RIGGED! - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 168 clues). Published 12/17/1978. By Hume R. Craft.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Wheeler's partner (6): DEALER
7 Across: Sling mud (5): SMEAR
12 Across: Nobelist for Chemistry: 1918 (5): HABER
17 Across: Where a mudder may get fodder (4): CRIB
21 Across: "Sirenize" (6): ALLURE
22 Across: Dame's associate (5): NOTRE
23 Across: Bouquet without color (5): AROMA
24 Across: Animal's coat (4): HIDE
25 Across: Iowa farmer's get-up? (12): PLAINCLOTHES
27 Across: Like a confirmed nudist? (10): UNSUITABLE
29 Across: Carlos or Juan (3): SAN
30 Across: Gathering (6): SOIREE
31 Across: Venetian family (5): POLOS
33 Across: "___ from an Old Manse" (6): MOSSES
34 Across: French article (3): UNE
35 Across: Singer Frankie (5): LAINE
37 Across: On the qui vive (5): ALERT
39 Across: Scotland's longest river (3): TAY
42 Across: Action at the wire (5): SPURT
44 Across: Roman ways (5): ITERS
46 Across: Feeding the kitty (7): ANTEING
50 Across: Greek matricide (7): ORESTES
52 Across: Garb that can't be mentioned? (11): UNDERSKIRTS
55 Across: Avant-gardist (3): NEO
56 Across: Stoned, but not squiffed (6): PELTED
57 Across: They were all about Eve (5): TREES
58 Across: Chemical suffixes (4): INES
59 Across: Georgian group (4): SVAN
60 Across: Pivotal (5): POLAR
61 Across: First Oscar-winning film (5): WINGS
62 Across: He wrote "Night Music" (5): ODETS
64 Across: "___ are the snows . . . ?" (5): WHERE
65 Across: N.C. college (4): ELON
66 Across: Dravidian language (5): TAMIL
67 Across: Panza's Dapple (5): BURRO
68 Across: Less partisan (6): FAIRER
69 Across: In one's birthday suit (3): RAW
70 Across: Wear for an atoll? (6): BIKINI
71 Across: Throw at Vegas (4): ACES
72 Across: Date for Calpurnia (7): CALENDS
73 Across: In the slammer (6): JAILED
75 Across: Barbarians (5): GOTHS
77 Across: Ebb (6): RECEDE
78 Across: Douse the lights (7): BLACKEN
80 Across: Whale (4): CETE
81 Across: Under the elms (6): SHADED
83 Across: Draft initials (3): SSS
86 Across: What Croesus had (6): RICHES
87 Across: Castilian channels (5): CANOS
88 Across: "Golden-wedding day" destination (5): DOVER
89 Across: "Cómo ___ Vd.?" (4): ESTA
90 Across: Questioned (5): ASKED
91 Across: Beatrice's adorer (5): DANTE
92 Across: Used a strop (5): HONED
93 Across: Tree yielding edible pulp (5): PACAY
94 Across: Residents: Suffix (4): ITES
95 Across: Middling (4): SOSO
96 Across: Made corvine noises (5): CAWED
97 Across: Medicinal ointment (6): CERATE
98 Across: TV stage (3): SET
99 Across: Conventional robes? (11): GENEVAGOWNS
102 Across: Her hems were high (7): FLAPPER
103 Across: Trap (7): ENSNARE
105 Across: Trees of Morocco (5): ARARS
106 Across: Spot worn on a Hindu's brow (5): TILAK
108 Across: U.S.N.A. grad (3): ENS
109 Across: Gimlet's relative (5): AUGER
111 Across: Quotes (5): CITES
113 Across: May heroine (3): MOM
114 Across: July 25 heroine (6): STANNE
117 Across: Incensed (5): IRATE
119 Across: Get news about (6): HEAROF
122 Across: Baden-Baden, e.g. (3): SPA
125 Across: Dressed like a dependent politician? (10): COATTAILED
127 Across: Headgear for Campbell or Moore? (12): GLENGARRYCAP
130 Across: Windigo (4): OGRE
131 Across: ___ prosequi (5): NOLLE
132 Across: Hitchcockian (5): EERIE
133 Across: Dog-show measurement (6): EARAGE
134 Across: Where she wore bells (4): TOES
135 Across: Canasta pair (5): TREYS
136 Across: Pippins (5): SEEDS
137 Across: Garb for a crop sprayer? (6): DUSTER

