BLACK-HISTORY NOTABLES - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 2/21/1993. By Bert H. Kruse.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "___ for All Seasons" (4)
- AMAN
- 5 Across: Mum, e.g. (4)
- BEER
- 9 Across: Panay native (3)
- ATI
- 12 Across: Hooded menace (5)
- COBRA
- 17 Across: Actress Williams et al. (5)
- CARAS
- 19 Across: Hormone (8)
- ENDOCRIN
- 21 Across: Title for W.E.B. Du Bois, N.A.A.C.P. co-founder (6)
- DOCTOR
- 22 Across: Boston Massacre martyr (14)
- CRISPUSATTUCKS
- 24 Across: Finesse (6)
- OUTWIT
- 25 Across: River in Wales (3)
- USK
- 26 Across: Monograms of a certain Duke (4)
- EKES
- 27 Across: Chum, for one (4)
- BAIT
- 28 Across: A three-time P.G.A. champ (5)
- SNEAD
- 29 Across: Okla. city or Algonquian (7)
- SHAWNEE
- 31 Across: Entertainer Vereen (3)
- BEN
- 32 Across: Gloves in Campanella's closet (5)
- MITTS
- 33 Across: Auriculate (5)
- EARED
- 34 Across: College founder and adviser to Presidents (11)
- MARYBETHUNE
- 39 Across: Greedy one (3)
- HOG
- 42 Across: Some Bowe blows (5)
- SLAPS
- 43 Across: Actress Ruby ___ (3)
- DEE
- 44 Across: Suit material (5)
- SERGE
- 45 Across: Department of Peru (3)
- ICA
- 46 Across: W.W. II landing craft (3)
- LST
- 47 Across: Surrealism predecessor (4)
- DADA
- 49 Across: Telamon (5)
- ATLAS
- 50 Across: Course for young D. H. Williams (4)
- ANAT
- 51 Across: Basketball legend (11)
- BILLRUSSELL
- 54 Across: Le ___ (Clemenceau) (5)
- TIGRE
- 55 Across: Kind of wheel (3)
- COG
- 58 Across: Pot contribution (4)
- ANTE
- 59 Across: Polynesian chestnuts (5)
- RATAS
- 60 Across: First name of a January honoree (6)
- MARTIN
- 61 Across: Singer Franklin and namesakes (7)
- ARETHAS
- 63 Across: "R.U.R." playwright (5)
- CAPEK
- 64 Across: Naïf, as in a used-car lot (7)
- LIVEONE
- 65 Across: Like Basie dance music, e.g. (6)
- SMOOTH
- 66 Across: Ancient: Comb. form (5)
- PALAE
- 67 Across: Wing, to 54 Across (4)
- AILE
- 68 Across: Slave-rebellion leader Turner (3)
- NAT
- 69 Across: Rosa of Montgomery's bus boycott (5)
- PARKS
- 70 Across: Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman (11)
- COLINPOWELL
- 72 Across: "Bus Stop" dramatist (4)
- INGE
- 73 Across: Theme (5)
- TOPIC
- 74 Across: Dandiprats (4)
- TADS
- 75 Across: Logos: Abbr. (3)
- TMS
- 78 Across: Summer quencher (3)
- ADE
- 79 Across: Larynx affliction (5)
- CROUP
- 80 Across: Doughboys, today (3)
- GIS
- 81 Across: Did a smithy's job (5)
- SHOED
- 83 Across: Loc. of Mayor Dinkins (3)
- NYC
- 84 Across: Nobel Peace Prize winner: 1950 (11)
- RALPHBUNCHE
- 88 Across: Coat with a metal alloy (5)
- TERNE
- 89 Across: Congressman Clayton Powell Jr. et al. (5)
- ADAMS
- 91 Across: Babylonian sky god (3)
- ANU
- 92 Across: Arboreal African rodent (7)
- TREERAT
- 94 Across: Crunching sound (5)
- CRUMP
- 95 Across: Spanish painter (4)
- SERT
- 97 Across: Ark unit (4)
- PAIR
- 98 Across: Inhabitant: Suffix (3)
- ITE
- 99 Across: Fats Domino hit of 1954 (6)
- LOVEME
- 100 Across: Celebrated Lincoln Memorial soloist (14)
- MARIANANDERSON
- 104 Across: Began (6)
- OPENED
- 105 Across: In development (8)
- EVOLVING
- 106 Across: Quick pick-me-up (5)
- SNORT
- 107 Across: Valuable strings, briefly (5)
- STRAD
