TIMELY THEME - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 12/29/1985. By William Lutwiniak.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: R.b.i., e.g. (4)
- STAT
- 5 Across: Plastered on (5)
- CAKED
- 10 Across: James Jones's heroes (3)
- GIS
- 13 Across: Declines (4)
- EBBS
- 17 Across: Have coming (4)
- EARN
- 18 Across: The end (5)
- OMEGA
- 19 Across: Terra's companion (4)
- LUNA
- 20 Across: Dark, as some streets (5)
- UNLIT
- 21 Across: With 41 Across, timely Loesser song (15)
- WHATAREYOUDOING
- 24 Across: Inclined (5)
- PRONE
- 25 Across: Immeasurable period (3)
- EON
- 26 Across: Famed diva (4)
- PONS
- 27 Across: Flax pods (5)
- BOLLS
- 28 Across: Buffet item (6)
- DRAWER
- 29 Across: Answer (7)
- RESPOND
- 31 Across: Former ice queen (5)
- HENIE
- 32 Across: Grange subject (5)
- CROPS
- 33 Across: A feast ___ famine (3)
- ORA
- 34 Across: Weight allowance (4)
- TRET
- 35 Across: Awned (8)
- ARISTATE
- 38 Across: Full range (5)
- GAMUT
- 41 Across: See 21 Across (11)
- NEWYEARSEVE
- 44 Across: Prefix with cycle (3)
- TRI
- 45 Across: Blind as ___ (4)
- ABAT
- 46 Across: Kind of pony (4)
- POLO
- 47 Across: Adjuvant or adjutant (4)
- AIDE
- 48 Across: "That's one small step for ___ . . . " (4)
- AMAN
- 49 Across: Stir-fry buy (3)
- WOK
- 50 Across: Timely bandsman of yesteryear (11)
- GUYLOMBARDO
- 54 Across: Reels (5)
- SPINS
- 55 Across: Foreshadows (8)
- PRESAGES
- 57 Across: Berlin avenue (5)
- ALLEE
- 58 Across: Fokker foes (5)
- SPADS
- 59 Across: Spring beauties (6)
- IRISES
- 60 Across: Old plane (5)
- CRATE
- 61 Across: Delhi appeal method (6)
- DHARNA
- 62 Across: "The Balcony" playwright (5)
- GENET
- 63 Across: Jay Silverheels role (5)
- TONTO
- 64 Across: Drill (8)
- PRACTICE
- 66 Across: Speculates (5)
- RISKS
- 67 Across: Timely site (11)
- TIMESSQUARE
- 69 Across: Big Board corp. (3)
- GTE
- 70 Across: Sonny Shroyer TV role (4)
- ENOS
- 71 Across: Certain Prot. (4)
- BAPT
- 72 Across: Yen (4)
- URGE
- 73 Across: Unit of loudness (4)
- PHON
- 74 Across: Intimate (3)
- PAL
- 75 Across: Timely tooters (11)
- NOISEMAKERS
- 79 Across: Famed singing cowboy (5)
- AUTRY
- 80 Across: In multiple style (8)
- PLURALLY
- 82 Across: Stuart ___, U.S. artist: 1908–74 (4)
- EDIE
- 83 Across: Grads-to-be (3)
- SRS
- 84 Across: Hoists a few too many (5)
- TOPES
- 85 Across: Cause to happen (5)
- BRING
- 86 Across: With 14 Down, Jack Benny movie of 1945 (7)
- THEHORN
- 90 Across: Hotel offerings (6)
- SUITES
- 92 Across: Entitled (5)
- NAMED
- 93 Across: Happy look (4)
- GRIN
- 94 Across: Tuition, e.g. (3)
- FEE
- 95 Across: Like football crowds (5)
- AROAR
- 96 Across: Timely words from Burns (15)
- FORAULDLANGSYNE
- 99 Across: Like a dryer trap (5)
- LINTY
- 100 Across: Impartial (4)
- EVEN
- 101 Across: Weaken gradually (5)
- ERODE
- 102 Across: Campus figure (4)
- COED
