Friday Crossword — May 18, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 5/18/1979. By Kathryn Righter.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Taken to court (4)
- SUED
- 5 Across: Alloy of copper and zinc (5)
- BRASS
- 10 Across: Comfort (4)
- EASE
- 14 Across: Basic Latin infinitive (4)
- ESSE
- 15 Across: Bridal path (5)
- AISLE
- 16 Across: Dante's "___ Nuova" (4)
- VITA
- 17 Across: This goes round and round to make a point (15)
- PENCILSHARPENER
- 20 Across: Pedal (7)
- TREADLE
- 21 Across: Schulz's comic strip (7)
- PEANUTS
- 22 Across: Guemal, e.g. (4)
- DEER
- 23 Across: Immature parasite (3)
- NIT
- 24 Across: Acquiesce (6)
- ASSENT
- 27 Across: Group in "The Lady of the Lake" (8)
- CLANSMEN
- 32 Across: Show frugality (5)
- STINT
- 33 Across: Bea Arthur's TV role (5)
- MAUDE
- 34 Across: Purest hyperbole (3)
- ELA
- 35 Across: Color graduation (4)
- TINT
- 36 Across: N.C.O. (5)
- SARGE
- 37 Across: Downstairs girl (4)
- MAID
- 38 Across: Londoner's "bitter" (3)
- ALE
- 39 Across: Small change (5)
- DIMES
- 40 Across: Part of a French toast (5)
- SANTE
- 41 Across: Made requital (8)
- REWARDED
- 43 Across: A three-beat gait (6)
- CANTER
- 44 Across: One of the Three Stooges (3)
- MOE
- 45 Across: Speleologist's topic (4)
- CAVE
- 46 Across: Ambles (7)
- STROLLS
- 50 Across: Awakens (7)
- AROUSES
- 54 Across: He goes round and round in a rite (15)
- WHIRLINGDERVISH
- 56 Across: "Fine women ___ crazy salad": Yeats (4)
- EATA
- 57 Across: Dumas's "La Tulipe ___" (5)
- NOIRE
- 58 Across: Diminutive suffix (4)
- ETTE
- 59 Across: And others: Abbr. (4)
- ETAL
- 60 Across: Barnaby Jones, on TV (5)
- EBSEN
- 61 Across: Marsh plant (4)
- REED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Family branch (4)
- SEPT
- 2 Down: Employer (4)
- USER
- 3 Down: Anglo-Saxon laborer (4)
- ESNE
- 4 Down: Like Rome in A.D. 400 (8)
- DECADENT
- 5 Down: Fonteyn's milieu (6)
- BALLET
- 6 Down: Stair part (5)
- RISER
- 7 Down: Rowan (3)
- ASH
- 8 Down: Sharp blow (4)
- SLAP
- 9 Down: Swain song (8)
- SERENADE
- 10 Down: Happenings (6)
- EVENTS
- 11 Down: Aborigine of Japan (4)
- AINU
- 12 Down: Proofreader's word (4)
- STET
- 13 Down: Sense organs (4)
- EARS
- 18 Down: Dog tag (5)
- IDENT
- 19 Down: He wrote "Common Sense" (5)
- PAINE
- 24 Down: "___ Is Born" (5)
- ASTAR
- 25 Down: Rural crossing (5)
- STILE
- 26 Down: Tendon (5)
- SINEW
- 27 Down: Was concerned (5)
- CARED
- 28 Down: Pulls (4)
- LUGS
- 29 Down: Intended (5)
- MEANT
- 30 Down: Choice (5)
- ELITE
- 31 Down: Crusader for consumers (5)
- NADER
- 33 Down: Role once played by Lucille Ball (4)
- MAME
- 36 Down: Second occupation (8)
- SIDELINE
- 37 Down: Strategem (8)
- MANEUVER
- 39 Down: Waggish (5)
- DROLL
- 40 Down: Relish (5)
- SAVOR
- 42 Down: Ethically neutral (6)
- AMORAL
- 43 Down: Lurch (6)
- CAREEN
- 45 Down: Core group (5)
- CADRE
- 46 Down: ___-pea, Popeye's adopted son (4)
- SWEE
- 47 Down: "He ___ runs may read": Tennyson (4)
- THAT
- 48 Down: Hayworth (4)
- RITA
- 49 Down: One pretending social importance (4)
- SNOB
- 51 Down: Location (4)
- SITE
- 52 Down: Italian city (4)
- ESTE
- 53 Down: Cast off (4)
- SHED
- 55 Down: Troup group (3)
- GIS
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