Thursday Crossword — February 22, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 2/22/1979. By Maura B. Jacobson.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "A Death in the Family" author (4)
- AGEE
- 5 Across: Bird's crop (4)
- CRAW
- 9 Across: Sickle handles (5)
- HAFTS
- 14 Across: Hoodoo (4)
- JINX
- 15 Across: Winter sight (4)
- RIME
- 16 Across: Love, in Livorno (5)
- AMORE
- 17 Across: Start of a verse (15)
- AVIOLETISNTBLUE
- 20 Across: Wrong color, in this verse (3)
- RED
- 21 Across: Flow slowly through interstices (4)
- OOZE
- 22 Across: Baffle (5)
- ELUDE
- 23 Across: Symbol of sagacity (3)
- OWL
- 24 Across: Is contrite (4)
- RUES
- 25 Across: More of the verse (14)
- PURPLEISITSHUE
- 32 Across: Eared seal (5)
- OTARY
- 33 Across: Splits (5)
- RIVES
- 34 Across: Ribonucleic acid, for short (3)
- RNA
- 36 Across: Roman historian (4)
- LIVY
- 37 Across: Lubrication is his occupation (5)
- OILER
- 38 Across: Gully, in Ghana (4)
- WADI
- 39 Across: Ideal serve (3)
- ACE
- 40 Across: Meditative one (5)
- MUSER
- 41 Across: Madrid mister (5)
- SENOR
- 42 Across: More of the verse (14)
- ANDATEXANKNOWS
- 45 Across: Miseries (4)
- ILLS
- 46 Across: Munch (3)
- EAT
- 47 Across: Reese or Street (5)
- DELLA
- 49 Across: George III's P.M. (4)
- PITT
- 51 Across: Periodontist's concern (3)
- GUM
- 54 Across: End of the verse (15)
- YELLOWISTHEROSE
- 57 Across: Off-center (5)
- ASKEW
- 58 Across: Like the Magi (4)
- WISE
- 59 Across: Between black and Susan (4)
- EYED
- 60 Across: Harbor sights (5)
- PIERS
- 61 Across: Glacial deposits (4)
- OSAR
- 62 Across: Grow dim (4)
- FADE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Partly open (4)
- AJAR
- 2 Down: Be charitable (4)
- GIVE
- 3 Down: Author Bagnold (4)
- ENID
- 4 Down: Outside: Prefix (3)
- EXO
- 5 Down: La. native (6)
- CREOLE
- 6 Down: Harry, Jimmy or Al (4)
- RITZ
- 7 Down: French lady friend (4)
- AMIE
- 8 Down: Unseld of basketball fame (3)
- WES
- 9 Down: Bareheaded (7)
- HATLESS
- 10 Down: Trap of a sort (6)
- AMBUSH
- 11 Down: Prepare a letter for an envelope (4)
- FOLD
- 12 Down: Realign (4)
- TRUE
- 13 Down: Meet the bet (3)
- SEE
- 18 Down: Humble (5)
- LOWLY
- 19 Down: Lacking gender (6)
- NEUTER
- 23 Down: Grand Ole ___ (4)
- OPRY
- 24 Down: Chita or Diego (6)
- RIVERA
- 25 Down: Negri of the silents (4)
- POLA
- 26 Down: City on the Mohawk (5)
- UTICA
- 27 Down: Poe bird (5)
- RAVEN
- 28 Down: Blooms from bulbs (6)
- IRISES
- 29 Down: Glass coffeepot (5)
- SILEX
- 30 Down: Astronomical prefix (5)
- URANO
- 31 Down: Bestow a grant (5)
- ENDOW
- 35 Down: What snobs put on (4)
- AIRS
- 37 Down: Brigand (6)
- OUTLAW
- 38 Down: Departed (4)
- WENT
- 40 Down: Hollyhocks' kin (7)
- MALLOWS
- 41 Down: Use the rink (5)
- SKATE
- 43 Down: Phyllis of comedy (6)
- DILLER
- 44 Down: Lower (6)
- NETHER
- 47 Down: Arnaz (4)
- DESI
- 48 Down: Actress Sommer (4)
- ELKE
- 49 Down: Greek letters (4)
- PSIS
- 50 Down: "___ deal!" (4)
- ITSA
- 51 Down: Prado painting (4)
- GOYA
- 52 Down: Secondhand (4)
- USED
- 53 Down: Ancient Asian (4)
- MEDE
- 54 Down: Shrill bark (3)
- YAP
- 55 Down: ___ Jima (3)
- IWO
- 56 Down: Ump's counterpart (3)
- REF
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