TURNING PHRASES - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 166 clues). Published 8/12/1979. By Jordan S. Lasher.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Exhausted (5): ALLIN
6 Across: Short golf shots (5): CHIPS
11 Across: City in western India (6): BARODA
17 Across: "Heaven make thee free ___!": Shak. (4): OFIT
21 Across: River to Pamlico Sound (5): NEUSE
22 Across: Charged (5): RANAT
23 Across: Marches or storehouses (6): ETAPES
24 Across: State tree of Ark. (4): PINE
25 Across: Cobbler's motto? (18): TIMEWOUNDSALLHEELS
28 Across: This, in Taxco (4): ESTA
29 Across: Moroccan range (3): RIF
30 Across: Scatter (6): DISPEL
31 Across: A.F.T. rival (3): NEA
32 Across: Huntley (4): CHET
33 Across: Subjoin (6): APPEND
36 Across: Conquers Everest (12): SCALESTHETIP
40 Across: Blunder (3): ERR
41 Across: "Yea, team!" (3): RAH
42 Across: Kind of banana or dog (3): TOP
44 Across: Row (4): TIER
45 Across: Very unusual (4): RARE
46 Across: Narrow channel (5): STRIA
48 Across: News agcy. (3): UPI
49 Across: Clavicor, e.g. (4): HORN
51 Across: Bawl (3): CRY
52 Across: Balaam's beast (3): ASS
53 Across: Jinx (6): WHAMMY
54 Across: Unit indicating loudness (3): BEL
55 Across: Of a Great Lake (5): ERIAN
57 Across: Suffix with harp or violin (3): IST
58 Across: Costa ___ (5): BRAVA
59 Across: Tumultuous (5): AROAR
61 Across: Uses pastels (16): SHADESTHEDRAWING
67 Across: Small whale (3): SEI
68 Across: Develops (7): MATURES
69 Across: Unsews (4): RIPS
70 Across: ___ Miss, rival of 'Bama (3): OLE
72 Across: Embellish (5): ADORN
74 Across: Baphomet, e.g. (4): IDOL
75 Across: Hamlet and Borge (5): DANES
77 Across: Tunisian seaport (4): SFAX
78 Across: Mapmaking sci. (5): TOPOG
79 Across: Workaholic's drive (11): LOVEOFLABOR
82 Across: Shrewd maneuverer (5): CUTIE
83 Across: Old English letters (4): EDHS
84 Across: Gets one's dander up (5): RILES
85 Across: Antiseptic: Comb. form (4): IODO
86 Across: Glassware ovens (5): LEHRS
87 Across: Author of "The Wall Street Gang" (3): NEY
88 Across: Actress Merrill (4): DINA
89 Across: Cordage grass (7): ESPARTO
92 Across: Parabasis (3): ODE
93 Across: Columbia River, e.g. (16): COURSEFORTHEPARR
97 Across: Jai alai basket (5): CESTA
100 Across: Chick (5): FRYER
101 Across: Ezra Pound work (3): NOH
102 Across: U.S.S.R. moon probe (5): LUNIK
104 Across: Female lobster (3): HEN
105 Across: He has a sponsor (6): GODSON
107 Across: Singer Tillis (3): MEL
108 Across: Afternoon hrs. (3): PMS
111 Across: "King Lear" role (4): KENT
112 Across: Pilcorn (3): OAT
113 Across: "Half ___ is . . . " (5): ALOAF
114 Across: Lateen or Jamie Green (4): SAIL
115 Across: Constance or Louise (4): LAKE
117 Across: "Be still!" (3): SSH
118 Across: Dir. to Blarney from Killarney (3): ESE
119 Across: Jiffy (3): SEC
120 Across: Go gaga over the roller coaster (12): FALLFORARIDE
124 Across: Past and perfect (6): TENSES
126 Across: Boone and Hingle (4): PATS
128 Across: Once named (3): NEE
129 Across: Walton's "The Compleat ___" (6): ANGLER
130 Across: Fortas (3): ABE
131 Across: Steel ingredient (4): IRON
132 Across: "Her typewriter was broken!" (18): DEFENSEOFSECRETARY
139 Across: Dido died on one (4): PYRE
140 Across: Show plainly (6): EVINCE
141 Across: Musical flourish (5): TUSCH
142 Across: Ending of a Kilmer poem (5): ATREE
143 Across: Existence (4): ESSE
144 Across: Zone (6): SECTOR
145 Across: Roofing tile (5): SLATE
146 Across: Some errata (5): TYPOS

