Saturday Crossword — July 28, 1979 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 7/28/1979. By William Lutwiniak.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Door sign (4)
PUSH
5 Across: Do a tailor's job (5)
ALTER
10 Across: Thready streak (4)
WISP
14 Across: Erskine of 1927–29 (4)
AUTO
15 Across: "Vade ___ me, satana" (5)
RETRO
16 Across: Yorkshire river (4)
AIRE
17 Across: Fit (4)
SUIT
18 Across: Barcelona native (10)
CATALONIAN
20 Across: Philatelic marking (8)
SURPRINT
22 Across: Minstrel, often (6)
LUTIST
23 Across: Name of B'way fame (4)
LUNT
24 Across: Yarmulke site (4)
PATE
25 Across: Leapt (6)
SPRANG
28 Across: Truncated (8)
SAWEDOFF
32 Across: Makes more acute (5)
WHETS
33 Across: Preclude (5)
DEBAR
34 Across: ___ Paulo, Brazil (3)
SAO
35 Across: Ameliorate? (4)
EEEE
36 Across: Having much clayey soil (5)
MARLY
37 Across: Understands? (4)
CCCC
38 Across: Et or y (3)
AND
39 Across: Round of applause (5)
SALVO
40 Across: Texas cowboy's gear (5)
RIATA
41 Across: Adjust to a new home (8)
RESETTLE
43 Across: Eight Boy Scouts, usually (6)
PATROL
44 Across: Like ___ of sunshine (4)
ARAY
45 Across: Triclinium serving (4)
CENA
46 Across: Skyrocketed (6)
SOARED
49 Across: Daydream (8)
PHANTASY
53 Across: Kitchen or theater appliance (10)
CORNPOPPER
55 Across: ___-bitty (4)
ITTY
56 Across: Tops (4)
AONE
57 Across: Drive off (5)
REPEL
58 Across: Approve (4)
OKAY
59 Across: Cross (4)
ROOD
60 Across: Kind of bland diet (5)
SIPPY
61 Across: "Not a one, Zeke" (4)
NARY

Down Answers

1 Down: Go by (4)
PASS
2 Down: Woolly beasts? (4)
UUUU
3 Down: Foofaraw (4)
STIR
4 Down: Warming appliance (8)
HOTPLATE
5 Down: Making a trajectory (6)
ARCING
6 Down: Inclined (5)
LEANT
7 Down: Rag? (4)
TTTT
8 Down: Lib cause (3)
ERA
9 Down: Kind of bed (8)
ROLLAWAY
10 Down: Poster heading (6)
WANTED
11 Down: Has a look? (4)
IIII
12 Down: Mmes., in Madrid (4)
SRAS
13 Down: Kind of house (4)
PENT
19 Down: External (5)
OUTER
21 Down: Scoreboard entries (4)
RUNS
24 Down: Picasso (5)
PABLO
25 Down: Avow (5)
SWEAR
26 Down: Benzene (5)
PHENE
27 Down: Clarinets, e.g. (5)
REEDS
28 Down: Start a set (5)
SERVE
29 Down: Hammerstein (5)
OSCAR
30 Down: De ___ segregation (5)
FACTO
31 Down: Of a central point (5)
FOCAL
33 Down: Waste time (5)
DALLY
36 Down: Corrida V.I.P.'s (8)
MATADORS
37 Down: Triple Crown winner: 1948 (8)
CITATION
39 Down: ___ throat (5)
STREP
40 Down: ___ of Kutch (Indian salt morass) (4)
RANN
42 Down: Rated (6)
EARNED
43 Down: Nacreous (6)
PEARLY
45 Down: Nest sound (5)
CHEEP
46 Down: Catface (4)
SCAR
47 Down: Charges it? (4)
OOOO
48 Down: Ponte Vecchio stream (4)
ARNO
49 Down: Goober and black-eyed? (4)
PPPP
50 Down: Andreanof island (4)
ATKA
51 Down: Get the limelight (4)
STAR
52 Down: Solomonic? (4)
YYYY
54 Down: Designer of Kennedy Library at Harvard (3)
PEI

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