HELLENIC - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 166 clues). Published 1/29/1978. By James & Phyllis Barrick.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Miami's county (4): DADE
5 Across: Fit (3): APT
8 Across: Macadamized (5): PAVED
13 Across: Short snort (3): NIP
16 Across: Poker prize (3): POT
19 Across: Writer Paton (4): ALAN
20 Across: ___ bono (3): CUI
21 Across: Happen (6): BETIDE
22 Across: Biological subdivision (7): ECOTYPE
24 Across: Reading desks (8): LECTERNS
26 Across: Personality disorder (14): ELECTRACOMPLEX
28 Across: Like some dividends (7): ACCRUED
29 Across: Declaims wildly (5): RAVES
30 Across: Diamond calls (4): OUTS
31 Across: Lear's faithful follower (4): KENT
32 Across: Stern or Singer (5): ISAAC
33 Across: Man from Meshed (5): IRANI
35 Across: One of the Graces (6): AGLAIA
37 Across: Nonerotic relationship (14): PLATONICAFFAIR
41 Across: Swelter (5): ROAST
46 Across: Sic ___ (6): PASSIM
49 Across: Gee-tar's cousin (3): UKE
50 Across: Hounds (5): BAITS
51 Across: ___ franca (6): LINGUA
52 Across: Atalante, to the Aegean (3): ARM
53 Across: Pub game (5): DARTS
55 Across: Art category (5): GENRE
56 Across: Trig functions (7): COSINES
57 Across: ___ Paulo (3): SAO
58 Across: German article (4): EINE
59 Across: Two-winged fly (5): MIDGE
60 Across: Ink drinkers (8): BLOTTERS
61 Across: Losers to Agamemnon (7): TROJANS
63 Across: Conjunction (3): NOR
64 Across: A daughter of Mnemosyne (5): ERATO
65 Across: Compass heading (3): SSE
66 Across: Boccaccio's "The ___ Heart" (5): EATEN
67 Across: Kids' dads (5): GOATS
69 Across: Uprights (7): SPINETS
71 Across: Part of a Poe poem (21): THEGLORYTHATWASGREECE
77 Across: Showy blossoms (7): PEONIES
78 Across: Fissure (5): CRACK
79 Across: Hawaii's state flower (5): LEHUA
81 Across: Part of a Euripides opus (3): ACT
84 Across: Hot spots (5): OVENS
85 Across: A.F.B. in Colorado (3): ENT
86 Across: Aegean activity (7): SAILING
88 Across: Visionaries (8): DREAMERS
90 Across: Grim Greek god (5): HADES
93 Across: Where Greeks were enslaved (4): ROMA
94 Across: Racket (3): DIN
95 Across: Terpsichorean group (7): DANCERS
96 Across: Breastplate of Zeus or Athena (5): AEGIS
97 Across: Composer of "The Rosary" (5): NEVIN
98 Across: French coin: 1929–38 (3): ECU
99 Across: Grist for Homer's mill (6): EVENTS
100 Across: Alarm (5): SCARE
101 Across: ___ rosa (3): SUB
102 Across: Playground equipment (6): SLIDES
104 Across: Inhibit (5): DETER
105 Across: Certain series of questions (14): SOCRATICMETHOD
108 Across: Vociferated (6): YELLED
110 Across: Iphigenia, to Menelaus (5): NIECE
111 Across: Painting material (5): GESSO
115 Across: S.A. rodent (4): PACA
119 Across: Uris or Trotsky (4): LEON
120 Across: Of a grain (5): OATEN
122 Across: Flew (7): AVIATED
124 Across: Hamstring (14): ACHILLESTENDON
127 Across: Tensible (8): TRACTILE
128 Across: Benchley opus (7): THEDEEP
129 Across: Range (6): EXTENT
130 Across: Scamper (3): RUN
131 Across: Roper (4): ELMO
132 Across: Baste (3): SEW
133 Across: One or another (3): ANY
134 Across: Outlaw of fiction (5): DOONE
135 Across: Gelada or pongo (3): APE
136 Across: O'Casey or O'Kelly (4): SEAN

