PLAYMATES - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 164 clues). Published 5/21/1978. By Elaine D. Schorr.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Bam! (5): SOCKO
6 Across: Participant (6): SHARER
12 Across: Nape drape (5): SCARF
17 Across: Grover's Corners (4): TOWN
21 Across: Robin of ballad fame (5): ADAIR
22 Across: Nobelist poet: 1913 (6): TAGORE
23 Across: Plotters or plot (5): CABAL
24 Across: "The Great" of Muscovy (4): IVAN
25 Across: "A Farewell to Arms" (18): KISSTHEBOYSGOODBYE
28 Across: Bingo device (4): CAGE
29 Across: Readies the presses (4): INKS
30 Across: Of doves, hawks, etc. (5): AVINE
31 Across: ___ den Linden (5): UNTER
32 Across: Balt. or N.Y.C. (3): SPT
34 Across: Good points (6): MERITS
36 Across: Pole's neighbor (4): LETT
37 Across: British statesman (5): HEATH
40 Across: Preconceives (7): IDEATES
42 Across: Siamese (4): THAI
44 Across: Bob or Tiny Tim (8): CRATCHIT
47 Across: Painful peregrinations (5): TREKS
48 Across: Equal shares for a trio (6): THIRDS
50 Across: Wolf or Ranger (4): LONE
51 Across: Suffix with Japan or Nippon (3): ESE
52 Across: Attack (5): SETAT
53 Across: "A Majority of One" (12): THREESACROWD
56 Across: Apportion (4): METE
57 Across: Highest of the Pyrenees (5): ANETO
58 Across: Calla lilies (5): ARUMS
59 Across: Inning sextet (4): OUTS
60 Across: Dovetail wedge (5): TENON
61 Across: More fastidious (5): NICER
62 Across: Dry, cold wind (4): BORA
63 Across: Kind of fund (5): SLUSH
65 Across: Larder (6): PANTRY
66 Across: One of five in "Hamlet" (3): ACT
67 Across: "Lady Be Good" (11): NONONANETTE
69 Across: "The Hoosier Poet" (5): RILEY
70 Across: Venus's venous fluid (5): ICHOR
73 Across: Vintage car (3): REO
74 Across: Reason for a D.S.C. (5): VALOR
75 Across: Serve the purpose (5): AVAIL
76 Across: "The Sound of Music" (11): TINPANALLEY
82 Across: Filer's aid (3): TAB
85 Across: Things to be done (6): AGENDA
86 Across: Not watertight (5): ALEAK
87 Across: Mauritanian (4): MOOR
88 Across: Floor, in France (5): ETAGE
90 Across: Thespian Janis (5): ELSIE
91 Across: Pointed arch (4): OGEE
92 Across: Turkey tot (5): POULT
93 Across: Bulwer-Lytton novel (5): LEILA
94 Across: Catalonian cat (4): GATO
95 Across: "The Cat and the Canary" (12): THEODDCOUPLE
98 Across: Christie and Ivanovna (5): ANNAS
99 Across: Princess who became a goddess (3): INO
100 Across: Deserve (4): EARN
101 Across: Part of H.S.H. (6): SERENE
102 Across: That is, to Tacitus (5): IDEST
103 Across: Discarded (8): SCRAPPED
105 Across: Suffragette Carry (4): CATT
106 Across: Near ringers (7): LEANERS
109 Across: High home (5): EYRIE
110 Across: Who or which (4): THAT
112 Across: Not so short (6): TALLER
113 Across: Elec. currents (3): ACS
114 Across: City in N.H. (5): KEENE
115 Across: Ade book: 1896 (5): ARTIE
116 Across: "Now hear ___!" (4): THIS
120 Across: Choose greedily (4): GRAB
123 Across: "Ah, Wilderness!" (18): THEPETRIFIEDFOREST
127 Across: Tilden of tennis (4): BILL
128 Across: Stormed (5): RAGED
129 Across: Pass, as time (6): ELAPSE
130 Across: Mucilage (5): PASTE
131 Across: Thenar (4): SOLE
132 Across: Sycophants' replies (5): YESES
133 Across: Russian river (6): DONETS
134 Across: Salts or Downs (5): EPSOM

