BON APPÉTIT! - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 11/12/1978. By Frances Hansen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Act that made history (5)
STAMP
6 Across: Cousin of an I-bar (5)
HBEAM
11 Across: Sponsorship (4)
EGIS
15 Across: Colorful fish (4)
OPAH
19 Across: Hourly (5)
HORAL
20 Across: Well-known Ike (5)
ALIBI
21 Across: P–U connection (4)
QRST
22 Across: Star of "Sin": 1915 (4)
BARA
23 Across: Actress Verdugo (5)
ELENA
24 Across: Adorned with long hair (5)
MANED
25 Across: Ubangi feeder (4)
UELE
26 Across: The "Hungarian Rome" (4)
EGER
27 Across: Start of a limerick (21)
ALADYNAMEDISABELWYATT
31 Across: Rousseau classic (5)
EMILE
32 Across: Hag in "The Faerie Queene" (3)
ATE
33 Across: Borrower on property (6)
LIENEE
34 Across: Set-in sleeve (6)
RAGLAN
37 Across: Wooden pin (5)
SPILE
40 Across: Alexander's group (4)
BAND
41 Across: Siouan tribesman (3)
OTO
42 Across: ___-Lautrec (8)
TOULOUSE
45 Across: Polka follower (3)
DOT
46 Across: Afternoon hrs. (3)
PMS
49 Across: More of limerick (21)
SUGGESTEDTOMEANEWDIET
54 Across: Ben Adhem (4)
ABOU
55 Across: Pate (4)
HEAD
56 Across: Relative of a pkwy. (3)
RTE
57 Across: "Goodnight" girl (5)
IRENE
58 Across: One of the Bears (4)
MAMA
61 Across: Actor Davis (5)
OSSIE
64 Across: Mme. Swan, in Proust's books (6)
ODETTE
65 Across: More of limerick (21)
LETSDRINKWATERSHESAID
71 Across: Hilo hellos (6)
ALOHAS
72 Across: Broadway hit (5)
ANNIE
73 Across: Oodles (4)
TONS
74 Across: Massenet opera (5)
MANON
75 Across: Kimono adjunct (3)
OBI
76 Across: Bellow (4)
ROAR
79 Across: Island in a palindrome (4)
ELBA
83 Across: More of limerick (21)
ANDEATNOTHINGBUTBREAD
89 Across: One of the media: Abbr. (3)
RDO
90 Across: Loot (3)
ROB
91 Across: Fawning one (8)
ADULATOR
92 Across: With "The," another Broadway hit (3)
WIZ
93 Across: Church corner (4)
AMEN
95 Across: It doesn't pay (5)
CRIME
96 Across: Poser (6)
RIDDLE
98 Across: Bradley U. site (6)
PEORIA
101 Across: City lines (3)
ELS
102 Across: Billiards shot (5)
MASSE
104 Across: End of limerick (21)
IAMNOTINAHURRYTOTRYIT
112 Across: Donkey, in Durango (4)
ASNO
113 Across: Stravinsky (4)
IGOR
114 Across: Spry, in Dixie (5)
PEART
115 Across: Skipper's command (5)
LIETO
116 Across: Simon or Diamond (4)
NEIL
117 Across: Only (4)
SOLE
118 Across: "La ___ è mobile" (5)
DONNA
119 Across: Margins (5)
EDGES
120 Across: Toward the mouth (4)
ORAD
121 Across: French political unit (4)
ETAT
122 Across: Günter Grass dwarf (5)
OSKAR
123 Across: "Tutu divine" painter (5)
DEGAS

Down Answers

1 Down: Mets' home (4)
SHEA
2 Down: Road fee (4)
TOLL
3 Down: A code we live by (4)
AREA
4 Down: Leader slain by Vichy militia: 1944 (6)
MANDEL
5 Down: Child's chum (8)
PLAYMATE
6 Down: Turkish porter (5)
HAMAL
7 Down: Mame's burden (5)
BLAME
8 Down: Article for Goethe (4)
EINE
9 Down: Not up yet (4)
ABED
10 Down: "L'Après-___ d'un faune" (4)
MIDI
11 Down: Regard as exactly alike (6)
EQUATE
12 Down: Diving bird (5)
GREBE
13 Down: Capri, in song (4)
ISLE
14 Down: Star-shaped (8)
STELLATE
15 Down: Followed orders (6)
OBEYED
16 Down: Missionary's concern (5)
PAGAN
17 Down: Rugged ridge (5)
ARETE
18 Down: Ah Sin's creator (5)
HARTE
28 Down: Boys of Barcelona (5)
NINOS
29 Down: Hawthorne's birthplace (5)
SALEM
30 Down: Race-track sign (3)
WIN
34 Down: Ponselle or Bonheur (4)
ROSA
35 Down: "A Tale of ___": Swift (4)
ATUB
36 Down: Kind of dancer (4)
GOGO
37 Down: Fountain treat (4)
SODA
38 Down: Squelch; crush (7)
PUTDOWN
39 Down: Prefix for bar or gram (3)
ISO
40 Down: Scapula or fibula (4)
BONE
43 Down: Biblical name meaning "God helps" (5)
UTHAI
44 Down: Cobb or Trevino (3)
LEE
45 Down: Library device (5)
DATER
46 Down: Michelangelo masterpiece (5)
PIETA
47 Down: Mind: Comb. form (5)
MENTI
48 Down: Traveller or Rosinante (5)
STEED
50 Down: Private eye (7)
GUMSHOE
51 Down: New York canal (4)
ERIE
52 Down: Dilate (5)
WIDEN
53 Down: Star's aide (7)
DRESSER
59 Down: City in Turkey (5)
ADANA
60 Down: "The Second ___ Tanqueray" (3)
MRS
62 Down: Capuchin monkey (3)
SAI
63 Down: Breastbone (7)
STERNUM
64 Down: Cry of discovery (3)
OHO
65 Down: Truman's birthplace (5)
LAMAR
66 Down: African antelope (5)
ELAND
67 Down: Circular painting (5)
TONDO
68 Down: Bigwig (5)
NABOB
69 Down: Do the cable stitch (4)
KNIT
70 Down: Walk like a rooster (5)
STRUT
75 Down: "___ you noblest English!" (4)
ONON
77 Down: Give the eye to (4)
OGLE
78 Down: Arab wear (3)
ABA
80 Down: Salacious (4)
LEWD
81 Down: Slammer springer (4)
BAIL
82 Down: Cutting tool (4)
ADZE
84 Down: Formal essay (8)
TREATISE
85 Down: Severe (5)
HARSH
86 Down: First name in Uganda (3)
IDI
87 Down: Trunk (5)
TORSO
88 Down: Got one's hackles up (8)
BRISTLED
93 Down: Hap or Benedict (6)
ARNOLD
94 Down: "O Sole ___" (3)
MIO
95 Down: Table wine (6)
CLARET
97 Down: Mock (6)
DERIDE
98 Down: Upright, e.g. (5)
PIANO
99 Down: Sedative, for one (5)
EASER
100 Down: "___ vincit amor" (5)
OMNIA
101 Down: ___ Gay, of W.W. II (5)
ENOLA
102 Down: Miss Loy (5)
MYRNA
103 Down: Rose essence (5)
ATTAR
105 Down: "___ Rhythm" (4)
IGOT
106 Down: Hair style (4)
UPDO
107 Down: Old cars (4)
REOS
108 Down: File's partner (4)
RANK
109 Down: Safecracker (4)
YEGG
110 Down: Virginia willow (4)
ITEA
111 Down: Flip a coin (4)
TOSS

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