"BAH! HUMBUG!" - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 12/18/1983. By Martha J. De Witt.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Stack (4)
HEAP
5 Across: S.F.B., the inventor (5)
MORSE
10 Across: Impofo (5)
ELAND
15 Across: Octagonal sign (4)
STOP
19 Across: Maumee Bay feeder (4)
ERIE
20 Across: He wrote "The Hollow Men" (5)
ELIOT
21 Across: Of the cheek (5)
MALAR
22 Across: Buzzy place (4)
HIVE
23 Across: Nonsense (10)
BALDERDASH
25 Across: Nonsense (10)
BILGEWATER
27 Across: Piths (8)
ESSENCES
28 Across: Complete (5)
EVERY
30 Across: Recoil (6)
SHRINK
31 Across: Suffix with hip or tip (4)
STER
32 Across: Foxx (4)
REDD
33 Across: Placebo (3)
SOP
34 Across: Walking on air (6)
ELATED
37 Across: Gibes (5)
JEERS
39 Across: Pug's vulnerability (8)
GLASSJAW
44 Across: Having rounded projections (5)
LOBAR
45 Across: Its capital is Khartoum (5)
SUDAN
46 Across: Wearying time (5)
SIEGE
47 Across: Opposite of dep. (3)
ARR
48 Across: Jeune fille (4)
GIRL
49 Across: Nonsense (11)
FIDDLEDEDEE
51 Across: Shelter: Fr. (4)
ABRI
52 Across: Southern constellation (3)
ARA
53 Across: Not bright or clean (5)
DINGY
54 Across: Tots (4)
ADDS
55 Across: Euphoniums, e.g. (5)
TUBAS
56 Across: What a weak battery needs (8)
RECHARGE
58 Across: Wine variety (5)
TOKAY
60 Across: Enthusiastic (6)
ARDENT
61 Across: ___ Semple McPherson (5)
AIMEE
62 Across: Apollyon (5)
SATAN
63 Across: ___ obscure (chiaroscuro) (5)
CLAIR
64 Across: Dipped out (6)
LADLED
66 Across: Metric measure of capacity (5)
LITER
67 Across: Put a tail on (8)
SHADOWED
70 Across: Menilites, e.g. (5)
OPALS
71 Across: Andrews from Miss. (4)
DANA
72 Across: Goggle (5)
STARE
73 Across: Wood sorrel (3)
OCA
74 Across: Spiny-finned fish (4)
GOBY
75 Across: Nonsense (11)
GIMCRACKERY
78 Across: Acidity (4)
ACOR
79 Across: Drop a fly (3)
ERR
80 Across: Simile or metaphor (5)
TROPE
81 Across: Kind of cow (5)
DAIRY
82 Across: Tarsus (5)
ANKLE
83 Across: Sci-fi movie (8)
STARWARS
85 Across: Sudra, for one (5)
CASTE
86 Across: Entreated (6)
PRAYED
87 Across: German article (3)
EIN
88 Across: Hoover and Roosevelt (4)
DAMS
89 Across: One means of travel (4)
FEET
90 Across: Post again (6)
RESEND
93 Across: Compendious (5)
TERSE
94 Across: Possible victim of xenophobia (8)
NEWCOMER
98 Across: Nonsense (10)
APPLESAUCE
100 Across: Nonsense (10)
TRIVIALITY
102 Across: Players, in the cat's absence (4)
MICE
103 Across: "Like it ___!" (5)
ORNOT
104 Across: Dogma (5)
TENET
105 Across: Toward the center (4)
INTO
106 Across: Part of U.S.N.A. (4)
ACAD
107 Across: Comes close (5)
NEARS
108 Across: Tinker's target (5)
EVERS
109 Across: Medical subj. (4)
ANAT

Down Answers

1 Down: Ganymede's predecessor (4)
HEBE
2 Down: Time periods (4)
ERAS
3 Down: Is not in the pink (4)
AILS
4 Down: Hero's spot (8)
PEDESTAL
5 Down: Yosemite river (6)
MERCED
6 Down: Senior (5)
OLDER
7 Down: U.S. radio station in Berlin (4)
RIAS
8 Down: Mayday's cousin (3)
SOS
9 Down: Delicate (8)
ETHEREAL
10 Down: Fixes firmly (6)
EMBEDS
11 Down: Scotch landowner (5)
LAIRD
12 Down: Confederate (4)
ALLY
13 Down: Carp (3)
NAG
14 Down: Horse-training art (8)
DRESSAGE
15 Down: Sings above true pitch (6)
SHARPS
16 Down: Monkey, marmoset or tree (4)
TITI
17 Down: Pizzeria's sine qua non (4)
OVEN
18 Down: Freshen, with "up" (4)
PERK
24 Down: Put in a ledger (5)
ENTER
26 Down: Sayers's "___ Body?" (5)
WHOSE
29 Down: Early sci-fi author (5)
VERNE
34 Down: "Pomp and Circumstance" composer (5)
ELGAR
35 Down: Nantes's river (5)
LOIRE
36 Down: Nonsense (11)
ABRACADABRA
37 Down: Deem (5)
JUDGE
38 Down: Nelson, the singer (4)
EDDY
39 Down: Lightheaded (5)
GIDDY
40 Down: Cobb and Marvin (4)
LEES
41 Down: Nonsense (11)
JABBERWOCKY
42 Down: Island off Scotland (5)
ARRAN
43 Down: Carpus (5)
WRIST
45 Down: Char (5)
SINGE
46 Down: Kind of chair (5)
SEDAN
49 Down: Lit (5)
FIRED
50 Down: Senegal's capital (5)
DAKAR
51 Down: Complement of video (5)
AUDIO
53 Down: "South Pacific" group (5)
DAMES
55 Down: Kind of mark or wind (5)
TRADE
57 Down: Having grades (5)
HILLY
58 Down: Medieval invader of eastern Europe (5)
TATAR
59 Down: Suffix with Capri (3)
OTE
60 Down: Wing-shaped (5)
ALARY
62 Down: Subsequently (5)
SINCE
63 Down: Cautious (5)
CHARY
64 Down: Theater sections (5)
LOGES
65 Down: Opposite of "to starboard" (5)
APORT
66 Down: Illuminators (5)
LAMPS
67 Down: Cordwood measure (5)
STERE
68 Down: College, in Calais (5)
ECOLE
69 Down: Belled the cat (5)
DARED
71 Down: Fashion name (4)
DIOR
72 Down: Part of a revue (4)
SKIT
75 Down: Enos, to Adam (8)
GRANDSON
76 Down: Smith and Bede (5)
ADAMS
77 Down: Tape holder (8)
CASSETTE
78 Down: Asiatic Turkey (8)
ANATOLIA
80 Down: Package security (5)
TWINE
82 Down: Betel palm (5)
ARECA
84 Down: Staggered (6)
REELED
85 Down: Proofreaders' marks (6)
CARETS
86 Down: Phoebes (6)
PEWITS
88 Down: Ornamental scheme (5)
DECOR
89 Down: Temperature over 98.6 degrees (5)
FEVER
90 Down: Hindu hero (4)
RAMA
91 Down: Monumental (4)
EPIC
92 Down: Humane org. (4)
SPCA
93 Down: Kind of sandwich (4)
TUNA
94 Down: Number of inches in a span (4)
NINE
95 Down: Where H.H.H. lived (4)
MINN
96 Down: Cartoonist Hulme (4)
ETTA
97 Down: Indian peasant (4)
RYOT
99 Down: "Chances ___," Mathis hit (3)
ARE
101 Down: Preacher, familiarly (3)
REV

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