Tuesday Crossword — September 18, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 9/18/1979. By Janke.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Item purchased at Reno (4)
- CHIP
- 5 Across: Essayist (4)
- LAMB
- 9 Across: "I ___ the Craziest Dream," 1942 song (3)
- HAD
- 12 Across: Ike, to Mac: 1930's (4)
- AIDE
- 13 Across: Straight-laced (5)
- SOBER
- 14 Across: Alone (4)
- SOLO
- 15 Across: Island or terrier (4)
- SKYE
- 16 Across: Menace in India (5)
- COBRA
- 17 Across: Old Mexican coin (4)
- TLAC
- 18 Across: "Catch-22" author (6)
- HELLER
- 20 Across: Spell-caster (7)
- EVILEYE
- 22 Across: Morning reception (5)
- LEVEE
- 24 Across: Express contempt (5)
- SNEER
- 25 Across: Connectives for Cato or Corneille (3)
- ETS
- 27 Across: Of air or gases: Comb. form (4)
- AERO
- 29 Across: Herod's niece (6)
- SALOME
- 32 Across: To and ___ (3)
- FRO
- 33 Across: Row (5)
- SCRAP
- 35 Across: Trucking rigs (5)
- SEMIS
- 36 Across: Powerless floater (4)
- RAFT
- 38 Across: Bunk (5)
- HOKUM
- 40 Across: Declaim (4)
- RANT
- 41 Across: ___ John, singer from Middlesex (5)
- ELTON
- 43 Across: Clean the floor again (5)
- REMOP
- 45 Across: Prefix with classic or Platonic (3)
- NEO
- 46 Across: Composer Gustav (6)
- MAHLER
- 48 Across: Space org. (4)
- NASA
- 49 Across: Seers have it (3)
- ESP
- 50 Across: Inventor Howe (5)
- ELIAS
- 52 Across: ___ und Drang (5)
- STURM
- 54 Across: Comedian for whom Carson once wrote jokes (7)
- SKELTON
- 56 Across: Juliet or Jessica (6)
- ELOPER
- 59 Across: Agitate (4)
- STIR
- 60 Across: Small groups (5)
- TRIOS
- 62 Across: Short hair (4)
- PILE
- 63 Across: Bills (4)
- TENS
- 64 Across: Word with press or travel (5)
- AGENT
- 65 Across: Toledo's lake (4)
- ERIE
- 66 Across: Part of G.B. (3)
- ENG
- 67 Across: Rudolph's rubicund feature (4)
- NOSE
- 68 Across: Ornamental stamp (4)
- SEAL
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Word with carry (4)
- CASH
- 2 Down: Scoutmaster's suggestion (4)
- HIKE
- 3 Down: Notable series of narrative poems (15)
- IDYLLSOFTHEKING
- 4 Down: Contemporary of Shakespeare (5)
- PEELE
- 5 Down: Old card game (3)
- LOO
- 6 Down: Secular ecclesiastic of France (4)
- ABBE
- 7 Down: Griffin et al. (5)
- MERVS
- 8 Down: Sheer intellect (6)
- BRAINS
- 9 Down: A realm of the Hapsburgs (15)
- HOLYROMANEMPIRE
- 10 Down: Wings for Amor (4)
- ALAE
- 11 Down: Brother of Bashful (3)
- DOC
- 13 Down: Tire sound (7)
- SCREECH
- 14 Down: Super Bowl player in 1979 (7)
- STEELER
- 19 Down: A Perón and a Gabor (4)
- EVAS
- 21 Down: Pastures (4)
- LEAS
- 23 Down: Fault (5)
- ERROR
- 25 Down: Zimbalist (5)
- EFREM
- 26 Down: "The flowers that bloom in the spring, ___" (5)
- TRALA
- 28 Down: Kind of bucket (5)
- OAKEN
- 30 Down: Where adits are (5)
- MINES
- 31 Down: Bar legally (5)
- ESTOP
- 34 Down: Cougars (5)
- PUMAS
- 37 Down: Dogs that decoy ducks (7)
- TOLLERS
- 39 Down: "Hostess with the ___" (7)
- MOSTEST
- 42 Down: Playwright Simon (4)
- NEIL
- 44 Down: Vintner Masson (4)
- PAUL
- 47 Down: Caner's material (6)
- RATTAN
- 51 Down: A source of sugar and syrup (5)
- SORGO
- 53 Down: On the ___ (in trouble) (5)
- ROPES
- 54 Down: Carbine (4)
- STEN
- 55 Down: She wrote "Seven Women": 1977 (4)
- NIES
- 57 Down: See 5 Across (4)
- ELIA
- 58 Down: Lively dance (4)
- REEL
- 59 Down: ___-Anne-d'Auray, French resort (3)
- STE
- 61 Down: Número uno (3)
- ONE
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