UNREAL PEOPLE - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 170 clues). Published 4/15/1984. By A. J. Santora.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Sacks (4)
BAGS
5 Across: Headlong (4)
RASH
9 Across: "___ boy!" (4)
ATTA
13 Across: Creeks (4)
RIAS
17 Across: Alley of comics (3)
OOP
20 Across: Field of an E.E. (4)
ELEC
21 Across: Ending for citron (4)
ELLA
22 Across: Walked heavily (4)
TROD
23 Across: City in Nigeria (4)
ONDO
24 Across: Initials in 1933 (3)
NRA
25 Across: About (4)
ASTO
26 Across: Prune (4)
CLIP
27 Across: Navajo's neighbor (4)
HOPI
28 Across: Rayburn's Japanese strings? (8)
SAMISENS
30 Across: Decorate Asner's skin? (8)
TATTOOED
32 Across: Fans Mays, Stargell and Randolph? (14)
GETSTHEWILLIES
34 Across: Holden of an actors' org.? (13)
ABILLINEQUITY
36 Across: Ram's mate (3)
EWE
37 Across: Concerning (4)
INRE
38 Across: Capture (4)
NAIL
39 Across: Bear on high (4)
URSA
40 Across: Abbr. at Kennedy (3)
ETA
41 Across: Spoils (6)
DECAYS
43 Across: Composer's notational sign (5)
SEGNO
45 Across: Kind of den (5)
OPIUM
47 Across: Oversupply (4)
GLUT
48 Across: Japanese apricot (3)
UME
49 Across: Not quite a meter (4)
YARD
50 Across: R.b.i. and e.r.a. (5)
STATS
51 Across: What Elsa did at Mrs. Adamson's command? (12)
JUMPEDFORJOY
56 Across: Clamor, in Paris (3)
CRI
57 Across: Bob follower (5)
WHITE
58 Across: Glory (4)
HALO
59 Across: Fissure (4)
RIFT
60 Across: A feast ___ famine (3)
ORA
61 Across: Go offside (8)
ENCROACH
63 Across: Most distressed (6)
SOREST
65 Across: Kin of "My goodness!" (7)
GEEWHIZ
67 Across: Hirt's companion (4)
HORN
68 Across: Guthrie namesakes (5)
ARLOS
70 Across: Light musket (5)
FUSIL
72 Across: Part of A.D. (4)
ANNO
73 Across: "Ave ___ vale" (5)
ATQUE
75 Across: Sly guy (5)
SNEAK
76 Across: Gone up (5)
RISEN
77 Across: Chauvinist (5)
JINGO
78 Across: Closed (4)
SHUT
79 Across: Wrapped a present (5)
DIDUP
80 Across: Suppress quietly (5)
BURKE
81 Across: Active (4)
BUSY
82 Across: Watertight chamber (7)
CAISSON
84 Across: The moon, to poets (6)
PHOEBE
86 Across: Time saver (8)
SHORTCUT
90 Across: Where lts. at made (3)
OTC
91 Across: Cool drinks (4)
ADES
93 Across: Wrong (4)
AWRY
94 Across: Having a salty taste (5)
BRINY
95 Across: Initials at Columbus (3)
OSU
96 Across: Escort writer Bracken to the street floor? (12)
TAKEDOWNAPEG
99 Across: Rundown (5)
SEEDY
100 Across: Feds (4)
TMEN
101 Across: Never, in Essen (3)
NIE
102 Across: Habitat of a chamois (4)
ALPS
103 Across: Reprimand (5)
CHIDE
104 Across: Edwin of D.C. (5)
MEESE
105 Across: Baffles (6)
ELUDES
108 Across: Layer (3)
PLY
109 Across: Biblical name for Tanis (4)
ZOAN
110 Across: Viscount's superior (4)
EARL
111 Across: Marquisette (4)
LENO
112 Across: Finial (3)
EPI
113 Across: Escorting a nice "country girl"? (13)
WITHGOODGRACE
118 Across: Carney and Linkletter? (14)
PERFORMINGARTS
122 Across: Heating device (8)
RADIATOR
123 Across: Cartoonist Gardner's unlisted number? (8)
AREACODE
124 Across: Puerto ___ (4)
RICO
125 Across: Buckwheat tree (4)
TITI
126 Across: Pumpkin seed (4)
PEPO
127 Across: Andaman or Tasman (3)
SEA
128 Across: Tints for Downs? (4)
HUES
129 Across: Bard's river (4)
AVON
130 Across: Have ___ in one's bonnet (4)
ABEE
131 Across: Philbrick's "___ 3 Lives" (4)
ILED
132 Across: Bizarre (3)
ODD
133 Across: Mailed (4)
SENT
134 Across: Disavow (4)
DENY
135 Across: Predicament (4)
BIND
136 Across: Wall St. place (4)
NYSE

