New York Times Answers - Friday, 17th August 1979

There are 36 across clues and 36 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 17th August 1979. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Jack Sprat, perhaps
AAcross 7:	Channel swimmer Gertrude
AAcross 13:	Humphrey's protégé	MONDALE
AAcross 14:	Exercisers
AAcross 16:	Nonwinner
AAcross 17:	Winner's emotion
AAcross 18:	Carter's "Why ___ the Best?"
AAcross 19:	Attracted
AAcross 21:	F.D.R. measure re retirees: 1935
AAcross 22:	Russian-Turkish border river
AAcross 24:	Pub game
AAcross 25:	___ Woods National Monument, Calif.
AAcross 26:	Polite blokes
AAcross 28:	Famed Virginian
AAcross 29:	Roscoe Tanner's strong point
AAcross 30:	Large holdings
AAcross 32:	Ordained
AAcross 34:	Block or Conniff
AAcross 35:	Burmese native	LAI
AAcross 36:	Desk adjunct
AAcross 40:	Nadia Comaneci, e.g.
AAcross 44:	Prices for hotel rooms
AAcross 45:	"Wise" hooter
AAcross 47:	Kind of bear
AAcross 48:	"It's ___ plan that can't be changed"	ABAD
AAcross 49:	Bargain of a sort
AAcross 51:	"The Blessed One," to Hindus
AAcross 52:	Scand. nation
AAcross 53:	Ran over
AAcross 55:	Family member
AAcross 56:	British pastime
AAcross 58:	Marathon runner's necessity
AAcross 60:	Poisonous herb
AAcross 61:	Scrambles a message
AAcross 62:	Took time out
AAcross 63:	Like many lawns
DDown 1:	Film star Del Rio	DOLORES
DDown 2:	Trice
DDown 3:	Nigerian tribe
DDown 4:	Biblical weed
DDown 5:	Oxlike African beast
DDown 6:	Income source for landlords
DDown 7:	Did a bouncer's job
DDown 8:	First Family of Hawaii: 1900–03
DDown 9:	Victorian expletive
DDown 10:	Army div.	RGT
DDown 11:	Time for hobbies
DDown 12:	Wearing down
DDown 13:	Direct
DDown 15:	Netted
DDown 20:	Spleen
DDown 23:	Got going
DDown 25:	Sheep
DDown 27:	Laws: Abbr.
DDown 29:	Scaramouch
DDown 31:	The sclera covers most of it
DDown 33:	Pat Nixon's birthplace, in Nevada	ELY
DDown 36:	Rickey of baseball fame
DDown 37:	Peon
DDown 38:	Pertaining to eared seals
DDown 39:	Took turns
DDown 40:	Slides off, as a blow
DDown 41:	Surveyor's instrument
DDown 42:	Attacked violently
DDown 43:	Swaps
DDown 46:	Benign bump on the skin
DDown 49:	A Constable painting, e.g.
DDown 50:	Sierra ___
DDown 53:	Card game for three
DDown 54:	Mussolini's title
DDown 57:	Important initials for Cronkite	CBS
DDown 59:	Curl or Funseth of golf