MIND YOUR P'S AND Q'S - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 9/14/1980. By C. J. Angio.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Mournful (3)
- SAD
- 4 Across: Jai ___ (4)
- ALAI
- 8 Across: Man of Manche (5)
- HOMME
- 13 Across: Trevi tidbit (4)
- LIRA
- 17 Across: Star in Pegasus (4)
- ENIF
- 19 Across: Entomb (5)
- INURN
- 20 Across: Epic translated by Pope (5)
- ILIAD
- 21 Across: Turgenev's birthplace (4)
- OREL
- 22 Across: Dowitcher (10)
- QUAILSNIPE
- 24 Across: Lampoon (10)
- PASQUINADE
- 26 Across: Comes down, like Hillary (8)
- UNSCALES
- 27 Across: Mercatorial device (3)
- MAP
- 29 Across: Follows (8)
- SUCCEEDS
- 30 Across: Foulard (3)
- TIE
- 31 Across: Trees or monkeys (5)
- TITIS
- 33 Across: Suffixes with Jersey and Wisconsin (4)
- ITES
- 34 Across: Meas. of area (4)
- SQIN
- 36 Across: Basketball teams (8)
- QUINTETS
- 39 Across: Form of croquet (5)
- ROQUE
- 43 Across: Perkin's purple (5)
- MAUVE
- 44 Across: Writer Sinclair (5)
- UPTON
- 45 Across: Mont Buet is one (3)
- ALP
- 47 Across: Famous Spartans' coach (4)
- MUNN
- 48 Across: Seaman's word (4)
- ALEE
- 49 Across: Miasma (5)
- VAPOR
- 50 Across: Long leg (5)
- STILT
- 52 Across: Packy ___ (Bob Hope) (4)
- EAST
- 53 Across: Hwy. (3)
- RTE
- 54 Across: Movie shots (5)
- TAKES
- 55 Across: Himalayan cedars (7)
- DEODARS
- 57 Across: Weight in Calcutta (3)
- SER
- 58 Across: Solaced (8)
- CONSOLED
- 60 Across: Required beforehand (12)
- PREREQUISITE
- 62 Across: Project; plan (5)
- SETUP
- 63 Across: Hitler's father (5)
- ALOIS
- 64 Across: Expend or exhaust (5)
- USEUP
- 65 Across: Japanese varnish tree (12)
- LACQUERPLANT
- 68 Across: Demolish (8)
- DESTRUCT
- 71 Across: Emulate Lot's wife (3)
- ERR
- 72 Across: Apportion (7)
- PRORATE
- 73 Across: D.S.C. receiver (5)
- CITEE
- 74 Across: Lingerie item (3)
- BRA
- 75 Across: Furniture style (4)
- ADAM
- 77 Across: Fuliginous (5)
- SOOTY
- 78 Across: Mails a letter (5)
- POSTS
- 79 Across: Sit down heavily (4)
- PLOP
- 80 Across: Squash, e.g. (4)
- PEPO
- 81 Across: Sum, esse, ___ . . . (3)
- FUI
- 82 Across: Ethan of fiction (5)
- FROME
- 83 Across: Actor in "Get Carter": 1971 (5)
- CAINE
- 84 Across: Bergen puppet (5)
- SNERD
- 86 Across: Where hounds go round and round (8)
- DOGRACES
- 88 Across: Head of a tale (4)
- ONCE
- 89 Across: Sounds in rounds (4)
- TRAS
- 92 Across: Below, to Blake (5)
- NEATH
- 93 Across: Under: Prefix (3)
- HYP
- 94 Across: Having a wide range (8)
- FARGOING
- 98 Across: Peak in Nepal (3)
- API
- 99 Across: Most sentimental (8)
- SOUPIEST
- 104 Across: Water-skier's next of kin (10)
- AQUAPLANER
- 106 Across: Redoubles (10)
- QUADRUPLES
- 108 Across: Buck's Wang ___ (4)
- LUNG
- 109 Across: Use artgum (5)
- ERASE
- 110 Across: Ruined (5)
- UNDID
- 111 Across: Madame Bovary (4)
- EMMA
- 112 Across: Cheat on a check (4)
- KITE
- 113 Across: Wet (5)
- DEWED
- 114 Across: First place (4)
- EDEN
- 115 Across: Haggard's title (3)
- SIR
