PLAYING WITH MATCHES - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 7/3/1983. By Jim Page.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Sailors' saint (4)
- ELMO
- 5 Across: Warp yarn (3)
- ABB
- 8 Across: Part of R.S.V.P. (3)
- SIL
- 11 Across: Draw out (5)
- EDUCE
- 16 Across: Foreign (5)
- ALIEN
- 17 Across: $5 bill (3)
- VEE
- 18 Across: Chemical suffix (3)
- ENE
- 19 Across: Shadowboxed (7)
- SPARRED
- 21 Across: Tuskincisor (13)
- CLENCHEDTEETH
- 24 Across: Presidential hopeful (7)
- MONDALE
- 25 Across: Sesame (3)
- TIL
- 26 Across: Vega's constellation (4)
- LYRA
- 27 Across: RaymondKelly (12)
- SPLICEDGENES
- 29 Across: Throwshag (10)
- HOOKEDRUGS
- 32 Across: Inspires wonder (4)
- AWES
- 33 Across: A Gershwin (3)
- IRA
- 34 Across: Brace (3)
- TWO
- 35 Across: Midianite king (4)
- REBA
- 36 Across: Loam deposit (5)
- LOESS
- 39 Across: ___ Shams University, in Cairo (3)
- AIN
- 40 Across: Fill the bases (4)
- LOAD
- 42 Across: London insurance company (6)
- LLOYDS
- 44 Across: Used a dory (6)
- BOATED
- 47 Across: British statesman and family (6)
- BEVANS
- 50 Across: Clare Boothe and Henry (5)
- LUCES
- 51 Across: Beats (6)
- PULSES
- 52 Across: Rub clean (5)
- ERASE
- 53 Across: Platterdisk (12)
- STUCKRECORDS
- 56 Across: Ho of Hawaii (3)
- DON
- 57 Across: Shallow-draft vessel (7)
- SHARPIE
- 59 Across: Profit's opposite (4)
- LOSS
- 60 Across: Blind as ___ (4)
- ABAT
- 64 Across: Same, to Seneca (4)
- IDEM
- 66 Across: Three-time champ (3)
- ALI
- 67 Across: Rickover was one: Abbr. (3)
- ADM
- 69 Across: Book by Dos Passos (3)
- USA
- 70 Across: Korean border river (4)
- YALU
- 71 Across: ___ Verde National Park (4)
- MESA
- 72 Across: Cornea irritant (4)
- MOTE
- 74 Across: Barrel-binding group (7)
- HOOPERS
- 77 Across: Sohrab, to Rustum (3)
- SON
- 78 Across: Dynegravity (12)
- JOINEDFORCES
- 81 Across: Straighten ranks (5)
- ALINE
- 83 Across: Aaron specialties (6)
- CLOUTS
- 85 Across: "___ Chan," T. N. Page book (5)
- MARSE
- 86 Across: "___ Restaurant" (6)
- ALICES
- 87 Across: Hilliard-Mann song: 1950 (6)
- DEARIE
- 88 Across: Weedy rye grass (6)
- DARNEL
- 89 Across: Feds (4)
- GMEN
- 90 Across: Blotter target (3)
- INK
- 91 Across: Siberian holes (5)
- MINES
- 92 Across: Grim Grimm character (4)
- OGRE
- 94 Across: Rheine's river (3)
- EMS
- 97 Across: Memphis-to-Mobile dir. (3)
- SSE
- 98 Across: Mil. units (4)
- RGTS
- 100 Across: Carboniron (10)
- STEELUNION
- 103 Across: Beannoodle (12)
- BUMPINGHEADS
- 108 Across: Diamond from Brooklyn (4)
- NEIL
- 109 Across: One of a comic trio (3)
- MOE
- 110 Across: Small spaces (7)
- AREOLAE
- 111 Across: CarrySenecas (13)
- UNITEDNATIONS
- 114 Across: Pipe smokers' devices (7)
- REAMERS
- 115 Across: ___ Tin Tin (3)
- RIN
- 116 Across: Cat has one to cross (3)
- TEE
- 117 Across: Makes an incised mark (5)
- RASES
- 118 Across: Dates set for attacks (5)
- DDAYS
- 119 Across: Bullring shout (3)
- OLE
- 120 Across: Slip up (3)
- ERR
