HOLIDAY RX'S - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 12/31/1989. By Nancy Joline.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Ballerina's balancing aid (5)
- BARRE
- 6 Across: Jar of antiquity (7)
- AMPHORA
- 13 Across: Commotions (5)
- FLAPS
- 18 Across: Sci-fi character (5)
- ALIEN
- 19 Across: Headgear for a peer (7)
- CORONET
- 20 Across: Woodworking tool (5)
- LATHE
- 21 Across: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Rx? (20)
- CHAMPAGNEANDACHICKEN
- 24 Across: Cartoonist Fisher (3)
- HAM
- 25 Across: Israeli seaport (4)
- ACRE
- 26 Across: ___ off (angry) (4)
- TEED
- 27 Across: Pacific islands (7)
- OCEANIA
- 29 Across: Diva Galli-Curci (7)
- AMELITA
- 31 Across: Hôtel ___ Invalides, Paris (3)
- DES
- 32 Across: Chit (3)
- IOU
- 34 Across: S. Africa's ___ Paul Kruger (3)
- OOM
- 35 Across: Ellery Queen portrayer on TV: 1958-59 (5)
- NADER
- 36 Across: John Milton's Rx? (15)
- FEASTANDREVELRY
- 42 Across: "___ It Again," 1926 song (3)
- SAY
- 43 Across: Brace (4)
- STAY
- 44 Across: Opposite of sml. (3)
- LGE
- 45 Across: Butter at Fordham (3)
- RAM
- 46 Across: One of a Vegas twosome (3)
- DIE
- 48 Across: Change: Comb. form (5)
- TROPO
- 51 Across: Samples (6)
- TASTES
- 54 Across: John Fletcher's Rx? (12)
- TOBEDGOSOBER
- 58 Across: Literary monogram (3)
- TSE
- 59 Across: Former A.L. team (4)
- NATS
- 62 Across: Like dark clouds (7)
- OMINOUS
- 63 Across: Midnight fluid (3)
- OIL
- 64 Across: Cry of triumph (3)
- HAH
- 65 Across: Sunny side of a mountain (5)
- ADRET
- 66 Across: Kind of jet (3)
- GAS
- 67 Across: Place for a puttee (3)
- LEG
- 68 Across: General at Gettysburg (5)
- MEADE
- 70 Across: River in E England (3)
- CAM
- 72 Across: Gob (3)
- TAR
- 73 Across: Attention getters (5)
- AHEMS
- 75 Across: Cricket sides (3)
- ONS
- 77 Across: O'Neill's "The Great ___ Brown" (3)
- GOD
- 78 Across: France of France (7)
- ANATOLE
- 80 Across: Me. city (4)
- SACO
- 81 Across: Author of "Ulalume" (3)
- POE
- 82 Across: Tennyson's Rx? (12)
- RINGINTHENEW
- 84 Across: Groups of three (6)
- TRIADS
- 86 Across: Emulated Edwin Booth (5)
- ACTED
- 87 Across: Guidonian note (3)
- ELA
- 88 Across: Where to find a cochlea (3)
- EAR
- 89 Across: Personal quirk (3)
- TIC
- 91 Across: Kind of tax (4)
- HEAD
- 93 Across: Toulouse-Lautrec's "Au ___ du Moulin de la Galette" (3)
- BAL
- 96 Across: Sir Henry Wotton's Rx? (15)
- AWELLCHOSENBOOK
- 102 Across: Carp (5)
- CAVIL
- 104 Across: Honey, in prescriptions (3)
- MEL
- 105 Across: Conquistador's booty (3)
- ORO
- 106 Across: Rec. of brain waves (3)
- EEG
- 107 Across: Picture (7)
- IMAGINE
- 109 Across: Calif. observatory (7)
- PALOMAR
- 113 Across: Abbr. in grammar (4)
- MASC
- 115 Across: Director Flaherty's "Man of ___" (4)
- ARAN
- 116 Across: Computer-programming language (3)
- ADA
- 117 Across: Byron's Rx? (20)
- SODAWATERTHEDAYAFTER
- 121 Across: Expunge (5)
- ERASE
- 122 Across: Jill or John of films (7)
- IRELAND
- 123 Across: Part of a stage (5)
- APRON
- 124 Across: Shoemakers' forms (5)
- LASTS
- 125 Across: States (7)
- ASSERTS
- 126 Across: Tower name (5)
