OUT-OF-PLACE WORDS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 4/25/1982. By Jeanette K. Brill.
Classic newspaper crossword from the archive. About our puzzle library.
Want to try solving it yourself first? Play this puzzle
Across Answers
- 1 Across: ___ morgana (4)
- FATA
- 5 Across: Implied but unsaid (5)
- TACIT
- 10 Across: Potato, for one (5)
- TUBER
- 15 Across: Having wings (4)
- ALAR
- 19 Across: Royal city of the Canaanites (4)
- ARAD
- 20 Across: Supreme Moslem deity (5)
- ALLAH
- 21 Across: White poplar (5)
- ABELE
- 22 Across: Where Hyde once presided (4)
- EIRE
- 23 Across: Afghan road material? (10)
- KABULSTONE
- 25 Across: Activity in a post–W.W. I free city? (10)
- FOLKDANZIG
- 27 Across: Rivaled successfully (8)
- EMULATED
- 28 Across: Rubbish (5)
- OFFAL
- 30 Across: Fears (6)
- DREADS
- 31 Across: Field for Fabius (4)
- AGER
- 32 Across: Ria (5)
- INLET
- 33 Across: Kind of physician (4)
- META
- 34 Across: Hercules, to Iole (6)
- CAPTOR
- 37 Across: Kind of lightning (5)
- SHEET
- 38 Across: Site of battles of Bull Run (8)
- MANASSAS
- 42 Across: Hair styles (5)
- AFROS
- 43 Across: Get squiffed in Formosa? (8)
- TAIWANON
- 45 Across: River in Wales and England (3)
- USK
- 46 Across: Bellow (4)
- ROAR
- 47 Across: Sassoon or Service (4)
- POET
- 49 Across: Stir (3)
- ADO
- 50 Across: Holiday in Napoli (5)
- FESTA
- 52 Across: Dress (up) (3)
- TOG
- 53 Across: Montana cosmetologist? (11)
- BUTTETICIAN
- 57 Across: "___ Be," Beatles hit (5)
- LETIT
- 58 Across: Cantabs, Elis et al. (8)
- STUDENTS
- 60 Across: "Let's Make ___" (5)
- ADEAL
- 61 Across: Greek moon goddess (6)
- SELENE
- 62 Across: One of the dryads (5)
- ERATO
- 63 Across: Fern leaf (5)
- FROND
- 64 Across: Of yore (5)
- OLDEN
- 65 Across: Full of chinks (6)
- RIMOUS
- 67 Across: Common contraction (5)
- ARENT
- 68 Across: Word game (8)
- ANAGRAMS
- 71 Across: Praying figure (5)
- ORANT
- 72 Across: Swimmer's motion in NW France? (11)
- BRESTSTROKE
- 74 Across: Born (3)
- NEE
- 75 Across: British buddy (5)
- MATEY
- 76 Across: Past (3)
- AGO
- 77 Across: Yorkshire river (4)
- AIRE
- 78 Across: Tamarisk (4)
- ATLE
- 79 Across: Cuckoo (3)
- ANI
- 80 Across: German sweets? (8)
- BONNBONS
- 84 Across: River, politician or cloth (5)
- TWEED
- 85 Across: Winks (8)
- NICTATES
- 89 Across: Wash out (5)
- ELUTE
- 90 Across: Ribs (6)
- TEASES
- 91 Across: Hebrew month (4)
- ELUL
- 92 Across: Pan-fry (5)
- SAUTE
- 93 Across: Long and thin (4)
- LANK
- 94 Across: Formulator (6)
- FRAMER
- 97 Across: German engraver: 1471–1528 (5)
- DURER
- 98 Across: Berkeley's colleague (8)
- CARTERET
- 102 Across: Know-how in SE France? (10)
- AIXPERTISE
- 104 Across: Error in chronology in Ohio? (10)
- ANAKRONISM
- 106 Across: Wading bird (4)
- RAIL
- 107 Across: Wildcats (5)
- EYRAS
- 108 Across: Bronx warbler (5)
- GORME
- 109 Across: Other (4)
- ELSE
- 110 Across: Swiss linear unit (4)
- ELLE
