INTERIOR DECORATION - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 5/10/1981. By Jeanette K. Brill.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Triad, e.g. (5)
- CHORD
- 6 Across: De Mille films (5)
- EPICS
- 11 Across: Highest point in Crete (5)
- MTIDA
- 16 Across: Eighth note (6)
- QUAVER
- 17 Across: Tendon (5)
- SINEW
- 18 Across: Showy (6)
- ORNATE
- 20 Across: Nationality of U Nu (7)
- BURMESE
- 21 Across: Outsiders in the political arena (13)
- CARPETBAGGERS
- 24 Across: Metric unit (5)
- LITER
- 25 Across: River in E France (5)
- SAONE
- 27 Across: Evergreen shrub (5)
- ERICA
- 28 Across: Brock or Costello (3)
- LOU
- 29 Across: Edible tubers (4)
- OCAS
- 30 Across: Houston athlete (5)
- ASTRO
- 31 Across: Leaning (5)
- ATILT
- 32 Across: Coadjutor (4)
- AIDE
- 33 Across: T'ai ___, Oriental martial art (3)
- CHI
- 34 Across: Weather forecast (5)
- SLEET
- 35 Across: Example of workmanship (5)
- PIECE
- 36 Across: Pochards (5)
- SMEES
- 37 Across: Thesmothetes (8)
- SENATORS
- 39 Across: Describe grammatically (5)
- PARSE
- 40 Across: Kind of beet (5)
- CHARD
- 41 Across: Reddish-brown colors (5)
- ROANS
- 42 Across: Forearm (5)
- CUBIT
- 43 Across: Legendary first king of Britain (4)
- BRUT
- 44 Across: Card game for two (6)
- ECARTE
- 46 Across: "Ici on ___ français" (5)
- PARLE
- 47 Across: Ciceronian classics (8)
- ORATIONS
- 51 Across: Choice (5)
- ELITE
- 52 Across: Reversal of sorts (11)
- MIRRORIMAGE
- 54 Across: "Both Sides ___," folk-song hit of 1968 (3)
- NOW
- 55 Across: Jurgen's wife (4)
- LISA
- 56 Across: "Dove ___," Mozart aria (4)
- SONO
- 57 Across: Broadcasts (4)
- SOWS
- 58 Across: Second-brightest star (4)
- BETA
- 59 Across: Scottish uncle (3)
- EME
- 60 Across: Informer (11)
- STOOLPIGEON
- 64 Across: Man of sound mind (5)
- TUNER
- 65 Across: Abandoned (8)
- DERELICT
- 67 Across: Squash variety (5)
- ACORN
- 68 Across: Consecrated oil (6)
- CHRISM
- 69 Across: One of the Yalies (4)
- SOPH
- 70 Across: Flèche (5)
- SPIRE
- 71 Across: Chinese unit of weight (5)
- LIANG
- 72 Across: Sew or cook (5)
- BASTE
- 74 Across: Carved stone pillar (5)
- STELE
- 75 Across: Plundered (8)
- RAVISHED
- 78 Across: Hereditary factors (5)
- GENES
- 79 Across: Ward off (5)
- PARRY
- 80 Across: Fissures (5)
- RIMES
- 81 Across: Ralph Rackstraw, e.g. (3)
- TAR
- 82 Across: Tote-board figures (4)
- ODDS
- 83 Across: Jaffe and Barrett (5)
- RONAS
- 84 Across: Bounded (5)
- LEAPT
- 85 Across: Poet Boiardo's patron (4)
- ESTE
- 86 Across: Stout (3)
- ALE
- 87 Across: Gold coins of ancient Rome (5)
- AUREI
- 88 Across: Trattoria offering (5)
- POLLO
- 89 Across: Networks of nerves (5)
- RETIA
- 90 Across: Location of Marycrest College (13)
- DAVENPORTIOWA
- 93 Across: Mathematical quantity (7)
- OPERAND
- 95 Across: Environment (6)
- MILIEU
- 96 Across: Heron (5)
- EGRET
- 97 Across: Novelist's or publisher's task (6)
- NAMING
- 98 Across: Shades of green (5)
- LIMES
