OPERATIC OPERATIONS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 9/8/1985. By Alfio Micci.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Please (7)
- GRATIFY
- 8 Across: S.A. Indian (5)
- CARIB
- 13 Across: Car décor (6)
- CHROME
- 19 Across: Composer Saint-Saëns (7)
- CAMILLE
- 20 Across: "Moonlight" or "Waldenstein" (6)
- SONATA
- 21 Across: Uses the oven (6)
- ROASTS
- 22 Across: Puccini cowhand? (21)
- THEBOYOFTHEGOLDENWEST
- 25 Across: "Lord, is ___?": Matt. 26:22 (3)
- ITI
- 26 Across: Virtue; valor (5)
- ARETE
- 27 Across: European thrush (5)
- OUSEL
- 28 Across: Like a bairn (3)
- SMA
- 30 Across: German appellations (5)
- NAMEN
- 32 Across: Enroll (8)
- INSCRIBE
- 35 Across: Coin of Iran (4)
- RIAL
- 36 Across: Waxed (4)
- GREW
- 37 Across: Principle (5)
- TENET
- 39 Across: Former D.C. nine (4)
- NATS
- 41 Across: Brain-wave reading, for short (3)
- EEG
- 42 Across: Finance abbr. (3)
- HFM
- 43 Across: Cautious (5)
- CHARY
- 44 Across: Extent (6)
- DEGREE
- 46 Across: Campaigner's concern (7)
- PRIMARY
- 48 Across: Cry of satisfaction (5)
- THERE
- 49 Across: Turkish coin, to a Londoner (7)
- PIASTRE
- 50 Across: Esoteric (6)
- ARCANE
- 51 Across: Like new bills (5)
- CRISP
- 52 Across: Part of G.I. (4)
- GOVT
- 53 Across: Remnant (3)
- END
- 54 Across: Synthetic fabric (6)
- DACRON
- 55 Across: Mascagni flirt (4)
- LOLA
- 56 Across: Lotto's kin (4)
- KENO
- 57 Across: Father of Diomedes of Thrace (4)
- ARES
- 58 Across: Secular (4)
- LAIC
- 59 Across: Discernible (7)
- EVIDENT
- 61 Across: Noted Korean (4)
- RHEE
- 63 Across: Precollege test, for short (4)
- PSAT
- 65 Across: Washington's pursuer (4)
- HOWE
- 67 Across: Show patience (4)
- WAIT
- 68 Across: Disentangled, as fibers (6)
- CARDED
- 71 Across: Ending for cash or front (3)
- IER
- 72 Across: Iowa campus town (4)
- AMES
- 73 Across: Indistinct (5)
- MISTY
- 74 Across: Elgar's "___ Variations" (6)
- ENIGMA
- 75 Across: Wagnerian hero (7)
- TRISTAN
- 77 Across: Covers a bet (5)
- FADES
- 78 Across: Lear's eldest daughter (7)
- GONERIL
- 79 Across: Uri or Zug (6)
- CANTON
- 80 Across: "Dead Souls" author (5)
- GOGOL
- 81 Across: One ___ kind (3)
- OFA
- 82 Across: Violinist Bull (3)
- OLE
- 83 Across: Yesterday, to Pierre (4)
- HIER
- 84 Across: Muscle (5)
- SINEW
- 85 Across: Norwegian king (4)
- OLAF
- 87 Across: Tuileries occupants (4)
- ROIS
- 88 Across: "Travesties" playwright (8)
- STOPPARD
- 91 Across: Cremona craftsman (5)
- AMATI
- 92 Across: "___ Loser," Beatles song (3)
- IMA
- 93 Across: "You can ___ horse to water . . . " (5)
- LEADA
- 94 Across: Inspected the joint (5)
- CASED
- 96 Across: Cumberland, e.g. (3)
- GAP
- 98 Across: Prokofiev's saucy opus? (21)
- THELOVEFORTHREEAPPLES
- 106 Across: Unruffled (6)
- SERENE
- 107 Across: SOS signals (6)
- FLARES
- 108 Across: John or Jill (7)
- IRELAND
- 109 Across: King and Mason (6)
- PERRYS
- 110 Across: Dickens's Drood (5)
- EDWIN
- 111 Across: Oats container (7)
- NOSEBAG
