PERFORMANCE RATINGS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 9/6/1987. By Willemain O. Cable.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Sphere of Phoebus (3): SUN
4 Across: U.S. port of entry in Tex. (6): ELPASO
10 Across: Winter Olympic race, introduced in 1964 (4): LUGE
14 Across: Soothe (4): LULL
18 Across: Chevet (4): APSE
19 Across: Any buteo (6): SOARER
20 Across: Cusp (4): APEX
21 Across: Hodgepodge (4): OLIO
22 Across: A for a fisherman; F for a rower (11): CAUGHTACRAB
24 Across: A for a sorority sister; F for a wrestler (9): GOTPINNED
26 Across: Magnani, Duse et al. (8): ITALIANE
27 Across: Scaling aid (5): PITON
29 Across: Pleistocene glacial period (6): ICEAGE
30 Across: Gets rid of the fuzz (7): DELINTS
31 Across: Lugs (5): TOTES
32 Across: Takes in altogether before costs (7): GROSSES
33 Across: Golly! (3): GEE
34 Across: Reef polyp (5): CORAL
35 Across: Schism (4): RENT
36 Across: Lots (5): FATES
39 Across: Horatio's "morn, in russet ___" (10): MANTLECLAD
42 Across: Bishop's title in many Eastern churches (4): ABBA
46 Across: Lotion ingredient (4): ALOE
47 Across: Rani's robe (4): SARI
48 Across: Crash into (3): RAM
49 Across: Gaseous refrigerant (5): FREON
50 Across: Zero (3): NIL
51 Across: A for Ellery Queen; F for a piano mover (12): CRACKEDACASE
56 Across: W.W. II amphibious vessel (3): LST
57 Across: Fun chaser (8): GADABOUT
60 Across: Separated (5): ALONE
61 Across: Realities (6): TRUTHS
63 Across: Then, in Amiens (5): ALORS
64 Across: Wrangle (5): ARGUE
65 Across: Discontinue (5): CEASE
66 Across: Go through a sentence (6): DOTIME
68 Across: Austen and Flaubert heroines (5): EMMAS
69 Across: Brought a cutthroat to net (8): REELEDIN
72 Across: Words with king and mode (3): ALA
73 Across: A for Pete Rose; F for a disk jockey (12): BROKEARECORD
76 Across: Shaft lining (3): ORE
77 Across: Treasure (5): VALUE
79 Across: Crave (3): YEN
80 Across: Home of Iowa State U. (4): AMES
81 Across: Hexagonal crystalline particles (4): SNOW
82 Across: Balanced (4): EVEN
83 Across: Verdi roles for sopranos (10): DESDEMONAS
87 Across: Drained (5): SPENT
88 Across: Active one (4): DOER
90 Across: Pep up (5): LIVEN
91 Across: Org. helpful to pupils (3): PTA
92 Across: Occludes (7): ABSORBS
95 Across: Cut back (5): PARED
96 Across: Start playing for a living (7): TURNPRO
100 Across: Eliot's Bustopher Jones (6): TOMCAT
101 Across: Underwater-mine finder, e.g. (5): SONAR
102 Across: Points in planets' rounds (8): PERIGEES
103 Across: A for a professor's class; F for a bank teller (9): TOOKNOTES
105 Across: A for a starlet; F for Greg Louganis (11): MADEASPLASH
107 Across: Start to make a pot (4): ANTE
108 Across: Tenuous (4): RARE
109 Across: Etoile's term for "on the ground" (6): ATERRE
110 Across: Phillies' manager (4): ELIA
111 Across: Shepherd's pipe (4): REED
112 Across: Sought money via Wapner (4): SUED
113 Across: Adjourn briefly (6): RECESS
114 Across: Refuge for man or beast (3): DEN

Down Answers

1 Down: Outburst (5): SPATE
2 Down: As expected (5): USUAL
3 Down: Boudoir wear (8): NEGLIGEE
4 Down: Dumbarton Oaks, e.g. (6): ESTATE
5 Down: Advances (5): LOANS
6 Down: Go before and lead (4): PACE
7 Down: Airport abbr. (3): ARR
8 Down: Shipping harbor (7): SEAPORT
9 Down: In revolution (7): ORBITAL
10 Down: Capital of Nigeria (5): LAGOS
11 Down: Informed of (4): UPON
12 Down: Catch (3): GET
13 Down: Terminated (7): EXPIRED
14 Down: Tex. logo (8): LONESTAR
15 Down: Cubiti (5): ULNAS
16 Down: Vassal (5): LIEGE
17 Down: Loaded veins (5): LODES
18 Down: Mordant for Durer or Hogarth (4): ACID
23 Down: Jerome of the Met (5): HINES
25 Down: Sacred painting or mosaic (4): ICON
28 Down: Psychic affinity (4): TELE
31 Down: Bracer (5): TONIC
32 Down: Western U.S. pasture grass (5): GRAMA
34 Down: Factor in gem pricing (5): CARAT
36 Down: Canine tooth (4): FANG
37 Down: Inter ___ (4): ALIA
38 Down: A for Mr. Dickens; F for Pinocchio (9): TOLDATALE
39 Down: Japanese merchant vessels (5): MARUS
40 Down: Weight lifter (5): CRANE
41 Down: Colberteen, e.g. (4): LACE
43 Down: A for Ethel Merman; F for an inebriate (9): BELTEDONE
44 Down: Nonsense (4): BOSH
45 Down: Aardvark's diet (4): ANTS
47 Down: Point maker (6): SCORER
49 Down: Savage (5): FERAL
52 Down: Buddhist principle of causality (5): KARMA
53 Down: "Pomp and Circumstance" man (5): ELGAR
54 Down: Quench (5): DOUSE
55 Down: Old war horses (6): STEEDS
58 Down: Foreman floorer in 1974 (3): ALI
59 Down: Parisian's frozen dessert (5): BOMBE
62 Down: Manipulate (3): USE
64 Down: Better (5): AMEND
65 Down: Proserpina's mother (5): CERES
66 Down: Slugger Winfield (4): DAVE
67 Down: Royal name in Norway (4): OLAV
68 Down: Stretches one's wherewithal (4): EKES
69 Down: Kind of nose (5): ROMAN
70 Down: Putter, for one (4): IRON
71 Down: Salamander (4): NEWT
74 Down: Some criminal trials (5): OYERS
75 Down: Tanned (5): CANED
78 Down: Not abridged (8): UNDOCKED
81 Down: Glittering (8): SPANGLED
83 Down: Victims of some sharks (7): DEBTORS
84 Down: Ginger (4): ELAN
85 Down: City S of Fort Lauderdale (7): MIRAMAR
86 Down: Risked obesity (7): OVERATE
87 Down: Husk (5): STRIP
89 Down: Algerian coastal city (4): ORAN
91 Down: Puckers (6): PURSES
92 Down: Rose-petal product (5): ATTAR
93 Down: Cumberland Gap guide (5): BOONE
94 Down: Struck (5): SMOTE
95 Down: Assumed a false identity (5): POSED
96 Down: Niobe's outflow (5): TEARS
97 Down: American portrait painter (5): PEALE
98 Down: Gamboge, for one (5): RESIN
99 Down: ___ Peak, in N.M. (4): OSHA
101 Down: Moistureless (4): SERE
102 Down: Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" (4): PERE
104 Down: Initial for Triton (3): TAU
106 Down: Nov. follower (3): DEC

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