SCARE TACTICS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 10/31/1993. By Alfio Micci.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Golf stroke (4)
BAFF
5 Across: Latin-class word (4)
ERAT
9 Across: Deli order (4)
HERO
13 Across: Device used in 106 Across (5)
CESTA
18 Across: Teacher of Heifetz (4)
AUER
19 Across: Altercation (5)
CLASH
20 Across: Sacred representation (4)
ICON
21 Across: "The main's the gowd for _____": Burns (5)
ATHAT
22 Across: Jazz style (10)
BOOGIEWOOGIE
24 Across: Crack down (10)
LOWERTHEBOOM
26 Across: Macabre (5)
EERIE
27 Across: Mobilize (5)
RALLY
29 Across: Full house, e.g. (4)
HAND
30 Across: Crews' cars on freights (6)
CABOOSES
33 Across: French yearly income (5)
RENTE
34 Across: Judge-priest in Samuel (3)
ELI
35 Across: Yupik (6)
ESKIMO
36 Across: Cookout spot (5)
PATIO
37 Across: Bombarded (8)
ATTACKED
42 Across: Where Greeks met Greeks (5)
STOAS
43 Across: Jovial pal (11)
BOONCOMPANION
45 Across: Tax-deferred acct. (3)
IRA
46 Across: Remark from Sandy (3)
ARF
47 Across: _____-dieu (kneeling bench) (4)
PRIE
48 Across: Berber (4)
MOOR
49 Across: "Pictures _____ Exhibition" (4)
ATAN
50 Across: Nancy's man (3)
RON
51 Across: Subterfuges (6)
BLINDS
53 Across: Covers (4)
LIDS
54 Across: Inspirit (5)
ELATE
55 Across: Stewpots (5)
OLLAS
57 Across: At hand (5)
CLOSE
59 Across: Pool parties? (6)
STENOS
60 Across: Unworthy of (7)
BENEATH
62 Across: Cogs (5)
TEETH
63 Across: Bout segment (5)
ROUND
64 Across: Having a handle (6)
ANSATE
65 Across: Sinker (5)
DONUT
66 Across: Persuasive one (7)
INDUCER
69 Across: Kind of code (5)
DRESS
70 Across: Philatelist's block (4)
PANE
71 Across: Slip by (6)
ELAPSE
74 Across: Enzyme ending (3)
ASE
75 Across: Departed (4)
GONE
76 Across: "_____ fan tutte": Mozart (4)
COSI
77 Across: Mind (4)
OBEY
78 Across: Kipling favorite (3)
BOOTS
79 Across: Womanizer? (3)
ESS
80 Across: Far Eastern ideological barrier (11)
BAMBOOCURTAIN
84 Across: Set upon (5)
HADAT
86 Across: Do another stretch (8)
REENLIST
88 Across: Rich cake (5)
TORTE
89 Across: _____ quarters (G.I. summons) (6)
CALLTO
90 Across: "_____ the fields we go..." (3)
OER
91 Across: Psalms word (5)
SELAH
92 Across: Diva Farrell (6)
EILEEN
93 Across: Hunter of books (4)
EVAN
94 Across: Cambric (5)
LINEN
95 Across: "The Most Happy _____": Loesser (5)
FELLA
97 Across: Vaccine supplements (10)
BOOSTERSHOTS
100 Across: TV's Hazel (10)
SHIRLEYBOOTH
105 Across: Ben of "Bonanza" (5)
LORNE
106 Across: Jai _____ (4)
ALAI
107 Across: Surpass (5)
OUTDO
108 Across: Basso Pinza (4)
EZIO
109 Across: Draw _____ on (take aim) (5)
ABEAD
110 Across: A soil fertilizer (4)
MARL
111 Across: Big butte (4)
MESA
112 Across: Heartfelt (4)
DEEP

