DOUBLED HEADERS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 1/26/1986. By Bert Rosenfield.

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Across Answers

1 Across: See 106 Across (8): DOSOWELL
9 Across: Shubert ___, N.Y.C. (5): ALLEY
14 Across: Mitigate (6): SOLACE
20 Across: Do some eavesdropping (8): OVERHEAR
21 Across: Canadian football (5): ROUGE
22 Across: Opposite to the mouth (6): ABORAL
23 Across: Start of a cosmetical inquiry (21): MIRRORMIRRORONTHEWALL
26 Across: Lip (4): SASS
27 Across: Its capital is Beauvais (4): OISE
28 Across: Controversies (7): HASSLES
29 Across: End of a Cohan song (13): OVEROVERTHERE
35 Across: Black, in poesy (4): EBON
39 Across: Cock-a hoop (6): ELATED
40 Across: City near Phoenix (4): MESA
41 Across: Place for a casquette (4): TETE
45 Across: Famous, in Firenze (4): NOTO
46 Across: Winner over G.S.M. (3): RMN
47 Across: Where toves gimbled (4): WABE
48 Across: Flatfish (5): SOLES
49 Across: Mel Allen's phrase re a home run (14): GOINGGOINGGONE
54 Across: Pronounced (6): SPOKEN
55 Across: Chant (6): INTONE
56 Across: Deserve (4): EARN
57 Across: Abstract (7): EPITOME
58 Across: Certain Bonn votes (5): NEINS
59 Across: Crown for John Paul II (5): TIARA
61 Across: Hot wind of Spain (6): SOLANO
63 Across: Yankee sky eye (4): ESSA
64 Across: Bobbin' bird of songdom (11): REDREDROBIN
66 Across: Balm, e.g. (4): ODOR
70 Across: Captures with a springe (6): NOOSES
72 Across: Whence Greeks sailed for Troy (5): AULIS
73 Across: Rhone feeder (5): ISERE
74 Across: Concurs (7): ASSENTS
77 Across: He ruled Rome in A.D. 69 (4): OTHO
78 Across: Demonstrated (6): PROVEN
79 Across: Stool pigeon (6): SNITCH
80 Across: Illusory existence (14): NEVERNEVERLAND
84 Across: Dobos or Linzer (5): TORTE
85 Across: ___ fide (specious) (4): MALA
86 Across: Sweeter than brut (3): SEC
87 Across: Therefrom, in prescriptions (4): INDE
88 Across: Bide-___, a favorite cottage name (4): AWEE
89 Across: "Granada" song writer (4): LARA
90 Across: Sacramento River dam (6): SHASTA
93 Across: Expensive (4): DEAR
94 Across: Long time, to Tonto (13): MANYMANYMOONS
97 Across: Poetic foot (7): ANAPEST
101 Across: Topsoil (4): LOAM
102 Across: Uruguayan export (4): WOOL
106 Across: With 1 Across, request in a Porter song (21): DODOTHATVOODOOTHATYOU
113 Across: Stand (6): ENDURE
114 Across: "A votre ___!" (5): SANTE
115 Across: Some Roosevelt competitors (8): TROTTERS
116 Across: Patriarch (6): NESTOR
117 Across: Homophone for praise (5): PREYS
118 Across: Dumps, e.g. (8): EYESORES

Down Answers

1 Down: Benedictine honorific (3): DOM
2 Down: Sheep genus (4): OVIS
3 Down: Antitoxins (4): SERA
4 Down: ___ Island, Casco Bay locale (4): ORRS
5 Down: Whatever person, old style (5): WHOSO
6 Down: Ballad follower (3): EER
7 Down: O.T. book (3): LAM
8 Down: U.S. fighter plane (3): LRI
9 Down: Make good (6): ARRIVE
10 Down: Untied (6): LOOSED
11 Down: Siren (5): LURER
12 Down: I, to Claudius (3): EGO
13 Down: Itch (3): YEN
14 Down: Sienna brown (6): SAHARA
15 Down: Pyknic (5): OBESE
16 Down: Weather-map areas (4): LOWS
17 Down: Fourth-largest inland sea (4): ARAL
18 Down: Racer Yarborough (4): CALE
19 Down: Problem areas for plumbers (4): ELLS
24 Down: Square or cube follower (4): ROOT
25 Down: "We hold ___ truths . . . " (5): THESE
30 Down: Border (5): VERGE
31 Down: Admiral Zumwalt (4): ELMO
32 Down: Hindu V.I.P. (4): RANI
33 Down: A Baker employee (4): TMAN
34 Down: Greek counterpart of Romans' Juventas (4): HEBE
35 Down: Energy converter (6): ENGINE
36 Down: Pat and Richard (6): BOONES
37 Down: Ear trouble (6): OTITIS
38 Down: A 1925 musical (11): NONONANETTE
41 Down: Specifying Hamlet's body (11): TOOTOOSOLID
42 Down: City on the Humboldt (4): ELKO
43 Down: Be rife (4): TEEM
44 Down: Ancient field hand (4): ESNE
47 Down: ___ ton (Oriental dumpling) (3): WON
48 Down: Laundry cycle (4): SPIN
50 Down: Old Eng. coins (3): GNS
51 Down: Edges up on (5): NEARS
52 Down: "Beware!" in Bourges (4): GARE
53 Down: Shade into one another (7): GRADATE
54 Down: Nine inches (4): SPAN
57 Down: Site of first Olympics (4): ELIS
59 Down: Storm-country lady (4): TESS
60 Down: Orfe (3): IDE
61 Down: One of Greece's Seven Wise Men (5): SOLON
62 Down: Kimono securer (3): OBI
64 Down: He wrote "Our Gang" (4): ROTH
65 Down: Mülheim an der ___ (4): RUHR
67 Down: He portrayed a Kennedy on TV (6): DEVANE
68 Down: Iroquoian magic power (6): ORENDA
69 Down: Process blubber (6): RENDER
71 Down: As soon as (4): ONCE
73 Down: Stamp on some sale garments (3): IRR
74 Down: The Charles's wirehair (4): ASTA
75 Down: It's prized at Stowe (4): SNOW
76 Down: Filly's pop (4): SIRE
77 Down: Egg-shaped ornaments (3): OVA
78 Down: Praline ingredient (5): PECAN
80 Down: Not one, country style (4): NARY
81 Down: Old kingdom also called Susiana (4): ELAM
82 Down: It, in Italy (4): ESSO
83 Down: U.N. roadblock (4): VETO
85 Down: Packsaddle canvas (5): MANTA
89 Down: Simon Legree, for one (6): LASHER
90 Down: Supercilious (6): SNOOTY
91 Down: Weepy daughters of Atlas (6): HYADES
92 Down: G.I. requirement (4): AMMO
94 Down: Parisian chemin de fer (5): METRO
95 Down: Schwartz's "___ Together": 1932 (5): ALONE
96 Down: Bats gnats (5): SWATS
97 Down: Arabian port (4): ADEN
98 Down: Word after bar (4): NONE
99 Down: Tots (4): ADDS
100 Down: Bullhead (4): POUT
103 Down: Lyricist Harbach (4): OTTO
104 Down: Terminer's partner (4): OYER
105 Down: What savants are steeped in (4): LORE
107 Down: Cooking meas. (3): TSP
108 Down: Electrical unit (3): VAR
109 Down: Capri ending (3): OTE
110 Down: Word with square or gun (3): TRY
111 Down: Scuffle (3): HOE
112 Down: Seagoing initials (3): USS

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