SCRAMBLING AROUND - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 172 clues). Published 4/10/1977. By Frances Hansen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Artistic fra (5): LIPPI
6 Across: Grasshopper hatcheries (5): EGGBEDS
11 Across: Tooth (5): MOLAR
16 Across: Kind of soup (5): EGGDROP
21 Across: Bradley and Sharif (5): OMARS
22 Across: Tripoli's land (5): LIBYA
23 Across: "Do ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot (5): IDARE
24 Across: Grab (5): SEIZE
25 Across: Playful animal (5): OTTER
26 Across: Swords (5): EPEES
27 Across: Sweet, hot drink (5): NEGUS
28 Across: Hanged Biblical prince (5): HAMAN
29 Across: Traditional White House event (23): THEEASTEREGGHUNTONTHELAWN
33 Across: Trumpet call (6): SENNET
34 Across: Skid-row affliction (3): DTS
35 Across: Shea team (4): METS
36 Across: Lower Loch ___ (3): EIL
37 Across: Pronounce (3): SAY
38 Across: Spill over (4): SLOP
40 Across: Ruse (4): WILE
41 Across: Farmer's place (4): DELL
43 Across: Little white lie (3): FIB
46 Across: Long-stemmed (3): LEGGY
48 Across: Russian sea (4): ARAL
49 Across: 68 Across, slangily (3): LEGGO
51 Across: Unbalanced (4): ALOP
55 Across: A hen, to Samuel Butler (23): ANEGGSWAYOFMAKINGANOTHEREGG
62 Across: Sudden gush (5): SPATE
63 Across: Schnozzle (5): SNOOT
64 Across: Comparative suffix (3): IER
65 Across: "Bye, Bye, ___" (6): BIRDIE
66 Across: Small tower (6): TURRET
68 Across: "___ me, sir!" (6): UNHAND
71 Across: Op. ___ (3): CIT
72 Across: Supreme Being (3): GOD
73 Across: Part of Mao's name (3): TSE
74 Across: Stravinsky (4): IGOR
77 Across: Theater district (6): RIALTO
80 Across: Choir assent (4): AMEN
82 Across: Variety headline: 1929 (17): WALLSTREETLAYSANEGG
87 Across: Tan shades: Abbr. (4): BRNS
89 Across: U.N. name (6): UTHANT
90 Across: Curb (4): REIN
91 Across: Cruise port (3): RIO
94 Across: Grand ___ (3): PRE
95 Across: Asian holiday (3): TET
97 Across: Weak (6): FEEBLE
100 Across: Flaky treats (6): EROLLS
103 Across: Goddess for whom Easter was named (6): EOSTRE
105 Across: High, in music (3): ALT
107 Across: Urged (5): EGGEDON
110 Across: Give ___ berth to (shun) (5): AWIDE
111 Across: A rash Easter Bunny does it (23): PUTSALLHISEGGSINONEBASKET
116 Across: Draft status (4): ONEA
117 Across: H.M. Pulham, e.g. (3): ESQ
118 Across: ___ time (never) (4): ATNO
119 Across: Eggs for Lucullus (3): OVA
120 Across: Time period (3): ERA
121 Across: Hindu music (4): RAGA
124 Across: Hosiery mishap (4): SNAG
125 Across: Besides (4): ELSE
128 Across: 24 ___ week (poor diet) (3): EGGSA
131 Across: Morsel (3): ORT
132 Across: Historic Italian town (4): LODI
133 Across: Wea. index (3): THI
136 Across: Easter ___ (6): SUNDAY
140 Across: Is an intellectual artistic? (23): CANANEGGHEADDRAWANEASTEREGG
145 Across: Practical (5): UTILE
146 Across: Nine: Prefix (5): ENNEA
147 Across: Pneumonia type (5): LOBAR
148 Across: Songs (5): ARIAS
149 Across: ___ in one's beer (enriches) (5): PUTSEGG
150 Across: Mudd (5): ROGER
151 Across: Puttee (5): LEGGING
152 Across: Rainy-day reserve (5): NESTEGG
153 Across: Tiffs (5): SPATS
154 Across: Used a broom (5): SWEPT
155 Across: Kind of path (5): OSTEO
156 Across: J.Q. Adams biographer (5): BEMIS