Down Answers

1 Down: Dips bait lightly (4): DAPS
2 Down: Grasso (4): ELLA
3 Down: Actor Alda (4): ALAN
4 Down: French pronoun (3): LUI
5 Down: Sea fowl (4): ERNS
6 Down: Survived at Monte Carlo (8): RECOUPED
7 Down: Rhonchus creator (6): SNORER
8 Down: Speck (4): MOTE
9 Down: A Barrymore (5): ETHEL
10 Down: "Blessed ___ the meek . . . " (3): ARE
11 Down: Breaks (8): RESPITES
12 Down: Canalboats (7): HAULERS
13 Down: Cartoonist Peter (4): ARNO
14 Down: ___ nova (5): BOSSA
15 Down: Australian bird (3): EMU
16 Down: Garb worn in broken-down minarets? (8): RAIMENTS
17 Down: "Be thou as ___ as ice . . . " (6): CHASTE
18 Down: Ridges formed in knitting (4): RIBS
19 Down: Out of work (4): IDLE
20 Down: Karbis (4): BEES
26 Down: He wants his blanket (5): LINUS
28 Down: Certain civil wrongs (5): TORTS
32 Down: Lalapalooza (4): ONER
36 Down: General's staff (5): AIDES
38 Down: Roman tutelary gods (5): LARES
39 Down: Hat for Cosmo? (6): TOPPER
40 Down: Botanical space (6): AREOLA
41 Down: Cowards' garb? (13): YELLOWJACKETS
42 Down: Suffix with song or mob (4): STER
43 Down: Retire (6): TURNIN
45 Down: Kanonen (6): SKIERS
47 Down: Cloak worn at a Scottish port? (13): INVERNESSCAPE
48 Down: Approximated (6): NEARED
49 Down: Their day is done (6): GONERS
51 Down: Laurel (4): STAN
53 Down: Carelessly and diaphanously clothed? (9): NEGLIGENT
54 Down: Division word (4): INTO
57 Down: Milquetoasty (5): TIMID
59 Down: Recoiled (5): SHIED
61 Down: Arouse (5): WAKEN
62 Down: "That hurts!" (4): OUCH
63 Down: Give feathers a glossy finish? (9): DRESSDOWN
64 Down: Like corduroy (5): WALED
66 Down: Mah-jongg pieces (5): TILES
67 Down: Writer of "America the Beautiful" (5): BATES
68 Down: One of the garment workers (5): FACER
70 Down: Wheeled, in a way (5): BIKED
72 Down: Gave up, as lands (5): CEDED
74 Down: Flu symptoms (5): ACHES
76 Down: County in Nebraska (4): OTOE
77 Down: Jabbered (5): RAVED
78 Down: Cook slowly in fat (6): BRAISE
79 Down: Start of a Longfellow poem (6): LISTEN
80 Down: Judy from Jacksonville (6): CANOVA
82 Down: Free from fraud (6): HONEST
84 Down: Richmond's island (6): STATEN
85 Down: She wrote "The Nine Tailors" (6): SAYERS
87 Down: Suit follower (4): CASE
89 Down: Frontier lawman (4): EARP
91 Down: Recipient (5): DONEE
92 Down: Part of a ship's bow (5): HAWSE
93 Down: Pikes ___ (4): PEAK
95 Down: Top kick (8): SERGEANT
96 Down: Processions (8): CORTEGES
97 Down: Roared (8): CLAMORED
99 Down: John of ___ (5): GAUNT
100 Down: Shopping areas (7): ARCADES
101 Down: Canter or trot (4): GAIT
102 Down: Plant life (5): FLORA
104 Down: First city of Brittany (6): NANTES
107 Down: Madison Ave. creations (6): IMAGES
110 Down: Lunar valley (5): RILLE
112 Down: Kipling's ___ Khan (5): SHERE
114 Down: Kiltie (4): SCOT
115 Down: Lunch-counter phrase (4): TOGO
116 Down: Alpine stream (4): AARE
118 Down: Bank (on) (4): RELY
120 Down: Miss Markey (4): ENID
121 Down: Wife, in Weimar (4): FRAU
122 Down: Vamoose! (4): SCAT
123 Down: British buttons (4): PAGE
124 Down: Rich Little, e.g. (4): APER
126 Down: Super ending (3): IOR
128 Down: Traveller's rider (3): LEE
129 Down: Jan.–Dec. periods (3): YRS

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