DON'T CON ME! - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 4/7/1985. By Charles M. Deber.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Bench warmer (5)
- SCRUB
- 6 Across: Big birds (4)
- EMUS
- 10 Across: Bar seat (5)
- STOOL
- 15 Across: Carriage in Kensington (4)
- PRAM
- 19 Across: Russian skater Rodnina (5)
- IRINA
- 20 Across: Josip Broz (4)
- TITO
- 21 Across: Nerve: Comb. form (5)
- NEURO
- 22 Across: Alter (4)
- REDO
- 23 Across: FARMED OUT WORK (10)
- SUBTRACTED
- 25 Across: FREE (10)
- UNSTRAINED
- 27 Across: Pool's black ball (5)
- EIGHT
- 28 Across: Jargon (5)
- ARGOT
- 30 Across: Scribble (6)
- DOODLE
- 31 Across: Beard of grass (6)
- ARISTA
- 34 Across: Of bees (5)
- APIAN
- 35 Across: BOULEVARDS (7)
- COURSES
- 36 Across: Googly-eyed comedian (6)
- CANTOR
- 37 Across: Malayan boats (5)
- PROAS
- 38 Across: Officer's civvies (5)
- MUFTI
- 39 Across: Gone up (5)
- RISEN
- 40 Across: PONDERS (9)
- TEMPLATES
- 42 Across: Famed N.Y. bldg. (3)
- RCA
- 45 Across: Slur over (5)
- ELIDE
- 46 Across: Ear: Comb. form (3)
- OTO
- 47 Across: Annoy (3)
- IRK
- 48 Across: Fiddler Isaac (5)
- STERN
- 50 Across: Draft-board letters (3)
- SSS
- 51 Across: AT THE SAME TIME (9)
- CURRENTLY
- 55 Across: Wasp (6)
- HORNET
- 56 Across: Sauce staple (6)
- TOMATO
- 59 Across: This gets wetter as it dries (5)
- TOWEL
- 60 Across: ___ of lead (6)
- OLEATE
- 61 Across: Rise of opera (7)
- STEVENS
- 63 Across: Tear up, as paper (5)
- SHRED
- 64 Across: Intimates (7)
- CRONIES
- 65 Across: Truthful (6)
- HONEST
- 66 Across: "___ to be born . . . ": Eccles. 3:2 (5)
- ATIME
- 67 Across: Fermenting agents (6)
- YEASTS
- 68 Across: Part of a cast of thousands (6)
- EXTRAS
- 69 Across: ACADEMIC ASSEMBLIES (9)
- VOCATIONS
- 71 Across: Bribe (3)
- SOP
- 74 Across: Eliot's Marner (5)
- SILAS
- 75 Across: Miss Piggy to herself (3)
- MOI
- 76 Across: Mus followers (3)
- NUS
- 77 Across: Bart or Brenda (5)
- STARR
- 79 Across: "___ port in a storm" (3)
- ANY
- 80 Across: NOT SETTLED (9)
- INCLUSIVE
- 84 Across: Palmer, to pals (5)
- ARNIE
- 85 Across: What funambulists take (5)
- RISKS
- 88 Across: Take the stump (5)
- ORATE
- 89 Across: "___ Restaurant" (6)
- ALICES
- 90 Across: SUPEREGO (7)
- SCIENCE
- 93 Across: Heads and shoulders (5)
- BUSTS
- 94 Across: Defames (6)
- LIBELS
- 95 Across: Home of the Gewürztraminer grape (6)
- ALSACE
- 96 Across: Biblical mount (5)
- SINAI
- 97 Across: Farewell, in Fontainebleau (5)
- ADIEU
- 99 Across: PATRONIZING (10)
- DESCENDING
- 101 Across: IMPORTANT (10)
- SEQUENTIAL
- 106 Across: Leap, in Lyon (4)
- SAUT
- 107 Across: Trace (5)
- TINGE
- 108 Across: Long-standing quarrel (4)
- FEUD
- 109 Across: Hundred: Comb. form (5)
- CENTI
- 110 Across: Dollar bills (4)
- ONES
- 111 Across: Velocity (5)
- SPEED
- 112 Across: Affirmative votes (4)
- YEAS
- 113 Across: English county (5)
- ESSEX
