ACADEME - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 9/11/1988. By Barbara Lunder Gillis.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Panier handle (4)
- ANSE
- 5 Across: Pen (3)
- STY
- 8 Across: Small containers for liquids (6)
- CRUSES
- 14 Across: Rose fruits (4)
- HIPS
- 18 Across: Hit musical (4)
- CATS
- 19 Across: Aunt, in Avila (3)
- TIA
- 20 Across: Actor Oscar: 1898-1978 (7)
- HOMOLKA
- 22 Across: Chinese nurse (4)
- AMAH
- 23 Across: Part of a typing exercise (16)
- THEQUICKBROWNFOX
- 26 Across: ___ dixit (4)
- IPSE
- 27 Across: Gompers or Goldwyn (6)
- SAMUEL
- 28 Across: Berliner's 44 Down (3)
- EIS
- 29 Across: Brood of pheasants (4)
- NIDE
- 30 Across: Pep up the punch (4)
- LACE
- 31 Across: Poet-physician from Rutherford (8)
- WILLIAMS
- 34 Across: Cava or contracta preceder (4)
- VENA
- 35 Across: Fanfare (5)
- ECLAT
- 36 Across: Alarm (5)
- SCARE
- 38 Across: Scrams (7)
- BEATSIT
- 40 Across: Carols (5)
- NOELS
- 41 Across: Innocent (4)
- PURE
- 42 Across: Soil aggregate (3)
- PED
- 43 Across: Misfortune (3)
- ILL
- 44 Across: Darling (4)
- IDOL
- 46 Across: Parrots (4)
- APES
- 47 Across: Norma or Charlotte (3)
- RAE
- 48 Across: Troubles (4)
- AILS
- 50 Across: Peace pipe (7)
- CALUMET
- 54 Across: Lips (4)
- RIMS
- 55 Across: Converter (7)
- ADAPTER
- 57 Across: Epiphany trio (4)
- MAGI
- 58 Across: Eschews (5)
- SHUNS
- 60 Across: Actress Pola (5)
- NEGRI
- 61 Across: Postponed (6)
- TABLED
- 63 Across: Turkic or Mongolic language (6)
- ALTAIC
- 65 Across: Bill (3)
- TAB
- 67 Across: Glance (3)
- EYE
- 68 Across: ___ d'hôtel (6)
- MAITRE
- 69 Across: Architectural rib (6)
- LIERNE
- 70 Across: Gentle as ___ (5)
- ALAMB
- 72 Across: Firth in Scotland (5)
- MORAY
- 73 Across: Tel ___ (4)
- AVIV
- 74 Across: Small hand drum (7)
- TIMBREL
- 76 Across: Pout (4)
- MOUE
- 77 Across: Thesmothete (7)
- SENATOR
- 79 Across: Pilaster (4)
- ANTA
- 80 Across: MOMA display (3)
- ART
- 81 Across: Small talk (4)
- CHAT
- 85 Across: Companion of file (4)
- RANK
- 86 Across: Curve (3)
- ARC
- 87 Across: High degree (3)
- NTH
- 88 Across: Desdemona's detractor (4)
- IAGO
- 89 Across: Old Italian coin (5)
- SOLDO
- 92 Across: " . . . ___ promise, serv'd no private end:" Pope (7)
- BROKENO
- 94 Across: Scatter (5)
- STREW
- 95 Across: Smart, swift equines (5)
- ARABS
- 96 Across: "___ Three Lives": Philbrick (4)
- ILED
- 98 Across: Half of a test name (8)
- STANFORD
- 100 Across: Place (4)
- SITE
- 101 Across: Privy to (4)
- INON
- 102 Across: Latin I word (3)
- AMO
- 103 Across: Grows (6)
- RAISES
- 106 Across: Lifted an anchor (4)
- HOVE
- 107 Across: Broadway's Juliet: 1934 (16)
- KATHARINECORNELL
- 111 Across: Dismounted (4)
- ALIT
- 112 Across: Military ornament (7)
- EPAULET
- 113 Across: Emulate Bush or Dukakis (3)
- RUN
- 114 Across: North Sea feeder (4)
- ELBE
- 115 Across: Affirmative votes (4)
