INSECT STUDY - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 2/6/1977. By Eugene T. Maleska.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Egyptian goddess (4)
SATI
5 Across: Acarids (5)
MITES
10 Across: Wicker's "___ to Die" (5)
ATIME
15 Across: Can. air arm (4)
RCAF
19 Across: Buck heroine (4)
OLAN
20 Across: Toughen (5)
INURE
21 Across: Yonkers events (5)
PACES
22 Across: Honor, in Hamburg (4)
EHRE
23 Across: Army ant (10)
FIRSTSERGE
25 Across: Comic-strip ant (10)
PRINCEVALI
27 Across: Accessory ant (8)
APPURTEN
28 Across: Girth control (4)
DIET
30 Across: Subsequently (7)
LATERON
31 Across: Marsh growth (4)
REED
32 Across: Actor Alan (4)
ALDA
33 Across: A Warhol forte (6)
POPART
34 Across: Small pike perch (6)
SAUGER
37 Across: Dresden's river (7)
THEELBE
39 Across: Saxon king (6)
EGBERT
42 Across: Woody or Steve (5)
ALLEN
43 Across: Michelangelo work (5)
PIETA
44 Across: D-Day craft (3)
LST
46 Across: Goose-pimply (5)
EERIE
47 Across: Ballads (4)
LAYS
48 Across: Musical rounds (5)
ROTAS
49 Across: Kind of beat or burn (5)
HEART
51 Across: Leftover ant (4)
REMN
52 Across: Chi. railroads (3)
ELS
53 Across: Caesar or Waldorf (5)
SALAD
54 Across: Tossed to and fro (7)
BANDIED
56 Across: Flop (3)
DUD
57 Across: Preston role (8)
MUSICMAN
59 Across: Tale-telling French ant (12)
GUYDEMAUPASS
61 Across: Western lawman (4)
EARP
62 Across: City on the Rhone (5)
ARLES
63 Across: Gator's relative (4)
CROC
64 Across: Red ant, possibly (12)
RUSSIANEMIGR
68 Across: "Aida" total (8)
FOURACTS
72 Across: Reply: Abbr. (3)
ANS
73 Across: Signature part (7)
PRENAME
74 Across: Phi Beta ___ (5)
KAPPA
75 Across: Morsel for dobbin (3)
OAT
76 Across: Party pooper (4)
DRIP
78 Across: Toothsome (5)
TASTY
79 Across: Slogans (5)
CRIES
80 Across: Mystical mark (4)
RUNE
81 Across: "La Douce" et al. (5)
IRMAS
83 Across: Luau garland (3)
LEI
84 Across: Great care (5)
PAINS
85 Across: Alba ___ (Remus's home) (5)
LONGA
86 Across: Movie director and family (6)
CAPRAS
88 Across: Malign (7)
ASPERSE
90 Across: Indian drum (6)
TOMTOM
91 Across: River (6)
STREAM
93 Across: Ampersands (4)
ANDS
94 Across: Rio's beach (4)
COPA
95 Across: One who shuns (7)
AVOIDER
97 Across: Years, to Cato (4)
ANNI
98 Across: Sen. Bumpers is one (8)
ARKANSAN
102 Across: Disagreeable ant (10)
NONCONCORD
104 Across: Ticket-taking ant (10)
GATEATTEND
106 Across: Oscar film of 1958 (4)
GIGI
107 Across: Poe's "___ in Paradise" (5)
TOONE
108 Across: Marquand's late hero (5)
APLEY
109 Across: Org. since 1844 (4)
YMCA
110 Across: Eucalyptus secretion (4)
LERP
111 Across: Second of two (5)
OTHER
112 Across: Seasonal songs (5)
NOELS
113 Across: Vile odor (4)
REEK

Down Answers

1 Down: Parlor piece (4)
SOFA
2 Down: "___ of much contempt" (Shakespeare) (4)
ALIP
3 Down: Boatman's buy (4)
TARP
4 Down: Becomes rebellious (8)
INSURGES
5 Down: Roberts, for one (6)
MISTER
6 Down: "You're All ___ ," (old song) (5)
INEED
7 Down: Rotate (4)
TURN
8 Down: Work unit (3)
ERG
9 Down: Small spores (8)
SEEDLETS
10 Down: Have charisma (6)
APPEAL
11 Down: Snappish (4)
TART
12 Down: Here, in Herault (3)
ICI
13 Down: Edison's Park (5)
MENLO
14 Down: Houdini feat (6)
ESCAPE
15 Down: Echoing ant (8)
REVERBER
16 Down: British ant, good with figures (16)
CHARTEREDACCOUNT
17 Down: Guthrie (4)
ARLO
18 Down: Sinn ___ (4)
FEIN
24 Down: Small woodenware (5)
TREEN
26 Down: Level on the Eiffel Tower (5)
ETAGE
29 Down: Thinker's reward (4)
IDEA
32 Down: In the van (5)
AHEAD
33 Down: Horse-show maneuver (6)
PESADE
34 Down: Hawthorne's birthplace (5)
SALEM
35 Down: Babylonian deity (5)
ALALU
36 Down: Ant named Hiram (16)
ULYSSESSIMPSONGR
37 Down: Giant (5)
TITAN
38 Down: Certain whiskies (6)
BLENDS
40 Down: Trees of N. Z. (5)
RIMUS
41 Down: Watches over (5)
TENDS
43 Down: Negri (4)
POLA
45 Down: Shipshape (4)
TRIM
48 Down: Bulwark (7)
RAMPART
49 Down: Tedder operator (5)
HAYER
50 Down: "Over the ___" (Holmes) (7)
TEACUPS
53 Down: Stock certificate (5)
SCRIP
54 Down: Middle-age spread (5)
BULGE
55 Down: Grain sorghum (5)
DURRA
58 Down: Noun suffixes (3)
IAS
59 Down: Covered with soot (5)
GRIMY
60 Down: Wire grass (3)
POA
62 Down: Valuable violins (6)
AMATIS
64 Down: Rooting ant (5)
RADIC
65 Down: Relief adm. (5)
UNRRA
66 Down: Patricia of films (4)
NEAL
67 Down: Mark or scar (6)
ENSEAM
68 Down: Indolent ant (5)
FAINE
69 Down: Uncloses, to poets (4)
OPES
70 Down: Dance for two (5)
TANGO
71 Down: What inspired Watt (5)
STEAM
74 Down: Kringle (5)
KRISS
77 Down: Sharing ant (8)
PARTICIP
79 Down: Sweater (8)
CARDIGAN
80 Down: Neronian ant (8)
ROMANTYR
82 Down: Corsican's neighbor: It. (5)
SARDO
84 Down: Ant over Reds' ball park (4)
PENN
85 Down: "Steady Eddie" of Yankees (5)
LOPAT
87 Down: Taken care of (6)
SEENTO
89 Down: Cater basely (6)
PANDER
90 Down: Sweet wines (6)
TOKAYS
92 Down: Madras town (5)
ARCOT
94 Down: Angler's basket (5)
CREEL
95 Down: Church of Eng. (4)
ANGL
96 Down: Parisian's way (4)
VOIE
97 Down: Haydn contemporary (4)
ARNE
98 Down: Salt tree (4)
ATLE
99 Down: Bespangled, in heraldry (4)
SEME
100 Down: Suffix for clear or appear (4)
ANCE
101 Down: Bismarck's loc. (4)
NDAK
103 Down: "___, That Kiss!" (3)
OOH
105 Down: G.I. address (3)
APO

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