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Sunday, 23rd December 1979

There are 69 across clues and 68 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Sunday, 23rd December 1979. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Commander of David's army	JOAB
AAcross 5:	Sound seeking attention
AAcross 9:	Mexican sandwich
AAcross 13:	The other woman, Roman style	ALTERA
AAcross 19:	Chaplet for Galahad
AAcross 20:	Long skirt, for short
AAcross 21:	Ebro y Tajo	RIOS
AAcross 22:	Creator of Dr. Fu Manchu	ROHMER
AAcross 23:	Glove leather
AAcross 24:	Buck heroine	OLAN
AAcross 25:	Evergreens
AAcross 26:	Let ___ (bettor's expression)	ITRIDE
AAcross 27:	Story by Queen Marie of Rumania	ACHRISTMASTALE
AAcross 30:	Pieces of pottery
AAcross 31:	Former Eastern rulers
AAcross 32:	"Land of Cockaigne" author	SERAO
AAcross 33:	Part of U.S.A.
AAcross 35:	Actress Hagen
AAcross 37:	Part of a bottle
AAcross 38:	Petroleum
AAcross 42:	Words by Faith Baldwin	BRIGHTISTHEMANGER
AAcross 49:	Ad ___
AAcross 50:	Elusive one
AAcross 51:	Bad ___ (German spa)
AAcross 52:	"Rap session"
AAcross 53:	Bungling
AAcross 55:	Actor Vigoda	ABE
AAcross 56:	Sways
AAcross 59:	Abysses
AAcross 60:	Trolls
AAcross 61:	Maugham character	SADIE
AAcross 63:	Type of roof
AAcross 64:	A Cantor
AAcross 65:	Cal. ___
AAcross 66:	Words by Clement Moore	BUTAMINIATURESLEIGH
AAcross 72:	Largest of seven
AAcross 73:	F.D.R. measure
AAcross 74:	Tolkien creature	ENT
AAcross 75:	Nebraskan Indians	OTOES
AAcross 77:	Liliaceous plant
AAcross 80:	Frustrate
AAcross 81:	Letter stroke
AAcross 83:	___ de tête
AAcross 84:	Speaker of the House: 1801–07
AAcross 85:	Trees or nuts
AAcross 87:	Elec. unit
AAcross 88:	Dec. 24
AAcross 89:	Kind of shadow
AAcross 90:	"It was told ___" (words by Janet Knox)	THATASTARAPPEARED
AAcross 95:	Celebration at Yuletide
AAcross 97:	Hurried
AAcross 98:	Patriotic org.
AAcross 99:	Puzzle word
AAcross 102:	Mild expletives
AAcross 104:	Intrigue
AAcross 108:	Eddies
AAcross 111:	O. Henry story ending	THEYARETHEMAGI
AAcross 114:	Two-seated carriage
AAcross 115:	Deserve
AAcross 116:	___ fixe
AAcross 117:	Guthrie	ARLO
AAcross 118:	Freshen, as a room
AAcross 119:	___ Major
AAcross 120:	Piano piece	NOLA
AAcross 121:	Religious image
AAcross 122:	Sailor's jumper
AAcross 123:	Rabin's predecessor
AAcross 124:	Midge
AAcross 125:	Corvine calls
DDown 1:	Dr. Salk	JONAS
DDown 2:	Plant resembling spinach
DDown 3:	Beginning
DDown 4:	Tight squeeze
DDown 4:	Tight squeeze
DDown 5:	Bible book
DDown 6:	Discontinues
DDown 7:	Critical studies
DDown 8:	Moslem tower
DDown 9:	Christmas thought from Dickens	TRYTOKEEPITALLTHEYEAR
DDown 10:	Suburb of Honolulu	AIEA
DDown 11:	Monks' wear
DDown 12:	Caucasian native	OSSET
DDown 13:	Bristles
DDown 14:	Words by John Bowring	LOTHEPRINCEOFPEACE
DDown 15:	Beat
DDown 16:	Bedouin chief
DDown 17:	Foxx
DDown 18:	War god
DDown 28:	Title of an editorial by Francis Church: 1897	ISTHEREASANTACLAUS
DDown 29:	Meistersinger Hans: 1494–1576	SACHS
DDown 34:	Item on Pierre's Yule tree	ANGE
DDown 36:	Air: Comb. form	ATMO
DDown 39:	Book by Oates
DDown 40:	Faith follower
DDown 41:	Bible book
DDown 42:	Arthur and Lillie	BEAS
DDown 43:	Middle Eastern fiddle	REBAB
DDown 44:	___ Diable	ILEDU
DDown 45:	Italian island
DDown 46:	California Indian
DDown 47:	Red star in Scorpius
DDown 48:	Cartoonists' org.	NCS
DDown 54:	___ game
DDown 57:	Relations
DDown 58:	Dutch philosopher: 1632–77
DDown 60:	Set
DDown 62:	Aviator Balbo	ITALO
DDown 65:	Shoe type	TSTRAP
DDown 67:	Cake ___
DDown 68:	Ram on high
DDown 69:	Chemical suffix
DDown 70:	Pyle of TV
DDown 71:	Throw with effort
DDown 76:	Gift for a moppet
DDown 77:	Merganser
DDown 78:	Yucatec
DDown 79:	Desserts
DDown 80:	Falstaffian
DDown 82:	Puckerels
DDown 85:	Circle of light
DDown 86:	Siberian antelope
DDown 91:	Shaggy
DDown 92:	Bringing up
DDown 93:	Appended	ADDEDON
DDown 94:	Semitic language
DDown 96:	"La Tosca" dramatist	SARDOU
DDown 100:	Fiddle with a uke
DDown 101:	N.Y.S.E. unit
DDown 103:	Stone monument
DDown 105:	Hannibal's family name
DDown 106:	Lit up
DDown 107:	Service group
DDown 108:	Thick slice
DDown 109:	Lament
DDown 110:	Obi accessory
DDown 112:	Though, to Tacitus	ETSI
DDown 113:	Fervor

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