Friday Crossword — March 9, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 3/9/1979. By Vincent L. Osborne.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: London's bohemian quarter (4)
- SOHO
- 5 Across: Galway girl (4)
- LASS
- 9 Across: Boutonniere locale (5)
- LAPEL
- 14 Across: Ancient victim (4)
- ABEL
- 15 Across: Spot (4)
- ESPY
- 16 Across: As a friend: Fr. (5)
- ENAMI
- 17 Across: Australian parrot (4)
- LORY
- 18 Across: ___ example (4)
- ASAN
- 19 Across: Provisions (5)
- TERMS
- 20 Across: Van Winkle's wife, e.g. (9)
- TERMAGANT
- 22 Across: Small news photo (5)
- INSET
- 23 Across: Little Jack's prize (4)
- PLUM
- 24 Across: Busy businessmen before Easter (7)
- HATTERS
- 26 Across: Unstable (6)
- LABILE
- 29 Across: Belgradian (4)
- SERB
- 30 Across: Set into the surface (5)
- INLAY
- 31 Across: Lara's creator (9)
- PASTERNAK
- 36 Across: Stupefy (4)
- STUN
- 37 Across: Island SW of the Battery (5)
- ELLIS
- 38 Across: O'Connor's "The ___ of Sadness" (4)
- EDGE
- 39 Across: Certain classifieds (9)
- PERSONALS
- 41 Across: Like a close call (5)
- SCARY
- 42 Across: "For ___ runneth soon in gentle hearts": Chaucer (4)
- PITY
- 43 Across: Luftwaffe dive bombers (6)
- STUKAS
- 44 Across: Thrust out (7)
- OBTRUDE
- 48 Across: European bittern's cry (4)
- BOOM
- 49 Across: Kwajalein material (5)
- CORAL
- 50 Across: Nursery soothers (9)
- LULLABIES
- 55 Across: He wrote "Wounds in the Rain" (5)
- CRANE
- 56 Across: He sold his birthright (4)
- ESAU
- 57 Across: Apply a mordant (4)
- ETCH
- 58 Across: Free (5)
- UNPEN
- 59 Across: Delicate hue (4)
- TINT
- 60 Across: Son of Agrippina II (4)
- NERO
- 61 Across: Adjust, as a meter (5)
- RESET
- 62 Across: Pete's trailer (4)
- SAKE
- 63 Across: Like a bowstring (4)
- TAUT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Tar (4)
- SALT
- 2 Down: Double-reed woodwind (4)
- OBOE
- 3 Down: Stuttgart Mr. (4)
- HERR
- 4 Down: Zeus and company (9)
- OLYMPIANS
- 5 Down: One of Verne's twenty thousand (6)
- LEAGUE
- 6 Down: Indian state (5)
- ASSAM
- 7 Down: Bridge (4)
- SPAN
- 8 Down: Combination of parts to form a whole (9)
- SYNTHESIS
- 9 Down: Beatles song (7)
- LETITBE
- 10 Down: Concerning (5)
- ANENT
- 11 Down: Describe grammatically (5)
- PARSE
- 12 Down: Wheat variety (5)
- EMMER
- 13 Down: Tilting arena (5)
- LISTS
- 21 Down: Cohort (4)
- ALLY
- 25 Down: Humanities (4)
- ARTS
- 26 Down: Speech defect (4)
- LISP
- 27 Down: Pay one's share (4)
- ANTE
- 28 Down: Become fuzzy (4)
- BLUR
- 29 Down: ___ Lunn (tea cake) (5)
- SALLY
- 31 Down: Coagulant bodies in the blood (9)
- PLATELETS
- 32 Down: Couchant (9)
- RECUMBENT
- 33 Down: Neighbor of Mont. (4)
- NDAK
- 34 Down: Site of the Hall of Private Audience (4)
- AGRA
- 35 Down: Boca Chica et al. (4)
- KEYS
- 37 Down: Geraint's wife (4)
- ENID
- 40 Down: Sumptuous (7)
- OPULENT
- 41 Down: Zeno's ___ Poikile (4)
- STOA
- 43 Down: Dissolved substance (6)
- SOLUTE
- 44 Down: Happen (5)
- OCCUR
- 45 Down: Carried along (5)
- BORNE
- 46 Down: Springes (5)
- TRAPS
- 47 Down: Rajah's wife (5)
- RANEE
- 48 Down: Kind of book or check (5)
- BLANK
- 51 Down: I.C.A. predecessor (4)
- USIA
- 52 Down: Virginia willow (4)
- ITEA
- 53 Down: Color of raw silk (4)
- ECRU
- 54 Down: Snort (4)
- SHOT
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