Saturday Crossword — August 4, 1979

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1574 clues~30-60 minBy Scully8/4/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Thick slice (4 letters)
5 Across
Annoy (3 letters)
8 Across
Annoyer (4 letters)
12 Across
What annoyers do (4 letters)
13 Across
Knot or shred of wool (4 letters)
15 Across
Earl "___" Hines, jazz pianist (5 letters)
16 Across
Tennis term (4 letters)
17 Across
Hengist or Horsa (4 letters)
18 Across
"___ Is Born" (5 letters)
19 Across
George S. Kaufman's "Epitaph for a waiter" (15 letters)
22 Across
Engage (4 letters)
23 Across
Fictional Jane (4 letters)
24 Across
"Hello, ___!" (5 letters)
26 Across
Strength of a current (8 letters)
30 Across
Minute arachnids (5 letters)
31 Across
Scoff (5 letters)
32 Across
What the Dr. ordered (3 letters)
33 Across
"A Secretary Is Not ___," 1961 song (4 letters)
34 Across
Asparagus part (5 letters)
35 Across
Vol. State (4 letters)
36 Across
Lunched (3 letters)
37 Across
Destroyer: Comb. form (5 letters)
38 Across
Eighth Greek letter (5 letters)
39 Across
Collaborator with Kaufman (8 letters)
41 Across
Equals (5 letters)
42 Across
Ornery one (4 letters)
43 Across
Part of a Kipling line (4 letters)
44 Across
Musical by Kaufman and 39 Across (15 letters)
51 Across
He played Throttlebottom in "Of Thee I Sing" (5 letters)
52 Across
Traditional septet (4 letters)
53 Across
Rake (4 letters)
54 Across
Stupid ones (5 letters)
55 Across
Sensitivity (4 letters)
56 Across
Tra-___ (4 letters)
57 Across
Malt-and-honey drink (4 letters)
58 Across
"Little Red Book" author (3 letters)
59 Across
Event at bridge (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Kind of party (4 letters)
2 Down
Where Venetians bask (4 letters)
3 Down
Parched (4 letters)
4 Down
A Kaufman companion at the Algonquin Round Table (8 letters)
5 Down
Lesion (6 letters)
6 Down
Cosmetician's product (5 letters)
7 Down
___ and kin (4 letters)
8 Down
Tarkenton was one (6 letters)
9 Down
Ending for room or kitchen (4 letters)
10 Down
Vehicle in a Holmes poem (4 letters)
11 Down
Darnel (4 letters)
14 Down
"___ Cake," Kaufman-Ryskind musical (8 letters)
15 Down
Not so biased (6 letters)
20 Down
Troubles (4 letters)
21 Down
Prefix with active (5 letters)
24 Down
The same (5 letters)
25 Down
Siouans (5 letters)
26 Down
"'Tis good to keep ___ egg": Don Quixote (5 letters)
27 Down
Moslem ruler (5 letters)
28 Down
Fellows (5 letters)
29 Down
___ Ferber, Kaufman collaborator (4 letters)
30 Down
Servant's word (4 letters)
31 Down
Least dense (8 letters)
34 Down
Cut (5 letters)
35 Down
"Bring on ___," Kaufman-Ryskind musical (8 letters)
37 Down
Rodeo structures (6 letters)
38 Down
Shred (4 letters)
40 Down
Panicky (6 letters)
41 Down
Quickly (6 letters)
43 Down
Fiber from a banana stalk (5 letters)
44 Down
Moslem leader (4 letters)
45 Down
Measure of medicine (4 letters)
46 Down
Soprano Ponselle (4 letters)
47 Down
Twenty quires (4 letters)
48 Down
Purpose (4 letters)
49 Down
Sinuous dance (4 letters)
50 Down
Two or more draft animals (4 letters)

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