Monday Crossword — March 12, 1979

Difficulty: EasyGrid: 15x1576 clues~5-15 minBy Jacobs3/12/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Former TV host, Jack ___ (4 letters)
5 Across
Mature tadpole (4 letters)
9 Across
Member of a Latin I trio (4 letters)
13 Across
Atoll (4 letters)
14 Across
Fragrant flower (5 letters)
16 Across
"You must ___ peck of dirt . . . ": Swift (4 letters)
17 Across
What some planes break (15 letters)
20 Across
Jinx (3 letters)
21 Across
Wallace of TV (4 letters)
22 Across
Des ___ (literally, of monks) (6 letters)
23 Across
Desk appurtenances (4 letters)
24 Across
Clowns (5 letters)
25 Across
Eyes quickly (5 letters)
27 Across
Soothe (4 letters)
28 Across
One of the Cratchits (3 letters)
31 Across
Norse rumbler (4 letters)
32 Across
Tall Asiatic tree (4 letters)
33 Across
Inst. at Troy, N.Y. (3 letters)
34 Across
Protection from warplanes (15 letters)
39 Across
"To ___ is human" (3 letters)
40 Across
Kind of machine (4 letters)
41 Across
Furnace output (4 letters)
42 Across
Brenda the singer (3 letters)
43 Across
Swiss abstract painter (4 letters)
44 Across
Devotion (5 letters)
46 Across
Town ___ (5 letters)
48 Across
James ___, actor from N.Y.C. (4 letters)
49 Across
TV producer's concern (6 letters)
51 Across
French weapon (4 letters)
52 Across
Superlative ending (3 letters)
55 Across
What some planes fly on (15 letters)
58 Across
Large, in Lille (4 letters)
59 Across
Part of AWOL (5 letters)
60 Across
Alien: Comb. form (4 letters)
61 Across
Since, in Glasgow (4 letters)
62 Across
Playing card (4 letters)
63 Across
He sang with MacDonald (4 letters)

Down

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Gist (4 letters)
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Netman Arthur (4 letters)
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Karras of football fame (4 letters)
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___ judicata (3 letters)
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Gasoline and water, e.g. (6 letters)
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Skating areas (5 letters)
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Ye ___ Curiosity Shoppe (4 letters)
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Chitchat (3 letters)
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Height for a kite (5 letters)
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Shoppers' mecca (10 letters)
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Fit to ___ (4 letters)
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"H.M.S. Pinafore" group (4 letters)
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Dumas novel (7 letters)
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Arabian Sea gulf (4 letters)
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"The Desert Fox" (6 letters)
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Young salmon (4 letters)
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Jet plane's speed unit (4 letters)
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English county (5 letters)
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Embarrassing newspaper note (10 letters)
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Class in Calcutta (5 letters)
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"___ the Lord my soul to keep" (5 letters)
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Hazard asea or on land (4 letters)
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Far East unit of weight (4 letters)
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Kind of price (6 letters)
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Like smugglers' goods (7 letters)
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Active one (4 letters)
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Kojak (4 letters)
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Roman general and statesman (6 letters)
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Baker's aide (4 letters)
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Laundry cycle (5 letters)
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Yearn for (5 letters)
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"From ___ to riches" (4 letters)
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Wide of the mark (4 letters)
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Jewish month (4 letters)
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Checked out, visually (4 letters)
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Transmit (4 letters)
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Home, to Priam (4 letters)
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N.B.A. player (3 letters)
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Cut down a tree (3 letters)

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