SILLY QUESTIONS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 5/25/1980. By Jean Reed.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Questions (4)
- ASKS
- 5 Across: Arith. process (4)
- ADDN
- 9 Across: Fills a truck (5)
- LOADS
- 14 Across: L–Q connection (4)
- MNOP
- 18 Across: Elegance (4)
- CHIC
- 19 Across: Andretti of auto racing (5)
- MARIO
- 20 Across: ___ all (do oneself in) (5)
- ENDIT
- 21 Across: Air: Comb. form (4)
- AERI
- 22 Across: During Lent, does ___? (10)
- HOWARDFAST
- 24 Across: What drove ___? (10)
- OSCARWILDE
- 26 Across: Plant of the rose family (6)
- SPIREA
- 27 Across: Net resembling tulle (6)
- MALINE
- 29 Across: Gatherings of geese (7)
- GAGGLES
- 30 Across: Coral reefs (4)
- CAYS
- 32 Across: Lat. case (5)
- GENIT
- 33 Across: River at Frankfurt (4)
- ODER
- 34 Across: Loathed (5)
- HATED
- 37 Across: In one ___ out the other (6)
- EARAND
- 39 Across: Singing sisters (7)
- ANDREWS
- 42 Across: Tree or residue (3)
- ASH
- 43 Across: Maxims (6)
- ADAGES
- 45 Across: Of cranial cavities (5)
- SINAL
- 47 Across: British cans (4)
- TINS
- 49 Across: Fashion name (4)
- DIOR
- 51 Across: Whereness (6)
- UBIETY
- 53 Across: Melchizedek's city (5)
- SALEM
- 55 Across: ___ the Lip (3)
- LEO
- 56 Across: What interest does a ___ pay? (9)
- JAMESBOND
- 58 Across: Incites (5)
- ABETS
- 60 Across: Court ___ (5)
- OFLAW
- 62 Across: Murphy's ___ bed (7)
- INADOOR
- 63 Across: Alamogordo's county (5)
- OTERO
- 64 Across: Pigtails (6)
- BRAIDS
- 65 Across: Jacob, to Laban (8)
- SONINLAW
- 68 Across: Switzerland (8)
- HELVETIA
- 70 Across: Quivering trees (6)
- ASPENS
- 72 Across: Name for a movie house (5)
- ODEON
- 74 Across: Frightened (7)
- ALARMED
- 77 Across: Rent (5)
- LEASE
- 78 Across: Pernod ingredient (5)
- ANISE
- 79 Across: Moving stairs (9)
- ESCALATOR
- 81 Across: Cuckoo (3)
- ANI
- 82 Across: Color slightly (5)
- TINGE
- 84 Across: Start growing (6)
- SPROUT
- 86 Across: He wrote "An Exchange of Eagles": 1977 (4)
- SELA
- 87 Across: Compos mentis (4)
- SANE
- 89 Across: Show sudden interest (5)
- SITUP
- 91 Across: Removes a sheepshank (6)
- UNTIES
- 93 Across: Permit: Abbr. (3)
- LIC
- 94 Across: Looks after (7)
- TENDSTO
- 96 Across: O'Keeffe, e.g. (6)
- ARTIST
- 98 Across: Roger's last name? (5)
- WILCO
- 100 Across: Picnic ham (4)
- CALA
- 101 Across: Operating (5)
- INUSE
- 102 Across: Some votes (4)
- YEAS
- 104 Across: Gas stretcher (7)
- ALCOHOL
- 107 Across: Competition (6)
- STRIFE
- 109 Across: Disturbed the peace (6)
- RIOTED
- 113 Across: What are a candidate's ___? (10)
- WORDSWORTH
- 115 Across: At whom did ___? (10)
- NORMANLEAR
- 117 Across: Cyma recta (4)
- OGEE
- 118 Across: County in Mont. (5)
- TOOLE
- 119 Across: Error's mate (5)
- TRIAL
- 120 Across: Computer fodder (4)
- DATA
- 121 Across: Sordor (4)
- LEES
- 122 Across: Rod used in basketry (5)
- OSIER
- 123 Across: Parabases (4)
- ODES
