Tuesday Crossword — May 2, 1978 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/2/1978. By Herb L. Risteen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Ordered (4)
BADE
5 Across: Desire (5)
CRAVE
10 Across: Pause (4)
REST
14 Across: Comedian King (4)
ALAN
15 Across: Afghan city (5)
HERAT
16 Across: Supermarket purchase (4)
OLEO
17 Across: Popular hymn (15)
HOWGREATTHOUART
20 Across: Not prepared (7)
UNREADY
21 Across: Torn place (4)
RENT
22 Across: Prefix with room (4)
ANTE
23 Across: Part of U.S.L.T.A. (4)
LAWN
25 Across: Bursts of applause (6)
SALVOS
28 Across: Pundit (4)
SAGE
29 Across: Do some freebooting (3)
ROB
32 Across: Great Lakes port (4)
ERIE
33 Across: Kind of bore or wave (5)
TIDAL
34 Across: On ___ (in reserve) (3)
ICE
35 Across: Popular hymn (15)
LEADKINDLYLIGHT
39 Across: Individual (3)
MAN
40 Across: Plant part (5)
OVULE
41 Across: Nick Charles's wife (4)
NORA
42 Across: Hall of Fame botanist, ___ Gray (3)
ASA
43 Across: Tonsure site (4)
PATE
44 Across: Madrid mothers (6)
MADRES
46 Across: Porker pads (4)
PENS
47 Across: Prefix with cycle or sphere (4)
HEMI
48 Across: Sudden start (4)
JERK
50 Across: Marine fish (7)
SEABASS
53 Across: "___ West" (popular hymn) (15)
DAYISDYINGINTHE
57 Across: Concerning (4)
INRE
58 Across: Avian abode (5)
AERIE
59 Across: Liliaceous plant (4)
ALOE
60 Across: Reward, to a poet (4)
MEED
61 Across: Show scorn (5)
SNEER
62 Across: December song (4)
NOEL

Down Answers

1 Down: "___, humbug!" (3)
BAH
2 Down: Baseball name (4)
ALOU
3 Down: Time of day (4)
DAWN
4 Down: Emulated Dürer and Duvet (8)
ENGRAVED
5 Down: Bilks (6)
CHEATS
6 Down: Author of "The Cloister and the Hearth" (5)
READE
7 Down: Bohemian (4)
ARTY
8 Down: Large container (3)
VAT
9 Down: Biblical verb ending (3)
ETH
10 Down: Where Joan of Arc was put to death (5)
ROUEN
11 Down: Dash (4)
ELAN
12 Down: Spanish muralist (4)
SERT
13 Down: Kindergartner (3)
TOT
18 Down: General at Bull Run (4)
RENO
19 Down: He wrote "Animal Farm" (6)
ORWELL
23 Down: Punch bowl dipper (5)
LADLE
24 Down: " . . . I'm ___ deceiver": Colman (4)
AGAY
25 Down: Scene of a 1965 Freedom March (5)
SELMA
26 Down: Regions (5)
AREAS
27 Down: Climbing plant (5)
LIANA
28 Down: Move sideways (5)
SIDLE
29 Down: Strictness (5)
RIGOR
30 Down: Yellowish pigment (5)
OCHRE
31 Down: Followers of alphas (5)
BETAS
33 Down: Partners of T bolts (5)
TNUTS
36 Down: Money in Minsk (6)
KOPEKS
37 Down: Ruthless Russian: 16th century (4)
IVAN
38 Down: Man from Muncie (8)
INDIANAN
44 Down: Scanty (6)
MEAGER
45 Down: Both: Comb. form (4)
AMBI
46 Down: Was meddlesome (5)
PRIED
47 Down: Memorable ice queen (5)
HENIE
48 Down: Great English novel, with 49 Down (4)
JANE
49 Down: See 48 Down (4)
EYRE
50 Down: Father (4)
SIRE
51 Down: Normandy town (4)
STLO
52 Down: Brake part (4)
SHOE
53 Down: Indistinct (3)
DIM
54 Down: "___ Kapital" (3)
DAS
55 Down: Desire (3)
YEN
56 Down: Snakelike fish (3)
EEL

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