PARADOX - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 3/30/1997. By Elizabeth C. Gorski.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: One may be checkered (4)
- PAST
- 5 Across: Night light (4)
- NEON
- 9 Across: April honoree (4)
- FOOL
- 13 Across: Fairy tale figures (4)
- HAGS
- 17 Across: Baseball's Tommie (4)
- AGEE
- 18 Across: Devour (5)
- EATUP
- 20 Across: ___ Fjord (4)
- OSLO
- 21 Across: Part of a monk's title (5)
- DALAI
- 22 Across: Beginning of a thought by the 72-Across 102-Across 80-Across (21)
- WHENIPRONOUNCETHEWORD
- 26 Across: Bedtime genie (7)
- SANDMAN
- 27 Across: Stamp of approval?: Abbr. (4)
- USDA
- 28 Across: Patsies (7)
- SUCKERS
- 29 Across: Sushi supplies (4)
- EELS
- 30 Across: Scrooge's look (5)
- SNEER
- 31 Across: Quilters' klatch (3)
- BEE
- 32 Across: "Dr. Zhivago" name (4)
- LARA
- 34 Across: Type choices (5)
- PICAS
- 35 Across: Mocking (8)
- DERIDING
- 40 Across: End of the thought (17)
- SILENCEIDESTROYIT
- 44 Across: ___-de-sac (3)
- CUL
- 45 Across: Seat of Garfield County, Okla. (4)
- ENID
- 46 Across: Olympics jump (4)
- AXEL
- 47 Across: Not theirs (4)
- OURS
- 48 Across: Canon competitor (4)
- MITA
- 49 Across: P.M. hours, to a bard (3)
- EEN
- 50 Across: 80-Across's field (10)
- LITERATURE
- 54 Across: Practices girth control (5)
- DIETS
- 55 Across: With grace (8)
- PRETTILY
- 58 Across: ___-class (airplane section) (5)
- ECONO
- 59 Across: Two Tudors (6)
- HENRYS
- 60 Across: Regatta (4)
- RACE
- 61 Across: Catch of the day, maybe (5)
- SCROD
- 62 Across: Somewhat, to Salieri (4)
- POCO
- 63 Across: Part of a rainbow (6)
- INDIGO
- 66 Across: Palestrina piece (5)
- MOTET
- 67 Across: Ale, e.g. (8)
- PUBORDER
- 71 Across: Tearjerkers, sometimes (5)
- SOAPS
- 72 Across: Like 80-Across (10)
- POLISHBORN
- 74 Across: Lacto-___-vegetarian (3)
- OVO
- 75 Across: Beer variety (4)
- LITE
- 76 Across: Lady Macbeth, for one (4)
- ROLE
- 77 Across: Crazy quilt (4)
- OLIO
- 78 Across: Corp. V.I.P.'s (4)
- CEOS
- 79 Across: "Peer Gynt" character (3)
- ASE
- 80 Across: See 22-Across (17)
- WISLAWASZYMBORSKA
- 85 Across: E-mail (8)
- MESSAGES
- 87 Across: Bar, at the bar (5)
- ESTOP
- 88 Across: Taxi door info (4)
- RATE
- 89 Across: Personals, e.g. (3)
- ADS
- 90 Across: Isle on which Apollo was born (5)
- DELOS
- 91 Across: Protection for some I.R.A.'s (4)
- FDIC
- 93 Across: Item on a list (7)
- AGENDUM
- 97 Across: Each (4)
- APOP
- 98 Across: Vexes (7)
- RANKLES
- 102 Across: What 80-Across became in 1996 (21)
- NOBELPRIZEWINNINGPOET
- 106 Across: Start of a Dickens title (5)
- ATALE
- 107 Across: River to the Fulda (4)
- EDER
- 108 Across: Certain string ensemble (5)
- NONET
- 109 Across: "Eugene Onegin" mezzo-soprano (4)
- OLGA
- 110 Across: Famous tiger (4)
- TONY
- 111 Across: Root beer brand (4)
- DADS
- 112 Across: Eliot character (4)
- BEDE
- 113 Across: Old news agency (4)
- TASS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Dog's "dogs" (4)
