NUPTIALS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 6/3/1984. By Barbara Lunder Gillis.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Casino game (4)
FARO
5 Across: Information (4)
DATA
9 Across: Clergyman (4)
ABBE
13 Across: Dalai ___ (4)
LAMA
17 Across: Meshed native (5)
IRANI
19 Across: Organic compound (5)
AMIDE
21 Across: Valley (4)
GLEN
22 Across: Wild goat (4)
IBEX
23 Across: Painting on plaster (5)
SECCO
24 Across: Happy days (10)
HONEYMOONS
26 Across: Compartment (4)
CELL
27 Across: Stage dance (8)
CAKEWALK
29 Across: About three nautical miles (6)
LEAGUE
30 Across: Davis or Midler (5)
BETTE
31 Across: African republic (4)
MALI
32 Across: Language of Buddhism (4)
PALI
33 Across: Harsh (5)
STERN
35 Across: ___ Jima (3)
IWO
37 Across: A memorable Bugs (4)
BAER
39 Across: Best seller by Jean Stein (4)
EDIE
41 Across: Piston-packing ring (6)
GASKET
45 Across: Humdinger (4)
ONER
46 Across: Marked, as a manuscript (7)
STETTED
48 Across: New York's geographical hub (6)
ONEIDA
49 Across: Least rubicund (6)
PALEST
52 Across: Heine's sigh (3)
ACH
53 Across: Approaches (5)
NEARS
56 Across: Greek letters (4)
PSIS
57 Across: Ga. capital (3)
ATL
58 Across: Russ Westover's heroine (6)
TILLIE
60 Across: Feat for Pete Peeters (4)
SAVE
61 Across: Mil. vessels (4)
LSTS
62 Across: Valises (7)
LUGGAGE
64 Across: Merganser (4)
SMEW
66 Across: Palindrome part (6)
IMADAM
69 Across: Waugh work (19)
BRIDESHEADREVISITED
73 Across: Too (6)
OVERLY
74 Across: Subsequently (4)
THEN
75 Across: One way or another (7)
SOMEHOW
77 Across: Lily plant (4)
ALOE
79 Across: "Beowolf" is one (4)
EPIC
81 Across: Francis from Boston (6)
ARLENE
83 Across: Period (3)
AGE
84 Across: Cook book (4)
COMA
85 Across: He painted "Christina's World" (5)
WYETH
86 Across: Bauble (3)
TOY
87 Across: Lively wit (6)
ESPRIT
89 Across: Soprano (6)
TREBLE
91 Across: Greek vase (7)
AMPHORA
94 Across: Epinicia (4)
ODES
95 Across: Enclosed, as a pool (6)
INDOOR
96 Across: Wings for Amor (4)
ALAE
97 Across: Like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (4)
TALL
99 Across: Scheldt feeder (3)
LYS
100 Across: Absolute (5)
UTTER
102 Across: Keystone ___ (4)
KOPS
104 Across: City near Phoenix (4)
MESA
106 Across: Arabic dialect (5)
IRAQI
109 Across: Eyeball covering (6)
SCLERA
111 Across: Pampers (8)
CATERSTO
115 Across: Carte before the course (4)
MENU
116 Across: December 31 activity (10)
USHERINGIN
118 Across: Mosaicist (5)
TILER
119 Across: Window section (4)
PANE
120 Across: Snead's needs (4)
TEES
121 Across: City in Turkey (5)
ADANA
122 Across: Mothball (5)
STORE
123 Across: Lover's quarrel (4)
SPAT
124 Across: At loose ___ (4)
ENDS
125 Across: Actor Clunes (4)
ALEC
126 Across: Desires (4)
YENS

Down Answers

1 Down: Exchequer (4)
FISC
2 Down: ___ code (4)
AREA
3 Down: Draw off wine (4)
RACK
4 Down: "___ unto the breach" (8)
ONCEMORE
5 Down: Showy flowers (7)
DAHLIAS
6 Down: One way not to run (4)
AMOK
7 Down: U.S. import (3)
TIN
8 Down: Daughter of William the Conqueror (5)
ADELA
9 Down: Eager (4)
AGOG
10 Down: Part of an ensemble (6)
BLOUSE
11 Down: Pulitzer Prize poet: 1929 (5)
BENET
12 Down: Annapolis grad. (3)
ENS
13 Down: Car necessity (12)
LICENSEPLATE
14 Down: Incite (4)
ABET
15 Down: Thaw (4)
MELT
16 Down: Mandrel (4)
AXLE
18 Down: Waterloo is here (4)
IOWA
20 Down: Grommet (6)
EYELET
25 Down: Perennial herb (13)
MAIDENSWREATH
28 Down: Relative of a dalmatic (3)
ALB
30 Down: Cereal (4)
BRAN
32 Down: Exact (7)
PRECISE
34 Down: Psyche components (4)
EGOS
35 Down: "Three men ___" (6)
INATUB
36 Down: Neat and clean (11)
WELLGROOMED
38 Down: Lat. phrase (4)
ETAL
40 Down: Prelude to an invention (4)
IDEA
42 Down: Some of Nelson's last words (11)
KISSMEHARDY
43 Down: Emulate Harold Ross (4)
EDIT
44 Down: Soviet wire service (4)
TASS
45 Down: Oculus mundi (4)
OPAL
47 Down: Wilder subject (13)
THEMATCHMAKER
50 Down: Geological time period (5)
STADE
51 Down: Blake beast (5)
TIGER
54 Down: Tel ___ (4)
AVIV
55 Down: Release via a deed (6)
REMISE
59 Down: Actress ___-Anne Down (6)
LESLEY
63 Down: Pay a compliment (12)
GIVEABOUQUET
65 Down: Old English letter (3)
EDH
67 Down: Unanimously (5)
ASONE
68 Down: Annual marchers (5)
DIMES
70 Down: Issue a sensational promo (4)
HYPE
71 Down: Establishes (7)
ENROOTS
72 Down: Strays (6)
DOGIES
76 Down: Opponents of the 18th Amendment (4)
WETS
77 Down: Heading on a playbill (4)
ACTI
78 Down: Forsaken (4)
LORN
80 Down: Romance lang. (4)
ITAL
82 Down: Northern constellation (4)
LYRA
85 Down: "Bird thou never ___": Shelley (4)
WERT
88 Down: Trend in a specific direction (8)
POLARITY
90 Down: Louis Marie Julien Viaud (4)
LOTI
92 Down: Bradley U. site (6)
PEORIA
93 Down: Annual source of information (7)
ALMANAC
96 Down: Curved (6)
ARCHED
98 Down: Permit (3)
LET
101 Down: Ruhr city (5)
ESSEN
103 Down: Zoo attraction (5)
PANDA
105 Down: Congeals (4)
SETS
106 Down: Evil spirits (4)
IMPS
107 Down: Harvest (4)
REAP
108 Down: Soprano Moffo (4)
ANNA
110 Down: Excluding (4)
LESS
111 Down: Motion picture (4)
CINE
112 Down: Blackthorn (4)
SLOE
113 Down: Darr (4)
TERN
114 Down: Pyrite and galena (4)
ORES
116 Down: Shoshone (3)
UTE
117 Down: "Sleepy-time ___" (3)
GAL

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