Tuesday Crossword — March 27, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 3/27/1979. By Jeanette K. Brill.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Coarse hominy (4)
- SAMP
- 5 Across: Algonquian Indians (5)
- CREES
- 10 Across: Mess (4)
- CHOW
- 14 Across: Ananias (4)
- LIAR
- 15 Across: Respond to stimuli (5)
- REACT
- 16 Across: Kind of bell or brain (4)
- HARE
- 17 Across: Happy as a lark (15)
- ONTOPOFTHEWORLD
- 20 Across: Open-meshed fabric (7)
- ETAMINE
- 21 Across: Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra (7)
- ORESTES
- 22 Across: Unmoving (5)
- INERT
- 24 Across: Trygve ___ (3)
- LIE
- 25 Across: Peaks (6)
- CRESTS
- 28 Across: Snoods (8)
- HAIRNETS
- 33 Across: Nether world (5)
- HADES
- 34 Across: Wide-awakes (5)
- TERNS
- 35 Across: Actor Billy ___ Williams (3)
- DEE
- 36 Across: Mars, to Menelaus (4)
- ARES
- 37 Across: Large anthropoid, for short (5)
- ORANG
- 38 Across: "Cherry ___," poem by Herrick (4)
- RIPE
- 39 Across: Quantity of radiation (3)
- REM
- 40 Across: Harangue (5)
- ORATE
- 41 Across: Rhythmic pattern (5)
- METER
- 42 Across: Intervening period (8)
- MEANTIME
- 44 Across: Scurries (6)
- DASHES
- 45 Across: Shoshonean (3)
- UTE
- 46 Across: "Watch on the ___," Hellman play (5)
- RHINE
- 48 Across: Clothes (7)
- RAIMENT
- 52 Across: River probably discovered by Columbus in 1498 (7)
- ORINOCO
- 56 Across: Sick as a dog (15)
- UNDERTHEWEATHER
- 58 Across: Row (4)
- TIER
- 59 Across: Mosquito (5)
- AEDES
- 60 Across: The Emerald Isle (4)
- EIRE
- 61 Across: "The Sun ___ Rises" (4)
- ALSO
- 62 Across: Smallest amount (5)
- LEAST
- 63 Across: Bucks' mates (4)
- DOES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Wild plum (4)
- SLOE
- 2 Down: "It ___ Necessarily So" (4)
- AINT
- 3 Down: ___ Hari (4)
- MATA
- 4 Down: Double this for a 1968 B'way hit (8)
- PROMISES
- 5 Down: Harridans (6)
- CRONES
- 6 Down: Direct (to) (5)
- REFER
- 7 Down: Have breakfast (3)
- EAT
- 8 Down: Imitate (4)
- ECHO
- 9 Down: British money (8)
- STERLING
- 10 Down: Korea, to Hirohito (6)
- CHOSEN
- 11 Down: Male red deer (4)
- HART
- 12 Down: Heraldic wreath (4)
- ORLE
- 13 Down: Unites (4)
- WEDS
- 18 Down: Liquid measures (5)
- PINTS
- 19 Down: Dams (5)
- WEIRS
- 23 Down: The Helen Hayes, for one (7)
- THEATER
- 25 Down: Amulet (5)
- CHARM
- 26 Down: Street show (5)
- RAREE
- 27 Down: Swelling (5)
- EDEMA
- 29 Down: English composer (4)
- ARNE
- 30 Down: Head of Hollywood (5)
- EDITH
- 31 Down: Conical abode (5)
- TEPEE
- 32 Down: Oracles (5)
- SEERS
- 34 Down: British streetcar (4)
- TRAM
- 37 Down: This is definitely not Occidental (8)
- ORIENTAL
- 38 Down: Felt indignant displeasure (8)
- RESENTED
- 40 Down: Playful animal (5)
- OTTER
- 41 Down: Craze (5)
- MANIA
- 43 Down: ___ uno (6)
- NUMERO
- 44 Down: Most calamitous (6)
- DIREST
- 47 Down: Elias and Julia Ward (5)
- HOWES
- 48 Down: Route for Rodriguez (4)
- RUTA
- 49 Down: Indigo (4)
- ANIL
- 50 Down: Roman calendar days (4)
- IDES
- 51 Down: "Of ___ I Sing" (4)
- THEE
- 53 Down: Taft's state (4)
- OHIO
- 54 Down: Part of a bird's bill (4)
- CERE
- 55 Down: Mine findings (4)
- ORES
- 57 Down: Author LeShan (3)
- EDA
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