STEPQUOTE - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 9/2/1979. By E.T.M..
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Start of Stepquote (6)
- FORLAB
- 7 Across: Prufrock's creator (7)
- TSELIOT
- 14 Across: What "you gotta have" (5)
- HEART
- 19 Across: The Moor, to Verdi (6)
- OTELLO
- 20 Across: Exposure to air (8)
- AERATION
- 22 Across: Ford succeeded him (5)
- AGNEW
- 23 Across: Footpad (6)
- ROBBER
- 24 Across: Stepquote author (8)
- MCKINLEY
- 25 Across: Stepquote receiver (5)
- LODGE
- 26 Across: G.P.'s group (3)
- AMA
- 27 Across: Scenic peninsula (5)
- GASPE
- 29 Across: A lot (6)
- OODLES
- 31 Across: Pawnee's cousin (3)
- REE
- 32 Across: The take (4)
- GATE
- 34 Across: Stepquote: Part III (6)
- SHORTD
- 37 Across: Nutriment (4)
- FOOD
- 38 Across: Outlet (4)
- VENT
- 39 Across: Elève's milieu (5)
- ECOLE
- 41 Across: Temper (6)
- ANNEAL
- 43 Across: Tibetan beasts (8)
- GNUGOATS
- 45 Across: F.B.I. documents (8)
- DOSSIERS
- 47 Across: Famed miler (4)
- RYUN
- 49 Across: Fitzgerald forte (4)
- SCAT
- 50 Across: Deadfall (4)
- TRAP
- 51 Across: Catch in a blunder (6)
- TRIPUP
- 53 Across: Stand for Cecil Beaton (6)
- TRIPOD
- 57 Across: Heavenly headgear (6)
- HALOES
- 60 Across: Done in by Livia (8)
- POISONED
- 62 Across: Old-womanish (5)
- ANILE
- 63 Across: Where to put your dough (4)
- OVEN
- 64 Across: Start of a Wolfe title (6)
- THEWEB
- 66 Across: Sailor absent for 73 hours (9)
- STRAGGLER
- 68 Across: Seaver, once (3)
- MET
- 69 Across: "Oom Paul" was one (4)
- BOER
- 70 Across: Soak flax (3)
- RET
- 72 Across: Sybarite's delight (4)
- EASE
- 73 Across: Form a lap (3)
- SIT
- 74 Across: Diagnostician (9)
- INTERNIST
- 77 Across: Calories (6)
- THERMS
- 79 Across: Slots spot (4)
- RENO
- 80 Across: ___ Rosita, city in Mexico (5)
- NUEVA
- 81 Across: Cocky fellows (8)
- ROOSTERS
- 83 Across: Used a mangle (6)
- IRONED
- 85 Across: One that rules (6)
- GERENT
- 87 Across: Bistro (6)
- NITERY
- 88 Across: Upper Thames or goddess (4)
- ISIS
- 89 Across: Can. air arm (4)
- RCAF
- 91 Across: Erudition (4)
- LORE
- 92 Across: Kind of saber (8)
- SCIMITAR
- 96 Across: What a litterbug ignores (8)
- TRASHCAN
- 100 Across: Soprano Azuma (6)
- ATSUKO
- 102 Across: Delusion's partner (5)
- SNARE
- 103 Across: Grinder's relative (4)
- HERO
- 104 Across: Japanese statesman and family (4)
- ITOS
- 106 Across: Stepquote: Part V (6)
- HANASH
- 108 Across: Epithet for a Sikh deity (4)
- AKAL
- 109 Across: That, in Taxo (3)
- ESA
- 110 Across: Tall clown's props (6)
- STILTS
- 112 Across: Suffix with rend and vend (5)
- ITION
- 114 Across: Guidonian note (3)
- ELA
- 115 Across: Middle name of 25 Across (5)
- CABOT
- 117 Across: Brine or pickle (8)
- MARINADE
- 120 Across: Meal (6)
- REPAST
- 122 Across: Book by Read (5)
- ALIVE
- 123 Across: Disney employee (8)
- ANIMATOR
- 124 Across: Home of a Rose (6)
- TRALEE
- 125 Across: Van Doren's "Jane ___" (5)
- MECOM
- 126 Across: Dry (7)
- SAPLESS
