BEASTLY ASSEMBLY - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 2/5/1984. By Henry Hook.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Amazon estuary (4): PARA
5 Across: Mid-February toxophilite (5): CUPID
10 Across: Extracted stibnite (5): MINED
15 Across: Oscar-winning costume designer (4): HEAD
19 Across: Opposed, in the Ozarks (4): AGIN
20 Across: "___, fair sun . . . ": Romeo (5): ARISE
21 Across: "See if ___!" (5): ICARE
22 Across: Nervous (4): EDGY
23 Across: Michael Bond's bear (10): PADDINGTON
25 Across: Turtle owned by Eloise (10): SKIPPERDEE
27 Across: Battle of the Bulge site (8): ARDENNES
28 Across: Hayseed (5): YOKEL
30 Across: Daisy type (5): OXEYE
31 Across: Negro and Bravo (4): RIOS
32 Across: Fields of snow (5): FIRNS
33 Across: Sale stipulation (4): ASIS
34 Across: Strong man (6): SAMSON
37 Across: Chauvinist (5): JINGO
38 Across: A Freudian (7): ANALYST
41 Across: Actress France ___ (5): NUYEN
42 Across: Beatrix Potter's hedgehog Mrs. ___ (11): TIGGYWINKLE
44 Across: Org. with a taxing job (3): IRS
46 Across: Tool for Kite or Hite (4): IRON
47 Across: Half-seas over (4): HIGH
48 Across: Goose eggs (4): NILS
49 Across: Supplication (4): PLEA
50 Across: A handful (3): FEW
51 Across: President Nixon's puppy (11): KINGTIMAHOE
55 Across: Collapsed, with "in" (5): CAVED
56 Across: Investigation culmination (8): FINDINGS
58 Across: Piggyback periods (5): COLON
59 Across: Ersatz backyard swings (5): TIRES
60 Across: Bat (5): BINGE
61 Across: Cue to the band (5): HITIT
62 Across: Proprietary (5): OWNER
63 Across: Out of cabbage (5): BROKE
64 Across: Bright star in Cygnus (5): DENEB
65 Across: Barkeep's rocks (8): ICECUBES
68 Across: Cheaply ornate (5): GAUDY
69 Across: Orlando's charger (11): BRIGLIADORO
71 Across: Hammarskjöld's predecessor (3): LIE
72 Across: As soon as (4): ONCE
73 Across: Leads up to a proposal (4): WOOS
74 Across: Cloverleaf egress (4): RAMP
75 Across: Parakeet suite (4): CAGE
76 Across: Randy's rink-mate (3): TAI
77 Across: Black cat who inspired Yeats (11): MINNALOUSHE
81 Across: Threw for a loop (5): FAZED
82 Across: Major French newspaper (7): LEMONDE
84 Across: ___-Detoo, of "Star Wars" (5): ARTOO
85 Across: Highland music makers (6): PIPERS
86 Across: Reo's eponym (4): OLDS
87 Across: Violin virtuoso (5): STERN
88 Across: "___ Want for Christmas . . . " (4): ALLI
89 Across: Org. co-founded by Victor Herbert (5): ASCAP
91 Across: Varnish ingredient (5): ELEMI
92 Across: Is dilettantish (8): SMATTERS
96 Across: Bountiful boar of Valhalla (10): SAEHRIMNIR
98 Across: Duke of Wellington's steed (10): COPENHAGEN
100 Across: Joyce's ___ Livia Plurabelle (4): ANNA
101 Across: Pe-Pe or Xeng-Li (5): PANDA
102 Across: Singer Frankie or Cleo (5): LAINE
103 Across: "Cabaret" Oscar winner (4): LIZA
104 Across: Disagreement (4): ODDS
105 Across: Supporter of the arts? (5): EASEL
106 Across: Expressionist artist Max (5): ERNST
107 Across: P.D.Q., on a memo (4): ASAP

