SOUND EFFECTS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 2/23/1997. By Nancy Nicholson Joline.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Erect (5): RAISE
6 Across: "Casablanca" role (4): ILSA
10 Across: Legend, e.g. (5): ACURA
15 Across: Winston Churchill's "___ Country" (4): AFAR
19 Across: ___ vincit amor (5): OMNIA
20 Across: Distress (4): NEED
21 Across: Signals are used to switch them (5): LANES
22 Across: Leader of philosophical skepticism (4): HUME
23 Across: What a tipsy actor does? (16): POURSOVERASCRIPT
26 Across: Priests' vestments (4): ALBS
27 Across: Sets for med. dramas (3): ERS
28 Across: "Video Companion" author (5): EBERT
29 Across: Pool (3): POT
30 Across: Reine's spouse (3): ROI
32 Across: Year in Claudius's reign (3): LII
33 Across: Wallace of "E.T." (3): DEE
34 Across: Like 20-Across, often (4): DIRE
35 Across: It may drip (4): EAVE
36 Across: Brought about (7): INDUCED
38 Across: What a sweet tooth demands? (12): JUSTDESSERTS
41 Across: Words with hole or two (5): INONE
42 Across: Commercial thoroughfare (5): STRIP
45 Across: "Gunsmoke" bartender (3): SAM
46 Across: Mme., in Madrid (3): SRA
47 Across: Nuts (4): BATS
48 Across: "On Broadway" co-writer Cynthia (4): WEIL
49 Across: Social climber's goal (6): STATUS
52 Across: Loose overcoat (6): ULSTER
55 Across: Like the Archbishop of York (8): ANGLICAN
57 Across: Code word (3): DIT
59 Across: Plenty (4): TONS
60 Across: Yup's alternative (3): NAH
61 Across: Aisle? (10): BRIDALPATH
65 Across: Some are holy (6): ORDERS
68 Across: Access (6): ENTREE
70 Across: Work done on the premises? (5): LOGIC
71 Across: Broadway hit subtitled "A Musical Arabian Night" (6): KISMET
72 Across: Italian auto maker Bugatti (6): ETTORE
73 Across: Had one's foot in the door? (10): WASASHOEIN
76 Across: Prefix with sphere (3): ECO
77 Across: "thirty-something" actor (4): OLIN
78 Across: Social addition (3): IST
79 Across: Disney World transport (8): MONORAIL
81 Across: Wingdings (6): BLASTS
83 Across: "Love Affair" star, 1994 (6): BENING
86 Across: Der ___ (Adenauer) (4): ALTE
87 Across: Striker's cry (4): SCAB
89 Across: "The Crying Game" star (3): REA
91 Across: Student datum (3): AGE
92 Across: Fools (5): ASSES
93 Across: 200 milligrams (5): CARAT
95 Across: San Diego Zoo attraction? (12): URBANGORILLA
100 Across: Conquered quickly (7): OVERRAN
102 Across: Fleet fleet? (4): SSTS
103 Across: Deep blue (4): ANIL
104 Across: Nobelist Hammarskjold (3): DAG
107 Across: Maria, for one (3): TIA
108 Across: List ender (3): ETC
109 Across: Constrain (3): TIE
110 Across: Rush (5): SPATE
111 Across: Low note (3): ONE
112 Across: Biting (4): TART
114 Across: Goings-on at the church fair? (16): BAZAARHAPPENINGS
118 Across: "___ la Douce" (4): IRMA
119 Across: Had dinner delivered (5): ATEIN
120 Across: Like one side of a ship (4): ALEE
121 Across: Laertes and Ophelia (5): DANES
122 Across: They, in Trieste (4): ESSE
123 Across: Nashville ___ (60's pop group) (5): TEENS
124 Across: Trade center (4): MART
125 Across: Ano nuevo time (5): ENERO

Down Answers

1 Down: Enticed, with "in" (5): ROPED
2 Down: Dean Martin topic (5): AMORE
3 Down: Taken (5): INUSE
4 Down: ___ Roger de Coverley (country dance) (3): SIR
5 Down: Abated (7): EASEDUP
6 Down: Flip (6): INVERT
7 Down: Emulated Groucho Marx (6): LEERED
8 Down: Miro compatriot (4): SERT
9 Down: Holly Hunter in "The Piano" (3): ADA
10 Down: Recess (6): ALCOVE
11 Down: Plains family (7): CARTERS
12 Down: Cycle starter (3): UNI
13 Down: Payback (8): REPRISAL
14 Down: Luxury car ___ Martin (5): ASTON
15 Down: "Gotcha!" (3): AHA
16 Down: Offerings at a downscale eatery? (15): FULLCOARSEMEALS
17 Down: Encompassing (7): AMBIENT
18 Down: Lives (7): RESIDES
24 Down: They go to waist (4): OBIS
25 Down: Spurts of activity (6): SPASMS
31 Down: Uganda's Amin (3): IDI
35 Down: "___ was a cunning hunter": Genesis (4): ESAU
37 Down: Relaxes (7): UNBENDS
38 Down: Nursery rhyme girl (4): JILL
39 Down: L.I. zone (3): EST
40 Down: Veridicality (5): TRUTH
42 Down: Classic Gershwin song (6): SWANEE
43 Down: Landlord's need (6): TENANT
44 Down: Government fashion decree? (15): RIGHTTOBAREARMS
49 Down: Summer needs (7): SCREENS
50 Down: Mai ___ (3): TAI
51 Down: Or's go-with (3): AND
53 Down: Stirring up (7): STOKING
54 Down: City WSW of Milano (6): TORINO
56 Down: European airline (6): IBERIA
57 Down: Place for a throne (4): DAIS
58 Down: Problem for a suited-up diver? (4): ITCH
62 Down: "___, 'tis true I have gone here and there": Shak. (4): ALAS
63 Down: Preoccupied (4): LOST
64 Down: Tour organizer, for short (3): PGA
66 Down: Enumerate (6): RECITE
67 Down: Wraps (6): STOLES
69 Down: Sports car feature (7): ROLLBAR
73 Down: Having learned a lesson (5): WISER
74 Down: Japan's largest lake (3): OMI
75 Down: Waiting period, seemingly (3): EON
80 Down: Tabula ___ (4): RASA
82 Down: Curtail (8): TRUNCATE
83 Down: Persiflage (6): BANTER
84 Down: Easter features (4): EGGS
85 Down: ___-Freudian (3): NEO
87 Down: F.D.R.'s Fala, e.g. (7): SCOTTIE
88 Down: Blini accompaniments (7): CAVIARS
90 Down: Forbear (7): ABSTAIN
92 Down: "The House of the Spirits" author (7): ALLENDE
94 Down: Sei halved (3): TRE
96 Down: Kurds and Turks (6): ASIANS
97 Down: Ice-T or Eazy-E (6): RAPPER
98 Down: Sulking (6): INAPET
99 Down: Word for the diet-conscious (4): LITE
101 Down: In a box, in a way (5): ATBAT
104 Down: "Death, Be Not Proud" poet (5): DONNE
105 Down: Choler (5): ANGER
106 Down: Artist's plaster (5): GESSO
110 Down: Large hall (4): SALA
113 Down: ___ kwon do (3): TAE
115 Down: Small section of a dictionary (3): ZEE
116 Down: Country ___ (3): HAM
117 Down: Golfer Woosnam (3): IAN

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