ASSEMBLY LINE - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 170 clues). Published 10/4/1981. By Joy L. Wouk.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Cordial (4)
- WARM
- 5 Across: Double agent (3)
- SPY
- 8 Across: Bruins' home (4)
- UCLA
- 12 Across: Humane org. (4)
- SPCA
- 16 Across: Belfry occupant (3)
- BAT
- 19 Across: Russian range (4)
- ALAI
- 20 Across: Contains (3)
- HAS
- 21 Across: Scheme (4)
- PLAN
- 22 Across: Landed (5)
- ACRED
- 23 Across: Suffix with indent (3)
- URE
- 24 Across: Wolf's visitor (19)
- LITTLEREDRIDINGHOOD
- 28 Across: Singer Tillis (3)
- MEL
- 29 Across: Before febrero (5)
- ENERO
- 30 Across: Emulate Columbo (5)
- CROON
- 31 Across: Praying woman, in classical art (5)
- ORANS
- 32 Across: Girasol (4)
- OPAL
- 33 Across: Forsake (6)
- DESERT
- 35 Across: Jerry-built (9)
- MAKESHIFT
- 38 Across: Summer quaff (3)
- ADE
- 39 Across: Short necklace (6)
- CHOKER
- 42 Across: Trotsky (4)
- LEON
- 43 Across: Haves (6)
- OWNERS
- 46 Across: Barrette (3)
- PIN
- 49 Across: High-warp tapestry (5)
- ARRAS
- 50 Across: Gladiolus root (4)
- CORM
- 51 Across: Court celebrity (4)
- ASHE
- 52 Across: Secret agcy. (3)
- CIA
- 54 Across: Pierre's girlfriend (4)
- AMIE
- 56 Across: Fall mo. (3)
- OCT
- 57 Across: Propose (7)
- SUGGEST
- 59 Across: Certain tidal waves (6)
- EAGRES
- 61 Across: "Woodman, ___!": Morris (13)
- SPARETHATTREE
- 64 Across: "Black Oxen" author et al. (9)
- ATHERTONS
- 66 Across: Intersecting lines, in geometry (7)
- SECANTS
- 67 Across: Gr. tense (3)
- AOR
- 68 Across: Bailey or Buck (5)
- PEARL
- 69 Across: Young oyster (4)
- SPAT
- 70 Across: Redactor's process (6)
- EDITAL
- 71 Across: Trouser feature (6)
- CREASE
- 74 Across: Quid of tobacco (4)
- CHEW
- 76 Across: Stand for (6)
- DENOTE
- 77 Across: Brainy group (9)
- THINKTANK
- 79 Across: Old fiddles (6)
- REBECS
- 84 Across: Saragossa's river (4)
- EBRO
- 86 Across: Coal-gas ingredient (6)
- ETHENE
- 87 Across: Scopes's attorney (6)
- DARROW
- 88 Across: ___ California (4)
- BAJA
- 92 Across: Tasks, in Taxco (5)
- OBRAS
- 94 Across: Young seal (3)
- PUP
- 95 Across: Abélard's lover (7)
- HELOISE
- 96 Across: Issuance (9)
- EMANATION
- 98 Across: Warning on a 1775 Navy flag (13)
- DONTTREADONME
- 101 Across: Take it all back (6)
- RECANT
- 102 Across: Gamester John and family (7)
- SCARNES
- 104 Across: Kind of painting (3)
- OIL
- 105 Across: Granny or bowline (4)
- KNOT
- 106 Across: Cartoonist's need (3)
- INK
- 107 Across: Nap (4)
- DOZE
- 109 Across: Levy (4)
- DUTY
- 110 Across: Goals of forty-niners (5)
- LODES
- 112 Across: Balaam's mount (3)
- ASS
- 113 Across: Goethe's dreams (6)
- TRAUME
- 115 Across: Noted cosmetician (4)
- MONO
- 116 Across: Withdraw (6)
- RETIRE
- 117 Across: Elec. unit (3)
- AMP
- 118 Across: Barney Google's mount (9)
- SPARKPLUG
- 121 Across: Black bucks (6)
- SASINS
- 126 Across: Pamper (4)
- BABY
- 128 Across: Cache (5)
- STORE
- 129 Across: "___ unattractive old thing . . . ": W. S. Gilbert (5)
- AMOST
- 132 Across: "___ vincit amor" (5)
- OMNIA
- 133 Across: Flow's partner (3)
- EBB
- 134 Across: Henry VIII and Victoria (19)
- DEFENDERSOFTHEFAITH
- 138 Across: Former ring king (3)
- ALI
- 139 Across: Shrewd (5)
- ACUTE
- 140 Across: Change (4)
- VEER
- 141 Across: Work unit (3)
- ERG
- 142 Across: Nobelist in Medicine: 1947 (4)
- CORI
- 143 Across: Shea player (3)
- MET
- 144 Across: Gaucho's cattle-catcher (4)
- BOLA
- 145 Across: Corn units (4)
- EARS
- 146 Across: Stein (3)
