TYPECASTING - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 11/23/1980. By John M. Samson.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Sins (4)
ERRS
5 Across: What jabberers do (5)
PRATE
10 Across: Pod (3)
GAM
13 Across: Mix (6)
MINGLE
19 Across: Debauchee (4)
ROUE
20 Across: Irritated (5)
RILED
21 Across: Instead of: Abbr. (3)
ILO
22 Across: Reveres (6)
ADORES
23 Across: Musical starring Billy Graham? (14)
AINTMISBEHAVIN
26 Across: Abhor (6)
DETEST
27 Across: Big books (5)
TOMES
28 Across: Libel (6)
DEFAME
30 Across: Container (4)
CASE
31 Across: Crazy ___ (7)
ASALOON
34 Across: Movie starring Tatum O'Neal? (13)
RYANSDAUGHTER
37 Across: Diversions (5)
GAMES
38 Across: Star at a French film festival? (4)
CAAN
39 Across: Belgian resort town (3)
SPA
40 Across: Entity (3)
ENS
41 Across: Movie starring a Venus? (15)
AFAREWELLTOARMS
47 Across: Kind of office (3)
BOX
49 Across: Minerva's mind (4)
MENS
50 Across: Zola (5)
EMILE
51 Across: Defeated Spassky (5)
MATED
53 Across: Church part (4)
APSE
56 Across: Sound from Sandy (3)
ARF
57 Across: Affected (5)
CAMPY
58 Across: Musical starring Ann Sothern? (11)
DAMNYANKEES
60 Across: Rossini works (6)
OPERAS
62 Across: Mex. misses (5)
SRTAS
63 Across: Fire god (6)
VULCAN
64 Across: Hourly (5)
HORAL
66 Across: Item for transplanting (5)
SHOOT
67 Across: Davis or Midler (5)
BETTE
68 Across: Divine revelation (6)
ORACLE
70 Across: Kind of photo (5)
STILL
71 Across: Cantaloupe's cousin (6)
PAPAYA
74 Across: Movie starring Wilt Chamberlain? (11)
WALKINGTALL
76 Across: Prides of lions (5)
MANES
77 Across: Chinese pagoda (3)
TAA
80 Across: She, in Savoie (4)
ELLE
81 Across: Cape Cod resort (5)
TRURO
82 Across: Seed coating (5)
TESTA
83 Across: Hair treatment (4)
TINT
84 Across: B'way sign (3)
SRO
86 Across: Film starring Dinah Shore? (15)
ONTHEWATERFRONT
89 Across: New Guinea port (3)
LAE
91 Across: Excavators' org. (3)
UMW
93 Across: Bank (on) (4)
RELY
94 Across: First prime minister of the U.S.S.R. (5)
LENIN
95 Across: Play starring Margaret Mead? (13)
ATASTEOFHONEY
100 Across: Favorable factors (7)
PLUSSES
102 Across: "___ darn shame!" (4)
ITSA
103 Across: Needlefish (6)
SNOOKS
104 Across: Swoon (5)
FAINT
105 Across: Electron tubes (6)
DIODES
107 Across: Movie starring Evel Knievel? (14)
WHATPRICEGLORY
113 Across: Flowery (6)
ORNATE
114 Across: Actress from Montana (3)
LOY
115 Across: Joshua's friend (5)
CALEB
116 Across: Lamb (4)
ELIA
117 Across: Settled down (6)
NESTED
118 Across: Obj. of protest (3)
SSS
119 Across: Yonder (5)
THERE
120 Across: Baseball part (4)
SEAM

Down Answers

1 Down: Stage in history (3)
ERA
2 Down: "Vive le ___!" (3)
ROI
3 Down: Retreat (3)
RUN
4 Down: Roanoke Island group (8)
SETTLERS
5 Down: In the first place (5)
PRIMO
6 Down: Gone skyward (5)
RISEN
7 Down: Reverends' robes (4)
ALBS
8 Down: Palmer's peg (3)
TEE
9 Down: O. E. letter (3)
EDH
10 Down: Fixed (5)
GIVEN
11 Down: Arabic A's (5)
ALIFS
12 Down: Zoospore (5)
MONAD
13 Down: Fictitious (6)
MADEUP
14 Down: Orfe (3)
IDE
15 Down: Indent (5)
NOTCH
16 Down: Movie starring Bob Hope? (17)
GREATEXPECTATIONS
17 Down: Belittle (6)
LESSEN
18 Down: Glycerides (6)
ESTERS
24 Down: Bull ___ (5)
MOOSE
25 Down: Major Joppolo's post (5)
ADANO
29 Down: Star who draws a crowd? (6)
MASSEY
31 Down: Small lizard (5)
AGAMA
32 Down: Less dangerous "60 Minutes" star? (5)
SAFER
33 Down: Vehicle starring Zsa Zsa Gabor? (17)
AMANFORALLSEASONS
34 Down: Assemble (5)
RALLY
35 Down: Eucalyptus (4)
YATE
36 Down: Chatter (3)
GAB
38 Down: Curtails (5)
CLIPS
42 Down: Withstand (4)
WEAR
43 Down: Soprano Eames (4)
EMMA
44 Down: TNT explosive (6)
AMATOL
45 Down: ___ Gan, city in Israel (5)
RAMAT
46 Down: High spots: Abbr. (4)
MTNS
48 Down: Famed sharpshooter (6)
OAKLEY
52 Down: Org. for certain ex-G.I.'s (3)
DAV
54 Down: Capital (4)
SEAT
55 Down: Serf (4)
ESNE
57 Down: Certain strings (5)
CELLI
58 Down: Waggish (5)
DROLL
59 Down: Sudanese tribe (5)
NUBAS
61 Down: An N.F.L. player (6)
PACKER
62 Down: Battle site: 1862 (6)
SHILOH
64 Down: Elias or Sir William (4)
HOWE
65 Down: Spoken (4)
ORAL
66 Down: Square one (5)
START
69 Down: Tolkien creature (3)
ENT
70 Down: Flabbergast (4)
STUN
71 Down: Pallid (5)
PASTY
72 Down: Stake (4)
ANTE
73 Down: Anjou or Tyson (4)
PEAR
75 Down: Gain in one's affection (6)
GROWON
76 Down: Farinaceous (5)
MEALY
78 Down: Play starring 48 Down? (5)
ANNIE
79 Down: Mil. commands (5)
ATTNS
82 Down: Shrill note (4)
TWEE
83 Down: Bridge supports (8)
TRESTLES
85 Down: Ump's call (3)
OUT
87 Down: Max ___, German painter (5)
ERNST
88 Down: Hurled (5)
FLUNG
89 Down: What Macduff did (6)
LAIDON
90 Down: Array (6)
ATTIRE
92 Down: Disarranged (6)
MESSED
96 Down: He wrote "In Search of Identity" (5)
SADAT
97 Down: Gallinaceans (5)
FOWLS
98 Down: Santa's sunny sounds (5)
HOHOS
99 Down: Gives the nod to (5)
OKAYS
100 Down: Standardbred (5)
PACER
101 Down: Love, to Luther (5)
LIEBE
104 Down: Quannet, e.g. (4)
FILE
106 Down: Après printemps (3)
ETE
108 Down: %: Abbr. (3)
PCT
109 Down: Booster's call (3)
RAH
110 Down: Kin of 109 Down (3)
OLE
111 Down: Creek (3)
RIA
112 Down: Camote (3)
YAM

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