Down Answers

1 Down: ___ retreat (fall back) (5)
BEATA
2 Down: Capp's degree? Horse feathers! (5)
ALSAB
3 Down: Sending Gossage to an early shower? (16)
GETTINGRICHQUICK
4 Down: Caledonia (8)
SCOTLAND
5 Down: Flinch (6)
RECOIL
6 Down: Poet Ginsberg (5)
ALLEN
7 Down: Chute (5)
SLIDE
8 Down: Chance (3)
HAP
9 Down: Godlessness (7)
ATHEISM
10 Down: Liz of TV news (6)
TROTTA
11 Down: Stowe girl (5)
TOPSY
12 Down: Colliery opening (4)
ADIT
13 Down: Billy's "Aquacade" pool? (9)
ROSEWATER
14 Down: Stand ___ of (revere with fear) (5)
INAWE
15 Down: African gazelle (4)
ADMI
16 Down: Loess or loam (4)
SOIL
17 Down: ___ million (6)
ONEINA
18 Down: Like mean critters (6)
ORNERY
19 Down: Annie Oakleys (6)
PASSES
29 Down: Deli machine (6)
SLICER
31 Down: Medley (4)
OLIO
32 Down: Indian teachers (5)
GURUS
33 Down: Hopping mad (5)
HETUP
35 Down: Very (5)
QUITE
40 Down: Salvo from pollster Roper? (9)
ELMOSFIRE
41 Down: Coarse woolen cloth (6)
DUFFEL
42 Down: Overplay a scene (5)
EMOTE
43 Down: Indian stableboy (4)
SYCE
44 Down: Merit (4)
EARN
45 Down: Of hearing (4)
OTIC
46 Down: Applause for Boone? (7)
PATHAND
47 Down: ___ of August (1st of that month) (4)
GULE
50 Down: Indo-Chinese native (4)
SHAN
51 Down: Shakes up (4)
JARS
52 Down: Host's suggestion at dinner (5)
DIGIN
53 Down: "Tonight Show" host in 1962? (16)
JOHNNYCOMELATELY
54 Down: Gasket (5)
ORING
55 Down: Mississippi river (5)
YAZOO
57 Down: Had on (4)
WORE
58 Down: Pan's foe (4)
HOOK
62 Down: Complete defeats (5)
ROUTS
63 Down: Insult Mrs. Rockefeller? (9)
SLAPHAPPY
64 Down: Ivory source (4)
TUSK
66 Down: Oft-watched line (5)
WAIST
69 Down: Sign on for another hitch (4)
REUP
71 Down: Takes in Skelton's act? (7)
SEESRED
73 Down: Usher's tie (5)
ASCOT
74 Down: "They went ___-way" (5)
THATA
75 Down: Tendon (5)
SINEW
76 Down: Dee or Keeler (4)
RUBY
77 Down: Panel (4)
JURY
79 Down: Fogies (6)
DODOES
80 Down: Ice mass (4)
BERG
81 Down: Osseous (4)
BONY
83 Down: Rainy-day girl? (5)
SADIE
85 Down: Has obligations (4)
OWES
87 Down: Cache (4)
HIDE
88 Down: Takes advantage of (4)
USES
89 Down: "Elmer's" is one (4)
TUNE
92 Down: Most like Dapper Dan (9)
SNAPPIEST
94 Down: Person (5)
BEING
97 Down: " . . . the ___ perfect day" (6)
ENDOFA
98 Down: Dog-tired (5)
ALLIN
99 Down: Former Iranian rulers (5)
SHAHS
100 Down: Marylander (8)
TERRAPIN
103 Down: Soft (7)
COTTONY
104 Down: Famed biblical trio (4)
MAGI
105 Down: Sun Bowl site (6)
ELPASO
106 Down: Looked like Marvin and Buttons? (6)
LEERED
107 Down: Illiterate (6)
UNREAD
109 Down: Matura diamond (6)
ZIRCON
110 Down: Whirled or purled (6)
EDDIED
112 Down: W. German seaport (5)
EMDEN
113 Down: Forgo (5)
WAIVE
114 Down: African antelope (5)
ORIBI
115 Down: Of a cereal (5)
OATEN
116 Down: Uses a jigsaw (5)
COPES
117 Down: Eat away (5)
ERODE
119 Down: Famed publisher (4)
OCHS
120 Down: Dissolute dandy (4)
ROUE
121 Down: Alum (4)
GRAD
125 Down: Check for Hunter? (3)
TAB

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