IN 1945 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 7/23/1995. By Fran & Lou Sabin.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Ethan Frome's home (4): FARM
5 Across: Call _____ to (stop) (5): AHALT
10 Across: Part of a spur (5): ROWEL
15 Across: Finished (4): PAST
19 Across: Tubular instrument (4): OBOE
20 Across: Shade of brown (5): COCOA
21 Across: Ancient superintendent (5): EDILE
22 Across: Lui's counterpart (4): ELLE
23 Across: Actress born in 1945 (10): GOLDIEHAWN
25 Across: Drug introduced commercially in 1945 (10): PENICILLIN
27 Across: Chip, for one (8): GOLFSHOT
28 Across: Football Hall-of-Famer Greasy _____ (5): NEALE
30 Across: W.W. II wolf pack (6): UBOATS
31 Across: One of Perry's reporters (4): LOIS
32 Across: Gathering storm (5): PERIL
33 Across: Outlay (4): COST
34 Across: Galley arrangement (6): PAGING
37 Across: Italian city liberated in 1945 (5): TURIN
38 Across: Piranha, e.g. (8): MANEATER
42 Across: Carrara cash (4): LIRE
43 Across: President in 1945 (12): HARRYSTRUMAN
46 Across: _____ Islands, near New Guinea (3): ARU
47 Across: Make _____ of (botch) (5): AMESS
49 Across: Motorcycle, slangily (3): HOG
50 Across: Nautical heading (3): ESE
51 Across: Year in Nero's reign (3): LVI
52 Across: Curler's target (3): TEE
53 Across: Organization founded in 1945 (13): UNITEDNATIONS
60 Across: Sibs (3): KIN
61 Across: Best-selling vet (7): HERRIOT
63 Across: Wind-borne (5): EOLIC
64 Across: Bit of machine maintenance (6): OILING
66 Across: Computer programming phrase (4): GOTO
67 Across: Warbucks ward (5): ANNIE
68 Across: Northern constellation, with "the" (4): SWAN
69 Across: Party lines (6): SLATES
71 Across: _____ perditae (lost skills): Lat. (5): ARTES
72 Across: Demonstration halter (7): TEARGAS
75 Across: Tank supply (3): AIR
76 Across: World Series champs of 1945 (13): DETROITTIGERS
80 Across: Lunch order (3): BLT
81 Across: Harry James' "_____ My Guy" (3): HES
82 Across: Inlet (3): RIA
83 Across: Zilch (3): NIL
84 Across: Non-Polynesian (5): HAOLE
86 Across: Lance of justice (3): ITO
87 Across: E.B. White classic of 1945 (12): STUARTLITTLE
93 Across: Transvaal settler (4): BOER
94 Across: Big blazes (8): BONFIRES
96 Across: Peoples (5): RACES
97 Across: Come to (6): AWAKEN
99 Across: Poet Coolbrith et al. (4): INAS
100 Across: Printer's apprentice (5): DEVIL
101 Across: Now, in triage (4): STAT
102 Across: _____ Stone, Chief Justice in 1945 (6): HARLAN
105 Across: Type of type (5): ROMAN
106 Across: Kind of cap (8): TWISTOFF
110 Across: Earthshaker of 1945 (10): ATOMICBOMB
112 Across: Winning general in 1945 (10): EISENHOWER
114 Across: Cross-country gait (4): LOPE
115 Across: Salon support (5): EASEL
116 Across: Division of Germany (5): STAAT
117 Across: "To Live and Die _____" (4): INLA
118 Across: Made tracks (4): SPED
119 Across: Ghost (5): SHADE
120 Across: Artist Andrea del _____ (5): SARTO
121 Across: Alphabet run (4): RSTU

Down Answers

1 Down: Harvard art museum (4): FOGG
2 Down: Peek-_____ (4): ABOO
3 Down: P-51 maneuver (4): ROLL
4 Down: Fruit growers' worries (8): MEDFLIES
5 Down: Like some hands (7): ACEHIGH
6 Down: Belly shakers (5): HOHOS
7 Down: No room to swing _____ (4): ACAT
8 Down: Depressed (3): LOW
9 Down: Where pigs become pigskins (7): TANNERY
10 Down: Touch up (7): REPAINT
11 Down: Children's author Scott (5): ODELL
12 Down: Rioja, e.g. (4): WINE
13 Down: Bulldog (3): ELI
14 Down: "Jungle Drums" composer Ernesto (7): LECUONA
15 Down: Jai alai ball (6): PELOTA
16 Down: "It was _____ mistake!" (4): ALLA
17 Down: Lance (4): SLIT
18 Down: X's (4): TENS
24 Down: "This one _____ me" (4): ISON
26 Down: "The Wild Duck" dramatist (5): IBSEN
29 Down: Pantheon troublemaker (4): ERIS
32 Down: Get rid of (5): PURGE
33 Down: Brief appearance (5): CAMEO
34 Down: "Ariel" poet (5): PLATH
35 Down: Evangelist Sister _____ (5): AIMEE
36 Down: Top female box-office draw in 1945 (11): GREERGARSON
37 Down: Kentucky Futurity event (4): TROT
38 Down: It usually has a key (5): MUSIC
39 Down: Recording item launched in 1945 (11): TALKINGBOOK
40 Down: Watergate Senator Sam (5): ERVIN
41 Down: Sorry (5): RUING
44 Down: Take _____ on (inhale, as drugs) (4): AHIT
45 Down: Double a knot (5): RETIE
48 Down: Appropriate (6): SUITED
54 Down: Choker (5): NOOSE
55 Down: Tooth: Prefix (5): DENTI
56 Down: Chamber group, maybe (5): NONET
57 Down: What Santa makes (5): ALIST
58 Down: Punch in the face, old-style (5): NOSER
59 Down: Backwater college (6): SIWASH
62 Down: Go bad (3): ROT
65 Down: Household spirit (3): LAR
67 Down: Loud (5): AROAR
69 Down: Master, in "The Raj Quartet" (5): SAHIB
70 Down: Deceive (5): LIETO
71 Down: 1987 Peace Prize winner (5): ARIAS
72 Down: Snitch (4): TELL
73 Down: Stuttgart street (5): ALLEE
74 Down: Rudder locale (5): STERN
77 Down: Sets straight (5): TRUES
78 Down: Computer giant (5): INTEL
79 Down: Beats it, in dialect (4): GITS
85 Down: Upton Sinclair subject (8): ABATTOIR
87 Down: Where Moses got the Word (5): SINAI
88 Down: Medium states (7): TRANCES
89 Down: Quake (7): TREMBLE
90 Down: Kind of flow (4): LAVA
91 Down: Remove (7): ICINESS
92 Down: Corrode (7): EATINTO
95 Down: Shot (6): FILMED
98 Down: Drawers on a line, e.g. (4): WASH
100 Down: Like St. Peter's (5): DOMED
101 Down: Forehead beads (5): SWEAT
102 Down: "The Jolly Toper" painter (4): HALS
103 Down: In a superior position to (4): ATOP
104 Down: Velvet barrier (4): ROPE
105 Down: Sub _____ (4): ROSA
106 Down: Mogul (4): TSAR
107 Down: Admits, with "up" (4): OWNS
108 Down: Porkpie material (4): FELT
109 Down: Fritz's missus (4): FRAU
111 Down: Scroogian expletive (3): BAH
113 Down: "Give _____ go" (3): ITA

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