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Logician's abbr. (4)
- SEQU
- 2 Down: "Requiem for ___" (4)
- ANUN
- 3 Down: "Buenos ___!" (4)
- DIAS
- 4 Down: Author Tyler (4)
- ANNE
- 5 Down: Firpo (4)
- LUIS
- 6 Down: French Dadaist (3)
- ARP
- 7 Down: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 ___ (8)
- INEMINOR
- 8 Down: Hobohemian's cousin (6)
- HIPPIE
- 9 Down: Biographer Winslow (3)
- OLA
- 10 Down: "Little ___ Marker" (4)
- MISS
- 11 Down: Chilean evergreen shrub (5)
- MAQUI
- 12 Down: Inference (5)
- EDUCT
- 13 Down: Adjective for Gobel (8)
- LONESOME
- 14 Down: Dies ___ (4)
- IRAE
- 15 Down: Comedian Foxx (4)
- REDD
- 16 Down: English country festivals (4)
- ALES
- 18 Down: Imaginary (7)
- FICTIVE
- 19 Down: Man, for one (4)
- ISLE
- 23 Down: Label on a French garment (5)
- LAINE
- 25 Down: Champagne bucket (4)
- ICER
- 28 Down: Envelope abbr. (4)
- ATTN
- 31 Down: Singers Schipa and Gobbi (5)
- TITOS
- 32 Down: Parts of turbines (7)
- STATORS
- 34 Down: City in Uruguay (5)
- SALTO
- 35 Down: Myrtle used for timber (11)
- QUEENSCRAPE
- 36 Down: Like some buildings in S.F. (10)
- QUAKEPROOF
- 37 Down: Raised the bet (5)
- UPPED
- 38 Down: Kind of rule (5)
- SLIDE
- 40 Down: Like railroads, gas companies, etc. (11)
- QUASIPUBLIC
- 41 Down: Loose, as a diamond (5)
- UNSET
- 42 Down: ___ nous (5)
- ENTRE
- 43 Down: Chagall (4)
- MARC
- 46 Down: Small decorations on books (10)
- PLAQUETTES
- 49 Down: British appraisers (7)
- VALUERS
- 50 Down: Murrow's "___ Now" (5)
- SEEIT
- 51 Down: Ties (7)
- TRUSSES
- 54 Down: Add (5)
- TOTUP
- 55 Down: Idler (5)
- DRONE
- 56 Down: Seis plus uno (5)
- SIETE
- 59 Down: Continuation of a bk. (3)
- SEQ
- 60 Down: Tropical aquarium fish (5)
- PLATY
- 61 Down: Châlons-___-Marne (3)
- SUR
- 63 Down: State of having wings (7)
- ALATION
- 65 Down: Bounds' partner (5)
- LEAPS
- 66 Down: Locale for Rosalind (5)
- ARDEN
- 67 Down: Tarquin the ___ (5)
- PROUD
- 68 Down: Dime of 1792 (5)
- DISME
- 69 Down: Beldam (5)
- CRONE
- 70 Down: Sprinter's goal (4)
- TAPE
- 73 Down: Kin of the belly dance (5)
- COOCH
- 76 Down: Pledge (8)
- MORTGAGE
- 78 Down: Postquarantine permission to use a port (8)
- PRATIQUE
- 79 Down: Mouth organ (7)
- PANPIPE
- 82 Down: Tighten, as drum cords (4)
- FRAP
- 83 Down: S.A. rodent (5)
- COYPU
- 85 Down: Tackle (4)
- DROP
- 87 Down: Equipped (6)
- GEARED
- 90 Down: Had the flu (5)
- AILED
- 91 Down: Springe (5)
- SNARE
- 93 Down: Famed painter of ranch hands (4)
- HURD
- 94 Down: Columbo (4)
- FALK
- 95 Down: Here, in Honduras (4)
- AQUI
- 96 Down: Litter Lilliputian (4)
- RUNT
- 97 Down: Emulate beavers (4)
- GNAW
- 99 Down: Radio's "Vic and ___" (4)
- SADE
- 100 Down: Host at Valhalla (4)
- ODIN
- 101 Down: End of an O'Neill title (4)
- ELMS
- 102 Down: Trucking rig (4)
- SEMI
- 103 Down: Autocrat (4)
- TSAR
- 105 Down: Compass dir. (3)
- ESE
- 107 Down: "Hansel ___ Gretel" (3)
- UND
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