- MUG
- 147 Across: Door part (4)
- KNOB
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Ridged (5)
- WALED
- 2 Down: Skirt style (5)
- ALINE
- 3 Down: Appraises (5)
- RATES
- 4 Down: British bishop's headdress (5)
- MITRE
- 5 Down: Haggard novel (3)
- SHE
- 6 Down: Parisian oasis (4)
- PARC
- 7 Down: North Sea feeder (4)
- YSER
- 8 Down: Din (6)
- UPROAR
- 9 Down: Toast sound (5)
- CLINK
- 10 Down: Youth (3)
- LAD
- 11 Down: Cuckoo (3)
- ANI
- 12 Down: Bavarian sheep (5)
- SCHAF
- 13 Down: Sudden impulses, in Madrid (7)
- PRONTOS
- 14 Down: Simonides' birthplace (4)
- CEOS
- 15 Down: Append (3)
- ADD
- 16 Down: Farmer's delight (10)
- BUMPERCROP
- 17 Down: Space (4)
- AREA
- 18 Down: Have an effect (4)
- TELL
- 22 Down: Smiling broadly (5)
- AGRIN
- 25 Down: He wrote "Yerma": 1934 (5)
- LORCA
- 26 Down: Crowns of furnaces (5)
- DOMES
- 27 Down: " . . . there warn't ___ like a raft": Twain (6)
- NOHOME
- 32 Down: Verse form (3)
- ODE
- 34 Down: "Of Thee I Sing" role (14)
- THROTTLEBOTTOM
- 36 Down: Funeral oration (5)
- ELOGE
- 37 Down: Suit material (5)
- SERGE
- 38 Down: Lend ___ (heed) (5)
- ANEAR
- 40 Down: Mus. groups (5)
- ORCHS
- 41 Down: Set of judo exercises (4)
- KATA
- 44 Down: Some used-car salesmen (14)
- WHEELERDEALERS
- 45 Down: Tuscan city (5)
- SIENA
- 46 Down: Went by (6)
- PASSED
- 47 Down: Hinder (6)
- IMPEDE
- 48 Down: Member of the vitamin-B complex (6)
- NIACIN
- 50 Down: Now in progress (7)
- CURRENT
- 51 Down: Censure (6)
- ATTACK
- 53 Down: Kind of prof. (4)
- ASST
- 55 Down: Muse for Marceau (5)
- ERATO
- 57 Down: Kipling's "Just So ___" (7)
- STORIES
- 58 Down: Thus, to Burns (3)
- SAE
- 60 Down: Wts. of 2,240 lbs. (3)
- GTS
- 62 Down: Growing out (5)
- ENATE
- 63 Down: Buckle clasp (4)
- TACH
- 65 Down: Initials for Elizabeth II (3)
- HRH
- 68 Down: Schulz strip (7)
- PEANUTS
- 72 Down: Egyptian spirit (3)
- AKH
- 73 Down: London borough (7)
- STEPNEY
- 75 Down: Wooded country (5)
- WEALD
- 77 Down: Muscular (6)
- TOROSE
- 78 Down: Rel. of Jupiter (4)
- NEPT
- 80 Down: Put up with (5)
- BROOK
- 81 Down: Author of "Distaff" (6)
- ERINNA
- 82 Down: Carl Sagan's TV program (6)
- COSMOS
- 83 Down: Nougat and caramel (6)
- SWEETS
- 85 Down: Baseball stat. (3)
- RBI
- 88 Down: Sudanese native (4)
- BERI
- 89 Down: Idiot (5)
- AMENT
- 90 Down: Western hare (10)
- JACKRABBIT
- 91 Down: Library treasure (3)
- ANA
- 93 Down: Aged: Abbr. (3)
- ANC
- 95 Down: Spyri opus (5)
- HEIDI
- 97 Down: Sale-sign words (5)
- ANDUP
- 98 Down: Squiffed (5)
- DRUNK
- 99 Down: Successful (5)
- ONTOP
- 100 Down: John Wellborn or Elihu (4)
- ROOT
- 103 Down: Idolized (6)
- ADORED
- 108 Down: Piquant (7)
- ZESTFUL
- 110 Down: ___-mutton sleeve (5)
- LEGOF
- 111 Down: ___ Marmara (5)
- SEAOF
- 114 Down: Locksley Hall girl (3)
- AMY
- 115 Down: Epernay's river (5)
- MARNE
- 116 Down: Grapevine growths (6)
- RUMORS
- 119 Down: Ovid was one (5)
- POETA
- 120 Down: Light-amplification device (5)
- LASER
- 122 Down: Slap (5)
- SMACK
- 123 Down: Cranial bump (5)
- INION
- 124 Down: Part of TNT (5)
- NITRO
- 125 Down: Hindu's word for Clive (5)
- SAHIB
- 126 Down: Show delight (4)
- BEAM
- 127 Down: Qualified (4)
- ABLE
- 128 Down: Dry, as an arroyo (4)
- SECO
- 130 Down: Stanch (4)
- STEM
- 131 Down: Done, for short (4)
- THRU
- 134 Down: Small flounder (3)
- DAB
- 135 Down: Massenet oratorio (3)
- EVE
- 136 Down: Cartoonist Gardner (3)
- REA
- 137 Down: Dominique's donation (3)
- EGG
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