Monday Crossword — March 5, 1979 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 3/5/1979. By Finch.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Donner, ___ in Calif. (4)
PASS
5 Across: Ballet conclusion (4)
CODA
9 Across: Former Air Force general (5)
LEMAY
14 Across: What "video" means (4)
ISEE
15 Across: One of the Cartwrights (4)
ADAM
16 Across: "What's in ___?" (5)
ANAME
17 Across: Vehicle important in the opening of the West (15)
THECOVEREDWAGON
20 Across: Unfinished poem by Keats (8)
HYPERION
21 Across: Price of too much worry and hurry (5)
ULCER
22 Across: Inge or Swift (4)
DEAN
23 Across: Vex or become vexed (4)
FRET
24 Across: Pipe (5)
BRIAR
26 Across: Printing-plant employee (8)
PRESSMAN
30 Across: Tendency (5)
TREND
31 Across: Irritable (5)
CROSS
32 Across: "___ atque vale" (3)
AVE
33 Across: Milieu of the Manassa Mauler (4)
RING
34 Across: Blessings on the plains (5)
RAINS
35 Across: Showdown command (4)
DRAW
36 Across: Like every other number (3)
ODD
37 Across: Hat for a Basque (5)
BERET
38 Across: Lock (5)
TRESS
39 Across: One with a will (8)
TESTATOR
41 Across: Pick up and drink: Slang (5)
HOIST
42 Across: Cambodian money (4)
RIEL
43 Across: N.A.M. group (4)
CORP
44 Across: Kind of claim or game (5)
SMALL
46 Across: Partly developed mine (8)
PROSPECT
50 Across: Weapon important in the opening of the West (15)
THECOLTREVOLVER
52 Across: Western (5)
OATER
53 Across: It "springs eternal" (4)
HOPE
54 Across: Former name of a republic (4)
EIRE
55 Across: Pitchers (5)
EWERS
56 Across: River in Flanders (4)
YSER
57 Across: Blackthorn (4)
SLOE

Down Answers

1 Down: "Enterprises of great ___ and moment": Hamlet (4)
PITH
2 Down: Pallid (4)
ASHY
3 Down: Ooze (4)
SEEP
4 Down: Withdrawing from a union (8)
SECEDING
5 Down: Sturgeon's largesse (6)
CAVIAR
6 Down: Theater in Paris (5)
ODEON
7 Down: Mend old socks (4)
DARN
8 Down: Soul, to St. Etienne (3)
AME
9 Down: Like many a town in the Wild West (7)
LAWLESS
10 Down: Passes, as a bill (6)
ENACTS
11 Down: "Le ___," Massenet opera (4)
MAGE
12 Down: Ovid topic (4)
AMOR
13 Down: Longing (3)
YEN
18 Down: Nymph on Ida (5)
OREAD
19 Down: Coercion (6)
DURESS
23 Down: Call to a bellboy (5)
FRONT
24 Down: Honeymooner (5)
BRIDE
25 Down: Splits (5)
RENDS
26 Down: Snoop (5)
PRIER
27 Down: Certain mustangs or cayuses (5)
MARES
28 Down: Desist, at sea (5)
AVAST
29 Down: What the Pony Express brought (4)
NEWS
30 Down: Pony (4)
TROT
31 Down: Magda Lupescu's husband (5)
CAROL
34 Down: Narrate anew (6)
RETELL
35 Down: Exudes tiny, set drops (8)
DRIPPLES
37 Down: Legal lenders of property (7)
BAILORS
38 Down: Trunk (5)
TORSO
40 Down: Kind of bullet (6)
TRACER
41 Down: Dam on the Colorado (6)
HOOVER
43 Down: ___ suzette (5)
CREPE
44 Down: "Candida" author (4)
SHAW
45 Down: Deal out (4)
METE
46 Down: They play for money (4)
PROS
47 Down: "The ___ that men do . . . " (4)
EVIL
48 Down: King mackerel (4)
CERO
49 Down: Rustler's final "hangout" (4)
TREE
50 Down: ___ the line (conform) (3)
TOE
51 Down: "___ kingdom come" (3)
THY

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