Saturday Crossword — October 27, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 10/27/1979. By Dorothea E. Shipp.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: With ___ breath (5)
- BATED
- 6 Across: Mother of Chastity (4)
- CHER
- 10 Across: Peak (4)
- ACME
- 14 Across: Playwright's ploy (5)
- ASIDE
- 15 Across: Pelt (4)
- HIDE
- 16 Across: Way of going (4)
- GAIT
- 17 Across: Wallflower (15)
- SHRINKINGVIOLET
- 20 Across: Golfers' needs (4)
- TEES
- 21 Across: Truly! (6)
- INDEED
- 22 Across: Single (3)
- ONE
- 23 Across: Donates, à la Carnegie (6)
- ENDOWS
- 25 Across: Type of admiral or guard (4)
- REAR
- 27 Across: Poet Ogden (4)
- NASH
- 29 Across: More down-at-heel (7)
- SEEDIER
- 32 Across: Power unit, for short (3)
- AMP
- 35 Across: Saw parts (5)
- TEETH
- 37 Across: Hairdo (4)
- AFRO
- 38 Across: Rustics ripe for ruses (15)
- COUNTRYBUMPKINS
- 42 Across: German article (4)
- EINE
- 43 Across: Helots' medieval kin (5)
- ESNES
- 44 Across: Grade below bee minus (3)
- CEE
- 45 Across: Less zaftig (7)
- SLIMMER
- 48 Across: Gulp of gin (4)
- SWIG
- 50 Across: Anon (4)
- SOON
- 51 Across: Role Flagstad often had (6)
- ISOLDE
- 55 Across: Caesar's "ego," to a Berliner (3)
- ICH
- 57 Across: Attaches (6)
- ADDSON
- 61 Across: Geese, in Grenoble (4)
- OIES
- 62 Across: Silly person (15)
- FLIBBERTIGIBBET
- 65 Across: Result of a speeding ticket (4)
- FINE
- 66 Across: About 2,000 feet of film (4)
- REEL
- 67 Across: Cape ___ Islands (5)
- VERDE
- 68 Across: Form of mental discipline (4)
- YOGA
- 69 Across: Confessor's earful (4)
- SINS
- 70 Across: Remove (5)
- ERASE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Sew loosely (5)
- BASTE
- 2 Down: Pale (5)
- ASHEN
- 3 Down: "Beat" (5)
- TIRED
- 4 Down: Con follower (6)
- EDISON
- 5 Down: Phrontistery (3)
- DEN
- 6 Down: Chew the rag (4)
- CHIN
- 7 Down: Drake's Golden ___ (4)
- HIND
- 8 Down: Advantage (4)
- EDGE
- 9 Down: Idolize (6)
- REVERE
- 10 Down: Past (3)
- AGO
- 11 Down: Relating to heat (9)
- CALORIFIC
- 12 Down: Carriage (4)
- MIEN
- 13 Down: Suffix with Jean or Nan (4)
- ETTE
- 18 Down: Mug (6)
- KISSER
- 19 Down: ___ fixe (4)
- IDEE
- 24 Down: A teakettle inspired him (4)
- WATT
- 26 Down: Island of the Andreanof group (4)
- ADAK
- 28 Down: Novelist Georgette (5)
- HEYER
- 29 Down: Gives a wide berth to (5)
- SHUNS
- 30 Down: Lightweight champ before Joe Gans (4)
- ERNE
- 31 Down: Multiflora, e.g. (4)
- ROSE
- 32 Down: "Easy ___," old radio favorite (4)
- ACES
- 33 Down: Drudgery (4)
- MOIL
- 34 Down: Like tough jobs (9)
- PUNISHING
- 36 Down: Cookbook abbr. (3)
- TBS
- 39 Down: Nautilus name (4)
- NEMO
- 40 Down: Sound on L.I. Sound (6)
- MEWING
- 41 Down: Greek letters (4)
- PSIS
- 46 Down: Lot's son (4)
- MOAB
- 47 Down: Nobelist in Medicine: 1954 (6)
- ENDERS
- 49 Down: Peanut (6)
- GOOBER
- 52 Down: Scales in the sky (5)
- LIBRA
- 53 Down: These outdo words (5)
- DEEDS
- 54 Down: A Lauder (5)
- ESTEE
- 55 Down: Doubtful (4)
- IFFY
- 56 Down: Sister of Euterpe (4)
- CLIO
- 58 Down: Teutonic trio (4)
- DREI
- 59 Down: British carbine (4)
- STEN
- 60 Down: Some landscapes (4)
- OILS
- 63 Down: Lillie or Arthur (3)
- BEA
- 64 Down: "___ Got a Secret" (3)
- IVE
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