BLENDS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 1/31/1988. By Robert W. Sturges.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Canine "blue book" org. (3): AKC
4 Across: Auto mechanic's concern (4): IDLE
8 Across: Harts (5): STAGS
13 Across: Emulate Thraso (4): BRAG
17 Across: Like a church mouse (4): POOR
19 Across: Associated with the sea: Abbr. (4): NAUT
20 Across: Impressive grouping (5): ARRAY
21 Across: Word with officer or maker (5): PEACE
22 Across: The Granary of the South (9): ARGENTINA
24 Across: Uncomplicated enjoyment (11): SIMPLEASURE
26 Across: Most spare (8): REEDIEST
27 Across: One of the Lauders (5): ESTEE
28 Across: Neighborhood businessman (6): GROCER
29 Across: "Hiding" place (7): TANNERY
30 Across: Proclaimed publicly (5): CRIED
31 Across: Fried, in Figueras (5): FRITO
32 Across: P.I.'s (4): TECS
33 Across: Dentists' aids, at times (5): GASES
34 Across: Constraint of circumstance (8): PRESSURE
37 Across: Answer-sheet column (5): FALSE
39 Across: Initiatives (9): OVERTURES
41 Across: Eastern flag symbol (3): SUN
42 Across: Assures victory (4): ICES
43 Across: Sailor's chain (3): TYE
44 Across: Pawnees' cousins (4): REES
45 Across: "___ She Sweet?": 1927 song (4): AINT
46 Across: Demon, to some (3): RUM
47 Across: Grassland grande dame (10): MEADOWAGER
51 Across: Polly and Pittypat (5): AUNTS
52 Across: Posts (8): STATIONS
55 Across: Carrying cargo (5): LADEN
56 Across: Aerie object (3): EGG
57 Across: Like a rational argument (7): TENABLE
58 Across: Cripples (5): MAIMS
59 Across: Stimulates to action (7): AROUSES
63 Across: Neighbor of Harv. (3): MIT
64 Across: Prosit relative (5): SANTE
65 Across: Cluster of three letters (8): TRIGRAPH
66 Across: Actress Irene from Greece (5): PAPAS
69 Across: Flowery area in a Tex. city (10): GARDENISON
71 Across: Large scarf (3): BOA
72 Across: Composer Stravinsky (4): IGOR
73 Across: This has banks in Caen (4): ORNE
74 Across: Child's fancy marble (3): TAW
75 Across: "Hard place" associate (4): ROCK
76 Across: Poe contraction (3): EER
77 Across: One-room apartment (9): BEDSITTER
81 Across: River of Hades (5): LETHE
82 Across: Makes a new map (8): RECHARTS
85 Across: British trolleys (5): TRAMS
86 Across: Judy's elder daughter (4): LIZA
87 Across: Ancient Greek colony (5): IONIA
88 Across: Springfield parts (5): SEARS
89 Across: Fluorine or chlorine (7): HALOGEN
92 Across: Stand for (6): DENOTE
94 Across: Canary's relative (5): SERIN
95 Across: Natives of Jakarta (8): JAVANESE
96 Across: Erratic Italian (11): UNEVENETIAN
98 Across: Nickel (9): FIVECENTS
99 Across: Hemispherical roofs (5): DOMES
100 Across: Père's sister (5): TANTE
101 Across: State (4): AVER
102 Across: Editor's word (4): STET
103 Across: Greek mil. group in W.W. II (4): ELAS
104 Across: Express contempt (5): SNEER
105 Across: Iniquity locales (4): DENS
106 Across: Next year's alums (3): SRS

Down Answers

1 Down: Disconnected (5): APART
2 Down: Future Olympics' site (5): KOREA
3 Down: Refined fellow of a few, convincing words (11): COGENTLEMAN
4 Down: Entombs (6): INTERS
5 Down: Kind of ham or wheel (5): DAISY
6 Down: Name of fame on Broadway (4): LUNT
7 Down: Kennedy letters (3): ETA
8 Down: More impudent (7): SASSIER
9 Down: Banal, to the utmost (7): TRITEST
10 Down: Venus de Milo, once (5): ARMED
11 Down: Mouth-related stare (4): GAPE
12 Down: Scansion unit: Abbr. (3): SYL
13 Down: Infatuates (6): BESOTS
14 Down: Loud relative (9): RAUCOUSIN
15 Down: Levantine port (4): ACRE
16 Down: Memorable actor Will ___ (4): GEER
18 Down: Rubicundity (7): REDNESS
21 Down: Juliet's betrothed (5): PARIS
23 Down: Dorothy, to Em (5): NIECE
25 Down: Way out (6): EGRESS
27 Down: Gaelic (4): ERSE
30 Down: Hollowed (5): CAVED
31 Down: Noted D.C. art gallery (5): FREER
33 Down: Prado exhibits (5): GOYAS
34 Down: British brooch (5): PREEN
35 Down: Litter Lilliputian (4): RUNT
36 Down: Tolkien characters (4): ENTS
37 Down: Position Gehrig played (5): FIRST
38 Down: Demanding urgent action (5): ACUTE
40 Down: Drives (5): URGES
43 Down: Shoe size (4): TENE
45 Down: Bode (5): AUGUR
47 Down: Shed an outer layer (4): MOLT
48 Down: Early Chan (5): OLAND
49 Down: Chief Justice: 1874-88 (5): WAITE
50 Down: Madison Ave. figures (5): ADMEN
51 Down: Intensely interested (4): AGOG
53 Down: River at Plymouth Sound (5): TAMAR
54 Down: Heron's relative (4): IBIS
56 Down: Paddy's place (4): ERIN
58 Down: Kind of nest (5): MARES
59 Down: In a line (4): AROW
60 Down: Destructive operatives (11): SABOTAGENTS
61 Down: Memorable period (5): EPOCH
62 Down: Fountain order (5): SHAKE
64 Down: Refines a surface, in a way (5): SANDS
65 Down: Powerful people (5): TSARS
66 Down: Bridge support (4): PIER
67 Down: "A Death in the Family" author (4): AGEE
68 Down: Porky Pig flick (9): PORCINEMA
69 Down: Melvyn's co-star in "Ninotchka" (5): GRETA
70 Down: List parts (5): ITEMS
73 Down: Rockne portrayer (6): OBRIEN
75 Down: Changes a neighborhood's character (7): REZONES
78 Down: Battologize (7): ITERATE
79 Down: Locker-room figure (7): TRAINER
80 Down: Rainier pool (4): TARN
81 Down: Syringa (5): LILAC
83 Down: Certain shoe sites (6): HOOVES
84 Down: Pot parts (5): ANTES
86 Down: Edible seaweeds (6): LAVERS
88 Down: Sight from Rouen (5): SEINE
89 Down: Asylum (5): HAVEN
90 Down: Depside, e.g. (5): ESTER
91 Down: What cowbirds don't build (5): NESTS
92 Down: Ranch visitor (4): DUDE
93 Down: Organic compound (4): ENOL
94 Down: Ollie's friend (4): STAN
95 Down: Foolish talk: Slang (4): JIVE
97 Down: French conjunctions (3): ETS
98 Down: It's in one era, out the other (3): FAD

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