- 111 Across: "Last Case" sleuth (5)
- TRENT
- 112 Across: Over (5)
- ENDED
- 113 Across: Doyen (4)
- DEAN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Sham (4)
- FAKE
- 2 Down: Saroyan hero (4)
- ARAM
- 3 Down: Prohibition (4)
- TABU
- 4 Down: Flatterer (8)
- ADULATOR
- 5 Down: Vintner's employee (6)
- TASTER
- 6 Down: ___ ego (5)
- ALTER
- 7 Down: Oaf (4)
- CLOD
- 8 Down: Pop singer Janis (3)
- IAN
- 9 Down: "___ Love . . . ," 1924 song (7)
- THEONEI
- 10 Down: Crisp woven fabric (7)
- TAFFETA
- 11 Down: Corvette's target (5)
- UBOAT
- 12 Down: Mouth of a trumpet (4)
- BELL
- 13 Down: Wapiti (3)
- ELK
- 14 Down: Blush (6)
- REDDEN
- 15 Down: Epic hero (6)
- AENEAS
- 16 Down: Gershwin girl: 1929 (4)
- LIZA
- 17 Down: Sere (4)
- ARID
- 18 Down: Parts of divs. (4)
- REGS
- 24 Down: Nigerian seaport (5)
- LAGOS
- 26 Down: "But thou ___ God . . . ": Neh. 9:17 (4)
- ARTA
- 29 Down: Tore (4)
- FLEW
- 32 Down: Cole Porter's "___ Men" (5)
- IHATE
- 33 Down: Puccini's "___ Lescaut" (5)
- MANON
- 34 Down: Drays (5)
- CARTS
- 35 Down: In progress (5)
- AFOOT
- 36 Down: Realistic in Czechoslovakia? (11)
- PRAGUEMATIC
- 37 Down: Antitheses of deles (5)
- STETS
- 38 Down: Of form (5)
- MODAL
- 39 Down: Nourishment in NW France? (11)
- SUSTENANTES
- 40 Down: Patty Duke ___ (5)
- ASTIN
- 41 Down: Ray (5)
- SKATE
- 44 Down: Water nymph (5)
- NAIAD
- 47 Down: Football plays (5)
- PUNTS
- 48 Down: Teutonic king (4)
- OTTO
- 50 Down: Feather an arrow (6)
- FLEDGE
- 51 Down: Sniggler for wrigglers (5)
- EELER
- 53 Down: Truth, to Keats (6)
- BEAUTY
- 54 Down: Vetches (5)
- TARES
- 55 Down: "___ Know Why," Wonder hit (5)
- IDONT
- 56 Down: Coppers (5)
- CENTS
- 59 Down: Bombinate (5)
- DRONE
- 61 Down: Quench (5)
- SLAKE
- 63 Down: Refrigerant (5)
- FREON
- 64 Down: ___ about (4)
- ONOR
- 65 Down: Type of type (5)
- ROMAN
- 66 Down: Man from Tabriz (5)
- IRANI
- 67 Down: Odysseus' smart dog (5)
- ARGOS
- 68 Down: Get up (5)
- ARISE
- 69 Down: Wingding (5)
- MELEE
- 70 Down: Beginnings (5)
- SEEDS
- 72 Down: Hubbub (5)
- BABEL
- 73 Down: René's aunt (5)
- TANTE
- 78 Down: Activated (8)
- AWAKENED
- 81 Down: Most proximate (7)
- NEAREST
- 82 Down: Cerulean (4)
- BLUE
- 83 Down: Offend (7)
- OUTRAGE
- 84 Down: ___ one (betting odds) (5)
- TENTO
- 86 Down: Miss Marker in 1934 (6)
- TEMPLE
- 87 Down: Nautical term (4)
- ALEE
- 88 Down: Gun mount (6)
- TURRET
- 90 Down: Smeared, in a way (6)
- TARRED
- 92 Down: Anthony (5)
- SUSAN
- 93 Down: Delibes opera (5)
- LAKME
- 94 Down: Get on (4)
- FARE
- 95 Down: Money in Meshed (4)
- RIAL
- 96 Down: Angle of a leaf stalk (4)
- AXIL
- 97 Down: Desperately urgent (4)
- DIRE
- 98 Down: Piece of mail (4)
- CARD
- 99 Down: Nettle (4)
- RILE
- 100 Down: U.S. satellite (4)
- ESSA
- 101 Down: Govt. agents (4)
- TMEN
- 103 Down: Son of Odin (3)
- TYR
- 105 Down: ___ compos mentis (3)
- NON
Ready to play?
Try solving this puzzle yourself, or explore more crosswords.