Down Answers

1 Down: Hindu gentleman (3)
BABOO
2 Down: Summer mo. (3)
AUG
3 Down: Polynesian wild banana (3)
FEI
4 Down: Iris's cousin (7)
FREESIA
5 Down: French saint: Dec. 1 (4)
ELOI
6 Down: Storm (4)
RAGE
7 Down: "_____ Lay Dying": Faulkner (3)
ASI
8 Down: To that (7)
THERETO
9 Down: Height of a height (7)
HILLTOP
10 Down: Eleve's milieu (5)
ECOLE
11 Down: Streaked (4)
ROWY
12 Down: "A Chorus Line" number (3)
ONE
13 Down: Native of Barcelona (7)
CATALAN
14 Down: Cultural (6)
ETHNIC
15 Down: Molt (4)
SHED
16 Down: Forbidden (3)
TABOO
17 Down: Cash dispenser, initially (3)
ATM
19 Down: Beat poet Gregory _____ (5)
CORSO
23 Down: Bandleader Ted _____ (5)
WEEMS
25 Down: Orator (6)
RHETOR
28 Down: Lively, to Lalo: Abbr. (4)
ANIM
30 Down: Composer Franck (5)
CESAR
31 Down: Nolan Ryan, once (5)
ASTRO
32 Down: Edward Lear volume (12)
BOOKOFNONSENSE
33 Down: Sped (5)
RACED
36 Down: Nabokov book (4)
PNIN
37 Down: Voltaic-cell terminal (5)
ANODE
38 Down: Pedro's uncles (4)
TIOS
39 Down: The lot (12)
KITANDCABOODLE
40 Down: Odist's Muse (5)
ERATO
41 Down: Viborg natives (5)
DANES
43 Down: Coarse (5)
BOORISH
44 Down: Mennonite sect (5)
AMISH
47 Down: Diamond rubber (5)
PLATE
49 Down: Jewish prayer (5)
ALENU
51 Down: Sheepish comments (5)
BLATS
52 Down: Landscape (5)
SCENE
53 Down: Memorable soprano Lehmann (5)
LOTTE
54 Down: Chopin piece (5)
ETUDE
56 Down: Charter (5)
LEASE
58 Down: Romanian monetary unit (3)
LEU
59 Down: Attractive, in dialect (5)
SONSY
60 Down: Annoy (6)
BADGER
61 Down: "La Vie _____," Piaf favorite (6)
ENROSE
62 Down: Pick-me-up (5)
TONIC
63 Down: Mature (5)
RIPEN
65 Down: Jurgen Prochnow film: 1981 (5)
DASBOOT
67 Down: Will subject (6)
ESTATE
68 Down: Columnist James _____ (6)
RESTON
70 Down: Short dogs, for short (4)
POMS
72 Down: Averse (5)
LOATH
73 Down: Rose lover (4)
ABIE
76 Down: Stone heaps (6)
CAIRNS
80 Down: Indistinct (7)
BLEARED
81 Down: Tool (7)
UTENSIL
82 Down: Hamlet, to Olivier (4)
ROLE
83 Down: Lintel (7)
TRANSOM
84 Down: _____ Selassie (5)
HAILE
85 Down: Moderated (7)
ALLAYED
87 Down: Nine days' devotion (6)
NOVENA
89 Down: Yo-Yo Ma plays it (5)
CELLO
91 Down: Raga-time instrument? (5)
SITAR
93 Down: To be, in Toulouse (4)
ETRE
94 Down: Mascagni flirt (4)
LOLA
95 Down: Partner of starts (4)
FITS
96 Down: "Ring" earth goddess (4)
ERDA
97 Down: Yale Bowl refrain word (3)
BOOLA
98 Down: Convulsive sigh (3)
SOB
99 Down: Scenery chewer (3)
HAM
101 Down: Cry's companion (3)
HUE
102 Down: Hooch (3)
BOOZE
103 Down: Draw (3)
TIE
104 Down: School dance (3)
HOP

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