APRIL SHOWERS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 164 clues). Published 4/6/1980. By Frances Hansen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Proxy (5): AGENT
6 Across: Not together (5): APART
11 Across: Vestment (5): AMICE
16 Across: Relative of rain (4): HAIL
20 Across: Possible Easter topper (5): TOQUE
21 Across: Community character (5): MORES
22 Across: April 5, in old Rome (5): NONAE
23 Across: Bogus (5): FALSE
24 Across: Dixon/Rose/Warren query (23): WOULDYOULIKETOTAKEAWALK
28 Across: Botanist Gray (3): ASA
29 Across: Did a prelaundry job (6): SORTED
30 Across: Oligophrenic (5): MORON
31 Across: Stockholm gnome (5): NISSE
32 Across: Family-tree twigs: Abbr. (4): RELS
34 Across: Rock group (4): KISS
35 Across: Strength (5): SINEW
36 Across: Check (6): ARREST
37 Across: Part of speech (4): NOUN
39 Across: Gudrun's husband (4): ATLI
40 Across: Galosh (4): SHOE
41 Across: Kahal/Wheeler/Fain rainy-day advice (23): LETASMILEBEYOURUMBRELLA
52 Across: Remarque or Segal (5): ERICH
53 Across: Where to put your dough (4): OVEN
54 Across: City celebrated by Cole Porter (5): PAREE
55 Across: Fitting (4): MEET
56 Across: Japanese verse form (5): TANKA
57 Across: Nectarous (5): SWEET
58 Across: Chose (5): OPTED
59 Across: Antelope or drum (5): BONGO
60 Across: Wonts (4): USES
61 Across: Paul or Nicholas (5): SAINT
62 Across: When Gary Coleman will be 34 (4): MMII
63 Across: Kibitz (6): BUTTIN
64 Across: ___ soup (heavy fog) (3): PEA
65 Across: "___, you noblest English" (4): ONON
66 Across: Wettish (5): MOIST
67 Across: Wedge-shaped (7): CUNEATE
68 Across: Gene Kelly exuberance (15): SINGININTHERAIN
72 Across: Easel adjunct (7): PALETTE
76 Across: Carries on (5): RANTS
77 Across: " . . . spring time, the ___ pretty ring time": Shak. (4): ONLY
78 Across: Rainy-day prize (3): CAB
81 Across: Handsome one (6): ADONIS
82 Across: "Ooh, that hurts!" (4): OUCH
83 Across: Tie for the races (5): ASCOT
85 Across: Flood follower (4): GATE
86 Across: ___ incognita (5): TERRA
87 Across: Alighieri (5): DANTE
89 Across: Short-billed rail (5): CRAKE
90 Across: Cotton cloth (5): DRILL
91 Across: Lady Luck reigns here (4): RENO
92 Across: Kind of boom (5): SONIC
93 Across: Roll-call response (4): HERE
94 Across: Bucolic (5): RURAL
95 Across: Como admission in 1946 (23): IMALWAYSCHASINGRAINBOWS
101 Across: Opposite of aweather (4): ALEE
102 Across: Abrupt (4): CURT
103 Across: Brahmin (4): SNOB
104 Across: Chinese skiff (6): SAMPAN
107 Across: Whack (5): THUMP
109 Across: Petty officer (4): BOSN
111 Across: Actor Montand (4): YVES
115 Across: Sourdough's concern (5): CLAIM
116 Across: Rossetti's "___ Beatrix" (5): BEATA
117 Across: ___-than-thou (6): HOLIER
119 Across: U.N. labor body (3): ILO
120 Across: Wood/Fulmer reply to 24 Across (23): WAITTILLTHECLOUDSROLLBY
124 Across: Cremona name (5): AMATI
125 Across: Emanations (5): AURAS
126 Across: Possible port in a storm (5): INLET
127 Across: Scene of Dec.–March rains (5): SAMOA
128 Across: Springy, in a way (4): SPRY
129 Across: Foam; froth (5): YEAST
130 Across: Jurymen (5): PEERS
131 Across: Side dishes (5): SLAWS

