PLAY BALL - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 168 clues). Published 6/5/1988. By Jeanette K. Brill.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Parisian gangster (6): APACHE
7 Across: Cleanse thoroughly (5): SCOUR
12 Across: Of an armbone (5): ULNAR
17 Across: The Censor (4): CATO
21 Across: Ameche-Verdon film: 1985 (6): COCOON
22 Across: Department of France: 1815-1975 (5): CORSE
23 Across: Daughter of Tantalus (5): NIOBE
24 Across: Words of understanding (4): ISEE
25 Across: Fast player with lots of clout (12): TRIPLETHREAT
27 Across: Outfielder, at times (10): FLYCATCHER
29 Across: "___ Been a Long, Long Time" (3): ITS
30 Across: Shock (6): TRAUMA
31 Across: Lessen (5): ABATE
33 Across: ___ double take (3): DOA
34 Across: Half of XIV (3): VII
35 Across: Ancient Celtic priest (5): DRUID
37 Across: Bivalve mollusk (7): SCALLOP
41 Across: Hammarskjöld (3): DAG
44 Across: Desires (5): WANTS
46 Across: Cast amorous glances (5): OGLED
48 Across: Vowel changes in verb forms (7): ABLAUTS
50 Across: Battologize (7): ITERATE
52 Across: One way for runners to score (11): ONTHEDOUBLE
55 Across: Hanoi holiday (3): TET
56 Across: Garb (6): ATTIRE
57 Across: Pick up the tab (5): TREAT
58 Across: Valley (4): DALE
59 Across: Get one's goat (4): RILE
60 Across: Don (5): PUTON
61 Across: Religious composition (5): MOTET
62 Across: Germ cell (5): SPORE
64 Across: Mistake (5): BONER
65 Across: A son of Seth (4): ENOS
66 Across: Criterion for Kelly (9): SLIDERULE
68 Across: U.S. financier-philanthropist (6): MELLON
69 Across: Ump's relative (3): REF
70 Across: This can be acute (5): ANGLE
72 Across: War god (4): ARES
73 Across: "Lili ___" (7): MARLENE
74 Across: Small land masses (6): ISLETS
76 Across: Wept (5): CRIED
78 Across: Concerning this (6): HEREOF
79 Across: Irritates (7): ABRADES
81 Across: Contented sounds (4): COOS
82 Across: Musical ennead (5): NONET
83 Across: "___ Sleepy People" (3): TWO
86 Across: Portion of bacon (6): RASHER
87 Across: Yogi Berra was one (9): HOMEGUARD
90 Across: In the distance (4): AFAR
91 Across: Actor John from Baltimore (5): ASTIN
92 Across: Stadium pentagon (5): PLATE
94 Across: Dispatch boat (5): AVISO
95 Across: Daily rat race (5): GRIND
96 Across: Lettuce variety (4): BIBB
97 Across: Player in an old song (4): DEER
98 Across: Gripper of sorts (5): CLEAT
99 Across: Art of horsemanship (6): MANEGE
100 Across: Laders' org. (3): ILA
101 Across: Strike-calling umpire (11): DIAMONDHEAD
104 Across: Flower part (7): COROLLA
105 Across: Swivel wheels (7): CASTERS
107 Across: Water wheel (5): NORIA
108 Across: Looks over hastily (5): SCANS
110 Across: Crandall or Ennis (3): DEL
111 Across: Come back in (7): REENTER
113 Across: More rational (5): SANER
115 Across: Número ___ (3): UNO
116 Across: Ship-shaped clock (3): NEF
117 Across: Position properly (5): ALIGN
119 Across: Will topic (6): ESTATE
122 Across: Wood sorrel (3): OCA
125 Across: What a pinch hitter will do (10): GOTOBATFOR
129 Across: At the end, for 25 Across (12): INTHELONGRUN
132 Across: Declare positively (4): AVER
133 Across: Baseball's Pee Wee (5): REESE
134 Across: Standards (5): NORMS
135 Across: Nicotinic acid (6): NIACIN
136 Across: Opposite of raves (4): PANS
137 Across: T. N. Page's "___ Chan" (5): MARSE
138 Across: Dutch jurist Huig de ___: 1583-1645 (5): GROOT
139 Across: Mystery awards (6): EDGARS

