RHYME SANS REASON - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 170 clues). Published 9/30/1984. By Harriet Gilson Rosenberg.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Very funny comedian (5): PANIC
6 Across: One of the Van Dorens (5): MAMIE
11 Across: Beer type (4): BOCK
15 Across: Scans (5): READS
20 Across: Kind of alcohol (5): AMINO
21 Across: Overweight (5): OBESE
22 Across: Amorous glance (4): OGLE
23 Across: Leon of films (5): ERROL
24 Across: A Chan's choppers (12): TOLERSMOLARS
27 Across: Was Kong Fay's? (10): WRAYSCRAZE
29 Across: Supplement, with "out" (3): EKE
30 Across: Of higher rank (6): NOBLER
31 Across: Hit a home run (5): POLED
33 Across: Blew the horn (6): TOOTED
34 Across: Delight (5): ELATE
35 Across: Greek city-state (5): POLIS
36 Across: He plays Klinger (4): FARR
37 Across: Kid (3): RIB
40 Across: "___ Rheingold" (3): DAS
41 Across: Seine port (5): ROUEN
42 Across: Jejune (4): ARID
43 Across: Furrow (3): RUT
46 Across: Flat plinth (4): ORLO
48 Across: Oddballs in Sid's entourage (14): CAESARSGEEZERS
52 Across: First of the cardinals (3): ONE
53 Across: Harrison, e.g. (6): BEATLE
55 Across: " . . . Ruler of the Queen's ___" (5): NAVEE
56 Across: Mongrels (4): CURS
57 Across: Matures (4): AGES
58 Across: Join (5): UNITE
59 Across: John Lindsay's "The ___" (4): EDGE
60 Across: Germ (5): SPORE
62 Across: Dutch ___ (5): TREAT
63 Across: Tibetan goat (5): SEROW
64 Across: Sir Robert's monuments (11): PEELSSTELES
67 Across: Buckskin, e.g. (5): HORSE
68 Across: Thy, in Toulon (3): TES
69 Across: North Carolina cape (4): FEAR
70 Across: Lemon in Detroit (4): CHET
71 Across: Overtook (6): PASSED
72 Across: Less important (6): PUNIER
75 Across: Turtle and oxtail (5): SOUPS
76 Across: Inclined (6): LEANED
78 Across: Outer layer (6): CORTEX
80 Across: A Near Island (4): ATTU
81 Across: Orange-red chalcedony (4): SARD
82 Across: Scrap for Spot (3): ORT
85 Across: Growing out (5): ENATE
86 Across: Presidential signs of exertion (11): GRANTSPANTS
90 Across: Word with ground or growth (5): UNDER
92 Across: Brightened (5): RAYED
93 Across: Tears (5): RENDS
94 Across: Cool one's heels (4): WAIT
95 Across: Millesecond (5): SIGMA
96 Across: Dyer's apparatus (4): AGER
97 Across: "Muy ___!" (4): BIEN
98 Across: Decorate (5): ADORN
100 Across: Epic in twelve books (6): AENEID
101 Across: ___ Borch, Dutch painter (3): TER
102 Across: Author's pals (14): BELLOWSFELLOWS
106 Across: Former lightweight champ (4): ERNE
107 Across: Heraldic gold colors (3): ORS
108 Across: Conduit bends (4): ELLS
109 Across: Jot and tittle (5): IOTAS
110 Across: Brit. battlewagon (3): HMS
112 Across: Youth org. active in the 60's (3): SDS
113 Across: Cuckoos (4): ANIS
114 Across: Mural predecessor (5): INTER
115 Across: Sound from a ranid (5): CROAK
117 Across: Shrewd (6): ASTUTE
120 Across: Zeal (5): ARDOR
121 Across: Jerez product (6): SHERRY
122 Across: Pigs' digs (3): STY
125 Across: British writer's huge hands (10): WAUGHSPAWS
127 Across: Munro's toadies (12): SAKISLACKEYS
130 Across: Yellowish: Comb. form (5): LUTEO
131 Across: Lilylike plant (4): IRID
132 Across: Kunta of "Roots" (5): KINTE
133 Across: Vigilant (5): AWAKE
134 Across: Aspersions (5): SLURS
135 Across: " . . . ___clock scholar" (4): TENO
136 Across: Requested (5): ASKED
137 Across: Not so colorful (5): PALER

