SOCRATICISMS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 3/6/1983. By Robert H. Wolfe.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Actor Clunes (4)
- ALEC
- 5 Across: Caterpillar, e.g. (5)
- LARVA
- 10 Across: Type of slipper (5)
- SCUFF
- 15 Across: Cat sounds? (3)
- MUS
- 18 Across: Yucatán Indian (4)
- MAYA
- 19 Across: Shun (5)
- AVOID
- 20 Across: Handsome man (6)
- APOLLO
- 21 Across: Finial (3)
- EPI
- 22 Across: Anatomical passage (4)
- ITER
- 23 Across: Tropical fish (5)
- BETTA
- 24 Across: "___ Gurton's Needle" (6)
- GAMMER
- 25 Across: Pithy bit of wit (3)
- MOT
- 26 Across: What you do on the Aegean? (17)
- RHORHORHOYOURBOAT
- 29 Across: ___ and all (3)
- ONE
- 30 Across: Leaders at Sigma Chi (7)
- SENIORS
- 31 Across: Colima coins (5)
- PESOS
- 32 Across: Summit: Comb. form (3)
- ACR
- 34 Across: Valuable African tree (4)
- AKEE
- 35 Across: Humiliate (5)
- ABASE
- 37 Across: The nominees (5)
- SLATE
- 40 Across: Eccentric old chap (6)
- CODGER
- 43 Across: Object of adoration (4)
- IDOL
- 44 Across: Harvest goddess (3)
- OPS
- 47 Across: Girl in "East of Eden" (4)
- ABRA
- 48 Across: Sigmoid moldings (5)
- OGEES
- 49 Across: Butter (3)
- RAM
- 50 Across: Proof mark (5)
- CARET
- 52 Across: Musical sign (4)
- SLUR
- 53 Across: Escapees from Pandora's box (4)
- ILLS
- 54 Across: What the Corfu ewe did? (15)
- LAMBDABABYSHEEP
- 57 Across: Call at Wimbledon (3)
- LET
- 58 Across: "Nana" actress (4)
- STEN
- 60 Across: Newscaster Seamans (3)
- IKE
- 61 Across: Extorts (6)
- BLEEDS
- 62 Across: Assemble (5)
- AMASS
- 64 Across: Summoned, in a way (5)
- PAGED
- 66 Across: Broker's concern (5)
- LEASE
- 67 Across: Hades denizens (6)
- SHADES
- 68 Across: Fourth caliph of Islam (3)
- ALI
- 69 Across: Forward (4)
- PERT
- 70 Across: Youth org. (3)
- BSA
- 73 Across: What the obese Athenian did? (15)
- ETALOTOFCANDIES
- 77 Across: Bakery implement (4)
- PEEL
- 78 Across: U.S. novelist: 1815–82 (4)
- DANA
- 79 Across: Daboia or jessur (5)
- SNAKE
- 80 Across: 100 square meters (3)
- ARE
- 81 Across: Bristles (5)
- SETAE
- 82 Across: Insects' nests (4)
- NIDI
- 83 Across: N.Y. time, at times (3)
- EST
- 84 Across: Pitfall (4)
- TRAP
- 85 Across: Rose oil and neroli (6)
- ATTARS
- 86 Across: Have ___ for news (5)
- ANOSE
- 88 Across: Out of dough (5)
- BROKE
- 90 Across: Hebrew month (4)
- ADAR
- 91 Across: Faiths: Sp. (3)
- FES
- 92 Across: Caesar, e.g. (5)
- SALAD
- 94 Across: Water bird (7)
- PELICAN
- 98 Across: Pastries? (3)
- PIS
- 100 Across: What Red Adair might do in Ionia? (17)
- KAPPANOILWELLFIRE
- 105 Across: Bill's possible future status (3)
- ACT
- 106 Across: Pass (6)
- ELAPSE
- 107 Across: Super Bowl's losers: 1983 (5)
- MIAMI
- 108 Across: Ancient Andean (4)
- INCA
- 109 Across: Cry at Yankee Stadium (3)
- LOU
- 110 Across: Interact realistically (6)
- RELATE
- 111 Across: Indo-European (5)
- ARYAN
