PLANT-ERS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 170 clues). Published 6/10/1984. By Mary Virginia Orna.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Antitoxins (4)
- SERA
- 5 Across: Abbey Theatre dramatist (5)
- YEATS
- 10 Across: Lots of land (5)
- ACRES
- 15 Across: Nile green (3)
- BOA
- 18 Across: Speedlight (6)
- STROBE
- 20 Across: Fracas (5)
- MELEE
- 21 Across: Consumer of eucalyptus (5)
- KOALA
- 22 Across: Ending for planet or aster (3)
- OID
- 23 Across: One of "Twelve Angry Men" (12)
- MARTINBALSAM
- 25 Across: Stud stakes (5)
- ANTES
- 26 Across: Fashion (4)
- MOLD
- 27 Across: Actress Hagen (3)
- UTA
- 28 Across: Old French coins (4)
- ECUS
- 29 Across: Baritone Hawkins (4)
- OSIE
- 31 Across: "It Happened Tomorrow" actor (9)
- JACKOAKIE
- 33 Across: Decimal base (3)
- TEN
- 34 Across: Cuckoopint (4)
- ARUM
- 36 Across: Catchall abbr. (3)
- ETC
- 37 Across: Frequently, to Byron (3)
- OFT
- 38 Across: Snoop (5)
- PRIER
- 39 Across: H. James novelette (11)
- DAISYMILLER
- 43 Across: "___ a Lonesome Old Town" (3)
- ITS
- 44 Across: New England sculptor: 1825–61 (5)
- AKERS
- 45 Across: Feminine suffix (3)
- INE
- 46 Across: Constellation south of Scorpio (3)
- ARA
- 47 Across: Keatsian container (3)
- URN
- 49 Across: "___ Shook Up," Presley hit (3)
- ALL
- 50 Across: Stable sound (5)
- SNORT
- 53 Across: Type of pine or grain (6)
- SCOTCH
- 56 Across: Essential oil (5)
- ATTAR
- 59 Across: Site of first Olympics (4)
- ELIS
- 63 Across: Orff's "___ Burana" (7)
- CARMINA
- 65 Across: Chessmen (5)
- ROOKS
- 67 Across: "Wolf!" crier (8)
- ALARMIST
- 69 Across: ___ Islands, in Bay of Bengal (7)
- ANDAMAN
- 70 Across: Singer from Kentucky (15)
- ROSEMARYCLOONEY
- 72 Across: Pat and Debby (6)
- BOONES
- 73 Across: Excludes (6)
- DEBARS
- 74 Across: ___-ed-Din, Ottoman statesman (3)
- ALA
- 75 Across: Librarian's aid (5)
- INDEX
- 76 Across: Glinka's "___ for the Czar" (5)
- ALIFE
- 78 Across: Mangles (5)
- IRONS
- 80 Across: Resource (5)
- ASSET
- 85 Across: Soul, in Sologne (3)
- AME
- 86 Across: Diplomat Welles (6)
- SUMNER
- 89 Across: Give the nod (6)
- ASSENT
- 95 Across: Noted violist (15)
- WILLIAMPRIMROSE
- 98 Across: Gene of the P.G.A. (7)
- LITTLER
- 99 Across: Opposite of phenomenal (8)
- NOUMENAL
- 100 Across: First mayor of N.Y.C. (5)
- DUANE
- 101 Across: Needlelike (7)
- ACERATE
- 102 Across: Ko-Ko's weapon (4)
- SNEE
- 103 Across: Valor or virtue (5)
- ARETE
- 105 Across: Noble (6)
- LORDLY
- 108 Across: Washer cycle (5)
- RINSE
- 109 Across: ___ gestae (3)
- RES
- 111 Across: Word with time or weed (3)
- RAG
- 113 Across: Prefix for pod or corn (3)
- TRI
- 114 Across: Gloucester's cape (3)
- ANN
- 115 Across: Soprano Lucine (5)
- AMARA
- 118 Across: Vacation spot (3)
- SPA
- 120 Across: Grocery clerk who became a millionaire (11)
- RUSSELLSAGE
- 125 Across: ___ acid (5)
- BORIC
- 126 Across: Owns (3)
- HAS
- 127 Across: Colony denizen (3)
- ANT
- 128 Across: Weld and woad (4)
- DYES
- 129 Across: Carson subject (3)
- SEA
- 132 Across: Ex-Senator from Indiana (9)
- BIRCHBAYH
- 134 Across: Tamarack's kin (4)
- FIRS
- 136 Across: Moue (4)
- POUT
- 138 Across: Year in Trajan's reign (3)
- CVI
- 139 Across: Corolla petals (4)
- ALAE
- 140 Across: Bypass (5)
- AVOID
- 142 Across: Increase's scion (12)
- COTTONMATHER
- 145 Across: Baseball's Penguin (3)
- CEY
- 146 Across: Book by D. S. Freeman (5)
- RELEE
- 147 Across: Resort on Lake Geneva (5)
- EVIAN
- 148 Across: Bahrain bigwigs (6)
- EMEERS
- 149 Across: Units on N.F.L. fields (3)
- YDS
- 150 Across: Macaw (5)
- ARARA
- 151 Across: Floral-piece fillers (5)
