MAYHEM - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 170 clues). Published 5/12/1985. By Mary Virginia Orna.

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Across Answers

1 Across: MAYenne pancake (5): CREPE
6 Across: Wants (5): LACKS
11 Across: Bath, e.g. (3): SPA
14 Across: Snipe's habitat (5): MARSH
19 Across: Navigational system (5): LORAN
20 Across: "The Terrible" czar (6): IVANIV
22 Across: MAYapple, e.g. (4): HERB
24 Across: Emulate Isocrates (5): ORATE
25 Across: Impofo (5): ELAND
26 Across: Viennese violinist (6): MORINI
27 Across: Employer (4): USER
28 Across: "Separate Tables" actor (5): NIVEN
29 Across: Choir members (5): ALTOS
30 Across: Acrimonious (6): BITTER
31 Across: Potion portion (4): DOSE
32 Across: Adolescent period (5): TEENS
33 Across: Famed queen or horse (4): NOOR
34 Across: Fashion (4): MODE
35 Across: Neptune and Pluto (4): GODS
37 Across: Musagetes (6): APOLLO
39 Across: ___ Pasha, The Lion of Janina (3): ALI
41 Across: "Then ___ of warm, sea-scented beach": Browning (5): AMILE
43 Across: Crucial time in 1944 (4): DDAY
44 Across: Two MAYors of N.Y.C. (14): BEAMEANDWAGNER
50 Across: Pelion's supporter (4): OSSA
51 Across: Triumphs for a QB (3): TDS
54 Across: Atahualpa's subjects (5): INCAS
55 Across: Urals locale (7): EURASIA
56 Across: Ethiopian Christian (4): COPT
57 Across: Enjoy a quid (4): CHEW
58 Across: Summer quenchers (4): ADES
59 Across: Tiny chorine (4): PONY
60 Across: Pyrenean principality (7): ANDORRA
62 Across: Turkish province (4): URFA
63 Across: MAYday's cousin (3): SOS
64 Across: Sheet of stamps (4): PANE
65 Across: D.D.E.'s command (3): ETO
67 Across: Capstone (4): ACME
68 Across: Prink (5): PREEN
69 Across: ___ Prés, memorable Flemish composer (3): DES
70 Across: Ovid topic (4): AMOR
71 Across: Mother of Hera (4): RHEA
72 Across: One's chips (5): STACK
73 Across: MAYs (23): ACTRESSESBRITTANDWHITTY
80 Across: Bucolic (5): RURAL
81 Across: Moiseyev movement (4): PLIE
82 Across: Tricklet (4): RILL
83 Across: Assn. begun in 1948 (3): OAS
84 Across: GaMAY, e.g. (5): GRAPE
85 Across: Foxx from St. Louis (4): REDD
86 Across: Cleaver's "Soul on ___" (3): ICE
87 Across: Large barge (4): SCOW
89 Across: License plate (3): TAG
92 Across: Mike of baseball (4): IVIE
93 Across: Summaries (7): DIGESTS
95 Across: Chemical suffix (4): ITOL
96 Across: Diet (4): FARE
97 Across: Herriot's colleagues, for short (4): VETS
98 Across: Keelbills (4): ANIS
99 Across: A "Juarez" star and family (7): AHERNES
102 Across: "Stormy Weather" composer (5): ARLEN
103 Across: Curve (3): ESS
104 Across: Cherbourg cherub (4): ANGE
105 Across: MAYa, e.g. (14): ANCIENTMEXICAN
107 Across: J.F.K. and L.B.J. (4): DEMS
108 Across: Hard (5): STONY
109 Across: Ending for gate or boot (3): LEG
110 Across: Direction for Dorothy MAYnor (6): ARIOSO
113 Across: "Friendly" pronoun (4): THOU
114 Across: Prefix for trust or thesis (4): ANTI
117 Across: Director Richter: 1888–1976 (4): HANS
121 Across: Bart or Belle (5): STARR
122 Across: St. Philip ___, famed Italian priest (4): NERI
124 Across: Drowsy one (6): NODDER
127 Across: Sandal part (5): STRAP
128 Across: Bygone (5): OLDEN
129 Across: MAYten or MAYeng (4): TREE
130 Across: Shock (6): TRAUMA
131 Across: Hawk's haunt (5): AERIE
132 Across: Popularizer of "Mule Train" (5): LAINE
133 Across: Radiator sound (4): HISS
134 Across: Participated in a pep rally (6): YELLED
135 Across: Tarts thief (5): KNAVE
136 Across: Almond willow (5): OSIER
137 Across: Between A.S.T. and C.S.T. (3): EST
138 Across: Podetia (5): SETAE
139 Across: Ancient Briton's chariot (5): ESSED

