Monday Crossword — March 19, 1979 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/19/1979. By Herb L. Risteen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Man from Jidda (4)
ARAB
5 Across: Roman raiment (5)
TOGAS
10 Across: Irish seaport (4)
COBH
14 Across: Ear part (4)
LOBE
15 Across: End (5)
OMEGA
16 Across: Region (4)
AREA
17 Across: Milne bear (4)
POOH
18 Across: Of wheels (5)
ROTAL
19 Across: Place to go barefoot (4)
PARK
20 Across: Playing card (7)
TWOSPOT
22 Across: English poet 1573–1631 (5)
DONNE
23 Across: Author Pierre ___: 1850–1923 (4)
LOTI
24 Across: Woodshed comeuppance (6)
HIDING
27 Across: Wearing gauntlets (6)
GLOVED
29 Across: Harrow's rival (4)
ETON
30 Across: Grow weaker (3)
EBB
33 Across: Cell occupant (5)
LIFER
34 Across: Wild goose (5)
BRANT
35 Across: Brother (3)
FRA
36 Across: Spark streams (4)
ARCS
37 Across: Freshwater ducks (5)
TEALS
38 Across: J.E.C., for instance (4)
PRES
39 Across: Stadium sound (3)
RAH
40 Across: Timorous person (5)
SISSY
41 Across: Coffee ___ (5)
BREAK
42 Across: Compass point (3)
ESE
43 Across: At the summit (4)
ATOP
44 Across: Introductions (6)
PROEMS
45 Across: Attack again from the air (6)
REBOMB
47 Across: Namath's last team (4)
RAMS
48 Across: Pimlico performer (5)
HORSE
50 Across: Very learned (7)
ERUDITE
53 Across: Came to rest (4)
ALIT
54 Across: Kitchen garb (5)
APRON
56 Across: Chalcedony (4)
SARD
58 Across: Decamp (4)
FLEE
59 Across: Western writer: 1836–1902 (5)
HARTE
60 Across: Vicious volcano (4)
ETNA
61 Across: News service (4)
TASS
62 Across: Less forthright (5)
SLYER
63 Across: Consider (4)
DEEM

Down Answers

1 Down: One of the Pennines (3)
ALP
2 Down: Source (4)
ROOT
3 Down: Songwriter's definition of life: 1931 (15)
ABOWLOFCHERRIES
4 Down: Is necessary for (8)
BEHOOVES
5 Down: Sluggish (6)
TORPID
6 Down: South Seas novel (4)
OMOO
7 Down: Receive a Bronx cheer (15)
GETTHERASPBERRY
8 Down: Turkish title (3)
AGA
9 Down: Chemical salt (3)
SAL
10 Down: Type of chicken or rabbit (5)
CAPON
11 Down: Boer republic: 1854–1900 (15)
ORANGEFREESTATE
12 Down: City between Zurich and Lausanne (4)
BERN
13 Down: Codlike fish (4)
HAKE
21 Down: Suffix with tap or team (4)
STER
22 Down: Force (4)
DINT
25 Down: Where the Adige flows (5)
ITALY
26 Down: Spanish notables (4)
DONS
27 Down: Show anger (5)
GLARE
28 Down: Money in Ankara (5)
LIRAS
31 Down: Golden shiner (5)
BREAM
32 Down: Luxuriates (5)
BASKS
34 Down: Twiggy broom (5)
BESOM
37 Down: Serbians' leader (4)
TITO
38 Down: Gave great expectations (8)
PROMISED
40 Down: "Quien ___?" (4)
SABE
41 Down: Carpentry item (4)
BRAD
44 Down: Tool for trimming trees (6)
PRUNER
46 Down: Creator of the Moffats (5)
ESTES
48 Down: Sword section (4)
HAFT
49 Down: Stewpot (4)
OLLA
51 Down: Set system (4)
ROTE
52 Down: Bald eagle's relative (4)
ERNE
54 Down: Exclamations (3)
AHS
55 Down: "___ Joey" (3)
PAL
57 Down: Hungry Horse, e.g. (3)
DAM

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