- FERNS
- 152 Across: Handles crudely (4)
- PAWS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Virginia, e.g. (5)
- STATE
- 2 Down: Chore for Junior (6)
- ERRAND
- 3 Down: Nonsense (3)
- ROT
- 4 Down: Solomon Levy's son (4)
- ABIE
- 5 Down: Singer from Peru (8)
- YMASUMAC
- 6 Down: North Sea catch (3)
- EEL
- 7 Down: Further (4)
- ALSO
- 8 Down: Bristly plant (6)
- TEASEL
- 9 Down: Descendent of Noah's eldest (6)
- SEMITE
- 10 Down: TV's "___ Pablo" (3)
- AKA
- 11 Down: United (8)
- CONJOINT
- 12 Down: F.A. Hartley's collaborator (6)
- RATAFT
- 13 Down: Picks (6)
- ELECTS
- 14 Down: Prov. between Man. and Alta. (4)
- SASK
- 15 Down: He betters most bettors (6)
- BOOKIE
- 16 Down: Slicker (6)
- OILIER
- 17 Down: Calculating vipers? (6)
- ADDERS
- 18 Down: Plant disease (4)
- SMUT
- 19 Down: House or box (6)
- ENCASE
- 24 Down: ___ Saint Edmunds, in England (4)
- BURY
- 26 Down: A founder and editor of Punch (9)
- MARKLEMON
- 30 Down: Beige (4)
- ECRU
- 32 Down: Geyserite, e.g. (4)
- OPAL
- 35 Down: Spanish Surrealist (4)
- MIRO
- 40 Down: Floyd Bennett was one (6)
- AIRMAN
- 41 Down: "A stitch ___" (6)
- INTIME
- 42 Down: Architect under Jefferson (7)
- LATROBE
- 48 Down: Tabula ___ (4)
- RASA
- 49 Down: Expanse fed by the Syr Darya (4)
- ARAL
- 50 Down: Defective spot on a plant (4)
- SCAB
- 51 Down: Billionth: Comb. form (4)
- NANO
- 52 Down: Word on a dollar bill (4)
- ORDO
- 53 Down: ___ Juan Hill (3)
- SAN
- 54 Down: Matter, to Matteotti (4)
- COSA
- 55 Down: Gardener (4)
- HOER
- 57 Down: Maxwell or Zachary (6)
- TAYLOR
- 58 Down: Northwest "passage" (5)
- ALCAN
- 60 Down: The Swedish Nightingale (4)
- LIND
- 61 Down: " . . . a dagger which ___": MacBeth (4)
- ISEE
- 62 Down: Charon's river (4)
- STYX
- 64 Down: Houston org. (4)
- NASA
- 66 Down: Dist. units (3)
- KMS
- 68 Down: Hugh Capet was one (3)
- ROI
- 70 Down: Pass along (5)
- REFER
- 71 Down: Kind of show (5)
- RAREE
- 73 Down: Mark on Miss Marker (6)
- DIMPLE
- 77 Down: Truman's birthplace (5)
- LAMAR
- 78 Down: Godets or gussets (7)
- INSERTS
- 79 Down: Mediterranean sailboat (4)
- SAIC
- 80 Down: Barley beards (4)
- AWNS
- 81 Down: London college (4)
- SION
- 82 Down: Swamp (4)
- SLUE
- 83 Down: "Street Scene" dramatist (9)
- ELMERRICE
- 84 Down: Bond (3)
- TIE
- 86 Down: Dallas campus (3)
- SMU
- 87 Down: River to the Caspian (4)
- URAL
- 88 Down: Prefix with plane or tone (4)
- MONO
- 90 Down: Breastbones (6)
- STERNA
- 91 Down: Sequence (6)
- STRING
- 92 Down: Verve (4)
- ELAN
- 93 Down: Clears (4)
- NETS
- 94 Down: Famed English actor-manager (4)
- TREE
- 96 Down: Collections of anecdotes (4)
- ANAS
- 97 Down: Notion (4)
- IDEA
- 98 Down: Secular (3)
- LAY
- 104 Down: More worthless (8)
- TRASHIER
- 106 Down: Stowe novel (4)
- DRED
- 107 Down: Mrs. Andre Kostelanetz (8)
- LILYPONS
- 110 Down: Apiece (4)
- EACH
- 112 Down: ___ Spee (4)
- GRAF
- 114 Down: Take for granted (6)
- ASSUME
- 115 Down: Head monk's jurisdiction (6)
- ABBACY
- 116 Down: Engaged in drudgery (6)
- MOILED
- 117 Down: Decks out (6)
- ARRAYS
- 118 Down: Lad (6)
- SHAVER
- 119 Down: Graft of a sort (6)
- PAYOLA
- 121 Down: Org. created in 1946 (6)
- UNICEF
- 122 Down: Tried hard (6)
- STROVE
- 123 Down: Author Uris (4)
- LEON
- 124 Down: Shun (6)
- ESCHEW
- 130 Down: Tinker's target (5)
- EVERS
- 131 Down: Mannerisms (4)
- AIRS
- 133 Down: A vamp of the silents (4)
- BARA
- 135 Down: Child directive (4)
- STIR
- 137 Down: Pack firmly (4)
- TAMP
- 141 Down: Venus or Minerva (3)
- DEA
- 143 Down: Thrash (3)
- TAN
- 144 Down: Congou, e.g. (3)
- TEA
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