INFORMAL GARDEN - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 5/4/1980. By Reginald L. Johnson.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Chatter (6)
- GABBLE
- 7 Across: Rank (6)
- RATING
- 13 Across: Importunes (4)
- DUNS
- 17 Across: Kind of floor (6)
- INLAID
- 18 Across: Dana and Greeley (7)
- EDITORS
- 20 Across: Johnny of N.F.L. fame (6)
- UNITAS
- 23 Across: Sound system (6)
- STEREO
- 24 Across: Royal trimming (14)
- QUEENANNESLACE
- 26 Across: Comical Harold (4)
- TEEN
- 27 Across: Heavy hammers (5)
- MAULS
- 29 Across: Famed Florentine (5)
- DANTE
- 30 Across: Map abbr. (3)
- RTE
- 31 Across: H.S.T., ___, J.F.K. (3)
- DDE
- 32 Across: Bridle part (3)
- BIT
- 33 Across: Kind of car (5)
- COUPE
- 35 Across: Early furrier (5)
- ASTOR
- 37 Across: " . . . but as ___, it ain't": Carroll (6)
- ITISNT
- 40 Across: Creek (3)
- RIA
- 41 Across: Guide (5)
- STEER
- 42 Across: Pelagic bird (3)
- ERN
- 44 Across: Sugar Bill (12)
- SWEETWILLIAM
- 49 Across: Twosomes: Abbr. (3)
- PRS
- 50 Across: Orderly (7)
- REGULAR
- 52 Across: Garden need (4)
- HOSE
- 53 Across: Rely on (5)
- TRUST
- 55 Across: "G.W.T.W." character (6)
- ASHLEY
- 56 Across: Studied intently (5)
- PORED
- 57 Across: In fact (8)
- ACTUALLY
- 61 Across: Word with glass or ice (5)
- SHEET
- 62 Across: Great ___, Mont. (5)
- FALLS
- 63 Across: China item (5)
- PLATE
- 64 Across: Acapulco parrot (3)
- ALO
- 65 Across: "Serpico" author (4)
- MAAS
- 66 Across: Cut away (5)
- PARED
- 67 Across: Scholar of old Rome (5)
- PLINY
- 68 Across: Moslem call to prayer (4)
- ADAN
- 69 Across: Part of U.S.S.R. (3)
- UKR
- 70 Across: A.k.a. (5)
- ALIAS
- 71 Across: Preprandial prayer (5)
- GRACE
- 72 Across: Colonel in "Hogan's Heroes" (5)
- KLINK
- 73 Across: Roanoke Island group (8)
- SETTLERS
- 75 Across: Division of the Scythians (5)
- ALANS
- 76 Across: Cross out (6)
- DELETE
- 77 Across: "From ___ shining . . . " (5)
- SEATO
- 78 Across: "Battle Hymn" author (4)
- HOWE
- 79 Across: Vintner's apparatus (7)
- PRESSER
- 80 Across: Arab's garb (3)
- ABA
- 82 Across: King's O.K. (12)
- SOLOMONSSEAL
- 85 Across: Measures of wt. (3)
- TNS
- 86 Across: Latin teacher's command (5)
- PARSE
- 88 Across: Ad ___ (pertinent) (3)
- REM
- 89 Across: Large dog (6)
- TOWSER
- 91 Across: Steed (5)
- HORSE
- 92 Across: Pop (5)
- DADDY
- 94 Across: Interdict (3)
- BAN
- 95 Across: Paul (3)
- LES
- 97 Across: Long follower (3)
- AGO
- 98 Across: Puccini opera (5)
- TOSCA
- 100 Across: Mosconi ploy (5)
- MASSE
- 102 Across: She wrote "Moths" (4)
- ASHE
- 104 Across: Coop group (14)
- HENANDCHICKENS
- 108 Across: Chaplin's "___ My Song" (6)
- THISIS
- 110 Across: Mandatory (6)
- NEEDED
- 111 Across: Augment (7)
- ENHANCE
- 112 Across: Forty-___ (6)
- NINERS
- 113 Across: Uses a shuttle (4)
- TATS
- 114 Across: Spring, e.g. (6)
- SEASON
