COUNTERPOINT - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 7/24/1977. By Jay Spry.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Conservatives (5)
- RIGHT
- 6 Across: Liberals (4)
- LEFT
- 10 Across: ___ de Calais (3)
- PAS
- 13 Across: Tin Pan Alley acronym (5)
- ASCAP
- 18 Across: Originated (5)
- AROSE
- 19 Across: Groundless (4)
- IDLE
- 20 Across: Nimbus (4)
- AURA
- 21 Across: Magna ___ (5)
- CARTA
- 22 Across: Discord (10)
- CONTENTION
- 24 Across: Concord (10)
- FRATERNITY
- 26 Across: Chemical suffix (3)
- ENE
- 27 Across: Feminine endings (5)
- ETTES
- 28 Across: She (6)
- FEMALE
- 29 Across: He (3)
- MAN
- 30 Across: Vassal (4)
- SERF
- 32 Across: Cheers (4)
- OLES
- 33 Across: Roman's victim: 290 B.C. (6)
- SABINE
- 34 Across: Simple (4)
- MERE
- 35 Across: Like some paper (5)
- LINED
- 37 Across: Moves (5)
- STIRS
- 38 Across: W.W. II theater (3)
- ETO
- 40 Across: Exploits (5)
- FEATS
- 42 Across: Raced (4)
- TORE
- 43 Across: Jong (5)
- ERICA
- 47 Across: Color (5)
- TINGE
- 48 Across: Inveighed (6)
- RAILED
- 50 Across: Plumbers' cables (6)
- SNAKES
- 51 Across: Unyielding (11)
- INDOMITABLE
- 54 Across: Yielding readily (9)
- SPINELESS
- 57 Across: Legal claim (4)
- LIEN
- 58 Across: Exercises (6)
- DRILLS
- 59 Across: Furthers (5)
- ABETS
- 60 Across: Drug (3)
- LSD
- 61 Across: Nets (6)
- SEINES
- 62 Across: Maledictions (6)
- CURSES
- 64 Across: Group under a col. (3)
- RGT
- 67 Across: Rare violin (5)
- AMATI
- 68 Across: Sex (6)
- GENDER
- 69 Across: Function (4)
- ROLE
- 70 Across: Very active (9)
- TURBULENT
- 74 Across: Very inactive (11)
- UNCONSCIOUS
- 76 Across: Warns (6)
- ALERTS
- 77 Across: T.A.E. (6)
- EDISON
- 79 Across: Is bested or worsted (5)
- LOSES
- 80 Across: Determine (5)
- GETAT
- 81 Across: Rock: Comb. form (4)
- LITE
- 82 Across: Vulgar; cheap (5)
- TATTY
- 83 Across: Faulty: Prefix (3)
- DYS
- 85 Across: "King Olaf" composer (5)
- ELGAR
- 86 Across: Penitent's emotion (5)
- SHAME
- 88 Across: Gay deceiver (4)
- RAKE
- 91 Across: Wheel on a tea wagon (6)
- CASTER
- 93 Across: High spot (4)
- PEAK
- 94 Across: Low spot (4)
- DALE
- 98 Across: Bambi's cousin (3)
- AVA
- 99 Across: Gaucho's milieu (6)
- PAMPAS
- 100 Across: Thick (5)
- DENSE
- 101 Across: Wire measure (3)
- MIL
- 102 Across: Flimsy (10)
- JERRYBUILT
- 104 Across: Far from flimsy (10)
- UNSHAKABLE
- 107 Across: Galahad's gear (5)
- ARMOR
- 108 Across: Notices (4)
- SEES
- 109 Across: Pulitzer Prize novelst (4)
- AGEE
- 110 Across: Great quantity (5)
- OCEAN
- 111 Across: Target in horseshoes (5)
- STAKE
- 112 Across: McMahon and Muskie (3)
- EDS
- 113 Across: Not so much (4)
- LESS
- 114 Across: Spanish playwright (5)
- LORCA
