FUN-HOUSE MIRRORS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 3/20/1988. By Bert H. Kruse.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Final English letters (4): ZEDS
5 Across: Apple concoction (5): CIDER
10 Across: Franklin or Harrison, for short (4): BENJ
14 Across: Famed Napoleonic general (4): RAPP
18 Across: Greenland community (4): ETAH
19 Across: Lizard (5): ANOLE
20 Across: "___ With a View" (5): AROOM
21 Across: Second-largest bird (4): EMEU
22 Across: Frank Gifford was one (10): NEWYORKELF
24 Across: Noted La. politician (10): SENRBSHORT
26 Across: Beer type (5): LAGER
27 Across: Libertines (5): RAKES
29 Across: Dined without cooking (6): ATEOUT
30 Across: Whirlybird part (5): ROTOR
31 Across: Flogged (5): CANED
32 Across: Irish exclamation (4): ARRA
33 Across: Quiet creatures (4): MICE
34 Across: Greek peninsula (4): ACTE
35 Across: Came ___ (fell headlong) (8): ACROPPER
39 Across: Four Horsemen driver (6): ROCKNE
41 Across: Dickens tad (10): TITANICTIM
43 Across: Character in "Charley's Aunt" (3): ELA
44 Across: Bonn exclamations (4): ACHS
45 Across: "___ she blows!" (4): THAR
47 Across: Anile person's home (4): SHOE
48 Across: Busy (4): ATIT
49 Across: Andress film: 1965 (3): SHE
50 Across: Epithet for Pitt, Gladstone or Clay (11): WEECOMMONER
54 Across: El Greco's birthplace (5): CRETE
55 Across: Box opener of note (7): PANDORA
57 Across: Parisian elders (5): AINES
58 Across: "Man, the Unknown" author (6): CARREL
59 Across: Supplicating figure (5): ORANT
60 Across: Resigned Vice President (5): AGNEW
61 Across: Giverny painter (5): MONET
62 Across: Irritate (6): ABRADE
64 Across: Give the cold shoulder to (5): SNOOT
65 Across: Not the same (7): ANOTHER
68 Across: Certain parliaments (5): RUMPS
69 Across: Hammett book (11): THEGROSSMAN
72 Across: A Gabor (3): EVA
73 Across: Indonesian island group (4): AROE
74 Across: A Roosevelt (4): SARA
75 Across: Egyptian symbol (4): ATEN
76 Across: Allow as a handicap (4): SPOT
77 Across: W. Va. native Joanne (3): DRU
78 Across: E. B. White classic (10): STUARTHUGE
82 Across: Brimless hats (6): TOQUES
84 Across: N.Y. prison site (8): OSSINING
86 Across: R.I. motto (4): HOPE
87 Across: Seeks a tan (4): SUNS
88 Across: "___ Tread on Me" (4): DONT
89 Across: Comes down (5): LANDS
90 Across: That is ___ (in other words) (5): TOSAY
92 Across: Actress from Malmö (6): EKBERG
95 Across: Keats poem (5): LAMIA
96 Across: Housing project, for short (5): REHAB
97 Across: Hall of Fame shortstop (10): GIANTREESE
99 Across: Bill Cosby creation (10): THINALBERT
104 Across: Finished hang gliding (4): ALIT
105 Across: S.A. heights (5): ANDES
106 Across: Like a beaver (5): EAGER
107 Across: Nero's 62 (4): LXII
108 Across: Chances (4): LOTS
109 Across: Once around Sol (4): YEAR
110 Across: List of candidates (5): SLATE
111 Across: Poetic twilights (4): EENS

Down Answers

1 Down: Buddhist sect (3): ZEN
2 Down: Summer: Fr. (3): ETE
3 Down: Noted Margery (3): DAW
4 Down: Tough creditors (8): SHYLOCKS
5 Down: Concern of stevedores (5): CARGO
6 Down: Printer's must (5): INKER
7 Down: Activist (4): DOER
8 Down: Addition (3): ELL
9 Down: Deflect, as light rays (7): REFRACT
10 Down: Kind (5): BREED
11 Down: Long, long time (4): EONS
12 Down: Eur. country (3): NOR
13 Down: "The Twelve Pound Look" dramatist (8): JMBARRIE
14 Down: Pile up again (6): REHEAP
15 Down: "With ___ moo here and a . . . " (4): AMOO
16 Down: Ind. city (4): PERU
17 Down: Tap on the green (4): PUTT
20 Down: " . . . ___/As is the razor's edge invisible": Shak. (6): ASKEEN
23 Down: Like a certain meal (5): OATEN
25 Down: ___ Thurmond of S.C. (5): STROM
28 Down: Wall pier (4): ANTA
30 Down: Celebrated mimic (12): RICHENORMOUS
31 Down: African metropolis (5): CAIRO
32 Down: John Lithgow, for one (5): ACTOR
33 Down: Coffee (5): MOCHA
35 Down: Pines (5): ACHES
36 Down: Notable Russian czar (12): PETERTHEPUNY
37 Down: Cream (5): ELITE
38 Down: Badger's look-alike (5): RATEL
39 Down: File (4): RASP
40 Down: Without end, in poesy (6): ETERNE
41 Down: Tic-___-toe (3): TAC
42 Down: "So what else ___?" (5): ISNEW
46 Down: Pressure (4): HEAT
48 Down: Canadian court decree (5): ARRET
50 Down: Dye herbs (5): WOADS
51 Down: Historic London statue (5): MAGOG
52 Down: Not important (5): MINOR
53 Down: ___ a customer (5): ONETO
54 Down: Type of type (5): CANON
56 Down: Hanging (5): DRAPE
58 Down: Harvard president: 1933-53 (6): CONANT
60 Down: Lend ___ (hearken) (5): ANEAR
61 Down: Stage aunt (4): MAME
62 Down: Cultivated fields, in Tex. (5): ARADO
63 Down: Nuts (5): BURRS
64 Down: Lop, as trees, in Britain (5): SHRAG
66 Down: Bacchanalian cries (5): EVOES
67 Down: Darn it! (4): RATS
69 Down: Tease (5): TAUNT
70 Down: Sapient elders (5): SAGES
71 Down: Geneviève or Jeanne: Abbr. (3): STE
74 Down: Fish with dangerous spines (8): STINGRAY
76 Down: Bicker (8): SQUABBLE
78 Down: Show disgust (5): SNORT
79 Down: North Sea feeder (6): THAMES
80 Down: "___ soit qui mal y pense" (4): HONI
81 Down: Modernizes (7): UPDATES
83 Down: Bonelike (5): OSSAL
85 Down: Certain cards, for short (6): IDENTS
89 Down: Medical beam (5): LASER
90 Down: Belief (5): TENET
91 Down: Kennedy's Midwestern cousin (5): OHARE
92 Down: Peer, in Paris (4): EGAL
93 Down: Weight, for short (4): KILO
94 Down: Minnows, e.g. (4): BAIT
95 Down: Spartan queen (4): LEDA
96 Down: European port (4): RIGA
98 Down: Chemical ending (3): ENE
100 Down: Falstaff's friend (3): HAL
101 Down: English river past Exeter (3): EXE
102 Down: Old Japanese coin (3): RIN
103 Down: "___ the season . . . " (3): TIS

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