Saturday Crossword — June 23, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 6/23/1979. By C. J. Angio.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Economize (6)
- SCRIMP
- 7 Across: Refrain syllables (6)
- TRALAS
- 13 Across: Glass tanks (7)
- AQUARIA
- 14 Across: Emulate Cassandra (7)
- PREDICT
- 15 Across: Word with alcohol or varnish (7)
- RUBBING
- 16 Across: Wapiti's relative (7)
- REDDEER
- 17 Across: Springtime on the Seine (3)
- MAI
- 18 Across: Lovely spring blossom (7)
- ANEMONE
- 20 Across: ___ Lanka (3)
- SRI
- 21 Across: Highway to Fairbanks (5)
- ALCAN
- 23 Across: Fleming's 007 (4)
- BOND
- 24 Across: Turkey devoured by critics (4)
- FLOP
- 25 Across: "The Captain's ___," D. H. Lawrence story (4)
- DOLL
- 26 Across: Nonstop talker (4)
- BORE
- 27 Across: "___, but no cigar!" (5)
- CLOSE
- 28 Across: Views from basement windows (8)
- AREAWAYS
- 30 Across: Pistil-packing part of a plant (6)
- FLOWER
- 31 Across: Fails to seize the day (9)
- MISSESOUT
- 33 Across: Place in proximity (6)
- APPOSE
- 36 Across: Touched with tenderness (8)
- CARESSED
- 40 Across: First of a no-no septet (5)
- PRIDE
- 41 Across: Librarian's backbreaker (4)
- TOME
- 42 Across: Conductor Ceccato (4)
- ALDO
- 43 Across: Coty or Pleven (4)
- RENE
- 44 Across: Ribbed (4)
- RODE
- 45 Across: With full force (5)
- AMAIN
- 46 Across: "___ got a little list . . . ": Gilbert (3)
- IVE
- 47 Across: Playwright Rattigan (7)
- TERENCE
- 49 Across: R–V connection (3)
- STU
- 50 Across: "___ eat cake" (7)
- LETTHEM
- 52 Across: Range needed by an eavesdropper (7)
- EARSHOT
- 54 Across: Poem by Frost (7)
- INAVALE
- 55 Across: Sneaky shooters (7)
- SNIPERS
- 56 Across: Snack-bar give-aways (6)
- STRAWS
- 57 Across: Places (6)
- STEADS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Condition on Tobacco Road (7)
- SQUALOR
- 2 Down: Carrel (7)
- CUBICLE
- 3 Down: Beater for mixing mortar (3)
- RAB
- 4 Down: Of a part of the eye (5)
- IRIAN
- 5 Down: Where H.H.H. lived (4)
- MINN
- 6 Down: Hair styles (8)
- PAGEBOYS
- 7 Down: Pollster's study (5)
- TREND
- 8 Down: "And may ye better reck the ___": Burns (4)
- REDE
- 9 Down: Put two and two together (3)
- ADD
- 10 Down: Bides time while the heat is on (7)
- LIESLOW
- 11 Down: Chaffy (7)
- ACEROSE
- 12 Down: White bass (7)
- STRIPER
- 13 Down: Drake's conquest in 1588 (6)
- ARMADA
- 14 Down: Disposed (5)
- PRONE
- 19 Down: Dit-dah system (9)
- MORSECODE
- 22 Down: Thin, glossy silk for hoods (7)
- ALAMODE
- 24 Down: Beachcomber's bonanza (7)
- FLOTSAM
- 26 Down: The "hot corner" is one (4)
- BASE
- 27 Down: Tip for a tec (4)
- CLUE
- 29 Down: Kind of acre or crack (4)
- WISE
- 30 Down: Driver's warning (4)
- FORE
- 32 Down: One cause of ennui (8)
- SAMENESS
- 33 Down: "___ the cruelest month": Eliot (7)
- APRILIS
- 34 Down: Obviate (7)
- PREVENT
- 35 Down: Batting-grip aid (7)
- PINETAR
- 37 Down: Commited a foul on the rink (7)
- SLASHED
- 38 Down: MSS. inspectors (7)
- EDITORS
- 39 Down: Eatery offering (6)
- DONUTS
- 41 Down: "The Velvet Fog" (5)
- TORME
- 44 Down: Staggers (5)
- REELS
- 45 Down: Height for a kite (5)
- AERIE
- 47 Down: Spring in Alaska (4)
- THAW
- 48 Down: Defeatist's word (4)
- CANT
- 51 Down: Norris Dam agcy. (3)
- TVA
- 53 Down: Bex or Dax (3)
- SPA
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