Friday Crossword — September 14, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 9/14/1979. By A. J. Santora.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Author Rostov: "Eroica," 1977 (4)
- MARA
- 5 Across: Letter (3)
- ESS
- 8 Across: Feast of Lots (5)
- PURIM
- 13 Across: Kind of sax (5)
- TENOR
- 14 Across: Letter with jay or tee (3)
- VEE
- 15 Across: Word with mentioned (5)
- AFORE
- 16 Across: ___ a dozen (5)
- ADIME
- 17 Across: "___ citizen": Cicero (9)
- IAMAROMAN
- 19 Across: Novel in which real persons are fictionalized (10)
- ROMANACLEF
- 21 Across: Adding word (3)
- AND
- 22 Across: Card game (7)
- CANASTA
- 23 Across: Ripped (4)
- TORN
- 26 Across: Big Bertha's birthplace (5)
- ESSEN
- 27 Across: Of sound (5)
- TONAL
- 30 Across: Wave, for short (4)
- PERM
- 33 Across: Piano city of the Netherlands (3)
- EDE
- 34 Across: Suburb of Los Angeles (6)
- POMONA
- 35 Across: Boils over (6)
- ERUPTS
- 37 Across: Landlord's concern (6)
- LEASES
- 38 Across: Has compassion for (6)
- PITIES
- 39 Across: E.T.O. general (3)
- DDE
- 41 Across: Triton (4)
- NEWT
- 42 Across: Earthy pigment (5)
- OCHRE
- 43 Across: Pelagic eagles (5)
- ERNES
- 45 Across: National League team (4)
- REDS
- 47 Across: Two-handed pinochle (7)
- GOULASH
- 50 Across: Abbott's first baseman (3)
- WHO
- 52 Across: Far from fervent (10)
- UNROMANTIC
- 55 Across: Coarsely ground wheat, rye and flaxseed (9)
- ROMANMEAL
- 58 Across: Fallacies in thinking (5)
- IDOLA
- 59 Across: Old violin (5)
- AMATI
- 60 Across: Praiseful poem (3)
- ODE
- 61 Across: Sister of Notre Dame de ___ (5)
- NAMUR
- 62 Across: Kind of code (5)
- PENAL
- 63 Across: Buntline (3)
- NED
- 64 Across: Biblical land (4)
- ELAM
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Bordeaux wine (5)
- MEDOC
- 2 Down: ___ mundi (vital force) (5)
- ANIMA
- 3 Down: Part of H.R.E. (11)
- ROMANEMPIRE
- 4 Down: Omni and Cobo (6)
- ARENAS
- 5 Down: Forced out (7)
- EVICTED
- 6 Down: Trade route (7)
- SEALANE
- 7 Down: Dotted with stars (4)
- SEME
- 8 Down: Average (3)
- PAR
- 9 Down: Sky sighting? (3)
- UFO
- 10 Down: Type of facial feature (9)
- ROMANNOSE
- 11 Down: OPEC nation (4)
- IRAN
- 12 Down: Repair (4)
- MEND
- 13 Down: Relative of blacktop (3)
- TAR
- 18 Down: Sternward (3)
- AFT
- 20 Down: Estimate (6)
- ASSESS
- 24 Down: Nebraska Indian (4)
- OTOE
- 25 Down: Type of footwear (11)
- ROMANSANDAL
- 28 Down: Over again (4)
- ANEW
- 29 Down: At the tail end (4)
- LAST
- 30 Down: Pumpkin or cucumber (4)
- PEPO
- 31 Down: Rock entertainer Clapton (4)
- ERIC
- 32 Down: Actress from Boston (9)
- RUTHROMAN
- 34 Down: General assembly of legislators (6)
- PLENUM
- 36 Down: ___ off (annoyed) (4)
- TEED
- 39 Down: Corrupt (7)
- DEGRADE
- 40 Down: Slavered (7)
- DROOLED
- 44 Down: May from Philadelphia (6)
- ELAINE
- 46 Down: Aggregate (3)
- SUM
- 48 Down: Mouthlike opening (5)
- STOMA
- 49 Down: Scar on the seed of a bean (5)
- HILUM
- 50 Down: Conclude, with "up" (4)
- WRAP
- 51 Down: Word with run or spun (4)
- HOME
- 53 Down: The "new gas" (4)
- NEON
- 54 Down: The Oakland was one (3)
- CAR
- 56 Down: ___ loss (bewildered) (3)
- ATA
- 57 Down: Nothing (3)
- NIL
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