Saturday Crossword — March 10, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/10/1979. By Robert Katz.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Word with king or pint (5)
- SIZED
- 6 Across: Burned up the road (4)
- SPED
- 10 Across: The Devil's business (4)
- EVIL
- 14 Across: ___ a dozen (5)
- ADIME
- 15 Across: Kingfish (4)
- CERO
- 16 Across: Ancient queen's milieu (4)
- NILE
- 17 Across: Passionate people, to Plutarch (15)
- GENUSIRRITABILE
- 20 Across: U.S. group of fliers (3)
- SAC
- 21 Across: Irregular (5)
- EROSE
- 22 Across: Less aboveboard (5)
- SLIER
- 23 Across: Belief system (5)
- CREDO
- 24 Across: Japanese sacred mountain (3)
- ASO
- 25 Across: Bus station (5)
- DEPOT
- 28 Across: Of a type of heavenly intersection (7)
- NODICAL
- 32 Across: Cries in a corrida (4)
- OLES
- 33 Across: Morning sounds (6)
- ALARMS
- 35 Across: Drivel (3)
- ROT
- 37 Across: "Love conquers all," to Augustus (15)
- OMNIAVINCITAMOR
- 40 Across: Legendary bird (3)
- ROC
- 41 Across: Polynesian language (6)
- SAMOAN
- 42 Across: Tiny particle (4)
- MOTE
- 43 Across: Jazzmen's jam ___ (7)
- SESSION
- 45 Across: Intrinsically (5)
- PERSE
- 46 Across: Be sick (3)
- AIL
- 47 Across: Was admitted (5)
- GOTIN
- 50 Across: Hobbles (5)
- LIMPS
- 53 Across: "Present arms!" is one (5)
- ORDER
- 54 Across: Camel's-hair fabric (3)
- ABA
- 57 Across: From head to heel, to Horace (15)
- ACAPITEADCALCEM
- 60 Across: Hundred-yard ___ (4)
- DASH
- 61 Across: Bas mitzvah, e.g. (4)
- RITE
- 62 Across: ___ spade a spade (5)
- CALLA
- 63 Across: Division word (4)
- INTO
- 64 Across: Winglike (4)
- ALAR
- 65 Across: Salad days (5)
- YOUTH
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Droops (4)
- SAGS
- 2 Down: Thought (4)
- IDEA
- 3 Down: Brass ingredient (4)
- ZINC
- 4 Down: Second-largest existing bird (3)
- EMU
- 5 Down: Become a permanent AWOL (6)
- DESERT
- 6 Down: Young codfish (5)
- SCROD
- 7 Down: An unwelcome guest, to Galba (15)
- PERSONANONGRATA
- 8 Down: Iroquoian (4)
- ERIE
- 9 Down: Period (3)
- DOT
- 10 Down: As a whole (6)
- ENBLOC
- 11 Down: Number for a Henry (4)
- VIII
- 12 Down: "Winnie ___ Pooh" (4)
- ILLE
- 13 Down: Sidelong glance (4)
- LEER
- 18 Down: Wrath (3)
- IRE
- 19 Down: Act as an apprentice (6)
- ASSIST
- 23 Down: "___ fan tutte" (4)
- COSI
- 24 Down: Supt. or prin. (5)
- ADMIN
- 25 Down: Way out or in (4)
- DOOR
- 26 Down: Saint ___ fire (5)
- ELMOS
- 27 Down: Coin in Cardiff (5)
- PENCE
- 29 Down: Killer whale (4)
- ORCA
- 30 Down: Metal suit (5)
- ARMOR
- 31 Down: Sacks (5)
- LOOTS
- 33 Down: Of no ___ (useless) (5)
- AVAIL
- 34 Down: Exec's car (4)
- LIMO
- 36 Down: Forbidden fruit's source (4)
- TREE
- 38 Down: St. Francis's town (6)
- ASSISI
- 39 Down: Final word (4)
- AMEN
- 44 Down: Poet of Lesbos (6)
- SAPPHO
- 45 Down: Kidd's specialty (6)
- PIRACY
- 48 Down: More eccentric (5)
- ODDER
- 49 Down: Gumshoe (3)
- TEC
- 50 Down: "When I was a ___ served . . . " (4)
- LADI
- 51 Down: "___ get it for you . . . " (4)
- ICAN
- 52 Down: Support for a crow's-nest (4)
- MAST
- 53 Down: ___-de-boeuf (circular window) (4)
- OEIL
- 54 Down: Civil rights org. (4)
- ACLU
- 55 Down: Wallop (4)
- BELT
- 56 Down: Chinese nurse (4)
- AMAH
- 58 Down: Word before la-la (3)
- TRA
- 59 Down: Buddhist people (3)
- LAO
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