NIGHT LIFE - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 10/25/1981. By Nancy A. Wood.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Trifling sum (5)
- GROAT
- 6 Across: Phone attachment (4)
- CORD
- 10 Across: Boundless (4)
- VAST
- 14 Across: To a colleen, he's a spalpeen (5)
- SCAMP
- 19 Across: Actor Meeker (5)
- RALPH
- 20 Across: Opposite of apterous (4)
- ALAR
- 21 Across: Dies ___ (4)
- IRAE
- 22 Across: Terry item (5)
- TOWEL
- 23 Across: Absquatulate (5)
- ELOPE
- 24 Across: Lollygag (4)
- LAZE
- 25 Across: World Series pitcher: 1948 (4)
- SAIN
- 26 Across: Love in Aquila (5)
- AMORE
- 27 Across: Nocturnal howlers (10)
- WEREWOLVES
- 29 Across: One with a midnight curfew (10)
- CINDERELLA
- 31 Across: Buenos ___ (5)
- AIRES
- 32 Across: Housed (9)
- SHELTERED
- 34 Across: Share the billing (6)
- COSTAR
- 36 Across: Pinna (3)
- EAR
- 37 Across: Work unit (3)
- ERG
- 38 Across: Pluto's plaint (4)
- YELP
- 42 Across: Imperfection (6)
- DEFECT
- 43 Across: Dreary (6)
- DISMAL
- 46 Across: Douceur (3)
- SOP
- 48 Across: Hutch dweller (3)
- DOE
- 49 Across: Ouph (3)
- ELF
- 50 Across: Deceive (5)
- HOCUS
- 52 Across: Early church lang. (4)
- LLAT
- 54 Across: What some spirits do (5)
- HAUNT
- 56 Across: Pub offering (3)
- ALE
- 57 Across: Early time (7)
- IRONAGE
- 59 Across: Golfers' considerations (9)
- DISTANCES
- 62 Across: Ponti's wife (5)
- LOREN
- 64 Across: Connect (6)
- RELATE
- 66 Across: Turner, e.g. (7)
- PAINTER
- 67 Across: Greek contest (4)
- AGON
- 69 Across: Della Casa and Kirk (5)
- LISAS
- 71 Across: Whit (4)
- MOTE
- 72 Across: North Carolinian (7)
- TARHEEL
- 75 Across: Paton place (6)
- AFRICA
- 77 Across: Allow (5)
- ADMIT
- 81 Across: Like most monsters (9)
- DISTORTED
- 83 Across: Star in Scorpio (7)
- ANTARES
- 85 Across: Gold, in Genova (3)
- ORO
- 86 Across: A friend of Job (5)
- ELIHU
- 87 Across: Salem, to Essex Co., Mass. (4)
- SEAT
- 89 Across: What ogres cause (5)
- ALARM
- 90 Across: Milne character (3)
- ROO
- 91 Across: Where a herd might be heard (3)
- LEA
- 92 Across: Nocturnal prowler (3)
- RAT
- 95 Across: Pigments for Peale (6)
- OCHERS
- 97 Across: Floating (6)
- NATANT
- 99 Across: One of the Hoppers (4)
- EDNA
- 101 Across: Roulette bet (3)
- BAS
- 103 Across: Hill, to an Arab (3)
- TEL
- 104 Across: With wisdom (6)
- SAGELY
- 105 Across: Pen (9)
- INCLOSURE
- 108 Across: Santander sir (5)
- SENOR
- 109 Across: Deadly nightshade (10)
- BELLADONNA
- 112 Across: Nocturnal flier (10)
- VAMPIREBAT
- 117 Across: Buoyantly (5)
- ONAIR
- 118 Across: Actress Patricia (4)
- NEAL
- 119 Across: Landed (4)
- ALIT
- 120 Across: Architect Jones (5)
- INIGO
- 121 Across: Cat-___-tails (5)
- ONINE
- 122 Across: One below a marquess (4)
- EARL
- 123 Across: Familiar farewell (4)
- TATA
- 124 Across: Histrio (5)
- ACTOR
- 125 Across: Ocean hazards (5)
- BERGS
