I O USED - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 3/18/1990. By Charles M. Deber.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Delhi dress (4)
- SARI
- 5 Across: Fem.'s opposite (4)
- MASC
- 9 Across: Make amends (5)
- ATONE
- 14 Across: Trim (4)
- PARE
- 18 Across: Ancient: Comb. form (5)
- PALEO
- 19 Across: Ogee, e.g. (4)
- ARCH
- 20 Across: Yclept (5)
- NAMED
- 21 Across: Swear (4)
- AVER
- 22 Across: HAVING VERY COLD FEET (10)
- FROSTBITIO
- 24 Across: ___ CIRCUMSTANCES (10)
- EXIOUATING
- 26 Across: Certain reeds (8)
- CATTAILS
- 27 Across: Send back (5)
- REMIT
- 29 Across: Some Yugoslavs (6)
- CROATS
- 30 Across: Play parts (4)
- ACTS
- 31 Across: Venus's island (5)
- MILOS
- 32 Across: Nubby yarn (6)
- RATINE
- 33 Across: Maids of sugar and spice (5)
- GIRLS
- 35 Across: Lightweight silk (5)
- HONAN
- 36 Across: Daydreamer's food (5)
- LOTUS
- 37 Across: À votre ___ (5)
- SANTE
- 38 Across: ELVIS HIT (11)
- LOVEMEIODER
- 40 Across: Fannie or Ginnie follower (3)
- MAE
- 43 Across: Sale proviso (4)
- ASIS
- 44 Across: African republic (4)
- MALI
- 45 Across: Colors (4)
- HUES
- 46 Across: "The Empire Strikes ___" (4)
- BACK
- 47 Across: Mil. address (3)
- APO
- 48 Across: PLACE FOR FIVE-YEAR-OLDS (11)
- KINDERGARIO
- 52 Across: Divide into segments (5)
- SLICE
- 53 Across: Answers (8)
- RESPONDS
- 55 Across: Abodes (5)
- HOMES
- 56 Across: Switches (6)
- SHUNTS
- 57 Across: "Was-saw" connector (5)
- IEREI
- 58 Across: Temptress (5)
- SIREN
- 59 Across: Singer Te Kanawa is one (5)
- MAORI
- 60 Across: Ransacked (6)
- RIFLED
- 62 Across: Troughs for feeding cattle (5)
- BUNKS
- 63 Across: Bêtes noires (8)
- BUGABOOS
- 66 Across: That Loos woman (5)
- ANITA
- 67 Across: YANKEE SKIPPER, ONCE (11)
- CASEYSIOGEL
- 69 Across: Chemical ending (3)
- ANE
- 70 Across: Inhabitants: Suffix (4)
- ITES
- 71 Across: Obi, e.g. (4)
- SASH
- 72 Across: Flags (4)
- SAGS
- 73 Across: Buzzy body (4)
- GNAT
- 74 Across: Doze (3)
- NOD
- 75 Across: THE BIG HOUSE (11)
- PENIIOTIARY
- 79 Across: "Santa ___," Italian song (5)
- LUCIA
- 80 Across: Site of a lengthy error (5)
- PANTS
- 81 Across: Pineapples, in Peru (5)
- PINAS
- 82 Across: Agrippina, to Nero (5)
- MATER
- 83 Across: Heart parts (6)
- AORTAS
- 85 Across: Eye nerve (5)
- OPTIC
- 86 Across: Tackle tidbit (4)
- BAIT
- 87 Across: Sense (6)
- IMPORT
- 88 Across: Brewing (5)
- AFOOT
- 89 Across: The Bronx—and Brooklyn, too (8)
- BOROUGHS
- 93 Across: RIGHT-HAND MEN (10)
- LIEUIOANTS
- 95 Across: ACCIDENTAL (10)
- INADVERIOT
- 97 Across: Maynard and Olin (4)
- KENS
- 98 Across: "Walk Away ___," 1966 hit (5)
- RENEE
- 99 Across: Mother of Aeolus (4)
- ARNE
- 100 Across: Goalies' goals (5)
- SAVES
- 101 Across: Helper, for short (4)
- ASST
- 102 Across: Reads meter (5)
- SCANS
- 103 Across: Shane portrayer (4)
- LADD
- 104 Across: Logger's travois (4)
- SLED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Actress Mia ___ (4)
