RHYME AND REASON - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 168 clues). Published 4/19/1981. By Michael Priestley.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Hegel's forte (5): LOGIC
6 Across: Tuileries, e.g. (4): PARC
10 Across: Railroad switch (5): SHUNT
15 Across: Henry was one (6): ORATOR
21 Across: Operating (5): INUSE
22 Across: Mad scientist's aide (4): IGOR
23 Across: Odin, Thor et al. (5): AESIR
24 Across: Inundate (6): DELUGE
25 Across: Airplane glue? (16): FUSELAGEMUCILAGE
28 Across: Idolized (6): ADORED
29 Across: Character in "No Exit" (7): ESTELLE
30 Across: Squama (5): SCALE
31 Across: Possesses (3): HAS
33 Across: These make stakes (5): ANTES
34 Across: Relative of a maguey (4): ALOE
36 Across: Ferrum (4): IRON
37 Across: ___ gentle (trained falcon) (6): TERCEL
39 Across: Aromatic peripatetic? (15): FRAGRANTVAGRANT
46 Across: Confining grind (3): RUT
47 Across: Oosphere (3): EGG
50 Across: Draws water (5): LADES
51 Across: Hawaiian port (4): HILO
52 Across: Nimbi (5): AURAS
54 Across: Loire feeder (4): CHER
55 Across: Discordant (4): AJAR
56 Across: Enero, e.g. (3): MES
57 Across: Snoozes (7): CATNAPS
59 Across: Albacore (4): TUNA
60 Across: Zola opus (4): NANA
61 Across: Plane curves (9): PARABOLAS
64 Across: Rained, e.g. (8): SHOWERED
66 Across: Curtails (8): SHORTENS
68 Across: Taurine complaint (4): ROAR
69 Across: Mil. school (3): OCS
70 Across: ___ nous (5): ENTRE
71 Across: Tennyson poem (4): DORA
72 Across: Shrill or tubular (4): PIPY
73 Across: God for Radamès (4): PTAH
74 Across: Heliacal (5): SOLAR
75 Across: Tatami (3): MAT
78 Across: Wear in a nursery rhyme (7): MITTENS
80 Across: Submerged coral reefs (7): BOILERS
82 Across: Bx rumblers (3): ELS
83 Across: On the qui vive (5): ALERT
85 Across: Start of a counting rhyme (4): EENY
86 Across: Temple enclosures (4): ARKS
87 Across: Former president of Chile (4): RIOS
89 Across: Veranda, in Waikiki (5): LANAI
90 Across: Direction suffix (3): ERN
91 Across: Wind-shielded (4): ALEE
92 Across: Greek patron of drama (8): DIONYSUS
96 Across: Extra ingredient (8): ADDITIVE
98 Across: Winter sight (9): SNOWDRIFT
100 Across: Radio's "Vic and ___" (4): SADE
101 Across: May 15, e.g. (4): IDES
102 Across: Onomatopoeic drumbeat (7): RATATAT
104 Across: Sound from Sandy (3): ARF
105 Across: "More Pricks ___ Kicks," Beckett book (4): THAN
106 Across: Beget (4): SIRE
107 Across: Anoint, old style (5): ANELE
108 Across: Peer Gynt's mother (4): AASE
110 Across: Simon and Diamond (5): NEILS
111 Across: College subj. (3): ENG
112 Across: Keelbill (3): ANI
113 Across: Cause of prickly heat? (15): BRAMBLESCRAMBLE
118 Across: Actors' group (6): EQUITY
121 Across: Reconcile (4): HEAL
122 Across: Shipshape (4): TAUT
123 Across: Cartes before the courses (5): MENUS
125 Across: Boisterous laugh (3): YUK
127 Across: Encircled (5): ORBED
129 Across: Inning in polo (7): CHUKKER
134 Across: Revise (6): UPDATE
136 Across: Union vehicle? (16): MARRIAGECARRIAGE
139 Across: Zetetic person (6): SEEKER
140 Across: "Halt, salt!" (5): AVAST
141 Across: Nymph pursued by Pan (4): ECHO
142 Across: Region of Indochina (5): ANNAM
143 Across: Part of H.S.H. (6): SERENE
144 Across: Wall vaults (5): SAFES
145 Across: Tribune (4): DAIS
146 Across: Yorkshire city (5): LEEDS