- 108 Across: Benign bump on the skin (3)
- WEN
- 109 Across: Barbary swingers (4)
- APES
- 110 Across: Handle, in Le Havre (4)
- ANSE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Points the finger at (7)
- ACCUSES
- 2 Down: Memorable Supreme Court Justice (8)
- MARSHALL
- 3 Down: Dakota Indians (8)
- ARIKARAS
- 4 Down: Initials at Pensacola (3)
- NAS
- 5 Down: "As might ___ so bright a dame!": Coleridge (6)
- BESEEM
- 6 Down: A Spanish queen and namesakes (4)
- ENAS
- 7 Down: N.Y. summer time (3)
- EDT
- 8 Down: Poppycock (3)
- ROT
- 9 Down: Secret (6)
- ARCANE
- 10 Down: Heyerdahl's "Kon- ___" (4)
- TIKI
- 11 Down: Tuskegee is one: Abbr. (4)
- INST
- 12 Down: Harlem Renaissance poet Cullen (7)
- COUNTEE
- 13 Down: Musical composition (5)
- OCTET
- 14 Down: Educator-author ("Up From Slavery") (12)
- BTWASHINGTON
- 15 Down: Riotous, in Scotland (4)
- ROID
- 16 Down: Legacy of Aaron Douglas (3)
- ART
- 18 Down: Disburses (6)
- SPENDS
- 20 Down: Spicy berry (5)
- CUBEB
- 21 Down: Medications (7)
- DOSINGS
- 23 Down: Oahu instr. (3)
- UKE
- 30 Down: Emulated Niobe (4)
- WEPT
- 31 Down: Court break for Zina Garrison, e.g. (3)
- BYE
- 32 Down: A creation of 95 Across (5)
- MURAL
- 35 Down: Confuse (5)
- ADDLE
- 36 Down: Kind of admiral (4)
- REAR
- 37 Down: Meat entree (6)
- TSTEAK
- 38 Down: ___ Kitchen, in Manhattan (5)
- HELLS
- 40 Down: Musician's sweet potato (7)
- OCARINA
- 41 Down: Rabbit trap (7)
- GATENET
- 47 Down: Oldie introduced by Ethel Waters: 1924 (5)
- DINAH
- 48 Down: Hts. (4)
- ALTS
- 49 Down: " . . . swine ran violently down ___ place . . . ": Matt. 8:32 (6)
- ASTEEP
- 50 Down: English river (4)
- AIRE
- 51 Down: Thai money (5)
- BAHTS
- 52 Down: Language family (6)
- URALIC
- 53 Down: Heartwood of an E. Indian tree (5)
- SAPAN
- 54 Down: Imported rosé (5)
- TAVEL
- 55 Down: Eurasian sea (7)
- CASPIAN
- 56 Down: Eugene ___, memorable conductor (7)
- ORMANDY
- 57 Down: Botanist who upgraded the South's economy (12)
- GEORGECARVER
- 60 Down: ___ Brothers of songdom (5)
- MILLS
- 62 Down: Portion of bread, in Britain (4)
- TOKE
- 63 Down: Muslim ruler (6)
- CALIPH
- 64 Down: Berlin song (4)
- LIED
- 66 Down: Kind of toaster (5)
- POPUP
- 67 Down: Sinking (5)
- AWASH
- 70 Down: Becomes less friendly (5)
- COOLS
- 71 Down: Auditory (4)
- OTIC
- 73 Down: Took a hike (7)
- TRAMPED
- 75 Down: "Of ___ I Sing" (4)
- THEE
- 76 Down: Pulitzer Prize novelist Toni ___ (8)
- MORRISON
- 77 Down: Brooke, once, and Braun, now (8)
- SENATORS
- 79 Down: Stuffed (7)
- CRAMMED
- 80 Down: Kokoon (3)
- GNU
- 81 Down: Cubic meters (6)
- STERES
- 82 Down: International easing of discord (7)
- DETENTE
- 85 Down: Financial-news editor-publisher: 1855-1928 (6)
- BARRON
- 86 Down: Bromfield's "___ the Day Break" (5)
- UNTIL
- 87 Down: Ponds, in Paris (6)
- ETANGS
- 90 Down: Spanish landlady (5)
- DUENA
- 93 Down: Free (of) (3)
- RID
- 94 Down: Certain Egyptian (4)
- COPT
- 95 Down: Hootamaganzy (4)
- SMEW
- 96 Down: This has a soffit (4)
- EAVE
- 97 Down: Sheet of stamps (4)
- PANE
- 99 Down: ___ Alamos (3)
- LOS
- 101 Down: Former Burmese capital (3)
- AVA
- 102 Down: Piquancy (3)
- NIP
- 103 Down: Kind of virus (3)
- RNA
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