MUSIC BOX - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 1/22/1978. By Walter Webb.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Witty bit (4)
- JEST
- 5 Across: Field yield (4)
- CROP
- 9 Across: Caesar (3)
- SID
- 12 Across: "___ Death": Grieg (4)
- ASES
- 16 Across: New slant (4)
- IDEA
- 17 Across: Israeli dance (4)
- HORA
- 18 Across: Although: Lat. (4)
- ETSI
- 19 Across: Course of a sort (5)
- LINKS
- 21 Across: Kerouac's contemporaries (14)
- BEATGENERATION
- 24 Across: Make precious (6)
- ENDEAR
- 26 Across: Made a debut (7)
- ENTERED
- 27 Across: Aspen, e.g. (6)
- POPLAR
- 29 Across: Dupes (5)
- GULLS
- 30 Across: Bouquets (6)
- AROMAS
- 33 Across: Drill command (10)
- PARADEREST
- 35 Across: Tests of Sills' skills (5)
- ARIAS
- 39 Across: Tristram's beloved (6)
- ISEULT
- 41 Across: Galley symbol (5)
- CARET
- 42 Across: Base runner's delight (9)
- WILDPITCH
- 45 Across: Farm implement (6)
- SEEDER
- 47 Across: U.S.S.R. silk city (3)
- OSH
- 50 Across: Mascagni flirt (4)
- LOLA
- 51 Across: " . . . gem of purest ray ___": Gray (6)
- SERENE
- 53 Across: Rage (3)
- IRE
- 54 Across: Quechuan (4)
- INCA
- 55 Across: Crystalline sugar (7)
- MALTOSE
- 57 Across: Health club (3)
- SPA
- 59 Across: Railroad car (6)
- SMOKER
- 61 Across: Organic pigment (5)
- TONER
- 62 Across: Admit (5)
- LETIN
- 64 Across: Concerning (5)
- ANENT
- 65 Across: Fuss (3)
- ADO
- 67 Across: Noncom (13)
- STAFFSERGEANT
- 72 Across: "The People, ___": Sandburg (3)
- YES
- 73 Across: Dangerous damsel (5)
- CIRCE
- 75 Across: Soprano Mitchell (5)
- LEONA
- 76 Across: Supply for Bench (5)
- MITTS
- 78 Across: Get by threat (6)
- EXTORT
- 80 Across: Possess (3)
- OWN
- 81 Across: Sec. Brown's concern (7)
- DEFENSE
- 84 Across: Danish-American writer (4)
- RIIS
- 85 Across: Suffix with cloth (3)
- IER
- 87 Across: Opera by Thomas (6)
- HAMLET
- 88 Across: Ponselle or Raisa (4)
- ROSA
- 92 Across: ___ canto (3)
- BEL
- 93 Across: Ella in Hartford (6)
- GRASSO
- 96 Across: Maine resort (9)
- BARHARBOR
- 98 Across: "Mein ___," Wagner's autobiography (5)
- LEBEN
- 101 Across: Hood's case (6)
- QUIVER
- 103 Across: Composer ___-Saëns (5)
- SAINT
- 104 Across: Qualifies (10)
- MEASURESUP
- 107 Across: Dreams of youth (6)
- IDEALS
- 110 Across: Presents (5)
- GIFTS
- 111 Across: Lathered (6)
- SOAPED
- 113 Across: Kind of plain (7)
- COASTAL
- 118 Across: Spin a yarn (6)
- RELATE
- 120 Across: Financial agreement (14)
- PROMISSORYNOTE
- 123 Across: One making the grade (5)
- RATER
- 124 Across: City on the Wabash (4)
- PERU
- 125 Across: Hirt's companion (4)
- HORN
- 126 Across: Stravinsky ballet: 1957 (4)
- AGON
- 127 Across: Japanese monastery (4)
- TERA
- 128 Across: Least old: Abbr. (3)
- YST
- 129 Across: Best of movies (4)
- EDNA
- 130 Across: Schools of whales (4)
- GAMS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Agree (4)
