Thursday Crossword — September 27, 1979

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1570 clues~15-30 minBy Louise Earnest9/27/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
T.R.'s "big" weapon (5 letters)
6 Across
Native of Wichita (6 letters)
12 Across
Normal time, musically (6 letters)
13 Across
Figures in sports (8 letters)
15 Across
Chinese skiff (6 letters)
16 Across
Calaboose (8 letters)
17 Across
Printed booboos (5 letters)
18 Across
Unless, in law (4 letters)
19 Across
Battle site in 1796 (4 letters)
20 Across
Composer's product (4 letters)
21 Across
Letter after cee (3 letters)
22 Across
Figures on Wall Street (5 letters)
23 Across
Provides T.L.C. (8 letters)
25 Across
Figures at Aqueduct (6 letters)
26 Across
After zeta (3 letters)
27 Across
Sparks or Buntline (3 letters)
28 Across
Sty talk (5 letters)
29 Across
"___ M for Murder" (4 letters)
30 Across
Figures in D.C. (4 letters)
31 Across
British measure (5 letters)
32 Across
"___ on parle . . . " (3 letters)
33 Across
U.S. mortgage guarantor (3 letters)
36 Across
Abbey Theater's Sean (6 letters)
38 Across
Cloverleaf locales (8 letters)
40 Across
Figures in silents (5 letters)
41 Across
Free (3 letters)
42 Across
"Miserabile dictu!" (4 letters)
43 Across
Moslem V.I.P. (4 letters)
44 Across
"___ of Wine and Roses" (4 letters)
46 Across
Creator of Mr. Pim (5 letters)
47 Across
Do a decorator's job (8 letters)
49 Across
Certain protests (6 letters)
50 Across
Figure in transit (8 letters)
51 Across
Figure in a Shakespearean poem (6 letters)
52 Across
Actress Smith (6 letters)
53 Across
Pop song group (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Remain permanently (7 letters)
2 Down
Seafood fritters, Japanese style (7 letters)
3 Down
Duty (6 letters)
4 Down
Figures in figures (4 letters)
5 Down
___-Tiki (Heyerdahl boat) (3 letters)
6 Down
One of the Cyclades (4 letters)
7 Down
Mine, in Boulogne (4 letters)
8 Down
City in Yugoslavia (3 letters)
9 Down
Explores caves (8 letters)
10 Down
Gulf of ___, in the Aegean (7 letters)
11 Down
Noggin (6 letters)
12 Down
Robbins's "___ for Danny Fisher" (6 letters)
13 Down
Starts (5 letters)
14 Down
Chard or cheese (5 letters)
18 Down
Badger (6 letters)
21 Down
Like a cloudy day (6 letters)
22 Down
Clyde's partner (6 letters)
24 Down
Makes one (6 letters)
25 Down
Patched (6 letters)
28 Down
Egyptian god of the lower world (6 letters)
29 Down
Refute (8 letters)
31 Down
Layered (7 letters)
33 Down
"___ in Love Again," 1930 song (7 letters)
34 Down
Town on Cape Cod (7 letters)
35 Down
Evaluate (6 letters)
36 Down
Manifest (5 letters)
37 Down
Tourist's neckwear (6 letters)
38 Down
Poultry-counter item (5 letters)
39 Down
Serve (6 letters)
44 Down
Painter of limp watches (4 letters)
45 Down
Endings for consul and sultan (4 letters)
46 Down
Noon, in Nice (4 letters)
48 Down
Irk (3 letters)
49 Down
Adage (3 letters)

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