DICKENS TAKE 'EM! - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 1/27/1985. By Frances Hansen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Doesn't give ___ (is heedless) (4)
- ARAP
- 5 Across: Twist's "twister" (5)
- FAGIN
- 10 Across: One grand (4)
- THOU
- 14 Across: He has made it to Mecca (4)
- HAJI
- 18 Across: Bit of biblical graffiti (4)
- MENE
- 19 Across: Cremona name (5)
- AMATI
- 20 Across: Put to flight (4)
- ROUT
- 21 Across: Bathe the stage with bathos (5)
- EMOTE
- 23 Across: Seasonal sourpuss (15)
- EBENEZERSCROOGE
- 26 Across: ___ around (snoops) (5)
- NOSES
- 27 Across: Square-sail rope (8)
- BUNTLINE
- 28 Across: Pizazz (5)
- OOMPH
- 29 Across: Economize (6)
- SCRIMP
- 30 Across: Reaches (7)
- ATTAINS
- 31 Across: Mopes about, Dogpatch style (5)
- GLUMS
- 32 Across: ___ line (conform) (4)
- TOEA
- 33 Across: One-liner (3)
- GAG
- 34 Across: Nursery porridge base (5)
- PEASE
- 35 Across: With suavity (8)
- SMOOTHLY
- 39 Across: Where René cuts the mustard (5)
- DIJON
- 42 Across: Evil dwarf feared by Little Nell (11)
- DANIELQUILP
- 44 Across: Sheepish comment (3)
- BAA
- 45 Across: N.C. college (4)
- ELON
- 46 Across: Caron film: 1958 (4)
- GIGI
- 47 Across: City once called Edessa (4)
- URFA
- 48 Across: Cricket sides (3)
- ONS
- 49 Across: Crib (3)
- BIN
- 50 Across: Servile, selfish hypocrite (11)
- MRPECKSNIFF
- 54 Across: Sans ___ (carefree) (5)
- SOUCI
- 56 Across: Littoral area (8)
- SEACOAST
- 58 Across: Poirot's explanatory word (5)
- ALORS
- 59 Across: Faulkner's Eula ___ (6)
- VARNER
- 60 Across: Piquant (5)
- SALTY
- 61 Across: "___ You Glad You're You?" (5)
- ARENT
- 62 Across: Felt poorly (5)
- AILED
- 63 Across: Grow, as interest on money (6)
- ACCRUE
- 65 Across: Traveller or Grani (5)
- STEED
- 66 Across: Sluggish (8)
- INDOLENT
- 69 Across: Silver salmon (5)
- COHOS
- 70 Across: Georgiana's pompous, Philistine father (11)
- JOHNPODSNAP
- 72 Across: Early auto (3)
- REO
- 73 Across: Old French coin (3)
- ECU
- 74 Across: River to the Ouse (4)
- AIRE
- 75 Across: Get under one's skin (4)
- ROIL
- 76 Across: Letter-shaped beam (4)
- LBAR
- 77 Across: Miss Russell, informally (3)
- ROZ
- 78 Across: Copperfield's horrid stepfather (11)
- MRMURDSTONE
- 82 Across: Stendhal's real name (5)
- BEYLE
- 83 Across: Arms for a musical army? (8)
- BAZOOKAS
- 85 Across: River of Wagner's "Ring" (5)
- RHINE
- 86 Across: Quagmire (3)
- BOG
- 87 Across: Napoleonic victory site: 1796 (4)
- LODI
- 88 Across: One of the Keatons (5)
- DIANE
- 89 Across: Practice play at 4 Down? (7)
- WARGAME
- 93 Across: Strindberg's land (6)
- SWEDEN
- 95 Across: Upright adjuster (5)
- TUNER
- 96 Across: Anthropophagite (8)
- CANNIBAL
- 97 Across: Rachet bars (5)
- PAWLS
- 98 Across: Smike's beastly tormentor (15)
- WACKFORDSQUEERS
- 100 Across: On ___ (fasting) (5)
- ADIET
- 101 Across: Quiz (4)
- EXAM
- 102 Across: Athens seat of higher educ. (5)
- OHIOU
- 103 Across: Hindu's bad-luck day (4)
- SANI
- 104 Across: ___-bitsy (4)
- ITSY
- 105 Across: Incisiveness (4)
- BITE
- 106 Across: Savoir-___ (5)
- FAIRE
- 107 Across: Deodar or baobab (4)
