Wednesday Crossword — February 21, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 2/21/1979. By Jean J. Davison.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Recipe abbr. (4)
- TBSP
- 5 Across: Quench (5)
- SLAKE
- 10 Across: High-school dance (4)
- PROM
- 14 Across: Hearty guffaw (4)
- ROAR
- 15 Across: Alfredo in "Traviata" (5)
- TENOR
- 16 Across: Prefix for plane or dynamics (4)
- AERO
- 17 Across: Twain title, with "The" (15)
- INNOCENTSABROAD
- 20 Across: Leaves (7)
- DEPARTS
- 21 Across: Usher's milieu (5)
- AISLE
- 22 Across: Writer Sarah ___ Jewett (4)
- ORNE
- 23 Across: Inquires (4)
- ASKS
- 25 Across: "On the Beach" author (5)
- SHUTE
- 27 Across: Competent (4)
- ABLE
- 28 Across: Gullet (3)
- MAW
- 31 Across: Gregg girl (5)
- STENO
- 32 Across: Blackthorn (4)
- SLOE
- 33 Across: Unsullied (4)
- PURE
- 34 Across: Twain hero (15)
- PUDDNHEADWILSON
- 37 Across: Termini (4)
- ENDS
- 38 Across: Monster (4)
- OGRE
- 39 Across: Freethinker, such as Paine (5)
- DEIST
- 40 Across: Letter before theta (3)
- ETA
- 41 Across: Streetcar (4)
- TRAM
- 42 Across: Inasmuch as (5)
- SINCE
- 43 Across: Make sound (4)
- HEAL
- 44 Across: Iamb, e.g. (4)
- FOOT
- 45 Across: Straggle (5)
- TRAIL
- 48 Across: Piggish (7)
- PORCINE
- 51 Across: Twain hero (15)
- HUCKLEBERRYFINN
- 55 Across: Tennis ace (4)
- ASHE
- 56 Across: Extent (5)
- RANGE
- 57 Across: Destroy (4)
- UNDO
- 58 Across: Knawel or spurry (4)
- WEED
- 59 Across: Badger's relative (5)
- RATEL
- 60 Across: Plunder (4)
- LOOT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Prefix for corn or meter (3)
- TRI
- 2 Down: Fleming hero (4)
- BOND
- 3 Down: Rational (4)
- SANE
- 4 Down: Offers (9)
- PROPOUNDS
- 5 Down: Uncle Toby's creator (6)
- STERNE
- 6 Down: "Festina ___" ("Make haste slowly") (5)
- LENTE
- 7 Down: Picnic interlopers (4)
- ANTS
- 8 Down: Hippocrates' birthplace (3)
- KOS
- 9 Down: Proposal for the Const. (3)
- ERA
- 10 Down: Kidnapper of Menelaus' wife (5)
- PARIS
- 11 Down: Vintage cars (4)
- REOS
- 12 Down: Verbal (4)
- ORAL
- 13 Down: Fashion (4)
- MODE
- 18 Down: Ten packs of cigarettes (6)
- CARTON
- 19 Down: Use an oven (4)
- BAKE
- 23 Down: Residence (5)
- ABODE
- 24 Down: "And Gideon arose, and ___ Zebah . . . ": Judg. 8:21 (4)
- SLEW
- 25 Down: Dwarf (5)
- STUNT
- 26 Down: Ibsen heroine (5)
- HEDDA
- 27 Down: Frighten (5)
- ALARM
- 28 Down: One of the seven arts (5)
- MUSIC
- 29 Down: Originated (5)
- AROSE
- 30 Down: " . . . when the lights ___ out?" (4)
- WENT
- 31 Down: Graf follower (4)
- SPEE
- 32 Down: "Love Story" author (5)
- SEGAL
- 33 Down: Abundant (9)
- PLENTIFUL
- 35 Down: Israeli dance (4)
- HORA
- 36 Down: Anoia (6)
- IDIOCY
- 41 Down: Famed archer (4)
- TELL
- 42 Down: Brown horse (6)
- SORREL
- 43 Down: Took a tramp in the woods (5)
- HIKED
- 44 Down: Valley ___ (5)
- FORGE
- 45 Down: Unbend (4)
- THAW
- 46 Down: Trick (4)
- RUSE
- 47 Down: Word with head or tooth (4)
- ACHE
- 48 Down: Confined (4)
- PENT
- 49 Down: Boy, in Madrid (4)
- NINO
- 50 Down: Within: Comb. form (4)
- ENDO
- 52 Down: Goof (3)
- ERR
- 53 Down: Sheep talk (3)
- BAA
- 54 Down: "Thou shalt ___ . . . " (3)
- NOT
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