- YEAS
- 116 Across: Separate seed (6)
- THRESH
- 117 Across: Color of a fez (3)
- RED
- 118 Across: Side dish (4)
- SLAW
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Book of the Bible (4)
- ACTS
- 2 Down: Capital of Okinawa (4)
- NAHA
- 3 Down: Glasses (8)
- STEMWARE
- 4 Down: Gentlemen just below knights (8)
- ESQUIRES
- 5 Down: Allay (5)
- STILL
- 6 Down: Obsession (3)
- TIC
- 7 Down: Tibetan ox (3)
- YAK
- 8 Down: Transplant expert (17)
- CHRISTIAANBARNARD
- 9 Down: Aussie marsupials (4)
- ROOS
- 10 Down: "Coal-ition" initials (3)
- UMW
- 11 Down: "Golden Treasury" item (6)
- SONNET
- 12 Down: Spritelike (5)
- ELFIN
- 13 Down: Czech industrialist: 1839-1900 (5)
- SKODA
- 14 Down: "___! happy land!": Hopkinson (12)
- HAILCOLUMBIA
- 15 Down: Pierce (6)
- IMPALE
- 16 Down: Inventor of first digital calculator (6)
- PASCAL
- 17 Down: Nautical ropes (6)
- SHEETS
- 21 Down: Chop (3)
- AXE
- 24 Down: Ubangi feeder (4)
- UELE
- 25 Down: Part of a basilica (4)
- BEMA
- 32 Down: Certain girders (6)
- IBEAMS
- 33 Down: Dangerous mosquito (5)
- AEDES
- 34 Down: Longfellow subject (17)
- VILLAGEBLACKSMITH
- 35 Down: Chemical compound (4)
- ENOL
- 36 Down: Resort (3)
- SPA
- 37 Down: "Kindness" container (3)
- CUP
- 39 Down: Coast, in a way (5)
- SLIDE
- 42 Down: Mount ___, Colo. peak (9)
- PRINCETON
- 44 Down: Surface for a Sabre (3)
- ICE
- 45 Down: Devonshire seaport (9)
- DARTMOUTH
- 49 Down: Nimble (4)
- SPRY
- 51 Down: Like lager (5)
- MALTY
- 52 Down: Historic Hungarian city (4)
- EGER
- 53 Down: Famed non-waiter (4)
- TIDE
- 54 Down: Havoc (4)
- RUIN
- 56 Down: Bond (3)
- TIE
- 58 Down: Rose contemplator (5)
- STEIN
- 59 Down: Sliced or diced vegetables (12)
- HARVARDBEETS
- 62 Down: River in Switzerland (4)
- AARE
- 63 Down: Lackaday! (4)
- ALAS
- 64 Down: Of immediate interest (4)
- LIVE
- 65 Down: Woolen cap (3)
- TAM
- 66 Down: ___ Longa (4)
- ALBA
- 71 Down: Paris subway (5)
- METRO
- 72 Down: Jazzy Jelly Roll (6)
- MORTON
- 75 Down: Pique (3)
- IRK
- 76 Down: Any sudden aid (5)
- MANNA
- 78 Down: Western art colony (4)
- TAOS
- 81 Down: False topazes (8)
- CITRINES
- 82 Down: A Madison Ave. method (8)
- HARDSELL
- 83 Down: Ripen (3)
- AGE
- 84 Down: Draw (3)
- TOW
- 89 Down: Glide (6)
- SASHAY
- 90 Down: Troupial (6)
- ORIOLE
- 91 Down: Baltic republic (6)
- LATVIA
- 92 Down: Wallace work (6)
- BENHUR
- 93 Down: Scholar's collar (4)
- ETON
- 94 Down: Fly high (4)
- SOAR
- 96 Down: Clumsy (5)
- INAPT
- 97 Down: Hindu's brass water vessel (5)
- LOTAH
- 99 Down: Palm leaf (5)
- FROND
- 101 Down: Harry's successor (3)
- IKE
- 102 Down: Olympian once imprisoned in a jar (4)
- ARES
- 104 Down: Island of isolation (4)
- ELBA
- 105 Down: Ruck (4)
- SLEW
- 108 Down: Companion of cakes (3)
- ALE
- 109 Down: Stray (3)
- ERR
- 110 Down: Snooker stick (3)
- CUE
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