QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 166 clues). Published 6/28/1992. By Sally Coyle.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Rice dishes (6)
- PILAFS
- 7 Across: Former New York City mayor (5)
- BEAME
- 12 Across: Rail bird (4)
- SORA
- 16 Across: Ripening agent (4)
- AGER
- 20 Across: Small penguin (6)
- ADELIE
- 21 Across: Recant (5)
- UNSAY
- 22 Across: Intricate (9)
- ELABORATE
- 24 Across: Where MacArthur shops? (12)
- GENERALSTORE
- 26 Across: Sitting Bull's social group? (10)
- INDIANCLUB
- 27 Across: Corrode (3)
- EAT
- 28 Across: Roofers (7)
- SLATERS
- 29 Across: Actress Jeanne (5)
- CRAIN
- 30 Across: Obscure (5)
- SHADE
- 31 Across: Marsh bird (5)
- STILT
- 33 Across: According to (3)
- PER
- 34 Across: Former hostage Terry ___ (5)
- WAITE
- 35 Across: Kind of engine (6)
- DIESEL
- 36 Across: French school (5)
- ECOLE
- 38 Across: Answer (8)
- RESPONSE
- 41 Across: Actor Foxx: 1922-91 (4)
- REDD
- 42 Across: Sheet of matted cotton (4)
- BATT
- 44 Across: Lack (6)
- DEARTH
- 45 Across: Blue or green (4)
- BICE
- 46 Across: Haul (3)
- LUG
- 49 Across: Auditioned (8)
- TRIEDOUT
- 53 Across: Soft drink (9)
- CREAMSODA
- 55 Across: Yawn (4)
- GAPE
- 56 Across: Singer from Australia (5)
- REDDY
- 57 Across: Whines (5)
- PULES
- 59 Across: Cleanse (5)
- BATHE
- 60 Across: Maxim (5)
- MOTTO
- 61 Across: Perfect serve (3)
- ACE
- 62 Across: Mock (6)
- DERIDE
- 63 Across: Ananias (4)
- LIAR
- 64 Across: Understand (6)
- FATHOM
- 65 Across: Brace (4)
- STAY
- 67 Across: Straightens (6)
- ALINES
- 68 Across: Sprite (3)
- ELF
- 69 Across: Money (4)
- CASH
- 70 Across: Why mother darns a sock? (9)
- HOLEINONE
- 72 Across: What Stan tries to do to Oliver? (9)
- FOOLHARDY
- 77 Across: Supplements (4)
- ADDS
- 78 Across: Mongrel (3)
- CUR
- 81 Across: Spines (6)
- THORNS
- 83 Across: Bog (4)
- MIRE
- 84 Across: Almost (6)
- NEARLY
- 87 Across: Lockhart or Allyson (4)
- JUNE
- 88 Across: Supply with oxyen (6)
- AERATE
- 89 Across: Zero (3)
- NIL
- 90 Across: Banish (5)
- EXILE
- 91 Across: Design (5)
- MOTIF
- 92 Across: Dipper (5)
- LADLE
- 93 Across: Stand for Frank or Joseph Stella (5)
- EASEL
- 95 Across: Crafty (4)
- WILY
- 96 Across: Melted (9)
- DISSOLVED
- 98 Across: Tehees (8)
- SNIGGERS
- 100 Across: Nov. 1 group (3)
- STS
- 101 Across: Heavy weights (4)
- TONS
- 102 Across: Snares (6)
- NOOSES
- 104 Across: Country in West Africa (4)
- TOGO
- 105 Across: Model A (4)
- FORD
- 106 Across: Recondite (8)
- ESOTERIC
- 108 Across: Small fish (5)
- SPRAT
- 111 Across: Secret doctrine (6)
- CABALA
- 114 Across: Bea Arthur TV role (5)
- MAUDE
- 115 Across: Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du ___" (3)
- MAL
- 117 Across: What gandy dancers do (5)
- LABOR
- 119 Across: Castor Oyl's daughter (5)
- OLIVE
- 120 Across: Mother of the Nereids (5)
- DORIS
- 121 Across: The poker plant (7)
- TRITOMA
- 124 Across: Sp. matron (3)
- SRA
- 125 Across: Title for Dracula? (10)
- BLOODCOUNT
- 127 Across: Earthquake geologists? (12)
- FAULTFINDERS
- 129 Across: Turned up (9)
- RETROUSSE
- 130 Across: Arabian gazelle (5)
- ARIEL
- 131 Across: Dwight ___, U.S. high jumper (6)
- STONES
- 132 Across: Collections (4)
- ANAS
- 133 Across: Quitclaim (4)
- DEED
- 134 Across: Opaque (5)
- DENSE
- 135 Across: African fly (6)
- TSETSE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Leaves (5)
- PAGES
- 2 Down: Think (6)
- IDEATE
