Wednesday Crossword — May 23, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/23/1979. By Russell.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Island in a palindrome (4)
- ELBA
- 5 Across: Interval (5)
- SPACE
- 10 Across: Prenuptials party (4)
- STAG
- 14 Across: Respiratory organ of fishes (4)
- GILL
- 15 Across: Ragged Dick's creator (5)
- ALGER
- 16 Across: Crab-eating mongoose (4)
- URVA
- 17 Across: Slugger Slaughter (4)
- ENOS
- 18 Across: New Zealand aboriginal (5)
- MAORI
- 19 Across: Brad or spad (4)
- NAIL
- 20 Across: Juggled hereditary factor (14)
- RECOMBINANTDNA
- 23 Across: Stable staple (3)
- OAT
- 24 Across: Groups of kilns (5)
- OASTS
- 26 Across: TV interlocutor (5)
- EMCEE
- 30 Across: Let fall (4)
- DROP
- 33 Across: Laconian stream (3)
- IRI
- 34 Across: Nobelist Bellow (4)
- SAUL
- 35 Across: Son of Charlemagne (6)
- LOUISI
- 37 Across: Muscular contraction (3)
- TIC
- 38 Across: Co-discoverer of a genetic structure (15)
- SIRFRANCISCRICK
- 41 Across: Letter covering: Abbr. (3)
- ENV
- 42 Across: N.C.O.'s command (6)
- ATEASE
- 43 Across: Coward (4)
- NOEL
- 44 Across: No, in Edinburgh (3)
- NAE
- 45 Across: Gusto (4)
- ZEST
- 46 Across: Medieval guild (5)
- HANSE
- 47 Across: Remove (5)
- ERASE
- 49 Across: Miss Merkel (3)
- UNA
- 51 Across: Twin spiral in genetics (14)
- THEDOUBLEHELIX
- 59 Across: "I've ___ to London . . . " (4)
- BEEN
- 60 Across: Genetic duplicate (5)
- CLONE
- 61 Across: Hereditary unit (4)
- GENE
- 62 Across: Brazilian parrots (4)
- ARAS
- 63 Across: "Squat like ___ . . . ": Milton (5)
- ATOAD
- 64 Across: ___ even keel (4)
- ONAN
- 65 Across: Jekyll's dark side (4)
- HYDE
- 66 Across: "Who's ___ Now?": 1923 song (5)
- SORRY
- 67 Across: Average (4)
- SOSO
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Elbe tributary (4)
- EGER
- 2 Down: Ancestry (4)
- LINE
- 3 Down: Group acting in concert (4)
- BLOC
- 4 Down: "They ___ serve who . . . " (4)
- ALSO
- 5 Down: Rio dance (5)
- SAMBA
- 6 Down: Braid of hair (5)
- PLAIT
- 7 Down: Greek contest (4)
- AGON
- 8 Down: ___ alba (white wax) (4)
- CERA
- 9 Down: Poet's Ireland (4)
- ERIN
- 10 Down: ___ Islands (Java, Borneo, etc.) (5)
- SUNDA
- 11 Down: Change (10)
- TRANSITION
- 12 Down: Female fliers (10)
- AVIATRICES
- 13 Down: Radio soap, "Our ___ Sunday" (3)
- GAL
- 21 Down: One of the Stooges (3)
- MOE
- 22 Down: Subject (5)
- TOPIC
- 25 Down: Farm tool (6)
- SICKLE
- 26 Down: Ancient ascetic (6)
- ESSENE
- 27 Down: Aorta, e.g. (10)
- MAINARTERY
- 28 Down: Highway sign (10)
- CURVEAHEAD
- 29 Down: Mischievous wee one (3)
- ELF
- 30 Down: Item in Shylock's coffers (5)
- DUCAT
- 31 Down: Danish-American journalist (4)
- RIIS
- 32 Down: Bone: Comb. form (4)
- OSSE
- 35 Down: "Better ___ than never" (4)
- LATE
- 36 Down: Bills (4)
- ONES
- 39 Down: Demolished (5)
- RAZED
- 40 Down: Genetic messenger (3)
- RNA
- 46 Down: Cry of surprise (3)
- HAH
- 48 Down: Common or sixth follower (5)
- SENSE
- 49 Down: Of an arm bone (5)
- ULNAR
- 50 Down: Indigent (5)
- NEEDY
- 52 Down: Wood sorrels (4)
- OCAS
- 53 Down: In the preceding mo. (4)
- ULTO
- 54 Down: Rude, clumsy person (4)
- BOOR
- 55 Down: Selves (4)
- EGOS
- 56 Down: Fabric with an open weave (4)
- LENO
- 57 Down: Claire and Balin (4)
- INAS
- 58 Down: Strange: Prefix (4)
- XENO
- 59 Down: Cry of contempt (3)
- BAH
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