Down Answers

1 Down: Munro's pen name (4): SAKI
2 Down: One-eyed god (4): ODIN
3 Down: Firkin (4): CASK
4 Down: "Command Performance" (10): KISSMEKATE
5 Down: Spot's scrap (3): ORT
6 Down: Wonder of songdom (6): STEVIE
7 Down: Items discarded by some nuns (6): HABITS
8 Down: Struggles (5): AGONS
9 Down: Town near Amiens (4): ROYE
10 Down: Forage plant (3): ERS
11 Down: Varsity (8): REGULARS
12 Down: "The Border Minstrel" (5): SCOTT
13 Down: Sandhurst student (5): CADET
14 Down: What 32 Across is (4): ABBR
15 Down: Bottom fish (3): RAY
16 Down: Mauriac's "___ Blood" (8): FLESHAND
17 Down: ___-toe (6): TICTAC
18 Down: Female gametes (3): OVA
19 Down: Prankster (3): WAG
20 Down: Dir. from Pisa to Verona (3): NNE
26 Down: Cardinals' QB (4): HART
27 Down: Geographical hub of N.Y. (6): ONEIDA
33 Down: Jazzman Fountain (4): PETE
35 Down: " . . . if ___ west/The Phoenix builds": Carew (6): EASTOR
38 Down: "The Song and Dance Man" (14): THEENTERTAINER
39 Down: Beard's field (7): HISTORY
40 Down: Conciliatory (6): IRENIC
41 Down: "Sleuth" (14): DETECTIVESTORY
42 Down: Musial, for short (6): THEMAN
43 Down: Shakes a leg (4): HIES
44 Down: Array (6): CLOTHE
45 Down: Altercations (4): ROWS
46 Down: Like Tom Thumb (5): TEENY
47 Down: Ethiopian lake (5): TSANA
48 Down: Neighbor of Provincetown (5): TRURO
49 Down: Beard boy (5): SCOUT
53 Down: Small drum (5): TABOR
54 Down: Danube feeder (4): HRON
55 Down: Corrosive coating (4): RUST
56 Down: Park for T.A.E. (5): MENLO
60 Down: Manx's missing part (4): TAIL
63 Down: Sly guy (5): SNEAK
64 Down: Author Uris (4): LEON
65 Down: Say grace (4): PRAY
67 Down: Where Augustus died (4): NOLA
68 Down: Milanese music maker (4): ARPA
71 Down: "Pagliacci" showman (5): CANIO
72 Down: Hair's companion (4): HIDE
74 Down: Green, in Grenoble (5): VERTE
75 Down: At ___ (immediately) (7): AGLANCE
76 Down: The rear (6): TAGEND
77 Down: Former Congolese prime minister (4): ILEO
78 Down: Essentials (5): NEEDS
79 Down: Sum (6): AMOUNT
80 Down: Jeweler's eyepiece (5): LOUPE
81 Down: Take life easy (4): LOLL
83 Down: " . . . through ___, darkly": I Cor. 13:12 (6): AGLASS
84 Down: Aesop character (5): BEAST
85 Down: Protection (5): AEGIS
88 Down: Galahad's mother (6): ELAINE
89 Down: "Luv," with "The" (10): TENDERTRAP
91 Down: River in Bavaria (4): OHRE
92 Down: Meter man (4): POET
95 Down: Hang-up of a sort (8): TAPESTRY
96 Down: Get ready to serve wine (6): DECANT
97 Down: Like parts of the moon (8): CRATERED
100 Down: "Beowulf" is one (4): EPIC
104 Down: Fit for tilling (6): ARABLE
106 Down: Gossip's interest (6): LATEST
107 Down: Apocopates (6): ELIDES
108 Down: Hebrew letter: Var. (4): ALEF
110 Down: Plains abode (5): TEPEE
111 Down: Takes advice (5): HEEDS
112 Down: Rubbish (5): TRIPE
114 Down: Pub vessels (4): KEGS
115 Down: Rembrandt's "Lady with ___" (4): AFAN
117 Down: Dame Myra (4): HESS
118 Down: "It ___ laugh": Pinero (4): ISTO
119 Down: Arrest (4): STEM
120 Down: Fabian's monogram (3): GBS
121 Down: Branco or Bravo (3): RIO
122 Down: Hog's desire (3): ALL
124 Down: "Some ___ meat . . . ": Burns (3): HAE
125 Down: U.N. labor body (3): ILO
126 Down: Unclose: Poetic (3): OPE

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