ROLE 'EM! - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 9/25/1983. By A. J. Santora.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Feast at Waikiki (4)
- LUAU
- 5 Across: Cook on a grill (5)
- BROIL
- 10 Across: Florida city (5)
- OCALA
- 15 Across: Portmanteau word (4)
- SMOG
- 19 Across: Elec. units (4)
- AMPS
- 20 Across: Nancy's friend in comics (5)
- ROLLO
- 21 Across: Italian "Cleopatra": 1954 (5)
- LOREN
- 22 Across: Setting for Leigh and Gable (4)
- TARA
- 23 Across: Charles Boyer: 1938 (10)
- PEPELEMOKO
- 25 Across: Clint Eastwood: 1971 (10)
- DIRTYHARRY
- 27 Across: With 48 Down, Sinatra film: 1957 (3)
- PAL
- 28 Across: Always (4)
- EVER
- 29 Across: Surgical instrument (6)
- STILET
- 31 Across: Plant of the parsley family (5)
- ANISE
- 32 Across: Enthusiastic (5)
- EAGER
- 34 Across: Request (6)
- BEHEST
- 35 Across: Like some screens (4)
- WIDE
- 36 Across: Soviet news service (4)
- TASS
- 37 Across: Think (5)
- OPINE
- 39 Across: Lamb stew (7)
- HARICOT
- 42 Across: Bearded, as barley (5)
- AWNED
- 43 Across: Biographer Leon (4)
- EDEL
- 44 Across: Piquant (5)
- SAUCY
- 46 Across: Merkel of films (3)
- UNA
- 47 Across: Mount climbed by Moses (5)
- SINAI
- 48 Across: Robert Duvall: 1972 (10)
- JESSEJAMES
- 50 Across: V.P.'s boss (4)
- PRES
- 51 Across: "___ Love You" (3)
- PSI
- 52 Across: G.I. on French leave (4)
- AWOL
- 54 Across: Looked cheerful (6)
- SMILED
- 55 Across: Developed motion-picture film (5)
- 56 Across: Most vaporous (9)
- STEAMIEST
- 59 Across: Sheep genus (4)
- OVIS
- 60 Across: ___ vivre (6)
- JOIEDE
- 61 Across: Like some R-rated films (4)
- GORY
- 62 Across: Loss of breath (5)
- APNEA
- 64 Across: Tape erasures (4)
- GAPS
- 65 Across: Complain (6)
- REPINE
- 68 Across: Rosebud of "Citizen Kane" (4)
- SLED
- 69 Across: Guest at the club (9)
- NONMEMBER
- 74 Across: "___ New York" (5)
- INOLD
- 75 Across: Ravel hit (6)
- BOLERO
- 77 Across: "Rosemary's ___" (4)
- BABY
- 78 Across: Prefix with spore or sphere (3)
- EXO
- 79 Across: Field mouse (4)
- VOLE
- 80 Across: Cary Grant: 1946 (10)
- COLEPORTER
- 82 Across: ___ Bell (Emily Brontë) (5)
- ELLIS
- 84 Across: "Knute Rockne, ___ American" (3)
- ALL
- 85 Across: Fashion-show attendee (5)
- BUYER
- 86 Across: Jacks of clubs (4)
- PAMS
- 87 Across: Barbra Streisand: 1969 (5)
- DOLLY
- 88 Across: Like a wedding cake (7)
- LAYERED
- 90 Across: Follower of knock or weak (5)
- KNEED
- 92 Across: Curved arch (4)
- OGEE
- 93 Across: Bad guys in W.W. II films (4)
- AXIS
- 94 Across: Allot (6)
- ASSIGN
- 97 Across: Deep void (5)
- ABYSS
- 99 Across: Provide (5)
- ENDUE
- 101 Across: Mall (6)
- ARCADE
- 102 Across: Chemical suffix (4)
- INOL
- 103 Across: Beige's kin (3)
- TAN
- 106 Across: Gert Frobe: 1964 (10)
- GOLDFINGER
- 108 Across: Rosalind Russell: 1958 (10)
- AUNTIEMAME
- 111 Across: Kind of club (4)
- GLEE
- 112 Across: Newman-Redford film, with "The" (5)
- STING
- 113 Across: Meetings (5)
- DATES
- 114 Across: Syria. once (4)
- ARAM
- 115 Across: Compound (4)
- YARD
- 116 Across: Scuffle (5)
