FAIR GAME - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 7/27/1986. By Jeanne Wilson.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Fodder (4): OATS
5 Across: Mil. address (3): APO
8 Across: Disparity (3): GAP
11 Across: Popular Manhattan locale (6): TIMESSQUARE
17 Across: Hominy ___ (5): GRITS
19 Across: Skeet device (4): TRAP
20 Across: Surface measure (3): ARE
21 Across: Kind of viper (6): HORNED
22 Across: Licit (5): LEGAL
23 Across: Belonging to the past (8): HISTORIC
25 Across: Down Under resident (6): AUSSIE
26 Across: NE African, to Shakespeare (7): ETHIOPE
28 Across: Ominous (8): SINISTER
30 Across: Actress Merkel (3): UNA
31 Across: Used tire (7): RETREAD
32 Across: Brother of Olive Oyl (6): CASTOR
33 Across: Very early invention (5): WHEEL
35 Across: Aggregate (5): GROSS
38 Across: Bridge man (7): HORATIO
40 Across: Henry James novel (11): WASHINGTONSQUARE
46 Across: Penitents (7): ATONERS
49 Across: Elevated (6): ALPINE
50 Across: Gibson item (5): ONION
52 Across: Meadow sounds (4): LOWS
53 Across: Wide shoe size (3): EEE
55 Across: Articulate to a fault (4): GLIB
56 Across: Alice ___, singer for Welk (3): LON
58 Across: Father of Cainan (4): ENOS
60 Across: Average (6): NORMAL
62 Across: Central African group (4): SARA
63 Across: Utah Beach craft (3): LCI
64 Across: "___ pray" (5): LETUS
66 Across: Three ___ a day (6): SQUAREMEALS
67 Across: Suffix for poet (3): ICS
69 Across: Gumshoes (4): TECS
71 Across: Don Juan's emotion (4): AMOR
73 Across: David ___ Lilienthal (3): ELI
74 Across: Straightforward (6): ONTHESQUARE
77 Across: Role for Clark (5): RHETT
79 Across: 2 x rad. = (3): DIA
81 Across: "___ de Castro," Ferreira play (4): INES
84 Across: Title for Elizabeth II (6): REGINA
85 Across: Geisha's receptacle for perfumes (4): INRO
86 Across: Song from "A Chorus Line" (3): AND
87 Across: Collection of Scandinavian myths (4): EDDA
88 Across: Indonesian island group (3): ARU
89 Across: Quarry of an M.P. (4): AWOL
92 Across: Pancake topper (5): SYRUP
94 Across: Clean shrimp (6): DEVEIN
96 Across: Flatter, in a way (7): IMITATE
98 Across: Like a Crawford gown (11): SQUARESHOULDERED
100 Across: Founding family in a Metalious novel (7): PEYTONS
103 Across: Tiny branch (5): SPRIG
104 Across: Part songs (5): FALAS
107 Across: Like "Orlando Furioso" (6): EPICAL
110 Across: Brandy glass (7): SNIFTER
115 Across: Lardner's "Say It With ___" (3): OIL
116 Across: Brouhahas (8): FRACASES
118 Across: Mean (7): IGNOBLE
119 Across: A name for Aphrodite (6): URANIA
122 Across: Anagram for Oriental (8): RELATION
124 Across: Old English coin (5): GROAT
125 Across: Send back or consign again (6): REMAND
126 Across: Hereditary factor (3): DNA
127 Across: He wrote "The Man Without a Country" (4): HALE
128 Across: Actress Berger (5): SENTA
129 Across: Quadrille, e.g. (6): SQUAREDANCE
130 Across: Sun. dissertation (3): SER
131 Across: Kind of play (3): END
132 Across: Melampus was one (4): SEER

Down Answers

1 Down: Drugstore cowboy (5): OGLER
2 Down: Mountain ridge (5): ARETE
3 Down: Parsimonious (5): TIGHT
4 Down: Tread + riser = (5): STAIR
5 Down: Greek nickname (3): ARI
6 Down: Annie Oakley (4): PASS
7 Down: Kind of nerve or axis (5): OPTIC
8 Down: Showy (6): GARISH
9 Down: Best: Comb. form (6): ARISTO
10 Down: Thoracic (8): PECTORAL
11 Down: "___ she blows!" (4): THAR
12 Down: Chit (3): IOU
13 Down: Woolf's "___ Dalloway" (3): MRS
14 Down: Follow, as a consequence (5): ENSUE
15 Down: Flower under the Pont Neuf (5): SEINE
16 Down: Honest transaction (5): SQUAREDEAL
18 Down: A red liqueur (7): SLOEGIN
19 Down: What snobs put on (6): THEDOG
24 Down: Tierra del Fuego native (3): ONA
27 Down: Irish Nationalist leader: 1846–91 (7): PARNELL
29 Down: One of the Dryads (5): ERATO
33 Down: Engaging (7): WINSOME
34 Down: Straddler (3): HOE
36 Down: More unyielding (7): STONIER
37 Down: Nathan, to David (3): SON
39 Down: Village hub (5): TOWNSQUARE
40 Down: Wits (4): WAGS
41 Down: Actress Nazimova (4): ALLA
42 Down: Actors' makeup glue (9): SPIRITGUM
43 Down: Charcoal stove (7): HIBACHI
44 Down: TV ratings (8): NIELSENS
45 Down: What poor planners must go back to (4): SQUAREONE
47 Down: Residuum (9): REMAINDER
48 Down: A pinniped (4): SEAL
51 Down: Specialists in musical details (8): NOTATORS
54 Down: Kay followers (3): ELS
57 Down: J.E.C.'s arrival time (3): OCT
59 Down: Total (3): SUM
61 Down: Emulate Bob Stanley (7): RELIEVE
65 Down: Soft drink (7): SODAPOP
68 Down: Where to see whips (7): SENATES
70 Down: Ho ___ Minh (3): CHI
72 Down: "Oysters ___ season" (3): RIN
74 Down: Mouths (3): ORA
75 Down: St. Philip ___ (4): NERI
76 Down: Prepare (5): SQUAREAWAY
78 Down: Carpenter's tool (4): TRYSQUARE
80 Down: Causing confusion (7): ADDLING
82 Down: Stein-Plimpton book (4): EDIE
83 Down: Chopin's amie (4): SAND
90 Down: "The Wind in the Willows" character (5): OTTER
91 Down: Ferocious felines (8): LEOPARDS
93 Down: Sounds of hesitation (3): UHS
95 Down: Lace and rickrack (7): EDGINGS
97 Down: Member of an Argentine people (3): IPA
99 Down: Bearlike (6): URSINE
101 Down: A creed (6): NICENE
102 Down: Graduated (6): SCALAR
104 Down: Without equivocation (5): FOURSQUARE
105 Down: Broadcast (5): AIRED
106 Down: Guanaco's kin (5): LLAMA
108 Down: A king of Judah (3): ASA
109 Down: Oblivion (5): LETHE
111 Down: Links sounds (5): FORES
112 Down: Kind of steak (5): TBONE
113 Down: Exhilarate (5): ELATE
114 Down: Do the roof over (5): RETAR
116 Down: Become washed-out (4): FADE
117 Down: Shenshi's capital (4): SIAN
120 Down: Ping River feeder (3): NAN
121 Down: "Airways, ___": Dos Passos (3): INC
123 Down: Picasso's "The ___ Guitarist" (3): OLD

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