INTERNATIONAL DOUBLE PLAYS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 11/3/1991. By Maura B. Jacobson.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Afflicted with ennui (5): BORED
6 Across: W. Hoffman play: 1985 (4): ASIS
10 Across: Dispatch (5): SPEED
15 Across: Con game (4): SCAM
19 Across: Hub of old Athens (5): AGORA
20 Across: Chess castle (4): ROOK
21 Across: Hawaiian porch (5): LANAI
22 Across: Poet Pound (4): EZRA
23 Across: Joseph's outerwear (16): CROATOMANICOLORS
26 Across: Eshkol's successor (4): MEIR
27 Across: Weighed by lifting (6): HEFTED
28 Across: N.Y.-N.J. river (6): RAMAPO
29 Across: Correctly reasoned (7): LOGICAL
31 Across: Rules to follow (3): DOS
33 Across: San ___, Italian resort (4): REMO
35 Across: Allergy symptom (4): RASH
36 Across: Like a crazy hombre (4): LOCO
40 Across: Commit a gaffe at bridge (6): RENEGE
44 Across: Battery terminal (5): ANODE
46 Across: Olympics host country in 1988: Abbr. (3): KOR
49 Across: Coup d' ___ (4): ETAT
50 Across: Eaglet's birthplace (5): AERIE
51 Across: Cherish (8): TREASURE
53 Across: Stay away from my door! (16): DONTKHMERANYMOOR
58 Across: Units of work (4): ERGS
59 Across: Small planets (9): ASTEROIDS
60 Across: Elec. measures (4): AMPS
61 Across: Oil, watercolor, etc. (5): MEDIA
62 Across: Fish with a net (5): TRAWL
63 Across: Gucci of fashion (4): ALDO
64 Across: "Nightline" newsman (6): KOPPEL
65 Across: Ex-ember (3): ASH
67 Across: Note left by a linksman (13): IWENTGAULFINN
72 Across: Peer Gynt's mother (3): ASE
73 Across: Virginal (6): CHASTE
75 Across: Qatar ruler (4): EMIR
76 Across: Applied oneself (5): GOTAT
78 Across: ___ Julius Caesar (5): CAIUS
79 Across: "I've Got ___ in Kalamazoo" (4): AGAL
80 Across: Storm or rainwear (9): SOUWESTER
84 Across: End of an O'Neill title (4): ELMS
85 Across: Ferde Grofé opus (16): GRANDKENYANSWEDE
88 Across: Nice (8): PLEASANT
90 Across: Outlander (5): ALIEN
91 Across: Jason's vessel (4): ARGO
92 Across: Three times a day, in RX's (3): TID
93 Across: Arboretum specimens (5): TREES
95 Across: Petty tyrant (6): SATRAP
97 Across: Compass abbrs. (4): NNES
98 Across: "The Rome of Hungary" (4): EGER
100 Across: Wild guess (4): STAB
102 Across: Toper (3): SOT
104 Across: Indigenous (7): ENDEMIC
107 Across: Poplars (6): ALAMOS
111 Across: Tenants' contracts (6): LEASES
116 Across: Lorelei Lee's creator (4): LOOS
117 Across: What to do after the soup course (16): SERBTHEMAYANDISH
120 Across: Cambers (4): BOWS
121 Across: "Swan Lake" role (5): ODILE
122 Across: Capital of the Maldives (4): MALE
123 Across: Another of the same (5): DITTO
124 Across: Part of A.D. (4): ANNO
125 Across: Now alternative (5): NEVER
126 Across: Scraps that Spot gets into (4): ORTS
127 Across: Lippizan, e.g. (5): STEED

Down Answers

1 Down: One of the musical B's (4): BACH
2 Down: Fairy-tale heavy (4): OGRE
3 Down: What the irate raise (4): ROOF
4 Down: Middle of Q.E D. (4): ERAT
5 Down: Passé (5): DATED
6 Down: Escort's offering (3): ARM
7 Down: Go sky-high (4): SOAR
8 Down: Hebrides island (4): IONA
9 Down: Read on the run (4): SKIM
10 Down: Skier's milieu (5): SLOPE
11 Down: A daughter of Picasso (6): PALOMA
12 Down: Rock-producer Brian (3): ENO
13 Down: Essex's title (4): EARL
14 Down: Mess (8): DISORDER
15 Down: Big rigs, for short (5): SEMIS
16 Down: Plaid, for one (16): CZECHKURDPATTERN
17 Down: Song for Marilyn Mims (4): ARIA
18 Down: Crumbly soil (4): MARL
24 Down: Incense emanation (4): ODOR
25 Down: Go headlong (6): CAREEN
30 Down: Earth goddess (4): GAEA
32 Down: Tar's unit of distance (7): SEAMILE
34 Down: "___ Old Smoky" (7): ONTOPOF
36 Down: Mother of Helen of Troy (4): LEDA
37 Down: Pawnees' neighbors (4): OTOS
38 Down: Bachelor's boast (16): CANTTHAIMEDEDOWN
39 Down: Paravane (5): OTTER
41 Down: Have to have (4): NEED
42 Down: Bobbles the ball (4): ERRS
43 Down: Actress Scala (3): GIA
45 Down: Diamonds in Don Juan's deck (4): OROS
47 Down: Bacchanalia (6): ORGIES
48 Down: Thrift-shop transaction (6): RESALE
52 Down: Transude (4): SEEP
54 Down: Cobras' cousins (6): KRAITS
55 Down: "Oh! ___ danced . . . " (5): HOWWE
56 Down: Asian border river (4): YALU
57 Down: Cato's 2550 (4): MMDL
61 Down: Three-card games (6): MONTES
63 Down: Longest Swiss river (3): AAR
64 Down: Well-recognized (5): KNOWN
65 Down: Receive readily (6): ACCEPT
66 Down: " ___ compare thee to a summer's day?": Shak. (6): SHALLI
68 Down: Denies the truth of (7): NEGATES
69 Down: Financial Fed (4): TMAN
70 Down: Decorate a lily (4): GILD
71 Down: Large lizards (7): IGUANAS
74 Down: Capital of Elam (4): SUSA
77 Down: Nile dam (5): ASWAN
79 Down: "Comus" composer (4): ARNE
80 Down: Tizzy (4): SNIT
81 Down: Terminer's partner (4): OYER
82 Down: Slight advantage (4): EDGE
83 Down: Vintage cars (4): REOS
85 Down: Fort (8): GARRISON
86 Down: Section of Fez (6): KASBAH
87 Down: Guido's high note (3): ELA
89 Down: Goblet feature (4): STEM
94 Down: Horse's home (6): STABLE
96 Down: Theda's colleague (4): POLA
99 Down: Plaster of paris (5): GESSO
101 Down: Do tailoring (5): ALTER
103 Down: Works at the bar (5): TENDS
104 Down: Exile island (4): ELBA
105 Down: High time (4): NOON
106 Down: Give over (4): CEDE
108 Down: Exec's reminder (4): MEMO
109 Down: Second caliph (4): OMAR
110 Down: Table staple (4): SALT
112 Down: Mine access (4): ADIT
113 Down: Developer's interest (4): SITE
114 Down: Borgia in-law (4): ESTE
115 Down: Not barefoot (4): SHOD
118 Down: "6 Rms ___ Vu," 1972 play (3): RIV
119 Down: Aye (3): YES

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