Tuesday Crossword — January 8, 1980 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 1/8/1980. By Peter Swift.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Common name in Svendborg (4)
OLAF
5 Across: By mouth (4)
ORAL
9 Across: Run off (5)
ELOPE
14 Across: With 3 Down, Western city (4)
PALO
15 Across: How some like their steak (4)
RARE
16 Across: Classified (5)
TYPED
17 Across: Famous last words (4)
ETTU
18 Across: "Region of the rising sun" (4)
ASIA
19 Across: Desist (5)
CEASE
20 Across: Swindle (11)
SHORTCHANGE
23 Across: Chaney (3)
LON
24 Across: ___ la (part song) (3)
FAL
25 Across: He lived 912 years (4)
SETH
27 Across: Surgeons' needs (8)
SCALPELS
32 Across: Large numbers (6)
SCORES
36 Across: The ___ (European city) (5)
HAGUE
37 Across: Bribes: Slang (4)
OILS
39 Across: Get one's dander up (4)
RILE
40 Across: You were, in ancient Roma (4)
ERAS
41 Across: Musical instrument of a sort (5)
KAZOO
42 Across: Reputation (4)
NAME
43 Across: Does: Poet. (4)
DOTH
44 Across: Drinks (4)
ADES
45 Across: ___ Dal, Swedish river (5)
OSTER
46 Across: Ready for bed (6)
SLEEPY
48 Across: Sci-fi flick (8)
STARWARS
50 Across: Stroll far and wide (4)
ROAM
52 Across: "Winterset" hero (3)
MIO
53 Across: Browne of belt fame (3)
SAM
56 Across: Flimflam (11)
SKULDUGGERY
62 Across: Carpentry, for one (5)
CRAFT
64 Across: Site of a Western art colony (4)
TAOS
65 Across: Bearded antelopes (4)
GNUS
66 Across: Orphan on B'way (5)
ANNIE
67 Across: To exist, in Dieppe (4)
ETRE
68 Across: Ear part (4)
LOBE
69 Across: Chinese rebellion: 1900 (5)
BOXER
70 Across: Offspring (4)
SEED
71 Across: Jug (4)
EWER

Down Answers

1 Down: Uncovers: Poet. (4)
OPES
2 Down: Wood strip supporting plaster (4)
LATH
3 Down: See 14 Across (4)
ALTO
4 Down: Faker (11)
FOURFLUSHER
5 Down: Source of revelations (6)
ORACLE
6 Down: Too quick (4)
RASH
7 Down: Solo (4)
ARIA
8 Down: Tends (5)
LEANS
9 Down: Words of Anna's king, for short (6)
ETCETC
10 Down: Soap ingredient (3)
LYE
11 Down: Translucent gem (4)
OPAL
12 Down: Monetary unit (4)
PESO
13 Down: State of bliss (4)
EDEN
21 Down: Scotch ___ (4)
TAPE
22 Down: Plaster of paris (5)
GESSO
26 Down: Bamboozle (11)
HORNSWOGGLE
27 Down: Diffuses; radiates (5)
SHEDS
28 Down: Warble (5)
CAROL
29 Down: Child's marble (5)
AGATE
30 Down: Gun charge (4)
LOAD
31 Down: Estimates, with "up" (5)
SIZES
33 Down: Lasso (5)
RIATA
34 Down: Playwright Rice (5)
ELMER
35 Down: Clairvoyants (5)
SEERS
38 Down: Was beaten (4)
LOST
41 Down: Sealskin-covered canoe (5)
KAYAK
45 Down: First: Abbr. (4)
ORIG
47 Down: Toulouse-Lautrec specialty (6)
POSTER
49 Down: "We are not ___": Queen Victoria (6)
AMUSED
51 Down: Tones down (5)
MUTES
53 Down: Strikebreaker (4)
SCAB
54 Down: Memorable cartoonist (4)
ARNO
55 Down: Tailless cat (4)
MANX
57 Down: Off schedule (4)
LATE
58 Down: French illustrator-painter (4)
DORE
59 Down: "Oh, Wilderness were Paradise ___!" (4)
ENOW
60 Down: Hayseed (4)
RUBE
61 Down: Belgian canal (4)
YSER
63 Down: For shame! (3)
FIE

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