GLOBE-TROTTING - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 3/8/1987. By Wilson McBeath.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Matinee ___ (4)
IDOL
5 Across: Catches red-handed (5)
NAILS
10 Across: Computer's character equivalents (5)
BYTES
15 Across: Add liquor (4)
LACE
19 Across: A S. African people (4)
PEDI
20 Across: Planet path (5)
ORBIT
21 Across: City WNW of Memphis (5)
EARLE
22 Across: Dash (4)
ELAN
23 Across: Sealing material (10)
SCOTCHTAPE
25 Across: Variety of beet (10)
SWISSCHARD
27 Across: More realistic (8)
EARTHIER
28 Across: Short textile fibers (5)
NOILS
30 Across: Paths (6)
TRAILS
31 Across: Horse's repast (4)
OATS
32 Across: Some corrosives (5)
ACIDS
33 Across: Layer (4)
TIER
34 Across: City on the Adriatic (4)
BARI
36 Across: Liqueur flavor (5)
ANISE
37 Across: Conrad heroine (4)
LENA
38 Across: Three, in Bergamo (3)
TRE
41 Across: Firework (11)
ROMANCANDLE
44 Across: Headgear (9)
PANAMAHAT
46 Across: City on the Oka (4)
OREL
47 Across: Party in Gomorrah (4)
ORGY
48 Across: Towel marking (3)
HIS
49 Across: Beget (4)
SIRE
50 Across: Religious gp. (3)
OSB
51 Across: Emmentaler (11)
SWISSCHEESE
55 Across: Ratios in trigonometry (5)
SINES
56 Across: Most alarming (8)
SCARIEST
58 Across: Keratinous substance (4)
HORN
59 Across: Spring bringing zing (3)
SPA
60 Across: Shubert, e.g. (7)
THEATRE
61 Across: Paris subway (5)
METRO
62 Across: International waters (7)
OPENSEA
66 Across: Enero is one (3)
MES
67 Across: Kind of strut (4)
OLEO
68 Across: ___ Hill, city in Calif. (8)
PLEASANT
69 Across: Execs' messages (5)
MEMOS
72 Across: "___ to me!" (11)
ITSALLGREEK
75 Across: Altar words (3)
IDO
76 Across: Locale of Tabriz (4)
IRAN
77 Across: Scale notes (3)
TIS
78 Across: Secular (4)
LAIC
79 Across: Make yarn (4)
SPIN
80 Across: Site of Goodfellow AFB, Tex. (9)
SANANGELO
83 Across: AWOL's action (11)
FRENCHLEAVE
86 Across: Jeanne d'Arc's title: Abbr. (3)
STE
87 Across: Poilu's weapon (4)
ARME
88 Across: Eccentric person (5)
CRANK
89 Across: Theow's cousin (4)
ESNE
90 Across: Rosary beads (4)
AVES
91 Across: Emulates Escoffier (5)
COOKS
92 Across: Bergère, e.g. (4)
SEAT
94 Across: Easter plant (6)
SPIREA
97 Across: Ignominy (5)
SHAME
98 Across: Postpones (8)
SUSPENDS
102 Across: Short-haired feline (10)
MALTESECAT
104 Across: This requires individual checks (10)
DUTCHTREAT
106 Across: Curved arch (4)
OGEE
107 Across: Wipe out (5)
ERASE
108 Across: Grenoble's river (5)
ISERE
109 Across: Grant (4)
CEDE
110 Across: Earth sci. (4)
GEOL
111 Across: Belled the cat (5)
DARED
112 Across: Appellation bestower (5)
NAMER
113 Across: Earl of Avon (4)
EDEN

Down Answers

1 Down: ___ dixit (4)
IPSE
2 Down: Ten: Comb. form (4)
DECA
3 Down: Redolence (4)
ODOR
4 Down: Of the seashore (8)
LITTORAL
5 Down: Like well-pitched baseball games (5)
NOHIT
6 Down: Skills, to Seneca (5)
ARTES
7 Down: Construction item (4)
IBAR
8 Down: Kind of service (3)
LIP
9 Down: Lettering aid (7)
STENCIL
10 Down: Other than (6)
BESIDE
11 Down: Jolly boats (5)
YAWLS
12 Down: Baseball's Speaker (4)
TRIS
13 Down: They loop the Loop (3)
ELS
14 Down: Type of poem (7)
SESTINA
15 Down: "Merry Widow" composer (5)
LEHAR
16 Down: Kirghizian range (4)
ALAI
17 Down: Reiner or Sagan (4)
CARL
18 Down: Goals (4)
ENDS
24 Down: Word with letter or store (5)
CHAIN
26 Down: Best part (5)
CREAM
29 Down: Seine feeder (4)
OISE
32 Down: Griffith and Gibb (5)
ANDYS
33 Down: Taut (5)
TENSE
34 Down: Beet soup (6)
BORSCH
35 Down: One-celled creatures (6)
AMEBAE
36 Down: Feeling of dread (5)
ANGST
37 Down: Troubadour's songs (4)
LAIS
38 Down: Scrawny (4)
THIN
39 Down: Distinctive (4)
RARE
40 Down: Sedan summers (4)
ETES
41 Down: Perch (5)
ROOST
42 Down: Crouches in fear (6)
COWERS
43 Down: Mount (5)
ARISE
44 Down: Showing: Comb. form (5)
PHENO
45 Down: Poona natives (6)
ASIANS
51 Down: Realty investments (5)
SITES
52 Down: Lobster's claw (5)
CHELA
53 Down: Hailey novel (5)
HOTEL
54 Down: Fauntleroy (5)
ERROL
55 Down: Command to Fido (5)
SPEAK
57 Down: Best seller in 1884 (6)
RAMONA
59 Down: Oration (6)
SPEECH
61 Down: Rapid, to Mehta (5)
MOSSO
62 Down: Relating to oil (5)
OLEIC
63 Down: One of the Marianas (6)
SAIPAN
64 Down: Salad item (6)
ENDIVE
65 Down: Make amends (5)
ATONE
68 Down: Dido (5)
PRANK
69 Down: Jeune fille (4)
MISS
70 Down: Part of Q.E.D. (4)
ERAT
71 Down: Lion's pride (4)
MANE
72 Down: Parts of lists (5)
ITEMS
73 Down: Spacecraft covering (4)
TILE
74 Down: Secluded valleys (5)
GLENS
79 Down: Ancient Roman coin (8)
SESTERCE
81 Down: Sea force, to W. S. Gilbert (5)
NAVEE
82 Down: Lubricated (7)
GREASED
83 Down: Kipling's "___ Sea to Sea" (4)
FROM
84 Down: Collected abundantly (7)
RAKEDIN
85 Down: Sprang (5)
LEAPT
88 Down: Put paint on (6)
COATED
90 Down: Russian workers' cooperative (5)
ARTEL
91 Down: Man on a $10,000 bill (5)
CHASE
92 Down: Bolivian city (5)
SUCRE
93 Down: SW London suburb (5)
ESHER
94 Down: Portmanteau word (4)
SMOG
95 Down: Attendant (4)
PAGE
96 Down: Former Congolese prime minister (4)
ILEO
97 Down: Cicatrix (4)
SCAR
98 Down: Restrain (4)
STEM
99 Down: Urgency (4)
NEED
100 Down: Miami's county (4)
DADE
101 Down: British gun (4)
STEN
103 Down: Period in history (3)
ERA
105 Down: Springsteen's "Born in the ___" (3)
USA

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