Down Answers

1 Down: One of the Three Bears (4): PAPA
2 Down: Late-show actor John (4): AGAR
3 Down: Blackmore hero (4): RIDD
4 Down: Danny Kaye portrayal (8): ANDERSEN
5 Down: Zumbooruk or culverin (6): CANNON
6 Down: Twists one's arm (5): URGES
7 Down: Watermelon residue (4): PITS
8 Down: Equi- (3): ISO
9 Down: Renunciative (7): DENYING
10 Down: Have the facts wrong (7): MISKNOW
11 Down: F.D.R.'s Interior Sec. (5): ICKES
12 Down: Tooth's partner (4): NAIL
13 Down: Marshall Plan initials (3): ERP
14 Down: Evictions of kings (8): DEPOSALS
15 Down: Marcion's opinions, e.g. (6): HERESY
16 Down: MacDonald's co-duettist (4): EDDY
17 Down: "The Morning Watch" author (4): AGEE
18 Down: Red 1 is one (3): DYE
24 Down: Back of the skull (5): INION
26 Down: Philip Nolan's fate (5): EXILE
29 Down: Where to hear "Evoe!" (4): ORGY
32 Down: Option in Polk's slogan (5): FIGHT
33 Down: Daring display in the Gay Nineties (5): ANKLE
34 Down: Show scorn (5): SNIFF
35 Down: Old Roman coins (5): AUREI
36 Down: Westminster's Best-in-Show: 1940–41 (11): MYOWNBRUCIE
37 Down: Maggie's Mr. (5): JIGGS
38 Down: Negatively charged particle (5): ANION
39 Down: Race horse in an A.C. Doyle tale (11): SILVERBLAZE
40 Down: 1913 poem, set to music in 1922 (5): TREES
42 Down: Modicum of color (5): TINGE
43 Down: ___ water (on the carpet) (5): INHOT
45 Down: Blue (3): SAD
47 Down: Be contingent (on) (5): HINGE
49 Down: Polynesian loincloth (5): PAREU
51 Down: Curly's kin (5): KINKY
52 Down: Hockey infraction (5): ICING
53 Down: Motorist's stopover (5): MOTEL
54 Down: Evidence for the defense (5): ALIBI
55 Down: Half of diez (5): CINCO
57 Down: Tube type (5): DIODE
59 Down: Nebbish (5): TWERP
61 Down: "___ great observer": Shak. (5): HEISA
62 Down: Carol opener (5): OCOME
63 Down: Hackneyed (5): BANAL
64 Down: Bombinate (5): DRONE
65 Down: Only state never under a foreign flag (5): IDAHO
66 Down: "The ___ Sanction," Eastwood film (5): EIGER
67 Down: Acorns, e.g. (5): SEEDS
68 Down: Understood (3): GOT
69 Down: Recommended wartime purchases (5): BONDS
70 Down: Pyromaniac's crime (5): ARSON
73 Down: Trachea (8): WINDPIPE
75 Down: "Art . . . with an earnest soul and a ___": Roche (8): CAPITALA
77 Down: Dental concern (5): MOLAR
78 Down: Type of pass (7): LATERAL
79 Down: City near Provo (4): OREM
80 Down: Saclike part of the ear (7): UTRICLE
81 Down: Moral corruption (5): FILTH
83 Down: High-grade coffees (6): MOCHAS
85 Down: Orrery item (6): PLANET
87 Down: Transparency (5): SLIDE
88 Down: Congregation's cries (5): AMENS
89 Down: Texas ___ M. (4): AAND
90 Down: Dispatch (4): SEND
91 Down: Danube tributary (4): ENNS
92 Down: Joy ride (4): SPIN
93 Down: Sponsorship (4): EGIS
94 Down: Mohammed ___ Pahlavi (4): REZA
95 Down: Child's play (4): SNAP
96 Down: ___ Paulo, Brazil (3): SAO
97 Down: Calf laugh? (3): MAA
99 Down: What a thole supports (3): OAR

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