IMPERFECT COPIES - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 11/8/1987. By Richard Silvestri.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Audition award (4)
- PART
- 5 Across: Able follower (5)
- BAKER
- 10 Across: Gives an R or X (5)
- RATES
- 15 Across: Plucky (4)
- GAME
- 19 Across: Tony's cousin (4)
- OBIE
- 20 Across: "In bad company": Bierce (5)
- ALONE
- 21 Across: Originate (5)
- ARISE
- 22 Across: City on the Oka (4)
- OREL
- 23 Across: Cliff fragment (10)
- SCARPSCRAP
- 25 Across: Classifies insects (10)
- FILESFLIES
- 27 Across: Space agcy. (4)
- NASA
- 28 Across: Condition (5)
- STATE
- 30 Across: Composed (6)
- SEDATE
- 31 Across: Diminishing (7)
- ABATING
- 34 Across: Currier's partner (4)
- IVES
- 35 Across: Resiliency (4)
- GIVE
- 36 Across: Jollity (5)
- MIRTH
- 37 Across: Lazy one (5)
- IDLER
- 39 Across: Province of Spain (8)
- VALENCIA
- 43 Across: Author Eliav (4)
- ARIE
- 44 Across: Metal splinter (12)
- SILVERSLIVER
- 47 Across: Stat. for Mattingly (3)
- RBI
- 48 Across: Large parrot (3)
- KEA
- 49 Across: "The ___ Love . . . ": 1924 song (4)
- ONEI
- 50 Across: Suffix with Capri (3)
- OTE
- 51 Across: Component of E = mc2 (4)
- MASS
- 52 Across: Pelagic fliers (4)
- ERNS
- 54 Across: Track ordeal (10)
- TRAILTRIAL
- 58 Across: Chewy nut (5)
- BETEL
- 59 Across: Mixed (8)
- ASSORTED
- 61 Across: "Goodnight" lady (5)
- IRENE
- 62 Across: Goddess of the moon (6)
- SELENE
- 63 Across: Extort (5)
- BLEED
- 64 Across: Knocks silly (5)
- STUNS
- 65 Across: Miss Muffet's morsels (5)
- CURDS
- 66 Across: Maroon (6)
- STRAND
- 68 Across: Excite (5)
- ROUSE
- 69 Across: Makes a nexus (8)
- CONNECTS
- 72 Across: Garroway's sign-off (5)
- PEACE
- 73 Across: Twists blankets (10)
- WARPSWRAPS
- 75 Across: Challenge (4)
- DARE
- 76 Across: View from Buffalo (4)
- ERIE
- 77 Across: Night before (3)
- EVE
- 78 Across: Yorkshire river (4)
- OUSE
- 79 Across: Two-decade sleeper (3)
- RIP
- 80 Across: Scottish alder (3)
- ARN
- 81 Across: Meanest dog (12)
- BASESTBASSET
- 86 Across: French state (4)
- ETAT
- 87 Across: Breathed (8)
- RESPIRED
- 89 Across: Street show (5)
- RAREE
- 90 Across: The end for Socrates (5)
- OMEGA
- 91 Across: Unique person (4)
- ONER
- 92 Across: Millay's "The ___ Tree" (4)
- PEAR
- 93 Across: Loathe (7)
- DESPISE
- 96 Across: Bambi's creator (6)
- SALTEN
- 99 Across: Problems for lispers (5)
- ESSES
- 101 Across: Lascivious look (4)
- LEER
- 102 Across: Gives radials a go (10)
- TRIESTIRES
- 105 Across: Dye a fabric (10)
- STAINSATIN
- 110 Across: Verve (4)
- ELAN
- 111 Across: Forgo (5)
- WAIVE
- 112 Across: Scout master? (5)
- TONTO
- 113 Across: Lug (4)
- TOTE
- 114 Across: Liner destination (4)
- PORT
- 115 Across: Fix firmly in place (5)
- EMBED
- 116 Across: Less daft (5)
- SANER
- 117 Across: Once, formerly (4)
- ERST
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Not neg. (3)
