CAPITAL GAINS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 136 clues). Published 1/3/1988. By Elaine D. Schorr.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Censure savagely (6)
- STRAFE
- 7 Across: Record holder (6)
- SLEEVE
- 13 Across: Author Carroll (5)
- LEWIS
- 18 Across: Here (7)
- PRESENT
- 20 Across: Kind of power (7)
- EARNING
- 22 Across: ___ del mar (arrow crab) (5)
- ARANA
- 23 Across: Ark. gala? (21)
- LITTLEROCKGARDENPARTY
- 26 Across: Infuriated (5)
- ABOIL
- 27 Across: ___ en point: Her. (4)
- ENTE
- 28 Across: Hartebeests (5)
- TORAS
- 29 Across: Salty sauce (3)
- SOY
- 30 Across: Set of three (4)
- TERN
- 31 Across: Declivity (6)
- ESCARP
- 33 Across: Author of "One World or None" (4)
- UREY
- 34 Across: Peanut, to Pedro (4)
- MANI
- 35 Across: Orly speed demon (3)
- SST
- 36 Across: Investigative object (4)
- CASE
- 37 Across: W.W. II Greek underground (4)
- ELAS
- 39 Across: Stored the stores (6)
- STOWED
- 41 Across: Most like Babar (6)
- TAMEST
- 43 Across: Borecole (4)
- KALE
- 44 Across: Biblical verb endings (4)
- ETHS
- 45 Across: Had a wordy wrangle (7)
- SPARRED
- 48 Across: Extol (4)
- HAIL
- 50 Across: "___ be true . . . ": Herbert (6)
- DARETO
- 53 Across: Condiment containers (6)
- CRUETS
- 54 Across: "___ poor Nelly starve": Charles II (6)
- LETNOT
- 56 Across: Seven-candles holder (7)
- MENORAH
- 59 Across: French trace (5)
- RESTE
- 60 Across: A first name in fashion (4)
- OLEG
- 61 Across: Frigga's spouse (4)
- ODIN
- 63 Across: Angel's delight (3)
- SRO
- 64 Across: Bank abbr. (3)
- INT
- 65 Across: Canine at a Portuguese conflagration? (13)
- LISBONFIREDOG
- 70 Across: Building wing (3)
- ELL
- 71 Across: Penultimate Greek letter (3)
- PSI
- 72 Across: Episcopates (4)
- SEES
- 73 Across: About (4)
- INRE
- 74 Across: Hamstrung (5)
- LAMED
- 76 Across: Contiguous (7)
- TANGENT
- 79 Across: Bed adjunct (6)
- TESTER
- 81 Across: Elizabethan court dance (6)
- PAVANE
- 82 Across: Way in or out (6)
- PORTAL
- 84 Across: Tone: Comb. form (4)
- PHON
- 85 Across: Man before the mast (7)
- MARINER
- 86 Across: Patron of Roman husbandmen (4)
- MARS
- 87 Across: Hebrew letter: Var. (4)
- ELEF
- 89 Across: Coveted collections (6)
- TROVES
- 91 Across: ___ seed (deteriorated) (6)
- GONETO
- 93 Across: Alter course (4)
- VEER
- 94 Across: First site of the Olympic Games (4)
- ELIS
- 95 Across: It's the word (3)
- MUM
- 98 Across: A King (4)
- ALAN
- 99 Across: Strawberry's patch (4)
- SHEA
- 101 Across: Complained (6)
- YAWPED
- 104 Across: Capital of Yemen Arab Republic (4)
- SANA
- 105 Across: Wire measurement (3)
- MIL
- 106 Across: Appropriate forcibly (5)
- USURP
- 107 Across: What Polly Flinders was warming (4)
- TOES
- 108 Across: Arch preceder (5)
- PATRI
- 109 Across: Yugoslav educator? (21)
- BELGRADESCHOOLTEACHER
- 114 Across: Mountain nymph (5)
- OREAD
- 115 Across: Salary (7)
- STIPEND
- 116 Across: Kind of service at Easter (7)
