Friday Crossword — September 7, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 9/7/1979. By Jeanette K. Brill.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: White vestment (3)
- ALB
- 4 Across: Stupid one (4)
- DOLT
- 8 Across: Tree of the birch family (5)
- ALDER
- 13 Across: Straight, as a drink (4)
- NEAT
- 15 Across: Jug (4)
- EWER
- 16 Across: Ingenuous (5)
- NAIVE
- 17 Across: Part of DMZ (4)
- ZONE
- 18 Across: Bristle (4)
- SETA
- 19 Across: Assad's domain (5)
- SYRIA
- 20 Across: Pain reliever (9)
- ANALGESIC
- 22 Across: Handle effectively (5)
- WIELD
- 23 Across: Stock of wine (6)
- CELLAR
- 24 Across: Belief (5)
- TENET
- 26 Across: Prefix with mural (5)
- INTRA
- 28 Across: Wore away (6)
- ERODED
- 32 Across: Separates (5)
- PARTS
- 35 Across: ___ du Vent (4)
- ILES
- 37 Across: Win by a ___ (4)
- NOSE
- 38 Across: Organic compound (4)
- ENOL
- 39 Across: Sheds (5)
- MOLTS
- 40 Across: Mal de ___ (headache): Fr. (4)
- TETE
- 41 Across: Against (4)
- ANTI
- 42 Across: Holy Roman emperor (4)
- OTHO
- 43 Across: Tatter (5)
- SHRED
- 44 Across: Pear (6)
- SECKEL
- 46 Across: Old-womanish (5)
- ANILE
- 48 Across: Welsh playwright-actor Williams (5)
- EMLYN
- 50 Across: "___ Mister" (6)
- CALLME
- 54 Across: Master, in colonial India (5)
- SAHIB
- 57 Across: Flagrant (9)
- EGREGIOUS
- 59 Across: Die down (5)
- ABATE
- 60 Across: Soil (4)
- LOAM
- 61 Across: Cartoonist who created the Democrats' donkey (4)
- NAST
- 62 Across: Icy (5)
- GELID
- 63 Across: Cougar (4)
- PUMA
- 64 Across: Nymph whose voice became immortal (4)
- ECHO
- 65 Across: Facing a glacier (5)
- STOSS
- 66 Across: Ollie's partner (4)
- STAN
- 67 Across: Part of a rt. triangle (3)
- HYP
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Soldier from Down Under (5)
- ANZAC
- 2 Down: Sierra ___ (5)
- LEONE
- 3 Down: Ordinary (5)
- BANAL
- 4 Down: "The ___ Song": Romberg (6)
- DESERT
- 5 Down: Is indebted to (4)
- OWES
- 6 Down: Be natural or uninhibited (15)
- LETITALLHANGOUT
- 7 Down: Hide or hair (5)
- TRACE
- 8 Down: "___ a fool according to his folly": Proverbs (6)
- ANSWER
- 9 Down: Level (14)
- LAYITONTHELINE
- 10 Down: Dismal (4)
- DIRE
- 11 Down: "Hear no ___" (4)
- EVIL
- 12 Down: Peruse (4)
- READ
- 14 Down: Level (14)
- TELLITLIKEITIS
- 21 Down: German goose (4)
- GANS
- 25 Down: Mobsters' erstwhile nemesis (4)
- NESS
- 27 Down: Read the ___ act (4)
- RIOT
- 29 Down: Activist (4)
- DOER
- 30 Down: Northeast Italian town (4)
- ESTE
- 31 Down: Legal document (4)
- DEED
- 32 Down: Legumes (4)
- PEAS
- 33 Down: Ste. ___ de Beaupré (4)
- ANNE
- 34 Down: Military org. (4)
- ROTC
- 36 Down: Collar or jacket (4)
- ETON
- 39 Down: "___ Flanders," Defoe novel (4)
- MOLL
- 43 Down: Dross of a metal (4)
- SLAG
- 45 Down: Fixes in the mind (6)
- EMBEDS
- 47 Down: Former maker of house calls (6)
- ICEMAN
- 49 Down: Shrill barks (5)
- YELPS
- 51 Down: Slender European fish (5)
- LOACH
- 52 Down: Mawkishly amorous (5)
- MUSHY
- 53 Down: Legally bar (5)
- ESTOP
- 54 Down: Loses resiliency (4)
- SAGS
- 55 Down: Instigate (4)
- ABET
- 56 Down: Nimbus (4)
- HALO
- 58 Down: Author Santha ___ Rau (4)
- RAMA
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