- 3 Down: Pertaining to still water (6)
- LENTIC
- 4 Down: Stout (3)
- ALE
- 5 Down: Title for Eve? (9)
- FIRSTLADY
- 6 Down: Marine carnivore (4)
- SEAL
- 7 Down: Actor Keaton (6)
- BUSTER
- 8 Down: Joined (7)
- ENTERED
- 9 Down: Hebrew lyre (4)
- ASOR
- 10 Down: Olympic hawk (4)
- MARS
- 11 Down: Needle part (3)
- EYE
- 12 Down: Thesmothetes' milieu (6)
- SENATE
- 13 Down: Movie or record of past years (5)
- OLDIE
- 14 Down: Play based on Maugham tale (4)
- RAIN
- 15 Down: Arab garment (3)
- ABA
- 16 Down: Having a curved doorway (6)
- ARCHED
- 17 Down: Celebrations (5)
- GALAS
- 18 Down: Practice piece for Previn (5)
- ETUDE
- 19 Down: Insurgent (5)
- REBEL
- 23 Down: Within the prescribed area (6)
- ONSIDE
- 25 Down: Fold over (3)
- LAP
- 26 Down: James Joyce's correspondence? (9)
- IRISHMAIL
- 29 Down: Songlike and flowing in style (8)
- CANTABLE
- 32 Down: Having rounded projections (5)
- LOBED
- 34 Down: Had on (4)
- WORE
- 35 Down: Ten: Comb. form (4)
- DECA
- 37 Down: D.D.E.'s W.W. II post (3)
- ETO
- 39 Down: Withdraw (6)
- SECEDE
- 40 Down: Analyzes grammatically (6)
- PARSES
- 41 Down: Astronaut Sally (4)
- RIDE
- 43 Down: Black gum trees (7)
- TUPELOS
- 45 Down: Danish atomic physicist (4)
- BOHR
- 46 Down: Slat (4)
- LATH
- 47 Down: Capable of (4)
- UPTO
- 48 Down: Branch of math. (4)
- GEOM
- 49 Down: Warhol film (5)
- TRASH
- 50 Down: Right-hand page (5)
- RECTO
- 51 Down: Perfect (5)
- IDEAL
- 52 Down: Italian city on the Po (5)
- TURIN
- 54 Down: Pulitzer Prize author: 1970 (8)
- STAFFORD
- 55 Down: New York City nickname (6)
- GOTHAM
- 58 Down: Types of engravings (8)
- LINECUTS
- 60 Down: The 4077th, for short (4)
- MASH
- 62 Down: Fop (5)
- DANDY
- 64 Down: Erroneous (5)
- FALSE
- 66 Down: Annually (6)
- YEARLY
- 69 Down: Satisfied (7)
- CONTENT
- 71 Down: "Trivolous" (4)
- IDLE
- 73 Down: Some exams (5)
- ORALS
- 74 Down: Washer setting (5)
- RINSE
- 75 Down: Less interesting (5)
- DRIER
- 76 Down: War whoops (5)
- YELLS
- 79 Down: A.F.L.-C.I.O. court case? (9)
- UNIONSUIT
- 80 Down: Submerges again (8)
- REFLOODS
- 81 Down: He wrote " . . . A Serendipiter's Journey" (6)
- TALESE
- 82 Down: What a hopper sometimes takes (6)
- HEADER
- 84 Down: Tidings (4)
- NEWS
- 85 Down: Egress (4)
- EXIT
- 86 Down: Is out of sorts (4)
- AILS
- 87 Down: Chinese idol or stick (4)
- JOSS
- 91 Down: Obey (4)
- MIND
- 93 Down: Henneries? (9)
- EGGPLANTS
- 94 Down: Shopping area for Xanthippe (5)
- AGORA
- 96 Down: Poem by Tennyson (4)
- DORA
- 97 Down: Have one's say, in a way (4)
- VOTE
- 99 Down: Aegean island (3)
- IOS
- 101 Down: Finely tempered sword (6)
- TOLEDO
- 103 Down: Plath ploys (7)
- SIMILES
- 105 Down: Noisemakers, paper hats, etc. (6)
- FAVORS
- 106 Down: Produced interest (6)
- EARNED
- 107 Down: Patrician's term for the masses (6)
- CATTLE
- 109 Down: Missing (6)
- ABSENT
- 110 Down: Australian strait (6)
- TORRES
- 111 Down: Hooded snake (5)
- COBRA
- 112 Down: "Bananas" director-actor (5)
- ALLEN
- 113 Down: Plant life (5)
- BIOTA
- 114 Down: Black eye (5)
- MOUSE
- 116 Down: Russian dry measure (3)
- LOF
- 118 Down: Grizzled civet (5)
- RASSE
- 120 Down: Prescribed amount (4)
- DOSE
- 121 Down: Biblical weed (4)
- TARE
- 122 Down: Perdition (4)
- RUIN
- 123 Down: Brume (4)
- MIST
- 126 Down: Ruminant's chew (3)
- CUD
- 127 Down: It's in one era . . . out the other (3)
- FAD
- 128 Down: Female rabbit (3)
- DOE
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