STAND-INS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 168 clues). Published 4/14/1985. By Bert H. Kruse.

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Across Answers

1 Across: A Cabinet post (5): LABOR
6 Across: Steak order (6): MEDIUM
12 Across: Pour forth (4): SPEW
16 Across: Ebb (5): ABATE
21 Across: Stan's pal (5): OLLIE
22 Across: "___ Fideles" (6): ADESTE
23 Across: "Winnie ___ Pu" (4): ILLE
24 Across: Wanderer (5): NOMAD
25 Across: Massey role (12): RAILSPLITTER
27 Across: Popular card game (10): GOLDENGATE
29 Across: Kennel complaints (4): YIPS
30 Across: Loggers' contest (5): ROLEO
31 Across: Designer Oscar de la ___ (5): RENTA
33 Across: Newsman, often (6): QUOTER
34 Across: More honorable (5): FINER
35 Across: Digs (5): MINES
36 Across: Hearts, e.g. (4): SUIT
37 Across: Move quickly (3): ZIP
40 Across: Danish fjord (3): ISE
41 Across: Common affliction (4): COLD
42 Across: Grave words (7): EPITAPH
45 Across: Skiers' trestles (6): INRUNS
47 Across: Grain or whisky (11): NEWYORKCITY
50 Across: ___ Paul of the Boers (3): OOM
52 Across: Like the Cheshire-Cat (6): GRINNY
53 Across: Melville captain (4): VERE
54 Across: Land and buildings (6): REALTY
55 Across: Hindu deity (4): SIVA
56 Across: Author Grey et al. (5): ZANES
57 Across: Rugged (6): SEVERE
59 Across: Mindanao group (4): ATAS
60 Across: Tailor's lapboard (5): PANEL
61 Across: Rainbows (4): ARCS
62 Across: Homs is here (5): SYRIA
63 Across: Mubarak's predecessor (5): SADAT
65 Across: Spot (6): MOTTLE
66 Across: Golly! (3): GEE
67 Across: Shakespearean lover (11): MANSSLIPPER
69 Across: Water blooms (6): LILIES
70 Across: Big cat (6): OCELOT
72 Across: Louis XVI, e.g. (3): ROI
73 Across: "Ruggles of Red Gap" actress (6): BOLAND
74 Across: Fearful (6): AFRAID
75 Across: Gold coin (11): TWOUNDERPAR
79 Across: Sprout (3): BUD
82 Across: Drives (6): IMPELS
83 Across: Dilemma items (5): HORNS
84 Across: Empire State city (5): OLEAN
85 Across: Part of N.B. (4): BENE
86 Across: Gams (5): STEMS
87 Across: Hara-___ (4): KIRI
88 Across: Erodes (6): EATSAT
90 Across: Kind of horse (5): DRAFT
91 Across: Dies ___ (4): IRAE
92 Across: Give (6): DONATE
94 Across: Transfer (4): DEED
95 Across: S.D.'s capital (6): PIERRE
96 Across: Fox's relative (3): SAC
97 Across: N.Y. baseballers (11): NORTHERNERS
99 Across: Dodges (6): EVADES
100 Across: Organic compounds (7): KETONES
102 Across: Bro. and dau. (4): RELS
103 Across: Irish love (3): GRA
104 Across: Prescribe (3): SET
105 Across: Viktor ___, ballet master (4): RONA
106 Across: S.A. serpent (5): ABOMA
108 Across: Relationship (5): TIEIN
110 Across: Kay Thompson girl (6): ELOISE
113 Across: Trap (5): SNARE
114 Across: Transports (5): CARTS
115 Across: Heater for hops (4): OAST
119 Across: Great Lake (10): WOLVERINES
121 Across: "Gem of the ocean" (12): SPACESHUTTLE
124 Across: Kornelia ___, E. German swimming star (5): ENDER
125 Across: Force (4): DINT
126 Across: Big Ten team (6): ILLINI
127 Across: He commits grave crimes (5): GHOUL
128 Across: Takes five (5): RESTS
129 Across: Sweetsop (4): ATTA
130 Across: Ease (6): SOFTEN
131 Across: Billiards immortal (5): HOPPE

