Monday Crossword — December 25, 1978 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 12/25/1978. By C. J. Angio.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Wassail quaffs (4)
- ALES
- 5 Across: "Bugs" or Max (4)
- BAER
- 9 Across: Cuban cat (4)
- GATO
- 13 Across: Quantity of cookies (5)
- BATCH
- 15 Across: "God's Little ___" (4)
- ACRE
- 16 Across: Soprano Grist (4)
- RERI
- 17 Across: Dickens classic (15)
- ACHRISTMASCAROL
- 20 Across: Give confidence to (6)
- ASSURE
- 21 Across: " . . . One that inhabiteth ___": Isa. 57:15 (8)
- ETERNITY
- 22 Across: Titanic sinker (4)
- BERG
- 24 Across: United (4)
- ONED
- 25 Across: "Worm of the Nile" (3)
- ASP
- 28 Across: Vichy trial town (4)
- RIOM
- 30 Across: Sonoran's hot snack (6)
- TAMALE
- 34 Across: Sounds from pom-pom girls (4)
- RAHS
- 36 Across: Promote (4)
- ABET
- 38 Across: Mount Vernon or Monticello (5)
- MANOR
- 39 Across: Actor who played 62 Across (15)
- LIONELBARRYMORE
- 42 Across: Insect: Comb. form (5)
- ENTOM
- 43 Across: Synthetic spread (4)
- OLEO
- 44 Across: Guinness (4)
- ALEC
- 45 Across: Harriet Beecher's in-laws (6)
- STOWES
- 47 Across: Hindu relative of Pluto (4)
- YAMA
- 49 Across: A.F.B. in Colorado (3)
- ENT
- 50 Across: Jane Fonda's Oscar-winning role in "Klute" (4)
- BREE
- 52 Across: Keep ___ on (4)
- TABS
- 54 Across: Inundating (8)
- DELUGING
- 58 Across: Heraclitus was one (6)
- IONIAN
- 62 Across: Marley's surviving partner (15)
- EBENEZERSCROOGE
- 64 Across: Cattle feed (4)
- BRAN
- 65 Across: Give out (4)
- EMIT
- 66 Across: Man of "sound mind" (5)
- TUNER
- 67 Across: Bennett or Martin (4)
- TONY
- 68 Across: "Auld Lang ___" (4)
- SYNE
- 69 Across: Polynesian's food (4)
- TARO
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Rhyme scheme (4)
- ABAA
- 2 Down: Resinous substances (4)
- LACS
- 3 Down: Suffixes for ordinal numbers (4)
- ETHS
- 4 Down: Stunted tree (5)
- SCRUB
- 5 Down: Night flier (3)
- BAT
- 6 Down: Zenith (4)
- ACME
- 7 Down: Muse with a lyre (5)
- ERATO
- 8 Down: Take umbrage (6)
- RESENT
- 9 Down: Family member (9)
- GRANDMAMA
- 10 Down: Air: Comb. form (4)
- AERI
- 11 Down: Turkey ___ (4)
- TROT
- 12 Down: Like mechanics' hands (4)
- OILY
- 14 Down: Personnel chief (5)
- HIRER
- 18 Down: "The Pickwick Papers," originally (6)
- SERIAL
- 19 Down: Luscious (6)
- CREAMY
- 23 Down: Clown in "The Merchant of Venice" (5)
- GOBBO
- 25 Down: Van Gogh painted here (5)
- ARLES
- 26 Down: Mary or Joseph (5)
- SAINT
- 27 Down: Souvenir of a family gathering (5)
- PHOTO
- 29 Down: Farinaceous (5)
- MEALY
- 31 Down: Lizard (5)
- ANOLE
- 32 Down: Ponti's spouse (5)
- LOREN
- 33 Down: Rear (5)
- ERECT
- 35 Down: Neophyte on the slopes (9)
- SNOWBUNNY
- 37 Down: Festive dinner, e.g. (5)
- TREAT
- 40 Down: Leave a labyrinth (6)
- EMERGE
- 41 Down: Of modern Greece (6)
- ROMAIC
- 46 Down: Nabs (6)
- SEIZES
- 48 Down: Stop a space mission (5)
- ABORT
- 51 Down: Herod, to the Jewish leaders (5)
- ENEMY
- 53 Down: Feature that gave a Schnauzer its name (5)
- SNOUT
- 54 Down: I.o.u. cause (4)
- DEBT
- 55 Down: Longest river entirely in Spain (4)
- EBRO
- 56 Down: Sprat's diet (4)
- LEAN
- 57 Down: One way to "bear it" (4)
- GRIN
- 59 Down: One of the Inner Hebrides (4)
- IONA
- 60 Down: Dyeing apparatus (4)
- AGER
- 61 Down: Wolfe of whodunits (4)
- NERO
- 63 Down: Sault ___ Marie (3)
- STE
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