Thursday Crossword — August 16, 1979

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1576 clues~15-30 minBy Jean J. Davison8/16/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Eager (4 letters)
5 Across
Kind of sugar or syrup (5 letters)
10 Across
Nicklaus and Palmer, e.g. (4 letters)
14 Across
Explosive device (4 letters)
15 Across
Irritating (5 letters)
16 Across
Part of a roof (4 letters)
17 Across
Lid in a street (nonsexist style) (15 letters)
20 Across
Disparaged (7 letters)
21 Across
Burdens for Brutus (5 letters)
22 Across
Peruse (4 letters)
23 Across
Nimble (4 letters)
25 Across
Negligent (6 letters)
28 Across
Chimpanzees and gorillas (4 letters)
29 Across
Haggard's Ayesha (3 letters)
32 Across
Succulent plant (4 letters)
33 Across
Mall unit (5 letters)
34 Across
Conflict (3 letters)
35 Across
Worldly one (nonsexist style) (15 letters)
39 Across
Manet's "___ Boat" (3 letters)
40 Across
Old Nick (5 letters)
41 Across
Nylons, e.g. (4 letters)
42 Across
"Life with Father" author (3 letters)
43 Across
Leave out (4 letters)
44 Across
Old hags (6 letters)
46 Across
Small bird (4 letters)
47 Across
Blue, in Bonn (4 letters)
48 Across
Alaskan highway (5 letters)
51 Across
Member of a farmers' organization (7 letters)
54 Across
Unpremeditated homicide (nonsexist style) (15 letters)
58 Across
Hit a dipteran (4 letters)
59 Across
Commences (5 letters)
60 Across
Word before poem or deaf (4 letters)
61 Across
Advance gradually (4 letters)
62 Across
Beatrice's admirer (5 letters)
63 Across
Haughty one (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Elec. unit (3 letters)
2 Down
Contested (4 letters)
3 Down
Anent (4 letters)
4 Down
Spies (8 letters)
5 Down
Crazes (6 letters)
6 Down
Hurt (5 letters)
7 Down
Goad (4 letters)
8 Down
Diamond ___ (3 letters)
9 Down
Dutch commune (3 letters)
10 Down
Gaudy flower (5 letters)
11 Down
Glowing review (4 letters)
12 Down
" . . . the rain is ___ and gone" (4 letters)
13 Down
Evening, in Milano (4 letters)
18 Down
Unrefined materials (4 letters)
19 Down
"Gay Nineties" unmentionable (6 letters)
23 Down
Pitch woo (5 letters)
24 Down
Scene of Pizarro's conquest (4 letters)
25 Down
Part of IRT (5 letters)
26 Down
___ Mukhina. Soviet gymnast (5 letters)
27 Down
Voracious eel (5 letters)
28 Down
Up, in baseball (5 letters)
29 Down
Faint (5 letters)
30 Down
Ship's hole for cables (5 letters)
31 Down
Anagram for sneer (5 letters)
33 Down
Lining material (5 letters)
36 Down
City in Chile (6 letters)
37 Down
Designate (4 letters)
38 Down
"___ rule the world": Emerson (8 letters)
44 Down
Contract section (6 letters)
45 Down
Telephoned (4 letters)
46 Down
Consume uselessly (5 letters)
47 Down
Arctic goose (5 letters)
48 Down
Church section (4 letters)
49 Down
Obscene (4 letters)
50 Down
Rough, broken cliff (4 letters)
51 Down
Secluded valley (4 letters)
52 Down
Public school (4 letters)
53 Down
Splitsville, U.S.A. (4 letters)
55 Down
Doze (3 letters)
56 Down
Health spot (3 letters)
57 Down
Johnny ___ (3 letters)

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