LITERARY RELATIVITY - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 166 clues). Published 3/23/1980. By Hal R. Hollinger.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Like Kate, as a wife (5): TAMED
6 Across: Son of Eric the Red (4): LEIF
10 Across: Moon crater (5): ROMER
15 Across: Coronet's cousin (5): TIARA
20 Across: Cat-quick (5): AGILE
21 Across: Brother of Brynhild (4): ATLI
22 Across: Reserved (6): DEMURE
23 Across: Sitting pretty (5): ONTOP
24 Across: Orwell prediction for 1984 (10): BIGBROTHER
26 Across: Educe (6): ELICIT
27 Across: Suffix for Rock (5): ETTES
28 Across: Fair to middling (4): SOSO
29 Across: "The ___," rock group (3): WHO
30 Across: "In ___ are many mansions": John 14:2 (14): MYFATHERSHOUSE
33 Across: Declines (5): WANES
35 Across: Sessions for Borg (4): SETS
36 Across: Take ___ the lam (4): ITON
37 Across: Sch. for shavetails (3): OCS
40 Across: Prefix with chance (3): PER
41 Across: Part of Caesar's trio (4): VENI
42 Across: Sends back to the Hill (8): REELECTS
46 Across: Like April, proverbially (7): SHOWERY
48 Across: Back of a leaf (5): VERSO
49 Across: Black-and-blue (5): LIVID
50 Across: Relative of H.I.M. (3): HRH
51 Across: Hopeless cases (6): GONERS
52 Across: Sohrab, to Rustum (3): SON
53 Across: Make interesting (7): ENLIVEN
55 Across: Much-wived Henry (4): VIII
56 Across: Crell's river (4): OISE
57 Across: Behave badly (5): ACTUP
59 Across: Anatomical passage (4): ITER
60 Across: Dig for data (5): DELVE
61 Across: Wood sorrel (3): OCA
62 Across: Olga, Masha and Irina (12): THREESISTERS
66 Across: Binge (6): BENDER
67 Across: Kind of mother (3): DEN
68 Across: Actor in "Four Daughters" (5): RAINS
69 Across: Milieu of "Mother Courage" (5): STAGE
70 Across: Banish (6): DEPORT
71 Across: Sleep lightly (6): DROWSE
73 Across: Spile (5): STAKE
74 Across: Herodias's daughter (6): SALOME
75 Across: Provision in a contract (6): CLAUSE
76 Across: Made-to-order kin (5): CLONE
77 Across: Item for a high-stepper (5): STILT
78 Across: Dir. (3): NNE
81 Across: ___ l'oeil (6): TROMPE
82 Across: She wrote "My Life's History" (12): GRANDMAMOSES
84 Across: Mrs. Weller's boy (3): SAM
85 Across: Les Folies Bergère, for one (5): REVUE
86 Across: Sleuth with a "number one son" (4): CHAN
87 Across: Plaintive poem (5): ELEGY
88 Across: Canton is here (4): OHIO
89 Across: Western team (4): UTES
90 Across: Discipline (7): CHASTEN
93 Across: "Life with Father" name (3): DAY
94 Across: Author of "Eight Cousins" (6): ALCOTT
96 Across: Telpher, e.g. (3): CAR
97 Across: Mother Seton's mainstay (5): FAITH
98 Across: Jewish ceremonial dinner (5): SEDER
100 Across: Special article (7): FEATURE
101 Across: Tangles (8): ENSNARLS
103 Across: Castor, to Pollux (4): TWIN
104 Across: Adj. for some verbs (3): IRR
105 Across: Mrs. Skelton's favorite color? (3): RED
106 Across: Fearful, in a way (4): AWED
107 Across: Satisfy (4): FILL
108 Across: Walking ___ (5): ONAIR
110 Across: Lear production (14): ALLINTHEFAMILY
116 Across: One of the Cole family (3): NAT
117 Across: Uniform, in Paris (4): EGAL
121 Across: Furuncles (5): BOILS
122 Across: Lubricator (6): OILCAN
123 Across: Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky (10): UNCLEVANYA
126 Across: Montague's offspring (5): ROMEO
127 Across: Swann's wife (6): ODETTE
128 Across: Somersault (4): ROLL
129 Across: President: father or son (5): ADAMS
130 Across: Inexorable (5): STERN
131 Across: Wield a divining rod (5): DOWSE
132 Across: One of 52 (4): TREY
133 Across: Mrs. Rochester's kin (5): EYRES

