CROAKERS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 11/4/1990. By Frances Hansen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Prohibits (4): BANS
5 Across: Hector's hometown (4): TROY
9 Across: Contained (4): CALM
13 Across: Tearful comedienne Pitts (4): ZASU
17 Across: One of the Waughs (4): ALEC
18 Across: Seductively beautiful woman (5): HOURI
19 Across: Bakery worker (4): ICER
20 Across: Kin of 18 Across (5): SIREN
21 Across: "I'm alive," ___ (10): HEBREATHED
23 Across: "Eat your cookie," ___ (10): SHESNAPPED
25 Across: Do a slow burn (8): SMOULDER
26 Across: Hinder (5): DETER
28 Across: Texas border city (6): ELPASO
29 Across: Horner's capture (4): PLUM
30 Across: Imitated Marceau (5): MIMED
31 Across: Oop's abode (4): CAVE
32 Across: Tote laboriously (6): SCHLEP
35 Across: Powerful beam (5): LASER
36 Across: William Carlos Williams verse epic (8): PATERSON
40 Across: Locomotive, e.g. (5): CHEER
41 Across: "Storm approaching!," ___ (11): HETHUNDERED
43 Across: Aujourd'___ (today, in Tours) (3): HUI
44 Across: Chews the fat (4): RAPS
45 Across: Tennis units (4): SETS
46 Across: Ben Hur's drag strip (4): ITER
47 Across: Verlaine's birthplace (4): METZ
48 Across: Ditty (3): AIR
49 Across: "You mongrel," ___ (11): SHEMUTTERED
53 Across: First Viscount Templewood (5): HOARE
54 Across: In a seemly way (8): PROPERLY
56 Across: Like a road full of furrows (5): RUTTY
57 Across: Elopement need, maybe (6): LADDER
58 Across: Lincoln bills (5): FIVES
59 Across: Linton Heathcliff's wife (5): CATHY
60 Across: Eunuch's milieu (5): HAREM
61 Across: Teed off (6): PEEVED
63 Across: Henri Christophe's land (5): HAITI
64 Across: Mason's activity (8): LEVELING
67 Across: Burlington's Bean (5): ORSON
68 Across: "Have a candy bar," ___ (11): HESNICKERED
70 Across: MacDowell's "___ Wild Rose" (3): TOA
71 Across: Like Shangri-La's horizon (4): LOST
72 Across: Usher's offering (4): SEAT
73 Across: Novello of "The Lodger" (4): IVOR
74 Across: Telegram period (4): STOP
75 Across: "The Sultan of Sulu" playwright (3): ADE
76 Across: "I work in a lab," ___ (11): SHERETORTED
80 Across: Reagan's second Attorney General (5): MEESE
81 Across: Cardinal and scarlet tanager (8): REDBIRDS
83 Across: Plea to a departing one (5): WRITE
84 Across: Squiffed (6): LOADED
85 Across: Butterfly's sashes (4): OBIS
86 Across: Lathered (5): SOAPY
87 Across: Restrain (4): CURB
88 Across: A Ladd from Huron (6): CHERYL
91 Across: Brazilian novelist Jorge (5): AMADO
92 Across: Field game devised by Indians (8): LACROSSE
96 Across: "Fire's going out!," ___ (10): HEBELLOWED
98 Across: "I'm dying," ___ (10): SHECROAKED
100 Across: Behind which Polonius hid (5): ARRAS
101 Across: Nut for soft drinks (4): KOLA
102 Across: Church pledge (5): TITHE
103 Across: Tatum's dad (4): RYAN
104 Across: See 42 Down (4): POOL
105 Across: Confederate (4): ALLY
106 Across: Mignon trailer (4): ETTE
107 Across: Fashion's Oscar ___ Renta (4): DELA

Down Answers

1 Down: Kin of tchus and pfuis (4): BAHS
2 Down: Turkish standard (4): ALEM
3 Down: Last mount Moses climbed (4): NEBO
4 Down: Krantz best seller (8): SCRUPLES
5 Down: Pole near a tepee (5): TOTEM
6 Down: German industrial valley (4): RUHR
7 Down: Galena or bauxite (3): ORE
8 Down: Aleichem's language (7): YIDDISH
9 Down: Underground water tank (7): CISTERN
10 Down: Yearned (5): ACHED
11 Down: Villain's grimace (4): LEER
12 Down: Mom's title (3): MRS
13 Down: Buttons' replacer (6): ZIPPER
14 Down: La Scala harp (4): ARPA
15 Down: Gets the picture (4): SEES
16 Down: Ruin (4): UNDO
18 Down: Caused to be arraigned (5): HADUP
20 Down: Assuaged, as one's conscience (6): SALVED
22 Down: "Oklahoma!" aunt (5): ELLER
24 Down: Not so untidy (6): NEATER
27 Down: That old ratite bird (4): EMEU
30 Down: East China Sea island (5): MATSU
31 Down: Gave a hoot (5): CARED
32 Down: Discard as useless (5): SCRAP
33 Down: Going-to-Jerusalem prop (5): CHAIR
34 Down: "I teach," ___ (11): HEPROFESSED
35 Down: "___ people go . . . ": Exodus 5:1 (5): LETMY
36 Down: Voight's comical Dink (5): PETEY
37 Down: "I let him in," ___ (11): SHEADMITTED
38 Down: Bizarre (5): OUTRE
39 Down: "My Day in Court" author (5): NIZER
41 Down: Loaf ends (5): HEELS
42 Down: With 104 Across, foul play (5): DIRTY
45 Down: Emulate Fawn and Ollie (5): SHRED
47 Down: Exemplar (5): MODEL
49 Down: Number of "swans a-swimming" (5): SEVEN
50 Down: Wedding-gown aisle-sweeper (5): TRAIN
51 Down: All together, in music (5): TUTTI
52 Down: Moral precept (5): ETHIC
53 Down: Made tracks (5): HARED
55 Down: Pirouette (5): PIVOT
57 Down: Rod of tennis (5): LAVER
59 Down: Untouchables, for one (5): CASTE
60 Down: Salome danced for him (5): HEROD
61 Down: Kind of bear (5): POLAR
62 Down: Molder (5): ERODE
63 Down: Gets wind of (5): HEARS
64 Down: Quay for the Robert E. Lee (5): LEVEE
65 Down: Hangman's loop (5): NOOSE
66 Down: Stared slack-jawed (5): GAPED
68 Down: Pays attention (5): HEEDS
69 Down: Poker pot (5): KITTY
72 Down: Piercing (6): SHRILL
74 Down: Coastal region (8): SEABOARD
76 Down: Female oracles (6): SIBYLS
77 Down: Like some vaudeville shows (7): TWOADAY
78 Down: Toward the mouth (4): ORAD
79 Down: Clever comeback (7): RIPOSTE
80 Down: ___ Castle (Havana fort) (5): MORRO
82 Down: Of the north wind (6): BOREAL
84 Down: "Filthy" money (5): LUCRE
86 Down: Fragrance (5): SMELL
87 Down: Secrete (5): CACHE
88 Down: Fellow (4): CHAP
89 Down: Super-sandwich (4): HERO
90 Down: Spain's longest river (4): EBRO
91 Down: Mil. truant (4): AWOL
92 Down: Man from Riga (4): LETT
93 Down: Terrier type (4): SKYE
94 Down: Dr. Dolittle's Sophie, e.g. (4): SEAL
95 Down: Felix Unger's daughter (4): EDNA
97 Down: Trappist cheese (3): OKA
99 Down: Whop (3): HIT

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