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Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 9/21/1980. By Louis Baron.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Astringent (4): ALUM
5 Across: Glower (5): SCOWL
10 Across: Puppeteer Lewis (5): SHARI
15 Across: Con job (4): SCAM
19 Across: Except (4): SAVE
20 Across: Blake of Jazz (5): EUBIE
21 Across: Moslem judge (5): HAKIM
22 Across: Disyllabic sigh (4): AHME
23 Across: Gardner's "The Case of the ___" (16): STUTTERINGBISHOP
26 Across: What bêtes noires inspire (4): FEAR
27 Across: Hard-to-hold type (3): EEL
28 Across: Author Kingsley (4): AMIS
29 Across: Asks for (5): WANTS
30 Across: Spinachlike plant (6): ORACHE
32 Across: Apprentice (7): TRAINEE
34 Across: Director of "The Servant": 1963 (5): LOSEY
35 Across: He wrote "Uhuru" (5): RUARK
36 Across: Poe's "The Angel of the ___" (3): ODD
37 Across: Promenade (5): CORSO
38 Across: Most sharp-witted (8): CANNIEST
41 Across: Write back (5): REPLY
44 Across: Hit musical of 1951 (11): THEKINGANDI
46 Across: Hugo's "___ Blas" (3): RUY
47 Across: Kazan (4): ELIA
48 Across: Use 'baccy (4): CHAW
49 Across: Oval segments (4): ARCS
50 Across: U-boat's sea (4): MEER
51 Across: Burrows (3): ABE
52 Across: Vernon Blythe's dancing partner (11): IRENECASTLE
56 Across: Amerind group (5): CADDO
57 Across: Certain settlers (8): DECIDERS
59 Across: Wolf-whistle accompaniment (4): OGLE
60 Across: Proust or Marceau (6): MARCEL
61 Across: Undo (5): ERASE
62 Across: Interweave (5): BRAID
63 Across: Admiral Andrea (5): DORIA
64 Across: This can be Cannes (6): RESORT
66 Across: Mil. training unit (4): ROTC
67 Across: Fast and dazzling (8): METEORIC
70 Across: Without help (5): ALONE
71 Across: Carroll character (11): WHITEKNIGHT
74 Across: Vowel for Euripedes (3): ETA
75 Across: Not like a sure thing (4): IFFY
76 Across: Courts (4): WOOS
77 Across: Oxalis plants (4): OCAS
78 Across: It once cost 5 cents (4): BEER
79 Across: One place to get an E.E. (3): MIT
80 Across: Slangsters' uncles (11): PAWNBROKERS
84 Across: Actor Hagman (5): LARRY
85 Across: Like an igloo (8): UNHEATED
87 Across: Defective: Comb. form (5): ATELO
88 Across: Rooks, e.g. (3): MEN
89 Across: Sidled (5): EDGED
90 Across: Anglers' delights (5): BITES
91 Across: Top of the ladder (7): SUCCESS
95 Across: More foresighted (6): CAGIER
97 Across: Edible tubers (5): SALEP
98 Across: Middle: Comb. form (4): MESO
99 Across: Mini-question (3): WHY
100 Across: Center of Q.E.D. (4): ERAT
101 Across: She played a maid in "G.W.T.W." (16): BUTTERFLYMCQUEEN
105 Across: Icy coating (4): RIME
106 Across: Commercial willow (5): OSIER
107 Across: Old district of Asia Minor (5): IONIA
108 Across: Plod (4): SLOG
109 Across: Made oneself scarce (4): FLED
110 Across: Junk and Scotland (5): YARDS
111 Across: Butter melter (5): TOAST
112 Across: Sand's "___ et Lui" (4): ELLE

Down Answers

1 Down: Plus item (5): ASSET
2 Down: Staller's promise (5): LATER
3 Down: Tonsil's neighbor (5): UVULA
4 Down: Conjoined (3): MET
5 Down: Appeared (6): SEEMED
6 Down: One of two Nobelists: 1903 (5): CURIE
7 Down: Ginza purchases (4): OBIS
8 Down: Beat the game (3): WIN
9 Down: Reporter's routine (7): LEGWORK
10 Down: Order to a "Harvest Moon": 1908 (7): SHINEON
11 Down: Precipitate (5): HASTY
12 Down: Spirits, in Egyptology (4): AKHS
13 Down: Sugar Loaf's city (3): RIO
14 Down: Seizes legally (8): IMPOUNDS
15 Down: Veld entourage (6): SAFARI
16 Down: Rake's progress (15): CHECKEREDCAREER
17 Down: Eastern nana (4): AMAH
18 Down: Like a pittance (4): MERE
24 Down: Jessica of the stage (5): TANDY
25 Down: Pinza and Hines (5): BASSI
31 Down: Rajah's lady (4): RANI
33 Down: City in SE Kansas (4): IOLA
34 Down: Lerner's collaborator (5): LOEWE
35 Down: Sheriff in a Puccini opera (5): RANCE
37 Down: Oland, Toler et al. (5): CHANS
38 Down: Composer Orff (4): CARL
39 Down: Glove-in-the-raw (5): SUEDE
40 Down: Yodeler's turf (5): TYROL
41 Down: Decode a primer (4): READ
42 Down: River to the North Sea (4): ELBE
43 Down: "But helpless ___ He plays": FitzGerald (15): PIECESOFTHEGAME
44 Down: "Hey" or "Over" follower (5): THERE
45 Down: Like many fences (5): GATED
48 Down: Peak (5): CREST
50 Down: Puzo or Lanza (5): MARIO
52 Down: "Fain would I, but ___ not" (5): IDARE
53 Down: "Pastorale" painter: 1873 (5): COROT
54 Down: Type size (5): AGATE
55 Down: Smooth-talking (5): SLICK
56 Down: "Add here" mark (5): CARET
58 Down: Speaker's device (5): IRONY
60 Down: Millers (5): MOTHS
62 Down: Cap. of Queensland (5): BRISB
63 Down: Artist Edgar (5): DEGAS
64 Down: Jules Muraire of French cinema (5): RAIMU
65 Down: Pixie (5): ELFIN
67 Down: Prefix with scope (5): MICRO
68 Down: Caesar's way (4): ITER
69 Down: Author Joyce (4): CARY
71 Down: Had 'em in the aisles (5): WOWED
72 Down: Neighbor of Guat. (4): HOND
73 Down: Seasonal songs (5): NOELS
76 Down: Song of 1922 (8): WATERBOY
78 Down: Judicial seat (4): BANC
80 Down: Trainbearer (4): PAGE
81 Down: Those who viteruperate (7): RAILERS
82 Down: Web-footed mammal (5): OTTER
83 Down: Do exercises (7): KEEPFIT
84 Down: Gaboriau's gumshoe (5): LECOQ
86 Down: Made publishable (6): EDITED
88 Down: Oman's capital (6): MUSCAT
90 Down: Like some breaths (5): BATED
91 Down: Game rounds (5): SEMIS
92 Down: Tom of "The Seven Year Itch" (5): EWELL
93 Down: Underworld, O.T. style (5): SHEOL
94 Down: Irish Renaissance dramatist (5): SYNGE
95 Down: Anthologist Bennett (4): CERF
96 Down: Seed envelope (4): ARIL
97 Down: Show life (4): STIR
98 Down: Parrot's rival (4): MYNA
102 Down: Kyushu town (3): USA
103 Down: Richard ___, Oriental actor (3): LOO
104 Down: "What's the ___?" (3): USE

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