LETTER ADDENDA - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 12/2/1984. By Maura B. Jacobson.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Nero's successor (5)
GALBA
6 Across: Match up (4)
PAIR
10 Across: Where Brunei is (4)
ASIA
14 Across: Pepe le ___ (4)
MOKO
18 Across: Shortenings, for short (5)
OLEOS
19 Across: Agatha colleague (4)
ERLE
20 Across: Star of "The Mane of a Thousand Faces"? (10)
LIONCHANEY
22 Across: Star of "Of Thee I Sting"? (10)
LENAHORNET
24 Across: "Reich Man, Poor Man"? (10)
ARYANONEAL
25 Across: "Tour Man in Havana"? (10)
ANDREGUIDE
26 Across: Certain metalworkers (7)
PLATERS
27 Across: Famed Fed (4)
NESS
28 Across: Peekaboo words (4)
ISEE
29 Across: Finder's cry (3)
AHA
30 Across: Actor Williamson (5)
NICOL
34 Across: Bird life (4)
AVES
35 Across: Least addled (6)
SANEST
39 Across: "___ be in England . . . " (4)
OHTO
40 Across: Akin (7)
RELATED
44 Across: "Father of the Bridle"? (12)
JAMESHARNESS
46 Across: Beethoven's "Für ___" (5)
ELISE
47 Across: Begum's spouse (3)
AGA
49 Across: Kind of sayer (5)
SOOTH
50 Across: French panorama (3)
VUE
51 Across: Actress in "Snow, Voyager"? (12)
VIVIENSLEIGH
56 Across: Monastic building (6)
PRIORY
58 Across: Sixth-sense letters (3)
ESP
59 Across: Feels rocky (4)
AILS
60 Across: Pot or rib follower (5)
ROAST
62 Across: Formal statements (5)
DICTA
65 Across: Hitchhiked (7)
THUMBED
68 Across: Ramp alternative (5)
STAIR
70 Across: Discomfited (7)
ABASHED
72 Across: Rouen room (5)
SALLE
73 Across: Salerno neighbor (5)
EBOLI
75 Across: Oscar film: 1958 (4)
GIGI
77 Across: Auxiliary verb (3)
ARE
78 Across: Tie surgically (6)
LIGATE
80 Across: "Smarty"? (12)
CLAUDEBRAINS
84 Across: Noah's second son (3)
HAM
86 Across: Heart chambers (5)
ATRIA
88 Across: Summer zodiacal sign (3)
LEO
89 Across: Map detail (5)
INSET
90 Across: "Dr. Jerkyll and Mr. Hyde"? (12)
ALASTAIRSIMP
94 Across: From Valletta (7)
MALTESE
96 Across: Be bombastic (4)
RANT
97 Across: Hatches (6)
SPAWNS
98 Across: Languish (4)
PINE
99 Across: A memorable Sal (5)
MINEO
101 Across: Part of T.G.I.F. (3)
ITS
102 Across: Beautiful woman (4)
PERI
103 Across: Powdery sprinkle (4)
TALC
107 Across: Yeast enzyme (7)
LACTASE
111 Across: "A Majority of Bone" actress? (10)
ULNAMERKEL
113 Across: "Gunga Dine"? (10)
MEALFERRER
116 Across: "Deer Rosenkavalier"? (10)
LENCARIBOU
117 Across: Mr. Motto's vocalist? (10)
ELLASLOGAN
118 Across: Third man (4)
ABEL
119 Across: Pointless (5)
INANE
120 Across: Stratum (4)
TIER
121 Across: Rumpuses (4)
ADOS
122 Across: Advise, formerly (4)
REDE
123 Across: Goddess who knew her oats (5)
CERES

