ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 166 clues). Published 9/9/1979. By A. J. Santora.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Has a meal (4)
- SUPS
- 5 Across: X (5)
- DECEM
- 10 Across: Recorded proceedings (4)
- ACTA
- 14 Across: Minimum (5)
- LEAST
- 19 Across: Step ___ (go fast) (4)
- ONIT
- 20 Across: Jael's victim: Judg. 4:5 (6)
- SISERA
- 21 Across: Put on alert (4)
- WARN
- 22 Across: Buyer, in law (6)
- EMPTOR
- 24 Across: Harangue a "silents" star (16)
- FILIBUSTERKEATON
- 27 Across: None (6)
- NOTONE
- 28 Across: Expiating (7)
- ATONING
- 29 Across: Search after (4)
- SEEK
- 30 Across: Lace edging (5)
- PICOT
- 32 Across: Burnsian refusal (3)
- NAE
- 33 Across: Fistfight (5)
- SETTO
- 34 Across: Toupee: Slang (3)
- RUG
- 37 Across: More in want (7)
- NEEDIER
- 39 Across: Pastoral verse (5)
- IDYLL
- 41 Across: Source of a beverage (7)
- TEATREE
- 44 Across: Govt. advisory board (3)
- NAC
- 45 Across: Approximately (5)
- ABOUT
- 47 Across: Make Ben Casey a believer (15)
- CONVINCEEDWARDS
- 52 Across: Kind of assembly (7)
- GENERAL
- 55 Across: Where Castro's revolt began (7)
- ORIENTE
- 56 Across: Quartet voice (5)
- BASSO
- 57 Across: Yachting (4)
- ASEA
- 58 Across: Gardner (3)
- AVA
- 59 Across: Cajole (4)
- COAX
- 60 Across: Sharp-edged (4)
- KEEN
- 62 Across: Hollywood award (5)
- OSCAR
- 65 Across: Some cadets (6)
- PLEBES
- 67 Across: Evaluated (8)
- ASSESSED
- 70 Across: Beside one another (7)
- ABREAST
- 72 Across: Followers of hip and tip (5)
- STERS
- 73 Across: Fowl feature (6)
- DEWLAP
- 75 Across: Dam on the Nile (5)
- ASWAN
- 76 Across: Self-reproach (7)
- REMORSE
- 78 Across: Moll or doll (3)
- GAL
- 81 Across: Zero (3)
- NIL
- 82 Across: Anything bow-shaped (3)
- ARC
- 84 Across: Dijon donkey (3)
- ANE
- 85 Across: Upon: Prefix (3)
- EPI
- 86 Across: Five and ___ (3)
- TEN
- 87 Across: Comparison (7)
- ANALOGY
- 89 Across: Hayseed (5)
- YOKEL
- 91 Across: "Star Wars" figures (6)
- ROBOTS
- 94 Across: Dead duck (5)
- GONER
- 95 Across: Inhuman (7)
- BEASTLY
- 97 Across: Airplane maneuver (8)
- FISHTAIL
- 101 Across: Wading bird (6)
- GODWIT
- 103 Across: Gossip, Yiddish style (5)
- YENTA
- 104 Across: Sans ___ (nonpareil) (4)
- EGAL
- 106 Across: Forearm bone (4)
- ULNA
- 107 Across: Opposite of ecto (3)
- ESO
- 108 Across: Prong (4)
- TINE
- 110 Across: Santo ___ (Cape Verde island) (5)
- ANTAO
- 112 Across: Beautiful girls (7)
- LOOKERS
- 115 Across: Having teeth (7)
- DENTATE
- 117 Across: Sheepish singer (15)
- EMBARRASSEDAMES
- 120 Across: Mail (5)
- ARMOR
- 121 Across: Good wood for oars (3)
- ASH
- 122 Across: Kibitz (7)
- INTRUDE
- 123 Across: Mercutio's friend (5)
- ROMEO
- 125 Across: Warsaw's river (7)
- VISTULA
- 128 Across: Spade or Browne (3)
- SAM
- 129 Across: Guitry of theater (5)
- SACHA
- 134 Across: Second person (3)
- EVE
- 135 Across: Limerick, e.g. (5)
- RHYME
- 137 Across: Dickens girl (4)
- NELL
- 139 Across: Cold wind of France (7)
- MISTRAL
- 141 Across: Edict (6)
- DECREE
- 143 Across: Abstruse news analyst (16)
- ESOTERICSEVAREID
- 147 Across: Available (6)
- ONHAND
- 148 Across: Air (4)
- TUNE
- 149 Across: Gridiron official (6)
- UMPIRE
- 150 Across: Man is one (4)
- ISLE
- 151 Across: Former Indian soldier (5)
- SEPOY
- 152 Across: Mimic (4)
- APER
- 153 Across: Approaches (5)
- NEARS
- 154 Across: Egyptian solar disk (4)
