DIRTY TRICKS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 168 clues). Published 11/28/1982. By Warren W. Reich.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Function (6)
- OFFICE
- 7 Across: Eastern bishops (5)
- ABBAS
- 12 Across: ___ spumante (4)
- ASTI
- 16 Across: O'Casey (4)
- SEAN
- 20 Across: Corner sitter (6)
- HORNER
- 21 Across: Tutti-___ (6)
- FRUTTI
- 23 Across: Image (4)
- ICON
- 24 Across: Spot for gyring and gimbling (4)
- WABE
- 25 Across: Sordid abnormality? (13)
- MEANDEVIATION
- 27 Across: Raunchy music? (9)
- RAWSCORES
- 29 Across: City on the Somme (6)
- AMIENS
- 30 Across: Hebrew letter (5)
- LAMED
- 32 Across: Giants or dwarfs (6)
- TROLLS
- 33 Across: Media control agcy. (3)
- FCC
- 36 Across: Rivulets (5)
- RILLS
- 37 Across: Begot (5)
- SIRED
- 38 Across: Cenozoic and Mesozoic, e.g. (4)
- ERAS
- 39 Across: Byron work (4)
- LARA
- 41 Across: Spread to dry (3)
- TED
- 42 Across: ___ Manutius, printer-scholar: 1450–1515 (5)
- ALDUS
- 43 Across: Exercises (7)
- PUSHUPS
- 47 Across: Split (7)
- ASUNDER
- 49 Across: Mud-covered impersonator? (10)
- FILTHYRICH
- 52 Across: Pile (3)
- NAP
- 53 Across: "JR" author (6)
- GADDIS
- 54 Across: Lee or Spencer (5)
- TRACY
- 56 Across: Faction (4)
- SECT
- 57 Across: Woody's boy (4)
- ARLO
- 58 Across: Adipose (5)
- OBESE
- 59 Across: Jacques of song (5)
- FRERE
- 60 Across: Spot for swinging (5)
- PLATE
- 62 Across: Wind: Comb. form (5)
- ANEMO
- 63 Across: Ecuadorean river (4)
- NAPO
- 64 Across: Term at sea (4)
- ALEE
- 65 Across: Martha from Butte (4)
- RAYE
- 66 Across: "Gentlemen ___ Blondes" (6)
- PREFER
- 67 Across: Vane reading (3)
- SSE
- 68 Across: Profits from porno? (11)
- GROSSINCOME
- 72 Across: Rouse (6)
- BESTIR
- 73 Across: Henley's waterway (6)
- THAMES
- 75 Across: Part of a springe (5)
- NOOSE
- 76 Across: Desert, as in a desert (6)
- MAROON
- 77 Across: Obliterates (6)
- ERASES
- 78 Across: Uncouth Pancho? (11)
- VULGARLATIN
- 80 Across: Nav. officer (3)
- ENS
- 83 Across: Retarded (6)
- SLOWED
- 84 Across: Adriatic wind (4)
- BORA
- 85 Across: Love god (4)
- EROS
- 86 Across: June 6, 1944 (4)
- DDAY
- 87 Across: Grippers on horseshoes (5)
- CALKS
- 88 Across: Metallic disk (5)
- PATEN
- 89 Across: Welty's "Music from ___" (5)
- SPAIN
- 91 Across: Copal or elemi (5)
- RESIN
- 92 Across: Pongo and wou-wou (4)
- APES
- 93 Across: Hit the books (4)
- PORE
- 94 Across: Dodge (5)
- ELUDE
- 95 Across: Burgage (6)
- TENURE
- 96 Across: Baton Rouge inst. (3)
- LSU
- 97 Across: Ignoble athlete? (10)
- BASERUNNER
- 100 Across: Saddle straps (7)
- LATIGOS
- 101 Across: "Ten Commandments" producer (7)
- DEMILLE
- 103 Across: Foamy drink (5)
- LAGER
- 104 Across: Lake in Kashmir (3)
- DAL
- 105 Across: Tropical tree (4)
- MABI
- 106 Across: Parson birds (4)
- TUIS
- 107 Across: Receive eagerly (5)
- EATUP
- 108 Across: Escritoires (5)
- DESKS
- 110 Across: ___ de veau (sweetbread) (3)
- RIS
- 111 Across: Places for frontals (6)
- ALTARS
- 114 Across: Carman's "___ Airs" (5)
- APRIL
- 115 Across: Part of Berlin (6)
- PANKOW
- 116 Across: Indecent dances? (9)
- FOULBALLS
- 118 Across: Obnoxious approach? (13)
- OFFENSIVELINE
- 124 Across: Hindu peeress (4)
- RANI
- 125 Across: Antic (4)
- DIDO
- 126 Across: Oder feeder (6)
- NEISSE
- 127 Across: Redactor (6)
- EDITOR
- 128 Across: Greek music halls (4)
- ODEA
- 129 Across: A Dutch treat (4)
- EDAM
