NO END IN SIGHT - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 8/24/1986. By Arnold Moss.

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Across Answers

1 Across: l. R.S. go-between (3): CPA
4 Across: One of a Dumas trio (5): ATHOS
9 Across: "The Sweetheart of ___ Chi" (5): SIGMA
14 Across: Northern diver (3): AUK
17 Across: Corded fabric (3): REP
18 Across: Manes (6): SHADES
20 Across: Idle (6): OTIOSE
22 Across: New Deal agcy. (3): NRA
23 Across: French avant-garde painter (3): ARP
24 Across: "The Wedding of Camacho" composer (13): FELIXMELSSOHN
26 Across: Neighbor of Aus. (3): GER
27 Across: Presley's companion (6): GUITAR
29 Across: Las Vegas lights (5): NEONS
30 Across: Of the windpipe (8): TRACHEAL
32 Across: Proofreader's mark (5): CARET
34 Across: Fare for "Saturday Night Live" (5): SKITS
36 Across: Slalom expert (5): SKIER
37 Across: Washing-machine part (8): AGITATOR
40 Across: Emulate Fadiman (4): EDIT
41 Across: Mets or Cubs (6): ENNEAD
44 Across: Like a gangster's ice (3): HOT
45 Across: French medieval farce (5): SOTIE
47 Across: Offshoot (5): SCION
50 Across: Biographer Maurois (5): ANDRE
51 Across: Foreign-exchange term (4): AGIO
53 Across: Emulates kangaroos (4): HOPS
55 Across: Relish (5): ENJOY
57 Across: Entertainer Adams (4): EDIE
58 Across: ___ nova, Brazilian dance (5): BOSSA
60 Across: Distinctive character of a people (5): ETHOS
62 Across: Carried (5): TOTED
64 Across: Some M.I.T. alumni (3): EES
65 Across: Uppity person (4): SNOB
67 Across: Saroyan hero (4): ARAM
69 Across: Swift trips to Laputa and Lilliput (7): TRAVELS
71 Across: Composer in "Amadeus" (7): SALIERI
74 Across: Maui movements (5): HULAS
76 Across: Counterpart (7): OBVERSE
77 Across: Commotion (7): TEMPEST
78 Across: Famed Spanish muralist (4): SERT
79 Across: Actor Conrad (4): BAIN
80 Across: Taramasalata ingredient (3): ROE
81 Across: Side, to an M.D. (5): LATUS
84 Across: The world, to Jaques (5): STAGE
86 Across: Coach (5): TUTOR
90 Across: Novelist Ehrenburg (4): ILYA
92 Across: The stuff of jeans (5): DENIM
94 Across: Korean War river (4): YALU
95 Across: Former lightweight champ (4): ERNE
96 Across: Devout (5): PIOUS
98 Across: Harris character (5): REMUS
100 Across: Gangland territories (5): TURFS
103 Across: Emulate Olivier (3): ACT
104 Across: Roman shield (6): SCUTUM
106 Across: Mil. vessels (4): LSTS
108 Across: Trojan War hero (8): MERIONES
110 Across: R2D2, e.g. (5): ROBOT
112 Across: Strasbourg steel (5): ACIER
114 Across: Body shops' concerns (5): DENTS
115 Across: Wielded a gavel (8): PRESIDED
118 Across: Some teenagers' ailments (5): ACNES
120 Across: Friends of the Vanzettis (6): SACCOS
123 Across: Mauna ___ (3): LOA
124 Across: Fitzgerald opus: 1934 (13): TERISTHENIGHT
127 Across: Pixy (3): ELF
128 Across: ___ Town (3): OUR
129 Across: Like Art Deco (6): ORNATE
130 Across: Cugat (6): XAVIER
131 Across: Teachers' org. (3): NEA
132 Across: What Ado Annie could say? (3): YES
133 Across: Like Ozarks speech (5): NASAL
134 Across: Chemistry Nobelist: 1963 (5): NATTA
135 Across: Burden (3): TAX

