Tuesday Crossword — June 12, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 6/12/1979. By Evelyn Benshoof.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Dad (4)
- PAPA
- 5 Across: Nit-pick (5)
- CAVIL
- 10 Across: Prescribed pattern of behavior (4)
- ROLE
- 14 Across: Devastation (4)
- RUIN
- 15 Across: Relish-tray item (5)
- OLIVE
- 16 Across: Oklahoma city (4)
- ENID
- 17 Across: Like a summer drink (4)
- ICED
- 18 Across: Alumni celebration (10)
- HOMECOMING
- 20 Across: Architect of the Constitution (7)
- MADISON
- 22 Across: Ingenious or sly (6)
- TRICKY
- 23 Across: Sprung (5)
- AROSE
- 24 Across: Peck's partner (4)
- HUNT
- 25 Across: Answer sharply (6)
- RETORT
- 27 Across: Expired (8)
- PERISHED
- 31 Across: ___ sativa (the oat) (5)
- AVENA
- 32 Across: Units of illumination (5)
- LUXES
- 33 Across: Jai alai cry (3)
- OLE
- 34 Across: Neighbor of N.H. (3)
- VER
- 35 Across: Blasé (5)
- SATED
- 36 Across: Brazilian tree (3)
- ULE
- 37 Across: Stray (3)
- ERR
- 38 Across: Caustic (5)
- ACRID
- 39 Across: More meanspirited (5)
- BASER
- 41 Across: Socializes (8)
- STEPSOUT
- 43 Across: Moon goddess (6)
- SELENE
- 44 Across: Gaelic nobleman (4)
- AIRE
- 45 Across: Blotch (5)
- SMEAR
- 46 Across: Promotion phrase (6)
- SLOGAN
- 49 Across: Preliminary exercises (7)
- WARMUPS
- 52 Across: Irritability from confinement (10)
- CABINFEVER
- 55 Across: Spread (4)
- OLEO
- 56 Across: Entertainer King (4)
- ALAN
- 57 Across: Not disposed (5)
- UNAPT
- 58 Across: Inattentive (4)
- DEAF
- 59 Across: Chinese secret society (4)
- TONG
- 60 Across: Periods of fasting (5)
- LENTS
- 61 Across: "Cómo ___ Vd.?" (4)
- ESTA
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Prudish (4)
- PRIM
- 2 Down: Primitive S.A. Indian (4)
- AUCA
- 3 Down: Temporary lodging (10)
- PIEDATERRE
- 4 Down: Hearth adjunct (7)
- ANDIRON
- 5 Down: One of the leaders on a talk show (6)
- COHOST
- 6 Down: "___ at Last," Lehar operetta (5)
- ALONE
- 7 Down: Zip (3)
- VIM
- 8 Down: "___ got sixpence . . . " (3)
- IVE
- 9 Down: What Twain and Cable did in 1884 (8)
- LECTURED
- 10 Down: Pardons (6)
- REMITS
- 11 Down: Chemical suffix (4)
- ONIC
- 12 Down: Bond (4)
- LINK
- 13 Down: Irritable (4)
- EDGY
- 19 Down: Birdlife of a region (5)
- ORNIS
- 21 Down: N.A. rail (4)
- SORA
- 24 Down: Jinxed (5)
- HEXED
- 25 Down: Blurbs (5)
- RAVES
- 26 Down: A pet of the net set (5)
- EVERT
- 27 Down: "___ there!" (5)
- PUTIT
- 28 Down: Regulations at a Reno casino (10)
- HOUSERULES
- 29 Down: Actress Terry (5)
- ELLEN
- 30 Down: Pioneer in the manufacture of steel plows (5)
- DEERE
- 32 Down: Actor Jack from N.Y.C. (5)
- LARUE
- 35 Down: Contemptuous (8)
- SCORNFUL
- 38 Down: Korean, for one (5)
- ASIAN
- 39 Down: Kvass (4)
- BEER
- 40 Down: Fashionable (7)
- ALAMODE
- 42 Down: Job for buttons at the Savoy (6)
- PAGING
- 43 Down: Stings (6)
- SMARTS
- 45 Down: "___ Away," Wertmüller film (5)
- SWEPT
- 46 Down: Leave hurriedly (4)
- SCAT
- 47 Down: French composer (4)
- LALO
- 48 Down: Character in "The Iceman Cometh" (4)
- OBAN
- 50 Down: Fuel or turf (4)
- PEAT
- 51 Down: Canapé (4)
- SOFA
- 53 Down: Dir. from Vladivostok to Olga (3)
- ENE
- 54 Down: Vehicle sometimes decorated (3)
- VAN
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