FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 12/27/1987. By Victoria Black and Alex F. Black.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "Golden Boy" author (5)
- ODETS
- 6 Across: Coin for Khomeini (5)
- DINAR
- 11 Across: Crusoe cabana (3)
- HUT
- 14 Across: West German seaport (4)
- KIEL
- 18 Across: Kind of approval (5)
- TACIT
- 19 Across: Call it a day (6)
- RETIRE
- 20 Across: Cachepot's kin (3)
- URN
- 21 Across: Theater assoc. (4)
- ANTA
- 22 Across: PING-PONG (12)
- ONOMATOPOEIA
- 24 Across: NERVES OF STEEL (8)
- METAPHOR
- 26 Across: Erbium or terbium (7)
- ELEMENT
- 27 Across: Floral arrangement (5)
- SPRAY
- 29 Across: Paddle (5)
- SPANK
- 30 Across: Rover's restrainer (5)
- LEASH
- 31 Across: Didn't dine at the diner (5)
- ATEIN
- 32 Across: Tar's mop (4)
- SWAB
- 33 Across: Legal rights (5)
- LIENS
- 35 Across: MME. DEFARGE, KNITWIT (11)
- PARONOMASIA
- 38 Across: Romulus's escort to heaven (4)
- MARS
- 39 Across: Turns' partner (6)
- TOSSES
- 42 Across: Land of Yeats (4)
- ERIN
- 43 Across: Render, as blubber (3)
- TRY
- 45 Across: "OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN . . . " (10)
- APOSTROPHE
- 48 Across: "___ It Romantic?": 1932 song (4)
- ISNT
- 49 Across: U.S. Open champ: 1976 (4)
- PATE
- 50 Across: Japanese dollar (3)
- YEN
- 51 Across: Hawk's haven (5)
- AERIE
- 52 Across: Proust product (5)
- PROSE
- 54 Across: Brazilian actress Braga (5)
- SONIA
- 55 Across: Resident of Strasbourg (8)
- ALSATIAN
- 57 Across: Air (4)
- MIEN
- 58 Across: Foundry worker (6)
- MELTER
- 59 Across: SMILING SKIES (15)
- PATHETICFALLACY
- 63 Across: Hindu music makers (6)
- SITARS
- 66 Across: Some Fuegians (4)
- ONAS
- 67 Across: Continental (8)
- EUROPEAN
- 71 Across: Clunes and McCowen (5)
- ALECS
- 72 Across: South African statesman (5)
- SMUTS
- 74 Across: Author Myrer (5)
- ANTON
- 75 Across: Degree from M.I.T. (3)
- MSE
- 76 Across: Spot (4)
- SITE
- 77 Across: Codger (4)
- COOT
- 78 Across: CHASING SKIRTS (10)
- SYNECDOCHE
- 80 Across: Prefix for cease or charge (3)
- SUR
- 81 Across: Bath for Babette (4)
- BAIN
- 82 Across: Former labor leader's family (6)
- MEANYS
- 84 Across: Equal (4)
- PEER
- 85 Across: PARTIAL POST (11)
- MALAPROPISM
- 88 Across: Dutch painter Jan (5)
- STEEN
- 90 Across: Middling (4)
- SOSO
- 91 Across: Spars (5)
- MASTS
- 92 Across: Man or pumpkin follower (5)
- EATER
- 94 Across: Wodehouse goodbyes (5)
- TATAS
- 96 Across: Frayn's "Noises Off," e.g. (5)
- FARCE
- 97 Across: Popeye favorite (7)
- SPINACH
- 100 Across: GUEST HOST (8)
- OXYMORON
- 102 Across: WORDS WORK WONDERS (12)
- ALLITERATION
- 106 Across: Model Macpherson (4)
- ELLE
- 107 Across: Jackie's second spouse (3)
- ARI
- 108 Across: Schedules (6)
- SLATES
- 109 Across: Like lignite (5)
- COALY
- 110 Across: Act (4)
- DEED
- 111 Across: ___ culpa (3)
- MEA
- 112 Across: Its motto is "Friendship" (5)
- TEXAS
- 113 Across: Trade center in India (5)
