STEPQUOTE - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 6/7/1981. By E.T.M..
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Start of Stepquote (5)
- THEFA
- 6 Across: Pinch (5)
- SWIPE
- 11 Across: Angular-measurement units (7)
- RADIANS
- 18 Across: Props (6)
- SHORES
- 19 Across: Unbent (6)
- THAWED
- 20 Across: Resilient (7)
- ELASTIC
- 21 Across: Any La. county (6)
- PARISH
- 22 Across: Balzac (6)
- HONORE
- 23 Across: Stepquote source, for short (7)
- MUCHADO
- 24 Across: A neighbor of Ga. (3)
- ALA
- 25 Across: Tendon (5)
- SINEW
- 27 Across: Antithesis of outgo (6)
- INCOME
- 29 Across: Bright saying (3)
- MOT
- 30 Across: Liturgy (4)
- RITE
- 32 Across: Stepquote: Part III (6)
- ONWEAR
- 35 Across: Scene of the Tell legend (3)
- URI
- 36 Across: Rialto (4)
- MART
- 37 Across: Vitiate (5)
- TAINT
- 39 Across: Merchandise (5)
- WARES
- 40 Across: Associates of the Lincolns (8)
- STANTONS
- 42 Across: Of a battery terminal (6)
- ANODAL
- 44 Across: Send on a detour (7)
- REROUTE
- 46 Across: Former initials at Cairo (3)
- UAR
- 47 Across: Malefic (4)
- EVIL
- 49 Across: Immerse (5)
- DOUSE
- 50 Across: Set of a sort (7)
- FMRADIO
- 54 Across: Love poem or song (8)
- MADRIGAL
- 58 Across: "I cannot ___ lie" (5)
- TELLA
- 60 Across: Facing a glacier (5)
- STOSS
- 61 Across: "Bullets," in poker (4)
- ACES
- 62 Across: Ally of Abraham (4)
- ANER
- 64 Across: Casabas (6)
- MELONS
- 66 Across: Army (4)
- HOST
- 67 Across: Small flounder (3)
- DAB
- 68 Across: Garnish for pasta (11)
- TOMATOSAUCE
- 70 Across: Major, in music (3)
- DUR
- 71 Across: Furniture style (4)
- ADAM
- 73 Across: Slippery one (6)
- ELUDER
- 74 Across: Budge (4)
- STIR
- 75 Across: Durrell heroine (4)
- CLEA
- 76 Across: Bogged down (5)
- MIRED
- 78 Across: Incensed (5)
- IRATE
- 79 Across: Most rigid (8)
- SEVEREST
- 81 Across: Not Occidental (7)
- EASTERN
- 83 Across: Winner at Gettysburg (5)
- MEADE
- 86 Across: Strike out (4)
- DELE
- 87 Across: Noted cartoonist (3)
- REA
- 88 Across: Comply with an R.S.V.P. (7)
- RESPOND
- 90 Across: More expensive (6)
- DEARER
- 94 Across: Makes a gleeful, snorting sound (8)
- CHORTLES
- 97 Across: Feet, to Fabius (5)
- PEDES
- 99 Across: ___ acids (5)
- AMINO
- 100 Across: Red 1 and Blue 5 (4)
- DYES
- 101 Across: Sunglo, e.g. (3)
- TEA
- 102 Across: Stepquote: Part V (6)
- ARELTH
- 104 Across: "Star Wars" hero (4)
- SOLO
- 105 Across: A feast ___ famine (3)
- ORA
- 106 Across: Execration (6)
- HATRED
- 109 Across: "___ of snow-white horses" (5)
- ATEAM
- 111 Across: Flange (3)
- RIM
- 112 Across: Poe's adjective for Lenore (7)
- RADIANT
- 114 Across: League of Nations seat (6)
- GENEVA
- 117 Across: Autochthonous (6)
- NATIVE
- 119 Across: Tidy (7)
- INORDER
- 120 Across: Los ___, N.M. (6)
- ALAMOS
- 121 Across: Not so fresh (6)
- TRITER
- 122 Across: Speaker of the quotation (7)
- CONRADE
- 123 Across: Librarian's device (5)
- DATER
- 124 Across: End of Stepquote (5)