- 121 Across: Pteroid (4)
- ALAR
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Win ___, former radio emcee (6)
- ELLIOT
- 2 Down: Stay in hiding (6)
- LIELOW
- 3 Down: Kingsley's "___ in White" (3)
- MEN
- 4 Down: "Mon ___," Tati film (5)
- ONCLE
- 5 Down: Declared (7)
- AVERRED
- 6 Down: Smear (6)
- BEDAUB
- 7 Down: Big A venture (3)
- BET
- 8 Down: Trickle through (4)
- SEEP
- 9 Down: Worldwide: Abbr. (4)
- INTL
- 10 Down: City near Utah Lake (4)
- LEHI
- 11 Down: Pindar's last stanza, e.g. (5)
- EPODE
- 12 Down: Euphemistic expletives (5)
- DANGS
- 13 Down: Like some heraldic crosses (4)
- URDE
- 14 Down: Having a skull (8)
- CRANIATE
- 15 Down: Where congers congregate (8)
- EELERIES
- 16 Down: Pituitary-gland hormone (4)
- ACTH
- 19 Down: Mergansers (5)
- SMEWS
- 20 Down: Rid of grit (6)
- DESAND
- 22 Down: Freshwater polyps (6)
- HYDRAS
- 23 Down: Hairpin turn (3)
- ESS
- 28 Down: Squire in "Silas Marner" (4)
- CASS
- 30 Down: Trees bearing valuable nuts (5)
- KOLAS
- 31 Down: Pollster of note (6)
- GALLUP
- 36 Down: Saxantler (11)
- LOCKEDHORNS
- 37 Down: ___ and terminer (4)
- OYER
- 38 Down: Ford's lemon (5)
- EDSEL
- 41 Down: A sawbuck has 10 (4)
- ONES
- 43 Down: St. ___ (Windward island) (5)
- LUCIA
- 44 Down: College treasurer (6)
- BURSAR
- 45 Down: Outworn (3)
- OLD
- 46 Down: Ore analysis (5)
- ASSAY
- 47 Down: Obscure (5)
- BEDIM
- 48 Down: Wear away (5)
- ERODE
- 49 Down: Roosters on spires (5)
- VANES
- 51 Down: Peace officers, oater style (6)
- POSSES
- 53 Down: Arty parties (6)
- SALONS
- 54 Down: Like a cliché (5)
- TRITE
- 55 Down: Creamy dessert (5)
- COUPE
- 58 Down: Tuareg or Berber (6)
- HAMITE
- 61 Down: Fundamental (5)
- BASIC
- 62 Down: Byrd book (5)
- ALONE
- 63 Down: Cahn-Styne products (5)
- TUNES
- 65 Down: Barbara or Hoople (5)
- MAJOR
- 68 Down: Common code (5)
- MORSE
- 73 Down: He wrote "Philosopher's Holiday" (5)
- EDMAN
- 75 Down: Black-spotted cat (6)
- OCELOT
- 76 Down: Event on G.W.'s birthday (4)
- SALE
- 79 Down: Quebec affirmative (3)
- OUI
- 80 Down: Diet (4)
- FARE
- 82 Down: Material from flax (5)
- LINEN
- 83 Down: Showed disapproval (8)
- CENSURED
- 84 Down: Hoover Dam formation (8)
- LAKEMEAD
- 86 Down: Novel by Fielding (6)
- AMELIA
- 87 Down: Expel a lawyer (6)
- DISBAR
- 88 Down: Spode piece (4)
- DISH
- 89 Down: Like some pastures (7)
- GREENER
- 91 Down: F.H.A. concerns (5)
- MTGES
- 93 Down: Neuter, for one (6)
- GENDER
- 95 Down: The sensitive plant (6)
- MIMOSA
- 96 Down: Squatter in 1889 (6)
- SOONER
- 98 Down: The Hoosier poet (5)
- RILEY
- 99 Down: Growls from Fido (5)
- GNARS
- 100 Down: J.F.K. sight (3)
- SST
- 101 Down: Excessive (5)
- ULTRA
- 102 Down: Stack TV role (4)
- NESS
- 104 Down: Fruits for Virgil (4)
- POMA
- 105 Down: Kind of dollar (4)
- EURO
- 106 Down: Indigo (4)
- ANIL
- 107 Down: Eat in style (4)
- DINE
- 112 Down: Juin, juillet et août (3)
- ETE
- 113 Down: Suffix with baron or manor (3)
- IAL
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