KLUTZ - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 4/9/1995. By Cathy Millhauser.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Jackson 5 hit of 1970 (3)
ABC
4 Across: Mexican dictator Porfirio (4)
DIAZ
8 Across: Get with the tines (5)
SPEAR
13 Across: Ernie Banks' team (4)
CUBS
17 Across: Exclamations from Ebenezer (4)
BAHS
19 Across: Oxford's ''Gloomy Dean'' (4)
INGE
20 Across: Lamented (6)
MOANED
22 Across: _____ were (so to speak) (4)
ASIT
23 Across: Every morning the klutz _____ (16)
SLIPPEDONHISROBE
26 Across: California wine region (4)
NAPA
27 Across: Cite (5)
QUOTE
28 Across: Got down (4)
ALIT
29 Across: Address (7)
ORATION
31 Across: Drink rudely (5)
SLURP
33 Across: At dance marathons the klutz _____ (15)
BROKETHERECORDS
37 Across: Holdup (5)
HEIST
38 Across: Hardly feisty (4)
TAME
39 Across: Looped crosses (5)
ANKHS
40 Across: Work on a submarine (3)
EAT
41 Across: Rotund plus (5)
OBESE
43 Across: Book with St. Paul's story (4)
ACTS
46 Across: Average (3)
PAR
49 Across: One by one the klutz _____ (17)
DROPPEDHISFRIENDS
55 Across: Suffix with fail (3)
URE
56 Across: Application (3)
USE
57 Across: Press (4)
IRON
58 Across: Decked (7)
ADORNED
60 Across: Comedian Mort (4)
SAHL
63 Across: As a day-care worker the klutz _____... (16)
FELLDOWNONTHEJOB
68 Across: Faultily (5)
AMISS
70 Across: Chow mein chaser (3)
TEA
71 Across: Foreign market, for short (3)
EEC
72 Across: Florida city (5)
OCALA
73 Across: ...and in so doing the klutz _____ (16)
UPSETTHECHILDREN
79 Across: Sanction misdeeds (4)
ABET
80 Across: Mosaic piece (7)
TESSERA
81 Across: Whit (4)
IOTA
82 Across: Music center? (3)
ESS
84 Across: Poetic preposition (3)
ERE
85 Across: On the way home the klutz often _____ (17)
RANINTOHISBROTHER
93 Across: But: Lat. (3)
SED
94 Across: Ones: Abbr. (4)
SGLS
95 Across: Opponent of Tom and Harry in 1948 (5)
STROM
96 Across: Eggs (3)
OVA
97 Across: Wagon alternative (5)
SEDAN
101 Across: Color of le ciel (4)
BLEU
102 Across: Dogpatch denizen (5)
ABNER
104 Across: At surprise dinners the klutz _____ (15)
SPILLEDTHEBEANS
110 Across: Freetown money (5)
LEONE
111 Across: ''Guernica'' painter (7)
PICASSO
112 Across: Epithet of Athena (4)
ALEA
113 Across: Peeping Tom (5)
SPIER
115 Across: Café addition (4)
LAIT
116 Across: In a final desperate move the klutz _____ (16)
KNOCKEDOVERABANK
122 Across: Archer of film (4)
ANNE
123 Across: Become understood (6)
SINKIN
124 Across: Mauna Loa locale (4)
HILO
125 Across: Mr. Rubik (4)
ERNO
126 Across: Threads (4)
TOGS
127 Across: ''Bells Are Ringing'' composer (5)
STYNE
128 Across: Bollix (up) (4)
MESS
129 Across: ''Sure!'' (3)
YES