- ERODE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: A Siouan (3)
- OTO
- 2 Down: Native of Odense (4)
- DANE
- 3 Down: Branch of biol. (4)
- ECOL
- 4 Down: Unending (8)
- TIMELESS
- 5 Down: Flower part (6)
- STAMEN
- 6 Down: Profundity (5)
- DEPTH
- 7 Down: Dancer Michio ___ (3)
- ITO
- 8 Down: Never, in Nürnberg (3)
- NIE
- 9 Down: Awns (7)
- ARISTAE
- 10 Down: McCormick's machines (7)
- REAPERS
- 11 Down: Characteristic of earthlings (9)
- HUMANNESS
- 12 Down: Nobelist in Chemistry: 1934 (4)
- UREY
- 13 Down: Methyltrinitrobenzene (3)
- TNT
- 14 Down: Greek letters (6)
- KAPPAS
- 15 Down: Denizen (10)
- INHABITANT
- 16 Down: Thames River town (4)
- ETON
- 17 Down: Escapade (4)
- LARK
- 19 Down: Guidry and Kittle (4)
- RONS
- 23 Down: Sunglo and twankay (4)
- TEAS
- 25 Down: Nile dam (5)
- ASWAN
- 28 Down: Blanco or Bravo (3)
- RIO
- 31 Down: Chevet (4)
- APSE
- 32 Down: Struck, old style (4)
- SMIT
- 33 Down: Collar continuation (5)
- LAPEL
- 34 Down: Attends to pressing matters (5)
- IRONS
- 36 Down: Caen's river (4)
- ORNE
- 37 Down: Ade book: 1896 (5)
- ARTIE
- 38 Down: Yucatán Indian (4)
- MAYA
- 39 Down: Jewish law (5)
- TORAH
- 40 Down: State (5)
- OPINE
- 41 Down: Andress film: 1965 (3)
- SHE
- 44 Down: Calendar unit (4)
- YEAR
- 46 Down: Mongols (6)
- TATARS
- 47 Down: Specialized investment orgs. (5)
- REITS
- 48 Down: New Rochelle college (4)
- IONA
- 49 Down: Tentacled animal (5)
- POLYP
- 52 Down: Type types (5)
- PICAS
- 53 Down: Umps' kin (4)
- REFS
- 54 Down: Place in a race (6)
- SECOND
- 56 Down: Quickly (5)
- APACE
- 57 Down: Unused (4)
- MINT
- 58 Down: Morocco, to Martine (5)
- MAROC
- 60 Down: Ballyhoo (4)
- TOUT
- 61 Down: Hoffman film: 1974 (5)
- LENNY
- 62 Down: Paving tools (5)
- LUTES
- 63 Down: Back talk (4)
- SASS
- 64 Down: Ancient Troy (5)
- ILIUM
- 65 Down: Having four columns (10)
- TETRASTYLE
- 68 Down: Jessel role (5)
- EMCEE
- 69 Down: Gray (5)
- ASHEN
- 70 Down: ___-do-well (4)
- NEER
- 72 Down: Evening, in Evian (4)
- SOIR
- 73 Down: Single-mindedness (9)
- MONOMANIA
- 74 Down: Author Rand (3)
- AYN
- 77 Down: Chief, in Chiari (4)
- CAPO
- 78 Down: Ervin and Nunn (4)
- SAMS
- 79 Down: Wheeler-dealer (8)
- OPERATOR
- 81 Down: Novelist Hamilton ___ (5)
- BASSO
- 82 Down: In the wrong role (7)
- MISCAST
- 83 Down: Actress Parsons (7)
- ESTELLE
- 86 Down: Covered with soil (6)
- LOAMED
- 87 Down: Standard for Snead (3)
- PAR
- 88 Down: Rouse (4)
- STIR
- 89 Down: Card sequence (6)
- TENACE
- 92 Down: Simon of the Met (5)
- ESTES
- 93 Down: Mimics (4)
- APES
- 94 Down: Touched a mark (4)
- TOED
- 95 Down: Shaft (4)
- AXLE
- 96 Down: Course cry (4)
- FORE
- 98 Down: So long, in Siena (4)
- CIAO
- 99 Down: Shipboard storage place (4)
- HOLD
- 101 Down: Sign of Aries (3)
- RAM
- 103 Down: Careless (3)
- LAX
- 104 Down: City in Paraguay (3)
- ITA
- 105 Down: American humorist: 1850-96 (3)
- NYE
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