INQUIRE PRACTICE - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 10/14/1979. By Maura B. Jacobson.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Nasty remark (4)
- BARB
- 5 Across: Senegal's capital (5)
- DAKAR
- 10 Across: Cooperstown's Speaker (4)
- TRIS
- 14 Across: Chaliapin, e.g. (5)
- BASSO
- 19 Across: Sigmoid molding (4)
- OGEE
- 20 Across: Alamogordo's county (5)
- OTERO
- 21 Across: "To Sir, ___ Love" (4)
- WITH
- 22 Across: Sadat (5)
- ANWAR
- 23 Across: Query in a 1915 song (21)
- WHATSTHEUSEOFWORRYING
- 27 Across: Conductor Caldwell (5)
- SARAH
- 28 Across: Del of baseball fame (5)
- ENNIS
- 29 Across: Roof overhang (4)
- EAVE
- 30 Across: Pierce of "M*A*S*H" (4)
- ALDA
- 31 Across: French composer Erik (5)
- SATIE
- 33 Across: Finial (3)
- EPI
- 35 Across: Bristle (4)
- SETA
- 37 Across: Writer Deighton (3)
- LEN
- 38 Across: Theologian's deg. (3)
- STB
- 41 Across: Disarrangement (4)
- MESS
- 42 Across: Light-switch positions (3)
- ONS
- 44 Across: Dancer Bambi (4)
- LINN
- 46 Across: Biblical query (21)
- WHYHASTTHOUFORSAKENME
- 54 Across: Thoroughgoing (6)
- ARRANT
- 55 Across: M. Lupin (6)
- ARSENE
- 56 Across: Once more (5)
- AGAIN
- 57 Across: Lymph knot (4)
- NODE
- 58 Across: Instiller of confidence (7)
- ASSURER
- 61 Across: Gamp or Grundy (3)
- MRS
- 64 Across: Part of Q.E.D. (4)
- ERAT
- 65 Across: Bit parts (6)
- CAMEOS
- 67 Across: "Fiddler" query (11)
- DOYOULOVEME
- 70 Across: Behave (3)
- ACT
- 73 Across: Choreographer Cunningham (5)
- MERCE
- 74 Across: "And be it moon, ___ . . . ": Shak. (5)
- ORSUN
- 75 Across: Dame's opposite (3)
- SIR
- 76 Across: Costello's query (11)
- WHOSONFIRST
- 80 Across: Customs (6)
- USAGES
- 82 Across: "___ Misbehavin'" (4)
- AINT
- 83 Across: Lao-___ (3)
- TSE
- 84 Across: Maria ___, former queen (7)
- THERESA
- 86 Across: Sounds of discovery (4)
- AHAS
- 90 Across: Tonto's horse (5)
- SCOUT
- 92 Across: Chair of state (6)
- THRONE
- 94 Across: Ancient galley (6)
- BIREME
- 96 Across: Nursery-rhyme query (21)
- HOWDOESYOURGARDENGROW
- 101 Across: Economize (4)
- SAVE
- 102 Across: Imaret, e.g. (3)
- INN
- 103 Across: Gives a leg up (4)
- AIDS
- 104 Across: Go-aheads (3)
- OKS
- 105 Across: Prosecutors, for short (3)
- DAS
- 108 Across: Body-shop problem (4)
- DENT
- 110 Across: Actress Scala (3)
- GIA
- 112 Across: Thomas and Condé (5)
- NASTS
- 114 Across: Film canine (4)
- ASTA
- 116 Across: Elegiac forms (4)
- ODES
- 118 Across: Legislate (5)
- ENACT
- 120 Across: Astonish (5)
- AMAZE
- 124 Across: Capulet query (21)
- WHEREFOREARTTHOUROMEO
- 128 Across: Heller offering (5)
- NOVEL
- 129 Across: Become ragged (4)
- FRAY
- 130 Across: Bits of gossip (5)
- ITEMS
- 131 Across: "Roberta" composer (4)
- KERN
- 132 Across: London broil (5)
- STEAK
- 133 Across: Kismet (4)
- FATE
- 134 Across: Damned (5)
- CURST
- 135 Across: Cain's nephew (4)
- ENOS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Salaams (4)
