CIRCLES IN THE SQUARE - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 4/16/1978. By Jeanette K. Brill.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Indian princes (5)
- RAJAS
- 6 Across: Deficiency (4)
- LACK
- 10 Across: Cockles (5)
- OASTS
- 15 Across: Cordon bleu (4)
- CHEF
- 19 Across: Father of Shamgar (5)
- ANATH
- 20 Across: Dust bowl fugitive (4)
- OKIE
- 21 Across: Raven's cry (5)
- CROAK
- 22 Across: Gounod contemporary (4)
- LALO
- 23 Across: Person to whom quotation is attributed (10)
- SAMRAYBURN
- 25 Across: Metric measure (10)
- CENTIMETER
- 27 Across: Ancient ascetics (7)
- ESSENES
- 28 Across: California city east of L.A. (6)
- COVINA
- 30 Across: Like some currents (6)
- DIRECT
- 31 Across: Will subject (6)
- ESTATE
- 33 Across: Hebrew months (5)
- ADARS
- 35 Across: Sites of knights' fights (5)
- LISTS
- 36 Across: Top gallant (4)
- MAST
- 38 Across: ___ soul (contract with Satan) (8)
- SELLONES
- 41 Across: Soft mineral (4)
- TALC
- 43 Across: Commercials (3)
- ADS
- 44 Across: Confine (8)
- STRAITEN
- 45 Across: Carnival lure (8)
- SIDESHOW
- 49 Across: Cacophony (5)
- NOISE
- 51 Across: Detect (4)
- SPOT
- 52 Across: Former German coin (6)
- THALER
- 54 Across: Wine: Comb. form (3)
- ENO
- 55 Across: Teem (6)
- ABOUND
- 57 Across: Brahmin (4)
- SNOB
- 59 Across: Candid (4)
- OPEN
- 60 Across: Layer (4)
- TIER
- 61 Across: Long-shot odds (8)
- TENTOONE
- 63 Across: " . . . swift ___ radiant ends": Watson (7)
- MEANSTO
- 65 Across: Baghdad's country: Var. (4)
- IRAK
- 66 Across: Aspen or alder (4)
- TREE
- 67 Across: Famed ex-jockey (5)
- SANDE
- 68 Across: Yorkshireman: Var. (4)
- TIKE
- 70 Across: Valenciennes, e.g. (4)
- LACE
- 73 Across: Pitched woo (7)
- SPOONED
- 75 Across: Fountain drinks (8)
- SODAPOPS
- 79 Across: African cypress pine (4)
- ARAR
- 80 Across: Notch made by a saw (4)
- KERF
- 81 Across: Allowance for waste (4)
- TRET
- 83 Across: Easter shrub (6)
- SPIREA
- 84 Across: Sow's home (3)
- PEN
- 85 Across: Hanging jar at Navidad (6)
- PINATA
- 87 Across: Greek letters (4)
- ETAS
- 89 Across: Falling short of (5)
- UNDER
- 90 Across: Clinic clientele (8)
- PATIENTS
- 92 Across: Quotation source (8)
- FISHBAIT
- 95 Across: Violinist ___ Bull (3)
- OLE
- 96 Across: Strike hard (4)
- BASH
- 97 Across: Arm armor (8)
- BRASSARD
- 98 Across: Dirk of yore (4)
- SNEE
- 99 Across: "Lonesome George" (5)
- GOBEL
- 102 Across: Resort, for short (5)
- EVIAN
- 104 Across: Formosa (6)
- TAIWAN
- 106 Across: Accrues (6)
- INURES
- 108 Across: Keats and Sappho (6)
- ODISTS
- 111 Across: Cargo carrier's charge (7)
- BOATAGE
- 114 Across: Passed bills (10)
- LEGISLATED
- 116 Across: Of kinship (10)
- RELATIONAL
- 118 Across: Gershwin's "___, Lucille" (4)
- LALA
- 119 Across: Moving force (5)
- AGENT
- 120 Across: Osmund, for one (4)
- IRON
- 121 Across: Clare and Henry (5)
- LUCES
- 122 Across: British machine gun (4)
- STEN
- 123 Across: ___ Alegre, Brazil (5)
- PORTO
