TROUBLE SPOTS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 130 clues). Published 5/23/1976. By Jack Luzzatto.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Woman guard (6)
- MATRON
- 7 Across: Dinner course (5)
- SALAD
- 12 Across: Gossamer wear (6)
- SHEERS
- 18 Across: Williams's lizard (6)
- IGUANA
- 19 Across: Green shade (7)
- EMERALD
- 22 Across: Lawes, for one (6)
- WARDEN
- 23 Across: Room with a rack (14)
- TORTURECHAMBER
- 25 Across: " . . . ___ me death!" (6)
- ORGIVE
- 26 Across: Slip away (3)
- RUN
- 27 Across: Zealous follower (7)
- SECTARY
- 28 Across: Breughel's painting style (5)
- GENRE
- 30 Across: Vagabond, for short (3)
- BOE
- 31 Across: On (4)
- ATOP
- 33 Across: Toots of Broadway (4)
- SHOR
- 34 Across: Passages to nowhere (10)
- TREADMILLS
- 36 Across: Certain prisoner (5)
- LIFER
- 38 Across: By word (4)
- ORAL
- 40 Across: Undecided (5)
- YESNO
- 41 Across: Thomas (4)
- SETH
- 42 Across: Swaps (6)
- TRADES
- 44 Across: Dail's land (4)
- EIRE
- 46 Across: Big hair-do (4)
- AFRO
- 48 Across: Was rude in a crowd (6)
- SHOVED
- 49 Across: Notes (5)
- MEMOS
- 50 Across: Clammy (4)
- DAMP
- 52 Across: Public tantrums (6)
- SCENES
- 53 Across: Boat covers (5)
- TARPS
- 54 Across: Slackening agents (7)
- ABATERS
- 57 Across: Girl (4)
- LASS
- 58 Across: Skipper's pursuer (6)
- TRACER
- 60 Across: Loud and demanding (9)
- CLAMOROUS
- 62 Across: Grampus (3)
- ORC
- 63 Across: Prelude to murder, often (13)
- PREMEDITATION
- 65 Across: Naval noncom (3)
- CPO
- 66 Across: Wiretap aids (9)
- EARPHONES
- 68 Across: Aramaic tongue (6)
- SYRIAC
- 69 Across: Waterless (4)
- ARID
- 70 Across: Fastened a ship's rope (7)
- BELAYED
- 71 Across: Pills at parties (5)
- BORES
- 72 Across: Blank spot (6)
- LACUNA
- 74 Across: "Able ___ ere . . . " (4)
- WASI
- 75 Across: Pineapples, in Spain (5)
- PINAS
- 76 Across: Surrender by deed (6)
- REMISE
- 77 Across: River of England (4)
- NENE
- 79 Across: Fellowship: Abbr. (4)
- ASSN
- 80 Across: Low hound dog (6)
- BASSET
- 81 Across: Alpaca (4)
- PACO
- 84 Across: Hooded coat (5)
- GREGO
- 86 Across: Taunt (4)
- TWIT
- 88 Across: Tire pattern (5)
- TREAD
- 91 Across: Her charm is fatal (10)
- IRONMAIDEN
- 93 Across: Sponsorship (4)
- EGIS
- 95 Across: Sodium soap (4)
- SAPO
- 96 Across: Small shield (3)
- ECU
- 97 Across: Big Russian lake (5)
- ONEGA
- 98 Across: Guided (7)
- PILOTED
- 101 Across: ___ pros (drop a suit) (3)
- NOL
- 102 Across: Application of birch (6)
- CANING
- 104 Across: Brat (14)
- ENFANTTERRIBLE
- 107 Across: Access (6)
- ENTREE
- 108 Across: More robust (7)
- STOUTER
- 109 Across: Untwists (6)
- RAVELS
- 110 Across: Dispose of a purchase (6)
- RESELL
- 111 Across: Old or vain (5)