Down Answers

1 Down: A swimming companion of Alice (4): LORY
2 Down: Jai ___ (4): ALAI
3 Down: Radar image (4): BLIP
4 Down: Robert Motherwell's medium (4): OILS
5 Down: Legal point (3): RES
6 Down: "___ Dies," Beckett novel (6): MALONE
7 Down: Circus Maximus official (5): EDILE
8 Down: Hold back (5): DETER
9 Down: "It ___ laugh": Pinero (4): ISTO
10 Down: All-purpose trk. (3): UTE
11 Down: How to roll along (7): MERRILY
12 Down: Actress Hasso (5): SIGNE
13 Down: Story lines (5): PLOTS
14 Down: Citron attachment (4): ELLA
15 Down: Join (3): WED
16 Down: Yearly income (7): ANNUITY
17 Down: Colombia's capital (6): BOGOTA
18 Down: A.A.U. member (4): AMAT
19 Down: Poet laureate: 1692–1715 (4): TATE
20 Down: German river (4): EDER
26 Down: Very prim and precise (6): PRISSY
28 Down: Fairness (6): EQUITY
32 Down: Witch's home (5): ENDOR
34 Down: Natives of Oulu (5): FINNS
35 Down: Timothy shaver (5): MOWER
36 Down: Barbecue gear (5): SPITS
37 Down: Do slaloms (6): ZIGZAG
38 Down: ___ form (at one's best) (6): INRARE
39 Down: Famous oratorio (13): PRINCEOFPEACE
41 Down: Food named for a goddess (6): CEREAL
42 Down: Brilliance (5): ECLAT
43 Down: Famed Flemish portraits (13): POINTEDBEARDS
44 Down: Huts (6): HOVELS
46 Down: French indefinite pronoun (4): UNES
47 Down: Hamilton's birthplace (5): NEVIS
48 Down: Griffith Gaunt's creator (5): READE
49 Down: Its capital is Doha (5): KATAR
51 Down: Drake or cob (4): MALE
53 Down: Russian length (5): VERST
55 Down: Duchesse, e.g. (5): SATIN
57 Down: Church council (5): SYNOD
58 Down: Support (7): ESPOUSE
60 Down: Pivotal (5): POLAR
62 Down: Cum grano ___ (5): SALIS
64 Down: "You could hear ___ drop" (4): APIN
65 Down: Wide-brimmed straw hat (5): MILAN
67 Down: Items "on wheels" (5): MEALS
68 Down: Kind of fist (4): IRON
69 Down: Steady Eddie of pitching fame (5): LOPAT
71 Down: Lait topper (5): CREME
73 Down: Modern moola (5): BREAD
74 Down: Railroad name (6): AMTRAK
75 Down: Pentateuch (5): TORAH
76 Down: Emulate Bellow (5): WRITE
77 Down: Grandparents, at times (6): DOTERS
78 Down: Red ___, S African shrubs (5): ELSES
80 Down: Shackled (6): UNFREE
81 Down: Loathe (6): DETEST
82 Down: Goddess worshiped by Radames (4): ISIS
83 Down: Insinuations (5): HINTS
85 Down: La ___, Trinidadian port (4): BREA
87 Down: Divided country (5): KOREA
89 Down: Author St. Johns (5): ADELA
90 Down: Parlor piece (5): DIVAN
92 Down: A reindeer in a Moore poem (6): DONNER
93 Down: "Oops!" cause (5): ERROR
95 Down: "___ the thought!" (6): PERISH
97 Down: Rodeo stars (7): NOOSERS
98 Down: Retribution (7): NEMESIS
101 Down: Hot-dish stand (6): TRIVET
103 Down: Arrives (6): GETSIN
106 Down: Regarding (5): ANENT
107 Down: "Enough!" in Roma (5): BASTA
108 Down: Unspoken (5): TACIT
109 Down: One of the Horae (5): IRENE
110 Down: Jug (4): EWER
111 Down: Like an anchoret (4): LONE
112 Down: Car pioneer (4): OLDS
113 Down: Tizzy (4): SNIT
114 Down: Young whale (4): CALF
115 Down: Galba's successor (4): OTHO
116 Down: Surmounting (4): ATOP
117 Down: Drink noisily (4): SLUP
118 Down: Kind of mark or cast (4): TELE
120 Down: G. & S. princess (3): IDA
122 Down: Mideast org. (3): PLO
123 Down: Yeeuck! (3): UGH

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