- HEMAN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Comic (7)
- THALIAN
- 2 Down: Hamlet's friend (7)
- HORATIO
- 3 Down: "___ tu," Verdi aria (3)
- ERI
- 4 Down: ___ up (spill the beans) (4)
- FESS
- 5 Down: Stepquote: Part II (5)
- ASHIO
- 6 Down: Gave abundantly (8)
- SHOWERED
- 7 Down: Peaked (3)
- WAN
- 8 Down: ___ Jima (3)
- IWO
- 9 Down: Beautiful woman (4)
- PERI
- 10 Down: First place (4)
- EDEN
- 11 Down: Shark's hanger-on (6)
- REMORA
- 12 Down: About 8 percent of earth's crust (8)
- ALUMINUM
- 13 Down: Freshwater fish (4)
- DACE
- 14 Down: Kabibble (3)
- ISH
- 15 Down: Cossack chief (6)
- ATAMAN
- 16 Down: Strong smells (6)
- NIDORS
- 17 Down: "Kenilworth" author (5)
- SCOTT
- 18 Down: Capital of Laconia (6)
- SPARTA
- 19 Down: ___ of 1812 (6)
- THEWAR
- 26 Down: Dir. from Paris to Calais (3)
- NNW
- 28 Down: Adjective for a koala (4)
- CUTE
- 31 Down: Nobelist in Physiology or Medicine: 1954 (6)
- ENDERS
- 33 Down: Prefix with plane (4)
- AERO
- 34 Down: Stepquote: Part IV (13)
- RSOUTMOREAPPA
- 36 Down: Photographer married to Arthur Miller (6)
- MORATH
- 38 Down: Rikki-tikki-___ (4)
- TAVI
- 40 Down: Dallas and Kowalski (7)
- STELLAS
- 41 Down: Rackstraw and Deadeye (4)
- TARS
- 43 Down: Bind up the wounds (6)
- LIGATE
- 45 Down: Plaintiffs (5)
- USEES
- 48 Down: Base for cosmetics (7)
- LANOLIN
- 50 Down: Liked (7)
- FANCIED
- 51 Down: Note-pad artwork (6)
- DOODLE
- 52 Down: Campaign concerns (6)
- ISSUES
- 53 Down: "Lady Inger of ___," Ibsen play (6)
- OSTRAT
- 54 Down: Bovary, for one (6)
- MADAME
- 55 Down: University in Nova Scotia (6)
- ACADIA
- 56 Down: Interdicts (6)
- DEBARS
- 57 Down: Sifaka or potto (5)
- LEMUR
- 59 Down: Chawbacons (5)
- LOUTS
- 63 Down: Hero desired by Amneris (7)
- RADAMES
- 65 Down: Was adequate (6)
- SERVED
- 69 Down: Rollers in Robespierre's day (5)
- TETES
- 72 Down: Subways on the Continent (6)
- METROS
- 75 Down: Soft candies (6)
- CREAMS
- 77 Down: Does (4)
- DEER
- 80 Down: Birthplace of Zeno (4)
- ELEA
- 82 Down: Caned (8)
- RATTANED
- 84 Down: Take-charge person (4)
- DOER
- 85 Down: Try (8)
- ENDEAVOR
- 88 Down: Erect (4)
- REAR
- 89 Down: Triangles (6)
- DELTAS
- 91 Down: Popular song of 1926 (7)
- RIORITA
- 92 Down: Animate (7)
- ENLIVEN
- 93 Down: Hostel patron (6)
- ROOMER
- 94 Down: Role Hampden played 1,000 times (6)
- CYRANO
- 95 Down: Unpleasant way to meet (6)
- HEADON
- 96 Down: Nice note (6)
- LETTRE
- 98 Down: Sault ___ Marie (3)
- STE
- 100 Down: Lincoln Memorial column style (5)
- DORIC
- 103 Down: Stepquote: Part VI (5)
- HANTH
- 106 Down: "Mary ___ little . . . " (4)
- HADA
- 107 Down: Hoople's cry (4)
- EGAD
- 108 Down: With 110 Down, a poet (4)
- DELA
- 110 Down: See above (4)
- MARE
- 113 Down: Kind of vb. (3)
- IRR
- 115 Down: Cole or Turner (3)
- NAT
- 116 Down: Friend, in Aberdeen (3)
- EME
- 118 Down: Comedian Conway (3)
- TIM
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