INITIAL DROP - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 136 clues). Published 4/3/1983. By John M. Samson.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Massage (3)
- RUB
- 4 Across: Evade (5)
- DODGE
- 9 Across: Medieval helmet (5)
- ARMET
- 14 Across: Nobelist in Literature: 1957 (5)
- CAMUS
- 19 Across: Gibbon (3)
- APE
- 20 Across: Kind of squash (5)
- ACORN
- 21 Across: Charter (5)
- LEASE
- 22 Across: Ammann's sect (5)
- AMISH
- 23 Across: Avoir. weights (3)
- LBS
- 24 Across: Rent anew (5)
- RELET
- 25 Across: Arterial trunk (5)
- AORTA
- 26 Across: Nouveau ___ (5)
- RICHE
- 27 Across: English songbird? (10)
- PETULALARK
- 30 Across: Certain monuments (6)
- STELAE
- 32 Across: Half a snicker (3)
- HEE
- 33 Across: Supreme Court member: 1955–71 (6)
- HARLAN
- 34 Across: Babilonia et al. (4)
- TAIS
- 36 Across: Command to a canine (4)
- HEEL
- 37 Across: Stable (4)
- BARN
- 38 Across: Sheppard-Turpin gun (4)
- STEN
- 39 Across: Incandescent linguist? (12)
- WILLIAMAFIRE
- 42 Across: Overwhelm (5)
- SWAMP
- 45 Across: Started a pool (5)
- ANTED
- 46 Across: Big endings (7)
- FINALES
- 49 Across: To scent, in Sevilla (4)
- OLER
- 51 Across: Trip in a ship (4)
- SAIL
- 53 Across: Playwright Ionesco (6)
- EUGENE
- 54 Across: Ascended (6)
- SCALED
- 57 Across: Invalidate (4)
- VOID
- 59 Across: Cowboy's need (5)
- RIATA
- 60 Across: Designer with a young lady in mind? (8)
- BILLLASS
- 62 Across: He never grew up (8)
- PETERPAN
- 65 Across: Musical dir. (3)
- RIT
- 66 Across: "Sometimes ___ Goes By" (4)
- ADAY
- 67 Across: Apprehend (5)
- SEIZE
- 69 Across: Habituate (5)
- INURE
- 70 Across: Formerly (4)
- ONCE
- 71 Across: Pronoun (3)
- HER
- 72 Across: Greek (8)
- HELLENIC
- 74 Across: Nast uprooted him? (8)
- BOSSWEED
- 76 Across: White poplar (5)
- ABELE
- 78 Across: Va. neighbor (4)
- TENN
- 79 Across: Limit (6)
- BOUNDS
- 80 Across: Opposite of "exeunt" (6)
- MANENT
- 82 Across: Actress Allgood (4)
- SARA
- 84 Across: Legionnaire's cap (4)
- KEPI
- 85 Across: Secret (7)
- ARCANUM
- 87 Across: "The ___ See of You" (5)
- MOREI
- 89 Across: Originate (5)
- START
- 93 Across: Actress who's misbehavin'? (12)
- EVAMARIEAINT
- 96 Across: Dull one (4)
- NERD
- 98 Across: Highlands hillside (4)
- BRAE
- 100 Across: "___ Old Cowhand" (4)
- IMAN
- 101 Across: ___ vu (4)
- DEJA
- 102 Across: Dieter's no-no (6)
- SUNDAE
- 104 Across: You, to Johann (3)
- IHR
- 105 Across: Confesses (6)
- ADMITS
- 107 Across: Clever actress? (10)
- LORETTAWIT
- 109 Across: Heat-resistant glass (5)
- PYREX
- 111 Across: Hilo hello (5)
- ALOHA
- 113 Across: Atoll part (5)
- ISLET
- 114 Across: Song from "A Chorus Line" (3)
- ONE
- 115 Across: Ham it up (5)
- EMOTE
- 116 Across: Subsequently (5)
- LATER
- 117 Across: Bête follower (5)
- NOIRE
