Thursday Crossword — September 27, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 9/27/1979. By Louise Earnest.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: T.R.'s "big" weapon (5)
- STICK
- 6 Across: Native of Wichita (6)
- KANSAN
- 12 Across: Normal time, musically (6)
- ATEMPO
- 13 Across: Figures in sports (8)
- SEMIPROS
- 15 Across: Chinese skiff (6)
- SAMPAN
- 16 Across: Calaboose (8)
- HOOSEGOW
- 17 Across: Printed booboos (5)
- TYPOS
- 18 Across: Unless, in law (4)
- NISI
- 19 Across: Battle site in 1796 (4)
- LODI
- 20 Across: Composer's product (4)
- OPUS
- 21 Across: Letter after cee (3)
- DEE
- 22 Across: Figures on Wall Street (5)
- BULLS
- 23 Across: Provides T.L.C. (8)
- NURTURES
- 25 Across: Figures at Aqueduct (6)
- PONIES
- 26 Across: After zeta (3)
- ETA
- 27 Across: Sparks or Buntline (3)
- NED
- 28 Across: Sty talk (5)
- OINKS
- 29 Across: "___ M for Murder" (4)
- DIAL
- 30 Across: Figures in D.C. (4)
- SENS
- 31 Across: British measure (5)
- LITRE
- 32 Across: "___ on parle . . . " (3)
- ICI
- 33 Across: U.S. mortgage guarantor (3)
- FHA
- 36 Across: Abbey Theater's Sean (6)
- OCASEY
- 38 Across: Cloverleaf locales (8)
- FREEWAYS
- 40 Across: Figures in silents (5)
- VAMPS
- 41 Across: Free (3)
- RID
- 42 Across: "Miserabile dictu!" (4)
- ALAS
- 43 Across: Moslem V.I.P. (4)
- EMIR
- 44 Across: "___ of Wine and Roses" (4)
- DAYS
- 46 Across: Creator of Mr. Pim (5)
- MILNE
- 47 Across: Do a decorator's job (8)
- RENOVATE
- 49 Across: Certain protests (6)
- SITINS
- 50 Across: Figure in transit (8)
- TRAVELER
- 51 Across: Figure in a Shakespearean poem (6)
- ADONIS
- 52 Across: Actress Smith (6)
- ALEXIS
- 53 Across: Pop song group (5)
- WINGS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Remain permanently (7)
- STAYPUT
- 2 Down: Seafood fritters, Japanese style (7)
- TEMPURA
- 3 Down: Duty (6)
- IMPOST
- 4 Down: Figures in figures (4)
- CPAS
- 5 Down: ___-Tiki (Heyerdahl boat) (3)
- KON
- 6 Down: One of the Cyclades (4)
- KEOS
- 7 Down: Mine, in Boulogne (4)
- AMOI
- 8 Down: City in Yugoslavia (3)
- NIS
- 9 Down: Explores caves (8)
- SPELUNKS
- 10 Down: Gulf of ___, in the Aegean (7)
- ARGOLIS
- 11 Down: Noggin (6)
- NOODLE
- 12 Down: Robbins's "___ for Danny Fisher" (6)
- ASTONE
- 13 Down: Starts (5)
- SHIES
- 14 Down: Chard or cheese (5)
- SWISS
- 18 Down: Badger (6)
- NEEDLE
- 21 Down: Like a cloudy day (6)
- DREARY
- 22 Down: Clyde's partner (6)
- BONNIE
- 24 Down: Makes one (6)
- UNITES
- 25 Down: Patched (6)
- PIECED
- 28 Down: Egyptian god of the lower world (6)
- OSIRIS
- 29 Down: Refute (8)
- DISPROVE
- 31 Down: Layered (7)
- LAMINAL
- 33 Down: "___ in Love Again," 1930 song (7)
- FALLING
- 34 Down: Town on Cape Cod (7)
- HYANNIS
- 35 Down: Evaluate (6)
- ASSESS
- 36 Down: Manifest (5)
- OVERT
- 37 Down: Tourist's neckwear (6)
- CAMERA
- 38 Down: Poultry-counter item (5)
- FRYER
- 39 Down: Serve (6)
- WAITON
- 44 Down: Painter of limp watches (4)
- DALI
- 45 Down: Endings for consul and sultan (4)
- ATES
- 46 Down: Noon, in Nice (4)
- MIDI
- 48 Down: Irk (3)
- VEX
- 49 Down: Adage (3)
- SAW
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