WHEN IN ROME - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 8/18/1985. By Charles M. Deber.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Inst. at Annapolis (4)
ACAD
5 Across: Kipling's Kim (5)
OHARA
10 Across: "___ in Calico," 1946 song (4)
AGAL
14 Across: Quiche ingredient (5)
BACON
19 Across: Glut (4)
SATE
20 Across: Author Paul de ___ (5)
KRUIF
21 Across: Throwaway at Trevi (4)
LIRA
22 Across: Site of a main campus in Maine (5)
ORONO
23 Across: 501 (15)
PRINCESSOFWALES
26 Across: More recent (5)
NEWER
27 Across: "___ Way," Cahn–Van Heusen hit (6)
ALLTHE
28 Across: Atop, poetically (3)
OER
29 Across: CARE concern (4)
NEED
31 Across: Kind of rap (3)
BUM
32 Across: 1001 (11)
NOTEAFTERRE
36 Across: Jokers, in two senses (5)
CARDS
37 Across: W.W. II org. (3)
OPA
38 Across: What Ben Adhem did (7)
DREAMED
39 Across: Perhaps (8)
POSSIBLY
41 Across: Range fuel (3)
GAS
44 Across: Childe Hassam's "Summer ___" (3)
SEA
45 Across: Halberd follower (3)
IER
46 Across: Adman, in a way (6)
TOUTER
49 Across: 54 (14)
ACTRESSULLMANN
55 Across: "Any port in ___" (6)
ASTORM
56 Across: Mescal (6)
PEYOTE
57 Across: Choice (6)
OPTION
59 Across: Certain trailer trks. (5)
SEMIS
60 Across: Comfort (6)
SOLACE
61 Across: Heart (3)
COR
62 Across: Lamb who had a Mary (4)
ELIA
64 Across: 1 (19)
FIRSTPERSONSINGULAR
72 Across: Shade of blue or gray (4)
HAZE
73 Across: Seaver, twice (3)
MET
74 Across: Gave a piercing look (6)
GLARED
76 Across: "Dirigible" director: 1931 (5)
CAPRA
81 Across: Italian spirits (6)
GRAPPA
83 Across: Rouse (6)
INCITE
84 Across: Product of Zeus's head (6)
ATHENA
86 Across: 200 or 1050 (14)
AMETRICMEASURE
90 Across: Wolf's activity (6)
BAYING
91 Across: ___ Claire, Wis. (3)
EAU
92 Across: Avocat's forte (3)
LOI
93 Across: Rocker's contemporary (3)
MOD
94 Across: Eavesdroppers (8)
SNOOPERS
97 Across: Columns (7)
PILLARS
101 Across: Doubly: Prefix (3)
TWI
103 Across: Russian high spots (5)
URALS
104 Across: 11 (11)
GREEKLETTER
108 Across: G.I. Jane (3)
WAC
109 Across: Space agcy. (4)
NASA
110 Across: Caviar (3)
ROE
111 Across: Word of honor (6)
PAROLE
112 Across: Sacro adherent (5)
ILIAC
114 Across: 600 (15)
SITEOFUSCAPITOL
119 Across: Sylvan clearing (5)
GLADE
120 Across: Geraint's wife (4)
ENID
121 Across: Digital computer (5)
ENIAC
122 Across: Wine valley (4)
NAPA
123 Across: Less irrational (5)
SANER
124 Across: Phrontisteries (4)
DENS
125 Across: Missouri campus town (5)
ROLLA
126 Across: "Gang aft a-___": Burns (4)
GLEY

Down Answers

1 Down: " . . . life's but ___": Shak. (5)
ASPAN
2 Down: Signor Ponti (5)
CARLO
3 Down: Inclined (5)
ATILT
4 Down: Like pots gone to pot (6)
DENTED
5 Down: Actor Dennis: 1908–1968 (6)
OKEEFE
6 Down: Kin of mins. (3)
HRS
7 Down: Out, in Innsbruck (3)
AUS
8 Down: Lerma or Pánuco (3)
RIO
9 Down: Have the means (6)
AFFORD
10 Down: Winglike (4)
ALAR
11 Down: Hodges of baseball fame (3)
GIL
12 Down: Punta ___, Chilean port (6)
ARENAS
13 Down: Light beams (6)
LASERS
14 Down: 1000 (9)
BONDSBOSS
15 Down: "You ___ what you eat" (3)
ARE
16 Down: 1009 (9)
COWBOYTOM
17 Down: Ahead, narrowly (5)
ONEUP
18 Down: Bellini opera (5)
NORMA
24 Down: British cleaning woman (4)
CHAR
25 Down: Like Willie Winkie (3)
WEE
30 Down: Soprano Gruberova (5)
EDITA
33 Down: Scottish goblet (4)
TASS
34 Down: Aussie bird (4)
EMEU
35 Down: Genuine (4)
REAL
36 Down: Most banal (8)
CORNIEST
39 Down: Cork fuel (4)
PEAT
40 Down: What a theorbo was (4)
LUTE
41 Down: Interruptions (4)
GAPS
42 Down: Within an ___ (very close) (5)
ACEOF
43 Down: Pointed tools (5)
STYLI
45 Down: Off the cuff (9)
IMPROMPTU
47 Down: "___ tu," Verdi aria (3)
ERI
48 Down: Realtor's abbr. (3)
RMS
50 Down: Jungle noise (4)
ROAR
51 Down: And so on and so forth (4)
ETCS
52 Down: " . . . but now mine eye ___ thee": Job 42:5 (5)
SEETH
53 Down: "Gigi" playwright (4)
LOOS
54 Down: ___ me tangere (4)
NOLI
58 Down: Writer Anais (3)
NIN
61 Down: Certain pitchers (8)
CREAMERS
63 Down: B. Agr. aspirant (5)
AGGIE
65 Down: Yugoslav island (3)
PAG
66 Down: Hebrew scribe (4)
EZRA
67 Down: Skinflinty (4)
NEAR
68 Down: Ginglymus attachment (4)
ULNA
69 Down: Tree resins (4)
LACS
70 Down: Suffix with planet (5)
ARIUM
71 Down: Kind of rocket (5)
RETRO
75 Down: Legal paper (4)
DEED
76 Down: Fiacre (3)
CAB
77 Down: One ___ time (3)
ATA
78 Down: 1500 (9)
PHYSICIAN
79 Down: Curb (4)
REIN
80 Down: 1100 (9)
ANNOUNCER
82 Down: Leguminous plants (4)
PEAS
85 Down: Israeli coin (5)
AGORA
87 Down: Netman Nastase (4)
ILIE
88 Down: Nat King or Old King (4)
COLE
89 Down: "Jersey juice" (4)
MILK
95 Down: Qualified (6)
PASSED
96 Down: Tennyson heroine (6)
ELAINE
97 Down: Rate higher (6)
PREFER
98 Down: Woolly beast (6)
ALPACA
99 Down: Harvest (4)
REAP
100 Down: Apron or G chaser (6)
STRING
101 Down: Slender shoots (5)
TWIGS
102 Down: Half a Washington city's name (5)
WALLA
104 Down: Baby talk (3)
GOO
105 Down: Add up (5)
TOTAL
106 Down: Leave by ladder (5)
ELOPE
107 Down: Pass along (5)
RELAY
110 Down: Beatty film (4)
REDS
113 Down: Fabulist George (3)
ADE
115 Down: Kind of can or ear (3)
TIN
116 Down: Número ___ (3)
UNO
117 Down: Part of R.S.V.P. (3)
SIL
118 Down: Lone Eagle's monogram (3)
CAL

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