NEWSPAPER CAPER - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 12/12/1993. By Cathy Millhauser.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Olive's cousin (3): ASH
4 Across: Lets down or out (6): ALTERS
10 Across: A little night music? (4): TAPS
14 Across: Improvisation with leftovers (4): HASH
18 Across: Ref's ring decision (3): TKO
19 Across: ''Do you really _____?'' (6): MEANIT
20 Across: Kate Nelligan title role, 1985 (5): ELENI
22 Across: Land in the water (4): ISLE
23 Across: Arctic newspaper? (10): HUSKYVOICE
25 Across: A quarter of Paris (5): LATIN
26 Across: Speed (4): TEAR
27 Across: It may be on a roll (4): OLEO
28 Across: Hades newspaper? (14): DEVILSADVOCATE
31 Across: Pole, e.g. (4): SLAV
32 Across: Anatomize (7): DISSECT
34 Across: Gable's ''G.W.T.W.'' costar (5): LEIGH
35 Across: Dynamic beginning (4): AERO
37 Across: Discovery cries (4): AHAS
39 Across: Sad, to Sade (6): TRISTE
43 Across: Hoteliers' newspaper? (13): CHECKOUTTIMES
49 Across: Rocket flight event (7): REENTRY
50 Across: Abates (6): LETSUP
51 Across: Horse hair (4): MANE
52 Across: Middle March (4): IDES
54 Across: Tackle (4): GEAR
55 Across: Scrap of scrapple (3): ORT
56 Across: Get the lead out, in a way (5): SMELT
58 Across: Agnus _____ (3): DEI
59 Across: Hammett hero (5): SPADE
60 Across: Journeys (4): GOES
62 Across: Courthouse newspaper? (10): BENCHPRESS
65 Across: Result of riddling (5): HOLES
66 Across: Fodders for mudders (4): HAYS
68 Across: Start of a Faulkner title (3): ASI
69 Across: Spots (4): SEES
71 Across: Part of N.L.R.B. (5): LABOR
74 Across: Hairdressers' newspaper? (10): SETTINGSUN
79 Across: Wee bairns (4): TOTS
83 Across: Senora's sayonara (5): ADIOS
84 Across: Author Levin (3): IRA
85 Across: Sounder (5): SANER
86 Across: Excusez-_____ (3): MOI
87 Across: Not on the rocks (4): NEAT
88 Across: Filling for a taco (4): BEEF
89 Across: Dough for a taco? (4): PESO
90 Across: Hit man's ''icing'' (6): OFFING
93 Across: Thickness measurer (7): CALIPER
95 Across: Photographers' newspaper? (13): FLASHBULLETIN
98 Across: Donahue of ''Father Knows Best'' (6): ELINOR
99 Across: Tatum's dad (4): RYAN
100 Across: A Bates (4): ALAN
101 Across: Must, slangily (5): GOTTA
103 Across: Tee-hees (7): TITTERS
107 Across: Terribly urgent (4): DIRE
111 Across: Disk jockeys' newspaper? (14): SMASHHITRECORD
115 Across: Macmillan's predecessor as P.M. (4): EDEN
116 Across: Philosopher from Königsberg (4): KANT
117 Across: Union platform? (5): ALTAR
118 Across: Financial newspaper? (10): DAILYBREAD
122 Across: Movie Chase (4): ILKA
123 Across: Alabama city on the Alabama (5): SELMA
124 Across: Slicker (6): OILIER
125 Across: Expert (3): ACE
126 Across: Earth's shape (4): PEAR
127 Across: Tight closure (4): SEAL
128 Across: Oktoberfest souvenirs (6): STEINS
129 Across: Eng. Inc. (3): LTD

Down Answers

1 Down: A Musketeer (5): ATHOS
2 Down: Head of the anatomy class (5): SKULL
3 Down: Prophetic son of Beeri (5): HOSEA
4 Down: First name in etiquette (3): AMY
5 Down: Book after Exod. (3): LEV
6 Down: Lao-tzu's universal (3): TAO
7 Down: Bagnold and Markey (5): ENIDS
8 Down: Mushes, as potatoes (5): RICES
9 Down: Rock singer Tyler (5): STEVE
10 Down: ''To _____ Truth'' (7): TELLTHE
11 Down: Sighing word (4): ALAS
12 Down: Corolla components (6): PETALS
13 Down: Cutting (5): SNIDE
14 Down: Nuptial newspaper? (12): HITCHINGPOST
15 Down: On the briny (4): ASEA
16 Down: Blind piece (4): SLAT
17 Down: Now partner (4): HERE
21 Down: Come-ons? (7): INVITES
24 Down: Muriel cigar pitchman of the 50's (6): KOVACS
29 Down: Caesar's ''veni'' (5): ICAME
30 Down: Folklore fiend (4): OGRE
32 Down: Stops in (7): DROPSBY
33 Down: Debtor's letters (3): IOU
36 Down: Richmond, Ky., coll. (3): EKU
38 Down: Out of the way (5): ASIDE
40 Down: Bargain for a burglar? (5): STEAL
41 Down: NASDAQ transaction (5): TRADE
42 Down: A Bronte heroine's family (5): EYRES
43 Down: Stop up (4): CLOG
44 Down: Lunch order (4): HERO
45 Down: Luncheon finisher (4): ETTE
46 Down: Phony bill collectors (4): TMEN
47 Down: Soft mineral (4): TALC
48 Down: Because (6): INTHAT
49 Down: Put out a new edition (7): REISSUE
53 Down: _____ Moines (3): DES
57 Down: Mark of the N.H.L. (7): MESSIER
59 Down: The lass (3): SHE
61 Down: Western outlaw's newspaper? (12): SHOOTINGSTAR
63 Down: Omega preceded (3): PSI
64 Down: Gets the suds out (6): RINSES
67 Down: Horace's ''_____ Poetica'' (3): ARS
70 Down: Registers (7): ENROLLS
71 Down: Uhlan's weapon (5): LANCE
72 Down: Hall's ''Let's Make _____'' (5): ADEAL
73 Down: Bagel alternative: Var. (5): BIALI
75 Down: Rather than, to Cowper (3): ERE
76 Down: Challenge for denture wearers (5): TAFFY
77 Down: Big cut (4): GASH
78 Down: Elitist, in a way (4): SNOB
80 Down: Leave out (4): OMIT
81 Down: Author Morrison (4): TONI
82 Down: Omen or ''Open'', e.g. (4): SIGN
88 Down: Wide, lacy collars (7): BERTHAS
89 Down: Riot of a kind (5): PANIC
91 Down: Sunshine St. (3): FLA
92 Down: Wheel guard (6): FENDER
94 Down: Tigger's friend (4): POOH
96 Down: A pass that isn't forward (7): LATERAL
97 Down: Nasser led it: Abbr. (3): UAR
99 Down: Fluster (6): RATTLE
102 Down: Scrabble squares (5): TILES
104 Down: Stirs (5): TODOS
105 Down: Quality (5): TRAIT
106 Down: Roman official (5): EDILE
108 Down: Perfect (5): IDEAL
109 Down: Respond to a provocation (5): REACT
110 Down: Brought to a close (5): ENDED
111 Down: Leave out (4): SKIP
112 Down: Bull, cob or tom, e.g. (4): MALE
113 Down: ''Diana'' singer (4): ANKA
114 Down: Sita's husband, in myth (4): RAMA
119 Down: Weeks per annum (3): LII
120 Down: Hankering (3): YEN
121 Down: Condo-ad abbr. (3): BRS

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