- ATEN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Daybeds' kin (5)
- SOFAS
- 2 Down: Conjoin (5)
- UNITE
- 3 Down: Helmsman (5)
- PILOT
- 4 Down: Task (5)
- STINT
- 5 Down: Shame the "Country Girl" (13)
- DISGRACEKELLY
- 6 Down: Triple this for a wine (3)
- EST
- 7 Down: Bee chaser (3)
- CEE
- 8 Down: Goes wrong (4)
- ERRS
- 9 Down: Bite a dog (8)
- MAKENEWS
- 10 Down: Stir up a tennis star (14)
- AWAKENROSEWALL
- 11 Down: Panther or sailboat (3)
- CAT
- 12 Down: Torrid Zone region (7)
- TROPICS
- 13 Down: Broadway musical (5)
- ANNIE
- 14 Down: Marquisette (4)
- LENO
- 15 Down: Impassioned "Happy Warrior" (14)
- EMOTIONALSMITH
- 16 Down: Appropriate (3)
- APT
- 17 Down: Obdurate court champ of 1953 (12)
- STONYTRABERT
- 18 Down: Of sound quality (5)
- TONAL
- 20 Down: Bask (3)
- SUN
- 23 Down: Stagger (4)
- REEL
- 25 Down: Vitamin H (6)
- BIOTIN
- 26 Down: Shoe-width size (3)
- EEE
- 31 Down: Rocky cliffs (5)
- CRAGS
- 35 Down: Peak in Colorado (3)
- UTE
- 36 Down: Diving bird (5)
- GREBE
- 38 Down: Pater (3)
- DAD
- 40 Down: Payable (3)
- DUE
- 42 Down: Ending for differ (3)
- ENT
- 43 Down: Irish saint (5)
- EDANA
- 46 Down: Horn sound (4)
- BEEP
- 47 Down: Imogene (4)
- COCA
- 48 Down: Spanish card suit (4)
- OROS
- 49 Down: Neighbor of Sumatra (4)
- NIAS
- 50 Down: Annoyed (5)
- VEXED
- 51 Down: Lyres of yore (5)
- ASORS
- 53 Down: Reluctant (6)
- AVERSE
- 54 Down: Cascades peak (6)
- LASSEN
- 57 Down: Dance is one (3)
- ART
- 61 Down: Writer LeShan (3)
- EDA
- 63 Down: "Godfather" actor (4)
- CAAN
- 64 Down: "Lou Grant" actor (5)
- ASNER
- 66 Down: W.W. II theater (3)
- ETO
- 68 Down: "West Side Story" star, to Puerto Ricans (14)
- SENORITAMORENO
- 69 Down: Drink from a flask (4)
- SWIG
- 71 Down: Attack an actor from N.Y.C. (14)
- BACKSTABHUNTER
- 74 Down: Check beneficiary (5)
- PAYEE
- 76 Down: Dun former man-in-blue (13)
- REBILLSUMMERS
- 77 Down: Heroic work (4)
- EPOS
- 78 Down: Silenced (6)
- GAGGED
- 79 Down: " . . . in ___ of Light": FitzGerald (6)
- ANOOSE
- 80 Down: Light upon a film Bell (12)
- LANDONAMECHE
- 83 Down: Reddish horse (4)
- ROAN
- 88 Down: Writer Wallace (3)
- LEW
- 90 Down: Eagle-rider of myth (5)
- ETANA
- 92 Down: Two ___ kind (3)
- OFA
- 93 Down: German bomber (5)
- STUKA
- 95 Down: Tournament draw (3)
- BYE
- 96 Down: Pine (5)
- YEARN
- 98 Down: Turkish standard (4)
- ALEM
- 99 Down: Concerning (4)
- INRE
- 100 Down: Colleen (4)
- LASS
- 102 Down: Belgrade name (4)
- TITO
- 105 Down: Nanny and billy (5)
- GOATS
- 109 Down: Brash (5)
- NERVY
- 111 Down: Test (8)
- TRIALRUN
- 113 Down: Eng. lexicon (3)
- OED
- 114 Down: Port on the Black Sea (6)
- ODESSA
- 116 Down: Three, in Rome (3)
- TRE
- 117 Down: Abates (7)
- EASESUP
- 118 Down: Denver's time (3)
- MST
- 119 Down: Mrs., in Madrid (3)
- SRA
- 123 Down: Fix over (4)
- REDO
- 124 Down: Dutch and brick (5)
- OVENS
- 126 Down: "___ man with seven . . . " (5)
- IMETA
- 127 Down: Golfer Elder (3)
- LEE
- 130 Down: Central halls (5)
- ATRIA
- 131 Down: Alpinist's goal (5)
- CREST
- 132 Down: Selassie (5)
- HAILE
- 133 Down: Stand-in for Standish (5)
- ALDEN
- 136 Down: Lamarr (4)
- HEDY
- 138 Down: Gelatine flavor (4)
- LIME
- 140 Down: "___ Got a Secret" (3)
- IVE
- 142 Down: Knock (3)
- RAP
- 144 Down: Single (3)
- ONE
- 145 Down: Acct. (3)
- CPA
- 146 Down: Title Chaplin held (3)
- SIR
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