NO MORE DIMINUTIVES - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 4/30/1978. By Bert H. Kruse.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Diamond fragment (4)
- CHIP
- 5 Across: Stop ___ (7)
- ONADIME
- 12 Across: Millay's "Aria ___" (4)
- CAPO
- 16 Across: Single-handedly (5)
- ALONE
- 17 Across: Sound at a door (7)
- RATATAT
- 18 Across: "___ to Hold Your Hand" (5)
- IWANT
- 20 Across: Baked-apple dessert (14)
- BROWNELIZABETH
- 22 Across: Bribes (6)
- GETSAT
- 24 Across: Mechanical repetition (4)
- ROTE
- 25 Across: Juridic (5)
- LEGAL
- 26 Across: Pip-pip (4)
- TATA
- 28 Across: Malayan archipelago (4)
- RHIO
- 29 Across: Suffix with boy or girl (3)
- ISH
- 30 Across: Call it a day (6)
- RETIRE
- 31 Across: Mexican gentleman (5)
- SENOR
- 32 Across: City in Kansas (4)
- IOLA
- 33 Across: Simpletons (5)
- GEESE
- 35 Across: Unit (3)
- ONE
- 36 Across: More dreadful (5)
- DIRER
- 37 Across: Young cod (5)
- SCROD
- 38 Across: City southeast of Lima (3)
- ICA
- 40 Across: Famed N.Y.C. hospital (7)
- STLUKES
- 42 Across: Where to buy croissants (6)
- BAKERY
- 43 Across: Predicament (6)
- SCRAPE
- 46 Across: Very unpopular (5)
- HATED
- 47 Across: Bird's crop (4)
- CRAW
- 48 Across: Short tale: Abbr. (3)
- STO
- 49 Across: Attitudinize (4)
- POSE
- 51 Across: Chem., geol., etc. (3)
- SCS
- 52 Across: Tyrants (8)
- PHARAOHS
- 56 Across: Boat covering, for short (4)
- TARP
- 58 Across: Coarse linen cloth (5)
- CRASH
- 60 Across: Victory: Ger. (4)
- SIEG
- 61 Across: Punkie (4)
- GNAT
- 62 Across: Lake in Ireland (4)
- ERNE
- 63 Across: John Silver, for instance (11)
- MARGARETLEG
- 65 Across: Bismarck (4)
- OTTO
- 66 Across: Not jaggy (4)
- EVEN
- 67 Across: Little or Frye (4)
- APER
- 68 Across: Coquette (5)
- OGLER
- 69 Across: Girl in an old song (4)
- NITA
- 70 Across: Did some sleuthing (8)
- DETECTED
- 72 Across: Attys.' group (3)
- ABA
- 73 Across: ___ mater (4)
- DURA
- 76 Across: Camb. campus (3)
- MIT
- 77 Across: Recent (4)
- LATE
- 78 Across: Ledge (5)
- SHELF
- 80 Across: Cheyenne's foe (6)
- PAWNEE
- 82 Across: "In Cold Blood" author (6)
- CAPOTE
- 85 Across: Honors (7)
- LAURELS
- 87 Across: West (3)
- MAE
- 88 Across: Saltated (5)
- LEAPT
- 89 Across: Doesn't own (5)
- HASNT
- 90 Across: Siouan (3)
- OTO
- 92 Across: Links area (5)
- ROUGH
- 96 Across: Anent (4)
- INRE
- 97 Across: Exploded (5)
- BURST
- 98 Across: Exchanged (6)
- TRADED
- 100 Across: Originally known as (3)
- NEE
- 101 Across: Butte's relative (4)
- MESA
- 102 Across: Spore sacs in fungi (4)
- ASCI
- 103 Across: Philosopher of the Absolute (5)
- HEGEL
- 104 Across: Pre-Lenin ruler (4)
- TSAR
- 105 Across: Lake of ___, Switzerland (6)
- BIENNE
- 107 Across: Medicine, osteopathy, etc. (14)
- HEALINGARTHURS
- 111 Across: Restrain (5)
- DETER
- 112 Across: Intrinsic nature (7)
- ESSENCE
- 113 Across: Calcars (5)