Down Answers

1 Down: Pillages (5): LOOTS
2 Down: "___ greatest!": Ali (5): IMTHE
3 Down: Eucharist plate (5): PATEN
4 Down: Dolls up (6): PREENS
5 Down: Where Acre is (6): ISRAEL
6 Down: Small Easter find (4): EGGLET
7 Down: Two-footed (5): BIPED
8 Down: German President: 1919–1925 (5): EBERT
9 Down: Do an Easter fun-job (5): DYEEGGS
10 Down: Obi (4): SASH
11 Down: Liza, with a Z (8): MINNELLI
12 Down: "Swan Lake" role (6): ODETTE
13 Down: Nigerian capital (5): LAGOS
14 Down: ___ for one's money (4): ARUN
15 Down: Lay atop (8): RESTEDON
16 Down: Pale color (6): EGGSHELL
17 Down: Allot (4): DEAL
18 Down: Spanish rhymes (5): RIMAS
19 Down: Conductor Seiji (5): OZAWA
20 Down: Coin (5): PENNY
30 Down: Pompeia's robe (5): STOLA
31 Down: Eskimo boat (5): UMIAK
32 Down: Hurry (3): HIE
39 Down: Fleming and Lee (4): PEGGYS
40 Down: High dudgeon (5): WRATH
42 Down: Actor Bert (4): LAHR
43 Down: Lenten duty (4): FAST
44 Down: Computer data (5): INPUT
45 Down: "The ___ Opera" (5): BEGGARS
47 Down: Hither's partner (3): YON
48 Down: Sun-god Ra (4): AMON
49 Down: Big, for short (3): LGE
50 Down: Actress Samantha (3): EGGAR
52 Down: Shelf (5): LEDGE
53 Down: Heavenly Hunter (5): ORION
54 Down: Let fly (4): PEGGED
56 Down: Scattered (6): STREWN
57 Down: Like Willie Winkie (3): WEE
58 Down: Last quarter (6): FOURTH
59 Down: Of nests (5): NIDAL
60 Down: Sash (3): OBI
61 Down: Giant (5): TITAN
67 Down: Sesame (3): TIL
69 Down: Mountain ridge (5): ARETE
70 Down: Kind of wit or pick (3): NIT
71 Down: "___ fan tutte" (4): COSI
75 Down: Satiate (4): GLUT
76 Down: Kiln: Var. (3): OST
78 Down: Rio Grande city (6): LAREDO
79 Down: Ship rope (3): TYE
81 Down: With 93 Down, development in "Little Men" (6): MEGGROWS
83 Down: "Ad ___ . . . " (5): ASTRA
84 Down: Oodles (5): RAFTS
85 Down: Compass point (3): ENE
86 Down: " . . . eating ___ without salt": Kipling (3): ANE
87 Down: Columnist Heywood (5): BROUN
88 Down: Remainder: Fr. (5): RESTE
92 Down: "___ Ike" (5): ILIKE
93 Down: See 81 Down (5): OLDER
94 Down: Melon (4): PEPO
96 Down: Slippery one (3): EEL
98 Down: Mendicant's line (5): BEGGING
99 Down: Gauze weave (4): LENO
101 Down: British cultural inst. (3): RAA
102 Down: Bristle (4): SETA
104 Down: Ruler (4): TSAR
105 Down: Gasps of delight (3): AHS
106 Down: Rye or rum: Abbr. (3): LIQ
108 Down: Yoko (3): ONO
109 Down: Granular snow (4): NEVE
112 Down: Doeskin, cowhide, etc. (8): LEATHERS
113 Down: Ovolo design (8): EGGANDDART
114 Down: Flight of steps (5): STAIR
115 Down: Life raft (5): BALSA
122 Down: Super-duper Easter finds (6): AONEEGGS
123 Down: Shorthand inventor (3): GREGG
124 Down: " . . . not ___ as a well" (6): SODEEP
126 Down: Suffragist Anthony (6): SUSANB
127 Down: Main course (6): ENTREE
128 Down: Certain containers (5): EGGCUPS
129 Down: Showed surprise (5): SATUP
130 Down: Loos (5): ANITA
132 Down: Actress Hope (5): LANGE
133 Down: Menu offering (5): TWOEGGS
134 Down: Nun's usual garb (5): HABIT
135 Down: Silly (5): INANE
137 Down: Paine's doctrine (5): DEISM
138 Down: Hindu lamp rite (5): ARATI
139 Down: Safecracker's omelet (5): YEGGSEGGS
141 Down: Norwegian fjord (4): ALST
142 Down: Poet's "enough" (4): ENOW
143 Down: Isomeric (4): ALLO
144 Down: Therefore (4): ERGO

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