- SEARS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: West Indian resort group (7)
- BAHAMAS
- 2 Down: City near San Francisco (7)
- ALAMEDA
- 3 Down: Lip (3)
- RIM
- 4 Down: Fix (6)
- REPAIR
- 5 Down: Represent on the stage (5)
- ENACT
- 6 Down: Cause of eruptions (4)
- ACNE
- 7 Down: One of the Three Stooges (3)
- MOE
- 8 Down: Imitates Polonius (6)
- PRATES
- 9 Down: Foursquare (6)
- HONEST
- 10 Down: Cousin of vague or flot (4)
- ONDE
- 11 Down: Bacon's Rx for becoming "a full man"? (7)
- READING
- 12 Down: F.A.A. airport serv. (3)
- ATC
- 13 Down: French flatfoot (4)
- FLIC
- 14 Down: Spike the punch (4)
- LACE
- 15 Down: Aleutian island (4)
- ATKA
- 16 Down: Carbolic acid (6)
- PHENOL
- 17 Down: Kind of partner (6)
- SENIOR
- 21 Down: Biggers's sleuth (4)
- CHAN
- 22 Down: Attach (5)
- GRAFT
- 23 Down: "___ of the Wolf," Bergman film (4)
- HOUR
- 28 Down: One of the "Little Women" (3)
- AMY
- 30 Down: Rembrandt's birthplace (6)
- LEYDEN
- 31 Down: Base or hospital areas (8)
- DAYROOMS
- 33 Down: Famed folk singer (6)
- ODETTA
- 37 Down: Truck-stop sign (4)
- EATS
- 38 Down: Indonesian island (4)
- ALOR
- 39 Down: Gaelic (4)
- ERSE
- 40 Down: Winery container (3)
- VAT
- 41 Down: Correct (5)
- EMEND
- 43 Down: Musician's transition (5)
- SEGUE
- 47 Down: Teraphim (5)
- IDOLS
- 49 Down: Tony's relative (4)
- OBIE
- 50 Down: Pertaining to the open seas (7)
- PELAGIC
- 52 Down: Early 1900's school of painters (6)
- ASHCAN
- 53 Down: Poet-novelist May (6)
- SARTON
- 54 Down: Garb for Wapner, Sirica et al. (5)
- TOGAS
- 55 Down: D-day beach (5)
- OMAHA
- 56 Down: Geometry verb (6)
- BISECT
- 57 Down: Perkins of the theater (6)
- OSGOOD
- 60 Down: Novelist Edwin Way ___ (5)
- TEALE
- 61 Down: Broadcast (5)
- STREW
- 64 Down: Wonderland croquet ball (8)
- HEDGEHOG
- 65 Down: Menotti role (5)
- AMAHL
- 69 Down: "___ Explain," Billie Holiday song (4)
- DONT
- 71 Down: ___ up (paid) (5)
- ANTED
- 74 Down: "Sons and Lovers" hero (5)
- MOREL
- 76 Down: Sage of Greek myth (6)
- NESTOR
- 79 Down: Work-break item (6)
- TEABAG
- 81 Down: Bois du Boulogne, e.g. (4)
- PARC
- 82 Down: Grand National or Iditarod (4)
- RACE
- 83 Down: Gram or logic preceder (4)
- IDEO
- 85 Down: Screenwriter ___ Diamond (3)
- IAL
- 90 Down: Chemical compounds (7)
- ISOMERS
- 92 Down: Film director Kurosawa (5)
- AKIRA
- 94 Down: Odom or Post (7)
- AVIATOR
- 95 Down: Basswoods (7)
- LINDENS
- 96 Down: Elec. unit (3)
- AMP
- 97 Down: Stool pigeon (6)
- WEASEL
- 98 Down: Site of cave temples in India (6)
- ELLORA
- 99 Down: Israeli dance (4)
- HORA
- 100 Down: Settle snugly (6)
- NESTLE
- 101 Down: City in W Algeria (6)
- BECHAR
- 102 Down: Cocktail accompaniment (6)
- CANAPE
- 103 Down: Limericks man (4)
- LEAR
- 108 Down: They lived in Chichén Itzá (5)
- MAYAS
- 110 Down: Harem rooms (4)
- ODAS
- 111 Down: A sloop has one (4)
- MAST
- 112 Down: Inspires reverence in (4)
- AWES
- 114 Down: Husband of Otrera (4)
- ARES
- 115 Down: Tots (4)
- ADDS
- 118 Down: Pedro's aunt (3)
- TIA
- 119 Down: Tolkien creature (3)
- ENT
- 120 Down: ___ Filippo Lippi (3)
- FRA
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