Wednesday Crossword — March 7, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/7/1979. By A. J. Santora.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Leghorn's largesse (4)
- EGGS
- 5 Across: Deep cut (4)
- GASH
- 9 Across: Kind of toast (5)
- MELBA
- 14 Across: Air route (4)
- LANE
- 15 Across: Oils of old Rome (4)
- OLEA
- 16 Across: Slightly ahead, in a golf game (5)
- ONEUP
- 17 Across: How yo-yos go (9)
- UPANDDOWN
- 19 Across: Ulan ___ (5)
- BATOR
- 20 Across: Disappointment (7)
- LETDOWN
- 21 Across: Actress Joanne (3)
- DRU
- 23 Across: Número ___ (3)
- UNO
- 24 Across: "Nasty" Nastase (4)
- ILIE
- 25 Across: Attack (7)
- SETUPON
- 27 Across: Kite (6)
- ELANET
- 30 Across: Make sense (5)
- ADDUP
- 31 Across: Ice-bucket gear (5)
- TONGS
- 32 Across: Lump of clay (4)
- CLOD
- 33 Across: Cordage plant (4)
- HEMP
- 37 Across: Word with hop or tree (4)
- TOAD
- 38 Across: Ostentatious (5)
- SHOWY
- 39 Across: Melville novel (4)
- OMOO
- 40 Across: Capable of (4)
- UPTO
- 41 Across: Owner of "Leapin' Lena" (4)
- TEEN
- 42 Across: Upper class (5)
- ELITE
- 43 Across: Carouser's sounds (5)
- WHEES
- 45 Across: Network (6)
- SYSTEM
- 46 Across: Softer, as pillows (7)
- DOWNIER
- 49 Across: Up and ___ (working) (4)
- ATIT
- 50 Across: Barnyard animal (3)
- EWE
- 51 Across: Prefix with judge or trial (3)
- PRE
- 52 Across: Gets ready to give a concert (7)
- TUNESUP
- 56 Across: Words on a shop sign (5)
- ANDUP
- 58 Across: Denigrate (9)
- DOWNGRADE
- 60 Across: Actress Rainer (5)
- LUISE
- 61 Across: "___ a Villa . . . ": Browning (4)
- UPAT
- 62 Across: Kazan (4)
- ELIA
- 63 Across: ___ up (accelerate) (5)
- SPEED
- 64 Across: Norms (4)
- PARS
- 65 Across: ___ up (prepare to play pool) (4)
- RACK
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Hebrew month (4)
- ELUL
- 2 Down: Yawn (4)
- GAPE
- 3 Down: Mosquito's relative (4)
- GNAT
- 4 Down: Expelling, Oxford style (11)
- SENDINGDOWN
- 5 Down: Wading bird (6)
- GODWIT
- 6 Down: Unaccompanied (5)
- ALONE
- 7 Down: ___ up (clinch) (3)
- SEW
- 8 Down: Easily (9)
- HANDSDOWN
- 9 Down: ___ Sese Seko of Zaire (6)
- MOBUTU
- 10 Down: Last queen before Sofia (3)
- ENA
- 11 Down: Slackening (5)
- LETUP
- 12 Down: Actor Victor (5)
- BUONO
- 13 Down: Kitchen garment (5)
- APRON
- 18 Down: Metes or parcels (5)
- DOLES
- 22 Down: "I Am Woman" singer (5)
- REDDY
- 26 Down: He pads parlor pieces (11)
- UPHOLSTERER
- 27 Down: Words said to Brutus (4)
- ETTU
- 28 Down: Part of a bowknot (4)
- LOOP
- 29 Down: Med. school subj. (4)
- ANAT
- 30 Down: Eaglewood (5)
- ALOES
- 32 Down: Inspirited (9)
- CHEEREDUP
- 34 Down: Anagram for item, mite and time (4)
- EMIT
- 35 Down: Speck (4)
- MOTE
- 36 Down: Christina Rossetti's "Up-Hill," e.g. (4)
- POEM
- 38 Down: Guide (5)
- STEER
- 42 Down: Looking up and down (5)
- EYING
- 44 Down: Obsessed, with "on" (6)
- HIPPED
- 45 Down: Tricks on trapezes (6)
- STUNTS
- 46 Down: Transactions (5)
- DEALS
- 47 Down: Confess (5)
- OWNUP
- 48 Down: " . . . for tomorrow ___" (5)
- WEDIE
- 49 Down: Fighting, as nations (5)
- ATWAR
- 53 Down: Hacienda room (4)
- SALA
- 54 Down: Caucasic tongue (4)
- UDIC
- 55 Down: Promontory (4)
- PEAK
- 57 Down: ___ up (exhaust) (3)
- USE
- 59 Down: W.W. II agency (3)
- OPA
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