WHO'S WHO - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 1/21/1979. By Virginia P. Abelson.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Shade of brown (5)
COCOA
6 Across: Mixer (4)
SODA
10 Across: On a cruise (4)
ASEA
14 Across: Salk contemporary (5)
SABIN
19 Across: Taro, for one (5)
AROID
20 Across: Church areas (9)
TRANSEPTS
22 Across: Grimalkin (5)
CRONE
23 Across: Maria Magdalena von Losch (15)
MARLENEDIETRICH
25 Across: Vast number (5)
HORDE
26 Across: Osaka outcast (3)
ETA
27 Across: Butcher's merchandise (5)
LOINS
28 Across: Wash out (5)
RINSE
29 Across: Wickerwork willow (5)
OSIER
30 Across: Kind of pin or stone (7)
ROLLING
32 Across: Decree (4)
FIAT
33 Across: Troubles (4)
WOES
34 Across: M. Lupin (6)
ARSENE
35 Across: Arthur Stanley Jefferson (10)
STANLAUREL
39 Across: Keystone comic (3)
KOP
42 Across: Feudal lord (5)
LIEGE
43 Across: Twinge (4)
PANG
44 Across: Cliques (4)
SETS
45 Across: Divers information (3)
ANA
46 Across: Treaty gp. formed in 1948 (3)
OAS
47 Across: Twirled (4)
SPUN
49 Across: Trap (5)
TOILS
51 Across: Fox or Rabbit (4)
BRER
52 Across: Nathan Birnbaum (11)
GEORGEBURNS
55 Across: Showy plant (5)
CALLA
56 Across: Numbers man: Abbr. (3)
CPA
59 Across: Track units (4)
LAPS
60 Across: One of the Pequod's owners (5)
PELEG
61 Across: Resembling dice (6)
CUBOID
62 Across: Buildings at O'Hare (7)
HANGARS
64 Across: Price and Moffo (5)
DIVAS
65 Across: Tallest quadruped (7)
GIRAFFE
66 Across: Actor Edward and family (6)
ASNERS
67 Across: Haired like a mare (5)
MANED
68 Across: Between few and many (4)
SOME
69 Across: G-man (3)
FED
70 Across: Inscribed pillar (5)
STELE
71 Across: Natasha Gurdin (11)
NATALIEWOOD
73 Across: Bench warmers (4)
SUBS
74 Across: West Coast shrub (5)
SALAL
75 Across: Direct a helmsman (4)
CONN
76 Across: Friend, in Aberdeen (3)
EME
79 Across: Novelist Levin (3)
IRA
80 Across: Nobelist name: 1947 (4)
CORI
81 Across: Essex or Nash (4)
AUTO
83 Across: Factory (5)
PLANT
85 Across: D.C. V.I.P. (3)
SEN
86 Across: Roy Fitzgerald (10)
ROCKHUDSON
89 Across: Want (6)
DEARTH
90 Across: A D-day target (4)
CAEN
92 Across: "___, you noblest English!" (4)
ONON
93 Across: Ant (7)
PISMIRE
94 Across: Callas (5)
MARIA
96 Across: Island in Firth of Clyde (5)
ARRAN
98 Across: Colombian poncho (5)
RUANA
100 Across: ___ Palmas (3)
LAS
101 Across: Inge's "___ of Roses" (5)
ALOSS
102 Across: Ruby Stevens (15)
BARBARASTANWYCK
105 Across: Springfield, e.g. (5)
RIFLE
106 Across: Certain stocks (9)
UTILITIES
107 Across: One of a Hindu weaver class (5)
TANTI
108 Across: Blasé (5)
SATED
109 Across: Marquis de ___ (4)
SADE
110 Across: MacDonald's co-star (4)
EDDY
111 Across: Ruhr city (5)
ESSEN

Down Answers

1 Down: Of judicial chambers (7)
CAMERAL
2 Down: "Christmas" or "Easter" (8)
ORATORIO
3 Down: Battle scene: May, 1942 (8)
CORALSEA
4 Down: "Black gold" (3)
OIL
5 Down: Harmony lass (7)
ADELINE
6 Down: Cartoonist William ___ (5)
STEIG
7 Down: Artillery: Abbr. (4)
ORDN
8 Down: Platform (4)
DAIS
9 Down: Dunce, in Dijon (3)
ANE
10 Down: Roof adjunct (6)
AERIAL
11 Down: Push, in Pisa (6)
SPINTA
12 Down: Useful catchalls (4)
ETCS
13 Down: Wimbledon winner in 1975 (4)
ASHE
14 Down: B. of E. concern (7)
SCHOOLS
15 Down: Faulkner's "___ for Emily" (5)
AROSE
16 Down: William Henry Pratt (12)
BORISKARLOFF
17 Down: Shade of blue (4)
INDE
18 Down: ___-do-well (4)
NEER
21 Down: Sequence (6)
STRING
24 Down: Zilch (4)
NONE
31 Down: Shanks' mare (4)
LEGS
32 Down: Rooter (3)
FAN
33 Down: Dampens (4)
WETS
35 Down: They jingle, jangle, jingle (5)
SPURS
36 Down: Coarse seaweed (4)
TANG
37 Down: Treating shabbily (5)
USING
38 Down: Kin: Abbr. (4)
RELS
40 Down: "___ to Live," TV program (7)
ONELIFE
41 Down: Flaunted (7)
PARADED
47 Down: Burns (5)
SEARS
48 Down: Boston ___ (4)
POPS
49 Down: Lake trout (6)
TULADI
50 Down: Miners' finds (4)
ORES
51 Down: Rum cake (4)
BABA
52 Down: Glower (5)
GLARE
53 Down: City on the Moselle (6)
EPINAL
54 Down: Chamfer (5)
BEVEL
55 Down: Salted (5)
CURED
56 Down: Frame (7)
CHASSIS
57 Down: Lea (7)
PASTURE
58 Down: Anna Maria Italiano (12)
ANNEBANCROFT
61 Down: Athenian commander (5)
CIMON
63 Down: Sets (4)
GELS
64 Down: Computer fodder (4)
DATA
65 Down: Hatchet man (4)
GOON
67 Down: Russian diplomat (5)
MALIK
68 Down: Faint (5)
SWOON
71 Down: Undercover cop (4)
NARC
72 Down: Outer: Prefix (4)
ECTO
74 Down: Forthwith (4)
SOON
76 Down: Actor Jack ___ (4)
ELAM
77 Down: Maxwell, Miller and Monroe (8)
MARILYNS
78 Down: Musical interval (8)
ENTRACTE
80 Down: Wrinkled (7)
CREASED
81 Down: God: Heb. (6)
ADONAI
82 Down: Waves' org. (3)
USN
83 Down: Heavily: Mus. dir. (7)
PESANTE
84 Down: Wilder's "___ of Our Teeth" (7)
THESKIN
87 Down: Nasty (6)
HORRID
88 Down: Helpless (6)
UNABLE
89 Down: Actress Merrill (4)
DINA
91 Down: Passageway (5)
AISLE
93 Down: Fall guy (5)
PATSY
94 Down: Red planet (4)
MARS
95 Down: Inter ___ (4)
ALIA
96 Down: "Us on ___," old song (4)
ABUS
97 Down: Pro ___ (proportionally) (4)
RATA
98 Down: Foray (4)
RAID
99 Down: Worn (4)
USED
103 Down: Turnpike: Abbr. (3)
RTE
104 Down: Existed (3)
WAS

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