MISSING LINKS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 5/1/1983. By Mary Virginia Orna.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Not ___ (mediocre) (5)
- SOHOT
- 6 Across: Reporter's coup (5)
- SCOOP
- 11 Across: Magnetic units (6)
- WEBERS
- 17 Across: One who frankly admits (6)
- AVOWER
- 19 Across: Nitrates-shipping city in Peru (5)
- TACNA
- 20 Across: Slow ballet dances (7)
- ADAGIOS
- 22 Across: Unconditional Broadway hit: 1939–47 (12)
- LEWITHFATHER
- 24 Across: Lampoon (8)
- RIDICULE
- 26 Across: Suffix with press or fail (3)
- URE
- 27 Across: Infatuated (7)
- SMITTEN
- 28 Across: Fools (5)
- ASSES
- 29 Across: Word with play or pig (3)
- PEN
- 30 Across: Rikki-tikki-___ (4)
- TAVI
- 32 Across: Uncoordinated flag-bearers (10)
- GUARDOFHON
- 34 Across: "Flee, feline!" (4)
- SCAT
- 35 Across: Gershwin biographer (4)
- EWEN
- 36 Across: Skin layer (5)
- CUTIS
- 37 Across: Empty (4)
- VAIN
- 38 Across: Elbow (5)
- SHOVE
- 39 Across: Feudal slave (4)
- SERF
- 40 Across: City on the Oka (4)
- OREL
- 41 Across: John Irving hero (4)
- GARP
- 42 Across: Frank (6)
- WIENER
- 43 Across: Roman household gods (5)
- LARES
- 45 Across: Stake (3)
- BET
- 46 Across: Henry VIII's last wife (4)
- PARR
- 47 Across: Neoteric (6)
- MODERN
- 50 Across: Ibo, for one (8)
- NIGERIAN
- 53 Across: Vespid (4)
- WASP
- 57 Across: Portuguese islands (6)
- AZORES
- 58 Across: Evanesce (4)
- FADE
- 59 Across: Crocus, e.g. (4)
- IRID
- 60 Across: Greek pitcher (4)
- OLPE
- 61 Across: Sculpture piece (5)
- TORSO
- 62 Across: Unexceptional English satirist (9)
- SAMUELLER
- 64 Across: Arose (5)
- GOTUP
- 65 Across: Star in Pegasus (4)
- ENIF
- 66 Across: Walesa is one (4)
- POLE
- 67 Across: Sediment (4)
- LEES
- 68 Across: Smelling like overripe apples (6)
- CIDERY
- 69 Across: Lucy's Ricky (4)
- DESI
- 70 Across: Used cars, sometimes (8)
- TRADEINS
- 72 Across: Wards off (6)
- AVERTS
- 73 Across: Part of Q.E.F. (4)
- ERAT
- 75 Across: Period (3)
- DOT
- 76 Across: Petruchio, for one (5)
- TAMER
- 78 Across: Doorframe parts (6)
- STILES
- 81 Across: Rove on the wing (4)
- FLIT
- 83 Across: A Gardner (4)
- ERLE
- 84 Across: Former president of the U.N. General Assembly (4)
- SOSA
- 88 Across: Town house rel. (5)
- CONDO
- 89 Across: Rail (4)
- COOT
- 90 Across: Symbol of slowness (5)
- SNAIL
- 91 Across: Comeuppance spot for Gretel's witch (4)
- OVEN
- 92 Across: Furrows (4)
- RUTS
- 93 Across: Musical that allowed no speculation (10)
- SOUTHPACIC
- 95 Across: River to the Gulf of Finland (4)
- NEVA
- 96 Across: Unclose, to W.S. (3)
- OPE
- 97 Across: Bull and Bunyan (5)
- JOHNS
- 98 Across: Stained (7)
- SULLIED
- 101 Across: Costal bone (3)
- RIB
- 102 Across: Off the track (8)
- DERAILED
- 104 Across: Opera performed today, yet neglected (12)
- MADAMATERFLY
- 106 Across: Trap (7)
- ENSNARE
- 107 Across: Suffix with form (5)
- ATIVE
- 108 Across: Anglers' baskets (6)