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Time-zone abbr. (3)
- GCT
- 2 Down: Music to an athlete's ears (3)
- RAH
- 3 Down: Soul, in Savoie (3)
- AME
- 4 Down: Of a leg bone (6)
- TIBIAL
- 5 Down: Ait (4)
- ILOT
- 6 Down: Wagner's Parisian pilot? (15)
- FLYINGFRENCHMAN
- 7 Down: River in SW England (3)
- YEO
- 8 Down: Producer Alexander (5)
- COHEN
- 9 Down: French violinist: 18th century (4)
- ANET
- 10 Down: Storm (4)
- RAGE
- 11 Down: Japanese admiral: 1843–1914 (3)
- ITO
- 12 Down: Nonsense (7)
- BALONEY
- 13 Down: Musically increase in vol. (5)
- CRESC
- 14 Down: Barber, at times (5)
- HONER
- 15 Down: Author of "The Sojourner" (8)
- RAWLINGS
- 16 Down: Verb ending (3)
- OSE
- 17 Down: Rockies, e.g. (3)
- MTS
- 18 Down: Erhard's therapy (3)
- EST
- 20 Down: Disseminate (5)
- STREW
- 23 Down: TV series (4)
- FAME
- 24 Down: Sprinkle (4)
- DUST
- 28 Down: Mountainous region (6)
- SIERRA
- 29 Down: What Fountain plays in a Mozart opus? (13)
- MAGICCLARINET
- 31 Down: Host (4)
- ARMY
- 32 Down: Dictator's phrase (4)
- INRE
- 33 Down: Stableboy in a Smetana opus? (13)
- BARTEREDGROOM
- 34 Down: Always, poetically (6)
- ETERNE
- 35 Down: Do upholstering (5)
- REPAD
- 37 Down: Lehár opus about a lady in despair? (11)
- THESADWIDOW
- 38 Down: Wyatt of the West (4)
- EARP
- 40 Down: Pips (5)
- SEEDS
- 42 Down: Asian capital (5)
- HANOI
- 43 Down: Hot pepper (5)
- CHILI
- 44 Down: Unhappy outcome of a Mozart opus? (15)
- DIVORCEOFFIGARO
- 45 Down: Nosh (3)
- EAT
- 47 Down: Revolutionist in 1789 (5)
- MARAT
- 48 Down: Treasure ___ (5)
- TROVE
- 49 Down: Atop, for short (3)
- PON
- 51 Down: Yarn units (5)
- CLEWS
- 52 Down: World's richest man (5)
- GETTY
- 56 Down: Heals (5)
- KNITS
- 57 Down: Eagle's perch (5)
- AERIE
- 60 Down: De Kooning prop (5)
- EASEL
- 62 Down: Political boss in McKinley's day (5)
- HANNA
- 63 Down: Intonation (5)
- PITCH
- 64 Down: Sultans' palaces (6)
- SERAIS
- 66 Down: Wine: Comb. form (3)
- OEN
- 69 Down: Iago's wife (6)
- EMILIA
- 70 Down: Pastoral spots (5)
- DALES
- 72 Down: From ___ Z (3)
- ATO
- 73 Down: Conjurer (4)
- MAGE
- 76 Down: Folding carriage (8)
- STROLLER
- 77 Down: Affectionate (4)
- FOND
- 78 Down: Assault (4)
- GOAT
- 80 Down: Zoo attraction (7)
- GIRAFFE
- 84 Down: Old radio's "Vic and ___" (4)
- SADE
- 85 Down: Hebrew measures (5)
- OMERS
- 86 Down: Burden (4)
- LADE
- 87 Down: Undulation (6)
- RIPPLE
- 89 Down: Garden bloom (5)
- PEONY
- 90 Down: Does road work (5)
- PAVES
- 91 Down: Wan (5)
- ASHEN
- 94 Down: Crow's crop (4)
- CRAW
- 95 Down: Longfellow's bell town (4)
- ATRI
- 97 Down: Uncouth fellows (4)
- APES
- 98 Down: Cooking abbr. (3)
- TSP
- 99 Down: "___ Haw," TV variety show (3)
- HEE
- 100 Down: Fumble (3)
- ERR
- 101 Down: Long in the tooth (3)
- OLD
- 102 Down: A, in Aachen (3)
- EIN
- 103 Down: Chem. room (3)
- LAB
- 104 Down: Bambi's aunt (3)
- ENA
- 105 Down: Surface on a bldg. wall (3)
- SDG
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