SOUND ORTHOGRAPHY - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 134 clues). Published 1/6/1991. By Daniel Girardi.

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Across Answers

1 Across: ___ dixit (4)
IPSE
5 Across: Actor Gulager (3)
CLU
8 Across: Turnery gear (5)
LATHE
13 Across: Reflexive pronoun (6)
ITSELF
15 Across: Precarious spot (7)
THINICE
19 Across: Ghastly (5)
ASHEN
20 Across: Norman Mailer book, with "The" (15)
RMIESOFTHENIGHT
22 Across: Small sandpipers (5)
PEEPS
23 Across: Bitter disagreement (9)
IMBROGLIO
24 Across: Socagers, e.g. (7)
TENANTS
26 Across: Year in Alexius I Comnenus's reign (3)
MCI
27 Across: Ancient wall word (4)
MENE
28 Across: Rhinoceros beetle (4)
UANG
30 Across: Mascara neighbor (4)
ORAN
31 Across: Menilite is one (4)
OPAL
32 Across: A son of Gad (3)
ERI
33 Across: Burt Lancaster role: 1960 (10)
LMERGANTRY
37 Across: Slightly tapering (6)
TERETE
39 Across: City in Tuscany (5)
SIENA
40 Across: Lunar plain (4)
MARE
41 Across: Long-beaked fish (4)
GARS
42 Across: Like many needs of the needy (5)
UNMET
43 Across: Mother superior (6)
ABBESS
45 Across: Pisa divider (4)
ARNO
46 Across: More pious (6)
HOLIER
48 Across: Opposite of saludos (5)
ADIOS
49 Across: Rapid movements in music (8)
ALLEGROS
53 Across: " . . . blue ribbons ___" (4)
ONIT
54 Across: Book by President Carter (11)
YNOTTHEBEST
56 Across: Diamond man (3)
JIM
57 Across: Slicks, e.g. (4)
MAGS
58 Across: Ditty (3)
AIR
59 Across: Indian of N.M. (3)
SIA
60 Across: "Star Wars" role (4)
SOLO
61 Across: Ordinal suffix (3)
ETH
62 Across: Actor who produced a director (11)
WALTERUSTON
67 Across: Town west of 91 Down (4)
ANET
68 Across: Servant (8)
RETAINER
70 Across: Writer Gardner's namesakes (5)
ERLES
71 Across: Rigorous (6)
SEVERE
73 Across: Sky Bear (4)
URSA
74 Across: Sour ale (6)
ALEGAR
76 Across: Folkways (5)
MORES
77 Across: German admiral (4)
SPEE
78 Across: Uniform (4)
EVEN
79 Across: Kind of battery (5)
SOLAR
80 Across: Gospel author (6)
STMARK
82 Across: Benjamin Britten opera (10)
PTERGRIMES
84 Across: Its symbol is a lion (3)
MGM
87 Across: Remunerates (4)
PAYS
88 Across: Fraction (4)
PART
90 Across: Nimble (4)
YARE
91 Across: Theda contemporary (4)
POLA
92 Across: Photog. abbr. (3)
ENL
93 Across: Slopes (7)
ESCARPS
96 Across: Priest saying Mass, e.g. (9)
VENERATOR
99 Across: Cato the Elder was one (5)
EDILE
101 Across: Setting for a Christie classic (15)
THEORIENTXPRESS
103 Across: "Roxana" author (5)
DEFOE
104 Across: English poet-novelist: 1886-1967 (7)
SASSOON
105 Across: Slant a certain way (6)
UPTILT
106 Across: Small springs (5)
SEEPS
107 Across: Inst. at Nashville (3)
TSU
108 Across: Arnold ___, memorable actor-puzzler (4)
MOSS

Down Answers

1 Down: Ship that brought Miss Liberty to the U.S. (5)
ISERE
2 Down: Tijuana tender (4)
PESO
3 Down: Toil (4)
SLOG
4 Down: Outflowing branch of a lake (8)
EFFLUENT
5 Down: Fidel's compadre (3)
CHE
6 Down: Scourge of serge (4)
LINT
7 Down: One-horned fish (4)
UNIE
8 Down: Track circuits (4)
LAPS
9 Down: Ibsen character (3)
ASE
10 Down: O'Neill play: 1920 (14)
THEMPERORJONES
11 Down: Swingers of the 40's (7)
HEPCATS
12 Down: Store fodder (6)
ENSILE
13 Down: Always, in Aachen (5)
IMMER
14 Down: Throne of Israel contender: I Kgs. 16 (5)
TIBNI
15 Down: Babiche (5)
THONG
16 Down: Doesn't heed (7)
IGNORES
17 Down: Circumspect (5)
CHARY
18 Down: A suburb of Pittsburgh (4)
ETNA
20 Down: Hoarfrost (4)
RIME
21 Down: Pope's crown (5)
TIARA
25 Down: Explosive initials (3)
TNT
29 Down: Opening maneuver (6)
GAMBIT
31 Down: Chimp's cousin (5)
ORANG
33 Down: Gimlet ingredient (4)
LIME
34 Down: ___ van Delft, Dutch painter (4)
MEER
35 Down: Midget, in Marseille (5)
NABOT
36 Down: Baseball's Mike or Tom (5)
TRESH
38 Down: Stalker in a salt marsh (5)
EGRET
39 Down: Agitated fits (5)
SNITS
42 Down: Song popularized by Debby Boone (14)
ULIGHTUPMYLIFE
43 Down: Idolize (5)
ADORE
44 Down: Sevilla savants (6)
SABIOS
45 Down: Capp and Hirt (3)
ALS
46 Down: "Launching the Boat" painter (5)
HOMER
47 Down: Explorer of N.M.: 16th century (5)
ONATE
48 Down: Grieg dancer (6)
ANITRA
50 Down: Gaunt (4)
LEAN
51 Down: Edmonton athlete on ice (5)
OILER
52 Down: Whacked (5)
SMOTE
54 Down: Bush's alma mater (4)
YALE
55 Down: Glyceride, e.g. (5)
ESTER
60 Down: Life guard, at times (5)
SAVER
62 Down: More sapient (5)
WISER
63 Down: Literary scraps (3)
ANA
64 Down: Superman portrayer (5)
REEVE
65 Down: One who prods (5)
URGER
66 Down: Like street talk (6)
SLANGY
69 Down: Environs (5)
AREAS
71 Down: Pump part (4)
SOLE
72 Down: Notable periods (4)
ERAS
75 Down: Belles-___ (7)
LETTRES
76 Down: Impetus (8)
MOMENTUM
77 Down: Victim of 95 Down (7)
STANDEE
79 Down: Parthenope, for one (5)
SIREN
80 Down: Emulates Jehu (6)
SPEEDS
81 Down: G.I.'s, at times (3)
KPS
82 Down: Czech capital, to Czechs (5)
PRAHA
83 Down: Prowl after prey (5)
RAVEN
84 Down: Norman Bates's place (5)
MOTEL
85 Down: Kind of oven (5)
GLOST
86 Down: Father of Remus and Romulus (4)
MARS
89 Down: St. John follower (4)
ACTS
91 Down: Gauguin's birthplace (5)
PARIS
93 Down: Shoe widths for Bigfoot? (4)
EEES
94 Down: Military station (4)
POST
95 Down: Hit signs (4)
SROS
97 Down: Montreal player (4)
EXPO
98 Down: Accts. (4)
RPTS
100 Down: Truncate (3)
LOP
102 Down: Chit (3)
IOU

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