REVERSE ENGLISH - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 9/28/1980. By Herb L. Risteen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Leaping lights (4)
- ARCS
- 5 Across: Casts off (5)
- SHEDS
- 10 Across: Founder of Lower Slobovia (4)
- CAPP
- 14 Across: Ill composed (4)
- LAME
- 18 Across: Opinion (4)
- VIEW
- 19 Across: Sound of Washington (5)
- PUGET
- 20 Across: Big book (5)
- FOLIO
- 21 Across: Cupid (4)
- AMOR
- 22 Across: "Christabel" poet (21)
- SAMUELTAYLORCOLERIDGE
- 26 Across: Five Nations group (7)
- SENECAS
- 27 Across: Departer from Orly (5)
- AVION
- 28 Across: Came about (5)
- AROSE
- 29 Across: Early sixth-century date (3)
- DII
- 30 Across: Places for loafers (4)
- FEET
- 31 Across: Split-lipped mammal (4)
- HARE
- 33 Across: "Invictus" poet (19)
- WILLIAMERNESTHENLEY
- 41 Across: Whip mark (4)
- WALE
- 42 Across: Companion of Enyo (4)
- ARES
- 43 Across: Kind of ant or brat (4)
- ARMY
- 44 Across: Soho swell (3)
- NOB
- 46 Across: Electrical units (4)
- OHMS
- 47 Across: On the house (4)
- FREE
- 48 Across: Deck posts (5)
- BITTS
- 50 Across: Unadorned (4)
- BARE
- 51 Across: Lobster coral (3)
- ROE
- 52 Across: He wrote "The Cheats" (5)
- CAPEK
- 53 Across: Giotto subject (5)
- DANTE
- 54 Across: Analyze grammatically (5)
- PARSE
- 55 Across: Twist the meaning of (7)
- TORTURE
- 57 Across: Threnody (5)
- DIRGE
- 58 Across: Equivocate (6)
- PALTER
- 59 Across: Mayor of Plymouth: 1581 (15)
- SIRFRANCISDRAKE
- 63 Across: Goose-pimply (6)
- SCARED
- 66 Across: After, in rouge et noir (5)
- APRES
- 67 Across: Treated a lawn (7)
- AERATED
- 71 Across: Officiates at a tea (5)
- POURS
- 72 Across: Culloden Moor fighters: 1746 (5)
- SCOTS
- 73 Across: Minds (5)
- CARES
- 75 Across: Harem room (3)
- ODA
- 76 Across: Pop singer Gibb (4)
- ANDY
- 77 Across: Arbuckle (5)
- FATTY
- 78 Across: At another time (4)
- ANON
- 79 Across: Stiffly precise (4)
- PRIM
- 80 Across: Far East tongue (3)
- TAI
- 81 Across: Flippant (4)
- AIRY
- 82 Across: Alaskan island (4)
- ATTU
- 83 Across: Water current (4)
- RACE
- 84 Across: Ambassador at Paris: 1814–15 (19)
- THEDUKEOFWELLINGTON
- 91 Across: Layers (4)
- HENS
- 92 Across: Arabic letter (4)
- ALIF
- 93 Across: Pro ___ (3)
- TEM
- 94 Across: Houston athlete (5)
- ASTRO
- 97 Across: Fragrant seed (5)
- ANISE
- 98 Across: Missionary priest (7)
- PAULIST
- 102 Across: Philip Stanhope (21)
- THEEARLOFCHESTERFIELD
- 107 Across: Like certain controls (4)
- DUAL
- 108 Across: Window type (5)
- ORIEL
- 109 Across: Hawk's weapon (5)
- TALON
- 110 Across: ___ avis (4)
- RARA
- 111 Across: Betray (4)
- SELL
- 112 Across: Hit hard (4)
- BASH
- 113 Across: Soft-soaps (5)
- SNOWS
- 114 Across: Warren (4)
- SLUM
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Prayer (3)
- AVE
- 2 Down: Manipulates (4)
- RIGS
