Thursday Crossword — September 6, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 9/6/1979. By Chet Currier.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Saroyan's "My Name Is ___" (4)
- ARAM
- 5 Across: Refuse to sign a bill (4)
- VETO
- 9 Across: Foray on the refrigerator (4)
- RAID
- 13 Across: Prepare apples for baking (4)
- CORE
- 14 Across: Certain collar (4)
- ETON
- 15 Across: Of a continent: Prefix (4)
- EURO
- 16 Across: Realigns restaurant furniture? (14)
- TURNSTHETABLES
- 19 Across: Narrow victory margin (5)
- ONEUP
- 20 Across: Caesar or Waldorf (5)
- SALAD
- 21 Across: Kin of blvds. (3)
- RDS
- 22 Across: Nonsense (3)
- ROT
- 25 Across: Butter unit (3)
- PAT
- 26 Across: Word with bus or bat (3)
- BOY
- 29 Across: Fast flier (3)
- SST
- 30 Across: Taj Mahal site (4)
- AGRA
- 32 Across: Calm (6)
- SERENE
- 34 Across: Takes an oath (6)
- SWEARS
- 36 Across: Nice summers (4)
- ETES
- 37 Across: Well-groomed customer's dessert request? (13)
- APPLEPIEORDER
- 41 Across: Hair style (4)
- AFRO
- 42 Across: Does a restaurant job (6)
- SERVES
- 43 Across: ___ d'hôtel (6)
- MAITRE
- 46 Across: Attachment by a banker (4)
- LIEN
- 47 Across: Flat failure (3)
- DUD
- 50 Across: Escort's offering (3)
- ARM
- 51 Across: "___ to the West Wind" (3)
- ODE
- 53 Across: Mark of a careless diner (3)
- ORT
- 54 Across: Big bird (3)
- EMU
- 55 Across: Nucleus (5)
- CADRE
- 57 Across: Wyatt and kinfolk (5)
- EARPS
- 59 Across: Order to a slow-moving counterman? (14)
- HURRYUPANDWAIT
- 63 Across: Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 (4)
- AGEE
- 64 Across: Prefix for meter or winkle (4)
- PERI
- 65 Across: Milano money (4)
- LIRE
- 66 Across: Outbuilding (4)
- SHED
- 67 Across: Shad of blue (4)
- TEAL
- 68 Across: Hill vehicle (4)
- SLED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: People in parts (6)
- ACTORS
- 2 Down: Bar orders (6)
- ROUNDS
- 3 Down: Run in (6)
- ARREST
- 4 Down: Bill of fare (4)
- MENU
- 5 Down: Hero of "All Things Bright . . . " (3)
- VET
- 6 Down: Biblical suffix (3)
- ETH
- 7 Down: Digits (4)
- TOES
- 8 Down: "Beer ___" (5)
- ONTAP
- 9 Down: Give back, as a discount (6)
- REBATE
- 10 Down: ___ lang syne (4)
- AULD
- 11 Down: Anger (3)
- IRE
- 12 Down: Square dancer's back (3)
- DOS
- 17 Down: Urban ___ (city expansion) (6)
- SPRAWL
- 18 Down: Word of woe (4)
- ALAS
- 23 Down: Curved molding (4)
- OGEE
- 24 Down: Carriages (5)
- TRAPS
- 26 Down: ___ noire (4)
- BETE
- 27 Down: Lulu (4)
- ONER
- 28 Down: Word to a "darling daughter" (3)
- YES
- 31 Down: "Tempest" sprite (5)
- ARIEL
- 33 Down: N.L. team (4)
- REDS
- 34 Down: Tablecloth no-no (4)
- SPOT
- 35 Down: Comic like Chaplin (5)
- SERIO
- 37 Down: Distant (4)
- AFAR
- 38 Down: Decorous (4)
- PRIM
- 39 Down: Eggs-order word (4)
- OVER
- 40 Down: Let (6)
- RENTED
- 41 Down: Doctors' org. (3)
- AMA
- 44 Down: "The Mouse That ___" (6)
- ROARED
- 45 Down: Hazardous current (4)
- EDDY
- 47 Down: Stop the iron horse (6)
- DERAIL
- 48 Down: Diamond authority (6)
- UMPIRE
- 49 Down: Sprinkled, in a way (6)
- DUSTED
- 52 Down: Break out (5)
- ERUPT
- 55 Down: American Indian (4)
- CREE
- 56 Down: Fencing piece (4)
- EPEE
- 58 Down: Punching tools (4)
- AWLS
- 59 Down: Owns (3)
- HAS
- 60 Down: Cry of disgust (3)
- UGH
- 61 Down: Football's Parseghian (3)
- ARA
- 62 Down: Zero (3)
- NIL
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