HOW TO ACHIEVE HAPPINESS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 8/19/1990. By Eugene T. Maleska.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Start of a Stepquote (5): HAVEE
6 Across: Noted conductor-composer (6): PREVIN
12 Across: Singer Anita ___ (5): BAKER
17 Across: Anno ___ (6): DOMINI
18 Across: Emend (6): REVISE
19 Across: Skipped over (6): ELIDED
21 Across: Rife (7): RAMPANT
22 Across: Paradigms or paragons (6): IDEALS
23 Across: Solve a "weighty" problem (6): REDUCE
24 Across: Mellow (3): AGE
25 Across: Kind of duck or sisal (6): BAHAMA
27 Across: Woodworkers' machines (6): LATHES
29 Across: On this side: Prefix (3): CIS
30 Across: Seat in a bay window (5): CAROL
32 Across: Stepquote: Part III (5): ERACL
34 Across: Map abbr. (4): NLAT
35 Across: Like some bloomers (4): LATE
36 Across: Zola and Berliner (6): EMILES
38 Across: One in a roll book (8): ATTENDEE
40 Across: Kind of box (5): MITER
41 Across: Chub (4): DACE
42 Across: Insipid (4): TAME
44 Across: Elman's teacher (4): AUER
45 Across: Clandestine (6): COVERT
46 Across: Eagerly expecting (4): ATIP
48 Across: ___ Rabbit (4): BRER
49 Across: Beau Brummell (4): DUDE
50 Across: "___ Memorandum," Stepquote source (11): INTEROFFICE
54 Across: Subject of a long Frost poem (8): HIREDMAN
58 Across: Plath work (5): ARIEL
59 Across: Third person: It. (5): CAINO
60 Across: Light-amplification device (5): LASER
61 Across: Old French coin (3): ECU
62 Across: "___ Macabre" (5): DANSE
63 Across: Stepquote author (9): OGDENNASH
65 Across: Independently (5): APART
67 Across: From ___ Z (3): ATO
68 Across: Caesar's "I seize" (5): CAPIO
70 Across: ___ Domingo (5): SANTO
71 Across: Inflections (5): TONES
72 Across: Most abundant Atlantic Coast fish (8): MENHADEN
74 Across: Hurdles in Hollywood (11): SCREENTESTS
76 Across: Vendition condition (4): ASIS
77 Across: Joan or Marian (4): MAID
78 Across: Hot spot for hops (4): OAST
79 Across: "McGraw's boy" (6): MELOTT
82 Across: Heart (4): CORE
83 Across: Part of a lamp (4): HARP
85 Across: Jelly ingredient (4): AGAR
89 Across: Courses for horses (5): OVALS
90 Across: Puccini opera: 1926 (8): TURANDOT
92 Across: La ___, town in Spain ("The sunny spot") (6): SOLANA
94 Across: Einstein's fourth dimension (4): TIME
95 Across: Yugoslav coin (4): PARA
96 Across: Stepquote: Part V (5): CEORN
98 Across: Red-ink entry (5): DEBIT
99 Across: March 15 in Milano (3): IDI
100 Across: Venus ___ (6): DEMILO
102 Across: In olden days (6): OFYORE
104 Across: Hwy. (3): RTE
105 Across: Jury panel (6): VENIRE
107 Across: Screed (6): TIRADE
109 Across: More reticulate (7): NETTIER
111 Across: Crown protector (6): ENAMEL
112 Across: Scab, as after a burn (6): ESCHAR
113 Across: Regard highly (6): ESTEEM
114 Across: Purpose of a hansa (5): TRADE
115 Across: These make flights (6): STAIRS
116 Across: End of Stepquote (5): ATALL

Down Answers

1 Down: Grand; imposing (7): HOMERIC
2 Down: Elec. unit (3): AMP
3 Down: Practical (6): VIABLE
4 Down: Sicilian resort (4): ENNA
5 Down: Stepquote: Part II (5): EITHE
6 Down: Archbishop (7): PRIMATE
7 Down: Edit (6): REDACT
8 Down: Anne Baxter role: 1950 (3): EVE
9 Down: Perfume container (4): VIAL
10 Down: Nantucket native (8): ISLANDER
11 Down: Future fledgling (7): NESTLER
12 Down: Left Bank headgear (5): BERET
13 Down: City in S France (4): ALES
14 Down: Baby sea otter (3): KID
15 Down: School (7): EDUCATE
16 Down: Diseur (7): RECITER
17 Down: First European to reach India by sea (6): DAGAMA
20 Down: Home of a sidewinder (6): DESERT
21 Down: Tore (5): RACED
26 Down: Saroyan hero (4): ARAM
28 Down: "Some ___ meat . . . ": Burns (3): HAE
31 Down: Certain ointments (7): OLEATES
33 Down: Stepquote: Part IV (13): LEARCONSCIENC
35 Down: Existed (5): LIVED
37 Down: Recipe verb (4): STIR
39 Down: Swarm, in Sedan (4): NUEE
40 Down: Presides (9): MODERATES
43 Down: Losses of last letters (8): APOCOPES
45 Down: Preserve (4): CURE
47 Down: Airs via video (9): TELECASTS
48 Down: Honeysuckle, e.g. (4): BINE
49 Down: Ignominy (8): DISHONOR
50 Down: Choleric (5): IRATE
51 Down: Sheer fabric (5): NINON
52 Down: Dickens villain (5): FAGIN
53 Down: He's faithful to Homo sapiens (4): FIDO
54 Down: Dispatch (5): HASTE
55 Down: Intended (5): MEANT
56 Down: One of Sheridan's "Rivals" (5): ACRES
57 Down: McAuliffe's reply in 1944 (4): NUTS
58 Down: Costa loser (4): ADAM
60 Down: Singer Cristy ___ (4): LANE
64 Down: Aromatic Himalayan plant (4): NARD
66 Down: Ufficio ___, Italian mail center (7): POSTALE
69 Down: Collier's access (4): ADIT
73 Down: Caucasian, to a Polynesian (5): HAOLE
74 Down: Author Davidson ("Loose Change") (4): SARA
75 Down: Signal after tattoo (4): TAPS
77 Down: Increase Mather was one (8): MORALIST
79 Down: Reason (6): MOTIVE
80 Down: Plain (7): EVIDENT
81 Down: Arranged in thin plates (7): LAMINAR
82 Down: Radioactive minerals (7): CURITES
83 Down: Chorines: Slang (7): HOOFERS
84 Down: Give it ___ (attempt) (4): ATRY
86 Down: Divine messenger (7): GABRIEL
87 Down: "To a newspaperman a human being is ___ . . . ": Fred Allen (6): ANITEM
88 Down: Teacher, at times (5): RATER
90 Down: Scot's cap (3): TAM
91 Down: Hindu's "tree of the gods" (6): DEODAR
93 Down: U.S. folk singer (6): ODETTA
95 Down: A Shakespeare contemporary (5): PEELE
97 Down: Stepquote: Part VI (5): NONEA
100 Down: Stowe book (4): DRED
101 Down: Relative of "Jaws": 1977 (4): ORCA
103 Down: Caesura (4): REST
106 Down: "___ Stranger Here Myself," ultimate source of Stepquote (3): IMA
108 Down: Hawaiian tuna (3): AHI
110 Down: ___ Aviv (3): TEL

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