Down Answers

1 Down: Bluff (4): CRAG
2 Down: Land of the Quechuas (4): PERU
3 Down: Internal inflammation (9): APPICITIS
4 Down: Up to a certain point (7): ASFARAS
5 Down: To that place (7): THERETO
6 Down: Prince or Prince (3): HAL
7 Down: He ruled Valhalla (4): ODIN
8 Down: "The Battle of the ___," 1960 film (5): SEXES
9 Down: One of two events a year (8): SOLSTICE
10 Down: "___ a wise child . . . ": Nash (3): ITS
11 Down: Kernel (4): GIST
12 Down: Setting of some Hardy novels (5): MOORS
13 Down: Quivering (6): ASHAKE
14 Down: Beasts protected by NEPA (11): ANGEREDDEER
15 Down: Carbamide (4): UREA
16 Down: Poet Shapiro (4): KARL
19 Down: "Summer and ___" (5): SMOKE
21 Down: Live oak (6): ENCINA
25 Down: Markey and Bagnold (5): ENIDS
28 Down: Use a shuttle (3): TAT
31 Down: A hair dye: Fr. (5): HENNE
33 Down: Until the last drop (11): TOTHEBITTER
35 Down: Sandpiper (5): STINT
37 Down: Jezebel's husband (4): AHAB
38 Down: Kind of dancer (4): GOGO
39 Down: Wild scene (4): RIOT
42 Down: Arabian gazelles (6): ARIELS
43 Down: Juno or Diana, to 50 Across (6): DEESSE
46 Down: Hebrew dry measure (5): EPHAH
48 Down: Southwestern oasis (3): OJO
49 Down: "O vile, Intolerable, ___!": Shak. (11): NOTTOBEURED
52 Down: Pianist Gabrilowitsch (5): OSSIP
54 Down: Fern part (5): SORUS
56 Down: ___ Buena Island, Calif. (5): YERBA
59 Down: Slippery as ___ (5): ANEEL
61 Down: Drummers' triumphs (5): SALES
63 Down: Lifeboat device (5): DAVIT
66 Down: "Look'd he or red or pale, ___ . . . ?": Shak. (5): ORSAD
68 Down: Film directed by Delbert Mann (5): MARTY
70 Down: Crime's location (5): VENUE
71 Down: Peels (6): STRIPS
72 Down: Ancient Greek dialect (6): AEOLIC
73 Down: Antony's plea (11): LMEYOUREARS
75 Down: Political unit in Bonn (5): STAAT
82 Down: "___ Vie," Maupassant novel (3): UNE
83 Down: Town in NW India (5): SIMLA
85 Down: Morose (4): GLUM
87 Down: Extraordinary (9): TRANSCENT
88 Down: Head of a tale (4): ONCE
89 Down: Soaks timber (4): RETS
91 Down: Racers at Indianapolis (5): AUTOS
93 Down: Sweet wine (8): MUSCATEL
97 Down: Quickly, in music (6): SUBITO
99 Down: Line or verse (5): STICH
101 Down: Flood (7): FRESHET
102 Down: Pride of Hoboken (7): SINATRA
105 Down: Neoteric (6): MODERN
107 Down: Cato in 149 B.C., e.g. (5): SENEX
109 Down: Lt.-making place (3): OTC
111 Down: Pope's list of three nominees (5): TERNA
113 Down: "La Vie de Jésus" author (5): RENAN
115 Down: Maneuver (4): PLOY
116 Down: Orgy participant (4): ROUE
117 Down: Cape of Good Hope discoverer (4): DIAS
119 Down: Hindu god (4): SIVA
121 Down: Olive genus (4): OLEA
122 Down: Barbary pirates' haven (4): SFAX
125 Down: As written, in music (3): STA
126 Down: Worthless one in Soho (3): GIT

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