- 124 Across: Hang fire (4)
- PEND
- 125 Across: Carved stone pillar (5)
- STELA
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Form by carving (4)
- RASE
- 2 Down: Table-talk items (4)
- ANAS
- 3 Down: Impromptu jazz performance (10)
- JAMSESSION
- 4 Down: Relaxing (6)
- ATREST
- 5 Down: Negative contraction (5)
- SHANT
- 6 Down: Seafood delicacies (8)
- LOBSTERS
- 7 Down: Hawaiian fish (3)
- AKU
- 8 Down: Diam. × 3.1416 (4)
- CIRC
- 9 Down: Game akin to lotto (4)
- KENO
- 10 Down: The West (8)
- OCCIDENT
- 11 Down: Spheres of action (6)
- ARENAS
- 12 Down: Sub detector (5)
- SONAR
- 13 Down: Use a shuttle (3)
- TAT
- 14 Down: Mishap on ice (4)
- SKID
- 15 Down: Synod attendees (7)
- CLERICS
- 16 Down: Execrates (5)
- HATES
- 17 Down: Choose (5)
- ELECT
- 18 Down: Dix and Knox (5)
- FORTS
- 24 Down: Beer ingredient (5)
- YEAST
- 26 Down: Author of 92 Across (6)
- MILLER
- 29 Down: Spire attachment (4)
- VANE
- 32 Down: Pass (6)
- ELAPSE
- 34 Down: Slender dagger (8)
- STILETTO
- 36 Down: ___-arms (soldier) (5)
- MANAT
- 37 Down: Sun-dried brick (5)
- ADOBE
- 39 Down: Matinee idol (4)
- LION
- 40 Down: Upholstered footstool (7)
- OTTOMAN
- 42 Down: Pharyngeal tissues (8)
- ADENOIDS
- 44 Down: Madrileño (5)
- SENOR
- 45 Down: Enervates (4)
- SAPS
- 46 Down: Beneficiary (4)
- HEIR
- 47 Down: Draft status (4)
- ONEA
- 48 Down: Employment (4)
- WORK
- 50 Down: Gold Rush name (6)
- SUTTER
- 53 Down: Fine oilstone (4)
- HONE
- 56 Down: Soft leather gloves (8)
- DOESKINS
- 58 Down: Author of "John Brown's Body" (5)
- BENET
- 60 Down: Haberdashery item (6)
- TIEPIN
- 62 Down: Potion to dull sorrow (8)
- NEPENTHE
- 64 Down: Formal speech (7)
- ADDRESS
- 67 Down: Kindhearted (4)
- SOFT
- 69 Down: Utterly defeated (5)
- KAPUT
- 70 Down: Finn's neighbor (4)
- LAPP
- 71 Down: Field (4)
- AREA
- 72 Down: Jargon (4)
- CANT
- 74 Down: Domesday Book money (4)
- ORAS
- 75 Down: "___ Mater" (6)
- STABAT
- 76 Down: Decree (10)
- ORDONNANCE
- 77 Down: Elizabethan dramatist (5)
- PEELE
- 78 Down: Hindu garment (5)
- SAREE
- 82 Down: Numerical suffixes (4)
- ETHS
- 85 Down: Norman Vincent and Rembrandt (6)
- PEALES
- 86 Down: "___ Dream," 1937 song (8)
- AFRAIDTO
- 88 Down: Stately court dance (8)
- SARABAND
- 91 Down: Basque's possible ancestor (7)
- IBERIAN
- 93 Down: Smith and Fleming (4)
- IANS
- 94 Down: Dostoyevsky novel, with "The" (5)
- IDIOT
- 97 Down: Two-pronged weapon (6)
- BIDENT
- 98 Down: Stayed to the end (6)
- SATOUT
- 99 Down: Fish organs (5)
- GILLS
- 100 Down: ___ a time (singly) (5)
- ONEAT
- 101 Down: G.I.'s "alarm clock" (5)
- BUGLE
- 103 Down: Campaign target (5)
- VOTER
- 105 Down: Ululates (5)
- WAILS
- 107 Down: Affront (4)
- SLAP
- 109 Down: Jaunt (4)
- TRIP
- 110 Down: Arid (4)
- SERE
- 112 Down: Author Greene (4)
- GAEL
- 113 Down: "Born Free" heroine (4)
- ELSA
- 115 Down: Short follower of long (3)
- AGO
- 117 Down: Chaney or Nol (3)
- LON
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