LITERARY SOBRIQUETS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 168 clues). Published 8/7/1983. By George Rose Smith.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Fabricated report (6)
- CANARD
- 7 Across: Spike the punch (4)
- LACE
- 11 Across: Calif. county (4)
- NAPA
- 15 Across: Navy rank equal to Col. (4)
- CAPT
- 19 Across: Thoroughfare (6)
- AVENUE
- 20 Across: "The ___ of Greece . . . ": Byron (5)
- ISLES
- 22 Across: Elsinore courtier (5)
- OSRIC
- 24 Across: To shelter (4)
- ALEE
- 25 Across: Barrie's "Little Minister" (12)
- GAVINDISHART
- 27 Across: Bolt's "Man for All Seasons" (10)
- THOMASMORE
- 29 Across: Top of a gamut (3)
- ELA
- 30 Across: Colored (6)
- TINTED
- 31 Across: ___ as a beet (5)
- ASRED
- 33 Across: Jonathan's cousin (6)
- PIPPIN
- 34 Across: Capital of Calvados (4)
- CAEN
- 35 Across: Cross: Comb. form (5)
- STAUR
- 36 Across: Procreator (4)
- SIRE
- 37 Across: Golf or tennis term (3)
- ACE
- 40 Across: Felix Krull's creator (4)
- MANN
- 41 Across: Calorie (5)
- THERM
- 42 Across: Marine shipping cost (8)
- WATERAGE
- 46 Across: Wail (7)
- ULULATE
- 48 Across: Hale's "Man Without a Country" (11)
- PHILIPNOLAN
- 50 Across: Nut, for Nero (3)
- NUX
- 51 Across: Treat (6)
- REGALE
- 52 Across: Listless (5)
- MOONY
- 53 Across: Bowl (4)
- OVAL
- 54 Across: Quick cut (4)
- SNIP
- 55 Across: Kind of act (5)
- OVERT
- 56 Across: Natural talent (5)
- DOWRY
- 57 Across: Small amount (5)
- SHRED
- 59 Across: Luigi's foot (5)
- PIEDE
- 60 Across: Tear (4)
- REND
- 61 Across: Goalie Peeters (4)
- PETE
- 62 Across: Mark of literature (5)
- TWAIN
- 63 Across: "Laura" lyricist (6)
- MERCER
- 64 Across: Onassis (3)
- ARI
- 65 Across: Steele's "Man Who Saw Through Heaven" (11)
- HUBERTDIANA
- 68 Across: China, Japan, etc. (7)
- FAREAST
- 69 Across: Mature ones (6)
- ADULTS
- 71 Across: Very much (5)
- REAMS
- 72 Across: Prepared (6)
- ALLSET
- 73 Across: Shelters of a kind (7)
- GARAGES
- 75 Across: Chesterton's "Man Who Was Thursday" (11)
- GABRIELSYME
- 77 Across: D.C. monogram (3)
- HST
- 80 Across: Washed away (6)
- ERODED
- 81 Across: Home of Petruchio's bride (5)
- PADUA
- 82 Across: Air: Comb. form (4)
- ATMO
- 83 Across: Key letter (4)
- BETA
- 84 Across: Philanthropist (5)
- DONOR
- 85 Across: Left Bank chapeau (5)
- BERET
- 86 Across: Patrick of films (5)
- MAGEE
- 88 Across: Decree in Canada (5)
- ARRET
- 89 Across: Bombs that bomb (4)
- DUDS
- 90 Across: Middle East resident (4)
- KURD
- 91 Across: Interdict (5)
- DEBAR
- 92 Across: Ina of stage and screen (6)
- CLAIRE
- 93 Across: Vane dir. (3)
- ESE
- 94 Across: Hubbard's bearer of "A Message to Garcia" (11)
- ANDREWROWAN
- 97 Across: "Now, ___ and Vixen!" (7)
- PRANCER
- 98 Across: Study of immunity (8)
- SEROLOGY
- 100 Across: Met basso (5)
- HINES
- 101 Across: Kin in Barcelona (4)
- TIOS
- 102 Across: Boxers' stats. (3)
- KOS
- 103 Across: "Battle Hymn . . . " composer (4)
- HOWE
- 104 Across: Creator of Alice the Goon (5)
- SEGAR
- 105 Across: Stirs to activity (4)
- FANS
- 106 Across: Potassium source (6)
- BANANA
- 109 Across: "Whither thou ___ . . . " (5)
- GOEST
- 110 Across: Most delicate (6)
- FINEST
- 112 Across: Layer or thickness (3)
- PLY
- 115 Across: Welty's "Optimist's Daughter" (10)
- LAURELHAND
- 117 Across: Scott's "Lady of the Lake" (12)
- ELLENDOUGLAS
- 120 Across: Bombeck (4)
- ERMA
- 121 Across: Permitted (5)
- LEGAL
- 122 Across: Rhone tributary (5)
- SAONE