- BOWS
- 2 Down: Moslem bigwig (4)
- AGHA
- 3 Down: Van's antonym (4)
- REAR
- 4 Down: Radioactive rays (5)
- BETAS
- 5 Down: Part of a colon (3)
- DOT
- 6 Down: Nonbeliever (7)
- ATHEIST
- 7 Down: Most sharp (7)
- KEENEST
- 8 Down: ___ for one's money (4)
- ARUN
- 9 Down: Miss O'Grady (5)
- ROSIE
- 10 Down: Proverbial company (3)
- TWO
- 11 Down: Abundant (4)
- RIFE
- 12 Down: "___ the best of times" (5)
- ITWAS
- 13 Down: Diggers' needs (7)
- SHOVELS
- 14 Down: Cell feature (3)
- BAR
- 15 Down: Novelist Seton (4)
- ANYA
- 16 Down: Slops (5)
- SWILL
- 17 Down: Ex-jockey of note (5)
- SANDE
- 18 Down: Kind of grinder (5)
- ORGAN
- 24 Down: Medicine man (6)
- SHAMAN
- 25 Down: Advocated, as an idea (8)
- ESPOUSED
- 26 Down: Neural networks (5)
- RETIA
- 32 Down: Will word (9)
- TESTAMENT
- 34 Down: Below: Prefix (6)
- INFERO
- 36 Down: Singer Paul (4)
- ANKA
- 38 Down: Water bird (4)
- SWAN
- 39 Down: "Comin' ___ the Rye" (4)
- THRO
- 40 Down: Polar explorer (4)
- BYRD
- 43 Down: Dombey's kin (3)
- SON
- 45 Down: Beersheba's locale (5)
- NEGEV
- 47 Down: Hic, ___, hoc (4)
- HAEC
- 48 Down: Gayelord (6)
- HAUSER
- 49 Down: Hockey great (3)
- ORR
- 50 Down: Contrition (7)
- REMORSE
- 51 Down: Nostrils (5)
- NARES
- 52 Down: Home of the Dolphins (5)
- MIAMI
- 53 Down: Stage direction (5)
- ENTER
- 59 Down: Bondsmen (5)
- SERFS
- 60 Down: ___ of Friends (7)
- SOCIETY
- 62 Down: Large Asiatic deer (5)
- RUSAS
- 63 Down: Lazy ones (9)
- SLUGABEDS
- 66 Down: Opposite of "odi" (3)
- AMO
- 68 Down: "___ Sweetheart" (6)
- YOUREA
- 69 Down: Homophone for won (3)
- ONE
- 70 Down: Floating (5)
- AWASH
- 71 Down: Prinze role, once (5)
- CHICO
- 72 Down: "Up ___," Al Smith's autobiography (5)
- TONOW
- 77 Down: Lonigan or Terkel (5)
- STUDS
- 78 Down: Laced, as a racket (6)
- STRUNG
- 79 Down: More prickly (8)
- THORNIER
- 81 Down: Puppeteer Tony (4)
- SARG
- 85 Down: Brit. (3)
- ENG
- 87 Down: Protagonist, usually (4)
- HERO
- 88 Down: Berserk (4)
- AMOK
- 89 Down: Wields a needle (4)
- SEWS
- 91 Down: Frog's relative (4)
- TOAD
- 93 Down: ___ polloi (3)
- HOI
- 95 Down: Adorn, in a way (6)
- INSTAR
- 97 Down: "The ___ St. Agnes" (5)
- EVEOF
- 98 Down: Bon-voyage party (7)
- SENDOFF
- 99 Down: Stock farmer (7)
- RANCHER
- 100 Down: Certain algae (7)
- DIATOMS
- 105 Down: Begins to appear (5)
- DAWNS
- 106 Down: "___ in the Dark" (5)
- ASHOT
- 107 Down: McQueen or Martin (5)
- STEVE
- 109 Down: Land, in Roma (5)
- TERRA
- 111 Down: Caper (5)
- ANTIC
- 113 Down: Combustion's companion (5)
- SMOKE
- 115 Down: Length times width, often (4)
- AREA
- 117 Down: Ticket assignment (4)
- SEAT
- 119 Down: Aleutian island (4)
- ATTU
- 121 Down: So be it (4)
- AMEN
- 122 Down: Zilch (4)
- ZERO
- 123 Down: Ages and ages (4)
- EONS
- 125 Down: Lodge member (3)
- ELK
- 126 Down: Pro vote (3)
- AYE
- 127 Down: ___-Kamenogorsk, U.S.S.R. city (3)
- UST
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