Saturday Crossword — September 15, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 9/15/1979. By Jack Luzzatto.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "Get lost!" (5)
- SCRAM
- 6 Across: Garment often carrying a message (6)
- TSHIRT
- 12 Across: Artist's ruler (7)
- TSQUARE
- 14 Across: Teaser (6)
- BAITER
- 15 Across: " . . . ___ spite": Hamlet (7)
- OCURSED
- 16 Across: Footstool (7)
- OTTOMAN
- 18 Across: Spoken (4)
- ORAL
- 19 Across: Simpleton (5)
- NINNY
- 21 Across: Was conveyed (4)
- RODE
- 22 Across: Chess champion: 1960–61 (3)
- TAL
- 23 Across: Spuds (6)
- TATERS
- 25 Across: Small bird (3)
- TIT
- 26 Across: Stunning stories (5)
- EPICS
- 29 Across: Ordinal number endings (3)
- THS
- 30 Across: Fragrant (5)
- OLENT
- 32 Across: Subtracted (8)
- DEDUCTED
- 34 Across: World problem (6)
- ENERGY
- 35 Across: Criterion for making a decision (9)
- GUIDELINE
- 37 Across: Perfumes or their bases (6)
- ATTARS
- 40 Across: Produce (8)
- GENERATE
- 44 Across: Video for a price (5)
- PAYTV
- 45 Across: Sky Altar (3)
- ARA
- 46 Across: Cast constantly in related roles (5)
- TYPED
- 47 Across: Prince Valiant's son (3)
- ARN
- 48 Across: Lawn tools (6)
- EDGERS
- 51 Across: In medias ___ (3)
- RES
- 52 Across: Each, in Ecuador (4)
- CADA
- 54 Across: Combat area (5)
- ARENA
- 55 Across: Home for pigeons (4)
- COTE
- 56 Across: Lightweight cotton (7)
- ETAMINE
- 58 Across: Put on a list for jury duty (7)
- IMPANEL
- 60 Across: Building wing (6)
- ALETTE
- 61 Across: Cowboys, at times (7)
- NOOSERS
- 62 Across: Got the drift (6)
- SENSED
- 63 Across: Dehisced (5)
- GAPED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Like the mean streets (7)
- SQUALID
- 2 Down: Spiral (4)
- CURL
- 3 Down: Title Selassie held (3)
- RAS
- 4 Down: Verbal negative contraction (5)
- ARENT
- 5 Down: Interposed between those opposed (8)
- MEDIATED
- 6 Down: "High steaks" (6)
- TBONES
- 7 Down: Nymph chaser (5)
- SATYR
- 8 Down: Popular favorite (3)
- HIT
- 9 Down: "Believe ___ Not": Ripley (4)
- ITOR
- 10 Down: Less immediate (7)
- REMOTER
- 11 Down: Off-season baseball action (7)
- TRADING
- 12 Down: Blew one's horn (6)
- TOOTED
- 13 Down: Escapade (6)
- SCRAPE
- 17 Down: Meshy (5)
- NETTY
- 20 Down: The ultimate (9)
- NTHDEGREE
- 24 Down: Shakespearean poem (6)
- SONNET
- 27 Down: Maestro Xavier (5)
- CUGAT
- 28 Down: Sinuous figure (6)
- SCURVE
- 31 Down: Suspicious (5)
- LEERY
- 33 Down: "___ the season . . . " (3)
- TIS
- 34 Down: Berliner's article (3)
- EIN
- 36 Down: Erudition (8)
- LEARNING
- 37 Down: Without delay (5)
- APACE
- 38 Down: N.Z. evergreens (7)
- TARATAS
- 39 Down: Reformer executed for heresy in 1536 (7)
- TYNDALE
- 41 Down: Clad for cooking (7)
- APRONED
- 42 Down: Wobble (6)
- TEETER
- 43 Down: Lemons on wheels (6)
- EDSELS
- 45 Down: Seeing eye to eye (6)
- AGREED
- 49 Down: Poet painted by Giotto (5)
- DANTE
- 50 Down: Subject of a book by Margaret Mead: 1928 (5)
- SAMOA
- 53 Down: Preacher's last word (4)
- AMEN
- 55 Down: Job for Mason or Trent (4)
- CASE
- 57 Down: Porter's "___ De-lovely" (3)
- ITS
- 59 Down: Kind of corn or art (3)
- POP
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