Tuesday Crossword — May 8, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 5/8/1979. By William Jarvis.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Captures (4)
- BAGS
- 5 Across: Avoid out of fear (5)
- SKIRT
- 10 Across: Rhyme scheme (4)
- ABAB
- 14 Across: Troubles (4)
- AILS
- 15 Across: Ship or plane (5)
- LINER
- 16 Across: ___ fide (4)
- BONA
- 17 Across: New York's "French connection" (15)
- STATUEOFLIBERTY
- 20 Across: Fed. rate-fixing agency (3)
- ICC
- 21 Across: Word with England or York (3)
- NEW
- 22 Across: Inverted dents (6)
- BULGES
- 23 Across: Site of the "Miracle of '69" (11)
- SHEASTADIUM
- 27 Across: Coral island (3)
- CAY
- 28 Across: Sea eagles (4)
- ERNS
- 29 Across: Zilch (3)
- NIL
- 32 Across: Staten Island ___ (5)
- FERRY
- 35 Across: Ice mass (4)
- FLOE
- 36 Across: President of France: 1954–59 (4)
- COTY
- 37 Across: Tooth or head follower (4)
- ACHE
- 38 Across: Songs of praise: Var. (5)
- PEANS
- 39 Across: Prolific author (4)
- ANON
- 40 Across: French intensive (4)
- TRES
- 41 Across: Author of "Out of Mulberry Street" (4)
- RIIS
- 42 Across: Site of a famous zoo (5)
- BRONX
- 43 Across: "Apologia pro Vita ___": Newman (3)
- SUA
- 44 Across: Shingle (4)
- SIGN
- 45 Across: Thai language (3)
- LAO
- 46 Across: Brooklyn's answer to the Riviera (11)
- CONEYISLAND
- 51 Across: "Render therefore unto ___ . . . " (6)
- CAESAR
- 55 Across: Time zone abbr. (3)
- EST
- 56 Across: Batman and Robin (3)
- DUO
- 57 Across: Hangout for Kong (15)
- EMPIRESTATEBLDG
- 61 Across: Astronaut Armstrong (4)
- NEIL
- 62 Across: What ogres do (5)
- SCARE
- 63 Across: Abound (4)
- TEEM
- 64 Across: Opposite of incl. (4)
- EXCL
- 65 Across: Everett ___, "ashcan realist" (5)
- SHINN
- 66 Across: ___ Major (4)
- URSA
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Foundation (5)
- BASIS
- 2 Down: Gee trailer (5)
- AITCH
- 3 Down: Candied (5)
- GLACE
- 4 Down: Speedy airplane (3)
- SST
- 5 Down: Icy and rainy (6)
- SLEETY
- 6 Down: Indians of the Southwest (5)
- KIOWA
- 7 Down: Part of speech: Abbr. (3)
- INF
- 8 Down: Unit of electricity (3)
- REL
- 9 Down: Public defenders (8)
- TRIBUNES
- 10 Down: Fourth person (4)
- ABEL
- 11 Down: Rival of Connors (4)
- BORG
- 12 Down: Poker stake (4)
- ANTE
- 13 Down: Buzzards and Donegal (4)
- BAYS
- 18 Down: Recant (5)
- UNSAY
- 19 Down: One-time pets of Brooklyn fans (4)
- BUMS
- 24 Down: Estate (5)
- ACRES
- 25 Down: Lightweight woolen fabric (7)
- DELAINE
- 26 Down: Clubs used at Westchester (5)
- IRONS
- 29 Down: Advice to Nanette (4)
- NONO
- 30 Down: Take ___ the lam (4)
- ITON
- 31 Down: Kind of wildcat (4)
- LYNX
- 32 Down: Domino or Waller (4)
- FATS
- 33 Down: Beige (4)
- ECRU
- 34 Down: Ostrich's look-alike (4)
- RHEA
- 35 Down: Pretend (5)
- FEIGN
- 36 Down: Burnett or Channing (5)
- CAROL
- 38 Down: Chaucer character (8)
- PRIORESS
- 42 Down: Sew loosely or thrash (5)
- BASTE
- 44 Down: Cicatrix (4)
- SCAR
- 45 Down: First word of Longfellow's poem on Revere (6)
- LISTEN
- 47 Down: Pine (5)
- YEARN
- 48 Down: Larry ___, famed harmonica player (5)
- ADLER
- 49 Down: Many paintings by Renoir (5)
- NUDES
- 50 Down: Thomas Aquinas' specialty (5)
- DOGMA
- 51 Down: Geologic comb. form (4)
- CENE
- 52 Down: Second-largest U.S. stock exchange (4)
- AMEX
- 53 Down: "Iliad" or "Odyssey" (4)
- EPIC
- 54 Down: Part of a window (4)
- SILL
- 58 Down: Acad. (3)
- SCH
- 59 Down: Asian people (3)
- TAI
- 60 Down: Quant. of heat (3)
- BTU
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