COUNTDOWN - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 5/29/1983. By Sam Bellotto Jr..
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Charon's crossing (4)
- STYX
- 5 Across: Domestic cat (5)
- TABBY
- 10 Across: Basilica part (4)
- BEMA
- 14 Across: Annie Oakley (4)
- PASS
- 18 Across: Famed race horse (4)
- NOOR
- 19 Across: School for Siméon (5)
- ECOLE
- 20 Across: Body: Comb. form (5)
- SOMAT
- 21 Across: Moroccan district (4)
- IFNI
- 22 Across: Rockweed is one (4)
- ALGA
- 23 Across: Mets or Yankees (11)
- NEWYORKNINE
- 25 Across: Stiff collar (4)
- ETON
- 26 Across: Schoolyard chums (9)
- PLAYMATES
- 28 Across: Successor to William II (6)
- HENRYI
- 29 Across: Party popper (4)
- CORK
- 30 Across: Needle for Calpurnia (4)
- ACUS
- 31 Across: Playwright James or Ronald (3)
- GOW
- 32 Across: Parts (8)
- SEGMENTS
- 34 Across: Perplexing situation (7)
- PROBLEM
- 38 Across: Dostoyevsky's "Little Mother" (5)
- SONIA
- 40 Across: Throaty notice (4)
- AHEM
- 41 Across: Ancient Greek colony (5)
- IONIA
- 42 Across: Faith, hope, charity et al. (12)
- SEVENVIRTUES
- 45 Across: Love-letter letters (4)
- SWAK
- 46 Across: 1.0567 liquid quarts (5)
- LITRE
- 48 Across: Beaked ganoid (3)
- GAR
- 49 Across: Leaves port (5)
- SAILS
- 52 Across: Abdomen: Comb. form (4)
- CELI
- 53 Across: Put ___ (be snobbish) (6)
- ONAIRS
- 55 Across: Limb's partner (4)
- LIFE
- 58 Across: Year in Nero's reign (4)
- LXII
- 59 Across: One cause of absence (7)
- ILLNESS
- 61 Across: Library treasures (4)
- ANAS
- 63 Across: Run-of-the-mill (4)
- SOSO
- 65 Across: Wine cask (3)
- TUN
- 66 Across: Welcome sound at a plant (17)
- FIVEOCLOCKWHISTLE
- 70 Across: I (3)
- EGO
- 72 Across: Guthrie (4)
- ARLO
- 73 Across: Martha of movies (4)
- RAYE
- 74 Across: Mediterranean vessels (7)
- LATEENS
- 77 Across: Bumpkin (4)
- LOUT
- 79 Across: Wall Street word (4)
- SELL
- 81 Across: Maidservant, in Maidstone (6)
- SLAVEY
- 83 Across: Mosquito's cousin (4)
- GNAT
- 84 Across: Tether (5)
- STRAP
- 86 Across: Rio Treaty seq. (3)
- OAS
- 88 Across: Declares (5)
- AVERS
- 89 Across: Give it ___ (attempt) (4)
- ATRY
- 90 Across: "Let grievous . . . wounds/Untwine the ___!": Shak. (12)
- SISTERSTHREE
- 94 Across: Lucy's landlady (5)
- ETHEL
- 95 Across: Thin linen (4)
- LAWN
- 96 Across: Is zetetic (5)
- SEEKS
- 97 Across: Bridge ploy (7)
- FINESSE
- 99 Across: End of a countdown (8)
- BLASTOFF
- 103 Across: B.&O. and L.I. (3)
- RRS
- 104 Across: Gina's darlings (4)
- CARI
- 105 Across: Gradient (4)
- RAMP
- 106 Across: Polo implement (6)
- MALLET
- 108 Across: Shine (9)
- IRRADIATE
- 113 Across: "Urbi et ___" (papal benediction) (4)
- ORBI
- 114 Across: This deserves another (11)
- ONEGOODTURN
- 116 Across: Dispatch (4)
- SLAY
- 117 Across: Calcar (4)
- OVEN
- 118 Across: Skiddoos (5)
- SCATS
- 119 Across: Very, to a virtuoso (5)
- ASSAI
- 120 Across: Garage job, for short (4)
- LUBE
- 121 Across: Viking target (4)
- MARS
- 122 Across: Kinski role (4)
