QUARRELSOME QUOTES - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 4/25/1993. By Michael J. Parris.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Annoy (5)
PEEVE
6 Across: Food fish (4)
SHAD
10 Across: Rialto muggers (4)
HAMS
14 Across: Fisher or Foy (5)
EDDIE
19 Across: Walking ___ (elated) (5)
ONAIR
20 Across: Not elsewhere (4)
HERE
21 Across: A Siouan (4)
OTOE
22 Across: Bogs (5)
QUAGS
23 Across: "The ballot is ___": Lincoln (21)
STRONGERTHANTHEBULLET
27 Across: Yelled (8)
HOLLERED
28 Across: Portents (5)
OMENS
29 Across: Female demon of folklore (6)
LILITH
30 Across: Methuselah, to Enoch (3)
SON
31 Across: Cato's tomorrow (4)
CRAS
32 Across: Trig ratio (4)
SINE
33 Across: "In love there are these evils: ___": Horace (20)
FIRSTWARANDTHENPEACE
42 Across: Eye: Comb. form (5)
OCULO
43 Across: ___ far (to such an extent) (4)
INSO
44 Across: Heap up (5)
AMASS
45 Across: Footed vase (3)
URN
47 Across: Rice, in Roma (4)
RISO
48 Across: Call repeatedly by name (4)
PAGE
50 Across: "Bei ___ Bist Du Schön" (3)
MIR
51 Across: Volcano near Catania (4)
ETNA
52 Across: "A lean compromise is ___": G. Herbert (21)
BETTERTHANAFATLAWSUIT
59 Across: Pts. of cents. (3)
YRS
60 Across: Hide (4)
PELT
61 Across: Alda and Arkin (5)
ALANS
62 Across: Oratory (6)
CHAPEL
63 Across: Word with window or wood (4)
ROSE
64 Across: Louis Quatorze, e.g. (3)
ROI
65 Across: ___ En-lai (4)
CHOU
66 Across: Severe (6)
STRICT
69 Across: Type of scarf (5)
ASCOT
71 Across: Fleur-de-lis (4)
IRIS
72 Across: Org. for Couples (3)
PGA
75 Across: "A man cannot be too careful in ___": Wilde (21)
THECHOICEOFHISENEMIES
79 Across: Pledge (4)
OATH
80 Across: Partner of sm. and med. (3)
LRG
81 Across: Shake ___ (hurry) (4)
ALEG
82 Across: Oft-quoted author: Abbr. (4)
ANON
83 Across: Very old: Abbr. (3)
ANC
84 Across: Lost (5)
ATSEA
86 Across: S. African fox (4)
ASSE
88 Across: Bea Arthur role (5)
MAUDE
89 Across: "Exaggeration is truth ___": Gibran (20)
THATHASLOSTITSTEMPER
94 Across: Sedan summers (4)
ETES
95 Across: Colors (4)
DYES
96 Across: Taro preparation (3)
POI
97 Across: Yachtsman or hat (6)
BOATER
100 Across: Greek theater (5)
ODEON
102 Across: Pitcher, Nightingale et al. (8)
HEROINES
107 Across: "When firmness is sufficient ___": Napoleon (21)
RASHNESSISUNNECESSARY
110 Across: Irritated (5)
IRKED
111 Across: Gives a bad review (4)
PANS
112 Across: Calvary initials (4)
INRI
113 Across: Trojan (5)
ILIAN
114 Across: Autocrats (5)
TSARS
115 Across: Field of interest (4)
AREA
116 Across: Dry (4)
SERE
117 Across: Maison room (5)
SALLE

Down Answers

1 Down: Elegant (4)
POSH
2 Down: Inner: Comb. form (4)
ENTO
3 Down: Anthony of the alleys (4)
EARL
4 Down: Stringed instrument (4)
VIOL
5 Down: ___ (Che) Guevara (7)
ERNESTO
6 Down: Singer Easton (6)
SHEENA
7 Down: Drover's concern (4)
HERD
8 Down: Garfunkel or Carney (3)
ART
9 Down: Prunes a fruit tree severely (7)
DEHORNS
10 Down: Sincere (6)
HONEST
11 Down: Envelope abbr. (4)
ATTN
12 Down: Minerals' hardness-scale inventor (4)
MOHS
13 Down: View (3)
SEE
14 Down: Belmont racers (7)
EQUINES
15 Down: Actor Keir ___ (6)
DULLEA
16 Down: Contemporary of Magritte (4)
DALI
17 Down: "___ no kick . . . " (4)
IGET
18 Down: Lett's neighbor (4)
ESTH
24 Down: Increase (4)
GROW
25 Down: Brazilian novelist (5)
AMADO
26 Down: Radar images (5)
BLIPS
31 Down: Cretan capital (5)
CANEA
32 Down: Tangle (5)
SNARL
33 Down: Besides, to Burns (5)
FORBY
34 Down: More frigid (5)
ICIER
35 Down: Oxidizes (5)
RUSTS
36 Down: Coin receptacle (4)
SLOT
37 Down: Correct (5)
RIGHT
38 Down: Esther's antagonist (5)
HAMAN
39 Down: Gives out (5)
EMITS
40 Down: Prankster (5)
CUTUP
41 Down: Ford or Pyle (5)
ERNIE
46 Down: A major league: Abbr. (4)
NATL
48 Down: Magician's word (6)
PRESTO
49 Down: Salt tree (4)
ATLE
51 Down: Husband of Judith (4)
ESAU
53 Down: Pleistocene is one (5)
EPOCH
54 Down: Numbness: Comb. form (5)
NARCO
55 Down: Intentionally apart (5)
ALOOF
56 Down: Religion (5)
FAITH
57 Down: In pain (6)
ACHING
58 Down: "___ Body?": Sayers (5)
WHOSE
63 Down: Moneyed (4)
RICH
65 Down: Manitoban Indian (4)
CREE
66 Down: "Classroom" for Zeno (4)
STOA
67 Down: Former U.N. leader (5)
THANT
68 Down: React to mal de mer (5)
RETCH
69 Down: Character in "The Rivals" (5)
ACRES
70 Down: Star of "Blume in Love" (5)
SEGAL
71 Down: Cay (5)
ISLET
72 Down: Locker art (5)
PINUP
73 Down: Hollow stone (5)
GEODE
74 Down: Actor in TV's "Hearts Afire" (5)
ASNER
76 Down: "Casablanca" woman et al. (5)
ILSAS
77 Down: Morbid state: Suffix (5)
IASIS
78 Down: Polite form of address (4)
MAAM
84 Down: Waits upon (7)
ATTENDS
85 Down: Soothing word (5)
THERE
86 Down: " ___ Like It" (5)
ASYOU
87 Down: Former Miss. Senator (7)
STENNIS
88 Down: Expressive understatement (7)
MEIOSIS
90 Down: Heavens; clear sky: Var. (6)
AETHER
91 Down: Black Sea port (6)
ODESSA
92 Down: Coined money (6)
SPECIE
93 Down: Ripped (4)
TORE
97 Down: Young herring (4)
BRIT
98 Down: Rowers (4)
OARS
99 Down: "___ silly question . . . " (4)
ASKA
100 Down: Glacial ridges (4)
OSAR
101 Down: Eat elegantly (4)
DINE
102 Down: Munich Mr. (4)
HERR
103 Down: Hispaniola, e.g. (4)
ISLA
104 Down: Hammer's target (4)
NAIL
105 Down: Of an age (4)
ERAL
106 Down: End of a Burns title (4)
SYNE
108 Down: Resort (3)
SPA
109 Down: Pisa-to-Verona dir. (3)
NNE

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