Tuesday Crossword — December 25, 1979
Difficulty: EasyGrid: 15x1576 clues~5-15 minBy C. J. Angio12/25/1979
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Benedictine's garb (4 letters)
- 5 Across
- Squawfish (4 letters)
- 9 Across
- Courteous interruption (4 letters)
- 13 Across
- Drug-yielding plant (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- Buffalo's ___ Theater (5 letters)
- 15 Across
- Cathedral area (4 letters)
- 16 Across
- She asked The (N.Y.) Sun: "Is there a Santa Claus?" (15 letters)
- 19 Across
- Imperil (8 letters)
- 20 Across
- Exercised a franchise (5 letters)
- 21 Across
- Very, in Versailles (4 letters)
- 22 Across
- Salver (4 letters)
- 24 Across
- More ostentatious (6 letters)
- 27 Across
- Turkey ___ (4 letters)
- 28 Across
- Jiffy (3 letters)
- 31 Across
- Ancient tyrant (4 letters)
- 32 Across
- Letter before iota (5 letters)
- 33 Across
- Actor Holbrook (3 letters)
- 34 Across
- Character changed by spirits at Yuletide (15 letters)
- 38 Across
- Old Sol (3 letters)
- 39 Across
- City where sherry was originated (5 letters)
- 40 Across
- Vincent Lopez's theme song (4 letters)
- 41 Across
- Hissed reproof (3 letters)
- 42 Across
- Whittle (4 letters)
- 43 Across
- Restraint (6 letters)
- 45 Across
- Depend (4 letters)
- 46 Across
- Sound of discouragement (4 letters)
- 47 Across
- Everyday (5 letters)
- 50 Across
- Gift for a bride (8 letters)
- 54 Across
- Largest Pacific atoll (15 letters)
- 57 Across
- Actress Nettleton (4 letters)
- 58 Across
- Coolidge and Moreno (5 letters)
- 59 Across
- "___/To check the erring": Wordsworth (4 letters)
- 60 Across
- Semicircular recess (4 letters)
- 61 Across
- Skater's spinning leap (4 letters)
- 62 Across
- Far from few (4 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Primeval abode (4 letters)
- 2 Down
- Musicologist Downes (4 letters)
- 3 Down
- Tidings (4 letters)
- 4 Down
- It ranks below an embassy (8 letters)
- 5 Down
- Bergman's "___ and Whispers" (5 letters)
- 6 Down
- Attend (4 letters)
- 7 Down
- Número ___ (3 letters)
- 8 Down
- Exclamation from 34 Across (3 letters)
- 9 Down
- Vex (5 letters)
- 10 Down
- Sentry's command (4 letters)
- 11 Down
- "Whoopee!" in ancient Greece (4 letters)
- 12 Down
- Do some darning (4 letters)
- 14 Down
- Cause of cross words (5 letters)
- 17 Down
- Anent (4 letters)
- 18 Down
- Incarnation (6 letters)
- 22 Down
- Part of a switch (5 letters)
- 23 Down
- Corps created in 1916 (4 letters)
- 24 Down
- "___ of robins . . . " (5 letters)
- 25 Down
- O.G.U.R.Y.Y. is one (5 letters)
- 26 Down
- E. C. Bentley's sleuth (5 letters)
- 27 Down
- Magi number (5 letters)
- 28 Down
- New growth (5 letters)
- 29 Down
- Figure on a quarter (5 letters)
- 30 Down
- Weather forecast (5 letters)
- 32 Down
- Bill ___ of baseball's Hall of Fame (5 letters)
- 35 Down
- Exercises a principal's prerogative (6 letters)
- 36 Down
- Fervor (4 letters)
- 37 Down
- Fleeing from the Feds (8 letters)
- 43 Down
- Relative of omega (5 letters)
- 44 Down
- Roe (4 letters)
- 45 Down
- Hike, as taxes (5 letters)
- 46 Down
- Material for rope (5 letters)
- 47 Down
- Rival of U.S.C. (4 letters)
- 48 Down
- Busy place at Yuletide (4 letters)
- 49 Down
- Author of "QB VII" (4 letters)
- 50 Down
- Like some editions (4 letters)
- 51 Down
- ___ avis (4 letters)
- 52 Down
- Get ___ the ground floor (4 letters)
- 53 Down
- Jeanette's Nelson (4 letters)
- 55 Down
- Refrain syllable (3 letters)
- 56 Down
- Jumble (3 letters)
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