Wednesday Crossword — February 21, 1979

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1576 clues~15-30 minBy Jean J. Davison2/21/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Recipe abbr. (4 letters)
5 Across
Quench (5 letters)
10 Across
High-school dance (4 letters)
14 Across
Hearty guffaw (4 letters)
15 Across
Alfredo in "Traviata" (5 letters)
16 Across
Prefix for plane or dynamics (4 letters)
17 Across
Twain title, with "The" (15 letters)
20 Across
Leaves (7 letters)
21 Across
Usher's milieu (5 letters)
22 Across
Writer Sarah ___ Jewett (4 letters)
23 Across
Inquires (4 letters)
25 Across
"On the Beach" author (5 letters)
27 Across
Competent (4 letters)
28 Across
Gullet (3 letters)
31 Across
Gregg girl (5 letters)
32 Across
Blackthorn (4 letters)
33 Across
Unsullied (4 letters)
34 Across
Twain hero (15 letters)
37 Across
Termini (4 letters)
38 Across
Monster (4 letters)
39 Across
Freethinker, such as Paine (5 letters)
40 Across
Letter before theta (3 letters)
41 Across
Streetcar (4 letters)
42 Across
Inasmuch as (5 letters)
43 Across
Make sound (4 letters)
44 Across
Iamb, e.g. (4 letters)
45 Across
Straggle (5 letters)
48 Across
Piggish (7 letters)
51 Across
Twain hero (15 letters)
55 Across
Tennis ace (4 letters)
56 Across
Extent (5 letters)
57 Across
Destroy (4 letters)
58 Across
Knawel or spurry (4 letters)
59 Across
Badger's relative (5 letters)
60 Across
Plunder (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Prefix for corn or meter (3 letters)
2 Down
Fleming hero (4 letters)
3 Down
Rational (4 letters)
4 Down
Offers (9 letters)
5 Down
Uncle Toby's creator (6 letters)
6 Down
"Festina ___" ("Make haste slowly") (5 letters)
7 Down
Picnic interlopers (4 letters)
8 Down
Hippocrates' birthplace (3 letters)
9 Down
Proposal for the Const. (3 letters)
10 Down
Kidnapper of Menelaus' wife (5 letters)
11 Down
Vintage cars (4 letters)
12 Down
Verbal (4 letters)
13 Down
Fashion (4 letters)
18 Down
Ten packs of cigarettes (6 letters)
19 Down
Use an oven (4 letters)
23 Down
Residence (5 letters)
24 Down
"And Gideon arose, and ___ Zebah . . . ": Judg. 8:21 (4 letters)
25 Down
Dwarf (5 letters)
26 Down
Ibsen heroine (5 letters)
27 Down
Frighten (5 letters)
28 Down
One of the seven arts (5 letters)
29 Down
Originated (5 letters)
30 Down
" . . . when the lights ___ out?" (4 letters)
31 Down
Graf follower (4 letters)
32 Down
"Love Story" author (5 letters)
33 Down
Abundant (9 letters)
35 Down
Israeli dance (4 letters)
36 Down
Anoia (6 letters)
41 Down
Famed archer (4 letters)
42 Down
Brown horse (6 letters)
43 Down
Took a tramp in the woods (5 letters)
44 Down
Valley ___ (5 letters)
45 Down
Unbend (4 letters)
46 Down
Trick (4 letters)
47 Down
Word with head or tooth (4 letters)
48 Down
Confined (4 letters)
49 Down
Boy, in Madrid (4 letters)
50 Down
Within: Comb. form (4 letters)
52 Down
Goof (3 letters)
53 Down
Sheep talk (3 letters)
54 Down
"Thou shalt ___ . . . " (3 letters)

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