- OVENS
- 114 Across: Overcasts (4)
- SEWS
- 115 Across: Cocktail (7)
- STINGER
- 116 Across: Yin's companion (4)
- YANG
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Endue (6)
- CLOTHE
- 2 Down: Foe of Washington (4)
- HOWE
- 3 Down: Caravansary (3)
- INN
- 4 Down: Elizabethan dramatist (5)
- PEELE
- 5 Down: Sources (7)
- ORIGINS
- 6 Down: Christ's childhood home (8)
- NAZARETH
- 7 Down: "And thereby hangs ___" (5)
- ATALE
- 8 Down: Flatfish (3)
- DAB
- 9 Down: Resident: Suffix (3)
- ITE
- 10 Down: Was important (8)
- MATTERED
- 11 Down: Natural gas components (7)
- ETHANES
- 12 Down: Castro's companion (5)
- CIGAR
- 13 Down: Disciple's emotion (3)
- AWE
- 14 Down: Police conveyance (12)
- PATRICKWAGON
- 15 Down: Kind of wind or current (7)
- ONSHORE
- 16 Down: Started (5)
- AROSE
- 19 Down: Savile Row businessman (6)
- TAILOR
- 20 Down: Two-master (4)
- BRIG
- 21 Down: Apollo's mother (4)
- LETO
- 23 Down: Truckler (5)
- TOADY
- 27 Down: Rocky peak (3)
- TOR
- 30 Down: Tire (5)
- RECAP
- 31 Down: Twist's persecutor (5)
- SIKES
- 34 Down: Chaplin's title (3)
- SIR
- 36 Down: Hair style (11)
- DUTCHROBERT
- 37 Down: European mining center (4)
- SAAR
- 39 Down: Army address (3)
- APO
- 41 Down: "And every ___ queen": Kingsley (5)
- LASSA
- 42 Down: C.S.A. general (5)
- BRAGG
- 43 Down: Go without food (6)
- STARVE
- 44 Down: Trumpet's relative (6)
- CORNET
- 45 Down: Gone con (7)
- ESCAPEE
- 47 Down: Solacer's advice (7)
- CHEERUP
- 48 Down: Mount (5)
- STEED
- 50 Down: Goofed (5)
- ERRED
- 52 Down: Nappy (5)
- PILED
- 53 Down: Punctual (6)
- ONTIME
- 54 Down: "Panama ___" (6)
- HATTIE
- 55 Down: Ermine in brown (5)
- STOAT
- 57 Down: Poker game (12)
- PENELOPEANTE
- 59 Down: Dept. in the Cabinet (3)
- AGR
- 60 Down: Cardinals' insignia (3)
- STL
- 63 Down: Dull finish (5)
- MATTE
- 64 Down: Equal, as a Parisienne (5)
- EGALE
- 71 Down: Noted suffragette (4)
- CATT
- 72 Down: On a safari (5)
- AHUNT
- 74 Down: Namath in 1977 (3)
- RAM
- 75 Down: Edgar or Emmy (5)
- AWARD
- 78 Down: Most impudent (8)
- SASSIEST
- 79 Down: Dental ___ (8)
- FLORENCE
- 81 Down: Modernist (3)
- NEO
- 82 Down: Conquer Everest (5)
- CLIMB
- 83 Down: Epic in 12 books (6)
- AENEID
- 84 Down: Fire worshipers (7)
- PARSEES
- 85 Down: Tamaracks (7)
- LARCHES
- 86 Down: Reel (7)
- STAGGER
- 89 Down: Czech martyr (3)
- HUS
- 91 Down: Old Greek theaters (4)
- ODEA
- 93 Down: Like many heroes (6)
- UNSUNG
- 94 Down: Car parts (5)
- GEARS
- 95 Down: Linen marking (4)
- HERS
- 97 Down: Boxing brothers (5)
- BAERS
- 98 Down: Object (5)
- THING
- 99 Down: "Crazy Legs" Hirsch (5)
- ELROY
- 104 Down: At that moment (4)
- THEN
- 106 Down: Just out (3)
- NEW
- 108 Down: "___ live and breathe!" (3)
- ASI
- 109 Down: Bernstein nickname (3)
- LEN
- 110 Down: Govt. power project (3)
- TVA
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