- 112 Across: Useful Latin abbr. (4)
- ETAL
- 113 Across: Omega (3)
- END
- 114 Across: Betrays (5)
- SELLS
- 115 Across: Middle, in law (5)
- MESNE
- 116 Across: Potion portion (4)
- DOSE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Moslem princes (5)
- AMIRS
- 2 Down: Batten (5)
- LATHE
- 3 Down: Keep an ___ (look after) (5)
- EYEON
- 4 Down: Coaches (9)
- CARRIAGES
- 5 Down: A.F.L.-C.I.O. member (7)
- LABORER
- 6 Down: Reluctant (6)
- AVERSE
- 7 Down: She wrote "I'll Cry Tomorrow" (4)
- ROTH
- 8 Down: Don Corleone (4)
- VITO
- 9 Down: Call it ___ (4)
- ADAY
- 10 Down: Not dense (6)
- SPARSE
- 11 Down: Jazz ensemble (5)
- COMBO
- 12 Down: Chilean timber trees (5)
- ULMOS
- 13 Down: Kind of market (4)
- FLEA
- 14 Down: L.B.J. appointee to the Supreme Court (6)
- FORTAS
- 15 Down: Isocrates? (15)
- MEMORABLEDEBETA
- 16 Down: Well versed in (4)
- UPON
- 17 Down: Spot (4)
- SITE
- 20 Down: Fevers (5)
- AGUES
- 27 Down: Fakes (5)
- HOKES
- 28 Down: A stone for Jimmy Carter (4)
- OPAL
- 33 Down: Affrays (7)
- CLASHES
- 35 Down: West from Walla Walla (4)
- ADAM
- 36 Down: Complete failure (4)
- BOMB
- 38 Down: Aligns (5)
- TRUES
- 39 Down: Hugh O'Brian role (4)
- EARP
- 40 Down: Helix (4)
- COIL
- 41 Down: Oeillade (4)
- OGLE
- 42 Down: What the poker player did in Patrai? (15)
- DELTAHANDOFSTUD
- 43 Down: Where Kurdish is spoken (4)
- IRAN
- 44 Down: Domesday Book money (3)
- ORA
- 45 Down: Flintstone's daughter (7)
- PEBBLES
- 46 Down: Beene or Klein (6)
- STYLER
- 50 Down: Gugelhupf, e.g. (4)
- CAKE
- 51 Down: Sleeping (4)
- ABED
- 54 Down: Course of a sort (7)
- LESSONS
- 55 Down: Cook's exhortation (5)
- DIGIN
- 56 Down: Kind of belt (4)
- SEAT
- 58 Down: Javanese vehicle (4)
- SADO
- 59 Down: Ugandan pest (6)
- TSETSE
- 63 Down: Feeling of uneasiness (7)
- MALAISE
- 64 Down: Cram (4)
- PACK
- 65 Down: Corolla petals (4)
- ALAE
- 67 Down: Blemish (5)
- STAIN
- 69 Down: Chirp (4)
- PEEP
- 71 Down: Wither (4)
- SEAR
- 72 Down: City in S France (4)
- ALES
- 73 Down: Best of films (4)
- EDNA
- 74 Down: Falstaffian (3)
- FAT
- 75 Down: Somber shade (4)
- DARK
- 76 Down: Dies ___ (4)
- IRAE
- 77 Down: Numbed with fear (9)
- PETRIFIED
- 81 Down: Bronco's booth (5)
- STALL
- 84 Down: Hoopla (4)
- TODO
- 85 Down: ___ Virginia Woolf (7)
- ADELINE
- 87 Down: Glacial ridges (6)
- ESKERS
- 88 Down: Explosions (6)
- BLASTS
- 89 Down: Indian princess (5)
- RANEE
- 90 Down: Pithecanthropus, for one (6)
- APEMAN
- 92 Down: Stone chip (5)
- SPALL
- 93 Down: Shock (5)
- APPAL
- 95 Down: Monte ___, Corsica (5)
- CINTO
- 96 Down: Son of Zeus and Callisto (5)
- ARCAS
- 97 Down: Hymnist John Mason ___ (5)
- NEALE
- 98 Down: Ashen (4)
- PALE
- 99 Down: Image (4)
- ICON
- 101 Down: Nautical term (4)
- ALEE
- 102 Down: Moslem prayer leader (4)
- IMAM
- 103 Down: Monza money (4)
- LIRE
- 104 Down: ___ and means (4)
- WAYS
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