- 99 Across: ___ Dame (5)
- NOTRE
- 100 Across: Worked for the K.G.B. (5)
- SPIED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Preliminary skit (13)
- CURTAINRAISER
- 2 Down: Harness parts (5)
- HAMES
- 3 Down: Wireless word (4)
- OVER
- 4 Down: In medias ___ (3)
- RES
- 5 Down: They tend to the stars (8)
- DRESSERS
- 6 Down: Rara avis at a singles bar (6)
- ESCORT
- 7 Down: Softly, in music (5)
- PIANO
- 8 Down: Regarding (4)
- INRE
- 9 Down: Vine-stock, in Champagne (3)
- CEP
- 10 Down: Most saccharine (8)
- SWEETEST
- 11 Down: Alabama port city (6)
- MOBILE
- 12 Down: Mather product (5)
- TRACT
- 13 Down: Actress Swenson (4)
- INGA
- 14 Down: ___ Hammarskjöld (3)
- DAG
- 15 Down: Studio (7)
- ATELIER
- 16 Down: ___ Lorraine (6)
- QUICHE
- 19 Down: Worn away (6)
- ERODED
- 20 Down: Voting groups (5)
- BLOCS
- 22 Down: Instant (5)
- TRICE
- 23 Down: Becomes a litigator (4)
- SUES
- 26 Down: Memorable stuttering comic (4)
- ATES
- 30 Down: Byrd book (5)
- ALONE
- 31 Down: More sprightly (6)
- AIRIER
- 32 Down: Valuable violin (5)
- AMATI
- 34 Down: Condition (5)
- STATE
- 35 Down: Picasso (5)
- PABLO
- 36 Down: "In the Wet" author (5)
- SHUTE
- 38 Down: Anatomical artery (5)
- AORTA
- 39 Down: Contented sound (4)
- PURR
- 40 Down: Rugged rocks (5)
- CRAGS
- 42 Down: Reed of film fame (5)
- CAROL
- 43 Down: Muscular strength (5)
- BRAWN
- 44 Down: Sniggled (5)
- EELED
- 45 Down: Region, to poets (5)
- CLIME
- 46 Down: Wine grape (5)
- PINOT
- 47 Down: "With how sad steps, ___ . . . ": Sidney (5)
- OMOON
- 48 Down: Musician's gig (13)
- ONENIGHTSTAND
- 49 Down: Prof's props (5)
- NOTES
- 50 Down: Large group led by a queen (5)
- SWARM
- 52 Down: Sponge (5)
- MOOCH
- 53 Down: French Alps area (5)
- ISERE
- 56 Down: Mushroom stalk (5)
- STIPE
- 58 Down: Poet who wrote "The Holy Fair" (5)
- BURNS
- 60 Down: Animal tracks (5)
- SLOTS
- 61 Down: Credentials (6)
- PAPERS
- 62 Down: With coldness (5)
- ICILY
- 63 Down: Skirt panel (4)
- GORE
- 64 Down: Massenet opera (5)
- THAIS
- 66 Down: Snaky shapes (5)
- ESSES
- 68 Down: Relative of a delundung (5)
- CIVET
- 70 Down: Hamper (8)
- STRAITEN
- 71 Down: Satirizes (8)
- LAMPOONS
- 72 Down: Scene of confusion (6)
- BEDLAM
- 73 Down: "Good ___ . . . grow up together": Milton (7)
- ANDEVIL
- 74 Down: More logical (5)
- SANER
- 75 Down: Coin in Kerman (4)
- RIAL
- 76 Down: Gourmand's preoccupation (6)
- EATING
- 77 Down: Great fear (5)
- DREAD
- 78 Down: Prod (4)
- GOAD
- 79 Down: Permeable by liquids (6)
- POROUS
- 80 Down: Interact realistically (6)
- RELATE
- 83 Down: Money in Karachi (5)
- RUPEE
- 84 Down: Frown (5)
- LOWER
- 85 Down: Weird (5)
- EERIE
- 87 Down: Lively: Mus. dir. (4)
- ANIM
- 88 Down: Larboard (4)
- PORT
- 89 Down: Ancient people of Gaul (4)
- REMI
- 91 Down: Father of Phineas (3)
- ELI
- 92 Down: "___ Ape," Sedaka hit (3)
- IGO
- 94 Down: Hack writer's output (3)
- PAP
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