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Events at Belmont (5)
- RACES
- 2 Down: Perfume ingredient (5)
- IRONE
- 3 Down: Dead duck (5)
- GONER
- 4 Down: Winner over T.E.D. (3)
- HST
- 5 Down: Pipe joint (3)
- TEE
- 6 Down: Chicken ___ (6)
- LITTLE
- 7 Down: Revised (6)
- EDITED
- 8 Down: Ice masses (5)
- FLOES
- 9 Down: Bills (4)
- TENS
- 10 Down: Certain cattle or canines (9)
- PUREBREDS
- 11 Down: Musketeer (6)
- ARAMIS
- 12 Down: "Paradise Lost" character (5)
- SATAN
- 13 Down: Israeli port (4)
- ACRE
- 14 Down: ___ Mateo, Calif. (3)
- SAN
- 15 Down: Arson is one (5)
- CRIME
- 16 Down: Rose essence (5)
- ATTAR
- 17 Down: "Home, Sweet Home" author (5)
- PAYNE
- 20 Down: Balzac's "Une Ténébreuse ___" (7)
- AFFAIRE
- 23 Down: Night sights (5)
- NEONS
- 25 Down: Robert ___ (4)
- ELEE
- 31 Down: Bottle for wine (6)
- FLAGON
- 33 Down: Wraps (6)
- STOLES
- 34 Down: Ethics (6)
- MORALS
- 36 Down: Detail (4)
- ITEM
- 37 Down: Photographs of a sort (6)
- STILLS
- 39 Down: Beliefs (6)
- TENETS
- 40 Down: Last word (5)
- FINIS
- 41 Down: Over (5)
- ENDED
- 44 Down: D.D.E. (3)
- IKE
- 45 Down: These, in Tours (3)
- CES
- 46 Down: Dunderhead (3)
- ASS
- 47 Down: Cultivate (4)
- TILL
- 48 Down: "The ___ Spain . . . " (6)
- RAININ
- 49 Down: Competent (4)
- ABLE
- 50 Down: Shows scorn (6)
- SNEERS
- 52 Down: High aims (6)
- IDEALS
- 53 Down: Banal (5)
- TRITE
- 55 Down: Forgive (6)
- PARDON
- 56 Down: Hedda Gabler's creator (5)
- IBSEN
- 61 Down: Off-color (6)
- SMUTTY
- 62 Down: Thurible (6)
- CENSER
- 63 Down: Remarkable: Scot. (4)
- UNCO
- 64 Down: Chanticleer's realm (5)
- ROOST
- 65 Down: Like stickum (5)
- GLUEY
- 66 Down: Bride of Angel Clare (4)
- TESS
- 67 Down: Sandpaper (6)
- ABRADE
- 68 Down: Segovia's instrument (6)
- GUITAR
- 69 Down: Created a rowdydow (6)
- RIOTED
- 70 Down: Baseball putout (3)
- TAG
- 71 Down: Diminutive suffix (3)
- ULE
- 72 Down: Soak (3)
- RET
- 73 Down: Informers (9)
- TELLTALES
- 75 Down: Noninformer (4)
- CLAM
- 78 Down: Summarizes (7)
- DIGESTS
- 82 Down: ___ powder (decamp) (5)
- TAKEA
- 84 Down: Strikebreaker (4)
- SCAB
- 85 Down: Caught sight of (6)
- ESPIED
- 86 Down: Perceives (6)
- SENSES
- 87 Down: Chops to pieces (6)
- HASHES
- 88 Down: Indian princes (5)
- RAJAS
- 89 Down: Ward off (5)
- AVERT
- 90 Down: Fate (5)
- KARMA
- 92 Down: Divert (5)
- AMUSE
- 93 Down: Part of Greater London (5)
- PENGE
- 95 Down: Spotlight color (5)
- AMBER
- 96 Down: Popular scent (5)
- LILAC
- 97 Down: Gluck's "Paride ed ___" (5)
- ELENA
- 99 Down: Combustible heap (4)
- PYRE
- 100 Down: Twofold (4)
- DUAL
- 103 Down: Seoul soldier (3)
- ROK
- 105 Down: ___ Nidre, Hebrew prayer (3)
- KOL
- 106 Down: French explorer (3)
- ACO
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