QUESTIONABLE ART - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 6/21/1981. By Bert H. Kruse.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Child saint (5)
AGNES
6 Across: Wampum item (4)
BEAD
10 Across: Professors' world (7)
ACADEME
17 Across: Please (6)
ARRIDE
18 Across: Sore (5)
IRATE
19 Across: Grassy stalks (8)
PEDICELS
21 Across: Painter of "Hebrew With Tablet"? (12)
GRANDMAMOSES
23 Across: Painter of "Potter's Wheel"? (8)
PAULKLEE
24 Across: Hebrew liquid measure (3)
HIN
25 Across: Computer data (6)
INPUTS
26 Across: Painter's need (5)
EASEL
27 Across: Beachhead boat (3)
LCI
28 Across: Skipper's "Stop!" (5)
AVAST
31 Across: Painter of "Fog Over Scotland Yard"? (9)
CONSTABLE
33 Across: German composer: 1840–76 (4)
GOTZ
34 Across: Jewish festival: Var. (5)
SEDAR
35 Across: Legal right (3)
IUS
36 Across: Electrical unit (3)
REL
37 Across: Actress North (6)
SHEREE
39 Across: Tokyo banjo (7)
SAMISEN
41 Across: Choice pork cuts (5)
LOINS
43 Across: Caught, as a dogie (6)
NOOSED
44 Across: ___-doing (5)
UPAND
45 Across: Wordsworth work (3)
ODE
46 Across: Early Irish tenant (4)
SAER
47 Across: Lerner-Loewe hit (7)
CAMELOT
50 Across: Painter of "Fish Market Purchase"? (7)
POLLOCK
53 Across: Obtains (4)
GETS
57 Across: Papal garments (6)
ORALES
58 Across: Harris's Fox or Rabbit (4)
BRER
60 Across: Drug plant (4)
ALOE
61 Across: Level (4)
EVEN
62 Across: Sails nearer the wind (5)
LUFFS
63 Across: Interrogate (4)
QUIZ
64 Across: Give off (4)
EMIT
65 Across: White poplar (5)
ABELE
66 Across: Star in Draco (4)
ADIB
67 Across: Change (4)
TURN
68 Across: Used a hatchet (4)
AXED
69 Across: Gladiatorial loci (6)
ARENAE
70 Across: Stitch (4)
SEAM
71 Across: York portraitist? (7)
SARGENT
73 Across: Have a sauna (7)
SWELTER
74 Across: Informal approval (4)
OKAY
76 Across: Seat, with 77 Across (3)
BAR
77 Across: See 76 Across (5)
STOOL
78 Across: Less fleshy (6)
SPARER
81 Across: Pelota requirement (5)
CESTA
83 Across: Meat slices (7)
COLLOPS
86 Across: Elevates (6)
HOISTS
87 Across: Western athlete (3)
UTE
88 Across: Start of a Butterfly's name (3)
CHO
89 Across: Came to (5)
AWOKE
91 Across: Steak order (4)
RARE
92 Across: He actually painted "Arbor Day" (9)
GRANTWOOD
95 Across: Hudson contemporary (5)
ESSEX
96 Across: Outside: Comb. form (3)
ECT
97 Across: Musical key (5)
EFLAT
99 Across: Transfers a house plant (6)
REPOTS
101 Across: Prefix for light or night (3)
TWI
102 Across: Painter of "Drugstore Cowboy"? (8)
WHISTLER
104 Across: Painter of "Ruth at the Plate"? (12)
WINSLOWHOMER
107 Across: Musical sound (8)
DEMITONE
108 Across: Great range (5)
ANDES
109 Across: End of a Kansan's motto (6)
ASPERA
110 Across: Contends against (7)
REPUGNS
111 Across: Parker of films (4)
FESS
112 Across: A time of your life (5)
TEENS

Down Answers

1 Down: Is successful (7)
ARRIVES
2 Down: The Alhambra's city (7)
GRANADA
3 Down: Author Anaïs (3)
NIN
4 Down: Cousin of a Ph.D. (3)
EDD
5 Down: Big truck, for short (4)
SEMI
6 Down: Journalist Heywood's family (6)
BROUNS
7 Down: Bridge positions (5)
EASTS
8 Down: Bomb trial (5)
ATEST
9 Down: ___ Plaines (3)
DES
10 Down: Dismays (7)
APPALLS
11 Down: Leave off (5)
CEASE
12 Down: Together, in music (4)
ADUE
13 Down: Pickle (4)
DILL
14 Down: Luther's foe (3)
ECK
15 Down: Lady Chatterley's lover (7)
MELLORS
16 Down: November winner (7)
ELECTEE
17 Down: Moslem commanders (5)
AGHAS
18 Down: Confine a canine (7)
IMPOUND
20 Down: Took forcibly (6)
SEIZED
22 Down: Time-honored (7)
ANCIENT
26 Down: Hired-man Holden (4)
EBEN
29 Down: Painter of "Telegraph Poles"? (13)
SAMUELFBMORSE
30 Down: Big hits (7)
TRIPLES
32 Down: Dramatic spirit (5)
ARIEL
33 Down: Painter of "The Village Forge"? (13)
GEORGEBELLOWS
37 Down: Plumber's tool (5)
SNAKE
38 Down: Kind of down (3)
HOE
40 Down: Francisco and Paulo (4)
SAOS
41 Down: Trini or Vincent (5)
LOPEZ
42 Down: What carbon monoxide lacks (4)
ODOR
46 Down: Glaswegian (4)
SCOT
47 Down: Drinks (5)
COLAS
48 Down: "To the mercy/Of ___ stream . . . ": Henry VIII (5)
ARUDE
49 Down: Puzo subject (5)
MAFIA
51 Down: Kind of brain (4)
LAME
52 Down: Rank (4)
OLID
54 Down: Meet unit (5)
EVENT
55 Down: Bodily tissues (5)
TELAE
56 Down: Cynical look (5)
SNEER
58 Down: "Ironside" actor (4)
BURR
59 Down: Call (4)
RING
63 Down: Landing spot (4)
QUAY
64 Down: Newsboy's shout (5)
EXTRA
65 Down: Spaces between veins of leaves (7)
AREOLAE
67 Down: Tyrants (5)
TSARS
68 Down: Med. subject (4)
ANAT
69 Down: Guardhouse candidate (4)
AWOL
72 Down: TV's Jones (5)
EBSEN
73 Down: ___ reason (was logical) (7)
STOODTO
75 Down: U.S.S.R. river (3)
KET
77 Down: Ashcan, etc. (7)
SCHOOLS
78 Down: Cunning (6)
SHREWD
79 Down: Thief of a sort (7)
POACHER
80 Down: Book about CBS, by Gates: 1978 (7)
AIRTIME
81 Down: Poison-producing plants (7)
CURARES
82 Down: State, to Mitterrand (4)
ETAT
84 Down: Workers for William F. Bolger (7)
POSTMEN
85 Down: Barbecue tools (7)
SKEWERS
88 Down: Thickets (6)
COPSES
90 Down: Iowa town (5)
EXIRA
92 Down: Ohio Senator (5)
GLENN
93 Down: Threesome (5)
TRINE
94 Down: Old Slavic group (5)
WENDS
97 Down: Plaintive last words (4)
ETTU
98 Down: Beat (4)
FLOG
100 Down: Get a fly (4)
SWAT
103 Down: Brandy measurement (3)
SIP
104 Down: Air Force member (3)
WAF
105 Down: Div. of Congress (3)
HSE
106 Down: Unclose, to Keats (3)
OPE

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