Thursday Crossword — August 16, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/16/1979. By Jean J. Davison.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Eager (4)
- AVID
- 5 Across: Kind of sugar or syrup (5)
- MAPLE
- 10 Across: Nicklaus and Palmer, e.g. (4)
- PROS
- 14 Across: Explosive device (4)
- MINE
- 15 Across: Irritating (5)
- ACRID
- 16 Across: Part of a roof (4)
- EAVE
- 17 Across: Lid in a street (nonsexist style) (15)
- PERSONHOLECOVER
- 20 Across: Disparaged (7)
- DECRIED
- 21 Across: Burdens for Brutus (5)
- ONERA
- 22 Across: Peruse (4)
- READ
- 23 Across: Nimble (4)
- SPRY
- 25 Across: Negligent (6)
- REMISS
- 28 Across: Chimpanzees and gorillas (4)
- APES
- 29 Across: Haggard's Ayesha (3)
- SHE
- 32 Across: Succulent plant (4)
- ALOE
- 33 Across: Mall unit (5)
- STORE
- 34 Across: Conflict (3)
- WAR
- 35 Across: Worldly one (nonsexist style) (15)
- PERSONABOUTTOWN
- 39 Across: Manet's "___ Boat" (3)
- INA
- 40 Across: Old Nick (5)
- SATAN
- 41 Across: Nylons, e.g. (4)
- HOSE
- 42 Across: "Life with Father" author (3)
- DAY
- 43 Across: Leave out (4)
- OMIT
- 44 Across: Old hags (6)
- CRONES
- 46 Across: Small bird (4)
- WREN
- 47 Across: Blue, in Bonn (4)
- BLAU
- 48 Across: Alaskan highway (5)
- ALCAN
- 51 Across: Member of a farmers' organization (7)
- GRANGER
- 54 Across: Unpremeditated homicide (nonsexist style) (15)
- PERSONSLAUGHTER
- 58 Across: Hit a dipteran (4)
- SWAT
- 59 Across: Commences (5)
- OPENS
- 60 Across: Word before poem or deaf (4)
- TONE
- 61 Across: Advance gradually (4)
- EDGE
- 62 Across: Beatrice's admirer (5)
- DANTE
- 63 Across: Haughty one (4)
- SNOB
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Elec. unit (3)
- AMP
- 2 Down: Contested (4)
- VIED
- 3 Down: Anent (4)
- INRE
- 4 Down: Spies (8)
- DESCRIES
- 5 Down: Crazes (6)
- MANIAS
- 6 Down: Hurt (5)
- ACHED
- 7 Down: Goad (4)
- PROD
- 8 Down: Diamond ___ (3)
- LIL
- 9 Down: Dutch commune (3)
- EDE
- 10 Down: Gaudy flower (5)
- PEONY
- 11 Down: Glowing review (4)
- RAVE
- 12 Down: " . . . the rain is ___ and gone" (4)
- OVER
- 13 Down: Evening, in Milano (4)
- SERA
- 18 Down: Unrefined materials (4)
- ORES
- 19 Down: "Gay Nineties" unmentionable (6)
- CORSET
- 23 Down: Pitch woo (5)
- SPOON
- 24 Down: Scene of Pizarro's conquest (4)
- PERU
- 25 Down: Part of IRT (5)
- RAPID
- 26 Down: ___ Mukhina. Soviet gymnast (5)
- ELENA
- 27 Down: Voracious eel (5)
- MORAY
- 28 Down: Up, in baseball (5)
- ATBAT
- 29 Down: Faint (5)
- SWOON
- 30 Down: Ship's hole for cables (5)
- HAWSE
- 31 Down: Anagram for sneer (5)
- ERNES
- 33 Down: Lining material (5)
- SATIN
- 36 Down: City in Chile (6)
- OSORNO
- 37 Down: Designate (4)
- NAME
- 38 Down: "___ rule the world": Emerson (8)
- THOUGHTS
- 44 Down: Contract section (6)
- CLAUSE
- 45 Down: Telephoned (4)
- RANG
- 46 Down: Consume uselessly (5)
- WASTE
- 47 Down: Arctic goose (5)
- BRANT
- 48 Down: Church section (4)
- APSE
- 49 Down: Obscene (4)
- LEWD
- 50 Down: Rough, broken cliff (4)
- CRAG
- 51 Down: Secluded valley (4)
- GLEN
- 52 Down: Public school (4)
- ETON
- 53 Down: Splitsville, U.S.A. (4)
- RENO
- 55 Down: Doze (3)
- NOD
- 56 Down: Health spot (3)
- SPA
- 57 Down: Johnny ___ (3)
- REB
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