- TESS
- 123 Across: Thermae (5)
- BATHS
- 124 Across: Ratites (4)
- EMUS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Crisp cookie (4)
- SNAP
- 2 Down: Motorist's duty (4)
- TOLL
- 3 Down: Hindu asceticism (4)
- YOGA
- 4 Down: Bony photo (4)
- XRAY
- 5 Down: King-jack combination (6)
- TENACE
- 6 Down: Vinegar (6)
- ACETUM
- 7 Down: Major ___ of radio fame (5)
- BOWES
- 8 Down: Robert and Nellie (4)
- BLYS
- 9 Down: River in England (3)
- YEO
- 10 Down: Where Pres. Carstens works (4)
- BONN
- 11 Down: Arabian peers (5)
- EMIRS
- 12 Down: Time-study unit (7)
- MANYEAR
- 13 Down: "Dinner ___," 1933 song (7)
- ATEIGHT
- 14 Down: By dribs and drabs (9)
- PIECEMEAL
- 15 Down: "Flow gently, sweet ___" (5)
- AFTON
- 16 Down: Quick quaff (5)
- SNORT
- 17 Down: Submerges (5)
- SINKS
- 20 Down: Distorting (7)
- SKEWING
- 24 Down: It meets the Saône at Lyon (5)
- RHONE
- 27 Down: Legal offenses (4)
- MALA
- 31 Down: Speed-regulating device (8)
- GOVERNOR
- 33 Down: My, to Marius (4)
- MEUS
- 34 Down: Fish: Comb. form (5)
- PISCI
- 35 Down: Spur part (5)
- ROWEL
- 36 Down: Meekly creeping (10)
- ONALLFOURS
- 37 Down: A-test atoll (6)
- BIKINI
- 38 Down: Episodic (6)
- SERIAL
- 39 Down: Grandfatherly (4)
- AVAL
- 42 Down: Dep. (3)
- STA
- 43 Down: South Bend team, for short (5)
- IRISH
- 44 Down: Semiquavers (10)
- SIXTEENTHS
- 46 Down: Also-rans (6)
- LOSERS
- 47 Down: Shoe part (6)
- INSOLE
- 50 Down: B'klyn campus (3)
- LIU
- 51 Down: Break a Commandment (3)
- SIN
- 54 Down: Bags for Blasco (5)
- SACAS
- 56 Down: Circumventer (6)
- FOILER
- 57 Down: Emerson works (6)
- ESSAYS
- 60 Down: Walk in space, for short (3)
- EVA
- 62 Down: Frolics (8)
- SKYLARKS
- 64 Down: Baseball's Master Melvin (3)
- OTT
- 67 Down: Kind of guard (5)
- COLOR
- 68 Down: Entwines (6)
- WEAVES
- 69 Down: Ambassador (6)
- LEGATE
- 70 Down: Chi. transportation (3)
- ELS
- 71 Down: Caught (3)
- GOT
- 75 Down: Nostrils (5)
- NARES
- 76 Down: Art Deco, e.g. (5)
- STYLE
- 78 Down: Barnstormers' stunts (9)
- TAILSPINS
- 80 Down: Colleen (4)
- LASS
- 82 Down: Fin (3)
- VEE
- 85 Down: Junior's exam (4)
- PSAT
- 87 Down: Binaural systems, for short (7)
- STEREOS
- 91 Down: "Poet and Saint! . . . The ___ sacred names": Cowley (7)
- TWOMOST
- 92 Down: Childhood, in Cherbourg (7)
- ENFANCE
- 93 Down: "Leave ___ heaven": Shak. (5)
- HERTO
- 94 Down: Chisholm Trail town (4)
- ENID
- 97 Down: Actress Fawcett (6)
- FARRAH
- 98 Down: Natives of Isfahan (6)
- IRANIS
- 99 Down: Besom, e.g. (5)
- BROOM
- 100 Down: Pupa predecessor (5)
- LARVA
- 101 Down: Brownish yellow (5)
- AMBER
- 102 Down: Fido's tormentors (5)
- FLEAS
- 104 Down: Audacity (5)
- CRUST
- 107 Down: Illum. devices (4)
- LGTS
- 108 Down: "___ deal!" (4)
- ITSA
- 109 Down: Wight or Man (4)
- ISLE
- 110 Down: Styptic stuff (4)
- ALUM
- 111 Down: Ban (4)
- TABU
- 112 Down: "Hungry ___," Twitty hit (4)
- EYES
- 115 Down: Flounder (3)
- DAB
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