POKER SET - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 164 clues). Published 11/3/1996. By M. Nosowsky.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Capital of Germany? (5): SOFTG
6 Across: Person in a hammock (6): RESTER
12 Across: TV's Maverick (4): BRET
16 Across: Toward the rudder (5): ABAFT
21 Across: 1993 N.B.A. Rookie of the Year (5): ONEAL
22 Across: Certain Alaskan (6): ESKIMO
23 Across: It can go round the world (4): YOYO
24 Across: In a distinguished way (5): NOBLY
25 Across: Move (12): PULLUPSTAKES
27 Across: Modern Maturity grp. (4): AARP
28 Across: [Not that one again!] (5): GROAN
29 Across: Heavy marble (7): STEELIE
30 Across: Joyce and Synge, e.g. (8): IRISHMEN
32 Across: Fresh air, slangily (5): OZONE
33 Across: Cabinet dept. (3): AGR
34 Across: Start for girl (4): ATTA
35 Across: Other, in Oaxaca (4): OTRO
37 Across: Price discount factors (8): TRADEINS
42 Across: Avoid guile (14): PLAYITSTRAIGHT
48 Across: Prepare for more shots (6): RELOAD
49 Across: Disobeyed a zoo sign? (3): FED
50 Across: Symphony in E flat major (6): EROICA
51 Across: Chef d'etat, once (3): ROI
52 Across: High mark (5): APLUS
53 Across: Stroke (6): CARESS
56 Across: Dashboard letters (3): MPH
57 Across: Street fight? (5): SCENE
59 Across: Academy freshman (5): PLEBE
60 Across: On one's toes (4): ATIP
61 Across: Jimmies (5): PRIES
64 Across: Unhappy one (6): POUTER
65 Across: Sound of laughter (4): PEAL
66 Across: Part of Q.E.D. (4): QUOD
67 Across: They are round and pound (5): PEENS
68 Across: Emulates Delilah (7): BETRAYS
69 Across: French 101 verb (4): ETRE
70 Across: Humerus neighbor (4): ULNA
71 Across: Soup ingredient (4): LEEK
72 Across: Sanctified (5): BLEST
73 Across: Genealogical abbr. (4): DESC
74 Across: Words at a shootout (13): OKAYBUDDYDRAW
77 Across: "It's ___ cry from..." (4): AFAR
81 Across: Boardwalk buy (5): HOTEL
83 Across: Prefix with polar (4): AMBI
84 Across: River known to the ancients as Obringa (4): AARE
85 Across: "My Friend" of 50's TV (4): IRMA
86 Across: Pulled out (7): SECEDED
89 Across: Certain Alaskan (5): ALEUT
90 Across: Try to get the lead, maybe (4): MINE
91 Across: Certain Dodge (4): NEON
92 Across: Put (6): PLACED
93 Across: Chandelier pendant (5): PRISM
94 Across: Prepared with bread crumbs, in cookery (4): PANE
95 Across: "Happy Birthday" writers (5): ICERS
96 Across: Mariners' danger (5): ROCKS
97 Across: Theological inst. (3): SEM
98 Across: 1896 decision ___ v. Ferguson (6): PLESSY
100 Across: Prohibition (5): TABOO
101 Across: Keogh relative (3): IRA
102 Across: TV series with Sgt. O'Rourke (6): FTROOP
105 Across: Source of cork (3): OAK
106 Across: Scientific discovery of 1868 (6): HELIUM
107 Across: 1939 film with a Best Actor performance (14): GOODBYEMRCHIPS
111 Across: Like some stockings (8): SEAMLESS
113 Across: Hardly humble (4): VAIN
114 Across: ___-memoire (4): AIDE
115 Across: Farthest: Abbr. (3): ULT
116 Across: Agree (5): SAYOK
119 Across: Pirates' domain (8): OPENSEAS
123 Across: Works (7): FACTORY
128 Across: Like a bunch (5): ADORE
129 Across: ___ Bear (4): PAPA
130 Across: Business book, with "The" (12): ARTOFTHEDEAL
133 Across: Mark Twain prop (5): CIGAR
134 Across: Extremely sharp (4): ACID
135 Across: Home on the range (6): TEEPEE
136 Across: The "voice" in Bloch's "Voice in the Wilderness" (5): CELLO
137 Across: S-shaped (5): SNAKY
138 Across: Prefix with -gon (4): DECA
139 Across: The prince in "The Prince and the Pauper" (6): EDWARD
140 Across: Grant's successor (5): HAYES

