Thursday Crossword — February 15, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 2/15/1979. By Whitworth.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Grate (4)
- RASP
- 5 Across: Greenhouse plant (5)
- CALLA
- 10 Across: Famed N.Y.C. street (4)
- MOTT
- 14 Across: Ending meaning "little one" (4)
- ELLA
- 15 Across: Grotto nymph (5)
- OREAD
- 16 Across: Reverberate (4)
- ECHO
- 17 Across: Place to give a rap (4)
- DOOR
- 18 Across: "___ yon crimson tree": Bryant (5)
- NEATH
- 19 Across: Cauterize (4)
- SEAR
- 20 Across: Leisters (6)
- SPEARS
- 22 Across: Dish sometimes served under glass (8)
- PHEASANT
- 24 Across: Rod Carew's weapon (3)
- BAT
- 25 Across: Kin of minks (7)
- ERMINES
- 26 Across: Ravage (8)
- SPOLIATE
- 31 Across: Long, indefinite period (3)
- EON
- 32 Across: Aster or peony (9)
- PERENNIAL
- 34 Across: Postponed going to bed (5)
- SATUP
- 38 Across: "Like Niobe, ___ tears": Hamlet (3)
- ALL
- 39 Across: Playing card for a seer (5)
- TAROT
- 41 Across: Collection (3)
- ANA
- 42 Across: Man has 32 (5)
- TEETH
- 45 Across: College official (9)
- REGISTRAR
- 48 Across: Be repentant (3)
- RUE
- 50 Across: Showing good manners and taste (8)
- DECOROUS
- 51 Across: Gives out homework (7)
- ASSIGNS
- 55 Across: Nepalese native (3)
- KHA
- 56 Across: Will property (8)
- BEQUEATH
- 58 Across: Fall forward (6)
- TOPPLE
- 62 Across: Astringent (4)
- ALUM
- 63 Across: Formula for beliefs (5)
- CREDO
- 65 Across: Ardor (4)
- ELAN
- 66 Across: Rebuff (4)
- SLAP
- 67 Across: Poisonous (5)
- TOXIC
- 68 Across: Cipher (4)
- ZERO
- 69 Across: Estonian (4)
- ESTH
- 70 Across: Paddle (5)
- SPANK
- 71 Across: Engineer for whom a St. Louis bridge was named (4)
- EADS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Morgan, Foster et al. (4)
- REDS
- 2 Down: Like Pisa's tower (4)
- ALOP
- 3 Down: Shrub with a sour fruit (4)
- SLOE
- 4 Down: Short allegorical tale (7)
- PARABLE
- 5 Down: Not changing (8)
- CONSTANT
- 6 Down: "Lafayette, we ___ here" (3)
- ARE
- 7 Down: Caper (4)
- LEAP
- 8 Down: Shaping tool (5)
- LATHE
- 9 Down: Stick (6)
- ADHERE
- 10 Down: Scene of Nazis' last stand in Sicily (7)
- MESSINA
- 11 Down: Great quantity (5)
- OCEAN
- 12 Down: Man in the van of a clan (5)
- THANE
- 13 Down: Civil wrongs (5)
- TORTS
- 21 Down: Play based on a Maugham story (4)
- RAIN
- 23 Down: Shepherd prophet (4)
- AMOS
- 26 Down: Honeymoon spoiler (4)
- SPAT
- 27 Down: Former Cosmo (4)
- PELE
- 28 Down: Shield border (4)
- ORLE
- 29 Down: Crown: Poetic (4)
- TIAR
- 30 Down: Auriculate (5)
- EARED
- 33 Down: Theater section (4)
- LOGE
- 35 Down: Polynesian staple (4)
- TARO
- 36 Down: Tropical sloth (4)
- UNAU
- 37 Down: So-so scores for Gary Player (4)
- PARS
- 40 Down: Music to a horologist's ears (8)
- TICKTOCK
- 43 Down: Earn a laurel wreath (7)
- TRIUMPH
- 44 Down: Like the Colosseum (4)
- HUGE
- 46 Down: Where Karl Marx once lived (4)
- SOHO
- 47 Down: Spot for a certain artist (7)
- TRAPEZE
- 49 Down: Legislates (6)
- ENACTS
- 51 Down: Humble (5)
- ABASE
- 52 Down: Peddles (5)
- SELLS
- 53 Down: Crouch (5)
- SQUAT
- 54 Down: Sharpen a razor (5)
- STROP
- 57 Down: Six: Comb. form (4)
- HEXA
- 59 Down: Entreaty (4)
- PLEA
- 60 Down: Fat (4)
- LARD
- 61 Down: Seth's son (4)
- ENOS
- 64 Down: Uproar (3)
- DIN
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