Friday Crossword — April 6, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 4/6/1979. By Vincent L. Osborne.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Seize (4)
- GRAB
- 5 Across: Ishmael's skipper (4)
- AHAB
- 9 Across: Player Naismith's game (5)
- CAGER
- 14 Across: Something remarkable (4)
- LULU
- 15 Across: The ___ (ditto) (4)
- SAME
- 16 Across: Crockett's last stand (5)
- ALAMO
- 17 Across: Site of Santa Cruz fort (4)
- ORAN
- 18 Across: Crossed the plate horizontally (4)
- SLID
- 19 Across: Time for hamantaschen (5)
- PURIM
- 20 Across: Designer of the Statue of Liberty (9)
- BARTHOLDI
- 22 Across: Shadow (5)
- UMBRA
- 23 Across: Place of perfect happiness (7)
- ELYSIUM
- 24 Across: Formerly the French Sudan (4)
- MALI
- 26 Across: Farm machine, for short (4)
- TRAC
- 28 Across: Fawning (6)
- MENIAL
- 32 Across: Tournaments like Wimbledon's (5)
- OPENS
- 36 Across: One of the Cook Islands (9)
- RAROTONGA
- 38 Across: Except (4)
- SAVE
- 39 Across: Ghana group (5)
- AKRAS
- 40 Across: Kin of "gee-tars" (4)
- UKES
- 41 Across: David Balfour's creator (9)
- STEVENSON
- 43 Across: Until now (5)
- ASYET
- 44 Across: Nod (6)
- ASSENT
- 45 Across: Fritz ___, film director (4)
- LANG
- 47 Across: Inroad (4)
- RAID
- 49 Across: Clique (7)
- COTERIE
- 54 Across: Teller's concern in the early 40's (5)
- ABOMB
- 57 Across: Early conquerors of Rome (9)
- ETRUSCANS
- 59 Across: Orally (5)
- PAROL
- 60 Across: Powell of diamond fame (4)
- BOOG
- 61 Across: Beethoven composition (4)
- OPUS
- 62 Across: Love, in Milano (5)
- AMORE
- 63 Across: "___ Great Day for the Irish" (4)
- ITSA
- 64 Across: Money in 13 Down (4)
- LIRE
- 65 Across: Shone (5)
- RAYED
- 66 Across: Schick ___ (4)
- TEST
- 67 Across: Churchill's successor as P.M.: 1955 (4)
- EDEN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Drake circumnavigated it (5)
- GLOBE
- 2 Down: Bucolic (5)
- RURAL
- 3 Down: Wingy (5)
- ALARY
- 4 Down: Lays one down on the infield (5)
- BUNTS
- 5 Down: ___ as vinegar (6)
- ASSOUR
- 6 Down: Identifying devices (9)
- HALLMARKS
- 7 Down: " . . . dark, ___ the blaze of noon": Milton (4)
- AMID
- 8 Down: Obscure (5)
- BEDIM
- 9 Down: Juliet's surname (7)
- CAPULET
- 10 Down: Of a common metallic element (9)
- ALUMINOUS
- 11 Down: Costume (4)
- GARB
- 12 Down: Bahrain potentate (4)
- EMIR
- 13 Down: Trastevere's città (4)
- ROMA
- 21 Down: Grammy winners (4)
- HITS
- 25 Down: Old radio character (4)
- AMOS
- 27 Down: Noel (5)
- CAROL
- 29 Down: Black (4)
- INKY
- 30 Down: He wrote the screenplay for "The African Queen" (4)
- AGEE
- 31 Down: Cobbler's aid (4)
- LAST
- 32 Down: Scapulae, e.g. (4)
- OSSA
- 33 Down: Walks with light footsteps (4)
- PATS
- 34 Down: Times like Halloween (4)
- EVES
- 35 Down: Raven's word (9)
- NEVERMORE
- 37 Down: Chanced upon (9)
- RANACROSS
- 39 Down: Filibusterer, e.g. (4)
- ANTI
- 42 Down: Empowered (7)
- ENABLED
- 43 Down: C.I.A. operatives (4)
- AGTS
- 46 Down: Chewy confection (6)
- NOUGAT
- 48 Down: Bookkeeping term (5)
- DEBIT
- 50 Down: Eleve's milieu (5)
- ECOLE
- 51 Down: Kind of fire or transit (5)
- RAPID
- 52 Down: Harden (5)
- INURE
- 53 Down: Site of the Villa Hugel (5)
- ESSEN
- 54 Down: On ___ with (4)
- APAR
- 55 Down: Bear Bryant's team (4)
- BAMA
- 56 Down: "___ Plata," Montana motto (4)
- OROY
- 58 Down: Pack (4)
- TOTE
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