- 127 Across: End of Stepquote (6)
- DOLLAR
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Hunted for provender (7)
- FORAGED
- 2 Down: Venezuelan aborigine (7)
- OTOMACO
- 3 Down: Supports for ruffs (7)
- REBATOS
- 4 Down: Law deg. (3)
- LLB
- 5 Down: Shake ___ (hie) (4)
- ALEG
- 6 Down: Stepquote: Part II (5)
- BORAS
- 7 Down: Two-headed drumsticks (7)
- TAMPONS
- 8 Down: Discriminate (6)
- SECERN
- 9 Down: R.A.F. underling, informally (3)
- ERK
- 10 Down: Chou En-___ (3)
- LAI
- 11 Down: "Pay ___ mind" (4)
- ITNO
- 12 Down: ___ wintergreen (5)
- OILOF
- 13 Down: Short piece of bar steel (6)
- TOEDOG
- 14 Down: Dutch master (4)
- HALS
- 15 Down: Psyche component (3)
- EGO
- 16 Down: Doria or del Sarto (6)
- ANDREA
- 17 Down: Governor (6)
- REGENT
- 18 Down: Birdy babble (6)
- TWEETS
- 21 Down: Hose (6)
- NYLONS
- 28 Down: Piano key (5)
- SHARP
- 30 Down: Inference (5)
- EDUCT
- 33 Down: Howard of the Yankees (6)
- ELSTON
- 35 Down: Schnauzer (7)
- TERRIER
- 36 Down: Stepquote: Part IV (13)
- DAYISBETTERTH
- 38 Down: November activity (6)
- VOTING
- 40 Down: Name on a green stamp (4)
- EIRE
- 42 Down: Wolf, to Rocco (4)
- LUPO
- 44 Down: Kind of sale (6)
- GARAGE
- 46 Down: Lafayette is here (6)
- EASTON
- 48 Down: Carmelites (4)
- NUNS
- 51 Down: Tugboat service (3)
- TOW
- 52 Down: ___ pence (tax) (6)
- PETERS
- 54 Down: Bohemian brewery base (6)
- PILSEN
- 55 Down: Liquid part of fat (6)
- OLEINE
- 56 Down: Mann's "___ in Venedig" (6)
- DERTOD
- 57 Down: Kind of pigeon (6)
- HOMING
- 58 Down: Lexington or Park (6)
- AVENUE
- 59 Down: Stepquote source: 1900 (6)
- LETTER
- 60 Down: Word with chair or sales (6)
- PERSON
- 61 Down: Three scruples (4)
- DRAM
- 65 Down: Testator's choice (4)
- HEIR
- 67 Down: Neighbor of Perugia (6)
- ASSISI
- 69 Down: Ramus or Rickey (6)
- BRANCH
- 71 Down: Saint ___ of Avila (7)
- THERESA
- 75 Down: To a great degree (6)
- EVERSO
- 76 Down: Labor (4)
- TOIL
- 78 Down: Ending with crock or quack (3)
- ERY
- 79 Down: Heroine helped by Figaro (6)
- ROSINA
- 82 Down: Zeno's "classroom" (4)
- STOA
- 84 Down: Flanges (4)
- RIMS
- 86 Down: Implicit (5)
- TACIT
- 88 Down: Twenty: Comb. form (5)
- ICOSI
- 90 Down: Bluebeard's last wife (6)
- FATIMA
- 92 Down: Fleming and Hamill (7)
- SKATERS
- 93 Down: "Winner ___" (7)
- TAKEALL
- 94 Down: Russian body of water (7)
- ARALSEA
- 95 Down: Narrator (7)
- RELATER
- 96 Down: River behind King's College (6)
- THECAM
- 97 Down: Used-car deal (6)
- RESALE
- 98 Down: Koran language (6)
- ARABIC
- 99 Down: Jeanette and Lloyd (6)
- NOLANS
- 101 Down: Estados ___ Mexicanos (6)
- UNIDOS
- 105 Down: Threadlike groove (5)
- STRIA
- 107 Down: Stepquote: Part VI (5)
- HORTD
- 110 Down: Ship's prow (4)
- STEM
- 111 Down: Birdbrain (4)
- SIMP
- 113 Down: Claudius's successor (4)
- NERO
- 116 Down: Ab ___ (from the start) (3)
- OVO
- 118 Down: Giant reed of India (3)
- NAL
- 119 Down: Gormandized (3)
- ATE
- 121 Down: Buddy (3)
- PAL
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