- 124 Across: Once, once (4)
- ERST
Down Answers
- 1 Down: German exclamations (4)
- ACHS
- 2 Down: Tour the stores (4)
- SHOP
- 3 Down: Earthbound bird (4)
- KIWI
- 4 Down: Like hens' teeth (6)
- SCARCE
- 5 Down: W.W. II fliers (3)
- AAF
- 6 Down: Metric weight (4)
- DRAM
- 7 Down: Fell out (9)
- DISAGREED
- 8 Down: "Last but ___" (8)
- NOTLEAST
- 9 Down: Brezhnev and some shooting stars (7)
- LEONIDS
- 10 Down: Start (5)
- ONSET
- 11 Down: Mil. man (3)
- ADC
- 12 Down: Virgules or twills (9)
- DIAGONALS
- 13 Down: Take both sides (8)
- STRADDLE
- 14 Down: Simenon's inspector (7)
- MAIGRET
- 15 Down: "Salvation ___" (4)
- NELL
- 16 Down: Gen. Wingate: 1903–44 (4)
- ORDE
- 17 Down: Jays' cousins (4)
- PIES
- 19 Down: War planning date (4)
- MDAY
- 23 Down: "How to ___ Book": Adler (5)
- READA
- 25 Down: Bonn is its cap. (4)
- WGER
- 28 Down: Auberge (3)
- INN
- 31 Down: Like Aphrodite or Nereids (7)
- SEABORN
- 34 Down: Post-Mecca Moslem (5)
- HADJI
- 35 Down: Man from Manchuria (5)
- ASIAN
- 36 Down: Did George III give ___? (11)
- THOMASPAINE
- 38 Down: Opposed, Dogpatch style (4)
- AGIN
- 39 Down: Schnitzler's idle worldling (6)
- ANATOL
- 40 Down: What secrets did ___? (11)
- WILLIAMTELL
- 41 Down: Golf great (5)
- SNEAD
- 44 Down: Civil-rights writer (6)
- DUBOIS
- 46 Down: Grenoble's river (5)
- ISERE
- 48 Down: Plants seed (4)
- SOWS
- 50 Down: Fixes over (6)
- REDOES
- 52 Down: Sun ___-sen (3)
- YAT
- 54 Down: What we all are (6)
- MORTAL
- 57 Down: Shakespearean gem (6)
- SONNET
- 59 Down: Aphra of writing fame (4)
- BEHN
- 61 Down: "___ a star . . . " (6)
- FAIRAS
- 63 Down: Has creditors (4)
- OWES
- 64 Down: Delay, old style (6)
- BELATE
- 66 Down: " . . . there I ___ be": H. Van Dyke (6)
- LONGTO
- 67 Down: Balzac book: 1832 (5)
- ADIEU
- 69 Down: Emptiness (7)
- VACUITY
- 70 Down: Wellaway! (4)
- ALAS
- 71 Down: French lawmakers (5)
- SENAT
- 73 Down: Latin diphthongs (3)
- OES
- 75 Down: Borne by the wind (5)
- EOLIC
- 76 Down: Harsh lawmaker (5)
- DRACO
- 78 Down: Who turned ___? (9)
- ANITALOOS
- 79 Down: What streams did ___? (9)
- ERNIEFORD
- 80 Down: Barflies (4)
- SOTS
- 83 Down: "He that ___ anger . . . ": Prov. 16:32 (8)
- ISSLOWTO
- 85 Down: ___ words (verbalizes) (8)
- PUTSINTO
- 88 Down: Makes a cryptogram (7)
- ENCODES
- 90 Down: Big cat (7)
- PANTHER
- 92 Down: Young lover (5)
- SWAIN
- 95 Down: Morse man's long ones (4)
- DAHS
- 97 Down: Capek play (3)
- RUR
- 99 Down: Tristram's beloved (6)
- ISOLDE
- 101 Down: Rope fiber (5)
- ISTLE
- 103 Down: Epochal (4)
- ERAL
- 104 Down: Over the hill (4)
- AWOL
- 105 Down: Theater box (4)
- LOGE
- 106 Down: Indian of Manitoba (4)
- CREE
- 108 Down: Clinton's waterway (4)
- ERIE
- 110 Down: Snag (4)
- TEAR
- 111 Down: Highway sign (4)
- EATS
- 112 Down: Mild cussword (4)
- DRAT
- 114 Down: Any of 18 named Louis (3)
- ROI
- 116 Down: Mates of pas (3)
- MAS
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