Wednesday Crossword — March 14, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/14/1979. By Mary Virginia Orna.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: After-shave powder (4)
- TALC
- 5 Across: Latches (5)
- HASPS
- 10 Across: Recorded proceedings (4)
- ACTA
- 14 Across: Poet translated by FitzGerald (4)
- OMAR
- 15 Across: Arm of the sea (5)
- INLET
- 16 Across: Rent (4)
- TORN
- 17 Across: Like a crazy hombre (4)
- LOCO
- 18 Across: Ringo the drummer (5)
- STARR
- 19 Across: Who or which (4)
- THAT
- 20 Across: Word with circle or parade (5)
- DRESS
- 22 Across: Cape of ___ (8)
- GOODHOPE
- 24 Across: Opposite of psyche (4)
- SOMA
- 27 Across: Grand ___, Evangeline's home (3)
- PRE
- 28 Across: Valley between ranges (7)
- LOWLAND
- 31 Across: Of the number eight (5)
- OCTAL
- 35 Across: Slots spot (4)
- RENO
- 36 Across: Old cars (4)
- REOS
- 38 Across: Maine campus town (5)
- ORONO
- 39 Across: Not on the same wavelength (15)
- ATCROSSPURPOSES
- 42 Across: Fungi (5)
- MOLDS
- 43 Across: Honshu monastery (4)
- TERA
- 44 Across: Remitted (4)
- SENT
- 45 Across: Bumbling (5)
- INEPT
- 46 Across: Upbraids (7)
- YELLSAT
- 48 Across: Extensions on campus (3)
- UES
- 50 Across: Raise (4)
- REAR
- 51 Across: State in NW Brazil (8)
- AMAZONAS
- 56 Across: ___ vin, chicken dish (5)
- COQAU
- 60 Across: Singer Joan (4)
- BAEZ
- 61 Across: Middle-ear bone (5)
- INCUS
- 64 Across: Charley had one (4)
- AUNT
- 65 Across: Squiggle (4)
- CURL
- 66 Across: Irish goblin (5)
- POOKA
- 67 Across: Emulate an epicure (4)
- DINE
- 68 Across: Dark-colored plum (4)
- SLOE
- 69 Across: Response to a knock (5)
- ENTER
- 70 Across: Blackpool and Baden-Baden (4)
- SPAS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: "Twice-___ Tales" (4)
- TOLD
- 2 Down: Cupid, in art (4)
- AMOR
- 3 Down: Cluny product (4)
- LACE
- 4 Down: Farrar specialty (15)
- CROSSWORDPUZZLE
- 5 Down: "God shed ___ grace on thee" (3)
- HIS
- 6 Down: Member of a colony (3)
- ANT
- 7 Down: Worthless matter (4)
- SLAG
- 8 Down: But, in Barcelona (4)
- PERO
- 9 Down: Razor accessory (5)
- STROP
- 10 Down: Facing a crucial decision (15)
- ATTHECROSSROADS
- 11 Down: Silver salmon (4)
- COHO
- 12 Down: It guards a green (4)
- TRAP
- 13 Down: Payment for a hand (4)
- ANTE
- 21 Down: Money in Lima (3)
- SOL
- 23 Down: Relative of a twerp (5)
- DROOP
- 25 Down: Father of Romulus and Remus (4)
- MARS
- 26 Down: "___ of robins in her hair" (5)
- ANEST
- 28 Down: Pretend (5)
- LETON
- 29 Down: "Mon ___," 1958 Tati film (5)
- ONCLE
- 30 Down: One of Doc's companions (5)
- DOPEY
- 32 Down: Kipling's "From Sea ___" (5)
- TOSEA
- 33 Down: Concerning (5)
- ANENT
- 34 Down: Mislaid (4)
- LOST
- 35 Down: Branches (4)
- RAMI
- 37 Down: Not so chancy (5)
- SURER
- 40 Down: Bone: Comb. form (5)
- OSTEO
- 41 Down: Abnormal respiratory sound (4)
- RALE
- 47 Down: Resinous substance (3)
- LAC
- 49 Down: Woodcock's relative (5)
- SNIPE
- 51 Down: "Sesame Street" subject (4)
- ABCS
- 52 Down: Heavy hammer (4)
- MAUL
- 53 Down: Prefix on an air letter (4)
- AERO
- 54 Down: Ever's partner (4)
- ANON
- 55 Down: Inverness inhabitant (4)
- SCOT
- 57 Down: Witticism (4)
- QUIP
- 58 Down: Tolstoy heroine (4)
- ANNA
- 59 Down: Shoshoneans (4)
- UTES
- 62 Down: Luau instrument, for short (3)
- UKE
- 63 Down: Patriotic org. (3)
- SAR
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