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Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 7/9/1978. By Herb L. Risteen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Marshy tract (3)
- FEN
- 4 Across: Vivacity (4)
- FIRE
- 8 Across: Admitted fact (5)
- DATUM
- 13 Across: Cacholong (4)
- OPAL
- 17 Across: Actor Vigoda (3)
- ABE
- 18 Across: Resort in Ontario (6)
- KENORA
- 20 Across: Bay near Nagasaki (5)
- OMURA
- 21 Across: Do office work (4)
- FILE
- 22 Across: Austrian composer (21)
- WOLFGANGAMADEUSMOZART
- 26 Across: Function (7)
- OPERATE
- 27 Across: Overlook (4)
- OMIT
- 28 Across: Made slick (5)
- OILED
- 29 Across: ___ canto (3)
- BEL
- 30 Across: "___ Dimittis" (hymn) (4)
- NUNC
- 31 Across: Troubles (4)
- AILS
- 33 Across: Crusading monarch (21)
- RICHARDTHELIONHEARTED
- 43 Across: Suffix with sect (5)
- ARIAN
- 44 Across: Western capital (5)
- BOISE
- 45 Across: King in Kings (4)
- AMON
- 46 Across: Collection (3)
- ANA
- 47 Across: Parts of pots (4)
- LIDS
- 48 Across: ___ de combat (4)
- HORS
- 49 Across: She wrote "A Certain Smile" (5)
- SAGAN
- 51 Across: Dixie tree (4)
- TITI
- 52 Across: Dessert (3)
- ICE
- 53 Across: Amiens's river (5)
- SOMME
- 54 Across: Heavy, gaseous element (5)
- RADON
- 55 Across: Bridge expert (5)
- GOREN
- 56 Across: Condense, in a way (6)
- ADSORB
- 58 Across: ___ energy (5)
- SOLAR
- 59 Across: Blood-bank supporters (6)
- DONORS
- 60 Across: French author (15)
- GUYDEMAUPASSANT
- 64 Across: Call to account (6)
- CHARGE
- 67 Across: Partner of true (5)
- TRIED
- 68 Across: Assembles, as equipment (6)
- RIGSUP
- 71 Across: Protection (5)
- AEGIS
- 72 Across: Wooden (5)
- TREEN
- 73 Across: Companionless (5)
- ALONE
- 75 Across: Truth, to Confucius (3)
- TAO
- 77 Across: Loblolly (4)
- PINE
- 78 Across: Stimuli (5)
- GOADS
- 79 Across: U.S. legislators (4)
- CONG
- 80 Across: Apex (4)
- CUSP
- 81 Across: United (3)
- ONE
- 82 Across: Denver building (4)
- MINT
- 83 Across: Obliquely (5)
- ASIDE
- 85 Across: Body passage (5)
- AORTA
- 86 Across: Scandinavian storyteller (21)
- HANSCHRISTIANANDERSEN
- 91 Across: Out of the wind (4)
- ALEE
- 92 Across: Bring to ruin (4)
- UNDO
- 93 Across: Morsel for Dobbin (3)
- OAT
- 94 Across: Corrupt (5)
- TAINT
- 97 Across: Per ___ (4)
- DIEM
- 98 Across: Bitter taunt (7)
- SARCASM
- 102 Across: British statesman (21)
- WILLIAMEWARTGLADSTONE
- 108 Across: Status quo ___ bellum (4)
- ANTE
- 109 Across: On a cruise (5)
- ATSEA
- 110 Across: Famous judge (6)
- SIRICA
- 111 Across: Noisy activity (3)
- ADO
- 112 Across: Set the pace (4)
- LEAD
- 113 Across: Showy display (5)
- GAUDS
- 114 Across: Vetch (4)
- TARE
- 115 Across: Tavern item (3)
- GIN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Rotund (3)
- FAT
- 2 Down: Spanish river (4)
- EBRO
- 3 Down: One of the tides (4)
- NEAP
- 4 Down: Doe or ewe (6)
- FEMALE
