Friday Crossword — December 8, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 12/8/1978. By Sara V. Tuckerman.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: She wrote "With Shuddering Fall" (5)
- OATES
- 6 Across: Hacienda room (4)
- SALA
- 10 Across: Keep ___ (persevere) (4)
- ATIT
- 14 Across: Emergency currency (5)
- SCRIP
- 15 Across: Moslem prayer leader (4)
- IMAM
- 16 Across: Out of line (4)
- AWRY
- 17 Across: City in Tuscany (5)
- SIENA
- 18 Across: Having no equal (9)
- NONPAREIL
- 20 Across: Actress Rehan (3)
- ADA
- 21 Across: Roman historian (7)
- TACITUS
- 23 Across: Chemical suffix (3)
- ENE
- 24 Across: Consommé (5)
- SOUPE
- 26 Across: Namath, once (7)
- ALLSTAR
- 28 Across: Contestant at Henley (7)
- SCULLER
- 30 Across: ___ tide (4)
- NEAP
- 31 Across: Heart-shaped (7)
- CORDATE
- 32 Across: Appearances (7)
- ASPECTS
- 36 Across: Bauxite and siderite (4)
- ORES
- 37 Across: Thalia's sister (4)
- CLIO
- 38 Across: Group employed by a vintner (7)
- TASTERS
- 42 Across: "For men must ___ women must weep": Kingsley (7)
- WORKAND
- 45 Across: Susa was its capital (4)
- ELAM
- 46 Across: Diva's song (7)
- ARIETTA
- 47 Across: Mother ___, first U.S. citizen to be canonized (7)
- CABRINI
- 50 Across: African plain (5)
- VELDT
- 51 Across: Upward: Prefix (3)
- ANA
- 52 Across: Edith or Osbert (7)
- SITWELL
- 54 Across: Finial (3)
- EPI
- 57 Across: Nonconformist (9)
- DISSENTER
- 59 Across: Auriculate (5)
- EARED
- 61 Across: Kazan (4)
- ELIA
- 62 Across: River duck (4)
- TEAL
- 63 Across: Relative of 'twas (5)
- TWERE
- 64 Across: Big top (4)
- TENT
- 65 Across: "___ a Rose," 1925 song (4)
- ONLY
- 66 Across: Stonecrop (5)
- SEDUM
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Peak in Thessaly (4)
- OSSA
- 2 Down: Tart (4)
- ACID
- 3 Down: Holds dear (9)
- TREASURES
- 4 Down: German article (3)
- EIN
- 5 Down: Kitchen implement (7)
- SPATULA
- 6 Down: Wholehearted (7)
- SINCERE
- 7 Down: Mine, in Marseilles (4)
- AMOI
- 8 Down: Red sage (7)
- LANTANA
- 9 Down: Sealed vials for hypodermics (7)
- AMPULES
- 10 Down: Bern's river (3)
- AAR
- 11 Down: Aviary sound (5)
- TWEET
- 12 Down: Role in Chekhov's "The Seagull" (5)
- IRINA
- 13 Down: Tenth U.S. President (5)
- TYLER
- 19 Down: ___ in the face (sharp rebuke) (5)
- ASLAP
- 22 Down: Egyptian maternity goddess (4)
- APET
- 25 Down: Graybeard (7)
- OLDSTER
- 27 Down: Spotted (7)
- SPECKED
- 28 Down: Man from Dundee (4)
- SCOT
- 29 Down: Uncas's love (4)
- CORA
- 33 Down: Rattled (9)
- CLATTERED
- 34 Down: Color (4)
- TINT
- 35 Down: Kind of pop or cracker (4)
- SODA
- 39 Down: "Für ___," Beethoven piece (5)
- ELISE
- 40 Down: Encountered (7)
- RANINTO
- 41 Down: Captivated (7)
- SMITTEN
- 42 Down: City in NE Iowa (7)
- WAVERLY
- 43 Down: U.S.S.R. livestock market (4)
- OREL
- 44 Down: Small streams (7)
- RILLETS
- 47 Down: U.S.M.A. man (5)
- CADET
- 48 Down: Doddering (5)
- ANILE
- 49 Down: Landlocked harbor (5)
- BASIN
- 53 Down: Stripe made by a whip (4)
- WEAL
- 55 Down: Cuzco's country (4)
- PERU
- 56 Down: The same: Lat. (4)
- IDEM
- 58 Down: Rested (3)
- SAT
- 60 Down: Reverence (3)
- AWE
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