- 115 Across: "___ Fideles" (6)
- ADESTE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Main point (4)
- GIST
- 2 Down: Fed the kitty (5)
- ANTED
- 3 Down: Sob sister (13)
- BLEEDINGHEART
- 4 Down: Battle site in Wars of the Roses (6)
- BARNET
- 5 Down: Palter (3)
- LIE
- 6 Down: Biblical country (4)
- EDOM
- 7 Down: Compensate (7)
- REQUITE
- 8 Down: Matured (5)
- ADULT
- 9 Down: Bows, e.g. (4)
- TIES
- 10 Down: Inhabitant of: Suffix (3)
- ITE
- 11 Down: Refusal, in Rennes (3)
- NON
- 12 Down: Book of religious chants (7)
- GRADUAL
- 13 Down: "La Bohème" highlight (4)
- DUET
- 14 Down: Dislodge from office (6)
- UNSEAT
- 15 Down: Zero (3)
- NIL
- 16 Down: One with a gun for a run (7)
- STARTER
- 19 Down: Kind of dragon (4)
- SNAP
- 21 Down: Mason and Plummer (6)
- ACTORS
- 22 Down: Prognosticator (4)
- SEER
- 25 Down: Wind dir. (3)
- NNE
- 28 Down: Cartoonist Dean (5)
- ABNER
- 33 Down: Turning points (6)
- CRISES
- 34 Down: Squiffed (5)
- OILED
- 36 Down: Partitions (5)
- SEPTA
- 38 Down: Key (5)
- ISLET
- 39 Down: Control (4)
- SWAY
- 41 Down: Indecent (6)
- SMUTTY
- 42 Down: Dutch humanist (7)
- ERASMUS
- 43 Down: Tremble anew (7)
- RESHAKE
- 45 Down: Oarlocks (6)
- THOLES
- 46 Down: ___ Series (5)
- WORLD
- 47 Down: Type style (7)
- ITALICS
- 48 Down: Esoteric (6)
- ARCANE
- 51 Down: Cauchos (4)
- ULES
- 54 Down: Petition (3)
- SUE
- 56 Down: Item for Butterfly (7)
- PARASOL
- 58 Down: Locks of sorts (13)
- LADIESTRESSES
- 59 Down: Plantain, in Spain (7)
- LLANTEN
- 60 Down: Where to see standardbreds (7)
- YONKERS
- 62 Down: ___ middling (6)
- FAIRTO
- 63 Down: Sycamores (6)
- PLANES
- 66 Down: Delectate (6)
- PLEASE
- 67 Down: Kind of shrimp (5)
- PRAWN
- 68 Down: "___ right with . . . ": Browning (4)
- ALLS
- 70 Down: Stout (3)
- ALE
- 71 Down: Forbidding (6)
- GLOOMY
- 72 Down: Ships, in poesy (5)
- KEELS
- 74 Down: Nicholas I and II (5)
- TSARS
- 75 Down: Former sultan of Turkey (5)
- AHMED
- 76 Down: Dogfall (4)
- DRAW
- 79 Down: Hindu foot soldiers (5)
- PEONS
- 80 Down: Farthest point (6)
- APOGEE
- 81 Down: Title created by James I (7)
- BARONET
- 83 Down: Confers holy orders (7)
- ORDAINS
- 84 Down: Well-known quadrennial runner (7)
- STASSEN
- 87 Down: Fishing device (6)
- SETNET
- 90 Down: Arthurian lady (6)
- ELAINE
- 91 Down: Author of "Look Who's Talking!" (4)
- HAHN
- 92 Down: G.I.'s award (3)
- DSC
- 93 Down: Suffer (4)
- ACHE
- 94 Down: Bench, in Bologna (5)
- BANCO
- 96 Down: Something to keep on (5)
- SHIRT
- 99 Down: Track word (4)
- ODDS
- 100 Down: "___ sana" (4)
- MENS
- 101 Down: Smoky peak (4)
- ETNA
- 103 Down: To be, to Virgil (4)
- ESSE
- 105 Down: "Bleak House" heroine (3)
- ADA
- 106 Down: "Voi ___ sapete" (3)
- CHE
- 107 Down: Mowgli's python (3)
- KAA
- 109 Down: Concealed (3)
- HID
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