BIRD BOTCHING - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 3/1/1987. By William S. McIlrath.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Jalopy (5)
- CRATE
- 6 Across: Chess moves (5)
- JUMPS
- 11 Across: Comb. of tones (3)
- CHD
- 14 Across: Bid (5)
- OFFER
- 19 Across: Home for an eyas (5)
- AERIE
- 20 Across: Don's January (5)
- ENERO
- 21 Across: Hudson contemporary (3)
- REO
- 22 Across: Try out (5)
- PROVE
- 23 Across: Capistrano copper? (11)
- SWALLOWTAIL
- 25 Across: Good Scout became an ogler? (9)
- EAGLEEYED
- 27 Across: Flag (4)
- TIRE
- 28 Across: Check (4)
- REIN
- 29 Across: Divided land (7)
- GERMANY
- 30 Across: Cenozoic, e.g. (3)
- ERA
- 31 Across: Lallygags (5)
- IDLES
- 32 Across: Jazzy septet? (6)
- HEPTAD
- 33 Across: Discordant (4)
- AJAR
- 37 Across: Cortege (7)
- RETINUE
- 39 Across: Moats (6)
- FOSSES
- 40 Across: Stout (3)
- ALE
- 41 Across: Newman slip? (11)
- CARDINALSIN
- 44 Across: Dallied (5)
- TOYED
- 46 Across: Prospect (5)
- SCENE
- 48 Across: Title a shogun had (6)
- TYCOON
- 49 Across: Fomented (6)
- BREWED
- 50 Across: Stoke-on-Trent product (5)
- SPODE
- 51 Across: Neighbor of a Laotian (4)
- THAI
- 52 Across: Ballerina Shearer (5)
- MOIRA
- 53 Across: "___ Tomorrow," 1959 song (3)
- TIL
- 54 Across: Diviner (6)
- ORACLE
- 56 Across: World Series pitcher: 1948 (4)
- SAIN
- 57 Across: Business abbr. (3)
- LTD
- 60 Across: Ancient (3)
- OLD
- 61 Across: Sobriquet for a mimic suffering stage fright? (13)
- CHICKENLITTLE
- 64 Across: Hawaiian timber tree (3)
- KOA
- 65 Across: Volsteader's opponent (3)
- WET
- 66 Across: Seed scars (4)
- HILA
- 67 Across: Eluvium (6)
- DEBRIS
- 68 Across: Decline (3)
- EBB
- 69 Across: Asian wild sheep (5)
- URIAL
- 71 Across: Coffin's "Poems for ___ With Wings" (4)
- ASON
- 72 Across: Money in Ankara (5)
- LIRAS
- 74 Across: Valuable fur (6)
- MARTEN
- 76 Across: Muffle (6)
- DEADEN
- 79 Across: Salvo (5)
- BURST
- 80 Across: Holmlike (5)
- OAKEN
- 81 Across: Model widgeon? (11)
- SITTINGDUCK
- 83 Across: Jacutinga, e.g. (3)
- ORE
- 84 Across: Heavyweight champ: 1962-64 (6)
- LISTON
- 85 Across: Awns (7)
- ARISTAE
- 89 Across: Former Algerian rulers (4)
- DEYS
- 91 Across: Athos, at times (6)
- FENCER
- 92 Across: Liberal (5)
- AMPLE
- 94 Across: Columnist Kupcinet (3)
- IRV
- 95 Across: Soughs (7)
- MURMURS
- 97 Across: Nickname for Haydn (4)
- PAPA
- 98 Across: Grenoble girlfriend (4)
- AMIE
- 99 Across: Anser's away, my boys! (9)
- GONEGOOSE
- 102 Across: Dupe at the bar? (11)
- STOOLPIGEON
- 105 Across: Visionary (5)
- IDEAL
- 106 Across: Toils (3)
- NET
- 107 Across: Pledged sacredly (5)
- SWORE
- 108 Across: Rebel (5)
- ARISE
- 109 Across: Distrustful (5)
- LEERY
- 110 Across: Compass dir. (3)
- SSE
- 111 Across: Reliable (5)
- SOLID
- 112 Across: Electromagnetic-wave amplifier (5)
- LASER
