Friday Crossword — December 28, 1979 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 12/28/1979. By Mary Virginia Orna.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Hot (5)
- EAGER
- 6 Across: Turner in a saw (4)
- WORM
- 10 Across: Strategy (4)
- PLAN
- 14 Across: Breadth (5)
- SCOPE
- 15 Across: Kind of hemp (4)
- ALOE
- 16 Across: Interior decorator's word (4)
- REDO
- 17 Across: Tom (15)
- STOPPARDORJONES
- 20 Across: Spotted (6)
- ESPIED
- 21 Across: Pine cone, e.g. (8)
- STROBILE
- 22 Across: Remnants (4)
- ENDS
- 24 Across: Nobelist Joliot-Curie (5)
- IRENE
- 25 Across: License plate (3)
- TAG
- 28 Across: Part of pewter (3)
- TIN
- 29 Across: Gratified (3)
- FED
- 30 Across: Eastern bigwig (4)
- AMIR
- 32 Across: Caesar's erstwhile partner (4)
- COCA
- 34 Across: Composer Copland (5)
- AARON
- 39 Across: Dick (15)
- CAVETTORVANDYKE
- 42 Across: "___ Calls It Murder": Gardner (5)
- THEDA
- 43 Across: Egress or ingress (4)
- DOOR
- 44 Across: Interlaken's river (4)
- AARE
- 45 Across: Documents: Abbr. (3)
- MSS
- 47 Across: Corduroy unit (3)
- RIB
- 49 Across: Mournful (3)
- SAD
- 50 Across: Ovine sound (5)
- BLEAT
- 53 Across: Flatfish (4)
- SOLE
- 55 Across: Most delicate (8)
- FRAILEST
- 58 Across: One of Mrs. Browning's poems (6)
- SONNET
- 62 Across: Harry (15)
- LAUDERORHOUDINI
- 64 Across: Range unit (4)
- ACRE
- 65 Across: Suffix with argo or cosmo (4)
- NAUT
- 66 Across: Profound sleep (5)
- SOPOR
- 67 Across: Approach (4)
- NEAR
- 68 Across: Stretches, with "out" (4)
- EKES
- 69 Across: Remove completely (5)
- ERASE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Being (4)
- ESSE
- 2 Down: "J.B." units (4)
- ACTS
- 3 Down: Sticky stuff (4)
- GOOP
- 4 Down: Ann Landers, to her folks (5)
- EPPIE
- 5 Down: Evangelist's advice (6)
- REPENT
- 6 Down: Crimean ___: 1853–56 (3)
- WAR
- 7 Down: Ransom Eli ___ (4)
- OLDS
- 8 Down: Ginseng or ginger, e.g. (4)
- ROOT
- 9 Down: Like ye olde England (6)
- MERRIE
- 10 Down: Test (5)
- PROBE
- 11 Down: Vladimir Ulyanov (5)
- LENIN
- 12 Down: An Astaire (5)
- ADELE
- 13 Down: Durante's schnozzola (4)
- NOSE
- 18 Down: Pusher's prey (6)
- ADDICT
- 19 Down: James ___ (Fibber McGee) (6)
- JORDAN
- 23 Down: Hairnets (6)
- SNOODS
- 25 Down: Delicacy (4)
- TACT
- 26 Down: Oriental nurse (4)
- AMAH
- 27 Down: Slack (4)
- GIVE
- 29 Down: Is partial to (6)
- FAVORS
- 31 Down: Word with grouse or grouper (3)
- RED
- 33 Down: ___-Magnon (3)
- CRO
- 35 Down: College town of Ohio or Oklahoma (3)
- ADA
- 36 Down: Certain rugs (4)
- RYAS
- 37 Down: Gumbo ingredient (4)
- OKRA
- 38 Down: "O, reason not the ___!" (4)
- NEED
- 40 Down: Enchilada relative (6)
- TAMALE
- 41 Down: Like a song by Puccini (6)
- ARIOSO
- 46 Down: "Tristram Shandy" author (6)
- STERNE
- 48 Down: Soyer's "Girl in a White ___" (6)
- BLOUSE
- 50 Down: Pair (5)
- BRACE
- 51 Down: Petrarch's love (5)
- LAURA
- 52 Down: Down (5)
- EIDER
- 54 Down: Biblical witching place (5)
- ENDOR
- 55 Down: Large open pie (4)
- FLAN
- 56 Down: Steep (4)
- SOAK
- 57 Down: Plumb (4)
- TRUE
- 59 Down: Malay palm (4)
- NIPA
- 60 Down: Slaughter (4)
- ENOS
- 61 Down: Lose interest (4)
- TIRE
- 63 Down: Alts. (3)
- HTS
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