Down Answers

1 Down: Long sentence (4): LIFE
2 Down: Burden of proof (4): ONUS
3 Down: Squall (4): GUST
4 Down: Caesar's "video" (4): ISEE
5 Down: Oenologists' storerooms (7): CELLARS
6 Down: Columbary denizen (6): PIGEON
7 Down: Iron or Stone (3): AGE
8 Down: Gypsies (4): ROMS
9 Down: Acute (7): CRUCIAL
10 Down: O'Neill was one (6): SAILOR
11 Down: Shakespearean heroine (6): HELENA
12 Down: "The Nifty Fifty" (3): USA
13 Down: In propinquity (4): NIGH
14 Down: Wine and dine (5): TREAT
15 Down: Concubine's chamber (3): ODA
16 Down: What diaskeuasts do (6): REDACT
17 Down: Unaccompanied (5): ALONE
18 Down: Chelonian charge? (12): TURTLEHURTLE
19 Down: S-shaped arch (4): OGEE
20 Down: Ohio nine (4): REDS
26 Down: Actress Nazimova (4): ALLA
27 Down: Something to stow below (5): CARGO
32 Down: Guardian of angels? (13): SERAPHSHERIFF
35 Down: Inflammable liquids (6): ETHERS
38 Down: ___-Japanese War (5): RUSSO
39 Down: Custard tarts (5): FLANS
40 Down: Malay ruler (5): RAJAH
41 Down: Hersey town (5): ADANO
42 Down: Poet Hopkins (6): GERARD
43 Down: Border order (4): VISA
44 Down: Turner and Cole (4): NATS
45 Down: Cask for amontillado (3): TUN
48 Down: Mark Clark was one (7): GENERAL
49 Down: They rate (7): GRADERS
53 Down: Scaramouch (6): RASCAL
54 Down: Comb: Comb. form (5): CTENO
56 Down: Sea cow's conceit? (13): MANATEEVANITY
57 Down: Kaolin, e.g. (4): CLAY
58 Down: Rhine tributary (3): AAR
61 Down: Elfin creature (4): PERI
62 Down: Saline (5): BRINY
63 Down: Butterfingers' cry (4): OOPS
65 Down: Smith's comrade in arms (6): WESSON
67 Down: Small English bird (6): TOMTIT
69 Down: Singer Redding (4): OTIS
72 Down: Keystone State eponym (4): PENN
73 Down: Elbowed (5): POKED
75 Down: Discomfort (7): MALAISE
76 Down: Lamp rubber (7): ALADDIN
77 Down: Females? (12): TENDERGENDER
79 Down: Cylindrical (6): TERETE
80 Down: Cauldron contents (4): BREW
81 Down: Disturbance (4): RIOT
84 Down: Bump the bet (5): RAISE
86 Down: Scads (4): ALOT
88 Down: Formulated theory (6): SYSTEM
91 Down: Compilation of information (3): ANA
92 Down: Most ominous (6): DIREST
93 Down: Hindu title (5): SAHIB
94 Down: Stu or Mo (5): UDALL
95 Down: Import or purport (5): SENSE
97 Down: Man of Isfahan (5): IRANI
98 Down: Suffix with fun or pun (4): STER
99 Down: Flatten a flat (4): RASE
103 Down: Relative of a dalmatic (3): ALB
108 Down: Addis ___ (5): ABABA
109 Down: So-called (7): ALLEGED
110 Down: Uncultivated (7): NATURAL
112 Down: "Persuasion" author (6): AUSTEN
114 Down: "My kingdom for ___!" (6): AHORSE
115 Down: Is entitled to (6): MERITS
116 Down: Chocolate trees (6): CACAOS
117 Down: Coal region (4): RUHR
119 Down: Tremble (5): QUAKE
120 Down: Arizona Indians (5): YUMAS
123 Down: Rumple (4): MUSS
124 Down: Sword of a sort (4): EPEE
126 Down: Australasian pepper (4): KAVA
128 Down: Ten: Comb. form (4): DECA
130 Down: Cattle, in poesy (4): KINE
131 Down: Welles role (4): KANE
132 Down: "Horrors!" (4): EGAD
133 Down: Quantities in radiology (4): REMS
135 Down: Poetic palindrome (3): ERE
137 Down: London's defenders (3): RAF
138 Down: Greek X (3): CHI

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