Monday Crossword — December 24, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 12/24/1979. By Martha J. DeWitt.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Less ruddy (5)
- PALER
- 6 Across: Bends in the middle (4)
- SAGS
- 10 Across: Door catch (4)
- HASP
- 14 Across: True (5)
- ALINE
- 15 Across: Rodgers collaborator (4)
- HART
- 16 Across: Italian commune (4)
- ENNA
- 17 Across: Describing Milquetoast (5)
- TIMID
- 18 Across: Kind of code (4)
- AREA
- 19 Across: Freshly (4)
- ANEW
- 20 Across: Used garment (10)
- HANDMEDOWN
- 22 Across: Brooklet (4)
- RILL
- 23 Across: Prayer ending (4)
- AMEN
- 24 Across: Ritz and Grand (6)
- HOTELS
- 26 Across: Having claws (7)
- TALONED
- 30 Across: Raspberries' kin (4)
- BOOS
- 31 Across: Prolific poet: Abbr. (4)
- ANON
- 32 Across: Mollify (7)
- APPEASE
- 36 Across: Caressed (7)
- STROKED
- 40 Across: Makes seawater potable (7)
- DESALTS
- 41 Across: Rose or Ethel (7)
- KENNEDY
- 42 Across: Leak out (4)
- SEEP
- 43 Across: Fencer's foil (4)
- EPEE
- 44 Across: General pardon (7)
- AMNESTY
- 47 Across: Admits (6)
- LETSIN
- 50 Across: Dark purple fruit (4)
- SLOE
- 51 Across: Give off (4)
- EMIT
- 52 Across: Kind of Boy Scout (10)
- TENDERFOOT
- 58 Across: Put the kibosh on (4)
- VETO
- 59 Across: Busy as ___ (4)
- ABEE
- 60 Across: Brink (5)
- VERGE
- 61 Across: Gardner's first name (4)
- ERLE
- 62 Across: Ripped (4)
- TORN
- 63 Across: Kind of Boy Scout (5)
- EAGLE
- 64 Across: Soap ingredients (4)
- LYES
- 65 Across: Termini (4)
- ENDS
- 66 Across: Eye ailments (5)
- STYES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Trail (4)
- PATH
- 2 Down: Inter ___ (4)
- ALIA
- 3 Down: Draw (4)
- LIMN
- 4 Down: Geraint's wife (4)
- ENID
- 5 Down: American aborigine (6)
- REDMAN
- 6 Down: Changed slightly, as a painting (6)
- SHADED
- 7 Down: Hank or Tommy (5)
- AARON
- 8 Down: Developed (4)
- GREW
- 9 Down: Buggy (8)
- STANHOPE
- 10 Down: Wild pansy (10)
- HEARTSEASE
- 11 Down: Laurie (5)
- ANNIE
- 12 Down: Fishline leader (5)
- SNELL
- 13 Down: Certain sliding bolts (5)
- PAWLS
- 21 Down: Friend, in Glasgow (3)
- EME
- 25 Down: Clumsy person's cry (4)
- OOPS
- 26 Down: Kind of force (4)
- TASK
- 27 Down: Feed the kitty (4)
- ANTE
- 28 Down: Elinor Wylie's "Jennifer ___" (4)
- LORN
- 29 Down: Alert (10)
- ONONESTOES
- 30 Down: Spoiled (3)
- BAD
- 33 Down: Dark brown and October (4)
- ALES
- 34 Down: Printer's direction (4)
- STET
- 35 Down: Make out (4)
- ESPY
- 37 Down: Poilu's cap (4)
- KEPI
- 38 Down: Lacking teeth (8)
- EDENTATE
- 39 Down: Textile pigment (3)
- DYE
- 44 Down: John and Priscilla (6)
- ALDENS
- 45 Down: Morris, for short (3)
- MOE
- 46 Down: Jitters (6)
- NERVES
- 47 Down: On the ___ (honest) (5)
- LEVEL
- 48 Down: Kind of board (5)
- EMERY
- 49 Down: Championship (5)
- TITLE
- 50 Down: Wooden Mortimer (5)
- SNERD
- 53 Down: Black (4)
- EBON
- 54 Down: Deed (4)
- FEAT
- 55 Down: Binge (4)
- ORGY
- 56 Down: Give the eye (4)
- OGLE
- 57 Down: Kickers' positioners (4)
- TEES
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