APRIL FOOLERY - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 4/26/1987. By Victoria & Alex F. Black.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Pachyderm driver (6)
- MAHOUT
- 7 Across: Strict precision (5)
- RIGOR
- 12 Across: Flew the coop (6)
- BOLTED
- 18 Across: Underworld entrance, to an Italian (6)
- AVERNO
- 19 Across: Lincoln's co-speaker at Gettysburg (7)
- EVERETT
- 22 Across: Luzon seaport (6)
- APARRI
- 23 Across: Flamboyant financier? (14)
- BERNARDBAROQUE
- 25 Across: London's ___ Garden (6)
- COVENT
- 26 Across: Propelling device (5)
- SCREW
- 27 Across: Hebrides island (4)
- IONA
- 28 Across: Postage for chain letters? (9)
- BILKRATES
- 30 Across: Primes for crimes (5)
- ABETS
- 32 Across: Most competent (6)
- ABLEST
- 33 Across: Nest for Nesselrode (8)
- PIECRUST
- 37 Across: Black (4)
- INKY
- 39 Across: Cheroots' kin (7)
- STOGIES
- 44 Across: Creeps (6)
- INCHES
- 45 Across: Luau locale (5)
- LANAI
- 47 Across: Motorists' org. (3)
- AAA
- 48 Across: ___ the finish (4)
- INAT
- 49 Across: Cliff on Kauai (4)
- PALI
- 50 Across: Jeanette's jumpy partner? (10)
- NELSONEDGY
- 52 Across: Recently deceased (4)
- LATE
- 53 Across: Calm (7)
- PLACATE
- 56 Across: Objective (3)
- AIM
- 57 Across: Trouble (3)
- WOE
- 58 Across: Title for R.C. archbishops (5)
- MTREV
- 59 Across: Underground art site in Spain (8)
- ALTAMIRA
- 61 Across: Disposed (5)
- GIVEN
- 63 Across: Purify (6)
- REFINE
- 64 Across: Provincial ruler in Greece (7)
- NOMARCH
- 66 Across: Famed Spanish archbishop-scholar (7)
- ISIDORE
- 68 Across: Spa attraction (6)
- WATERS
- 71 Across: Lecture material (5)
- NOTES
- 73 Across: Aquatic plane (8)
- SEALEVEL
- 77 Across: Cut short (5)
- ABORT
- 78 Across: Ventilate (3)
- AIR
- 79 Across: Fold over (3)
- LAP
- 81 Across: ___ Virginia Woolf (7)
- ADELINE
- 82 Across: John or tasse preceder (4)
- DEMI
- 83 Across: Imitation Stone? (10)
- MOCKJAGGER
- 86 Across: "Massa's ___ cold, cold ground" (4)
- INDE
- 87 Across: Loser to S. Grant (4)
- ELEE
- 88 Across: David's right-hand man (3)
- IRA
- 89 Across: Mr. T's associates (5)
- ATEAM
- 90 Across: Bitterness (6)
- RANCOR
- 92 Across: Last course (7)
- DESSERT
- 94 Across: Pompadour and Bovary (4)
- MMES
- 95 Across: Citrus shelter (8)
- ORANGERY
- 97 Across: Turning points (6)
- CRISES
- 99 Across: Dutch genre painter (5)
- STEEN
- 100 Across: Eire symbols (9)
- SHAMROCKS
- 104 Across: Secular (4)
- LAIC
- 105 Across: Zones (5)
- AREAS
- 110 Across: Lift for the Montgolfiers (6)
- HOTAIR
- 111 Across: Masked old master? (14)
- ANONYMOUSBOSCH
- 115 Across: Confine (6)
- IMMURE
- 116 Across: Summit site: 1943 (7)
- TEHERAN
- 117 Across: Taker of SAT's (6)
- TESTEE
- 118 Across: Merged resources (6)
- POOLED
- 119 Across: Melampus and Mopsus (5)
- SEERS
- 120 Across: Practices extortion (6)
- BLEEDS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Fairy queen et al. (4)
- MABS
- 2 Down: With, in Wassy (4)
- AVEC
- 3 Down: German gentleman (4)
