ATTICISMS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 1/20/1980. By Alfio Micci.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Greeks' ligneous ruse (5)
HORSE
6 Across: Plied with potions (5)
DOSED
11 Across: Turn left (3)
HAW
14 Across: Hit, old style (4)
SMIT
18 Across: Mythical Greek hunter (5)
ORION
19 Across: Apocopate (5)
ELIDE
20 Across: Harem room (3)
ODA
21 Across: Singer Cantrell (4)
LANA
22 Across: Some disks (15)
LAMBDAPIRECORDS
25 Across: "___ on her toes" (5)
BELLS
26 Across: "What ___ is new?" (4)
ELSE
27 Across: Bellow work (5)
NOVEL
28 Across: Certain shoe sizes (10)
TRIPLEETAS
30 Across: Caner's material (6)
RATTAN
32 Across: Louis XIV and XVI (4)
ROIS
33 Across: Algonquian (6)
OTTAWA
34 Across: Conclamation (5)
SHOUT
37 Across: Oboist's concern (4)
REED
38 Across: "Masterpiece" on wheels (4)
SHAY
39 Across: G.I. fare (12)
KAPPARATIONS
44 Across: Do a sailor's job (4)
SWAB
45 Across: Rye beard (3)
AWN
48 Across: Devilkin (3)
IMP
49 Across: Ballerina Alicia (6)
ALONSO
50 Across: Olive shade (9)
STONEGRAY
52 Across: Cravat (3)
TIE
53 Across: Eskimo craft (6)
UMIAKS
54 Across: Ruminant (4)
DEER
55 Across: Sheer fabric (5)
TOILE
56 Across: Bare (8)
STRIPPED
58 Across: Used a mangle (6)
IRONED
60 Across: Ornamental stud (5)
AGLET
61 Across: Former draft org. (3)
SSS
62 Across: Dakar is its capital (7)
SENEGAL
64 Across: Public Health agcy. (3)
SGO
65 Across: Prefix with gram or meter (5)
MILLI
68 Across: Top floors (6)
ATTICS
69 Across: Stained (8)
MACULATE
74 Across: Of an eye part (5)
UVEAL
75 Across: Sticky substances (4)
GOOS
76 Across: Netherlands city (6)
LEIDEN
78 Across: Race the motor (3)
REV
79 Across: To-do (9)
COMMOTION
81 Across: Legendary magician (6)
MERLIN
82 Across: Pasture sound (3)
MAA
83 Across: Kin of secs. and mins. (3)
HRS
84 Across: Partner of void (4)
NULL
85 Across: Vintage car (12)
MODELTAUFORD
88 Across: French cleric (4)
ABBE
89 Across: A one (4)
TOPS
90 Across: Laconic (5)
TERSE
91 Across: Ultra (6)
TOOTOO
94 Across: Table d'___ (4)
HOTE
95 Across: Bed item (6)
SPREAD
99 Across: Kind of house (10)
ALPHAFRAME
101 Across: Fable ending (5)
MORAL
102 Across: Bridge position (4)
EAST
106 Across: Swift (5)
FLEET
107 Across: Frederick Knott melodrama (15)
DIALMUFORMURDER
110 Across: Granular snow (4)
FIRN
111 Across: Frequently, to poets (3)
OFT
112 Across: Silly (5)
INANE
113 Across: Bambino's parent (5)
MADRE
114 Across: Certain votes (4)
YEAS
115 Across: ___ Paulo (3)
SAO
116 Across: Lament (5)
DIRGE
117 Across: Food portion (5)
PLATE

Down Answers

1 Down: Burrow (4)
HOLE
2 Down: Buccal (4)
ORAL
3 Down: Fellies (4)
RIMS
4 Down: Recover from a wassail (7)
SOBERUP
5 Down: Fragment (3)
END
6 Down: Warehouse (5)
DEPOT
7 Down: Tony of A.L. fame (5)
OLIVA
8 Down: Lorelei (5)
SIREN
9 Down: Pulitzer Prize biographer (4)
EDEL
10 Down: Nov. follower (3)
DEC
11 Down: Frightful (6)
HORRID
12 Down: ___ Ababa (5)
ADDIS
13 Down: Vespid (4)
WASP
14 Down: Like a hibernal glaze (6)
SLEETY
15 Down: Gozo's neighbor (5)
MALTA
16 Down: Family member (5)
INLAW
17 Down: Tax, in Torino (5)
TASSA
23 Down: Pismire (3)
ANT
24 Down: Siouan Indians (5)
OTOES
25 Down: Air rifle (11)
BETABETAGUN
29 Down: Buddhist monk, free from karma (5)
LOHAN
31 Down: One ___ time (3)
ATA
32 Down: Gambling mecca (4)
RENO
34 Down: Vaudeville offerings (5)
SKITS
35 Down: ___ up (emote) (5)
HAMIT
36 Down: "Happy Hooligan" cartoonist (5)
OPPER
37 Down: "La Cenerentola" composer and family (8)
ROSSINIS
38 Down: Excalibur (5)
SWORD
40 Down: Highway features (5)
RAMPS
41 Down: "I cannot tell ___" (4)
ALIE
42 Down: Poisonous mushroom (9)
TOADSTOOL
43 Down: Sign (3)
INK
44 Down: Bethlehem sight (9)
STEELMILL
45 Down: Seed covering (4)
ARIL
46 Down: Weave wickerwork (4)
WALE
47 Down: Red refusal (4)
NYET
50 Down: The Seine, to Spaniards (4)
SENA
51 Down: "The Overcoat" author (5)
GOGOL
53 Down: W.W. II menace (11)
UPSILONBOAT
54 Down: Arctic transport (8)
DOGSLEDS
57 Down: Eastern religion (5)
ISLAM
59 Down: Kind of room, for short (3)
REC
63 Down: Harrow's rival (4)
ETON
64 Down: Part of an opera (5)
SCENA
65 Down: Start of a Shakespearean title (4)
MUCH
66 Down: Novello (4)
IVOR
67 Down: Moon vehicles (4)
LEMS
68 Down: Lively (5)
AGILE
70 Down: Mine entrance (4)
ADIT
71 Down: Arthurian wear (5)
ARMOR
72 Down: Lacerates (5)
TEARS
73 Down: Dodge (5)
EVADE
77 Down: " . . . ___ I saw Elba" (3)
ERE
80 Down: Like a ___ lard (5)
TUBOF
81 Down: Be gloomy (4)
MOPE
85 Down: Roadside sign (5)
MOTEL
86 Down: Western lizard (3)
UTA
87 Down: Kind of case (7)
FEDERAL
88 Down: Georgia city (6)
ATHENS
89 Down: Part of b.l.t. (6)
TOMATO
91 Down: Molasses confection (5)
TAFFY
92 Down: Stan's partner (5)
OLLIE
93 Down: ___ buffa (5)
OPERA
94 Down: City on the Bay of Acre (5)
HAIFA
95 Down: To date (5)
SOFAR
96 Down: Antler tip (5)
PRONG
97 Down: Peep show (5)
RAREE
98 Down: Shade giver (3)
ELM
100 Down: TV predecessors: Abbr. (4)
RDOS
101 Down: Actor who played Zola (4)
MUNI
103 Down: Egyptian skink (4)
ADDA
104 Down: Painter José Maria (4)
SERT
105 Down: Family lineage (4)
TREE
108 Down: Word with rib or riff (3)
MID
109 Down: Fenway Pk. figure (3)
UMP

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