Tuesday Crossword — October 16, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 10/16/1979. By Herb L. Risteen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Stroke lightly (3)
- PAT
- 4 Across: Young codfish (5)
- SCROD
- 9 Across: Doorway part (4)
- SILL
- 13 Across: Lamentation (4)
- ALAS
- 15 Across: French historian (5)
- TAINE
- 16 Across: Sills specialty (4)
- ARIA
- 17 Across: Agree, for a bribe, not to prosecute (15)
- COMPOUNDAFELONY
- 20 Across: "___ Tables" (8)
- SEPARATE
- 21 Across: Arrives at O'Hare (5)
- LANDS
- 22 Across: He married Octavia and later had her killed (4)
- NERO
- 23 Across: African lake (4)
- CHAD
- 25 Across: He likes to strike (6)
- SADIST
- 28 Across: Insipid (4)
- FLAT
- 29 Across: Menagerie member (3)
- APE
- 32 Across: Tavern stock (4)
- ALES
- 33 Across: Satisfy (5)
- SLAKE
- 34 Across: Barcelona bigwig (3)
- DON
- 35 Across: Live more thriftily (15)
- TIGHTENONESBELT
- 39 Across: Little ___ (3)
- EVA
- 40 Across: Fragrances (5)
- ODORS
- 41 Across: Cap-___ (from head to foot) (4)
- APIE
- 42 Across: ___ Moines (3)
- DES
- 43 Across: Modena money (4)
- LIRA
- 44 Across: Trusted adviser (6)
- MENTOR
- 46 Across: Diminutive suffix (4)
- ETTE
- 47 Across: Name meanning "princess" (4)
- SARA
- 48 Across: Kind of crow or babe (5)
- SCARE
- 51 Across: Fleet fellow (8)
- SPRINTER
- 55 Across: Work together (15)
- MAKECOMMONCAUSE
- 58 Across: "Iliad," for one (4)
- EPIC
- 59 Across: Lucky chance (5)
- FLUKE
- 60 Across: ___ judgment (4)
- SNAP
- 61 Across: "Down ___ McGinty," old song (4)
- WENT
- 62 Across: ___ Stadium, in Detroit (5)
- TIGER
- 63 Across: "Gloomy" one (3)
- GUS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Footwear pair (4)
- PACS
- 2 Down: Its leaves are used in a drug (4)
- ALOE
- 3 Down: Pack down lightly (4)
- TAMP
- 4 Down: Jeb or Gilbert (6)
- STUART
- 5 Down: Part of a Pound poem (5)
- CANTO
- 6 Down: Make fun of (4)
- RIDE
- 7 Down: "Three Men ___ Horse" (3)
- ONA
- 8 Down: Bus. loss (3)
- DEF
- 9 Down: Word with bar or days (5)
- SALAD
- 10 Down: Cruel (4)
- IRON
- 11 Down: Barnum's singer (4)
- LIND
- 12 Down: "___ of Ancient Rome" (4)
- LAYS
- 14 Down: Cervantes's tongue (7)
- SPANISH
- 18 Down: Mining products (4)
- ORES
- 19 Down: Delights (6)
- ELATES
- 23 Down: Social divisions (5)
- CLANS
- 24 Down: Relative of 4 Across (4)
- HAKE
- 25 Down: Surfeited (5)
- SATED
- 26 Down: ___ to (noticing) (5)
- ALIVE
- 27 Down: "L'Absinthe" painter (5)
- DEGAS
- 28 Down: Regional plants (5)
- FLORA
- 29 Down: Skilled (5)
- ADEPT
- 30 Down: Target of Salk and Sabin (5)
- POLIO
- 31 Down: Script direction (5)
- ENTER
- 33 Down: Nocturnal noise (5)
- SNORE
- 36 Down: Pre-Aztec group in Mexico (6)
- TOLTEC
- 37 Down: Revise a manuscript (4)
- EDIT
- 38 Down: Loco (7)
- BANANAS
- 44 Down: The Weaver of Raveloe (6)
- MARNER
- 45 Down: ___ the Red (4)
- ERIC
- 46 Down: Straight up (5)
- ERECT
- 47 Down: Gave a lecture (5)
- SPOKE
- 48 Down: Merganser (4)
- SMEW
- 49 Down: Fear, in N.C. (4)
- CAPE
- 50 Down: Related (4)
- AKIN
- 51 Down: Complacent (4)
- SMUG
- 52 Down: ___ oil, used in varnishes (4)
- TUNG
- 53 Down: One of Rebekah's boys (4)
- ESAU
- 54 Down: Twilled fabrics (4)
- REPS
- 56 Down: Moore's "___ in the Stilly Night" (3)
- OFT
- 57 Down: Fifteen years before Hastings (3)
- MLI
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