- TREE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: One-celled animal (5)
- AMEBA
- 2 Down: Confute (5)
- REBUT
- 3 Down: Concerning (5)
- ANENT
- 4 Down: World's largest office building (8)
- PENTAGON
- 5 Down: Daunting (6)
- FAZING
- 6 Down: Congregational echoes (5)
- AMENS
- 7 Down: Parisian station (4)
- GARE
- 8 Down: Possessive pronoun (3)
- ITS
- 9 Down: Tenor Gedda (7)
- NICOLAI
- 10 Down: Ore-sizing screen (7)
- TROMMEL
- 11 Down: Targets for Dr. J (5)
- HOOPS
- 12 Down: Cry of distaste (4)
- OUGH
- 13 Down: Peak in Colo. (3)
- UTE
- 14 Down: A target for Reynard (7)
- HENCOOP
- 15 Down: Old-style love song (6)
- AMORET
- 16 Down: Louisa Gradgrind's vulgar husband (15)
- JOSIAHBOUNDERBY
- 17 Down: Shopping-list entry (4)
- ITEM
- 22 Down: Precognition, for short (3)
- ESP
- 24 Down: Like a famed essayist (5)
- ELIAN
- 25 Down: Stir to action (5)
- ROUSE
- 29 Down: Calpurnia's robe (5)
- STOLA
- 31 Down: Of inherited factors (5)
- GENIC
- 34 Down: One of the Bermudas (5)
- PAGET
- 35 Down: Rides the waves (5)
- SURFS
- 36 Down: Fit of the sulks (4)
- MIFF
- 37 Down: Uhlan's weapon (5)
- LANCE
- 38 Down: Arafat (5)
- YASIR
- 39 Down: Socialist labor leader: 1855–1926 (4)
- DEBS
- 40 Down: Netman Nastase (4)
- ILIE
- 41 Down: Old Martin's murderous nephew (15)
- JONASCHUZZLEWIT
- 42 Down: "The ___ Doodle," 1937 song (5)
- DIPSY
- 43 Down: Riding whip (5)
- QUIRT
- 46 Down: Rub the wrong way (5)
- GRATE
- 50 Down: Father of Meriones (5)
- MOLUS
- 51 Down: Dramatic Valentine (5)
- KAREN
- 52 Down: Insomniac's quest (5)
- SLEEP
- 53 Down: U.S. perennial herb (5)
- NONDO
- 54 Down: Shropshire (5)
- SALOP
- 55 Down: Turgenev's birthplace (4)
- OREL
- 57 Down: "___ nome," Verdi aria (4)
- CARO
- 59 Down: Literary Gore (5)
- VIDAL
- 61 Down: "There's my wife; look well ___": Spring-Rice (5)
- ATHER
- 62 Down: An Oakley (5)
- ANNIE
- 63 Down: Vinegary (5)
- ACERB
- 64 Down: Warming bedtime drink (5)
- COCOA
- 65 Down: Fern-frond formation (5)
- SORUS
- 66 Down: "God is Three, and God ___": Newman (5)
- ISONE
- 67 Down: Actress Patricia (4)
- NEAL
- 68 Down: Made tracks (4)
- TORE
- 70 Down: Iwo ___ (4)
- JIMA
- 71 Down: Stingless, feckless bee (5)
- DRONE
- 74 Down: Alan of "Wait Until Dark" (5)
- ARKIN
- 76 Down: Most long-limbed (8)
- LEGGIEST
- 78 Down: Flower-of-an-hour (7)
- MODESTY
- 79 Down: Words on a Wonderland bottle (7)
- DRINKME
- 80 Down: W.W. II acronym (5)
- SHAEF
- 81 Down: Hot surface from Tennessee (7)
- TINROOF
- 82 Down: Nigerian province (5)
- BORNU
- 84 Down: Scads (6)
- OODLES
- 86 Down: French financial house (6)
- BANQUE
- 88 Down: Coin stolen by Jessica (5)
- DUCAT
- 89 Down: "He is, or ___ has to be": Voltaire (5)
- WASOR
- 90 Down: Cross as ___ (irritable) (5)
- ABEAR
- 91 Down: Château-Thierry's river (5)
- MARNE
- 92 Down: A Dinsmore (5)
- ELSIE
- 93 Down: Bath, e.g. (3)
- SPA
- 94 Down: African gully (4)
- WADI
- 95 Down: Hack (4)
- TAXI
- 96 Down: 402, to Fabius (4)
- CDII
- 98 Down: Network (3)
- WEB
- 99 Down: The Volga, in ancient days (3)
- RHA
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