- MELEE
- 117 Across: Notched, as a leaf (5)
- EROSE
- 118 Across: Thereabouts (4)
- ORSO
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Arctic nomad (4)
- LAPP
- 2 Down: Swedish port (4)
- UMEA
- 3 Down: Bette Davis: 1961 (10)
- APPLEANNIE
- 4 Down: Kind of tax (3)
- USE
- 5 Down: Musical note (5)
- BREVE
- 6 Down: Doc Holliday: 1939 (6)
- ROMERO
- 7 Down: Swan genus (4)
- OLOR
- 8 Down: Type (3)
- ILK
- 9 Down: Laxity (9)
- LOOSENESS
- 10 Down: Silent film, e.g. (5)
- OLDIE
- 11 Down: Spirals (5)
- COILS
- 12 Down: Word on a Montreal stop sign (5)
- ARRET
- 13 Down: Baltic citizen (4)
- LETT
- 14 Down: Some of a sum (3)
- ANY
- 15 Down: Locus ___ (right to be heard) (6)
- STANDI
- 16 Down: Greer Garson: 1943 (10)
- MARIECURIE
- 17 Down: Stowe's "The Pearl of ___ Island" (4)
- ORRS
- 18 Down: Marvin of recording fame (4)
- GAYE
- 24 Down: Ray Danton: 1960 (11)
- LEGSDIAMOND
- 26 Down: Comous (5)
- HAIRY
- 30 Down: Bob Hope: 1951 (15)
- THELEMONDROPKID
- 33 Down: On the Celebes (4)
- ASEA
- 34 Down: Contract proposals (4)
- BIDS
- 35 Down: G.I. Janes of W.W. II (4)
- WACS
- 36 Down: Jackie Coogan: 1922 (5)
- TWIST
- 38 Down: Strips (5)
- PEELS
- 39 Down: Colored (4)
- HUED
- 40 Down: Upright (5)
- ONEND
- 41 Down: Art appreciation (5)
- TASTE
- 42 Down: Kin of daboias (4)
- ASPS
- 44 Down: Of a Frankish people (6)
- SALIAN
- 45 Down: "Peyton Place" denizen: 1957 (4)
- AMES
- 48 Down: See 27 Across (4)
- JOEY
- 49 Down: Hipster's patter (4)
- JIVE
- 50 Down: Polyhedron (5)
- PRISM
- 53 Down: Litz, e.g. (4)
- WIRE
- 55 Down: Gene Hackman: 1971 (11)
- POPEYEDOYLE
- 57 Down: Nimble (5)
- AGILE
- 58 Down: More up in the world (6)
- TALLER
- 60 Down: Door-frame piece (4)
- JAMB
- 63 Down: Coop sound (4)
- PEEP
- 64 Down: Growl (4)
- GNAR
- 65 Down: Compete with (5)
- RIVAL
- 66 Down: ___ Gay, famed plane (5)
- ENOLA
- 67 Down: Shelley Winters: 1964 (10)
- POLLYADLER
- 68 Down: Fish entree (4)
- SOLE
- 70 Down: Like Arbuckle (5)
- OBESE
- 71 Down: Jane Russell: 1951 (10)
- BELLESTARR
- 72 Down: Banishment (5)
- EXILE
- 73 Down: Cheerful (4)
- ROSY
- 75 Down: Hopalong Cassidy: 1935 (4)
- BOYD
- 76 Down: Soft drink (9)
- ORANGEADE
- 80 Down: What directors give (4)
- CUES
- 81 Down: Agents, in some films (4)
- TMEN
- 83 Down: Firewood (4)
- LOGS
- 85 Down: Like a trailer from Hollywood (5)
- BRIEF
- 89 Down: Oozed forth (6)
- EXUDED
- 91 Down: Robert Donat: 1934 (6)
- DANTES
- 94 Down: Potter's clay (5)
- ARGIL
- 95 Down: Film shot (5)
- SCENE
- 96 Down: Title for Silvers in "You'll Never Get Rich" (5)
- SARGE
- 98 Down: Capital NW of Salt Lake City (5)
- BOISE
- 99 Down: Like omelets (4)
- EGGY
- 100 Down: Lopez theme song (4)
- NOLA
- 101 Down: Pay for a hand (4)
- ANTE
- 102 Down: "Journey ___ Fear," 1942 film (4)
- INTO
- 104 Down: Latin lover's word? (4)
- AMAS
- 105 Down: James Mason: 1954 (4)
- NEMO
- 107 Down: Doctrine (3)
- ISM
- 109 Down: Erstwhile Arab rep. (3)
- UAR
- 110 Down: Little Red Book author (3)
- MAO
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