Tuesday Crossword — August 28, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/28/1979. By Ruth N. Schultz.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Mimic (3)
- APE
- 4 Across: Southpaw's pitching arm (4)
- LEFT
- 8 Across: Transplant (5)
- REPOT
- 13 Across: 'Umble one (4)
- HEEP
- 15 Across: ___ Minor (4)
- ASIA
- 16 Across: Choleric (5)
- IRATE
- 17 Across: Bern's river (4)
- AARE
- 18 Across: Red planet (4)
- MARS
- 19 Across: Welles (5)
- ORSON
- 20 Across: Smash hit (11)
- BLOCKBUSTER
- 23 Across: Ready (3)
- SET
- 24 Across: Spanish relative (3)
- TIA
- 25 Across: Ennui (6)
- TEDIUM
- 27 Across: Landi of old films (6)
- ELISSA
- 30 Across: Does a cakewalk (6)
- STRUTS
- 33 Across: "Thou ___ then be false . . . ": Polonius (8)
- CANSTNOT
- 36 Across: Goose genus (5)
- ANSER
- 37 Across: Everyday abbr. (3)
- ETC
- 38 Across: Moral principle (5)
- ETHIC
- 40 Across: ___-la-la (3)
- TRA
- 41 Across: L.A. cager (5)
- LAKER
- 44 Across: He began life as a sculptor (8)
- SOCRATES
- 47 Across: W.W. II group (6)
- ALLIES
- 49 Across: Surgeon's sewing thread (6)
- SUTURE
- 50 Across: Loose at last (6)
- UNTIED
- 53 Across: West Point grads (3)
- LTS
- 54 Across: Commercials (3)
- ADS
- 56 Across: Milky Way, for one (11)
- STARCLUSTER
- 61 Across: Mother: Prefix (5)
- MATRI
- 63 Across: Coaster (4)
- TILE
- 64 Across: Comstock ___ (4)
- LODE
- 65 Across: "___ Melancholy": Keats (5)
- ODEON
- 66 Across: Invariably (4)
- EVER
- 67 Across: Sea bird (4)
- ERNE
- 68 Across: Director of "Anna Karenina": 1948 (5)
- KORDA
- 69 Across: TV program (4)
- NEWS
- 70 Across: Bumpkin (3)
- OAF
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Jezebel's husband (4)
- AHAB
- 2 Down: Belfry sound (4)
- PEAL
- 3 Down: Saarinen (4)
- EERO
- 4 Down: Excoriate (8)
- LAMBASTE
- 5 Down: Jacob's brother (4)
- ESAU
- 6 Down: "___ in war, . . . " (5)
- FIRST
- 7 Down: Discernment (5)
- TASTE
- 8 Down: Girl of song (7)
- RIORITA
- 9 Down: Miscalculate (3)
- ERR
- 10 Down: Make the grade (10)
- PASSMUSTER
- 11 Down: Sioux (4)
- OTOE
- 12 Down: Omar product (4)
- TENT
- 14 Down: Jelly basis (6)
- PECTIN
- 21 Down: Osculate (4)
- KISS
- 22 Down: Sullivan and Wynn (3)
- EDS
- 26 Down: Repository of sorts (3)
- URN
- 27 Down: Outer, to an M.D. (5)
- ECTAL
- 28 Down: Dull (10)
- LACKLUSTER
- 29 Down: Dwellers in formicaries (4)
- ANTS
- 31 Down: Far from verbose (5)
- TERSE
- 32 Down: Spanish Mrs. (3)
- SRA
- 34 Down: Cry of discovery (3)
- OHO
- 35 Down: Fixations (4)
- TICS
- 37 Down: High note (3)
- ELA
- 39 Down: Sweet cakes (8)
- CRULLERS
- 42 Down: German article (3)
- EIN
- 43 Down: Greek wine (7)
- RETSINA
- 45 Down: Alaskan island (4)
- ATTU
- 46 Down: Struggle (6)
- TUSSLE
- 48 Down: Command to Rover (3)
- SIT
- 51 Down: "They'd ___ every one": Carroll (5)
- EATEN
- 52 Down: Tee shot (5)
- DRIVE
- 54 Down: Frenzied (4)
- AMOK
- 55 Down: Wall decoration (4)
- DADO
- 57 Down: Ball of yarn (4)
- CLEW
- 58 Down: Texas bull (4)
- TORO
- 59 Down: Ferber (4)
- EDNA
- 60 Down: Hazard near Norman's Woe (4)
- REEF
- 62 Down: Reel's partner (3)
- ROD
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