Tuesday Crossword — December 5, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 12/5/1978. By Herb L. Risteen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Aspect (4)
- SIDE
- 5 Across: Small valley (4)
- GLEN
- 9 Across: Heater (3)
- GAT
- 12 Across: False god (4)
- IDOL
- 13 Across: City in southern Illinois (5)
- CAIRO
- 14 Across: Smarting (4)
- SORE
- 15 Across: Whimper (4)
- MEWL
- 16 Across: One of the Robins (5)
- ADAIR
- 17 Across: Letter before kappa (4)
- IOTA
- 18 Across: Loses one's head (6)
- PANICS
- 20 Across: Orders back (7)
- REMANDS
- 22 Across: "Pony Boy" composer (5)
- HEATH
- 24 Across: Isaac's mother (5)
- SARAH
- 25 Across: Even score (3)
- TIE
- 27 Across: Increased by (4)
- PLUS
- 29 Across: Capacity units in Europe (6)
- LITERS
- 32 Across: Novelist Levin (3)
- IRA
- 33 Across: Allegro, e.g. (5)
- TEMPO
- 35 Across: Exhaust (5)
- DRAIN
- 36 Across: Chuck-will's-widow, for one (4)
- BIRD
- 38 Across: Paul's companion (5)
- SILAS
- 40 Across: Ancient ship (4)
- ARGO
- 41 Across: Bar, at the bar (5)
- ESTOP
- 43 Across: Singles' concern (5)
- DATES
- 45 Across: Rock pinnacle (3)
- TOR
- 46 Across: Frank Norris novel (6)
- THEPIT
- 48 Across: Greenwing (4)
- TEAL
- 49 Across: Sooner than (3)
- ERE
- 50 Across: Eating place (5)
- DINER
- 52 Across: Grassy place (5)
- SWARD
- 54 Across: Showed contempt (7)
- SNEERED
- 56 Across: He makes reparation (6)
- ATONER
- 59 Across: Competes (4)
- VIES
- 60 Across: Parking space (5)
- STALL
- 62 Across: Señorita's kiss (4)
- BESO
- 63 Across: Bridge seat (4)
- EAST
- 64 Across: Actor Flynn (5)
- ERROL
- 65 Across: Peak under a peak (4)
- OSSA
- 66 Across: German river (3)
- EMS
- 67 Across: Newspaper section (4)
- ROTO
- 68 Across: Potentate of the past (4)
- TSAR
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Blockhead (4)
- SIMP
- 2 Down: Thought (4)
- IDEA
- 3 Down: Dejection (15)
- DOWNHEARTEDNESS
- 4 Down: ___ May, in "Tobacco Road" (5)
- ELLIE
- 5 Down: Move restlessly (3)
- GAD
- 6 Down: Falsifier (4)
- LIAR
- 7 Down: Eastern Indians (5)
- ERIES
- 8 Down: Sane (6)
- NORMAL
- 9 Down: Kindly generosity (15)
- GOODHEARTEDNESS
- 10 Down: Wiles (4)
- ARTS
- 11 Down: Sri Lanka export (3)
- TEA
- 13 Down: Makes a chess play (7)
- CASTLES
- 14 Down: "Ol' Blue Eyes" (7)
- SINATRA
- 19 Down: Hook or Cook: Abbr. (4)
- CAPT
- 21 Down: Like the Mojave (4)
- ARID
- 23 Down: Summer forecast (5)
- HUMID
- 25 Down: World's highest land (5)
- TIBET
- 26 Down: European sea (5)
- IRISH
- 28 Down: Chair part (5)
- SPLAT
- 30 Down: Strictness (5)
- RIGOR
- 31 Down: Bedroom sound (5)
- SNORE
- 34 Down: She wrote "Night-Side": 1977 (5)
- OATES
- 37 Down: Most bemused (7)
- DOPIEST
- 39 Down: Embankment (7)
- SEAWALL
- 42 Down: A source of resin (4)
- PINE
- 44 Down: Wood strip (4)
- SLAT
- 47 Down: More succinct (6)
- TERSER
- 51 Down: Kind of rocket (5)
- RETRO
- 53 Down: Capek character (5)
- ROBOT
- 54 Down: Where Rama I ruled (4)
- SIAM
- 55 Down: Go swiftly (4)
- DART
- 57 Down: U.S. satellite (4)
- ESSA
- 58 Down: Leonine lament (4)
- ROAR
- 59 Down: Double u's predecessor (3)
- VEE
- 61 Down: Card game of ancient origin (3)
- LOO
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