- POS
- 2 Down: First of 26 (3)
- ABC
- 3 Down: Inlet (3)
- RIA
- 4 Down: Arranged in threes (7)
- TERNATE
- 5 Down: Hines and Siepi (5)
- BASSI
- 6 Down: Route to Fairbanks (5)
- ALCAN
- 7 Down: Asian pen. (3)
- KOR
- 8 Down: Alfonso's queen et al. (4)
- ENAS
- 9 Down: Herpetologist's subject (7)
- REPTILE
- 10 Down: Roof timbers (7)
- RAFTERS
- 11 Down: Sign of spring (5)
- ARIES
- 12 Down: Sesame (3)
- TIL
- 13 Down: Nationality ending (3)
- ESE
- 14 Down: Attached directly, in botany (7)
- SESSILE
- 15 Down: "Enjoy, Enjoy!" author (6)
- GOLDEN
- 16 Down: A Met score (4)
- ARIA
- 17 Down: Millrose Games, e.g. (4)
- MEET
- 18 Down: Otherwise (4)
- ELSE
- 24 Down: Narrow walk (4)
- PATH
- 26 Down: Pyrexia (5)
- FEVER
- 29 Down: Declare with confidence (4)
- AVER
- 31 Down: Frames for drying clothes (6)
- AIRERS
- 32 Down: DePalma's intelligence (12)
- BRIANSBRAINS
- 33 Down: Balm of ___ (6)
- GILEAD
- 35 Down: Courtroom mallet (5)
- GAVEL
- 36 Down: ___ fool of (dupe) (5)
- MAKEA
- 38 Down: Thrice CLXIX (4)
- DVII
- 39 Down: Curriculum ___ (résumé) (5)
- VITAE
- 40 Down: Packs menus (12)
- CRATESCARTES
- 41 Down: "Ghosts" writer (5)
- IBSEN
- 42 Down: Approach to a pew (5)
- AISLE
- 44 Down: In one's cups (6)
- SOTTED
- 45 Down: "The Lady ___," 1935 song (5)
- INRED
- 46 Down: Cuts of meat (5)
- LOINS
- 51 Down: Performed a pinochle maneuver (6)
- MELDED
- 53 Down: Comfort (6)
- SOLACE
- 55 Down: Brightened (5)
- LITUP
- 56 Down: Tie up (5)
- TRUSS
- 57 Down: Freshen (5)
- RENEW
- 58 Down: European capital (4)
- BERN
- 60 Down: Actor Auberjonois (4)
- RENE
- 62 Down: Diurnal phenomenon (6)
- SUNSET
- 64 Down: Saddle afflictions (5)
- SORES
- 65 Down: Thicket (5)
- COPSE
- 66 Down: Assagai (5)
- SPEAR
- 67 Down: Zola's "La ___" (5)
- TERRE
- 68 Down: Went on wildly (5)
- RAVED
- 69 Down: Made happen (6)
- CAUSED
- 70 Down: M.A.S.H. procedure (6)
- TRIAGE
- 71 Down: Partitions (5)
- SEPTA
- 73 Down: Bremen's river (5)
- WESER
- 74 Down: York symbol (4)
- ROSE
- 81 Down: Twining stems (5)
- BINES
- 82 Down: "___ All?": 1929 song (7)
- ARENTWE
- 83 Down: Braided (7)
- TRESSED
- 84 Down: Ovine sounds (4)
- BAAS
- 85 Down: Blotter statistics (7)
- ARRESTS
- 86 Down: Qatar is one (7)
- EMIRATE
- 88 Down: Powerful (6)
- POTENT
- 90 Down: Uncloses, to the Bard (4)
- OPES
- 92 Down: Annoyance (5)
- PEEVE
- 94 Down: Upper crust (5)
- ELITE
- 95 Down: Man of La Mancha (5)
- SENOR
- 96 Down: Footfall (4)
- STEP
- 97 Down: One of the Guthries (4)
- ARLO
- 98 Down: Mythomaniac (4)
- LIAR
- 100 Down: Ancient ambulatory (4)
- STOA
- 103 Down: "___ the Walrus," Beatles song (3)
- IAM
- 104 Down: Eve's genesis (3)
- RIB
- 106 Down: Miller who dances (3)
- ANN
- 107 Down: Rocky pinnacle (3)
- TOR
- 108 Down: Part of T.G.I.F. (3)
- ITS
- 109 Down: Meadowlands cager (3)
- NET
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