C+ - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 4/15/1990. By Judith C. Dalton.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Pro votes (4): AYES
5 Across: Shinbone (5): TIBIA
10 Across: Bucks' mates (4): DOES
14 Across: "Big" creation theory (4): BANG
18 Across: It's nothing to Graf (4): LOVE
19 Across: Japanese port (5): OTARU
20 Across: Sea birds (5): ERNES
22 Across: Ending for buck or smack (4): EROO
23 Across: Stare-downs (10): EYECLASHES
25 Across: Crazy talk (10): MADCHATTER
27 Across: Ava's was barefoot (8): CONTESSA
28 Across: Honks (5): TOOTS
30 Across: Red crystal mineral (6): RUTILE
31 Across: Division word (4): INTO
32 Across: Pickle fluid (5): BRINE
33 Across: Charter (4): HIRE
34 Across: Plants with two seed leaves, for short (6): DICOTS
37 Across: Thin pancakes (5): BLINI
38 Across: Certain surveyors? (8): MONARCHS
42 Across: Make amends (5): ATONE
43 Across: Wreck winders (11): BREAKCRANKS
45 Across: Knock (3): RAP
46 Across: Props for TV weathermen (4): MAPS
47 Across: Train, to José (4): TREN
48 Across: Seasons in Pau (4): ETES
49 Across: Middling (4): SOSO
50 Across: It's below a sop. (3): ALT
51 Across: Greens, cooked (11): CHARDBOILED
55 Across: Right-hand page (5): RECTO
56 Across: Stains, old style (8): SOILURES
58 Across: Strive (5): ESSAY
59 Across: Former actor Ralph (6): MEEKER
60 Across: Natalie and Nat King (5): COLES
61 Across: Actress Spacek (5): SISSY
62 Across: Hindi master (5): SAHIB
63 Across: Where Bond meets Nunn (6): SENATE
65 Across: "___ Grows in Brooklyn" (5): ATREE
66 Across: Listeners (8): AUDITORS
69 Across: Circus workers' brawls (5): CLEMS
70 Across: "Gyp sheet" (11): CHEATINGPAD
72 Across: Caddy's contents (3): TEA
73 Across: " . . . an old man in ___ month": Eliot (4): ADRY
74 Across: Kind of opera (4): SOAP
75 Across: Clumsy one's cry (4): OOPS
76 Across: Rat followers (4): ATAT
77 Across: O.T. book (3): LEV
78 Across: Separate rockers (11): SPLITCHAIRS
82 Across: Electron tube (5): DIODE
83 Across: More comely (8): PRETTIER
85 Across: Kind of fever (5): LASSA
86 Across: Brought about, deviously (6): WORMED
87 Across: Go after game (4): HUNT
88 Across: Compendious (5): TERSE
89 Across: Dear followers, sometimes (4): SIRS
90 Across: City facing Lake Huron (6): ALPENA
93 Across: Musical paces (5): TEMPI
94 Across: Head-shaped, to botanists (8): CAPITATE
98 Across: Original box (10): FIRSTCRATE
100 Across: Extra troughs (10): SPARECRIBS
102 Across: Jai ___ (4): ALAI
103 Across: Macho fellows (5): HEMEN
104 Across: City on the Mosel (5): TRIER
105 Across: Legendary Greek hero (4): IDAS
106 Across: Acuff and Rogers (4): ROYS
107 Across: Waistcoat (4): VEST
108 Across: Units of loudness (5): SONES
109 Across: French father (4): PERE

Down Answers

1 Down: Anchovy sauce (4): ALEC
2 Down: Stringed toy (4): YOYO
3 Down: Flush (4): EVEN
4 Down: Cuttings (8): SECTIONS
5 Down: Idols of sorts (6): TOASTS
6 Down: "___ nice to have a man around . . . " (5): ITSSO
7 Down: ___ Ullah, Persian religious leader (4): BAHA
8 Down: Wrath (3): IRE
9 Down: Haydn's homeland (7): AUSTRIA
10 Down: Frenzied (7): DEMONIC
11 Down: What spell-binders do (5): ORATE
12 Down: Partner of odds (4): ENDS
13 Down: Part of a min. (3): SEC
14 Down: Ameliorate (6): BETTER
15 Down: Collegio offerings (4): ARTI
16 Down: Mime-dancer Parenti (4): NOEL
17 Down: Tenn.'s Albert (4): GORE
21 Down: Contracts (7): SHRINKS
24 Down: "Festina ___" (5): LENTE
26 Down: Ambiences (5): AURAS
29 Down: Sow sound (4): OINK
32 Down: Mixture (5): BLEND
33 Down: Gave a knife new life (5): HONED
34 Down: Ladies in León (5): DAMAS
35 Down: Writer Calvino (5): ITALO
36 Down: Egyptian courage (11): COPTICNERVE
37 Down: Southern bros. (5): BRERS
38 Down: London docker (5): MATEY
39 Down: Pot base (11): CROCKBOTTOM
40 Down: Subject of 24 Down (5): HASTE
41 Down: Track of the pack (5): SPOOR
43 Down: Hillsides, to Burns (5): BRAES
44 Down: One of several early U.S. satellites (5): RELAY
47 Down: Kipling's "Soldiers ___" (5): THREE
49 Down: Murrow's "___ Now" (5): SEEIT
51 Down: Groups of devotees (5): CULTS
52 Down: Small antelope of Somaliland (5): BEIRA
53 Down: A Caucasian (5): OSSET
54 Down: Early Japanese immigrant (5): ISSEI
55 Down: Concealed again (5): REHID
57 Down: Like fertile land (5): LOAMY
59 Down: ___ a wet hen (5): MADAS
61 Down: "It Seems Like Old Times" composer (5): STEPT
62 Down: Additions: Abbr. (5): SUPPS
63 Down: Sell tickets illegally (5): SCALP
64 Down: Presbyter (5): ELDER
65 Down: "Who touches ___ . . . ": Whittier (5): AHAIR
66 Down: Greek marketplace (5): AGORA
67 Down: Author of "The Cloister and the Hearth" (5): READE
68 Down: Glutted (5): SATED
70 Down: Poet who was Flaubert's mistress (5): COLET
71 Down: Cacophony (5): NOISE
74 Down: Source of Popeye's strength (7): SPINACH
76 Down: Small landing field (8): AIRSTRIP
78 Down: Acrobatic feat (5): STUNT
79 Down: Name of 14 popes (7): CLEMENT
80 Down: Part of a lamp (4): HARP
81 Down: Hockey statistics (7): ASSISTS
82 Down: A boldface type (5): DORIC
84 Down: Proposition (6): THESIS
86 Down: Windshield mechanisms (6): WIPERS
88 Down: Parisian pates (5): TETES
89 Down: Hindu garment (5): SAREE
90 Down: Churchill's "___ Country" (4): AFAR
91 Down: Inflatable beach mattress (4): LILO
92 Down: Say the rosary (4): PRAY
93 Down: Milky (4): TAME
94 Down: Enoch's father (4): CAIN
95 Down: Adjutant (4): AIDE
96 Down: Skier's convenience (4): TBAR
97 Down: To live, to Livy (4): ESSE
99 Down: Accelerate (3): REV
101 Down: Favoring (3): PRO

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