Tuesday Crossword — June 5, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/5/1979. By Butler.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Desert plants (5)
- CACTI
- 6 Across: Recent (4)
- LATE
- 10 Across: Column (4)
- POST
- 14 Across: "Old MacDonald had ___ . . . " (5)
- AFARM
- 15 Across: Wading bird (4)
- IBIS
- 16 Across: Criterion (4)
- RULE
- 17 Across: Immerse again (5)
- REDIP
- 18 Across: Retiree, at times (9)
- PENSIONER
- 20 Across: Recipient at a fete (9)
- PRESENTEE
- 22 Across: To go on a spree: Fr. (5)
- NOCER
- 23 Across: Cheer (4)
- ROOT
- 24 Across: Exhausted (6)
- EFFETE
- 25 Across: Source of light (6)
- BEACON
- 28 Across: ___ Baba (3)
- ALI
- 29 Across: Karl from Gary, Ind. (6)
- MALDEN
- 30 Across: Shrank (8)
- DWINDLED
- 35 Across: Washington correspondent (5)
- ALSOP
- 36 Across: Particle (3)
- ION
- 37 Across: Socratic ___ (pretended ignorance) (5)
- IRONY
- 38 Across: Synthetic materials (8)
- PLASTICS
- 40 Across: Dwarfs (6)
- STUNTS
- 41 Across: Native of: Suffix (3)
- ITE
- 42 Across: Kin of frosh (6)
- PLEBES
- 43 Across: What a liana does (6)
- CLIMBS
- 47 Across: Honored guests' milieu (4)
- DAIS
- 48 Across: Science of measuring time: Abbr. (5)
- HOROL
- 49 Across: Casts off (9)
- JETTISONS
- 54 Across: Humiliation (9)
- ABASEMENT
- 56 Across: Least quantity (5)
- MINIM
- 57 Across: Beat at chess (4)
- MATE
- 58 Across: Allay (4)
- EASE
- 59 Across: "I will ___ and go now": Yeats (5)
- ARISE
- 60 Across: J.E.C. (4)
- PRES
- 61 Across: Ally of Abraham (4)
- ANER
- 62 Across: Forgetfulness (5)
- LETHE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Criticize captiously (4)
- CARP
- 2 Down: Southwest wind (4)
- AFER
- 3 Down: Mediterranean juniper (4)
- CADE
- 4 Down: Thrice: Prefix (4)
- TRIS
- 5 Down: Very slight or subtle (13)
- IMPERCEPTIBLE
- 6 Down: Merchant who won fame as a yachtsman (6)
- LIPTON
- 7 Down: Red as ___ (5)
- ABEET
- 8 Down: Prong (4)
- TINE
- 9 Down: Curve (3)
- ESS
- 10 Down: Photographer's test print (5)
- PROOF
- 11 Down: Measure or beast (5)
- OUNCE
- 12 Down: Winter hazard (5)
- SLEET
- 13 Down: ___ Haute (5)
- TERRE
- 19 Down: Very, very small (13)
- INFINITESIMAL
- 21 Down: Midday (4)
- NOON
- 24 Down: Yale (3)
- ELI
- 25 Down: Belle's milieu (4)
- BALL
- 26 Down: Miss Lancaster (4)
- ELSA
- 27 Down: Fusses (4)
- ADOS
- 28 Down: Beard of grain (3)
- AWN
- 29 Down: Cartogram (3)
- MAP
- 30 Down: Parties, British style (3)
- DOS
- 31 Down: Belabor (4)
- DRUB
- 32 Down: Solitary (4)
- LONE
- 33 Down: Tolkien creatures (4)
- ENTS
- 34 Down: Difficult: Prefix (3)
- DYS
- 36 Down: "Fire and ___," Frost poem (3)
- ICE
- 39 Down: "___ a long way to Tipperary" (3)
- ITS
- 40 Down: Narrow opening (4)
- SLIT
- 42 Down: Glib talk (6)
- PATTER
- 43 Down: Best of the boxers (5)
- CHAMP
- 44 Down: Having rounded projections (5)
- LOBAR
- 45 Down: Incensed (5)
- IRATE
- 46 Down: Book by Sholem Asch (5)
- MOSES
- 47 Down: Thickheaded (5)
- DENSE
- 49 Down: Racine or Rousseau (4)
- JEAN
- 50 Down: Paddock papa (4)
- SIRE
- 51 Down: "Don't bet ___!" (4)
- ONIT
- 52 Down: Serbian city (4)
- NISH
- 53 Down: Duck (4)
- SMEE
- 55 Down: ___ culpa (3)
- MEA
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