- SARA
- 2 Down: Plenty (4)
- ALOT
- 3 Down: Begins anew (8)
- RESTARTS
- 4 Down: OCTOPUS ARM (7)
- IOTACLE
- 5 Down: Posts (5)
- MAILS
- 6 Down: Fine or lively followers (4)
- ARTS
- 7 Down: ___-fi (3)
- SCI
- 8 Down: Rialto pony, e.g. (7)
- CHORINE
- 9 Down: Thimbleweed (7)
- ANEMONE
- 10 Down: N.Y.C. has almost 12,000 of these (5)
- TAXIS
- 11 Down: Leave out (4)
- OMIT
- 12 Down: Avant-gardist (3)
- NEO
- 13 Down: Emulates Mark Hopkins (8)
- EDUCATES
- 14 Down: Dialect (6)
- PATOIS
- 15 Down: Of birds (5)
- AVIAN
- 16 Down: Income, in France (5)
- RENTE
- 17 Down: Saharan tracts (4)
- ERGS
- 18 Down: Mil. rank (3)
- PFC
- 23 Down: Computer units (4)
- BITS
- 25 Down: Pianist Rubinstein (5)
- ARTUR
- 28 Down: Biblical land (4)
- ELAM
- 31 Down: Ron Howard offering (5)
- MOVIE
- 32 Down: De Mille-Copland ballet (5)
- RODEO
- 33 Down: Quebec peninsula (5)
- GASPE
- 34 Down: STEPPED UP (10)
- INIOSIFIED
- 35 Down: Full nelsons, e.g. (5)
- HOLDS
- 36 Down: Hall of Fame boxer (5)
- LOUIS
- 37 Down: European coal basin (4)
- SAAR
- 38 Down: Elissa of old films (5)
- LANDI
- 39 Down: German pronoun (5)
- IHREN
- 40 Down: UPKEEP (10)
- MAINIOANCE
- 41 Down: Bank no. (4)
- ACCT
- 42 Down: Barely gets by (4)
- EKES
- 44 Down: Laid booby traps (5)
- MINED
- 46 Down: Short, laudatory notice (5)
- BLURB
- 48 Down: An Olympics site: 1988 (5)
- KOREA
- 49 Down: "Watch"-ed river? (5)
- RHINE
- 50 Down: Moscow's main street (5)
- GORKY
- 51 Down: Whomp up ___ of pottage (5)
- AMESS
- 52 Down: Sandbank (5)
- SHOAL
- 54 Down: Skins (5)
- PELTS
- 56 Down: Emerson, Mencken et al. (5)
- SAGES
- 58 Down: Raw fish dish (5)
- SUSHI
- 59 Down: Hot and humid (5)
- MUGGY
- 60 Down: Jeanne Eagles vehicle: 1922 (4)
- RAIN
- 61 Down: Dividing word (4)
- INTO
- 62 Down: Groundwork (5)
- BASIS
- 63 Down: Wild hogs (5)
- BOARS
- 64 Down: Walking ___ (ecstatic) (5)
- ONAIR
- 65 Down: Bristle (4)
- SETA
- 67 Down: Whines (5)
- CANTS
- 68 Down: Asimov or Stern (5)
- ISAAC
- 71 Down: Thesmothetes (8)
- SENATORS
- 73 Down: Of the throat (8)
- GUTTURAL
- 75 Down: Father: Comb. form (5)
- PATRI
- 76 Down: Is against (7)
- OPPOSES
- 77 Down: One of the singing Jacksons (4)
- TITO
- 78 Down: Monogram ingredient (7)
- INITIAL
- 79 Down: TARDY STATE (7)
- LAIOESS
- 80 Down: "Remembrance of Things Past" author (6)
- PROUST
- 82 Down: Hagler or Hamlisch, to pals (4)
- MARV
- 83 Down: French girlfriends (5)
- AMIES
- 84 Down: Has a premiere (5)
- OPENS
- 85 Down: Frequently (5)
- OFTEN
- 86 Down: Foretold (5)
- BODED
- 87 Down: Writer-actress Chase (4)
- ILKA
- 88 Down: Karenina or Christie (4)
- ANNA
- 89 Down: Combo (4)
- BAND
- 90 Down: Contribute (4)
- GIVE
- 91 Down: Weeded (4)
- HOED
- 92 Down: Neb. and Mo., e.g. (3)
- STS
- 94 Down: Agcy. succeeded by the N.R.C. (3)
- AEC
- 96 Down: Gun org. (3)
- NRA
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