LESSON FOR TODAY - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 9/13/1992. By Frances Hansen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "Your ___ or mine?" (5)
- PLACE
- 6 Across: Dancer Duncan (7)
- ISADORA
- 13 Across: Hajj goal (5)
- MECCA
- 18 Across: Oxford Group's concern (6)
- MORALS
- 20 Across: Offenbach's "The ___ Hoffmann" (7)
- TALESOF
- 21 Across: Put ___ (show off) (6)
- ONAIRS
- 23 Across: Start of a teen-ager's essay (21)
- SOCRATESWASPUTONTRIAL
- 26 Across: Given to wild laughter (7)
- SHRIEKY
- 27 Across: Choler (3)
- IRE
- 28 Across: Collegiate team (7)
- VARSITY
- 29 Across: Emulate Xanthippe (3)
- NAG
- 30 Across: Walter or Uta (5)
- HAGEN
- 32 Across: English cathedral town (3)
- ELY
- 33 Across: Pickwick or Pepys (6)
- SAMUEL
- 37 Across: Mawkish (5)
- CORNY
- 38 Across: Thurs. chaser (3)
- FRI
- 39 Across: Do a cotton-pickin' job (4)
- BALE
- 43 Across: Hoofbeat sound (4)
- CLOP
- 44 Across: Scat! (4)
- SHOO
- 45 Across: Dame Myra (4)
- HESS
- 46 Across: Twelfth Jewish month (4)
- ELUL
- 47 Across: Essay: Part II (21)
- ATFIRSTITWASADEADLOCK
- 53 Across: British W.W. II heroes (3)
- RAF
- 54 Across: School near Windsor Castle (4)
- ETON
- 55 Across: Pirouette (5)
- PIVOT
- 56 Across: "All ___ Dream of You" (5)
- IDOIS
- 57 Across: Thrive (7)
- PROSPER
- 59 Across: Pancake mixture (6)
- BATTER
- 61 Across: Yoga position (5)
- ASANA
- 62 Across: Foremost (7)
- PREMIER
- 64 Across: Logogriph (7)
- ANAGRAM
- 66 Across: English poet-diplomat: 1664-1721 (5)
- PRIOR
- 68 Across: Pyle portrayer (6)
- NABORS
- 70 Across: Back gear (7)
- REVERSE
- 74 Across: " . . . words ___ deeds": Shak. (5)
- ARENO
- 75 Across: Scuttlebutt (5)
- RUMOR
- 76 Across: Gambling game (4)
- KENO
- 77 Across: Bad actor (3)
- HAM
- 78 Across: Essay: Part III (21)
- BUTAFTERARGUINGAWHILE
- 83 Across: Of Pindar's poems (4)
- ODIC
- 84 Across: Dentist's request (4)
- OPEN
- 85 Across: Baseball stats (4)
- RBIS
- 86 Across: Privy to the deal (4)
- INON
- 87 Across: Uh-huh (4)
- YEAH
- 88 Across: Long in the tooth (3)
- OLD
- 89 Across: On the up and up (5)
- LEGIT
- 91 Across: Nut in a chocolate bar (6)
- ALMOND
- 93 Across: Explanation seeker's query (3)
- WHY
- 94 Across: Tossed about, as waves (5)
- VEXED
- 95 Across: ___ Lanka (3)
- SRI
- 96 Across: Ben-Hur's racer (7)
- CHARIOT
- 100 Across: Tierra del Fuego native (3)
- ONA
- 101 Across: Famed Seminole leader (7)
- OSCEOLA
- 105 Across: End of the essay (21)
- HEHADTOSWALLOWWEDLOCK
- 110 Across: Turkish inn (6)
- IMARET
- 111 Across: Dinosaur, e.g. (7)
- REPTILE
- 112 Across: Collegian's goal (6)
- DEGREE
- 113 Across: A 64 Across for "notes" (5)
- STENO
- 114 Across: Electra's brother (7)
- ORESTES
- 115 Across: Skater Gardner (5)
- RANDY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: British V.I.P.'s (3)
- PMS
- 2 Down: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" author (4)
- LOOS
- 3 Down: Coy (4)
- ARCH
- 4 Down: Singer Vikki (4)
- CARR
