COURT STARS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 11/13/1977. By Herb L. Risteen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Thin nail (4)
BRAD
5 Across: Bismarck (4)
OTTO
9 Across: Normand of silents (5)
MABEL
14 Across: Dull sound (4)
THUD
18 Across: Swiss river (4)
AARE
19 Across: Saddlers' products (5)
REINS
21 Across: Name to remember (5)
ALAMO
22 Across: Pictorial presswork (4)
ROTO
23 Across: Popular novel of 1881 (21)
THEPRINCEANDTHEPAUPER
27 Across: Dining halls on liners (7)
SALOONS
28 Across: Did ranch work (4)
RODE
29 Across: "___ Miller" (5)
DAISY
30 Across: Building extension (3)
ELL
31 Across: Means of access (4)
DOOR
32 Across: Indo-Chinese group (4)
SHAN
34 Across: Event in 1780 (21)
BATTLEOFKINGSMOUNTAIN
44 Across: Shade of green (5)
ALOES
45 Across: Loam deposit (5)
LOESS
46 Across: Bread spread (4)
OLEO
47 Across: Choler (3)
IRE
48 Across: Little foxes (4)
KITS
49 Across: Of the earth (4)
GEAL
50 Across: Yesterday's eternal chaser (5)
TODAY
52 Across: Merganser (4)
SMEW
53 Across: Poet Merriam (3)
EVE
54 Across: "Hobohemian" (5)
TRAMP
55 Across: Tall cap (5)
MITER
56 Across: Baltic Sea feeder (5)
PEENE
57 Across: Mark for poor work (7)
DEMERIT
59 Across: Morning song (5)
MATIN
60 Across: Farm implement (6)
SEEDER
61 Across: Author of "Why Not the Best?" (15)
JAMESEARLCARTER
65 Across: Like Jason's quest (6)
FLEECY
68 Across: Stage designer Bernstein (5)
ALINE
69 Across: Pulmonary cavities (7)
AIRSACS
73 Across: Uhlan's weapon (5)
LANCE
74 Across: Genetic offshoot (5)
CLONE
75 Across: Natives of Tampere (5)
FINNS
77 Across: Inlet in the Orkneys (3)
VOE
78 Across: He was: Lat. (4)
ERAT
79 Across: "Gymnopedies" composer (5)
SATIE
80 Across: Tennis star of the 1930's (4)
LOTT
81 Across: Moselle tributary (4)
SAAR
82 Across: Outside: Prefix (3)
ECT
83 Across: Be furious (4)
FUME
84 Across: Building material (5)
STONE
86 Across: Jai alai basket (5)
CESTA
87 Across: Venice (21)
THEQUEENOFTHEADRIATIC
92 Across: Bring to ruin (4)
UNDO
93 Across: Weight allowance (4)
TARE
94 Across: Commercials (3)
ADS
95 Across: Rawboned person (5)
SCRAG
98 Across: Inflexible (4)
IRON
99 Across: Perfume (7)
ESSENCE
103 Across: Romantic novel of 1844 (21)
THECOUNTOFMONTECRISTO
109 Across: Gaunt (4)
LANK
110 Across: "March King" (5)
SOUSA
111 Across: Bellini opera (5)
NORMA
112 Across: Adjective for Yorick (4)
POOR
113 Across: Track figures (4)
ODDS
114 Across: "Forever ___" (5)
AMBER
115 Across: Playwright Simon (4)
NEIL
116 Across: Feudal underling (4)
ESNE

Down Answers

1 Down: Rod Carew's weapon (3)
BAT
2 Down: Stadium sounds (4)
RAHS
3 Down: ___ code (4)
AREA
4 Down: Exhausts, as resources (8)
DEPLETES
5 Down: Bobolink's relative (6)
ORIOLE
6 Down: One of fifty: Abbr. (4)
TENN
7 Down: Nervous ailments (4)
TICS
8 Down: Singleton (3)
ONE
9 Down: One in the "noonday sun" (6)
MADDOG
10 Down: Modifies (6)
ALTERS
11 Down: Cry of disgust (3)
BAH
12 Down: Dutch uncle (3)
EME
13 Down: Cut off (3)
LOP
14 Down: Shirking responsibility (6)
TRUANT
15 Down: Southwest Indian (4)
HOPI
16 Down: Salt Lake City team (4)
UTES
17 Down: Small rowboat (4)
DORY
20 Down: Lydia's capital (6)
SARDIS
24 Down: Kipfels (5)
ROLLS
25 Down: Times of day (5)
NOONS
26 Down: Where Joppolo commanded (5)
ADANO
32 Down: Kind of eclipse (5)
SOLAR
33 Down: Long of La. (4)
HUEY
34 Down: ___ Alaska (5)
BAKED
35 Down: Read novel (5)
ALIVE
36 Down: Tribal emblem (5)
TOTEM
37 Down: Acid salt (6)
OLEATE
38 Down: Lager head (4)
FOAM
39 Down: Hornplant (4)
KELP
40 Down: City NW of Bologna (6)
MODENA
41 Down: Drew a bead on (5)
AIMED
42 Down: One of the Horae (5)
IRENE
43 Down: Less trite (5)
NEWER
49 Down: Mean and unpleasant (5)
GRIMY
50 Down: Duke, for one (5)
TITLE
51 Down: Of hearing (4)
OTIC
52 Down: Haruspices (5)
SEERS
54 Down: Footprint (5)
TRACE
55 Down: Battle scene: 1914, 1918 (5)
MARNE
56 Down: Noblemen (5)
PEERS
58 Down: Force out (5)
EJECT
59 Down: Name to remember (5)
MAINE
60 Down: Task (5)
STINT
62 Down: He wrote "Bambi" (6)
SALTEN
63 Down: French saint: Dec. 1 (4)
ELOI
64 Down: Yammered (6)
RANTED
65 Down: Argosy (5)
FLEET
66 Down: Hackmatack (5)
LARCH
67 Down: Growing out (5)
ENATE
70 Down: Cousin of "Belay!" (5)
AVAST
71 Down: Ring-tailed animal (5)
COATI
72 Down: Ice pinnacle (5)
SERAC
74 Down: Small featured role (5)
CAMEO
75 Down: Navigation hazard (4)
FLOE
76 Down: Hebrides island (4)
IONA
79 Down: Brought to court (4)
SUED
81 Down: Phalarope (8)
SEASNIPE
83 Down: Fly hit by a coach (5)
FUNGO
84 Down: Sen. Thurmond (5)
STROM
85 Down: From ___ (afterwards) (6)
THENON
86 Down: Fall drink (5)
CIDER
88 Down: Charlatans (6)
QUACKS
89 Down: Lazy (6)
OTIOSE
90 Down: Carton's "___ better thing" (6)
FARFAR
91 Down: Sterling North book: 1963 (6)
RASCAL
95 Down: Town on the Vire (4)
STLO
96 Down: Neighbor of Libya (4)
CHAD
97 Down: Disrupt (4)
REND
99 Down: Raison d'___ (4)
ETRE
100 Down: Large truck (4)
SEMI
101 Down: Army V.I.P.'s (4)
CSOS
102 Down: School founded by Henry VI (4)
ETON
104 Down: Dos Passos book (3)
USA
105 Down: ___ de plume (3)
NOM
106 Down: Bulky boat (3)
TUB
107 Down: Negative prefix (3)
NON
108 Down: Pittsburgh intake (3)
ORE

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