- JIBE
- 2 Down: Jack London hero (4)
- EDEN
- 3 Down: Membership (4)
- SEAT
- 4 Down: London gallery (4)
- TATE
- 5 Down: Gaiety (5)
- CHEER
- 6 Down: Sonata finale (5)
- RONDO
- 7 Down: Blende or sphalerite (3)
- ORE
- 8 Down: N.Y.S.E. term (3)
- PAR
- 9 Down: Fleck (7)
- STIPPLE
- 10 Down: Pinpoint (7)
- ISOLATE
- 11 Down: Yugoslav coin (5)
- DINAR
- 12 Down: Porter (3)
- ALE
- 13 Down: Gorme or Torme (6)
- SINGER
- 14 Down: Tolerate (6)
- ENDURE
- 15 Down: Whodunit devices (12)
- SKELETONKEYS
- 18 Down: W.W. II initials (3)
- ETO
- 20 Down: Bando and Maglie (4)
- SALS
- 22 Down: Comprehend (5)
- GRASP
- 23 Down: Church section (4)
- APSE
- 25 Down: Alphabetic trio (3)
- RST
- 28 Down: Rutherford, for one (5)
- RACER
- 31 Down: Tiny moth (5)
- MICRO
- 32 Down: Fire residue (5)
- ASHES
- 34 Down: Bells the cat (5)
- DARES
- 35 Down: Saddler's tool (3)
- AWL
- 36 Down: Branco or Bravo (3)
- RIO
- 37 Down: Kind of wind (3)
- ILL
- 38 Down: First man: It. (5)
- ADAMO
- 40 Down: Application (3)
- USE
- 43 Down: Key (5)
- ISLET
- 44 Down: Tropical fish (5)
- TETRA
- 46 Down: Keaton (5)
- DIANE
- 48 Down: Diorama (5)
- SCENE
- 49 Down: Lorenz and Moss (5)
- HARTS
- 52 Down: Senator from Wis. (6)
- NELSON
- 54 Down: Plato dialogue (3)
- ION
- 56 Down: Goose genus (5)
- ANSER
- 57 Down: Fellini's "La ___": 1954 (6)
- STRADA
- 58 Down: Dr. Doolittle's Gub-Gub (3)
- PIG
- 60 Down: Dillon and Snell (5)
- MATTS
- 61 Down: Steinbeck novel (12)
- TORTILLAFLAT
- 63 Down: Poetic time (3)
- EEN
- 65 Down: Like green apples (5)
- ACERB
- 66 Down: Emmett song (5)
- DIXIE
- 68 Down: Vegetation (5)
- FLORA
- 69 Down: Not many (3)
- FEW
- 70 Down: Afghan V.I.P. (5)
- AMEER
- 71 Down: Beethoven's "___" (5)
- NINTH
- 74 Down: Romaine lettuce (3)
- COS
- 77 Down: ___ alba (gypsum) (5)
- TERRA
- 79 Down: A.L. player (5)
- TIGER
- 82 Down: Inlay (5)
- EMBED
- 83 Down: Skirt style (5)
- FLARE
- 86 Down: Sea birds (5)
- ERNES
- 87 Down: ___ polloi (3)
- HOI
- 89 Down: Sash for Yum-Yum (3)
- OBI
- 90 Down: Sohrab, to Rustum (3)
- SON
- 91 Down: Skill (3)
- ART
- 94 Down: Sixty-four, in chess (7)
- SQUARES
- 95 Down: Backing (7)
- SUPPORT
- 97 Down: Analyze (5)
- ASSAY
- 99 Down: Social rank (6)
- ESTATE
- 100 Down: Another Keaton (6)
- BUSTER
- 102 Down: Middle of Caesar's report (4)
- VIDI
- 104 Down: Dept. store figure (3)
- MGR
- 105 Down: Eggs, in Berlin (4)
- EIER
- 106 Down: Saturated (5)
- SOPPY
- 108 Down: It fell on Chicken-Little (5)
- ACORN
- 109 Down: Blackmore beauty (5)
- LORNA
- 112 Down: Ratite bird (3)
- EMU
- 114 Down: Catch (4)
- SNAG
- 115 Down: Pompey's mufti (4)
- TOGA
- 116 Down: Basic particle (4)
- ATOM
- 117 Down: Avedon's concern (4)
- LENS
- 119 Down: Letters for equality (3)
- ERA
- 121 Down: Haggard novel (3)
- SHE
- 122 Down: Grassy patch (3)
- SOD
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