- 5 Down: May or Stritch (6)
- ELAINE
- 6 Down: ___-bitsy (4)
- ITSY
- 7 Down: Adage (3)
- SAW
- 8 Down: Carte preceder (3)
- ALA
- 9 Down: Pattern (6)
- DESIGN
- 10 Down: Diving bird (6)
- OSPREY
- 11 Down: Where Joan of Arc was tried (5)
- ROUEN
- 12 Down: Ship area (3)
- AFT
- 13 Down: Nat King Cole hit (8)
- MONALISA
- 14 Down: Vestibule (5)
- ENTRY
- 15 Down: Elevator cages (4)
- CARS
- 16 Down: Half of CCVI (4)
- CIII
- 17 Down: Smell ___ (suspect) (4)
- ARAT
- 19 Down: Peculate (5)
- STEAL
- 22 Down: Crafty (3)
- SLY
- 24 Down: Heart test, for short (3)
- EKG
- 25 Down: Printer's type excess (7)
- OVERSET
- 30 Down: Owlish comment (4)
- HOOT
- 31 Down: Lined up (4)
- AROW
- 33 Down: Steep slope (5)
- SCARP
- 34 Down: Table on a predella (5)
- ALTAR
- 35 Down: Former Met soprano (5)
- MOFFO
- 36 Down: Worldwide newspaper org. (3)
- UPI
- 37 Down: Do pull-ups (4)
- CHIN
- 38 Down: Opera by Giordano (6)
- FEDORA
- 39 Down: Crone (7)
- BELDAME
- 40 Down: Crazy as ___ (5)
- ALOON
- 41 Down: Lammermoor lady (5)
- LUCIA
- 42 Down: Some are knights (4)
- ELKS
- 44 Down: Rant and rage (5)
- STORM
- 45 Down: Safe harbors (6)
- HAVENS
- 48 Down: Expression of censure (7)
- REPROOF
- 49 Down: Do a conn job (5)
- STEER
- 50 Down: Likely (to) (3)
- APT
- 51 Down: Shankar's medium (5)
- SITAR
- 52 Down: Deny responsibility (7)
- DISAVOW
- 58 Down: Popeye's muscle-builder (7)
- SPINACH
- 59 Down: " . . . you'll ___ my son!": Kipling (6)
- BEAMAN
- 60 Down: Pergola (5)
- ARBOR
- 61 Down: Gladiator's turf (5)
- ARENA
- 63 Down: Hardened (6)
- INURED
- 65 Down: Swimmer Louganis et al. (5)
- GREGS
- 66 Down: Straitlaced one (5)
- PRUDE
- 67 Down: Neural networks (5)
- RETIA
- 69 Down: Assn. (3)
- ORG
- 71 Down: Horn-nosed beast, briefly (5)
- RHINO
- 72 Down: Posh beauty parlor (5)
- SALON
- 73 Down: Correct copy (5)
- EMEND
- 74 Down: "___ Named Sue" (4)
- ABOY
- 75 Down: Give one an answer (7)
- REPLYTO
- 76 Down: Furrow the brows (4)
- KNIT
- 79 Down: "___ Handle," 1938 Gable film (8)
- TOOHOTTO
- 80 Down: Exhort (4)
- URGE
- 81 Down: Ref.-book word (4)
- IBID
- 82 Down: An L.B.J. beagle (3)
- HIM
- 89 Down: Lenni ___, Delaware Indian (6)
- LENAPE
- 90 Down: Glorifies (6)
- EXALTS
- 91 Down: Described a parabola (5)
- ARCED
- 92 Down: Fischer-Dieskau's songs (6)
- LIEDER
- 93 Down: Do a road job (5)
- WIDEN
- 94 Down: Bride or groom (5)
- VOWER
- 95 Down: Paris-to-Orléans dir. (3)
- SSW
- 96 Down: "The Sweetheart of Sigma ___" (3)
- CHI
- 97 Down: Dressmakers' concerns (4)
- HEMS
- 98 Down: At the drop of ___ (instantly) (4)
- AHAT
- 99 Down: Recherché (4)
- RARE
- 101 Down: Goes into debt (4)
- OWES
- 102 Down: Marathoner Markova (4)
- OLGA
- 103 Down: "I am a lone ___ creetur . . . ": Dickens (4)
- LORN
- 104 Down: Served perfectly (4)
- ACED
- 106 Down: B'way hit sign (3)
- SRO
- 107 Down: Kindled (3)
- LIT
- 108 Down: Cheer for a veronica (3)
- OLE
- 109 Down: This could be a skeleton (3)
- KEY
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