CHESS MATCHES - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 160 clues). Published 9/25/1977. By William Lutwiniak.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Falls short (5): FAILS
6 Across: Beguile (5): AMUSE
11 Across: Dicta (5): FIATS
16 Across: Track event (4): DASH
20 Across: Play part (5): ACTII
21 Across: Second showing (5): RERUN
22 Across: ___ loose (free) (5): ONTHE
23 Across: Inventor Pliny (5): EARLE
24 Across: King (23): CHARLEMAGNEORLOUISXVIII
28 Across: Flooring (4): TILE
29 Across: Roman times (5): NONES
30 Across: Buggies (5): PRAMS
31 Across: Raise a nap on (6): TEASEL
32 Across: Infiltrator (3): SPY
33 Across: Sautés (5): FRIES
34 Across: Swivets (5): STEWS
35 Across: Ford, often (6): VETOER
36 Across: Then, to Pierre (5): ALORS
37 Across: Baba and Pasha (4): ALIS
38 Across: Liana (4): VINE
39 Across: Queen (23): ELIZABETHVICTORIAORMARY
49 Across: ___ extent (partly) (6): TOSOME
50 Across: Long, long time (4): EONS
51 Across: Steeler coach and family (5): NOLLS
52 Across: Pointed arch (4): OGEE
53 Across: Mescal source (5): AGAVE
54 Across: "Ah, me!" (5): ALACK
56 Across: Famed soprano (5): EAMES
57 Across: Tightens, as a drum (5): FRAPS
58 Across: ___ mater (3): PIA
59 Across: ___ noire (4): BETE
60 Across: Truck part (4): AXLE
61 Across: Borrower (6): LOANEE
62 Across: Bishops (23): ECCLESIASTICALOFFICIALS
69 Across: Radio-tube workers (5): AGERS
70 Across: Cask: Abbr. (3): BRL
71 Across: Livy or Ovid (5): ROMAN
72 Across: Pawns (23): THINGSDEPOSITEDINPLEDGE
82 Across: Musical pieces (6): RONDOS
83 Across: Followed slavishly (4): APED
84 Across: Fearing that (4): LEST
85 Across: Wolfert (3): IRA
86 Across: ___ left field (5): OUTIN
87 Across: The Foul Fiend (5): SATAN
89 Across: Gossips (5): TALKS
90 Across: Bohr and Borge (5): DANES
92 Across: St. Paul's designer (4): WREN
93 Across: Oca or yam (5): TUBER
94 Across: Would-be jr. (4): SOPH
95 Across: Whirl (6): GYRATE
96 Across: Knights (23): SIRGERAINTANDSIRGALAHAD
101 Across: Garroway (4): DAVE
102 Across: Miami's county (4): DADE
103 Across: Friend of Solomon (5): HIRAM
104 Across: Giant step (6): STRIDE
107 Across: Anecdote (5): STORY
109 Across: ___ end to (5): PUTAN
110 Across: Cpl. or sgt. (3): NCO
113 Across: ___ force (by all means): Fr. (6): ATOUTE
114 Across: Roulette bet (5): CARRE
115 Across: Oriente native (5): CUBAN
116 Across: Artery (4): ROAD
117 Across: Castles (23): BALMORALWINDSORANDMORRO
121 Across: Warmth (5): ARDOR
122 Across: Nightclub (5): BOITE
123 Across: White Sands' county (5): OTERO
124 Across: Horatio (5): ALGER
125 Across: Letter opener (4): DEAR
126 Across: Selected (5): OPTED
127 Across: Could and would (5): VERBS
128 Across: City on the Aire (5): LEEDS

