Tuesday Crossword — May 8, 1979
Difficulty: EasyGrid: 15x1578 clues~5-15 minBy William Jarvis5/8/1979
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Captures (4 letters)
- 5 Across
- Avoid out of fear (5 letters)
- 10 Across
- Rhyme scheme (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- Troubles (4 letters)
- 15 Across
- Ship or plane (5 letters)
- 16 Across
- ___ fide (4 letters)
- 17 Across
- New York's "French connection" (15 letters)
- 20 Across
- Fed. rate-fixing agency (3 letters)
- 21 Across
- Word with England or York (3 letters)
- 22 Across
- Inverted dents (6 letters)
- 23 Across
- Site of the "Miracle of '69" (11 letters)
- 27 Across
- Coral island (3 letters)
- 28 Across
- Sea eagles (4 letters)
- 29 Across
- Zilch (3 letters)
- 32 Across
- Staten Island ___ (5 letters)
- 35 Across
- Ice mass (4 letters)
- 36 Across
- President of France: 1954–59 (4 letters)
- 37 Across
- Tooth or head follower (4 letters)
- 38 Across
- Songs of praise: Var. (5 letters)
- 39 Across
- Prolific author (4 letters)
- 40 Across
- French intensive (4 letters)
- 41 Across
- Author of "Out of Mulberry Street" (4 letters)
- 42 Across
- Site of a famous zoo (5 letters)
- 43 Across
- "Apologia pro Vita ___": Newman (3 letters)
- 44 Across
- Shingle (4 letters)
- 45 Across
- Thai language (3 letters)
- 46 Across
- Brooklyn's answer to the Riviera (11 letters)
- 51 Across
- "Render therefore unto ___ . . . " (6 letters)
- 55 Across
- Time zone abbr. (3 letters)
- 56 Across
- Batman and Robin (3 letters)
- 57 Across
- Hangout for Kong (15 letters)
- 61 Across
- Astronaut Armstrong (4 letters)
- 62 Across
- What ogres do (5 letters)
- 63 Across
- Abound (4 letters)
- 64 Across
- Opposite of incl. (4 letters)
- 65 Across
- Everett ___, "ashcan realist" (5 letters)
- 66 Across
- ___ Major (4 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Foundation (5 letters)
- 2 Down
- Gee trailer (5 letters)
- 3 Down
- Candied (5 letters)
- 4 Down
- Speedy airplane (3 letters)
- 5 Down
- Icy and rainy (6 letters)
- 6 Down
- Indians of the Southwest (5 letters)
- 7 Down
- Part of speech: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 8 Down
- Unit of electricity (3 letters)
- 9 Down
- Public defenders (8 letters)
- 10 Down
- Fourth person (4 letters)
- 11 Down
- Rival of Connors (4 letters)
- 12 Down
- Poker stake (4 letters)
- 13 Down
- Buzzards and Donegal (4 letters)
- 18 Down
- Recant (5 letters)
- 19 Down
- One-time pets of Brooklyn fans (4 letters)
- 24 Down
- Estate (5 letters)
- 25 Down
- Lightweight woolen fabric (7 letters)
- 26 Down
- Clubs used at Westchester (5 letters)
- 29 Down
- Advice to Nanette (4 letters)
- 30 Down
- Take ___ the lam (4 letters)
- 31 Down
- Kind of wildcat (4 letters)
- 32 Down
- Domino or Waller (4 letters)
- 33 Down
- Beige (4 letters)
- 34 Down
- Ostrich's look-alike (4 letters)
- 35 Down
- Pretend (5 letters)
- 36 Down
- Burnett or Channing (5 letters)
- 38 Down
- Chaucer character (8 letters)
- 42 Down
- Sew loosely or thrash (5 letters)
- 44 Down
- Cicatrix (4 letters)
- 45 Down
- First word of Longfellow's poem on Revere (6 letters)
- 47 Down
- Pine (5 letters)
- 48 Down
- Larry ___, famed harmonica player (5 letters)
- 49 Down
- Many paintings by Renoir (5 letters)
- 50 Down
- Thomas Aquinas' specialty (5 letters)
- 51 Down
- Geologic comb. form (4 letters)
- 52 Down
- Second-largest U.S. stock exchange (4 letters)
- 53 Down
- "Iliad" or "Odyssey" (4 letters)
- 54 Down
- Part of a window (4 letters)
- 58 Down
- Acad. (3 letters)
- 59 Down
- Asian people (3 letters)
- 60 Down
- Quant. of heat (3 letters)
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