LITERALLY SPEAKING - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 3/29/1981. By Jim Page.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Hit the books (4)
- PORE
- 5 Across: Dalai ___ (4)
- LAMA
- 9 Across: Taiwan Strait seaport (4)
- AMOY
- 13 Across: Greek letters (4)
- PSIS
- 17 Across: Blockheads, in Brest (4)
- ANES
- 18 Across: ___-on-Hudson, N.Y. (6)
- CROTON
- 20 Across: Jay or Kay (4)
- NAME
- 21 Across: Pinsetter's place (4)
- LANE
- 22 Across: L (11)
- LENSOPENING
- 24 Across: Cassini (4)
- OLEG
- 25 Across: Came down (4)
- ALIT
- 26 Across: Kind of spring (7)
- MINERAL
- 27 Across: R (12)
- RUNNINGSTART
- 30 Across: Contralto Nikolaidi (5)
- ELENA
- 31 Across: Idle (6)
- OTIOSE
- 34 Across: Cozy retreat (4)
- NEST
- 35 Across: Gram weight (3)
- MOL
- 36 Across: Eng. author (3)
- RLS
- 37 Across: Quick-fry (5)
- SAUTE
- 38 Across: "Betty ___" (4)
- COED
- 40 Across: In Dutch it's Rijn (5)
- RHINE
- 42 Across: Decrees (6)
- IRADES
- 44 Across: Bd. members (3)
- TRS
- 45 Across: "Some ___ meat . . . ": Burns (3)
- HAE
- 46 Across: Took 40 winks (6)
- RESTED
- 49 Across: Mmes., in Cádiz (4)
- SRAS
- 51 Across: Type of type (6)
- ITALIC
- 55 Across: Bar, legally (5)
- ESTOP
- 56 Across: V (15)
- CENTEROFGRAVITY
- 61 Across: Anne or Jeanne: Abbr. (3)
- STE
- 62 Across: Regions (5)
- AREAS
- 63 Across: Grassland (3)
- LEA
- 64 Across: All knotted up (4)
- EVEN
- 65 Across: El Cordobés bullring foe (4)
- TORO
- 67 Across: AL (11)
- HEARTOFPALM
- 70 Across: Sonoran Indians (4)
- SERI
- 71 Across: Indigo (4)
- ANIL
- 72 Across: Wine: Comb. form (3)
- ENO
- 73 Across: Island near New Guinea (5)
- ROOKE
- 74 Across: Animal pouch (3)
- SAC
- 75 Across: O (15)
- MIDDLEOFOCTOBER
- 79 Across: Play about Perón (5)
- EVITA
- 81 Across: Made the grade (6)
- PASSED
- 82 Across: Essence (4)
- GIST
- 83 Across: Barrymore or Hampton (6)
- LIONEL
- 84 Across: Kin of rds. and sts. (3)
- AVS
- 85 Across: "___ Clown" (3)
- BEA
- 86 Across: Endurance-race site (6)
- LEMANS
- 89 Across: Vermont ski resort (5)
- STOWE
- 92 Across: ___ War: 1899–1902 (4)
- BOER
- 93 Across: Uncanny (5)
- EERIE
- 94 Across: Forming a corner: Abbr. (3)
- ANG
- 97 Across: Ear: Comb. form (3)
- AUR
- 98 Across: Marsh growth (4)
- REED
- 100 Across: Dairy-company devices (6)
- DATERS
- 102 Across: Galileo taught here (5)
- PADUA
- 104 Across: Y (12)
- GLOSSYFINISH
- 107 Across: Albert Speer book (7)
- SPANDAU
- 109 Across: Author Sheehy (4)
- GAIL
- 110 Across: Carty of baseball (4)
- RICO
- 111 Across: Y (11)
- HAPPYENDING
- 114 Across: Prefix for blast or carp (4)
- ENDO
- 115 Across: Agenda entry (4)
- ITEM
- 116 Across: Sheathe a blade (6)
- ENCASE
- 117 Across: ___ homo (4)
- ECCE
- 118 Across: Benchley's "The ___" (4)
- DEEP
- 119 Across: Existence (4)
- ESSE
- 120 Across: Rim hangings (4)
- NETS
- 121 Across: Ending with pun or fun (4)
- STER
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Golf great (6)
- PALMER