Down Answers

1 Down: Sugar daddy pickups (4): TABS
2 Down: Exchange premium (4): AGIO
3 Down: Russian planes (4): MIGS
4 Down: Ell (5): ELBOW
5 Down: "___ Rosenkavalier" (3): DER
6 Down: Like some detergents (7): LATHERY
7 Down: Group character (5): ETHOS
8 Down: ___ du Diable (3): ILE
9 Down: Company (4): FIRM
10 Down: Anagram for Oriental (8): RELATION
11 Down: Skips (5): OMITS
12 Down: Loads (4): MUCH
13 Down: Part of HOMES (4): ERIE
14 Down: Chesapeake Bay is one (9): RETRIEVER
15 Down: Fragile footing (7): TOEHOLD
16 Down: Perform Gregorian chants (6): INTONE
17 Down: Island in the Near group (4): ATTU
18 Down: Bambi's aunts (4): ROES
19 Down: Recess (4): APSE
22 Down: Purpose of the DEW line (7): DEFENSE
25 Down: Some of the haves (6): OWNERS
31 Down: River to the North Sea (4): YSER
32 Down: She wrote about Mrs. Reynolds (5): STEIN
34 Down: Little, e.g. (4): APER
37 Down: First U.S. Postmaster General (6): OSGOOD
38 Down: Option (6): CHOICE
39 Down: Lawrence relationships (13): SONSANDLOVERS
41 Down: Mother of Aeneas (5): VENUS
42 Down: Cleaves (5): RIVES
43 Down: Time for Alice, Allegra and Edith (13): CHILDRENSHOUR
44 Down: Hot-plate holder (6): TRIVET
45 Down: Less gregarious (5): SHIER
47 Down: "My Wife's a Winsome ___ Thing": Burns (3): WEE
48 Down: Has one's say in the U.S.A. (5): VOTES
49 Down: Quart in a London pub (5): LITRE
52 Down: Part of "I Remember Mama" (5): SCENE
54 Down: Belgian steel center (5): LIEGE
55 Down: Viper's defense (5): VENOM
57 Down: Rebel (5): ARISE
58 Down: Car part (6): PISTON
60 Down: Storage places (6): DEPOTS
62 Down: Barnstorm (6): TROUPE
63 Down: Bow neck (5): HAWSE
64 Down: Tolerate (5): STAND
65 Down: "___ Along," 1959 song (6): TAKEME
66 Down: She has a ball at a ball (5): BELLE
70 Down: Mrs. Miller's naïve daughter (5): DAISY
72 Down: Branch, to a botanist (5): RAMUS
73 Down: Edit subjectively (5): SLANT
74 Down: "El ropo" (5): STOGY
75 Down: King Minos was one (6): CRETAN
76 Down: Evel Knieval upheaval (5): CRASH
77 Down: Vilification (5): SMEAR
79 Down: To be born, in Brest (6): NAITRE
80 Down: Overplayed (6): EMOTED
81 Down: Cease-fire (5): TRUCE
82 Down: Indian river landings (5): GHATS
83 Down: A Pilgrim Father (5): ALDEN
86 Down: Time of your life (9): CHILDHOOD
88 Down: Mo. for hobgoblins (3): OCT
90 Down: Proofreader's mark (5): CARET
91 Down: Make a guess (8): ESTIMATE
92 Down: Couturier's annual surprise (7): NEWLINE
94 Down: Charge with gas (6): AERATE
95 Down: Gulls, terns, etc. (4): LARI
97 Down: Cringes and flatters (7): FAWNSON
99 Down: Pickle (4): DILL
100 Down: At long last (7): FINALLY
102 Down: User of spads and brads (6): NAILER
107 Down: Scientist's concern (5): FACTS
108 Down: Tante's husband (5): ONCLE
109 Down: Rough's partner (5): READY
110 Down: Digests, for short (4): ABRS
111 Down: Corsair's quest (4): LOOT
112 Down: Thorny tree (4): LIME
113 Down: Image: Comb. form (4): EIDO
114 Down: Took a Concorde (4): FLEW
115 Down: Mongol tent (4): YURT
118 Down: Snarl (4): GNAR
119 Down: Contemporary French author (4): AYME
120 Down: Bonnie bairn (4): LASS
124 Down: Hide ___ hair (3): NOR
125 Down: ___ victis (3): VAE

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