Down Answers

1 Down: Aesop's "The ___ and the Dove" (3): ANT
2 Down: Ornament for Don Ho (3): LEI
3 Down: Abner's radio partner (3): LUM
4 Down: Rhone feeder (5): ISERE
5 Down: Like an amateur boxer (12): NEWINTHERING
6 Down: French vineyard (3): CRU
7 Down: Help (5): HANDS
8 Down: Accuse (6): INDICT
9 Down: N.J. city or river (7): PASSAIC
10 Down: Office gadget (7): STAPLER
11 Down: Tintinnabula (5): BELLS
12 Down: Any N.F.L. player (3): ATH
13 Down: Actress Charlotte (3): RAE
14 Down: Keys or jacks (7): OPENERS
15 Down: Strike out (6): DELETE
16 Down: Very, in music (5): ASSAI
17 Down: Oil cartel (4): OPEC
18 Down: Reputation earned by inept rodster (19): FISHERMANOFTHESHOES
19 Down: Meanwhile (7): INTERIM
20 Down: Refreshment server (7): TEATRAY
26 Down: Out-___ (alfresco) (6): OFDOOR
27 Down: Distrustful (5): LEERY
33 Down: Island for reclining and refining (5): ARUBA
34 Down: Document (5): PAPER
35 Down: Hippocratic oath, in a way (19): PHILOSOPHYOFDOCTORS
37 Down: Warhol movie (5): TRASH
38 Down: Rapidity (5): HASTE
39 Down: Words of contempt (6): PSHAWS
43 Down: Light refractor (5): PRISM
47 Down: Kipling's Rikki-tikki-___ (4): TAVI
50 Down: Okinawa's capital (4): NAHA
53 Down: Under ___ (perdu) (5): WRAPS
56 Down: Hardy's returner (6): NATIVE
57 Down: Part of T.G.I.F. (3): ITS
58 Down: Pipe (5): BRIER
60 Down: Defunct Houston hockey team (5): AEROS
62 Down: Dandies (5): DUDES
63 Down: Slangy suffix with sock (4): EROO
64 Down: Dissocial (7): SELFISH
65 Down: Fleming heavy (4): DRNO
66 Down: Egg white (5): GLAIR
71 Down: Reno leavers (4): EXES
72 Down: " . . . ___ o'clock scholar" (4): ATEN
73 Down: Twelve: Prefix (5): DODEC
75 Down: Tree of India (5): DADAP
76 Down: Away from the mouth (6): ABORAL
77 Down: Napped leather (5): SUEDE
79 Down: Cosmetic (5): LINER
80 Down: Norway's patron saint (4): OLAF
81 Down: Run easily (4): LOPE
82 Down: Measure pulses (12): CLOCKTHEBEAT
84 Down: Up (5): RISEN
88 Down: Deprive a plant of water (6): DRYOFF
89 Down: Ordinal ending (3): ETH
90 Down: Caroline Islands group (4): TRUK
91 Down: Battle site northeast of Verdun: 1916 (5): ORNES
94 Down: Bear in the air (4): URSA
95 Down: "___ by land . . . " (5): ONEIF
96 Down: Author May (5): ROLLO
98 Down: Hector (5): TEASE
99 Down: Feeds the kitty (5): ANTES
103 Down: Bestud (6): INSTAR
105 Down: Fuel line (7): GASPIPE
106 Down: Mrs. ___ cow (7): OLEARYS
107 Down: Evil (7): MALEFIC
108 Down: Sycamore (5): PLANE
109 Down: Fonteyn and Kidder (7): MARGOTS
110 Down: Adroit: Var. (7): SKILFUL
114 Down: Raglan, e.g. (6): SLEEVE
116 Down: Early center of Christianity (6): EDESSA
121 Down: Titicaca's milieu (5): ANDES
122 Down: Demolition man (5): RASER
123 Down: Vertical (5): ERECT
125 Down: Reticular (5): NETTY
127 Down: Snick and ___ (4): SNEE
133 Down: Suffix with differ or defer (3): ENT
134 Down: Sgt. or cpl. (3): NCO
135 Down: Guevara (3): CHE
136 Down: French painter-sculptor (3): ARP
137 Down: Antique car (3): REO
138 Down: Ja or da (3): YES

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