Down Answers

1 Down: Fighting (5): ATWAR
2 Down: A Canadian transient (5): GOOSE
3 Down: Part of E.R.A. (5): EQUAL
4 Down: Not any, to the D.A. (3): NUL
5 Down: Spreads hay (4): TEDS
6 Down: Cupids (7): AMORINI
7 Down: Sulks (5): POUTS
8 Down: Provence city (5): ARLES
9 Down: "Spring Song" author (4): REID
10 Down: Tut's cousin (3): TSK
11 Down: Portia saved his skin (7): ANTONIO
12 Down: He wrote "Esther Waters" (5): MOORE
13 Down: Under guidance (5): INTOW
14 Down: Actor in "The Rain People": 1969 (4): CAAN
15 Down: Meek's partner in comics (3): EEK
16 Down: Part of a ship's bow (5): HAWSE
17 Down: "I loved ___ . . . ": Wither (5): ALASS
18 Down: Holm or key (5): ISLET
19 Down: Albanian coin (3): LEK
23 Down: Not so rainy (6): FAIRER
25 Down: Dogpatch name (5): YOKUM
26 Down: A Brontë (5): EMILY
27 Down: Garb formally (6): ENROBE
33 Down: Noshes (6): SNACKS
35 Down: Tax or dental compound (5): STENT
36 Down: Sultan's son in "The Arabian Nights" (5): AHMED
38 Down: ___ Peak, N.M. (4): OSHA
39 Down: Red as ___ (5): ABEET
40 Down: "You bet!" (4): SURE
41 Down: Abate, as rain (5): LETUP
42 Down: Blot out (5): ERASE
43 Down: Skin ailment (5): TINEA
44 Down: Like Gray's herd (6): LOWING
45 Down: Square (4): EVEN
46 Down: Arrogant (6): UPPISH
47 Down: Emu or ostrich (6): RATITE
48 Down: Chew the scenery (5): EMOTE
49 Down: ___ hand (helped out) (5): LENTA
50 Down: On the up and up (5): LEGIT
51 Down: Do penance (5): ATONE
57 Down: Rhone feeder (5): SAONE
58 Down: Leaves out (5): OMITS
59 Down: Easter ___ (5): BUNNY
61 Down: Fits of temper (5): SNITS
62 Down: "April is the cruellest ___ . . . " (5): MONTH
63 Down: Erected (5): BUILT
65 Down: Old Rome's port (5): OSTIA
66 Down: Popular pie (5): MINCE
67 Down: Tippy boat (5): CANOE
69 Down: Satirical (6): IRONIC
70 Down: Sinuous Eastern dance (6): NAUTCH
71 Down: Cradle (6): ROCKER
72 Down: Father: Comb. form (5): PATRI
73 Down: Revoke, as a legacy (5): ADEEM
74 Down: Doone (5): LORNA
75 Down: Matriculate (5): ENROL
78 Down: "Aïda" debuted here (5): CAIRO
79 Down: Attorney ___ (5): ATLAW
80 Down: Ding-a-ling things (5): BELLS
83 Down: "___ We All?" (5): ARENT
84 Down: Puppeteer Tony (4): SARG
85 Down: Contemptible (6): GRUBBY
87 Down: Senior member (5): DOYEN
88 Down: Faulkner hero (4): ANSE
89 Down: Sylvan spring sound (5): CHIRP
90 Down: Ian Fleming character (4): DRNO
92 Down: Deli offering (6): SALAMI
96 Down: Large deer (6): WAPITI
97 Down: Most discerning (7): ACUTEST
98 Down: Singer Yma (5): SUMAC
99 Down: Baseball plays (7): ASSISTS
100 Down: ___ tube (5): INNER
104 Down: Rascal (5): SCAMP
105 Down: "___ should have a good memory" (5): ALIAR
106 Down: An Alou of baseball (5): MATTY
107 Down: Aquarium fish (5): TETRA
108 Down: Guffaws (5): HAHAS
109 Down: Game akin to roulette (5): BOULE
110 Down: More mature (5): OLDER
112 Down: Banky of silents (5): VILMA
113 Down: Funny-bone locale (5): ELBOW
114 Down: Oriental legumes (5): SOYAS
116 Down: "___ Skies," Berlin prediction (4): BLUE
117 Down: Strop (4): HONE
118 Down: Seamstress Betsy (4): ROSS
120 Down: Existed (3): WAS
121 Down: Place (3): LAY
122 Down: Sass (3): LIP
123 Down: Shastri of India (3): LAL

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