Down Answers

1 Down: ___ Lama (5): DALAI
2 Down: Templeton and Guinness (5): ALECS
3 Down: Capital of Bangladesh (5): DACCA
4 Down: Snares (7): ENTRAPS
5 Down: Parcel of land (4): ACRE
6 Down: Nestorian type (6): PUNDIT
7 Down: "___ the season . . . " (3): TIS
8 Down: Kind of girdle (6): PELVIC
9 Down: To ___ (on the nose) (4): ATEE
10 Down: Damone and Morrow (4): VICS
11 Down: Timetable abbr. (3): EDT
12 Down: Belittle (8): DEROGATE
13 Down: Olympian quaff (6): NECTAR
14 Down: Twenty: Comb. form (5): ICOSI
15 Down: Lap dog, for short (3): POM
16 Down: Author of "Men of Iron" (4): PYLE
17 Down: Do what Pandora did (4): OPEN
18 Down: Item in a schoolbag (4): TEXT
21 Down: Skullcap (6): BEANIE
23 Down: Toll road: Abbr. (3): TPK
25 Down: Trig prerequisite, often (17): EUCLIDEANGEOMETRY
27 Down: Where Agamemnon embarked (5): AULIS
29 Down: Lines of hoplites (5): RANKS
34 Down: Way described in the "Anabasis" (5): ROUTE
35 Down: Like Troy when the Greeks won (5): AFIRE
36 Down: Method of reasoning (17): ARISTOTELIANLOGIC
38 Down: With full force (5): AMAIN
39 Down: Under covers (4): ABED
40 Down: Tooth (4): FANG
42 Down: Step ___ (hie) (4): ONIT
43 Down: A De Mille (5): AGNES
44 Down: Litigants (5): SUERS
45 Down: Armor part (5): TASSE
46 Down: Fatty dough (5): PASTE
47 Down: Historic landfall (6): ARARAT
48 Down: Glabrous (6): SMOOTH
51 Down: Blackout thief (6): LOOTER
54 Down: Medical personnel: Abbr. (3): RNS
55 Down: Circumference (5): GIRTH
56 Down: Alarm-bell sound (5): CLANG
59 Down: Watery trenches (5): MOATS
60 Down: Peppy (5): BRISK
62 Down: Vehicle for Patton (4): JEEP
63 Down: "Drake" is his epic poem (5): NOYES
64 Down: Solar-year excess (5): EPACT
67 Down: Beams (5): GRINS
68 Down: Micmac's relative (3): SAC
69 Down: Pens and cobs (5): SWANS
70 Down: Blind, as a hawk (4): SEEL
72 Down: Hero and Leander (6): LOVERS
73 Down: Lollapaloozas (5): ONERS
74 Down: Dryads' homes (5): TREES
75 Down: Reproved (6): CHIDED
76 Down: Mrs. Shriver (6): EUNICE
80 Down: ___ Dei (5): AGNUS
81 Down: Made calculations (5): ADDED
82 Down: Have a yen for (5): CRAVE
83 Down: Principle (5): TENET
86 Down: Soho coin, for short (3): SOV
87 Down: Mennonite sect (5): AMISH
89 Down: Teen-ager's problem (4): ACNE
90 Down: Got wind of (5): HEARD
91 Down: Noted mausoleum site (4): AGRA
92 Down: Regimen (4): DIET
93 Down: Old stringed instrument (5): REBEC
96 Down: Emphasized (8): ACCENTED
97 Down: Local deity (5): NUMEN
100 Down: Goes it alone (5): SOLOS
101 Down: Knowing (6): SCIENT
103 Down: Has thoughts (7): IDEATES
105 Down: Ready for Morpheus (6): SLEEPY
106 Down: Chant (6): INTONE
107 Down: Shred (6): TEARUP
109 Down: Soprano Shade of the Met (5): ELLEN
112 Down: Set of steps (5): STILE
113 Down: Southern city (5): SELMA
114 Down: Famed Parisian theater (5): ODEON
115 Down: Hingle and Boone (4): PATS
116 Down: Smart (4): ACHE
117 Down: Munch (4): CHEW
118 Down: Lend a hand (3): AID
120 Down: Not fooled by (4): ONTO
121 Down: Arabian seaport (4): ADEN
123 Down: Weathercock (4): VANE
125 Down: Grassland (3): LEA
126 Down: Outer: Comb. form (3): EXO
127 Down: Refrain syllable (3): TRA

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