Down Answers

1 Down: Spotless (5): CLEAN
2 Down: Psychologist MAY (5): ROLLO
3 Down: Kin of Calliope (5): ERATO
4 Down: Cape MAY seascapes, e.g. (9): PANORAMAS
5 Down: Remnants (4): ENDS
6 Down: Place of oblivion (5): LIMBO
7 Down: Dodge (5): AVOID
8 Down: Deux or valet (5): CARTE
9 Down: Set (4): KNIT
10 Down: Tangent's relative (4): SINE
11 Down: Quake and shake (7): SHUDDER
12 Down: MAYari mazuma (5): PESOS
13 Down: Olympian once imprisoned in a jar (4): ARES
14 Down: Guitarist from Madrid (7): MONTOYA
15 Down: What Shelley called himself (5): ARIEL
16 Down: "Myrrha" composer (5): RAVEL
17 Down: Off. worker (5): STENO
18 Down: Female lobsters (4): HENS
21 Down: MAYo (21): VIRGINIAORIRISHCOUNTY
23 Down: MAYonnaise, e.g. (11): BREADSPREAD
34 Down: Maureen O'Sullivan daughter (3): MIA
36 Down: City on the Allegheny (5): OLEAN
38 Down: Trattoria offering (5): PASTA
40 Down: "___ Girls," 1957 Gene Kelly film (3): LES
41 Down: Bond rating (3): AAA
42 Down: W.W. II weapons (3): MGS
43 Down: Whistlers outside hotels (7): DOORMEN
44 Down: A concern of a seamstress (4): BIAS
45 Down: Within: Comb. form (4): ENDO
46 Down: Coups for Connors (4): ACES
47 Down: Relative of krypton (4): NEON
48 Down: A 1984 movie (4): DUNE
49 Down: Askew (3): WRY
51 Down: Blackmailer's weapon (6): THREAT
52 Down: Flaw (6): DEFECT
53 Down: Posh (6): SWANKY
56 Down: Cactus fruit (6): COCHAL
57 Down: General LeMAY (6): CURTIS
59 Down: Bridge bid (4): PASS
61 Down: Rosa in "David Copperfield" (6): DARTLE
64 Down: Dramatist of Shakespeare's day (5): PEELE
65 Down: Encloses tightly (6): EMBEDS
66 Down: Craggy hill (3): TOR
68 Down: Cry of disbelief (5): PSHAW
69 Down: Hangings (6): DRAPES
70 Down: Private lines (6): ASIDES
73 Down: Peloponnesian native (6): ARGIVE
74 Down: These may be dangerous (6): CURVES
75 Down: Characteristics (6): TRAITS
76 Down: MAY (11): SPRINGMONTH
77 Down: Gray matters? (7): ELEGIES
78 Down: Muscular contraction (3): TIC
79 Down: Cashmere or kersey (4): WOOL
87 Down: Word on a galley proof (4): STET
88 Down: Ending for macro or micro (4): COSM
89 Down: Steatite, e.g. (4): TALC
90 Down: Field (4): AREA
91 Down: Actor in "Quo Vadis" (4): GENN
93 Down: Natives of Nyborg (5): DANES
94 Down: So much, to Verdi (5): TANTO
95 Down: Hostel (3): INN
96 Down: DisMAYs (9): FRIGHTENS
100 Down: Luther's "___ feste Burg . . . " (3): EIN
101 Down: Fernando V, e.g. (3): REY
102 Down: Whackswork? (3): AXE
104 Down: Queen's attendant (7): ADORNER
105 Down: Most pallid (7): ASHIEST
106 Down: Father of Phinehas (3): ELI
110 Down: Statue in Rockefeller Center (5): ATLAS
111 Down: Circle parts (5): RADII
112 Down: One of the Joliot-Curies (5): IRENE
113 Down: Lock (5): TRESS
114 Down: Mature (5): ADULT
115 Down: Site of games honoring Zeus (5): NEMEA
116 Down: It has its tricks (5): TRADE
118 Down: Wall decoration (5): ARRAS
119 Down: Dewy-eyed (5): NAIVE
120 Down: Jehu's delight (5): SPEED
121 Down: "Star Wars" pilot (4): SOLO
123 Down: Great Lakes port (4): ERIE
125 Down: Ilmenite and cuprite (4): ORES
126 Down: Soprano Clamma ___ (4): DALE
127 Down: Pete's follower (4): SAKE

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