- CREELS
- 109 Across: Magdalene, e.g. (6)
- SINNER
- 110 Across: West German steel center (5)
- ESSEN
- 111 Across: Jockeys (5)
- RIDES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Greets (7)
- SALUTES
- 2 Down: Subdue via fear (7)
- OVERAWE
- 3 Down: Nevertheless (7)
- HOWEVER
- 4 Down: Agcy. Elmer Davis headed (3)
- OWI
- 5 Down: Asian holidays (4)
- TETS
- 6 Down: Laws (8)
- STATUTES
- 7 Down: Marsh plant (7)
- CATTAIL
- 8 Down: Pigments for Sargent (6)
- OCHERS
- 9 Down: Upright (5)
- ONEND
- 10 Down: Norm for JoAnne Carner (3)
- PAR
- 11 Down: Maine, e.g. (7)
- WARSHIP
- 12 Down: "Wizard" born in Milan (6)
- EDISON
- 13 Down: Austrian spa (5)
- BADEN
- 14 Down: Sponsorship (4)
- EGIS
- 15 Down: Ending for bishop (3)
- RIC
- 16 Down: Trace (7)
- SOUPCON
- 18 Down: Physics unit (3)
- RHM
- 21 Down: " . . . the ravel'd ___ of care": Macbeth (6)
- SLEAVE
- 23 Down: Model's concern (6)
- FIGURE
- 25 Down: Register (5)
- ENTER
- 28 Down: Off (4)
- AFAR
- 31 Down: Poem about a place farther away (13)
- INFLERSFIELDS
- 33 Down: Shaped like some leaves (5)
- OVATE
- 34 Down: Playwright not to boot (13)
- SHERWOODERSON
- 36 Down: "The agony of de feet" (5)
- CORNS
- 38 Down: ___ Huon, 1906 Derby winner (3)
- SIR
- 41 Down: Novelist having no alternative (9)
- GEGEELIOT
- 42 Down: Baton (4)
- WAND
- 44 Down: Martian: Comb. form (4)
- AREO
- 45 Down: Soprano Sayao (4)
- BIDU
- 46 Down: Brace (4)
- PAIR
- 47 Down: Beat at chess (5)
- MATED
- 48 Down: Aura pura (5)
- OZONE
- 49 Down: Nereids' mother (5)
- DORIS
- 50 Down: Identified (5)
- NAMED
- 51 Down: Gets one's goat (5)
- RILES
- 52 Down: Angers (4)
- IRES
- 54 Down: Revise (5)
- ALTER
- 55 Down: Emulate Old Faithful (5)
- SPURT
- 56 Down: Famed diarist (5)
- PEPYS
- 58 Down: F.D.R. pet (4)
- FALA
- 62 Down: Kind (4)
- SORT
- 63 Down: Pre-Pasch period (4)
- LENT
- 64 Down: Yield (4)
- GIVE
- 66 Down: Sch. adjuncts (4)
- PTAS
- 68 Down: Bactrian (5)
- CAMEL
- 71 Down: A Bunker (5)
- EDITH
- 74 Down: Hudson contemporary (3)
- REO
- 76 Down: Drovers (8)
- TRAILMEN
- 77 Down: Ballerina Markova (6)
- ALICIA
- 78 Down: Boston delicacy (5)
- SCROD
- 79 Down: Headpiece (6)
- TOUPEE
- 80 Down: Clinic group (7)
- INTERNS
- 81 Down: Collapse (7)
- FOUNDER
- 82 Down: Slew (4)
- LOTS
- 83 Down: Hemmed-in territory (7)
- ENCLAVE
- 85 Down: Ate too much (7)
- OVERFED
- 86 Down: Figaro's home (7)
- SEVILLE
- 87 Down: "Man is . . . a rope over ___": Nietzsche (7)
- ANABYSS
- 89 Down: Stick (6)
- COHERE
- 90 Down: Riyadh residents (6)
- SAUDIS
- 93 Down: Large gannet (5)
- SOLAN
- 94 Down: Exams for aspiring collegians (5)
- PSATS
- 97 Down: Spirits of Islam (4)
- JINN
- 99 Down: Catchall abbr. (3)
- ETC
- 100 Down: Earl ___ Biggers (4)
- DERR
- 103 Down: So, in Spain (3)
- ASI
- 104 Down: Banker's Fannie ___ (3)
- MAE
- 105 Down: Defendants, to Darrow (3)
- REI
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