.g.
DDown 36:	On the sheltered side
DDown 37:	Sparky, the relief pitcher	LYLE
DDown 39:	Resiliency: Comb. form	ELAST
DDown 40:	Fled
DDown 41:	Roly-poly
DDown 45:	Command
DDown 46:	Nimrod
DDown 47:	" . . . lightning, which doth cease to be/ ___ can say it lightens": Juliet	EREONE
DDown 49:	Country gallant
DDown 50:	Poisonous Chilean shrub
DDown 51:	Drop the ___ shoe
DDown 53:	Nursemaids, in Calcutta
DDown 55:	Stoppage
DDown 56:	Hip bones
DDown 57:	Stage direction
DDown 58:	Withered
DDown 59:	Chou En-___	LAI
DDown 62:	Actor Ayres

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