- 3 Down: Grant (4)
- CEDE
- 4 Down: Cons (8)
- SWINDLES
- 5 Down: Coined money (6)
- SPECIE
- 6 Down: Mimetic dance (4)
- HULA
- 7 Down: Parts of psyches (4)
- EGOS
- 8 Down: Calendar abbr. (3)
- DEC
- 9 Down: Machine-guns (7)
- STRAFES
- 10 Down: Prairie preyer (6)
- COYOTE
- 11 Down: King or Bates (4)
- ALAN
- 12 Down: Alveolus (3)
- PIT
- 13 Down: Eur. land (3)
- POL
- 14 Down: Victory emblem (6)
- LAUREL
- 15 Down: War supplies, for short (4)
- AMMO
- 16 Down: Bygone birds (4)
- MOAS
- 17 Down: Gaelic (4)
- ERSE
- 20 Down: Swift kangaroo (5)
- FLIER
- 23 Down: Check (4)
- REIN
- 24 Down: Calcar (4)
- OVEN
- 25 Down: C.S.A. commander (5)
- EARLY
- 31 Down: Ah Sin's creator (5)
- HARTE
- 32 Down: Intentions (4)
- AIMS
- 33 Down: Uncouth person (5)
- YAHOO
- 34 Down: Gantry (5)
- ELMER
- 35 Down: Novelist Lee (6)
- HARPER
- 36 Down: Dryad's home (4)
- TREE
- 37 Down: Hide's companion (4)
- SEEK
- 38 Down: Topic (6)
- MATTER
- 39 Down: " . . . shut yourself up ___ . . . ": Flaubert (5)
- INART
- 40 Down: Less desirable (5)
- WORSE
- 41 Down: Herbaceous plant (4)
- WORT
- 45 Down: Ginger ___ (4)
- BEER
- 47 Down: Unit of capacitance (5)
- FARAD
- 48 Down: Potential playhouses (5)
- BARNS
- 49 Down: Actress Swenson (4)
- INGA
- 50 Down: Raft material (5)
- BALSA
- 52 Down: Gherkins, for short (5)
- CUKES
- 53 Down: Cuts up (5)
- DICES
- 54 Down: Poker holdings (5)
- PAIRS
- 56 Down: Comics hero (5)
- TERRY
- 57 Down: ___ tricks (5)
- DIRTY
- 58 Down: Dress up (5)
- PREEN
- 60 Down: Metrical foot (6)
- DACTYL
- 61 Down: Maculation (4)
- SPOT
- 62 Down: King of Egypt: 1936–52 (6)
- FAROUK
- 63 Down: Young oyster (4)
- SPAT
- 64 Down: Literary middle name (5)
- CONAN
- 65 Down: TV sound equipment (5)
- AUDIO
- 68 Down: The Pentateuch (5)
- TORAH
- 69 Down: Rescript (5)
- EDICT
- 70 Down: Knight's wife (4)
- DAME
- 72 Down: Agra attire (5)
- SARIS
- 73 Down: Quaestor under Scipio (4)
- CATO
- 74 Down: Stake (4)
- ANTE
- 77 Down: Twain hero (4)
- FINN
- 79 Down: Lévesque, Peckford et al. (8)
- PREMIERS
- 81 Down: "The ___ Innocence": Wharton (5)
- AGEOF
- 82 Down: Moves (7)
- AFFECTS
- 85 Down: Cause to vibrate (6)
- THRILL
- 86 Down: Malayan tree (6)
- LANSEH
- 87 Down: Architect Gottlieb ___ Saarinen (5)
- ELIEL
- 88 Down: Thought's "father" (4)
- WISH
- 89 Down: Motoring maneuvers (6)
- UTURNS
- 90 Down: Walter ___ Mare (4)
- DELA
- 94 Down: Augments (4)
- ADDS
- 95 Down: Pivot (4)
- SLUE
- 96 Down: Greenwing (4)
- TEAL
- 97 Down: Monkshood (4)
- ATIS
- 98 Down: Water ___ (4)
- POLO
- 99 Down: Down, to a skipper (4)
- ALOW
- 100 Down: Pledge (4)
- SEAL
- 101 Down: Done, for short (4)
- THRU
- 103 Down: Rifle (3)
- ROB
- 104 Down: Christian or Caesarean (3)
- ERA
- 105 Down: Stir up (3)
- FAN
- 106 Down: Head covering (3)
- TAM
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