DIRECTORY - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 146 clues). Published 4/3/1977. By Bert H. Kruse.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Evening dress (6)
FORMAL
7 Across: Season (4)
SALT
11 Across: Mauna ___ (3)
LOA
14 Across: Wilson (4)
FLIP
18 Across: Drill command (6)
ATEASE
19 Across: Clothes-drying frame (5)
AIRER
20 Across: Address for a singer? (8)
ABBELANE
22 Across: Address for a netman? (12)
TOPSPINDRIVE
24 Across: Smart aleck's rural address? (8)
WISEACRE
25 Across: Real being (4)
ESSE
26 Across: Pindar's output (4)
ODES
27 Across: Film cutter (6)
EDITOR
29 Across: Comics character (3)
EEK
30 Across: Boards a 747 (8)
ENPLANES
33 Across: Danish weights (4)
ESER
34 Across: Does sums (4)
ADDS
35 Across: Doubtful (4)
IFFY
38 Across: Moonships (4)
LEMS
39 Across: Room shape (3)
ELL
41 Across: Scorecard entries (4)
RBIS
43 Across: Common, in Hawaii (3)
NOA
44 Across: Bull fiddle (4)
BASS
45 Across: Indigo sources (5)
ANILS
47 Across: Corn porridges (5)
SAMPS
50 Across: Hoffman and Farnum (7)
DUSTINS
52 Across: Crimson Tide (7)
ALABAMA
54 Across: Kind of jar (5)
MASON
56 Across: Right: Prefix (5)
ORTHO
57 Across: Athirst (4)
AVID
58 Across: Mailed (4)
SENT
60 Across: Water surface, old style (4)
RYME
61 Across: Glaswegians (5)
SCOTS
63 Across: Counter-clockwise (4)
LEVO
64 Across: Bye-bye (4)
TATA
65 Across: Dice throw (4)
ACES
66 Across: CWP starter (3)
SQI
67 Across: Geronimo, e.g. (6)
APACHE
69 Across: Planetarium (6)
ORRERY
71 Across: Biblical V.I.P.'s: Abbr. (3)
HPS
72 Across: Possessive (4)
OURS
74 Across: Celebes ox (4)
ANOA
75 Across: Bird sound (4)
TWEE
76 Across: Word of mouth (5)
PAROL
78 Across: Jet speed unit (4)
MACH
79 Across: Very, in Berlin (4)
SEHR
80 Across: Critic Rex (4)
REED
81 Across: Great Yankee arm (5)
LOPAT
83 Across: Famed song-writer (5)
ARLEN
85 Across: Plague (7)
TORMENT
87 Across: Make a face (7)
GRIMACE
89 Across: Fisherman (5)
EELER
91 Across: Service club (5)
LIONS
92 Across: Gay blade (4)
ROUE
93 Across: Gumshoe (3)
TEC
94 Across: Good earth (4)
LOAM
96 Across: Chic, for short (3)
MOD
97 Across: Villein (4)
SERF
98 Across: Chan words (4)
AHSO
99 Across: Sheep cries (4)
BAAS
102 Across: Yucatan native (4)
MAYA
104 Across: Indolent (8)
SLOTHFUL
107 Across: Cork source (3)
OAK
108 Across: Kitchen attire (6)
APRONS
110 Across: Nimbus (4)
AURA
111 Across: Pleasant (4)
NICE
114 Across: Dancer's address? (8)
CAKEWALK
116 Across: Diana Ross's ex-address? (12)
SUPREMECOURT
120 Across: Library name (8)
CARNEGIE
121 Across: Vestige (5)
TRACE
122 Across: Fur of the coypu (6)
NUTRIA
123 Across: "And ___ weary . . . ": Burns (4)
ISAE
124 Across: Windup (3)
END
125 Across: Dimensions (4)
SIZE
126 Across: Purloined (6)
STOLEN

Down Answers

1 Down: Avoirdupois (3)
FAT
2 Down: Western Indian (4)
OTOE
3 Down: H.R. members (4)
REPS
4 Down: Stage Abe (6)
MASSEY
5 Down: Quiverleaf (5)
ASPEN
6 Down: Garland (3)
LEI
7 Down: Hazard for Odysseus (6)
SIRENS
8 Down: Crop up (5)
ARISE
9 Down: Israel's Bar ___ (3)
LEV
10 Down: Hat holder (4)
TREE
11 Down: "The ___ a ass": Dickens (5)
LAWIS
12 Down: Kind of dictum (6)
OBITER
13 Down: Takes in (7)
ABSORBS
14 Down: Neighbor of Ga. (3)
FLA
15 Down: Tied (5)
LACED
16 Down: "The Lady ___" (5)
INRED
17 Down: Sly glances (5)
PEEKS
19 Down: Nobelist for peace: 1931 (6)
ADDAMS
21 Down: Always, to poets (3)
EER
23 Down: Exactly as stated (6)
NOLESS
28 Down: Address in Perry's notebook? (11)
DELLASTREET
31 Down: Blueprint (4)
PLAN
32 Down: Lisbon legislature (6)
SENADO
34 Down: Eritrean capital (6)
ASMARA
35 Down: ___-China (4)
INDO
36 Down: Outspoken quartet's address? (10)
FOURSQUARE
37 Down: Address for jet-setters? (10)
FASTCIRCLE
40 Down: Steinem's concern (3)
LIB
42 Down: "___ Woman" (3)
IAM
44 Down: Flora and fauna (5)
BIOTA
45 Down: Still in use (5)
ALIVE
46 Down: Daubed (7)
SMEARED
48 Down: Way to Bellevue? (10)
PSYCHOPATH
49 Down: Certain sites (10)
SOMEPLACES
51 Down: Tonkinese group (3)
THO
52 Down: Diplomat's address? (11)
AVEHARRIMAN
53 Down: Wager (4)
ANTE
55 Down: Promontory (4)
NESS
57 Down: Intoxicant (7)
ALCOHOL
59 Down: Protective covering (4)
TARP
62 Down: Health resorts (4)
SPAS
66 Down: Psyche's opposite (4)
SOMA
68 Down: French novelist (4)
ANET
69 Down: Singer Buck (5)
OWENS
70 Down: Cantab's rival (5)
YALIE
73 Down: Wentletraps (6)
SHELLS
75 Down: Swings (6)
TRENDS
77 Down: Gypsy spouse (3)
ROM
82 Down: Mexican group (4)
TECO
84 Down: Modernist (3)
NEO
86 Down: Jersey's lament (3)
MOO
87 Down: Famed silversmith (6)
GORHAM
88 Down: Trump or bird (4)
RUFF
90 Down: Storm wildly (7)
RAMPAGE
92 Down: Damaged paper (6)
RETREE
95 Down: Game fish (6)
MARLIN
97 Down: Origin (6)
SOURCE
98 Down: Ex-mayor of S.F. (6)
ALIOTO
99 Down: Italian bowls (5)
BOCCI
100 Down: Shoe sizes (5)
AAAAS
101 Down: Ghana's capital: Var. (5)
AKKRA
103 Down: Coupled (5)
YOKED
105 Down: Bolivian city (5)
LAPAZ
106 Down: Not abridged (5)
UNCUT
108 Down: Impress greatly (3)
AWE
109 Down: Concordes (4)
SSTS
112 Down: Squiggle (4)
CURL
113 Down: Border lake (4)
ERIE
115 Down: Chemical suffix (3)
ENE
117 Down: Psychic Geller (3)
URI
118 Down: Annapolis grad. (3)
ENS
119 Down: Hosiery shade (3)
TAN

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