Friday Crossword — December 28, 1979

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1576 clues~30-60 minBy Mary Virginia Orna12/28/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Hot (5 letters)
6 Across
Turner in a saw (4 letters)
10 Across
Strategy (4 letters)
14 Across
Breadth (5 letters)
15 Across
Kind of hemp (4 letters)
16 Across
Interior decorator's word (4 letters)
17 Across
Tom (15 letters)
20 Across
Spotted (6 letters)
21 Across
Pine cone, e.g. (8 letters)
22 Across
Remnants (4 letters)
24 Across
Nobelist Joliot-Curie (5 letters)
25 Across
License plate (3 letters)
28 Across
Part of pewter (3 letters)
29 Across
Gratified (3 letters)
30 Across
Eastern bigwig (4 letters)
32 Across
Caesar's erstwhile partner (4 letters)
34 Across
Composer Copland (5 letters)
39 Across
Dick (15 letters)
42 Across
"___ Calls It Murder": Gardner (5 letters)
43 Across
Egress or ingress (4 letters)
44 Across
Interlaken's river (4 letters)
45 Across
Documents: Abbr. (3 letters)
47 Across
Corduroy unit (3 letters)
49 Across
Mournful (3 letters)
50 Across
Ovine sound (5 letters)
53 Across
Flatfish (4 letters)
55 Across
Most delicate (8 letters)
58 Across
One of Mrs. Browning's poems (6 letters)
62 Across
Harry (15 letters)
64 Across
Range unit (4 letters)
65 Across
Suffix with argo or cosmo (4 letters)
66 Across
Profound sleep (5 letters)
67 Across
Approach (4 letters)
68 Across
Stretches, with "out" (4 letters)
69 Across
Remove completely (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Being (4 letters)
2 Down
"J.B." units (4 letters)
3 Down
Sticky stuff (4 letters)
4 Down
Ann Landers, to her folks (5 letters)
5 Down
Evangelist's advice (6 letters)
6 Down
Crimean ___: 1853–56 (3 letters)
7 Down
Ransom Eli ___ (4 letters)
8 Down
Ginseng or ginger, e.g. (4 letters)
9 Down
Like ye olde England (6 letters)
10 Down
Test (5 letters)
11 Down
Vladimir Ulyanov (5 letters)
12 Down
An Astaire (5 letters)
13 Down
Durante's schnozzola (4 letters)
18 Down
Pusher's prey (6 letters)
19 Down
James ___ (Fibber McGee) (6 letters)
23 Down
Hairnets (6 letters)
25 Down
Delicacy (4 letters)
26 Down
Oriental nurse (4 letters)
27 Down
Slack (4 letters)
29 Down
Is partial to (6 letters)
31 Down
Word with grouse or grouper (3 letters)
33 Down
___-Magnon (3 letters)
35 Down
College town of Ohio or Oklahoma (3 letters)
36 Down
Certain rugs (4 letters)
37 Down
Gumbo ingredient (4 letters)
38 Down
"O, reason not the ___!" (4 letters)
40 Down
Enchilada relative (6 letters)
41 Down
Like a song by Puccini (6 letters)
46 Down
"Tristram Shandy" author (6 letters)
48 Down
Soyer's "Girl in a White ___" (6 letters)
50 Down
Pair (5 letters)
51 Down
Petrarch's love (5 letters)
52 Down
Down (5 letters)
54 Down
Biblical witching place (5 letters)
55 Down
Large open pie (4 letters)
56 Down
Steep (4 letters)
57 Down
Plumb (4 letters)
59 Down
Malay palm (4 letters)
60 Down
Slaughter (4 letters)
61 Down
Lose interest (4 letters)
63 Down
Alts. (3 letters)

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