Tuesday Crossword — August 14, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/14/1979. By Greenleaf.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Swabs (4)
- MOPS
- 5 Across: Gas: Prefix (4)
- AERO
- 9 Across: Small vale (4)
- DELL
- 13 Across: Oil group (4)
- OPEC
- 14 Across: Canine sound (4)
- GNAR
- 15 Across: Miss Hawkins (5)
- SADIE
- 16 Across: Obi (4)
- SASH
- 17 Across: More hedge work (10)
- RETRIMMING
- 19 Across: Aggies, e.g. (8)
- SHOOTERS
- 21 Across: Edict city: 1598 (6)
- NANTES
- 22 Across: Mountain: Comb. form (4)
- OREO
- 23 Across: "___ homo!" (4)
- ECCE
- 24 Across: Book parts (6)
- SPINES
- 27 Across: ___ on (despise) (8)
- LOOKDOWN
- 31 Across: Decree (5)
- ARRET
- 32 Across: ___ off (foists) (5)
- PALMS
- 33 Across: Old car (3)
- REO
- 34 Across: French river (4)
- LOIR
- 35 Across: Dawn (5)
- SUNUP
- 36 Across: Cafeteria item (4)
- TRAY
- 37 Across: Call ___ day (3)
- ITA
- 38 Across: Bitter vetches (5)
- TARES
- 39 Across: Tee shot (5)
- DRIVE
- 40 Across: Solaced (8)
- CONSOLED
- 42 Across: Cards, as wool (6)
- TEASES
- 43 Across: Carry (4)
- TOTE
- 44 Across: Crawford or Baez (4)
- JOAN
- 45 Across: Bottle for water (6)
- CARAFE
- 48 Across: Bicentennial visitor to N.Y. Harbor (8)
- TALLSHIP
- 52 Across: Two-masted vessel (10)
- BRIGANTINE
- 54 Across: Wine: Comb. form (4)
- OENO
- 55 Across: Author Horatio (5)
- ALGER
- 56 Across: Dandelion, e.g. (4)
- WEED
- 57 Across: Dole (4)
- METE
- 58 Across: "King of the ___," 1965 song (4)
- ROAD
- 59 Across: Approximately (4)
- ORSO
- 60 Across: Kind of machine (4)
- SLOT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Stirling or Arnold (4)
- MOSS
- 2 Down: Moonfish (4)
- OPAH
- 3 Down: Dinero item (4)
- PESO
- 4 Down: Beer vessel (8)
- SCHOONER
- 5 Down: Is in accord (6)
- AGREES
- 6 Down: Hot month in Buenos Aires (5)
- ENERO
- 7 Down: Word of disgust (4)
- RATS
- 8 Down: Retired hockey star (3)
- ORR
- 9 Down: "The public be ___!": W. H. Vanderbilt (6)
- DAMNED
- 10 Down: Make the copy right (4)
- EDIT
- 11 Down: Queue (4)
- LINE
- 12 Down: Sailing-race divisions (4)
- LEGS
- 15 Down: Fishing boats (6)
- SMACKS
- 18 Down: Not done: Abbr. (6)
- INCOMP
- 20 Down: Allowance for waste (4)
- TRET
- 23 Down: Mt. ___, peak in Colo. (5)
- EOLUS
- 24 Down: Law of the Franks (5)
- SALIC
- 25 Down: First: Comb. form (5)
- PROTO
- 26 Down: New Guinea, to Indonesians (5)
- IRIAN
- 27 Down: Having strip markers (5)
- LANED
- 28 Down: Root used in perfumery (5)
- ORRIS
- 29 Down: Intertwine (5)
- WEAVE
- 30 Down: Appropriately, he wrote "The Barrel-Organ" (5)
- NOYES
- 32 Down: Thickened soup (5)
- PUREE
- 35 Down: Bambi's creator (6)
- SALTEN
- 36 Down: Lintels (8)
- TRANSOMS
- 38 Down: "A Bridge ___": Ryan (6)
- TOOFAR
- 39 Down: Allot the cards (4)
- DEAL
- 41 Down: Contrived (6)
- STAGED
- 42 Down: City on the Maumee (6)
- TOLEDO
- 44 Down: Fonda and Wyman (5)
- JANES
- 45 Down: Construction piece, for short (4)
- CBAR
- 46 Down: Guthrie (4)
- ARLO
- 47 Down: Baltic port (4)
- RIGA
- 48 Down: Layer (4)
- TIER
- 49 Down: Cad, colloquially (4)
- HEEL
- 50 Down: Preposition (4)
- INTO
- 51 Down: Keats or Yeats (4)
- POET
- 53 Down: "Tea for ___" (3)
- TWO
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