- PAWS
- 2 Down: Mideast title (4)
- AGHA
- 3 Down: Spotted (4)
- SEEN
- 4 Down: Bid (8)
- TENDERED
- 5 Down: Only U.N. member whose flag is not rectangular (5)
- NEPAL
- 6 Down: Clears (5)
- EARNS
- 7 Down: Ear: Prefix (3)
- OTO
- 8 Down: Mother Teresa, for one (3)
- NUN
- 9 Down: Most enamored (of) (7)
- FONDEST
- 10 Down: Pianist Levant (5)
- OSCAR
- 11 Down: 1982 country hit "Same ___ Me" (3)
- OLE
- 12 Down: Gobs (4)
- LOTS
- 13 Down: Peddled (6)
- HAWKED
- 14 Down: ___ vera (4)
- ALOE
- 15 Down: "Dumb & Dumber" actress (4)
- GARR
- 16 Down: Caesar and others (4)
- SIDS
- 19 Down: Jump (on) (6)
- POUNCE
- 21 Down: Trickery (6)
- DECEIT
- 23 Down: "That is..." (5)
- IMEAN
- 24 Down: "___ directed" (5)
- USEAS
- 25 Down: Chutzpah (6)
- HUBRIS
- 30 Down: Not go directly (5)
- SIDLE
- 32 Down: Eye makeup (5)
- LINER
- 33 Down: Dress style (5)
- ALINE
- 34 Down: Godliness (5)
- PIETY
- 35 Down: Oporto's river (5)
- DOURO
- 36 Down: Young Fontaine role (4)
- EYRE
- 37 Down: With increased reserve (5)
- ICIER
- 38 Down: Cuckoo (5)
- NUTTY
- 39 Down: Bar request (5)
- GLASS
- 40 Down: Trickle (4)
- SEEP
- 41 Down: Black, yellow and white (6)
- CALICO
- 42 Down: Jean-Claude Duvalier, e.g. (5)
- EXILE
- 43 Down: Big bar order (5)
- ROUND
- 48 Down: Second-fiddle (5)
- MINOR
- 51 Down: Prefix with linear (5)
- RECTI
- 52 Down: Plottage (5)
- ACRES
- 53 Down: Liking (5)
- TOOTH
- 54 Down: Art style, familiarly (4)
- DECO
- 56 Down: Rubbish (5)
- TRIPE
- 57 Down: Yard sale staples (4)
- TAGS
- 59 Down: Associate (6)
- HOBNOB
- 61 Down: Roman sandal (5)
- SOLEA
- 62 Down: Jewish holiday (5)
- PURIM
- 63 Down: Faith in Turkey (5)
- ISLAM
- 64 Down: Static (5)
- NOISE
- 65 Down: Historical info (5)
- DATES
- 66 Down: Gangster's gals (5)
- MOLLS
- 67 Down: Nodule (5)
- POLYP
- 68 Down: Verb for thou (5)
- DOEST
- 69 Down: Call to mind (5)
- EVOKE
- 70 Down: Santa ___, Calif. (4)
- ROSA
- 72 Down: Sit for a photo (4)
- POSE
- 73 Down: Nincompoops (5)
- BOZOS
- 76 Down: Erects, as a contraption (6)
- RIGSUP
- 78 Down: Loon (8)
- CRACKPOT
- 80 Down: Duck walk (6)
- WADDLE
- 81 Down: Sorry sorts (7)
- WEEPERS
- 82 Down: "It must have been ___ news day" (5)
- ASLOW
- 83 Down: Visit (6)
- STOPIN
- 84 Down: Bit of NASA equipment (5)
- ORING
- 86 Down: With a level head (6)
- SANELY
- 90 Down: In a fog (5)
- DAZED
- 91 Down: Overexposed to the sun (5)
- FRIED
- 92 Down: T.S. Eliot book-essay (5)
- DANTE
- 93 Down: Premed class: Abbr. (4)
- ANAT
- 94 Down: Computer programming phrase (4)
- GOTO
- 95 Down: Israel's Abba (4)
- EBAN
- 96 Down: He once had stable work on TV (4)
- MRED
- 99 Down: Degas's "Miss ___ at the Cirque Fernando" (4)
- LOLA
- 100 Down: Brain scans, for short (4)
- EEGS
- 101 Down: Timetable listings: Abbr. (4)
- STAS
- 103 Down: Rhoda's TV mom (3)
- IDA
- 104 Down: Head, in slang (3)
- NOB
- 105 Down: Liverpool-to-Newcastle dir. (3)
- NNE
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