CELEBRITY SWIFTIES - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 136 clues). Published 5/26/1996. By R. Ross.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Haphazard growth (6): SPRAWL
7 Across: Country on the Gulf of Guinea (5): GHANA
12 Across: Went off welfare (7): GOTAJOB
19 Across: Summary (6): PRECIS
20 Across: Popular support group (6): ALANON
21 Across: Gourmet (7): EPICURE
22 Across: "Don't tell me what to say on the air," said___ (13): HOWARDSTERNLY
24 Across: Change the layout (7): REMODEL
25 Across: Clear the boards (5): ERASE
26 Across: Gets better (5): MENDS
27 Across: Simple card game (3): WAR
29 Across: Complainer (4): PILL
30 Across: Flew off the handle (5): RAGED
31 Across: Type of belly button (4): INNY
32 Across: Singer Watley et al. (5): JODYS
34 Across: Poetic monogram (3): TSE
35 Across: Quebec time off (3): ETE
36 Across: Voting group (4): BLOC
37 Across: Voting district (4): WARD
38 Across: Foot parts (6): INCHES
41 Across: What "nobody doesn't like" (7): SARALEE
44 Across: Bank holdings (5): LIENS
46 Across: "It's___!" (5): ADEAL
47 Across: Retailer R.H.___ (4): MACY
48 Across: Davis of "Jungle Fever" (5): OSSIE
49 Across: Of the lower part of a pistil (7): OVARIAL
52 Across: Report card listing (5): MARKS
53 Across: Brief moments (4): SECS
54 Across: Sometimes it must be followed (4): SUIT
55 Across: Old Pontiac (3): GTO
56 Across: Unlike the king's English (6): SLANGY
58 Across: Munich Mister (4): HERR
59 Across: Campus program, for short (4): ROTC
60 Across: Mr. Moto reply (4): AHSO
61 Across: Mobs (6): HORDES
62 Across: Clift of "The McLaughlin Group" (7): ELEANOR
64 Across: Consonant (with) (6): INSTEP
66 Across: Bit (4): IOTA
67 Across: Word with smoke or cow (4): HOLY
69 Across: Feeling (4): VIBE
70 Across: Expenditure (6): OUTLAY
71 Across: Kind of particle (3): PSI
72 Across: Not work (4): FAIL
73 Across: ___-majeste (4): LESE
74 Across: Make tracks (5): HURRY
75 Across: They feel for you (7): SENSORS
77 Across: One who yearns (5): PINER
78 Across: She, in Siena (4): ESSA
79 Across: Condition (5): SHAPE
80 Across: Dark (5): UNLIT
81 Across: Pub vessel (7): ALEYARD
85 Across: 1961 Best Actor for "Judgment at Nuremberg" (6): SCHELL
87 Across: Collar stiffener (4): STAY
88 Across: Cautious (4): WARY
90 Across: Apiece (3): PER
91 Across: Additionally (3): TOO
92 Across: "Down by the Salley Gardens" poet (5): YEATS
94 Across: "Norma Rae" director Martin (4): RITT
95 Across: Outbuilding (5): PRIVY
97 Across: Flubs (4): ERRS
99 Across: Sticky stuff (3): GOO
100 Across: Obvious pleasure (5): GUSTO
101 Across: Port St.___, Fla. (5): LUCIE
102 Across: Actress Parsons (7): ESTELLE
105 Across: "Republican Congressmen don't like me," said___ (13): BARNEYFRANKLY
108 Across: Chills, so to speak (7): RELAXES
109 Across: Contacts, modern-style (6): EMAILS
110 Across: "Sense and Sensibility" director (6): ANGLEE
111 Across: Salon employee (7): STYLIST
112 Across: Boy of old song (5): DANNY
113 Across: Tough ones (6): POSERS

Down Answers

1 Down: Parts of orreries (7): SPHERES
2 Down: How some taxes are levied (7): PRORATA
3 Down: Parlay a bet (7): REWAGER
4 Down: Have___of nerves (5): ACASE
5 Down: Ready for the Information Age (5): WIRED
6 Down: Trip starter (3): LSD
7 Down: "I won my 1984 Tony by just a few votes," said___ (12): GLENNCLOSELY
8 Down: Stalwart (5): HARDY
9 Down: Raggedy ones (4): ANNS
10 Down: Cambodia's Lon___ (3): NOL
11 Down: What bad things shouldn't get (8): ANYWORSE
12 Down: Fritz's 1984 running mate (5): GERRY
13 Down: Poetically ajar (3): OPE
14 Down: Baseball's McCarver (3): TIM
15 Down: 1988 film "Rent-___" (4): ACOP
16 Down: "Starring in 'Who's the Boss?' was a breeze," said___ (13): JUDITHLIGHTLY
17 Down: Ultimatum (6): ORELSE
18 Down: Ball stars (6): BELLES
20 Down: "...___'clock scholar" (5): ATENO
23 Down: Le Carre's "___People" (7): SMILEYS
28 Down: Put on (3): ADD
32 Down: Pop singer Ian (5): JANIS
33 Down: "Punk rock is cruel," said___ (12): SIDVICIOUSLY
36 Down: "I was no wallflower in 'Vanity Fair,'" said___ (12): BECKYSHARPLY
37 Down: "I fear watching my own films," said___ (11): WESCRAVENLY
39 Down: Undiluted (4): NEAT
40 Down: Limousine (3): CAR
42 Down: Mystery novelist Cross (6): AMANDA
43 Down: More than medium (5): LARGE
45 Down: River to the Rhone (5): ISERE
46 Down: Part of 35-Across (4): AOUT
50 Down: Cruising (5): ATSEA
51 Down: Nuts (5): LOOPY
52 Down: "I'll do my Hepburn imitation in a minute," said___ (13): MARTINSHORTLY
54 Down: Annoyed (4): SORE
56 Down: Sends (5): SHIPS
57 Down: Like a fugitive (5): LOOSE
58 Down: "Drat!' magnified (4): HELL
59 Down: "'The Sound of Music' would make a good movie," said___ (12): ROBERTWISELY
60 Down: Lost (6): ASTRAY
63 Down: Japanese-American (5): NISEI
65 Down: Patient's cry (5): NURSE
68 Down: Belgian waterway (4): OISE
72 Down: Part of a stable family (4): FOAL
73 Down: Director Wertmuller et al. (5): LINAS
74 Down: Words with "stone" or "the matter" (7): HEARTOF
76 Down: That girl (3): SHE
77 Down: Finished, in a way (8): PUTTOBED
82 Down: In___(stuck) (7): APICKLE
83 Down: One who vituperates (7): REVILER
84 Down: Evidence of lack of empathy (7): DRYEYES
85 Down: Has the con (6): STEERS
86 Down: It's a tight fit (6): CORSET
87 Down: ___Tome (3): SAO
89 Down: A.B.A. members (5): ATTYS
93 Down: Cast out (5): EGEST
94 Down: Confrontation (5): RUNIN
95 Down: Dallas suburb (5): PLANO
96 Down: Steps (5): RUNGS
98 Down: Security item (4): SEAL
100 Down: ___Paradiso in the Alps (4): GRAN
103 Down: 10% of DCX (3): LXI
104 Down: Former Sec. Aspin (3): LES
106 Down: Org. the Surgeon General addresses (3): AMA
107 Down: Grammy category (3): RAP

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