Monday Crossword — February 12, 1979 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 2/12/1979. By Tap Osborn.

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Across Answers

1 Across: City NE of Tampa (5)
OCALA
6 Across: Wretched (5)
AWFUL
11 Across: In the year before Christ: Abbr. (3)
AAC
14 Across: Countrified (5)
RURAL
15 Across: Hire (5)
LEASE
16 Across: ___ tree (cornered) (3)
UPA
17 Across: Purebred (15)
BRUSSELSGRIFFON
20 Across: "___ Ideas," 1951 song (4)
IGET
21 Across: Prefix with sol or stat (4)
AERO
22 Across: Purebred (15)
ALASKANMALAMUTE
29 Across: Coddled (6)
BABIED
30 Across: Likeness (5)
IMAGE
31 Across: Word of approval (4)
AMEN
32 Across: Idaho river (5)
SNAKE
33 Across: Nabokov novel (3)
ADA
36 Across: Purebred (15)
BELGIANSHEEPDOG
40 Across: Thirst quencher (3)
ADE
41 Across: Blobs, as of cream (5)
CLOTS
42 Across: Wool: Comb. form (4)
LANI
43 Across: Victor or Henry (5)
MOORE
44 Across: Sewing-machine worker (6)
SEAMER
46 Across: English or Welsh purebred (15)
SPRINGERSPANIEL
50 Across: Many millennia (4)
AEON
51 Across: Vaticinator (4)
SEER
52 Across: Purebred (15)
SCOTTISHTERRIER
60 Across: ___ Salvador (3)
SAN
61 Across: Original first name of playwright Baraka (5)
LEROI
62 Across: Expenditure (5)
OUTGO
63 Across: Chemical suffix (3)
YNE
64 Across: Diadem (5)
CROWN
65 Across: Grand ___, Wyoming peak (5)
TETON

Down Answers

1 Down: Globe (3)
ORB
2 Down: A.K.C. nonmember (3)
CUR
3 Down: Indonesian island group (3)
ARU
4 Down: ___ Cruces, N.M. (3)
LAS
5 Down: European clover (6)
ALSIKE
6 Down: Steve or Woody (5)
ALLEN
7 Down: Annual February headliner (15)
WESTMINSTERSHOW
8 Down: ___ end (last part) (3)
FAG
9 Down: Relative of R.O.T.C. (3)
USR
10 Down: Oahu adornment (3)
LEI
11 Down: Pot-___ (Parisian's meat dish) (5)
AUFEU
12 Down: On the left side of a ship (5)
APORT
13 Down: Creek craft (5)
CANOE
18 Down: Mild oath (4)
EGAD
19 Down: Celebrity's acquirement (4)
FAME
22 Down: Addis ___ (5)
ABABA
23 Down: On crutches (5)
LAMED
24 Down: White poplar (5)
ABELE
25 Down: Tell all to the cops (4)
SING
26 Down: Shanghai sitters (5)
AMAHS
27 Down: Louise or Charles (4)
LAKE
28 Down: "African Queen" scriptwriter (4)
AGEE
32 Down: Nocturnal noise (5)
SNORE
33 Down: "Turandot" librettist, with Simoni (5)
ADAMI
34 Down: Recipient (5)
DONEE
35 Down: "___ Like I," Loos's autobiography (5)
AGIRL
37 Down: Temple figure (4)
ICON
38 Down: Like a bump on ___ (4)
ALOG
39 Down: Project (4)
PLAN
43 Down: Coin (4)
MINT
44 Down: Graf ___ (4)
SPEE
45 Down: Corn disease (6)
EARROT
46 Down: Impertinent (5)
SASSY
47 Down: Tart topper (5)
PECAN
48 Down: TV's Arledge (5)
ROONE
49 Down: Kind of sleeve (5)
SETIN
53 Down: Mothering, for short (3)
TLC
54 Down: Comparative ending (3)
IER
55 Down: Sellout sign (3)
SRO
56 Down: Woody herb (3)
RUE
57 Down: Worldwide utility (3)
ITT
58 Down: Braggart's problem (3)
EGO
59 Down: Cey of L.A. (3)
RON

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