WORDS, INC. - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 5/29/1977. By Joseph J. La Fauci.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Must (5)
HASTO
6 Across: Next Sunday's heroes (4)
DADS
10 Across: Urban eyesore (4)
SLUM
14 Across: Wing length (4)
SPAN
18 Across: Player under a dome (5)
ASTRO
19 Across: Proclaim (9)
ENUNCIATE
21 Across: Reproductive body (5)
SPORE
22 Across: Secret business associate (15)
SLEEPINGPARTNER
24 Across: Tanqueray's second wife (5)
PAULA
25 Across: Small shark (4)
TOPE
26 Across: Bears (9)
TOLERATES
27 Across: Rabbit's incentive (6)
CARROT
28 Across: Spire ornament (3)
EPI
29 Across: Neural network (4)
RETE
30 Across: Caustic agents (4)
LYES
31 Across: Out of ___ (5)
SORTS
32 Across: Cheer for Scotto (6)
ENCORE
34 Across: Famed couturier (4)
DIOR
35 Across: !, to a printer (8)
SCREAMER
38 Across: Tra followers (3)
LAS
39 Across: Loser to Louis: 1946 (4)
CONN
40 Across: Uncovered (5)
BARED
41 Across: Domesday Book money (3)
ORA
42 Across: Pointed a weapon (5)
AIMED
45 Across: Reverberated (4)
RANG
46 Across: Miscubobble (5)
BONER
47 Across: Use shears (4)
SNIP
48 Across: Bird in a Gallico title (9)
SNOWGOOSE
50 Across: Inelegant (5)
CRUDE
51 Across: Salad days (5)
TEENS
52 Across: One: Ger. (3)
EIN
53 Across: One of Esau's wives (4)
ADAH
54 Across: Like some investments (5)
SOUND
55 Across: Grand or petty group (4)
JURY
56 Across: Rake it in (21)
MAKEMONEYHANDOVERFIST
62 Across: At all (4)
EVER
63 Across: Jefferson was one (5)
DEIST
64 Across: Mortgage (4)
LIEN
65 Across: Avant-gardist (3)
NEO
66 Across: "Fistivity" finales (5)
KAYOS
68 Across: Any large corporation (5)
GIANT
69 Across: "Fidelio" hero (9)
FLORESTAN
71 Across: Dresden's river (4)
ELBE
72 Across: Parson's home (5)
MANSE
73 Across: Device on a document (4)
SEAL
74 Across: Literary Lorna (5)
DOONE
75 Across: Symbol on Sydney's coins (3)
EMU
76 Across: Push-button man (5)
ROBOT
77 Across: Dollar-a-___ man (4)
YEAR
78 Across: Former French coin (3)
SOU
79 Across: Adjudicated (8)
PASSEDON
81 Across: Cogwheel (4)
GEAR
82 Across: Went on the road (6)
TOURED
85 Across: More chilling (5)
ICIER
86 Across: Vulgarian (4)
SLOB
87 Across: Padlock (4)
SHUT
88 Across: Holiday quaff (3)
NOG
90 Across: Dovetail wedges (6)
TENONS
92 Across: Less than molecular (9)
ATOMISTIC
94 Across: "All there" (4)
SANE
95 Across: Coeur d'___, Idaho (5)
ALENE
96 Across: "Fiddler . . . " song (15)
IFIWEREARICHMAN
98 Across: Stairway member (5)
RISER
99 Across: Court lists (9)
CALENDARS
100 Across: Rugged ridge (5)
ARETE
101 Across: Soviet wire service (4)
TASS
102 Across: Not worth ___ cent (4)
ARED
103 Across: No dele (4)
STET
104 Across: TV tryout (5)
PILOT

Down Answers

1 Down: Expedition (5)
HASTE
2 Down: Slanting (6)
ASLOPE
3 Down: Become involved (6)
STEPIN
4 Down: Place where money doesn't grow (4)
TREE
5 Down: Alley, of comics (3)
OOP
6 Down: Signify (6)
DENOTE
7 Down: Viewpoint (5)
ANGLE
8 Down: Con man's mark (4)
DUPE
9 Down: Like an angry dog (8)
SNARLING
10 Down: Role for Grandma (6)
SITTER
11 Down: Scenes of many strikes (5)
LANES
12 Down: Salt Lake City team (4)
UTES
13 Down: Matelot's milieu (3)
MER
14 Down: Laconian capital (6)
SPARTA
15 Down: Invests heavily (14)
POURSMONEYINTO
16 Down: Guthrie (4)
ARLO
17 Down: Uncluttered (4)
NEAT
20 Down: Irving's pen name (6)
CRAYON
21 Down: Was frugal (6)
SPARED
23 Down: Arteries for Antony (5)
ITERS
27 Down: K.P. utensil (5)
CORER
29 Down: Half of the Mets' schedule (9)
ROADGAMES
31 Down: Pebble; stone (5)
SCREE
33 Down: Ball of thread (4)
CLEW
34 Down: "Finito!" (4)
DONE
35 Down: Sea urchin (10)
SANDDOLLAR
36 Down: Innisfail (4)
ERIN
37 Down: Chats, mod style (4)
RAPS
39 Down: Profited (10)
CASHEDINON
40 Down: Obliged (5)
BOUND
42 Down: Ancient gold alloy (4)
ASEM
43 Down: Dolphin genus (4)
INIA
44 Down: Marx Brothers film classic (14)
MONKEYBUSINESS
45 Down: Horse color (4)
ROAN
46 Down: Shock (5)
BRUNT
47 Down: Medieval toiler (4)
SERF
49 Down: Incense (4)
ODOR
50 Down: Gold or Barbary (5)
COAST
51 Down: Expelled (9)
TURNEDOUT
54 Down: Gleam (5)
SHINE
55 Down: Pooh-pooh (4)
JEER
57 Down: Cry at Greek orgies (4)
EVOE
58 Down: Beer ingredient (5)
YEAST
59 Down: One of the strings (4)
VIOL
60 Down: Connery (4)
SEAN
61 Down: Resiliency (4)
TONE
66 Down: Stronghold (4)
KEEP
67 Down: Mme. Gluck (4)
ALMA
68 Down: Magda, e.g. (5)
GABOR
69 Down: Apprehension (4)
FEAR
70 Down: Off-key (4)
SOUR
72 Down: Manners (5)
MODES
73 Down: Petrels, shearwaters, etc. (8)
SEABIRDS
76 Down: Carl or Rob (6)
REINER
77 Down: Retainers (6)
YEOMEN
78 Down: Sans ___ (carefree) (5)
SOUCI
80 Down: Quick breads (6)
SCONES
81 Down: Incandesced (6)
GLOWED
82 Down: Dryness or desire (6)
THIRST
83 Down: Champlevé (6)
ENAMEL
84 Down: Di ___, noted author (6)
DONATO
86 Down: Rural crossing (5)
STILE
87 Down: Rubberneck (5)
STARE
89 Down: Sartre subject (5)
GENET
90 Down: Pielet (4)
TART
91 Down: Kazan (4)
ELIA
92 Down: Off (4)
AFAR
93 Down: Headquarters (4)
SEAT
94 Down: Eastern title (4)
SHRI
96 Down: City in Peru (3)
ICA
97 Down: Kepi (3)
CAP

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