"PUNORAMA" - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 7/28/1985. By Louis Baron.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Sawbuck (3)
TEN
4 Across: Late Chinese leader (3)
MAO
7 Across: Shoshonean group (6)
PIUTES
13 Across: Senegal's capital (5)
DAKAR
18 Across: A former capital of Burma (3)
AVA
19 Across: Land unit (4)
ACRE
21 Across: Records (6)
ANNALS
22 Across: Race: Comb. form (5)
ETHNO
23 Across: Kind of service (3)
LIP
24 Across: Montana eatery sign (17)
CUSTARDSLASTSTAND
27 Across: Like divorce lawyers (14)
CLASHCONSCIOUS
29 Across: Dancer Carmen (5)
AMAYA
30 Across: Hindu life principles (6)
PRANAS
31 Across: Pacino and Smith (3)
ALS
32 Across: Magnon preceder (3)
CRO
33 Across: Some primary colors: Abbr. (3)
YLS
35 Across: More pseudoesthetic (6)
ARTIER
38 Across: "___ how!" (3)
AND
39 Across: Tatami (3)
MAT
40 Across: Kentish freedman (4)
LAET
41 Across: Titter (5)
TEHEE
42 Across: Emulates Heiden (5)
SWIMS
45 Across: Blotter keepers (9)
POLICEMEN
47 Across: Siamangs (4)
APES
48 Across: Not in the dark (5)
AWARE
49 Across: Genus of shrubs named for an astronomer (7)
ROMNEYA
50 Across: Anatomical duct (3)
VAS
51 Across: Advice to an ecdysiast (13)
GRINANDBAREIT
54 Across: "Conning Tower" inits. (3)
FPA
57 Across: Big Apple subway (3)
IRT
58 Across: Galley prop (3)
OAR
59 Across: Compiègne's river (4)
OISE
60 Across: Igloo knife (3)
ULU
61 Across: Musical dir. (3)
STA
62 Across: Documentary on chalets (13)
ALLABOUTEAVES
69 Across: Roscoe (3)
GAT
70 Across: Debussy's sea (3)
MER
71 Across: Rough edge (4)
BURR
72 Across: Corp. abbr. (3)
INC
73 Across: Honshu resort (3)
ITO
74 Across: Cuisinier's pinch (3)
SEL
75 Across: Shape of a beauty queen (13)
FIGUREOFPEACH
81 Across: Pro ___ (3)
TEM
82 Across: Me-firster (7)
EGOTIST
84 Across: Lunar valley (5)
RILLE
85 Across: Uris's "___ 18" (4)
MILA
86 Across: Gets back (9)
RETRIEVES
88 Across: Hits the klaxon (5)
HONKS
89 Across: Catlike mammal (5)
CIVET
90 Across: Like Yul (4)
BALO
91 Across: Incarnadine (3)
RED
92 Across: "Touchy" game (3)
TAG
93 Across: Guiding beliefs (6)
TENETS
94 Across: Suffix with Bronx (3)
ITE
95 Across: Operated (3)
RAN
96 Across: "Le Coq ___" (3)
DOR
97 Across: Breastbone: Comb. form (6)
STERNO
100 Across: "___ this too too solid flesh . . . " (5)
OTHAT
102 Across: Like many a squirrel (14)
GOODFORNUTTING
107 Across: T. Wolfe's "Toper's Diary" (17)
OFTIMEANDTHELIVER
109 Across: Sternberg or Stroheim (3)
VON
110 Across: Gossip (5)
SIEVE
111 Across: Loose overcoat (6)
RAGLAN
112 Across: Get shot (4)
POSE
113 Across: Jehoshaphat's father (3)
ASA
114 Across: " . . . a poem lovely as ___" (5)
ATREE
115 Across: Candy (6)
SWEETS
116 Across: "___ Now or Never," Presley hit (3)
ITS
117 Across: Catch (3)
NET