Down Answers

1 Down: Start of "Hamlet" (4): ACTI
2 Down: Larboard (4): PORT
3 Down: Galatea's lover (4): ACIS
4 Down: ___ a plea (3): COP
5 Down: Australian Prime Minister: 1966 (4): HOLT
6 Down: Sap (8): ENERVATE
7 Down: Dutch boat (6): SCHUIT
8 Down: Bulb's cousin (4): CORM
9 Down: Mountain nymph (5): OREAD
10 Down: "Born in the ___" (3): USA
11 Down: Instructed again (8): RETAUGHT
12 Down: Not dulled by sunlight, as prints (7): UNFADED
13 Down: Gay tune (4): LILT
14 Down: "Drake" is his epic poem (5): NOYES
15 Down: Broadcasting syst. (3): ABC
16 Down: Unlike some scrawls (8): READABLE
17 Down: Homopterous insect (6): CICALA
18 Down: Rowan (3): ASH
19 Down: Peg for Peete (3): TEE
20 Down: Above, poetically (3): OER
26 Down: French critic-historian: 19th century (5): TAINE
28 Down: Outcry, in Rouen (5): TOLLE
32 Down: Spleen (4): BILE
36 Down: Turn (6): ROTATE
38 Down: Wire (5): CABLE
39 Down: Where to see Rickey Henderson (14): OUTINLEFTFIELD
40 Down: Hunter beloved by Eos (7): PTELEON
41 Down: Layette item (6): DIAPER
42 Down: Bring into harmony (6): ATTUNE
43 Down: Hit or walk (14): GETTOFIRSTBASE
44 Down: Caution (4): WARN
45 Down: Raid (6): SORTIE
47 Down: Fogies (6): DODOES
49 Down: "Tristram Shandy" author (6): STERNE
51 Down: Branco and Mayo (4): RIOS
53 Down: Penury (4): NEED
54 Down: Former Middle East org. (3): UAR
57 Down: Bridge charges (5): TOLLS
59 Down: Norse chieftain (5): ROLLO
61 Down: Certain NCO's (5): MSGTS
62 Down: Unfailing (4): SURE
63 Down: Entreated (4): PLED
64 Down: Montmartre chapeau (5): BERET
67 Down: Rear (5): RAISE
68 Down: ___ nostrum (the Mediterranean) (4): MARE
70 Down: Standish's stand-in (5): ALDEN
71 Down: ___-do-well (4): NEER
73 Down: "The evil that ___ . . . ": Shak. (5): MENDO
75 Down: Title in colonial India (5): SAHIB
76 Down: Scoter (4): COOT
77 Down: Songwriter Harold (4): ROME
78 Down: Ski jumper ___ Bulau (5): HORST
79 Down: Describing our numbers (6): ARABIC
80 Down: Situated at the foundation (7): BASILAR
81 Down: Styx ferryman (6): CHARON
82 Down: Water nymphs (6): NAIADS
84 Down: Falsify (6): WANGLE
85 Down: Severe trial (6): ORDEAL
88 Down: Helmets for Caesar's men (6): GALEAE
89 Down: Eye layer (4): UVEA
90 Down: American cartoonist (4): ARNO
92 Down: "___-porridge hot . . . " (5): PEASE
93 Down: Author Stanislaw ___ (3): LEM
95 Down: Needlefishes (4): GARS
97 Down: Small agricultural enterprise (8): DIRTFARM
98 Down: Gymnast's activity (8): CHINNING
99 Down: Chorus reject (8): MONOTONE
101 Down: Star in Cygnus (5): DENEB
102 Down: Emphatic negative (7): NOSIREE
103 Down: Kind of bunt (4): DRAG
104 Down: Watercourse (5): CANAL
106 Down: Soprano Alda's "Men, Women and ___" (6): TENORS
109 Down: Most adorable (6): CUTEST
112 Down: Olympic athlete Johnson (5): RAFER
114 Down: Kind of rocket (5): RETRO
118 Down: Opposite of a win (4): LOSS
120 Down: Foolish person (4): SHMO
121 Down: Geraint's wife (4): ENID
122 Down: Grampus (4): ORCA
123 Down: French leather (4): CUIR
124 Down: Sothern and Harding (4): ANNS
125 Down: Breach (3): GAP
126 Down: Eggs, to Ovid (3): OVA
127 Down: Derek vehicle (3): TEN
128 Down: Earl Grey, for one (3): TEA
130 Down: Correlative (3): NOR
131 Down: Carson quip (3): GAG

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