- GLORY
- 112 Across: Town Leander swam from (6)
- ABYDOS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Like a bishop's headdress (6)
- MITRAL
- 2 Down: S.A. rodent (6)
- AGOUTI
- 3 Down: Jamesian hair-raiser (14)
- TURNOFTHESCREW
- 4 Down: Start of a drum sound (3)
- RAT
- 5 Down: Burden (4)
- ONUS
- 6 Down: Nostrils (5)
- NARES
- 7 Down: Military areas (7)
- SECTORS
- 8 Down: Ethiopian (6)
- AMHARA
- 9 Down: Troubled king (4)
- LEAR
- 10 Down: Salvation, for one (4)
- ARMY
- 11 Down: Little bit (3)
- DAB
- 12 Down: Warning with a point (15)
- SWORDOFDAMOCLES
- 13 Down: Turkish delight? (5)
- HAREM
- 14 Down: Unit of work (3)
- ERG
- 15 Down: Safe, as mushrooms (6)
- EDIBLE
- 16 Down: Mutiny (6)
- REVOLT
- 17 Down: Snuff, in Britain (6)
- SNEESH
- 20 Down: Simon ___ (cruel ones) (7)
- LEGREES
- 21 Down: Endures, in Scotland (5)
- DREES
- 24 Down: Agreed with (6)
- ECHOED
- 29 Down: Nursemaid (4)
- NANA
- 32 Down: Juan, Eva and Isabel (6)
- PERONS
- 34 Down: Beginners (5)
- TYROS
- 35 Down: Compound resembling another (6)
- ISOMER
- 37 Down: Be delirious (4)
- RAVE
- 39 Down: Looked like a villain (6)
- LEERED
- 43 Down: Mushroom with a wallop (15)
- DESTROYINGANGEL
- 45 Down: Claps in jail (9)
- IMPRISONS
- 47 Down: Boca ___ (5)
- RATON
- 48 Down: Beetle talisman (6)
- SCARAB
- 49 Down: Sprays for muggers (5)
- MACES
- 51 Down: Dangerous bunk (14)
- PROCRUSTEANBED
- 52 Down: Wild plum (4)
- SLOE
- 53 Down: Under control (5)
- TAMED
- 54 Down: Ancient Greek Olympics site (5)
- ALTIS
- 55 Down: Resort near Naples (4)
- BAIA
- 56 Down: Flat on one's back (6)
- SUPINE
- 59 Down: Descartes (4)
- RENE
- 60 Down: Gray-hair promoters (5)
- CARES
- 61 Down: Cracker or jerk (4)
- SODA
- 63 Down: Stage of progress (5)
- PHASE
- 64 Down: Despot (6)
- TYRANT
- 67 Down: Look ahead to (6)
- PLANON
- 69 Down: Quaker grays (6)
- ACIERS
- 71 Down: Animal for a nickel (5)
- BISON
- 73 Down: Dutch city: Abbr. (4)
- AMST
- 75 Down: Mardi Gras event (7)
- PAGEANT
- 76 Down: Ostrich or emu (6)
- RATITE
- 78 Down: Cleveland's waters (4)
- ERIE
- 80 Down: Intolerance (7)
- BIGOTRY
- 81 Down: Textile worker (6)
- PIECER
- 82 Down: Mysterious (6)
- ARCANE
- 83 Down: Parts of an indictment (6)
- COUNTS
- 85 Down: Moves gradually (5)
- EDGES
- 87 Down: Wallow (6)
- WELTER
- 89 Down: Space program (6)
- APOLLO
- 90 Down: Lacking ambition (6)
- DOLESS
- 92 Down: ___ metal (nickel alloy) (5)
- MONEL
- 94 Down: Sawlike part (5)
- SERRA
- 98 Down: Bunyan (4)
- PAUL
- 99 Down: Involved with (4)
- INTO
- 100 Down: Colorless (4)
- DRAB
- 103 Down: Resentment (3)
- IRE
- 105 Down: Holmesian ambience (3)
- FOG
- 106 Down: Campus clinger (3)
- IVY
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