- 118 Across: Poetic preposition (3)
- OER
- 119 Across: Moistened (5)
- DEWED
- 120 Across: Trample (5)
- STOMP
- 121 Across: Flout (5)
- SNEER
- 122 Across: Irish golfer Smyth (3)
- DES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Bellamy and Edwards (6)
- RALPHS
- 2 Down: Certain baton strokes (7)
- UPBEATS
- 3 Down: Scatter about (7)
- BESTREW
- 4 Down: ___ Hood, "Our Gang" actress (5)
- DARLA
- 5 Down: Lindy's hurdle (5)
- OCEAN
- 6 Down: Looker (4)
- DOLL
- 7 Down: W.W. I (8)
- GREATWAR
- 8 Down: Hop the Orient Express (7)
- ENTRAIN
- 9 Down: Beef ___ mode (3)
- ALA
- 10 Down: Speed Wagons (4)
- REOS
- 11 Down: First First Lady (6)
- MARTHA
- 12 Down: Admiration (6)
- ESTEEM
- 13 Down: Gunpowder item (7)
- TEALEAF
- 14 Down: Custody (4)
- CARE
- 15 Down: Gaston, to Alphonse (3)
- AMI
- 16 Down: Actress who deserved her Emmy? (13)
- MICHAELEARNED
- 17 Down: Peck's early job (5)
- USHER
- 18 Down: Radiance (5)
- SHEEN
- 28 Down: Elbow-wrist link (4)
- ULNA
- 29 Down: Tartan wraparounds (5)
- KILTS
- 31 Down: Caine role: 1966 (5)
- ALFIE
- 35 Down: Silk filament (6)
- SLEAVE
- 37 Down: Odin's counselor (5)
- BRAGI
- 40 Down: Fatuous (7)
- IDIOTIC
- 41 Down: Entomb, in a way (5)
- INURN
- 43 Down: "___ Flanders" (4)
- MOLL
- 44 Down: Satisfy (6)
- PLEASE
- 47 Down: Tempts (7)
- ENTICES
- 48 Down: "Gentlemen, be ___ " (6)
- SEATED
- 50 Down: De Soto contemporary (5)
- EDSEL
- 52 Down: Property incumbrance (4)
- LIEN
- 54 Down: Short journalistic addendum (7)
- SIDEBAR
- 55 Down: Lawyer who made his mark? (13)
- CLARENCEARROW
- 56 Down: A Khan (3)
- ALY
- 58 Down: Defeat soundly (4)
- DRUB
- 60 Down: ___ Islands, near Fla. (6)
- BAHAMA
- 61 Down: Sediment (4)
- SILT
- 62 Down: Boz or Ouida (7)
- PENNAME
- 63 Down: Investigate (5)
- PROBE
- 64 Down: "___ Fables" (6)
- AESOPS
- 68 Down: Razzle-dazzle foursome (4)
- ZEES
- 70 Down: Have (3)
- OWN
- 72 Down: Reddish brown (5)
- HENNA
- 73 Down: Foray (6)
- INROAD
- 75 Down: Clubs, e.g. (4)
- SUIT
- 77 Down: Hit the road (5)
- LEAVE
- 81 Down: Protuberant (5)
- TUMID
- 83 Down: Will Durant's wife (5)
- ARIEL
- 84 Down: Famous trailblazer? (8)
- KITARSON
- 86 Down: Warmblooded group (7)
- MAMMALS
- 88 Down: Commands (7)
- ENJOINS
- 90 Down: Soprano Moffo (4)
- ANNA
- 91 Down: Sequoia (7)
- REDWOOD
- 92 Down: Apprentice (7)
- TRAINEE
- 94 Down: Scold (6)
- RAILAT
- 95 Down: Altogether (6)
- INTOTO
- 97 Down: Discourages (6)
- DETERS
- 98 Down: Man, e.g. (5)
- BIPED
- 99 Down: Nash forte (5)
- RHYME
- 102 Down: Cubic meter (5)
- STERE
- 103 Down: Absolute (5)
- UTTER
- 105 Down: Fired (4)
- AXED
- 106 Down: Noah's eldest son (4)
- SHEM
- 108 Down: Author Wiesel (4)
- ELIE
- 110 Down: Summer, in Somme (3)
- ETE
- 112 Down: Dadaist Jean ___ (3)
- ARP
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