- 5 Down: Business abbr. (4)
- INST
- 6 Down: Dissolute man (4)
- ROUE
- 7 Down: Sooner than (3)
- ERE
- 8 Down: Old master (6)
- DOMINE
- 9 Down: Three on ___ (6)
- AMATCH
- 10 Down: Harbor craft (3)
- TUG
- 11 Down: Receptacle (3)
- URN
- 12 Down: Barnyard noise (3)
- MAA
- 13 Down: Aloof (6)
- OFFISH
- 14 Down: Unpleasant person (4)
- PILL
- 15 Down: Tub plant (4)
- ALOE
- 16 Down: Indecent (4)
- LEWD
- 18 Down: Native of Pusan (6)
- KOREAN
- 19 Down: Male "dreamboat" (6)
- ADONIS
- 23 Down: Horses' cousins (6)
- ZEBRAS
- 24 Down: Stubborn as ___ (5)
- AMULE
- 25 Down: ___ Heights (5)
- GOLAN
- 31 Down: Account exec (5)
- ADMAN
- 32 Down: Smooth out (4)
- IRON
- 33 Down: Surrealist (4)
- DALI
- 34 Down: Evergreen shrub (5)
- ERICA
- 35 Down: ___ over (helped along) (5)
- TIDED
- 36 Down: Powerful projectiles (6)
- HBOMBS
- 37 Down: Standard (4)
- NORM
- 38 Down: Seine feeder (4)
- OISE
- 39 Down: Great Hindu poet (6)
- TAGORE
- 40 Down: City in Illinois (5)
- CAIRO
- 41 Down: Prefix with lace and weave (5)
- INTER
- 42 Down: A memorable Claude (5)
- RAINS
- 48 Down: "___ Lyricae," Watts poem (5)
- HORAE
- 49 Down: Fruit ___ (5)
- SALAD
- 50 Down: London's "Before ___" (4)
- ADAM
- 51 Down: Hammer's companions (5)
- TONGS
- 53 Down: Lieder (5)
- SONGS
- 54 Down: City northwest of Paris (5)
- ROUEN
- 55 Down: Swindle (5)
- GOUGE
- 57 Down: Striped textile design (5)
- STRIE
- 58 Down: Hale and Hari (5)
- SPIES
- 59 Down: "I am ___, Egypt . . . " (5)
- DYING
- 61 Down: Social classes (6)
- STRATA
- 62 Down: Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest" (4)
- ARED
- 63 Down: Monotonous talker (6)
- DRONER
- 64 Down: Table fowl (5)
- CAPON
- 65 Down: German poet (5)
- HEINE
- 66 Down: Miss Moorehead (5)
- AGNES
- 69 Down: Driver's maneuver (5)
- UTURN
- 70 Down: Food in Firenze (5)
- PASTA
- 72 Down: One thousand kilograms (5)
- TONNE
- 73 Down: Galatea's beloved (4)
- ACIS
- 74 Down: Napoleon won here in 1796 (4)
- LODI
- 76 Down: Colorful fish (4)
- OPAH
- 78 Down: He wrote "The Counterfeiters" (4)
- GIDE
- 80 Down: Of the ribs (6)
- COSTAL
- 82 Down: Disintegrates (5)
- MELTS
- 83 Down: ___ by verdict (5)
- AIDER
- 84 Down: Mouthlike openings (6)
- STOMAS
- 85 Down: Landscaper's shrub (6)
- ACACIA
- 87 Down: Rodomontaded (6)
- RANTED
- 88 Down: Jogged (6)
- NUDGED
- 89 Down: Loos and Louise (6)
- ANITAS
- 90 Down: Roman poet (6)
- HORACE
- 94 Down: River duck (4)
- TEAL
- 95 Down: "Green Gables" girl (4)
- ANNE
- 96 Down: Greek vowel (4)
- IOTA
- 98 Down: Therapeutic agents (4)
- SERA
- 99 Down: Moslem lord (4)
- AMIR
- 100 Down: Scoria (4)
- SLAG
- 101 Down: Southern France (4)
- MIDI
- 103 Down: Hammarskjöld (3)
- DAG
- 104 Down: ___ loss (3)
- ATA
- 105 Down: Dixie sch. (3)
- LSU
- 106 Down: G.B.S. was one (3)
- WIT
- 107 Down: Achieved (3)
- WON
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