Friday Crossword — June 1, 1979 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/1/1979. By Alfio Micci.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Faulty (3)
BAD
4 Across: Melville captain (4)
AHAB
8 Across: Church area (4)
APSE
12 Across: Actress Hagen (3)
UTA
13 Across: Brazilian port (5)
BELEM
15 Across: Visionary (5)
IDEAL
16 Across: Tomato (9)
LOVEAPPLE
18 Across: Glittery headpiece (5)
TIARA
19 Across: Stevenson's "Where Go the ___?" (5)
BOATS
20 Across: Impish gnome (7)
GREMLIN
22 Across: Intimate liaison (10)
LOVEAFFAIR
26 Across: Punjab peasant (3)
MEO
27 Across: "I Love a ___," 1931 song hit (6)
PARADE
32 Across: Waxed (4)
GREW
36 Across: What yours and mine become after wedding bells (4)
OURS
38 Across: Used a stopwatch (5)
TIMED
39 Across: Cavalier poet (15)
RICHARDLOVELACE
42 Across: Played Romeo or Juliet (5)
ACTED
43 Across: Only (4)
SOLE
44 Across: British public school (4)
ETON
45 Across: Wearing Wellingtons (6)
BOOTED
47 Across: Tub for dyeing (3)
VAT
48 Across: Amorous spot (10)
LOVERSLANE
54 Across: Babe Ruth, with "The" (7)
BAMBINO
58 Across: Choice (5)
ELITE
60 Across: His marriage might make him a citizen (5)
ALIEN
61 Across: Trophy (9)
LOVINGCUP
65 Across: Sculptured slab (5)
STELE
66 Across: Gum resin (5)
ELEMI
67 Across: Try to get to the church on time (3)
HIE
68 Across: Dispatched (4)
SENT
69 Across: Campus figure (4)
DEAN
70 Across: Compass reading (3)
ESE

Down Answers

1 Down: Future lily (4)
BULB
2 Down: "___ is but the extension of a man's hand": Beecher (5)
ATOOL
3 Down: Philippine port (5)
DAVAO
4 Down: Degrade (5)
ABASE
5 Down: Onto, in jive talk (3)
HEP
6 Down: Mont Blanc, for one (3)
ALP
7 Down: ___ canto (3)
BEL
8 Down: Take ___ view of (frown on) (4)
ADIM
9 Down: What the church bells do (4)
PEAL
10 Down: Garb at a Hindu wedding (4)
SARI
11 Down: Dash (4)
ELAN
14 Down: Great: Prefix (4)
MEGA
15 Down: Say it one more time (7)
ITERATE
17 Down: Public-channel offering (3)
ETV
21 Down: Actor Torn (3)
RIP
23 Down: All-conqueror, to Virgil (4)
AMOR
24 Down: Montague vs. Capulet, etc. (5)
FEUDS
25 Down: Dryden's "All ___" (7)
FORLOVE
28 Down: Raise some hackles (4)
RILE
29 Down: Verb for Caesar or Calpurnia (4)
AMAT
30 Down: Art ___ (4)
DECO
31 Down: Earliest scene of amour (4)
EDEN
32 Down: Kind of bag (4)
GRAB
33 Down: Puerto ___ (4)
RICO
34 Down: Outside: Prefix (4)
ECTO
35 Down: Stimulate (4)
WHET
37 Down: Kind of eclipse (5)
SOLAR
40 Down: "The flower of my heart" (7)
ADELINE
41 Down: Old-timers (4)
VETS
46 Down: ___ Juan (lover) (3)
DON
49 Down: Field mouse (4)
VOLE
50 Down: The Bolsheviks adored him (5)
LENIN
51 Down: School subj. (3)
ALG
52 Down: Hollow in a wall (5)
NICHE
53 Down: Small boxes (5)
ETUIS
54 Down: One of a vocal quartet (4)
BASS
55 Down: Der ___ (Adenauer) (4)
ALTE
56 Down: Comportment (4)
MIEN
57 Down: Word with fan or farm (4)
BELT
59 Down: Fencing tool (4)
EPEE
62 Down: "Something ___ . . . " (3)
OLD
63 Down: Neckline for some brides (3)
VEE
64 Down: "___ Dreamer," old song (3)
IMA

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