Down Answers

1 Down: Dusting powder (4)
TALC
2 Down: Old Nick's agenda (4)
EVIL
3 Down: Western wine city (4)
NAPA
4 Down: Lyrical mother (7)
MACHREE
5 Down: Pão de ___ (Sugar Loaf Mountain) (6)
ACUCAR
6 Down: Hairy creature in "The Jungle Books" (5)
ORSON
7 Down: Bois de Boulogne, e.g. (4)
PARC
8 Down: Gandhi and Sitting Bull (7)
INDIANS
9 Down: Still in stock (6)
UNSOLD
10 Down: Ankle (5)
TALUS
11 Down: Greek W.W. II group (4)
ELAS
12 Down: Federal draft agcy. (3)
SSS
13 Down: Bond: Comb. form (5)
DESMO
14 Down: "___ boy!" (4)
ATTA
15 Down: Shortened Persian version of a Muni film (16)
KHAYYAMAFUGITIVE
16 Down: Joanna Winnifrith's screen name (7)
ANNALEE
17 Down: Curtain fixture (3)
ROD
20 Down: Sicily's erupter (4)
ETNA
25 Down: Kiang (3)
ASS
26 Down: Composer of "The Devil's Trill" (7)
TARTINI
28 Down: Unfriendly observers (5)
SPIES
32 Down: Tranquil, in Tours (5)
CALME
34 Down: RR stop (3)
STN
35 Down: Reversions of a sort (8)
ATAVISMS
36 Down: Witty exchange (8)
REPARTEE
37 Down: Movie mogul's downfall (16)
THESTARLETLETTER
38 Down: Word of emphasis (4)
AMEN
39 Down: Island near Tahiti (6)
MOOREA
40 Down: Rocketeer Willy (3)
LEY
42 Down: Eddy (5)
SWIRL
43 Down: Ruddy's antithesis (3)
WAN
44 Down: General Eaker (3)
IRA
45 Down: Green quartz (5)
PRASE
46 Down: This, to Tancrède (3)
CET
48 Down: Caspian's eastern neighbor (4)
ARAL
51 Down: Gazelle of Tibet (3)
GOA
52 Down: River in Spain and Portugal (5)
DOURO
53 Down: Small role (3)
BIT
55 Down: Minute, flattened body (8)
PLATELET
56 Down: Coin-slot cafeterias (8)
AUTOMATS
63 Down: Treated shabbily (6)
ABUSED
64 Down: Lancaster and Reynolds (5)
BURTS
65 Down: Pay dirt (3)
ORE
66 Down: Small bottles (5)
VIALS
67 Down: Suffix for confer (4)
ENCE
68 Down: Part of P.S. (3)
SCH
75 Down: Gallic faith (3)
FOI
76 Down: Reemphasize (7)
ITERATE
77 Down: Bestowed (5)
GIVEN
78 Down: Poe's "Hop-___" (4)
FROG
79 Down: Affix (3)
PIN
80 Down: Wawaskeesh (3)
ELK
83 Down: Elec. connection (3)
GRO
85 Down: ___ A.F.B., N.D. (5)
MINOT
86 Down: Diamond stat. (3)
RBI
87 Down: " . . . thou shalt not ___": Gen. 2:17 (7)
EATOFIT
88 Down: Construction worker (7)
HARDHAT
89 Down: Cores, in Chichester (7)
CENTRES
92 Down: Play the flute (6)
TOOTLE
93 Down: Most accurate (6)
TRUEST
95 Down: Ouida's real name (5)
RAMEE
96 Down: Duck (5)
DODGE
97 Down: Tarzan producer Lesser (3)
SOL
98 Down: Stumble (4)
TRIP
99 Down: Poem closer (5)
ENVOI
101 Down: Busy place (4)
HIVE
102 Down: Nibble's cousin (4)
GNAW
103 Down: Marshy areas (4)
FENS
104 Down: Pavlov (4)
IVAN
105 Down: "Gandle Follows His ___": H. Broun (4)
NOSE
106 Down: No-see-um (4)
GNAT
107 Down: Explorer Johnson (3)
OSA
108 Down: ___ gratia artis (3)
ARS

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