- 126 Across: Squirrel's nest (4)
- DREY
- 127 Across: Dummkoff (4)
- ESEL
- 128 Across: Rundown (5)
- SEEDY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Developed (4)
- GREW
- 2 Down: Kin of a wheeze (4)
- RALE
- 3 Down: Smell, in Toledo (4)
- OLOR
- 4 Down: Conciliate (7)
- APPEASE
- 5 Down: Midnight (15)
- THEWITCHINGHOUR
- 6 Down: Barn-dance official (6)
- CALLER
- 7 Down: Norwegian kings (5)
- OLAVS
- 8 Down: Destroy (4)
- RAZE
- 9 Down: Clothes (7)
- DRESSES
- 10 Down: Intuitive (8)
- VISCERAL
- 11 Down: Thin as ___ (5)
- ARAIL
- 12 Down: Jeanne, for one (6)
- SAINTE
- 13 Down: Auxiliary boats (7)
- TENDERS
- 14 Down: Fixed look (5)
- STARE
- 15 Down: Broadway's "Arsenic and Old Lace," e.g. (6)
- COMEDY
- 16 Down: Mil. problem (4)
- AWOL
- 17 Down: European blackbird (4)
- MERL
- 18 Down: Nul tiel record is one (4)
- PLEA
- 28 Down: Henry, e.g. (6)
- ORATOR
- 30 Down: Therefore (4)
- ERGO
- 33 Down: Shakespearean ghost (13)
- HAMLETSFATHER
- 34 Down: One of the strings (5)
- CELLO
- 35 Down: Present (5)
- OFFER
- 39 Down: Infer (5)
- EDUCE
- 40 Down: Misanthrope, perhaps (5)
- LONER
- 41 Down: Household members (4)
- PETS
- 42 Down: "Big ___!" (4)
- DEAL
- 43 Down: Cape Cod sight (4)
- DUNE
- 44 Down: "Manner ___ . . . ": Cowper (5)
- ISALL
- 45 Down: Terhune canine (3)
- LAD
- 47 Down: These may cause screams in dreams (15)
- PHANTASMAGORIAS
- 51 Down: Band instrument (6)
- CORNET
- 53 Down: Gratuity (3)
- TIP
- 55 Down: Staked (5)
- ANTED
- 58 Down: Mother of the Titans (4)
- GAIA
- 60 Down: Maple seed (6)
- SAMARA
- 61 Down: Niña's uncle (3)
- TIO
- 63 Down: A spinner in space (5)
- EARTH
- 65 Down: Merit (4)
- EARN
- 68 Down: Poetic contraction (3)
- OER
- 70 Down: Shankar's instrument (5)
- SITAR
- 72 Down: Tessellated (5)
- TILED
- 73 Down: Meccawee, e.g. (5)
- ASIAN
- 74 Down: "___ Misérables" (3)
- LES
- 76 Down: Dieter's worries: Abbr. (4)
- CALS
- 78 Down: Upright (5)
- MORAL
- 79 Down: Literary device (5)
- IRONY
- 80 Down: Binge (4)
- TOOT
- 81 Down: Strike out (4)
- DELE
- 82 Down: ___ volente (3)
- DEO
- 84 Down: Verdi opera (6)
- ERNANI
- 88 Down: In reality (8)
- ACTUALLY
- 93 Down: Start of a well-known series (4)
- ABCD
- 94 Down: Like a night owl (7)
- TALONED
- 96 Down: Produce levitation (7)
- ELEVATE
- 98 Down: Roman playwright (7)
- TERENCE
- 100 Down: Under the weather (6)
- AILING
- 102 Down: "___ and yet so far" (6)
- SONEAR
- 104 Down: Of a clan (6)
- SEPTAL
- 106 Down: Nostrils (5)
- NARES
- 107 Down: Kind of drum (5)
- SNARE
- 108 Down: Cuff (5)
- SMITE
- 109 Down: Dunce (4)
- BOOB
- 110 Down: Nine: Prefix (4)
- ENNE
- 111 Down: Retreat for Simba (4)
- LAIR
- 113 Down: Word of distress (4)
- ALAS
- 114 Down: Fall for a trick (4)
- BITE
- 115 Down: "Thou art ___ . . . ": Neh. 9:17 (4)
- AGOD
- 116 Down: Loyalist of '76 (4)
- TORY
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