- 123 Across: Brought to nought (6)
- UNDONE
- 124 Across: Tissues (4)
- WEBS
- 125 Across: Female equine (4)
- MARE
- 126 Across: Foxx from St. Louis (4)
- REDD
- 127 Across: Bed's canopy (6)
- TESTER
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Bingo device (4)
- CAGE
- 2 Down: Of grandparents (4)
- AVAL
- 3 Down: Russian river (4)
- NEVA
- 4 Down: Black bird (3)
- ANI
- 5 Down: Midget (4)
- RUNT
- 6 Down: Devote (8)
- DEDICATE
- 7 Down: Lend an ear (6)
- LISTEN
- 8 Down: White with fright (5)
- ASHEN
- 9 Down: Not nude (4)
- CLAD
- 10 Down: Suffix with auction or profit (3)
- EER
- 11 Down: Bridge bid (7)
- NOTRUMP
- 12 Down: Jacob's eighth son (5)
- ASHER
- 13 Down: Jab (4)
- PROD
- 14 Down: Purpose (3)
- AIM
- 15 Down: Room on wheels (6)
- CAMPER
- 16 Down: Unbalanced (4)
- ALOP
- 17 Down: Elf (4)
- PERI
- 18 Down: Youngster (4)
- TEEN
- 21 Down: Impressive (7)
- STATELY
- 23 Down: Jolly good (7)
- CAPITAL
- 26 Down: Fatuous (5)
- INANE
- 28 Down: Seductive one (5)
- SIREN
- 32 Down: Hindu attire (4)
- SARI
- 35 Down: Lustrous (5)
- SHINY
- 36 Down: Chef's creation (5)
- SALAD
- 37 Down: Dawn (6)
- AURORA
- 38 Down: Resourceful (6)
- CLEVER
- 39 Down: A. C. Doyle's "Veiled Lodger" (13)
- EUGENIARONDER
- 40 Down: Beer ingredient (4)
- MALT
- 41 Down: Son of Odin (4)
- THOR
- 42 Down: Produced on a loom (5)
- WOVEN
- 43 Down: Wilkie Collins's "Woman in White" (13)
- ANNECATHERICK
- 44 Down: Cicerones (6)
- GUIDES
- 45 Down: Skillful (6)
- EXPERT
- 47 Down: Cooking staple (4)
- LARD
- 48 Down: Proverbial corrupter (5)
- POWER
- 49 Down: Water wheel (5)
- NORIA
- 52 Down: Cornea irritants (5)
- MOTES
- 54 Down: "Yes ___!" (5)
- SIREE
- 56 Down: Word on a dollar bill (5)
- DEBTS
- 57 Down: Mystic (5)
- SWAMI
- 58 Down: Medieval guild (5)
- HANSE
- 59 Down: Intrinsically (5)
- PERSE
- 61 Down: Whined (5)
- PULED
- 62 Down: Papal headdress (5)
- TIARA
- 63 Down: Swedish seaport (5)
- MALMO
- 65 Down: More gigantic (5)
- HUGER
- 66 Down: Swap (5)
- TRADE
- 67 Down: Opening (5)
- DEBUT
- 68 Down: "___ to the Moon" (5)
- FLYME
- 70 Down: Grooves (5)
- DADOS
- 72 Down: Fall flower (5)
- ASTER
- 73 Down: Barbara Bel ___ (6)
- GEDDES
- 74 Down: Excite (6)
- AROUSE
- 75 Down: Avant-___ (5)
- GARDE
- 76 Down: Some sunken goods (5)
- LAGAN
- 78 Down: Music buff's purchase (6)
- STEREO
- 79 Down: Spuds (6)
- TATERS
- 81 Down: Victor at Lake Erie (5)
- PERRY
- 83 Down: Breakfast dish (4)
- BRAN
- 85 Down: U.S. tennis champ: 1937 (5)
- BUDGE
- 86 Down: Gull or kitten (5)
- MEWER
- 87 Down: Gallic rebel's word (4)
- ABAS
- 88 Down: Soliloquy opener (4)
- ALAS
- 90 Down: Wiseacre (7)
- KNOWALL
- 91 Down: Does one's bit (7)
- DONATES
- 92 Down: Cancel; dele (8)
- CROSSOUT
- 94 Down: Set apart (5)
- ALONE
- 95 Down: Cajole (7)
- WHEEDLE
- 96 Down: Controls dishonestly (4)
- RIGS
- 97 Down: Brooded (5)
- PINED
- 99 Down: Family in a 1936 novel (6)
- OHARAS
- 101 Down: Thumped (6)
- TANNED
- 104 Down: Detector at sea (5)
- SONAR
- 105 Down: Buff (5)
- FIEND
- 106 Down: Lammed (4)
- BLEW
- 107 Down: Bern's river (4)
- AARE
- 108 Down: Feeling nothing (4)
- NUMB
- 109 Down: Nutty (4)
- GAGA
- 110 Down: Arctic sight (4)
- FLOE
- 111 Down: Air (4)
- TUNE
- 112 Down: Gunpowder, for one (4)
- PLOT
- 113 Down: Abbe or Lois (4)
- LANE
- 114 Down: Battle site: Oct. 1914 (4)
- YSER
- 116 Down: ___ and haw (3)
- HEM
- 118 Down: Small ape (3)
- LAR
- 119 Down: Mdse. (3)
- GDS
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