Saturday Crossword — September 15, 1979

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1570 clues~30-60 minBy Jack Luzzatto9/15/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
"Get lost!" (5 letters)
6 Across
Garment often carrying a message (6 letters)
12 Across
Artist's ruler (7 letters)
14 Across
Teaser (6 letters)
15 Across
" . . . ___ spite": Hamlet (7 letters)
16 Across
Footstool (7 letters)
18 Across
Spoken (4 letters)
19 Across
Simpleton (5 letters)
21 Across
Was conveyed (4 letters)
22 Across
Chess champion: 1960–61 (3 letters)
23 Across
Spuds (6 letters)
25 Across
Small bird (3 letters)
26 Across
Stunning stories (5 letters)
29 Across
Ordinal number endings (3 letters)
30 Across
Fragrant (5 letters)
32 Across
Subtracted (8 letters)
34 Across
World problem (6 letters)
35 Across
Criterion for making a decision (9 letters)
37 Across
Perfumes or their bases (6 letters)
40 Across
Produce (8 letters)
44 Across
Video for a price (5 letters)
45 Across
Sky Altar (3 letters)
46 Across
Cast constantly in related roles (5 letters)
47 Across
Prince Valiant's son (3 letters)
48 Across
Lawn tools (6 letters)
51 Across
In medias ___ (3 letters)
52 Across
Each, in Ecuador (4 letters)
54 Across
Combat area (5 letters)
55 Across
Home for pigeons (4 letters)
56 Across
Lightweight cotton (7 letters)
58 Across
Put on a list for jury duty (7 letters)
60 Across
Building wing (6 letters)
61 Across
Cowboys, at times (7 letters)
62 Across
Got the drift (6 letters)
63 Across
Dehisced (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Like the mean streets (7 letters)
2 Down
Spiral (4 letters)
3 Down
Title Selassie held (3 letters)
4 Down
Verbal negative contraction (5 letters)
5 Down
Interposed between those opposed (8 letters)
6 Down
"High steaks" (6 letters)
7 Down
Nymph chaser (5 letters)
8 Down
Popular favorite (3 letters)
9 Down
"Believe ___ Not": Ripley (4 letters)
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Less immediate (7 letters)
11 Down
Off-season baseball action (7 letters)
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Blew one's horn (6 letters)
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Escapade (6 letters)
17 Down
Meshy (5 letters)
20 Down
The ultimate (9 letters)
24 Down
Shakespearean poem (6 letters)
27 Down
Maestro Xavier (5 letters)
28 Down
Sinuous figure (6 letters)
31 Down
Suspicious (5 letters)
33 Down
"___ the season . . . " (3 letters)
34 Down
Berliner's article (3 letters)
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Erudition (8 letters)
37 Down
Without delay (5 letters)
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N.Z. evergreens (7 letters)
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Reformer executed for heresy in 1536 (7 letters)
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Clad for cooking (7 letters)
42 Down
Wobble (6 letters)
43 Down
Lemons on wheels (6 letters)
45 Down
Seeing eye to eye (6 letters)
49 Down
Poet painted by Giotto (5 letters)
50 Down
Subject of a book by Margaret Mead: 1928 (5 letters)
53 Down
Preacher's last word (4 letters)
55 Down
Job for Mason or Trent (4 letters)
57 Down
Porter's "___ De-lovely" (3 letters)
59 Down
Kind of corn or art (3 letters)

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