- 2 Down: House Speaker Tip (6)
- ONEILL
- 3 Down: City WSW of Paris (6)
- RENNES
- 4 Down: Ruhr steel center (5)
- ESSEN
- 5 Down: Chaney (3)
- LON
- 6 Down: Panay people (3)
- ATI
- 7 Down: Mailer subject (6)
- MONROE
- 8 Down: Breed of cattle (5)
- ANGUS
- 9 Down: Shortly (4)
- ANON
- 10 Down: Stiff, silk net (7)
- MALINES
- 11 Down: Foretold (6)
- OMENED
- 12 Down: Safecrackers (5)
- YEGGS
- 13 Down: Land developer's map (4)
- PLAT
- 14 Down: Deli order (6)
- SALAMI
- 15 Down: " . . . armies clad ___": Milton (6)
- INIRON
- 16 Down: Sink like a soufflé (6)
- SETTLE
- 18 Down: V.I.P. at tax time (3)
- CPA
- 19 Down: Gunnery officer's command (6)
- RELOAD
- 23 Down: Early English money (3)
- ORA
- 28 Down: Honeybee's intake (6)
- NECTAR
- 29 Down: Layers (6)
- STRATA
- 32 Down: Calendar abbr. (3)
- TUE
- 33 Down: "___ only a paper moon . . . " (3)
- ITS
- 37 Down: Like McCullers's café (3)
- SAD
- 39 Down: About (4)
- ORSO
- 41 Down: Equine ailment (6)
- HEAVES
- 42 Down: Dancer Michio ___ (3)
- ITO
- 43 Down: Ribbed fabric (3)
- REP
- 45 Down: King of Tyre (5)
- HIRAM
- 46 Down: Replace, as postage (7)
- RESTAMP
- 47 Down: Baltic Sea republic (7)
- ESTONIA
- 48 Down: Compounds including vitamin D (7)
- STERIDS
- 49 Down: R.b.i. or e.r.a. (4)
- STAT
- 50 Down: Sarasota and Palm Springs (7)
- RESORTS
- 52 Down: "And she ___ our alley": Carey (7)
- LIVESIN
- 53 Down: Go over verbally (7)
- ITERATE
- 54 Down: Sneering (7)
- CYNICAL
- 56 Down: Recent: Comb. form (5)
- CAENO
- 57 Down: ___ Good Feeling (5)
- ERAOF
- 58 Down: Saul's grandfather (3)
- NER
- 59 Down: Chip (5)
- FLAKE
- 60 Down: To freeze: Fr. (5)
- GELER
- 66 Down: Maxim, redundantly (6)
- OLDSAW
- 67 Down: Pays close attention (5)
- HEEDS
- 68 Down: Trilby or tootsy (4)
- FOOT
- 69 Down: Mail convenience: Abbr. (3)
- POB
- 76 Down: Jimmies (6)
- LEVERS
- 77 Down: Pointed arch (4)
- OGEE
- 78 Down: "Other Skies" poet (6)
- CIARDI
- 79 Down: Chem. suffix (3)
- EIN
- 80 Down: Flemish painter: 16th century (3)
- VOS
- 83 Down: New Guinea locale (3)
- LAE
- 85 Down: Women's vests (7)
- BODICES
- 86 Down: He bestrode Traveller (3)
- LEE
- 87 Down: Go astray (3)
- ERR
- 88 Down: F.D.R.'s secretary et al. (6)
- MISSYS
- 89 Down: Drooped (6)
- SAGGED
- 90 Down: Gridiron's Green Wave (6)
- TULANE
- 91 Down: Cheap-jewelry alloy (6)
- OROIDE
- 92 Down: Is suited to (6)
- BEFITS
- 93 Down: Refrigerant or fuel (6)
- ETHANE
- 94 Down: Habituate (6)
- ADDICT
- 95 Down: Shade of difference (6)
- NUANCE
- 96 Down: British excise-tax collector (6)
- GAUGER
- 99 Down: Eagle's nest (5)
- EYRIE
- 101 Down: Pallid (5)
- ASHEN
- 102 Down: Roast or roaster (3)
- PAN
- 103 Down: Machu Picchu setting (5)
- ANDES
- 105 Down: Sterne's Dr. (4)
- SLOP
- 106 Down: Seward Peninsula city (4)
- NOME
- 108 Down: ___ Dee (Carolina river) (3)
- PEE
- 112 Down: Pt. of the whole (3)
- PCT
- 113 Down: Ballerina's ___ seul (3)
- PAS
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