CELEBRITY SPINOFFS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 2/8/1987. By Norma Steinberg.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Check (4)
CURB
5 Across: Pony (4)
TROT
9 Across: Fashion (4)
MODE
13 Across: Perjurer (4)
LIAR
17 Across: Domingo offering (4)
ARIA
18 Across: Kimonos (5)
ROBES
20 Across: Nobelist Wiesel (4)
ELIE
21 Across: Import (5)
SENSE
22 Across: Talk-show host with a warning? (10)
DICKCAVEAT
24 Across: A rough Stone? (10)
MICKJAGGED
26 Across: He wrote "Alastor" (7)
SHELLEY
27 Across: What bouncers do (5)
EJECT
29 Across: Like small print, often (6)
UNREAD
30 Across: Caviar (3)
ROE
31 Across: "Apocalpyse Now" star (5)
SHEEN
33 Across: A Merman role (5)
ANNIE
35 Across: Dwells (7)
RESIDES
39 Across: Happify (5)
ELATE
41 Across: Spoken (7)
UTTERED
45 Across: Zodiacal Ram (5)
ARIES
46 Across: Ancient Greek waitress? (11)
HELENOFTRAY
49 Across: "And that ain't ___!" (3)
HAY
50 Across: Tweed, for one (4)
BOSS
51 Across: Kind of sandwich (4)
HERO
52 Across: Dither (4)
FUSS
53 Across: ___-majesté (4)
LESE
54 Across: Encore! (3)
BIS
55 Across: High-flying singer? (10)
EARTHAKITE
59 Across: Passé (5)
DATED
60 Across: Freezing (3)
ICY
61 Across: Sapins (4)
FIRS
62 Across: Nigerian city (5)
ENUGU
63 Across: Thomas Wolfe hero (4)
GANT
64 Across: Evaluate (6)
ASSESS
66 Across: Actor DeVito (5)
DANNY
67 Across: Belvedere (6)
GAZEBO
69 Across: Fight for breath (4)
PANT
70 Across: Fortunetelling card (5)
TAROT
71 Across: Part of HOMES (4)
ERIE
72 Across: Sturm ___ Drang (3)
UND
74 Across: Easel (5)
STAND
76 Across: Verbose writer-director? (10)
WORDYALLEN
78 Across: Kind of shirt (3)
TEE
79 Across: Half a clock's vocabulary (4)
TOCK
80 Across: Eur. is one (4)
CONT
81 Across: Kin of rahs (4)
OLES
82 Across: School orgs. (4)
PTAS
83 Across: "We ___ the World" (3)
ARE
84 Across: More sinuous bandleader? (11)
WAVIERCUGAT
88 Across: Smart ___ (5)
ALECK
89 Across: "___ for Bonzo" (7)
BEDTIME
91 Across: Ridd's bride (5)
DOONE
92 Across: James I, Charles et al. (7)
STUARTS
94 Across: "___ the Sofa": Cowper (5)
ISING
96 Across: Cup, in Cannes (5)
TASSE
98 Across: Tax people (3)
IRS
99 Across: Shrewdness (6)
ACUMEN
102 Across: Fla. city (5)
OCALA
104 Across: Wrote music (7)
NOTATED
108 Across: Outspoken tennis player? (10)
CHRISOVERT
110 Across: Memorable TV personality makes a Freudian slip? (10)
IDSULLIVAN
113 Across: "I ___ Anyone 'Til You" (5)
HADNT
114 Across: Words of understanding (4)
ISEE
115 Across: Drench (5)
DOUSE
116 Across: Quote (4)
CITE
117 Across: Closefitting (4)
SNUG
118 Across: Nice summers (4)
ETES
119 Across: Series winners: 1969 and 1986 (4)
METS
120 Across: Diner side dish (4)
SLAW

Down Answers

1 Down: Scoundrel (3)
CAD
2 Down: "Trinity" author (4)
URIS
3 Down: Comic Little (4)
RICH
4 Down: Places for brioches (8)
BAKERIES
5 Down: Irish seaport (6)
TRALEE
6 Down: Spatiate (4)
ROVE
7 Down: Minds (5)
OBEYS
8 Down: Earl Grey, e.g. (3)
TEA
9 Down: Keepsake (7)
MEMENTO
10 Down: Suffix in names of acids (4)
OLIC
11 Down: Pronouncements (5)
DICTA
12 Down: "___ and Meek," comic strip (3)
EEK
13 Down: Symbol of cruelty (6)
LEGREE
14 Down: Photographer Morath (4)
INGE
15 Down: On the Laptev (4)
ASEA
16 Down: Foxx from St. Louis (4)
REDD
19 Down: Addison's collaborator (6)
STEELE
21 Down: Mental equilibrium (6)
SANITY
23 Down: Gross ones (5)
CLODS
25 Down: Groups of intriguers (6)
JUNTAS
28 Down: Genet or Racine (4)
JEAN
32 Down: Laconian thrall (5)
HELOT
34 Down: Role of the dog in "Peter Pan" (5)
NURSE
35 Down: Ben Ezra, e.g. (5)
RABBI
36 Down: Beethoven's Third (6)
EROICA
37 Down: Wool-gathering Oscar winner? (11)
SISSYSPACED
38 Down: Hairdresser's tool (6)
SHEARS
40 Down: Likeness (6)
EFFIGY
42 Down: Oily Mitchell hero? (11)
RHETTBUTTER
43 Down: Adroitness (4)
EASE
44 Down: Recolored (4)
DYED
47 Down: Goofs (4)
ERRS
48 Down: Nobel Peace Prize winner: 1984 (4)
TUTU
51 Down: Sutton caper (5)
HEIST
53 Down: Lois or Abbe (4)
LANE
56 Down: "___ melodies are sweet . . . ": Keats (5)
HEARD
57 Down: Nettle (5)
ANNOY
58 Down: ___ Kinte, in "Roots" (5)
KUNTA
59 Down: Stun (4)
DAZE
61 Down: Ward (off) (4)
FEND
63 Down: Profits (5)
GAINS
65 Down: Submerged (4)
SANK
66 Down: Flitted (6)
DARTED
67 Down: Salutes (6)
GREETS
68 Down: Kind of play (6)
ONEACT
70 Down: Singer Tennille (4)
TONI
71 Down: Cinders of comics (4)
ELLA
73 Down: Secretaries (5)
DESKS
74 Down: Awkward try (4)
STAB
75 Down: Raced (4)
TORE
76 Down: Broché (5)
WOVEN
77 Down: Theater sections (5)
LOGES
80 Down: "___ Real," T. Williams play (6)
CAMINO
82 Down: Compounds formed by polymerization (8)
PLASTICS
84 Down: Most sagacious (6)
WISEST
85 Down: Turns (7)
ROTATES
86 Down: Cannel, e.g. (4)
COAL
87 Down: Not expressed (6)
UNSAID
88 Down: Of the ear (5)
AURAL
90 Down: One of Jack Benny's fortes (6)
TIMING
93 Down: Earl and count (6)
TITLES
95 Down: "Whither ___ thou?": John 16:5 (5)
GOEST
97 Down: Follow (5)
ENSUE
99 Down: German exclamations (4)
ACHS
100 Down: Derr Biggers hero (4)
CHAN
101 Down: Pakistani language (4)
URDU
103 Down: Manitoba Indian (4)
CREE
105 Down: Cashier (4)
OUST
106 Down: Satan's delight (4)
EVIL
107 Down: Scientists' notes (4)
DATA
109 Down: Compete (3)
VIE
111 Down: Comedian DeLuise (3)
DOM
112 Down: Unused (3)
NEW

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