Down Answers

1 Down: Head (4): PATE
2 Down: In a frenzy (4): AMOK
3 Down: White or Blue river (4): NILE
4 Down: Chemical suffix (3): INE
5 Down: Kind of beef (6): CORNED
6 Down: Kenya island (7): MOMBASA
7 Down: ___ from the blue (5): ABOLT
8 Down: Confused struggle (5): MELEE
9 Down: Danube feeder (4): ISAR
10 Down: Poet's "always" (3): EER
11 Down: Kind of knot (7): BOWLINE
12 Down: Mean ones (5): OGRES
13 Down: Iron follower (4): CLAD
14 Down: Clue (3): KEY
15 Down: Registers (7): RECORDS
16 Down: Slip (5): ERROR
17 Down: "I smell ___" (4): ARAT
18 Down: Catnap (4): DOZE
19 Down: Logger's travois (4): SLED
25 Down: Joplin tango (6): SOLACE
26 Down: Mate (6): SPOUSE
28 Down: These make flights (6): STAIRS
32 Down: Designer Cassini (4): OLEG
35 Down: Hit the books (4): PORE
36 Down: Brothers, in Bayonne (6): FRERES
37 Down: Full-bodied (6): ROBUST
38 Down: Eleuthère ___ Du Pont (6): IRENEE
39 Down: Actress Janet's pleas (13): BLAIRSPRAYERS
41 Down: "Bolero" composer (5): RAVEL
42 Down: Sky blue (5): AZURE
43 Down: Team Staubach roots for? (13): ROGERSDODGERS
44 Down: Disquiet (6): UNEASE
45 Down: Tried (6): TESTED
47 Down: Conductor Klemperer (4): OTTO
49 Down: Make beloved (6): ENDEAR
50 Down: More Nestorian (5): SAGER
51 Down: Environment sci. (4): ECOL
54 Down: Hoad of tennis (3): LEW
57 Down: Came into being (5): AROSE
59 Down: Weapon with a three-sided blade (4): EPEE
60 Down: Increase (6): STEPUP
61 Down: Cats and dogs (4): PETS
62 Down: "Easier said ___ . . . " (4): THAN
65 Down: ___ Bluff National Monument, Neb. (6): SCOTTS
66 Down: Closes (5): SHUTS
69 Down: Predicament (3): FIX
71 Down: Pillion (3): PAD
73 Down: Say (5): UTTER
74 Down: Poverty (4): NEED
75 Down: Grit (4): SAND
76 Down: Hispano's kin (6): LATINO
77 Down: Formerly, formerly (4): ERST
78 Down: Horn: Comb. form (6): CERATO
79 Down: Medieval catapult (6): ONAGER
81 Down: Tangle (5): SNARL
83 Down: Jog the memory (6): REMIND
84 Down: Topic in the hot stove league (6): TRADES
86 Down: Applies the third degree (6): GRILLS
87 Down: Sways (5): REELS
88 Down: ___ Domini (4): ANNO
89 Down: GI's at large (5): AWOLS
90 Down: Employ (3): USE
91 Down: Number of inches in a span (4): NINE
97 Down: Contradicts (6): BELIES
98 Down: Dessert, in Devon (6): AFTERS
99 Down: Costly (4): DEAR
100 Down: Capital of Eritrea (6): ASMARA
102 Down: Sea-bottom (7): BENTHOS
103 Down: "Rough ___ shake . . . ": Shak. (7): WINDSDO
104 Down: Hernando de ___ (4): SOTO
105 Down: Verticillate (7): WHORLED
111 Down: Logan luggage lugger (6): SKYCAP
113 Down: Borer (5): AUGER
114 Down: Novelist Shaw (5): IRWIN
115 Down: Interstice (5): CHINK
116 Down: Remainder, in Rheims (5): RESTE
117 Down: Cousins of 113 Down (4): AWLS
118 Down: Israel's first king (4): SAUL
119 Down: Garment for Susan Jaffe (4): TUTU
120 Down: Swiss river into the Rhine (4): AARE
121 Down: Vail gear (4): SKIS
122 Down: Ratify (4): SEAL
123 Down: Tad (4): TYKE
124 Down: North Sea feeder (4): YSER
126 Down: Sump (3): PIT
128 Down: Alias, for short (3): AKA
129 Down: Niger-Congo language (3): KWA

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