Tuesday Crossword — June 6, 1978 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 6/6/1978. By Herb L. Risteen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Asian desert (4)
GOBI
5 Across: Fabric with a tartan pattern (5)
PLAID
10 Across: Transport (4)
SHIP
14 Across: Inky (4)
EBON
15 Across: Weight unit (5)
OUNCE
16 Across: Berlin product (4)
TUNE
17 Across: Home of the Cornhuskers (15)
LINCOLNNEBRASKA
20 Across: Soapstone (8)
STEATITE
21 Across: Tooth toters (4)
ELKS
22 Across: Pronoun (3)
ITS
23 Across: Routine writer (4)
HACK
25 Across: Savonarola's alleged offense (6)
HERESY
29 Across: Truman's favorite animal (4)
MULE
30 Across: Novak or Hunter (3)
KIM
33 Across: Tract (4)
AREA
34 Across: Stupors (5)
COMAS
35 Across: Purse item (3)
ONE
36 Across: City surrounded by a great natural-gas field (15)
MONROELOUISIANA
40 Across: Hoosier fabulist (3)
ADE
41 Across: Moderately pungent plant (5)
CRESS
42 Across: Vehicle parked at an igloo (4)
SLED
43 Across: ___ Delhi (3)
NEW
44 Across: Hyde was its first president (4)
EIRE
45 Across: Blotches (6)
SMEARS
47 Across: A.E.F. man (4)
YANK
48 Across: Arch (3)
SLY
49 Across: Hawthorne subject (4)
FAUN
51 Across: Luggage item (8)
SUITCASE
56 Across: G.O.P. birthplace: 1854 (15)
JACKSONMICHIGAN
59 Across: Roman emperor (4)
OTHO
60 Across: What Trollope did (5)
WROTE
61 Across: Barcelona bull (4)
TORO
62 Across: Homophone for bin (4)
BEEN
63 Across: Tavern order (5)
LAGER
64 Across: Hecklers' missiles (4)
EGGS

Down Answers

1 Down: Coagulates (4)
GELS
2 Down: Newspaper notice (4)
OBIT
3 Down: Costa or maxilla (4)
BONE
4 Down: Pizarro's victim (4)
INCA
5 Down: Form of government (6)
POLITY
6 Down: Famed thespian duo (5)
LUNTS
7 Down: Last Stuart ruler (4)
ANNE
8 Down: Kind of age or bag (3)
ICE
9 Down: Society-page girl (3)
DEB
10 Down: What some hunters do (5)
STALK
11 Down: Outer covering (4)
HUSK
12 Down: Printery supplies (4)
INKS
13 Down: ___ soup (3)
PEA
18 Down: Patriot of '76 (4)
OTIS
19 Down: Sinus (6)
RECESS
23 Down: Gardeners need "a sense of ___" (5)
HUMUS
24 Down: Jai ___ (4)
ALAI
25 Down: Plotter exposed by Esther (5)
HAMAN
26 Down: Break down bit by bit (5)
ERODE
27 Down: Give fresh vigor to (5)
RENEW
28 Down: Attention (3)
EAR
29 Down: Fraternal order (5)
MOOSE
30 Down: Australian marsupial (5)
KOALA
31 Down: Secret (5)
INNER
32 Down: Alcoholic drinks (5)
MEADS
34 Down: Supermarket worker (5)
CLERK
37 Down: Vast amounts (6)
OCEANS
38 Down: "___ go bragh" (4)
ERIN
39 Down: Verb suffix, British style (3)
ISE
45 Down: Deli device (6)
SLICER
46 Down: Invented story (4)
MYTH
47 Down: Region in Robert W. Service's poems (5)
YUKON
48 Down: Set of furniture (5)
SUITE
49 Down: Kismet (4)
FATE
50 Down: Yearn (4)
ACHE
51 Down: Urban problem (4)
SMOG
52 Down: Quote (4)
CITE
53 Down: Excited (4)
AGOG
54 Down: Marionette man (4)
SARG
55 Down: Son of Seth (4)
ENOS
56 Down: Something needed by millions of Americans (3)
JOB
57 Down: Boobook of Australia (3)
OWL
58 Down: F.D.R. agency (3)
NRA

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