Down Answers

1 Down: Tummy muscles (3)
ABS
2 Down: Cotillion: Fr. (3)
BAL
3 Down: Little boy, in Barcelona (8)
CHIQUITO
4 Down: Losing proposition (4)
DIET
5 Down: Obliged (8)
INDEBTED
6 Down: Past (3)
AGO
7 Down: Satori-seeking sect (3)
ZEN
8 Down: Canine show? (5)
SMILE
9 Down: Assume as fact (5)
POSIT
10 Down: Her day is April 22 (5)
EARTH
11 Down: It ends in diciembre (3)
ANO
12 Down: Like some Christians (6)
REBORN
13 Down: Unfinished Pound epic (6)
CANTOS
14 Down: Allegheny, today (5)
USAIR
15 Down: Rifle stand, e.g. (5)
BIPOD
16 Down: Athletes Mikita and Musial (5)
STANS
18 Down: Incites (5)
SPURS
21 Down: Moore's ''10'' co-star (5)
DEREK
24 Down: Ring tab successors (7)
POPTOPS
25 Down: Cod kin (4)
HAKE
30 Down: ''Alas'' in Augsburg (3)
ACH
31 Down: Get rid of (4)
SHED
32 Down: Cordelia's father (4)
LEAR
34 Down: Impulsive (4)
RASH
35 Down: Buddhists' sacred peak (4)
OMEI
36 Down: Lessen (4)
EASE
42 Down: Complain (4)
BEEF
43 Down: Place for a pick (4)
AFRO
44 Down: Brag (4)
CROW
45 Down: Plated, in a way (6)
TINNED
46 Down: State of India (6)
PUNJAB
47 Down: Anatomical ring (6)
AREOLE
48 Down: Certain chiropter (6)
REDBAT
50 Down: Beats (6)
PULSES
51 Down: Rock's _____ Vicious (3)
SID
52 Down: John _____ Garner (5)
NANCE
53 Down: Banned insecticide (3)
DDT
54 Down: Noted art district (4)
SOHO
59 Down: Phrase in an entirely new way (6)
RECAST
60 Down: Stir-fries (6)
SAUTES
61 Down: Volt-_____ (watt's equivalent) (6)
AMPERE
62 Down: Sounded angry (6)
HISSED
64 Down: Revolutionary Allen (5)
ETHAN
65 Down: Shelter, on ships (3)
LEE
66 Down: Shoestrings (6)
LACING
67 Down: National anthem contraction (3)
OER
69 Down: Suffix with trick or prank (4)
STER
74 Down: Song syllable (3)
TRA
75 Down: Off-Broadway's ''_____ Baltimore'' (4)
HOTL
76 Down: Skater Midori et al. (4)
ITOS
77 Down: _____-di-dah (3)
LAH
78 Down: Stout's sleuth Wolfe (4)
NERO
83 Down: 1990s peacekeeping site (7)
SOMALIA
86 Down: ''_____ It a Pity?'' (4)
ISNT
87 Down: Mallorca, e.g. (4)
ISLA
88 Down: Filmdom's Nana (4)
STEN
89 Down: Vegetable capital? (8)
BRUSSELS
90 Down: Like some memberships (8)
HONORARY
91 Down: Fair (4)
EVEN
92 Down: One-in-a- million (4)
RARE
97 Down: Schedules (6)
SLATES
98 Down: Chicago Loop group (3)
ELS
99 Down: They get into rows at school (5)
DESKS
100 Down: Aphrodite's beloved (6)
ADONIS
101 Down: Droplet (4)
BEAD
103 Down: Pioneer bathyspherist William (5)
BEEBE
104 Down: Water balloon sound (5)
SPLAT
105 Down: It provides a sounding board (5)
PIANO
106 Down: Aeronautical worry (5)
ICING
107 Down: _____ Sack (beanbag toy) (5)
HACKY
108 Down: ''The Magic Kingdom'' novelist Stanley (5)
ELKIN
109 Down: Designer Geoffrey (5)
BEENE
114 Down: Specialists (4)
PROS
117 Down: Mich. neighbor (3)
ONT
118 Down: Resistance unit (3)
OHM
119 Down: Contend (3)
VIE
120 Down: Compass point (3)
NNE
121 Down: Bests, in bouts (3)
KOS

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