Down Answers

1 Down: Pacifier (3): SOP
2 Down: Duty (4): ONUS
3 Down: Beaver material (4): FELT
4 Down: "Peter Rabbit," for one (4): TALE
5 Down: Stick together (4): GLUE
6 Down: Quit (6): RESIGN
7 Down: Dimethyl sulfate and others (6): ESTERS
8 Down: Cousin of calypso (3): SKA
9 Down: Kon-___ (Heyerdahl raft) (4): TIKI
10 Down: Bright green hummingbirds (8): EMERALDS
11 Down: Garcia Lorca's "Dona ___ la soltera" (6): ROSITA
12 Down: Just barely (7): BYAHAIR
13 Down: Globe-trot (4): ROAM
14 Down: Fictional Jane (4): EYRE
15 Down: Bang-up (8): TOPNOTCH
16 Down: Sweater material (6): ANGORA
17 Down: Russian wolfhound (6): BORZOI
18 Down: Peek follower (4): ABOO
19 Down: Spanish custard (4): FLAN
20 Down: Sharon's co-star in 80's TV (4): TYNE
26 Down: Checks on clothing (5): PLAID
31 Down: Red-eye cause (4): STYE
36 Down: Song syllable (3): TRA
37 Down: Up a tree (7): TRAPPED
38 Down: Abounding (7): REPLETE
39 Down: Attentive (7): ALLEARS
40 Down: Be extra sure (11): DOUBLECHECK
41 Down: Leisure (4): EASE
42 Down: Look-see (4): PEEP
43 Down: Weighty reading? (5): TOMES
44 Down: Nurses (4): SIPS
45 Down: ___ Hall (Robert Southey's home) (5): GRETA
46 Down: Dearest (5): HONEY
47 Down: Seat groupings (5): TIERS
49 Down: Man ___ (6): FRIDAY
53 Down: Made watertight (7): CAULKED
54 Down: Hardly melodious (6): ATONAL
55 Down: Private road feature (9): SPEEDBUMP
57 Down: Hooch hounds (4): SOTS
58 Down: Occasion for bows and whistles? (11): CURTAINCALL
62 Down: Make further corrections (6): REEDIT
63 Down: Black (4): INKY
64 Down: Tiny (6): PEEWEE
66 Down: Not original (6): QUOTED
67 Down: Military hat adornments (6): PLUMES
68 Down: Banana oil (7): BLARNEY
72 Down: Mental acuity (6): BRAINS
75 Down: Singaraja is its capital (4): BALI
76 Down: Tablecloths and napkins, maybe (6): DAMASK
78 Down: Giveaway (7): FREEBIE
79 Down: In the mood (7): AMOROUS
80 Down: Return payments? (7): RANSOMS
82 Down: Horace volume (4): ODES
86 Down: Young fellow (5): SPRIG
87 Down: The gold of the conquistadors (5): ELORO
88 Down: Important West Indies crop (5): CACAO
89 Down: Kind of plate (5): ARMOR
93 Down: It can curl your hair (4): PERM
94 Down: Stew ingredients (4): PEAS
95 Down: It's on the agenda (4): ITEM
97 Down: Tablet (8): STENOPAD
99 Down: Like dachshunds (8): LOPEARED
102 Down: Message starter (3): FYI
103 Down: Song words before "We stand on guard for thee!" (7): OCANADA
104 Down: Letters from Greece (4): PHIS
106 Down: Break out, in a way (5): HATCH
108 Down: "Slavonic Dances" composer (6): DVORAK
109 Down: Napoleon locale (6): BAKERY
110 Down: Conceive (6): IDEATE
111 Down: Abide (6): SUFFER
112 Down: Happy as a clam (6): ELATED
116 Down: Black Hawk and tribesmen (4): SACS
117 Down: Deuce follower (4): ADIN
118 Down: Form of discipline (4): YOGA
120 Down: Jog, e.g. (4): PACE
121 Down: Stupendous (4): EPIC
122 Down: Cold weather meal (4): STEW
124 Down: Georgia ___ (4): TECH
125 Down: Concert sites (4): ODEA
126 Down: Bank (on) (4): RELY
127 Down: Lockmaker (4): YALE
131 Down: W.W. II org. (3): OPA
132 Down: Spanish article (3): LOS

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