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Girl, to her brother (3)
- SIS
- 2 Down: Vineyard (3)
- CRU
- 3 Down: Tease (3)
- RIB
- 4 Down: LIKE SOME ELECTIONS (8)
- UNTESTED
- 5 Down: Choir member (8)
- BARITONE
- 6 Down: Engrave (4)
- ETCH
- 7 Down: Glove for Fisk (4)
- MITT
- 8 Down: Southwestern Indian (3)
- UTE
- 9 Down: Soft drink (7)
- SODAPOP
- 10 Down: ___ bug in a rug (7)
- SNUGASA
- 11 Down: This goes jointly with a mortise (5)
- TENON
- 12 Down: Dispossess (4)
- OUST
- 13 Down: Food scrap (3)
- ORT
- 14 Down: Golding's "___ the Flies" (6)
- LORDOF
- 15 Down: A ___ (deductively) (6)
- PRIORI
- 16 Down: Pulls apart (5)
- RENDS
- 17 Down: An Astaire (5)
- ADELE
- 18 Down: Ways (5)
- MODES
- 24 Down: Type of gel (4)
- AGAR
- 26 Down: August, in Arles (4)
- AOUT
- 29 Down: Iranian coin (4)
- RIAL
- 31 Down: Land units (5)
- ACRES
- 32 Down: Wekas, e.g. (5)
- RAILS
- 33 Down: ERRATICALLY (11)
- INSISTENTLY
- 34 Down: Galahad's garb (5)
- ARMOR
- 35 Down: Cod's cousin (4)
- CUSK
- 37 Down: Word with chemical or dollar (5)
- PETRO
- 38 Down: She played Sophie (5)
- MERYL
- 40 Down: Turf mavens (5)
- TOUTS
- 41 Down: Like shower walls (5)
- TILED
- 42 Down: SCOUTING OUT (11)
- RENAISSANCE
- 43 Down: Minotaur's land (5)
- CRETE
- 44 Down: Some bets (5)
- ANTES
- 48 Down: Individual efforts (5)
- SOLOS
- 49 Down: Council site: 1545–63 (5)
- TRENT
- 51 Down: Whines (5)
- CANTS
- 52 Down: Moral standard (5)
- ETHIC
- 53 Down: Actress Talmadge (5)
- NORMA
- 54 Down: Canary's comment (5)
- TWEET
- 55 Down: Israeli dances (5)
- HORAS
- 57 Down: ___ barrel (in trouble) (5)
- OVERA
- 58 Down: Tablelands (5)
- MESAS
- 61 Down: "___ Woman," Beatles song (5)
- SHESA
- 62 Down: Poison (5)
- TOXIN
- 63 Down: Uncomplaining (5)
- STOIC
- 64 Down: Perfume a room (5)
- CENSE
- 66 Down: Three English rivers (5)
- AVONS
- 67 Down: James Taylor's "___ Got a Friend" (5)
- YOUVE
- 70 Down: J.F.K. and L.B.J., e.g. (5)
- INITS
- 72 Down: Mirador (5)
- ORIEL
- 73 Down: Iron (5)
- PRESS
- 75 Down: Hammer found in whodunits (4)
- MIKE
- 77 Down: Highlight (8)
- SALIENCE
- 78 Down: DONATES (8)
- TRIBUTES
- 81 Down: Took it easy (7)
- LOUNGED
- 82 Down: Sky Bear (4)
- URSA
- 83 Down: Please (7)
- SATISFY
- 85 Down: Becomes innervated (6)
- REACTS
- 86 Down: Movie pioneer (4)
- INCE
- 87 Down: Gets wind of (6)
- SCENTS
- 89 Down: "It's a Sin to Tell ___" (4)
- ALIE
- 90 Down: "So ___ strange . . . ": Tennyson (5)
- SADSO
- 91 Down: Spotless (5)
- CLEAN
- 92 Down: Offspring (5)
- ISSUE
- 93 Down: Spree (5)
- BINGE
- 96 Down: Trigonometry term (4)
- SINE
- 97 Down: Kind of tint (4)
- AQUA
- 98 Down: Lemons (4)
- DUDS
- 100 Down: Immerse (3)
- DIP
- 102 Down: Big Foot's shoe width? (3)
- EEE
- 103 Down: Electees (3)
- INS
- 104 Down: Spenser character (3)
- ATE
- 105 Down: A year in Nero's reign (3)
- LIX
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