- HERR
- 4 Down: Neighbor of Calvados (4)
- ORNE
- 5 Down: In the dark (7)
- UNAWARE
- 6 Down: Peak (3)
- TOR
- 7 Down: Decant (8)
- REBOTTLE
- 8 Down: Lendl and Pavlov (5)
- IVANS
- 9 Down: City south of Leipzig (4)
- GERA
- 10 Down: Pizarro's pursuit (3)
- ORO
- 11 Down: Off. order (3)
- REQ
- 12 Down: Part of a ship's rigging (8)
- BACKSTAY
- 13 Down: City on the Douro (6)
- OPORTO
- 14 Down: Stromboli flow (4)
- LAVA
- 15 Down: Allowance after tare (4)
- TRET
- 16 Down: Former flyweight champ (4)
- ERNE
- 17 Down: Dahs' running mates (4)
- DITS
- 20 Down: Roly-poly (5)
- TUBBY
- 21 Down: European linden (4)
- TEIL
- 24 Down: Martin ___, U.S. politico (4)
- DIES
- 29 Down: Creator of Gil Blas (6)
- LESAGE
- 31 Down: Strayed Steinbeck vehicle (3)
- BUS
- 32 Down: Related to (4)
- AKIN
- 33 Down: Browning heroine (5)
- PIPPA
- 34 Down: Considering everything (5)
- INALL
- 35 Down: Brilliance (5)
- ECLAT
- 36 Down: Stylish subterfuges? (11)
- CHICANERIES
- 37 Down: Discernment (7)
- INSIGHT
- 38 Down: Ruth's in-law (5)
- NAOMI
- 40 Down: Midas touch? (11)
- GILTFEELING
- 41 Down: Town in N Finland (5)
- INARI
- 42 Down: Worn away (5)
- EATEN
- 43 Down: Actor Guttenberg (5)
- STEVE
- 46 Down: Wing (3)
- ALA
- 47 Down: Aphrodite favorite (6)
- ADONIS
- 50 Down: River in Umbria (4)
- NERA
- 51 Down: Rams' ma'ams (4)
- EWES
- 54 Down: Lifeless, old style (5)
- AMORT
- 55 Down: Conway and Holt (4)
- TIMS
- 58 Down: Country singer Haggard (5)
- MERLE
- 60 Down: Rx for bruises (6)
- ARNICA
- 62 Down: Faces (7)
- VISAGES
- 63 Down: Middle or high follower (4)
- ROAD
- 65 Down: Stopper (4)
- CORK
- 67 Down: Letter opener (4)
- DEAR
- 68 Down: Tramped a swamp (5)
- WADED
- 69 Down: White poplar (5)
- ABELE
- 70 Down: Big bites for bookworms (5)
- TOMES
- 72 Down: Make happy (5)
- ELATE
- 74 Down: Edwards or Lombardi (5)
- VINCE
- 75 Down: Where Saul met a witch (5)
- ENDOR
- 76 Down: Suspicious (5)
- LEERY
- 78 Down: Of a trunk in a trunk (6)
- AORTIC
- 80 Down: Org. playing the Doral (3)
- PGA
- 83 Down: Reflected (8)
- MIRRORED
- 84 Down: Some spreads (4)
- JAMS
- 85 Down: These might be mixed (8)
- EMOTIONS
- 90 Down: Actress Charlotte (3)
- RAE
- 91 Down: Poe's "___ Lee" (7)
- ANNABEL
- 93 Down: To write, to Pierre (6)
- ECRIRE
- 94 Down: Legalese for middle (5)
- MESNE
- 96 Down: Receipt for René (4)
- RECU
- 98 Down: Card game for three (4)
- SKAT
- 99 Down: Philippine island (5)
- SAMAR
- 100 Down: Packet, e.g. (4)
- SHIP
- 101 Down: "Ecce ___" (4)
- HOMO
- 102 Down: Air: Comb. form (4)
- ATMO
- 103 Down: Heavy hammer (4)
- MAUL
- 104 Down: Orpheus's instrument (4)
- LYRE
- 106 Down: Multiflora (4)
- ROSE
- 107 Down: Boiardo's patron (4)
- ESTE
- 108 Down: Made a hole-in-one (4)
- ACED
- 109 Down: "___ more to be pitied . . . " (4)
- SHES
- 112 Down: Cries of surprise (3)
- OHS
- 113 Down: Word in genealogy (3)
- NEE
- 114 Down: Theologian's deg. (3)
- STB
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