Friday Crossword — August 10, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 8/10/1979. By Bernice Gordon.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Injury (4)
- HARM
- 5 Across: Spot of color (4)
- BLOB
- 9 Across: Grasp, with "onto" (5)
- LATCH
- 14 Across: Small wild ox (4)
- ANOA
- 15 Across: Dr. Zhivago's love (4)
- LARA
- 16 Across: City in Portugal (5)
- EVORA
- 17 Across: Game for children (9)
- HOPSCOTCH
- 19 Across: Point a weapon toward (5)
- AIMAT
- 20 Across: Haphazardly (6)
- ANYHOW
- 21 Across: Charms (8)
- ATTRACTS
- 23 Across: Fräulein's name (4)
- ILSE
- 25 Across: Brazilian coffee (6)
- SANTOS
- 26 Across: Yes man's specialty (8)
- ACCEDING
- 30 Across: Diamond or Sadaka (4)
- NEIL
- 31 Across: Donny and Marie (3)
- DUO
- 32 Across: Product of Detroit (5)
- SEDAN
- 34 Across: Gave out bit by bit (5)
- DOLED
- 37 Across: Fields of knowledge at college (4)
- ARTS
- 39 Across: Covered (5)
- ROBED
- 41 Across: "Death on the ___," 1978 film (4)
- NILE
- 42 Across: Assigns (5)
- METES
- 44 Across: Disk on a spur (5)
- ROWEL
- 46 Across: Zero (3)
- NIL
- 47 Across: Contents of a small bankroll (4)
- ONES
- 49 Across: Change for the worse, e.g. (8)
- REVERSAL
- 51 Across: Foot part (6)
- INSTEP
- 53 Across: Broad-topped hill (4)
- LOMA
- 54 Across: Golden Fleece seeker (8)
- ARGONAUT
- 56 Across: Take an unexpected trip (6)
- TUMBLE
- 60 Across: River into Bay of Biscay (5)
- LOIRE
- 61 Across: "Le Prophète" composer (9)
- MEYERBEER
- 63 Across: Capital of County Clare (5)
- ENNIS
- 64 Across: Amaryllis's relative (4)
- ALOE
- 65 Across: Archbishop of Canterbury: 1928–42 (4)
- LANG
- 66 Across: Western sights (5)
- MESAS
- 67 Across: ___ serif (typeface) (4)
- SANS
- 68 Across: Edible root (4)
- EDDO
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Sunk fence (4)
- HAHA
- 2 Down: At another time (4)
- ANON
- 3 Down: Muscular (4)
- ROPY
- 4 Down: Golfer's No. 5 iron (6)
- MASHIE
- 5 Down: More disheveled (8)
- BLOWSIER
- 6 Down: Map line: Abbr. (3)
- LAT
- 7 Down: Killer whale (4)
- ORCA
- 8 Down: Money in Bangkok (5)
- BAHTS
- 9 Down: Like eminent scholars (7)
- LEARNED
- 10 Down: Field that interested Wiley Post (8)
- AVIATION
- 11 Down: Summer refresher (10)
- TOMCOLLINS
- 12 Down: Followers of auto, bureau, etc. (5)
- CRATS
- 13 Down: Bowlers (4)
- HATS
- 18 Down: Common ailments (5)
- COLDS
- 22 Down: Thrash (3)
- TAN
- 24 Down: Home of a biblical witch (5)
- ENDOR
- 26 Down: Style of furniture (4)
- ADAM
- 27 Down: What mountebanks' pills don't do (4)
- CURE
- 28 Down: Machines for some plantations (10)
- COTTONGINS
- 29 Down: Magda or Jolie, e.g. (5)
- GABOR
- 33 Down: Part of a stairway (5)
- NEWEL
- 35 Down: Kazan (4)
- ELIA
- 36 Down: Farmer's spot in an old song (4)
- DELL
- 38 Down: Parts of the brain (8)
- SENSORIA
- 40 Down: Votaries (8)
- DEVOTEES
- 43 Down: Rigidity (7)
- SETNESS
- 45 Down: Animal of Madagascar (5)
- LEMUR
- 48 Down: Red or Dead (3)
- SEA
- 50 Down: Walk aimlessly (6)
- RAMBLE
- 51 Down: Perfume base (5)
- IRONE
- 52 Down: Fearsome felines (5)
- PUMAS
- 54 Down: Standard of Turkey (4)
- ALEM
- 55 Down: Tissue (4)
- TELA
- 57 Down: Drop of perspiration (4)
- BEAD
- 58 Down: Furnish (4)
- LEND
- 59 Down: Therefore (4)
- ERGO
- 62 Down: Thither (3)
- YON
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