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Bottle for vinegar, salt, etc. (6)
- CASTER
- 2 Down: Play the electrician (6)
- REWIRE
- 3 Down: Biblical docking site (6)
- ARARAT
- 4 Down: Favus (4)
- TILE
- 5 Down: Grig (3)
- EEL
- 6 Down: Bespangled, in a way (7)
- JEWELED
- 7 Down: Loosen (5)
- UNTIE
- 8 Down: Wherewithal (5)
- MEANS
- 9 Down: Sawlike: Prefix (3)
- PRI
- 10 Down: Helios (3)
- SOL
- 11 Down: "___ this petty pace . . . ": Macbeth (8)
- CREEPSIN
- 12 Down: Inspirit (7)
- HEARTEN
- 13 Down: Tenets (6)
- DOGMAS
- 14 Down: Airy (4)
- OPEN
- 15 Down: Valkyries' leader (5)
- FREYA
- 16 Down: Actor in "The Pajama Game" (3)
- FOY
- 17 Down: Conductor Queler (3)
- EVE
- 18 Down: Ryder of comics (3)
- RED
- 24 Down: Cleanup matter for Hercules (6)
- ORDURE
- 26 Down: Young man (3)
- LAD
- 29 Down: Plaster of paris (5)
- GESSO
- 31 Down: Fatuous (5)
- INANE
- 32 Down: Completely: Comb. form (4)
- HOLO
- 34 Down: Baby Gould's nannies? (10)
- JAYWALKERS
- 35 Down: Nautical term (4)
- ALEE
- 36 Down: Foxx from St. Louis (4)
- REDD
- 38 Down: Frosted (4)
- ICED
- 39 Down: Easy (6)
- FACILE
- 42 Down: It's above Cayuga's waters (6)
- ITHACA
- 43 Down: Helen Hayes's home (5)
- NYACK
- 44 Down: Threefold (5)
- TRINE
- 45 Down: Above, to Key (3)
- OER
- 46 Down: Barrel spigot (5)
- SPILE
- 47 Down: Winter Garden flop? (10)
- COLDTURKEY
- 49 Down: Seethes (5)
- BOILS
- 50 Down: Lay in (4)
- STOW
- 51 Down: Quaver (5)
- TRILL
- 52 Down: Of morning (5)
- MATIN
- 54 Down: Buckeye (5)
- OHIAN
- 55 Down: Kind of play (3)
- END
- 56 Down: Like Samson (6)
- STRONG
- 58 Down: Go ___ for (support) (5)
- TOBAT
- 59 Down: Small flounder (4)
- DABS
- 61 Down: ___ Lung, Chinese emperor: 18th century (5)
- CHIEN
- 62 Down: Adman's attention-getter (6)
- LEADIN
- 63 Down: "Brand" playwright (5)
- IBSEN
- 70 Down: Map abbr. (3)
- RTE
- 72 Down: Singer-actress Arnaz (5)
- LUCIE
- 73 Down: Nettles (4)
- IRKS
- 74 Down: Humor (4)
- MOOD
- 75 Down: Swiss waterway (4)
- AARE
- 76 Down: Separate (8)
- DISCRETE
- 77 Down: Diminutive suffixes (5)
- ETTES
- 78 Down: Suffix with comment (4)
- ATOR
- 79 Down: Coarse fabric (6)
- BURLAP
- 81 Down: Cavities (7)
- SINUSES
- 82 Down: Spotted (7)
- DAPPLED
- 84 Down: Detroit recalls (6)
- LEMONS
- 86 Down: "His ___ forever . . . ": Cowley (6)
- TIMEIS
- 87 Down: Melodic (6)
- ARIOSE
- 88 Down: Shim, e.g. (6)
- EVENER
- 90 Down: Calumniate (5)
- SMEAR
- 91 Down: To's opposite (3)
- FRO
- 92 Down: " . . . rusting in ___ of tears": F. Thompson (5)
- APOOL
- 93 Down: Soprano Te Kanawa is one (5)
- MAORI
- 96 Down: Frightful (4)
- UGLY
- 98 Down: Pearl Mosque site (4)
- AGRA
- 99 Down: "___ Blas" (3)
- GIL
- 100 Down: Parabasis (3)
- ODE
- 101 Down: Formerly named (3)
- NEE
- 102 Down: Draft initials (3)
- SSS
- 103 Down: Brace (3)
- TWO
- 104 Down: Suffix with deferent (3)
- IAL
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