- 103 Across: Ovid's being (4)
- ESSE
- 104 Across: Pop (3)
- DAD
- 105 Across: Gulled (5)
- DUPED
- 106 Across: One of the Longs (4)
- HUEY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Bushelman, at times (5)
- SEWER
- 2 Down: Western resort lake (5)
- TAHOE
- 3 Down: Islands off Galway (5)
- ARANS
- 4 Down: Explosive (3)
- TNT
- 5 Down: Fine cigar (6)
- CORONA
- 6 Down: Better (5)
- AMEND
- 7 Down: Openers (4)
- KEYS
- 8 Down: Freud word (3)
- EGO
- 9 Down: Bad art (7)
- DAUBERY
- 10 Down: Deceit (5)
- GUILE
- 11 Down: ___ of Court (4)
- INNS
- 12 Down: Yield to gravity (3)
- SAG
- 13 Down: Spellbound (6)
- ENRAPT
- 14 Down: See 86 Across (15)
- BLOWSATMIDNIGHT
- 15 Down: Hop stem (4)
- BINE
- 16 Down: Ending with song (4)
- STER
- 19 Down: Fictional nymphet (6)
- LOLITA
- 20 Down: Revolted (6)
- UPROSE
- 22 Down: To the left, at sea (5)
- APORT
- 23 Down: Gift receiver (5)
- DONEE
- 28 Down: What drinkers shouldn't do (5)
- DRIVE
- 30 Down: Sulky look (4)
- POUT
- 31 Down: Water (5)
- HTWOO
- 32 Down: Set of beliefs (5)
- CREDO
- 35 Down: Out of the way (5)
- ASIDE
- 36 Down: Dealer (10)
- TRANSACTOR
- 37 Down: One, in Bonn (4)
- EINS
- 38 Down: Stare slack-jawed (4)
- GAWP
- 39 Down: Native (10)
- ABORIGINAL
- 40 Down: Timely imperative (15)
- MAKERESOLUTIONS
- 41 Down: "The Highwayman" poet (5)
- NOYES
- 42 Down: Pipe bends (4)
- ELLS
- 43 Down: Street show (5)
- RAREE
- 46 Down: Washington sound (5)
- PUGET
- 48 Down: In pieces (5)
- APART
- 50 Down: Argon and neon (5)
- GASES
- 51 Down: Seine feeder (5)
- MARNE
- 52 Down: Sheepish sounds (5)
- BLATS
- 53 Down: Some choristers (5)
- ALTOS
- 54 Down: Latitude (5)
- SPACE
- 56 Down: Goes down (5)
- SINKS
- 58 Down: Portion (5)
- SHARE
- 60 Down: French nobleman (5)
- COMTE
- 61 Down: Uses a grapnel (5)
- DRAGS
- 63 Down: Under the alfluence of incohol (5)
- TIPSY
- 64 Down: Run smoothly (4)
- PURR
- 65 Down: Counting-out word (4)
- EENY
- 66 Down: Tie fabric (4)
- REPP
- 67 Down: Toss call (5)
- TAILS
- 68 Down: Caine's skipper (5)
- QUEEG
- 71 Down: Tree trunks (5)
- BOLES
- 73 Down: This may come to shove (4)
- PUSH
- 75 Down: Linens (6)
- NAPERY
- 76 Down: "Anything Goes" Star (6)
- MERMAN
- 77 Down: "Goodbye, cheri" (5)
- ADIEU
- 78 Down: Used tinder (7)
- KINDLED
- 79 Down: Malayan palm (5)
- ARENG
- 81 Down: Birl (6)
- ROTATE
- 83 Down: Polished (6)
- SHINED
- 85 Down: Stripped (5)
- BARED
- 86 Down: This for that (5)
- TRADE
- 87 Down: "The Very Thought ___," Ray Noble hit (5)
- OFYOU
- 88 Down: Ballerina Jeanmaire (5)
- RENEE
- 89 Down: Hard up (5)
- NEEDY
- 90 Down: Mall event (4)
- SALE
- 91 Down: "Topaz" author (4)
- URIS
- 92 Down: TV science show (4)
- NOVA
- 93 Down: Gluey stuff (4)
- GLOP
- 96 Down: G-man, e.g. (3)
- FED
- 97 Down: Actress Joanne (3)
- DRU
- 98 Down: Milieu of a prin. (3)
- SCH
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