Down Answers

1 Down: Heights in the Mideast (5)
GOLAN
2 Down: Coeur d'___, Idaho (5)
ALENE
3 Down: Does a bank service (5)
LENDS
4 Down: Wild hogs (5)
BOARS
5 Down: Wimbledon winner: 1975 (4)
ASHE
6 Down: Pored over (7)
PERUSED
7 Down: Golfer Palmer et al. (6)
ARNIES
8 Down: ___-France (5)
ILEDE
9 Down: Neural network (4)
RETE
10 Down: Skyways (8)
AIRLANES
11 Down: Oriental bean (4)
SOYA
12 Down: ___ the finish (4)
INAT
13 Down: Dermal disorder (4)
ACNE
14 Down: Estate house (7)
MANSION
15 Down: "A Chorus Line" tune (3)
ONE
16 Down: N.Z. parrot (3)
KEA
17 Down: Popeye's Olive (3)
OYL
20 Down: Howells' Silas (6)
LAPHAM
21 Down: Beeper (4)
HORN
23 Down: Pointed arch (5)
OGIVE
29 Down: Third king of Judah (3)
ASA
31 Down: Actor in "Chair"? (11)
CHEVYCHAISE
32 Down: Honshu city (4)
OTSU
33 Down: Flub the game (4)
LOSE
34 Down: To ___ (exactly) (4)
ATEE
36 Down: "___ Fables": Var. (5)
ESOPS
37 Down: Deficit (8)
SHORTAGE
38 Down: He played Hulot (4)
TATI
40 Down: Applies a brick overlay (6)
REVETS
41 Down: Inventor Otis (6)
ELISHA
42 Down: "The Trainmaker"? (11)
LIVPULLMANN
43 Down: "___ was saying . . . " (3)
ASI
44 Down: Fronton game, with 85 Down (3)
JAI
45 Down: Valerie Harper role (5)
RHODA
47 Down: Kit and caboodle (3)
ALL
48 Down: Artist's plaster (5)
GESSO
52 Down: Kiltie's refusal (3)
NAE
53 Down: Incidental excursion (8)
SIDETRIP
54 Down: Parsifal's quest (5)
GRAIL
55 Down: ___ polloi (3)
HOI
57 Down: Sweetbread, at Maxim's (3)
RIS
61 Down: Debate (5)
ARGUE
63 Down: Coated steel sheets (6)
TERNES
64 Down: Start of a carol (6)
ADESTE
66 Down: Year in the reign of Edward the Confessor (3)
MLI
67 Down: Sired (5)
BEGAT
69 Down: What an R.N. gives (3)
TLC
71 Down: Tucker's partner (3)
BIB
74 Down: Region of Portugal (5)
BEIRA
76 Down: Nuptials phrase (3)
IDO
79 Down: Philippine group (4)
ATAS
81 Down: Wildspitze, e.g. (3)
ALP
82 Down: Get one's goat (4)
RILE
83 Down: Carpenter with six legs (3)
ANT
84 Down: Affect adversely (4)
HARM
85 Down: See 44 Down (4)
ALAI
87 Down: ___ an owl (8)
ASWISEAS
91 Down: Astral (7)
STELLAR
92 Down: Hospital staff member (6)
INTERN
93 Down: Authors' copies: Abbr. (3)
MSS
94 Down: Act of God (7)
MIRACLE
95 Down: Life principle (5)
ANIMA
98 Down: Wrote (6)
PENNED
100 Down: Louts (4)
OAFS
102 Down: U.S.N.A. novice (5)
PLEBE
103 Down: Threefold (5)
TRINE
104 Down: Mogul emperor: 1556–1605 (5)
AKBAR
105 Down: Sierra ___ (5)
LEONE
106 Down: Tip-offs (5)
CLUES
108 Down: He wrote "The Hive" (4)
CELA
109 Down: Trampled (4)
TROD
110 Down: Mythical ship (4)
ARGO
111 Down: Suffix with cell (4)
ULAR
112 Down: Leif's father (4)
ERIC
113 Down: Lincoln Ctr. edifice (3)
MET
114 Down: Yalie (3)
ELI
115 Down: Pub potation (3)
ALE

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