NICKNAME DROPPING - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 168 clues). Published 11/2/1980. By George Rose Smith.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Arabic letter (4)
- ALIF
- 5 Across: Egyptian Christian (4)
- COPT
- 9 Across: Lay away (6)
- ENTOMB
- 15 Across: Was solicitous (5)
- CARED
- 20 Across: Fanaticism (5)
- MANIA
- 22 Across: ___ fixe (4)
- IDEE
- 23 Across: Power for a jinrikisha (6)
- COOLIE
- 24 Across: Coeur d'___, Idaho (5)
- ALENE
- 25 Across: The end (10)
- OMARGARETA
- 27 Across: Like aged Beethoven (12)
- STOEDWARDEAF
- 29 Across: Deliverance (6)
- RANSOM
- 30 Across: Moroccan capital (5)
- RABAT
- 32 Across: "Josh" is his autobiography (5)
- LOGAN
- 33 Across: Bone: Prefix (4)
- OSTE
- 34 Across: Snaps (6)
- SETUPS
- 36 Across: Vichy prime minister: 1942–44 (5)
- LAVAL
- 38 Across: Certain murals (5)
- SERTS
- 40 Across: Poet's contraction (3)
- EER
- 41 Across: Printers' marks (5)
- STETS
- 43 Across: Metric quart (5)
- LITER
- 45 Across: O.T. word (5)
- SELAH
- 47 Across: Like Mr. Dick (3)
- MAD
- 50 Across: Sarcastic (11)
- IRONALDICAL
- 53 Across: Testified (7)
- DEPOSED
- 57 Across: Spartan king (4)
- AGIS
- 59 Across: Cuchulainn's wife (4)
- EMER
- 60 Across: Barbizon painter (5)
- COROT
- 62 Across: Breakfast serving (6)
- RASHER
- 63 Across: A pastry, for short (5)
- DONUT
- 65 Across: Insect appendages (5)
- PALPS
- 68 Across: Omphalos (5)
- NAVEL
- 70 Across: Metric measure (5)
- STERE
- 71 Across: Taws (6)
- AGATES
- 73 Across: Think (4)
- DEEM
- 74 Across: Ancient country (4)
- ELIS
- 76 Across: Drag, as logs (4)
- SNIG
- 77 Across: Became a keener (7)
- MOURNED
- 79 Across: Emulated Babilonia or Fleming (11)
- SKATHARINAD
- 84 Across: Legal point (3)
- RES
- 85 Across: Crocs' kin (6)
- GATERS
- 87 Across: Rootstock (5)
- ORRIS
- 88 Across: Popular appetizer (6)
- CELERY
- 90 Across: The horned horse (3)
- GNU
- 92 Across: Fickle, à la M. R. Rinehart (11)
- SKITLETITIA
- 95 Across: Savors (7)
- DEGUSTS
- 98 Across: "The Years with ___": Thurber (4)
- ROSS
- 100 Across: Antibodies (4)
- SERA
- 101 Across: One of the Aesir (4)
- ODIN
- 103 Across: Yellowish pink (6)
- SALMON
- 104 Across: ___ salt (delicate wit) (5)
- ATTIC
- 106 Across: Smears (5)
- DAUBS
- 109 Across: Fortification (5)
- REDAN
- 111 Across: Defunct defense org. (5)
- SEATO
- 112 Across: Goth, for one (6)
- TEUTON
- 114 Across: Cassandra's father (5)
- PRIAM
- 116 Across: Dutch cheese (4)
- EDAM
- 118 Across: Tie (4)
- DRAW
- 119 Across: Fictitious, as a name (7)
- ASSUMED
- 121 Across: Medicine-chest item (11)
- ATHOMASIZER
- 125 Across: Culbertson (3)
- ELY
- 126 Across: Natural, at Reno (5)
- SEVEN
- 128 Across: Con man who duped 114 Across (5)
- SINON
- 129 Across: Made public (5)
- AIRED
- 131 Across: Biblical king (3)
- ASA
- 134 Across: The filthy weed, in Nice (5)
- TABAC
- 136 Across: Spoils (5)
- BOOTY
- 138 Across: Remain aloof (6)
- SITOUT
- 141 Across: Forearm bone (4)
- ULNA
- 143 Across: Of a dowry (5)
- DOTAL
- 145 Across: Fates, for instance (5)
- TRIAD
- 147 Across: Mediterranean fish (6)
- NONNAT
- 149 Across: V.I.P. (12)
- DIGJUANITARY
- 152 Across: Goblet (10)
- CHAROLDICE
- 154 Across: Perfect (5)
- IDEAL
- 155 Across: Square accounts (6)
- EVENUP
- 156 Across: Man, in Milano (4)
- UOMO
- 157 Across: Remove stannic coating (5)
- DETIN
- 158 Across: Pomme de ___ (5)
- TERRE
- 159 Across: Part of H.S.H. (6)