- 130 Across: Inhibit (5)
- DETER
- 131 Across: Alarm sounder (6)
- REVERE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Electrical unit (3)
- OHM
- 2 Down: Opponent (3)
- FOE
- 3 Down: Angelico, for one (3)
- FRA
- 4 Down: Imaret (3)
- INN
- 5 Down: Closet material (5)
- CEDAR
- 6 Down: Holy recluses (8)
- EREMITES
- 7 Down: Off the right path (6)
- AFIELD
- 8 Down: Husks of certain grains (5)
- BRANS
- 9 Down: "No ifs, ands or ___" (4)
- BUTS
- 10 Down: Panay tribe (3)
- ATI
- 11 Down: With impassivity (8)
- STOLIDLY
- 12 Down: Broadcast (5)
- AIRED
- 13 Down: Large amount (4)
- SCAD
- 14 Down: Kind of head (3)
- TOW
- 15 Down: Coach (8)
- INSTRUCT
- 16 Down: Gush out (6)
- SWOOSH
- 17 Down: Title between viscount and marquess (4)
- EARL
- 18 Down: Arne oratorio (4)
- ABEL
- 19 Down: Loch ___ (4)
- NESS
- 22 Down: Bogged down (6)
- INARUT
- 26 Down: More contemptible (5)
- VILER
- 28 Down: Event of '29 (5)
- CRASH
- 31 Down: Coordinate (4)
- MESH
- 33 Down: Vessels for liquids (7)
- FLAGONS
- 34 Down: Melons (7)
- CASABAS
- 35 Down: Crass OPEC offering? (14)
- CRUDEPETROLEUM
- 37 Down: Golf flub (5)
- SLICE
- 38 Down: French chef's need (5)
- EPICE
- 40 Down: "___ to bed" (5)
- ANDSO
- 42 Down: From a distance (4)
- AFAR
- 44 Down: Coarse sweetheart? (14)
- UNREFINEDSUGAR
- 45 Down: Pilgrim (6)
- PALMER
- 46 Down: Trace (5)
- SPOOR
- 48 Down: "___ Walküre" (3)
- DIE
- 50 Down: Belgian composer-virtuoso: 1858–1931 (5)
- YSAYE
- 51 Down: Plexus (4)
- RETE
- 54 Down: Lock (5)
- TRESS
- 55 Down: Pawnees' cousins (4)
- REES
- 57 Down: Pico de ___, in the Pyrenees (5)
- ANETO
- 59 Down: Ice sheets (5)
- FLOES
- 60 Down: Partner of poesia (5)
- PROSA
- 61 Down: Weaker (5)
- LAMER
- 62 Down: Kind of squad (5)
- ARSON
- 64 Down: ___ forces (5)
- ARMED
- 66 Down: Elfin beings (5)
- PERIS
- 68 Down: Xenon and krypton (5)
- GASES
- 69 Down: Harden (5)
- INURE
- 70 Down: E. E. Hale antihero (5)
- NOLAN
- 71 Down: Tooth (3)
- COG
- 72 Down: Mehta's need (5)
- BATON
- 74 Down: Atlanta five (5)
- HAWKS
- 76 Down: Madame Curie (5)
- MARIE
- 77 Down: Pass (6)
- ELAPSE
- 78 Down: U.S. woman since 1920 (5)
- VOTER
- 79 Down: Plumbum (4)
- LEAD
- 81 Down: Kenya's capital (7)
- NAIROBI
- 82 Down: Sense over syntax (7)
- SYNESIS
- 83 Down: Blanch (5)
- SCALD
- 84 Down: Reveal (4)
- BARE
- 86 Down: Blue ___ (dungaree) (5)
- DENIM
- 88 Down: Propounds (5)
- POSES
- 89 Down: Coleridge's "gentle thing" (5)
- SLEEP
- 90 Down: Motor sound (4)
- PURR
- 91 Down: Soak flax (3)
- RET
- 93 Down: Pointed stake (8)
- PALISADE
- 94 Down: Overwhelmed (8)
- ENGULFED
- 95 Down: Discuss (8)
- TALKOVER
- 97 Down: Rave notice (5)
- BLURB
- 98 Down: Relating to: Suffix (4)
- ULAR
- 99 Down: Hatchet woman (6)
- NATION
- 100 Down: "Communism" author: 1927 (5)
- LASKI
- 102 Down: Where Firenze is (6)
- ITALIA
- 104 Down: More obtuse (6)
- DENSER
- 107 Down: ___ salts (5)
- EPSOM
- 108 Down: ___ macabre (5)
- DANSE
- 109 Down: Nobel, for one (5)
- SWEDE
- 111 Down: Hair style (4)
- AFRO
- 112 Down: Backpack (4)
- LOAD
- 113 Down: Harry Warren product (4)
- TUNE
- 114 Down: Robert or Alan (4)
- ALDA
- 115 Down: Varmint (4)
- PEST
- 117 Down: Repressive force (3)
- LID
- 119 Down: Faugh! (3)
- FIE
- 120 Down: Actress Ullmann (3)
- LIV
- 121 Down: Follower: Suffix (3)
- ITE
- 122 Down: Eur. land (3)
- NOR
- 123 Down: Palindromic word (3)
- ERE
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