Saturday Crossword — January 20, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 1/20/1979. By Tap Osborn.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Soil (5)
- EARTH
- 6 Across: This starts a football play (4)
- SNAP
- 10 Across: Imitate Elmer Fudd (4)
- LISP
- 14 Across: Where oboli were spent (5)
- AGORA
- 15 Across: Prefix with type or cast (4)
- TELE
- 16 Across: Peruvian (4)
- INCA
- 17 Across: A time to cheer and a time to weep (15)
- SUPERBOWLSUNDAY
- 20 Across: Essence of good football (8)
- TEAMPLAY
- 21 Across: Roi's spouse (5)
- REINE
- 22 Across: Stadium sound (3)
- BOO
- 23 Across: Become an expatriate (8)
- EMIGRATE
- 26 Across: Former Harvard football coach (6)
- HARLOW
- 29 Across: Party workers (5)
- AIDES
- 30 Across: Unfamiliar (5)
- ALIEN
- 31 Across: Nettled (5)
- IRKED
- 32 Across: Served up (3)
- FED
- 35 Across: Member of the mob (4)
- HOOD
- 36 Across: Hebrew prophet (5)
- HOSEA
- 37 Across: Army eleven's mascot (4)
- MULE
- 38 Across: Condominium: Abbr. (3)
- APT
- 39 Across: Punters' aids or hindrances (5)
- WINDS
- 40 Across: Whammy (5)
- CURSE
- 41 Across: Girl for Igor (5)
- SONIA
- 42 Across: Sadat's predecessor (6)
- NASSER
- 43 Across: Usual time for varsity football (8)
- SATURDAY
- 46 Across: Curvature (3)
- ARC
- 47 Across: Seed cases (5)
- ARILS
- 48 Across: Cheerleaders' exhortation (8)
- GOTEAMGO
- 53 Across: Shrine Bowl players (15)
- COLLEGEALLSTARS
- 56 Across: Tease (4)
- RIDE
- 57 Across: Roper (4)
- ELMO
- 58 Across: French law body (5)
- SENAT
- 59 Across: South Yemen's capital (4)
- ADEN
- 60 Across: Stadium section (4)
- TIER
- 61 Across: Smyrna fig (5)
- ELEME
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Football team (see 53 Across) (4)
- EAST
- 2 Down: Malarial illness (4)
- AGUE
- 3 Down: Clothes, to José (4)
- ROPA
- 4 Down: Shook (8)
- TREMBLED
- 5 Down: Weapon for Ahab (7)
- HARPOON
- 6 Down: Colonnade (4)
- STOA
- 7 Down: College football culmination (15)
- NEWYEARSDAYGAME
- 8 Down: ___-American (3)
- ALL
- 9 Down: Foot part (3)
- PES
- 10 Down: Sea vessels (6)
- LINERS
- 11 Down: Setting for a Forster novel (5)
- INDIA
- 12 Down: Slight (5)
- SCANT
- 13 Down: Person named on a check (5)
- PAYEE
- 18 Down: Use a whistle (4)
- BLOW
- 19 Down: Prompted (5)
- URGED
- 24 Down: Equipment for announcers (5)
- MIKES
- 25 Down: Notion (4)
- IDEA
- 26 Down: Derisive sound (4)
- HAHA
- 27 Down: Cockeyed (4)
- ALOP
- 28 Down: Insurrection (4)
- RIOT
- 31 Down: Part of ancient Greece (5)
- IONIA
- 32 Down: Baum martens (4)
- FURS
- 33 Down: Or follower (4)
- ELSE
- 34 Down: Animal resembling a chevrotain (4)
- DEER
- 36 Down: Hart's mate (4)
- HIND
- 37 Down: Dessert wine (8)
- MUSCATEL
- 39 Down: "No ___ for the wear" (5)
- WORSE
- 40 Down: Endearment: Fr. (7)
- CARESSE
- 41 Down: Saturnine (6)
- SULLEN
- 42 Down: Part of N.F.L. (4)
- NATL
- 43 Down: Spinal-column sections (5)
- SACRA
- 44 Down: Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g. (5)
- AROID
- 45 Down: Mark used in logic (5)
- TILDE
- 49 Down: Swan genus (4)
- OLOR
- 50 Down: Long hair (4)
- MANE
- 51 Down: Metric weight (4)
- GRAM
- 52 Down: Bone: Comb. form (4)
- OSTE
- 54 Down: Grasp (3)
- GET
- 55 Down: Larry Kelly was one (3)
- ELI
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