- SERENE
- 160 Across: Recluse (4)
- MONK
- 161 Across: Soaks (4)
- RETS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Cupid (4)
- AMOR
- 2 Down: Esther Williams' spouse (5)
- LAMAS
- 3 Down: Asinine (5)
- INANE
- 4 Down: Sports triumphs (6)
- FIRSTS
- 5 Down: Approx. (3)
- CIR
- 6 Down: River to the Baltic (4)
- ODER
- 7 Down: Flower part (5)
- PETAL
- 8 Down: Perforated sphere (7)
- TEABALL
- 9 Down: Beside oneself (8)
- ECSTATIC
- 10 Down: Part of a jury verdict (3)
- NOT
- 11 Down: Saw, e.g. (4)
- TOOL
- 12 Down: Bread spreads (5)
- OLEOS
- 13 Down: No-see-ums (6)
- MIDGES
- 14 Down: Was circumspect (7)
- BEWARED
- 15 Down: Benny's Maxwell (3)
- CAR
- 16 Down: Moro or Ray (4)
- ALDO
- 17 Down: A.F.B. in Texas (5)
- REESE
- 18 Down: Growing out (5)
- ENATE
- 19 Down: Yield precedence (5)
- DEFER
- 21 Down: S.A. rodent (6)
- AGOUTI
- 26 Down: Famed French physicist (6)
- AMPERE
- 28 Down: Horn (6)
- ANTLER
- 31 Down: Cupidinous (4)
- AVID
- 35 Down: Jazz dance (5)
- STOMP
- 37 Down: Lycée event (5)
- LECON
- 39 Down: Former cough cures (5)
- SAPAS
- 42 Down: Three-time P.G.A. champ (5)
- SNEAD
- 44 Down: ___ avis (4)
- RARA
- 46 Down: Communion wafers (5)
- HOSTS
- 47 Down: "___, I'm Adam" (5)
- MADAM
- 48 Down: Galore (5)
- AGOGO
- 49 Down: Thingamajig (11)
- DINAUGUSTUS
- 51 Down: City on the Rhone (5)
- ARLES
- 52 Down: Rodgers-Hart hit: 1933 (5)
- LOVER
- 54 Down: Energy-saving way to go (11)
- SHENRYSMARE
- 55 Down: Mysterious (5)
- EERIE
- 56 Down: Sediment (5)
- DREGS
- 58 Down: Sermon by Buddha (5)
- SUTRA
- 61 Down: Purposive (5)
- TELIC
- 64 Down: Dress types (5)
- TENTS
- 66 Down: Kind of tea (5)
- PEKOE
- 67 Down: Chichi (5)
- SMART
- 69 Down: Wrinkled (5)
- LINED
- 72 Down: Strives for (5)
- SEEKS
- 75 Down: Soupy (5)
- SALES
- 78 Down: Cut's companion (5)
- DRIED
- 80 Down: Relative of tetra (3)
- TRI
- 81 Down: ___ miss (5)
- HITOR
- 82 Down: Play byplay (5)
- ASIDE
- 83 Down: Parisian artist (5)
- DEGAS
- 86 Down: Part of a slip (5)
- STRAP
- 89 Down: Held sway (5)
- RULED
- 90 Down: Persona ___ (5)
- GRATA
- 91 Down: Lecture material (5)
- NOTES
- 93 Down: La Plante or Baugh (5)
- LAURA
- 94 Down: Staff group (5)
- AIDES
- 96 Down: Universal (5)
- TOTAL
- 97 Down: Like Kilimanjaro (5)
- SNOWY
- 99 Down: Position (5)
- SITUS
- 102 Down: Gymnast Comaneci (5)
- NADIA
- 105 Down: Kohoutek, e.g. (5)
- COMET
- 107 Down: Snaffles (4)
- BITS
- 108 Down: Sir, to Din (5)
- SAHIB
- 110 Down: Hakenkreuzler (5)
- NAZIS
- 113 Down: Battle Born State (6)
- NEVADA
- 115 Down: A species constituting a genus (8)
- MONOTYPE
- 117 Down: White sheep (6)
- MERINO
- 120 Down: Prepares to dice chicken (7)
- DEBONES
- 122 Down: Anchor (4)
- MOOR
- 123 Down: Front porch (7)
- ANTICUM
- 124 Down: Like certain Hawthorne tales (6)
- RETOLD
- 127 Down: Autochthonous (6)
- NATIVE
- 130 Down: A Christmas reindeer (6)
- DONDER
- 131 Down: C.P.A.'s task (5)
- AUDIT
- 132 Down: Lab item (5)
- SLIDE
- 133 Down: Wrath (5)
- ANGER
- 135 Down: Supply food (5)
- CATER
- 137 Down: A subject of the Houyhnhnms (5)
- YAHOO
- 139 Down: Combine (5)
- UNITE
- 140 Down: Understood (5)
- TACIT
- 142 Down: Showing a crack (4)
- AJAR
- 144 Down: Miler's path (4)
- LANE
- 146 Down: Execrate (4)
- DAMN
- 148 Down: Lacrosse teams (4)
- TENS
- 150 Down: Caucho (3)
- ULE
- 151 Down: Streamlet (3)
- RUN
- 153 Down: Soldier at Seoul (3)
- ROK
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