Down Answers

1 Down: Data (5): FACTS
2 Down: ___ off the old block (5): ACHIP
3 Down: Where the Adige flows (5): ITALY
4 Down: Corso money (4): LIRE
5 Down: Part of R.S.V.P. (3): SIL
6 Down: Wardrobe (7): ARMOIRE
7 Down: Most spiteful (7): MEANEST
8 Down: Importunes (5): URGES
9 Down: Basks (4): SUNS
10 Down: Chemical ending (3): ENE
11 Down: C.S.A. general (7): FORREST
12 Down: Relative (5): INLAW
13 Down: Monads (5): ATOMS
14 Down: As an example (4): THUS
15 Down: Cinque follower (3): SEI
16 Down: Philippine port (5): DAVAO
17 Down: Originate (5): ARISE
18 Down: More guileful (5): SLIER
19 Down: Third Reich salute (4): HEIL
23 Down: Noted prep school (6): EXETER
25 Down: Clothe (6): ENROBE
26 Down: A science (6): OPTICS
27 Down: Office help (6): STENOS
33 Down: Sweetheart (5): FLAME
34 Down: Move furtively (5): SLINK
35 Down: Perfume bottles (5): VIALS
36 Down: U.S.S.R. town (4): AZOV
37 Down: Shore bird (6): AVOCET
38 Down: Odious (4): VILE
39 Down: Public storehouse (5): ETAPE
40 Down: Straight thinking (5): LOGIC
41 Down: Newton (5): ISAAC
42 Down: Prelims (5): HEATS
43 Down: ___ sides (everywhere) (5): ONALL
44 Down: Lover (5): ROMEO
45 Down: Glacial deposit (7): MORAINE
46 Down: Guam's capital (5): AGANA
47 Down: Drive back (5): REPEL
48 Down: Concurrences (5): YESES
54 Down: "___ in the hand . . . " (5): ABIRD
55 Down: Charter (5): LEASE
56 Down: Glorify (5): EXALT
57 Down: Converging (5): FOCAL
60 Down: Caustic (5): ACRID
61 Down: Flaccid (4): LIMP
63 Down: Touchdown (7): LANDING
64 Down: Incite (5): EGGON
65 Down: Mtg. (4): SESS
66 Down: "Ghosts" creator (5): IBSEN
67 Down: Cavort (5): FRISK
68 Down: Sets of type (5): FONTS
72 Down: Believes, of yore (5): TROWS
73 Down: Dark-eyed beauty (5): HOURI
74 Down: Between: Prefix (5): INTER
75 Down: Eucharistic plate (5): PATEN
76 Down: Museum offering (5): OPART
77 Down: Run out (6): ELAPSE
78 Down: City of India (5): DELHI
79 Down: Shore (5): DINAH
80 Down: Garbo (5): GRETA
81 Down: Lightened (5): EASED
87 Down: Smooth-tongued (5): SUAVE
88 Down: Rose's love (4): ABIE
89 Down: Ski-lodge offering (5): TODDY
90 Down: Bob or Thomas (5): DYLAN
91 Down: Ancient Armenia (4): ARAM
93 Down: Merchant (6): TRADER
94 Down: Caught (6): SNARED
95 Down: Rifle (6): GARAND
97 Down: Diaskeuast (6): EDITOR
98 Down: Bedecked (7): ADORNED
99 Down: Controversy (7): RHUBARB
100 Down: Spanish gypsies (7): GITANOS
104 Down: Be curious (5): STARE
105 Down: ___ lie (fibbed) (5): TOLDA
106 Down: Grapevine growth (5): RUMOR
107 Down: ___ through (persevered) (5): SAWIT
108 Down: Stereotyped (5): TRITE
109 Down: Less polluted (5): PURER
110 Down: Sverige's neighbor (5): NORGE
111 Down: Was concerned (5): CARED
112 Down: Incenses (5): ODORS
113 Down: In ___ way (ailing) (4): ABAD
114 Down: Hoofbeat (4): CLOP
115 Down: ___ d'Azur (4): COTE
116 Down: Lead or bit (4): ROLE
118 Down: Cameroons tribe (3): ABO
119 Down: Soho coin, for short (3): SOV
120 Down: Bad: Prefix (3): MAL

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