- SUNRISE
- 117 Across: Where Tacloban is (5)
- LEYTE
- 118 Across: Gins (6)
- SNARES
- 119 Across: Cures by smoking: Scot. (6)
- REESTS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Flattens on impact (6)
- SPLATS
- 2 Down: Crow and Fox (6)
- TRIBES
- 3 Down: Cutting comeback (6)
- RETORT
- 4 Down: Actor John from Baltimore (5)
- ASTIN
- 5 Down: Hew (4)
- FELL
- 6 Down: Compass pt. (3)
- ENE
- 7 Down: Anglo-Saxon lawsuit (5)
- SECTA
- 8 Down: Jerry West was one (5)
- LAKER
- 9 Down: Saharan region (3)
- ERG
- 10 Down: Bambi's aunt (3)
- ENA
- 11 Down: Notably effective (7)
- VIRTUAL
- 12 Down: Gave sanction to (8)
- ENDORSED
- 13 Down: Sitting formations (4)
- LAPS
- 14 Down: Memorable time (3)
- ERA
- 15 Down: Polish buck rider? (14)
- WARSAWHORSEMAN
- 16 Down: Chants (7)
- INTONES
- 17 Down: Title for a Moslem (6)
- SAYYID
- 19 Down: Braided (7)
- TRESSED
- 21 Down: "American Gigolo" star (4)
- GERE
- 24 Down: French weights (5)
- ONCES
- 25 Down: Refusals (4)
- NAYS
- 31 Down: Opera's Emma (5)
- EAMES
- 32 Down: Chinese croaker cookout? (13)
- PEKINGFISHFRY
- 34 Down: Words to live by (5)
- MOTTO
- 36 Down: OPEC, e.g. (6)
- CARTEL
- 38 Down: Composer Edouard (4)
- LALO
- 40 Down: Lillums Lovewell's beau (4)
- TEEN
- 41 Down: Weight allowance (4)
- TRET
- 42 Down: A. Conan Doyle's "___ World" (7)
- THELOST
- 45 Down: Handwriting (6)
- SCRIPT
- 46 Down: Press, in Palma (6)
- PRENSA
- 47 Down: Tex. music center? (14)
- AUSTINPANALLEY
- 49 Down: Sun disk for Amenhotep (4)
- ATEN
- 51 Down: Surrounded by (4)
- AMID
- 52 Down: Unhitching post (4)
- RENO
- 54 Down: Uvula (4)
- LOBE
- 55 Down: Flux (7)
- TORRENT
- 57 Down: Francis from Boston (6)
- ARLENE
- 58 Down: Tenant (6)
- HOLDER
- 62 Down: Does, e.g. (4)
- DEER
- 66 Down: Berlin's "Say It ___ So" (4)
- ISNT
- 67 Down: Bristle (4)
- SETA
- 68 Down: ___ thin air (4)
- INTO
- 69 Down: Looks daggers at (6)
- GLARES
- 75 Down: Rara ___ (4)
- AVIS
- 77 Down: Bridge expert (5)
- GOREN
- 78 Down: Formerly, formerly (4)
- ERST
- 80 Down: Fleuret's relative (4)
- EPEE
- 81 Down: Showing fear (5)
- PAVID
- 83 Down: Young hares (8)
- LEVERETS
- 85 Down: Harasses (7)
- MOLESTS
- 86 Down: Tartuffe's creator (7)
- MOLIERE
- 88 Down: "And the wild cataract ___ glory": Tennyson (7)
- LEAPSIN
- 90 Down: Drive back (5)
- REPEL
- 91 Down: Frolic (6)
- GAMBOL
- 92 Down: Greek peak (4)
- OSSA
- 95 Down: Johnny of song (6)
- MATHIS
- 96 Down: Disquiet (6)
- UNREST
- 97 Down: Hôtel de ville bigwigs (6)
- MAIRES
- 100 Down: Hulls of Yorkshire berries (4)
- HUDS
- 102 Down: In accord (5)
- ATONE
- 103 Down: Sylvan area (5)
- WOODS
- 104 Down: Holy, at Lourdes (5)
- SACRE
- 106 Down: Heraldic anagram for rude (4)
- URDE
- 108 Down: Star facet (4)
- PANE
- 110 Down: Channel (3)
- GAT
- 111 Down: I.R.S. employee (3)
- CPA
- 112 Down: L.B.J. beagle (3)
- HER
- 113 Down: A cont. (3)
- EUR
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