CHOICE WORDS (Hard Clues) - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (25x25 grid, 182 clues). Published 6/6/1999. By David J. Kahn.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Doesn't stop cold turkey (9): TAPERSOFF
10 Across: Chooses (3): HAS
13 Across: First call? (4): SAFE
17 Across: Hesitant (6): TREPID
23 Across: No longer painful (9): ALLBETTER
24 Across: Like a chandelier (8): AGLITTER
26 Across: Kind (6): HUMANE
27 Across: It may pick up in the afternoon (9): SEABREEZE
28 Across: Like most bottles (8): REUSABLE
29 Across: Turn out (6): EMERGE
30 Across: Hear (3): TRY
31 Across: Fished in crevices (5): EELED
32 Across: Performer of complicated operations (15): DIGITALCOMPUTER
34 Across: Toulouse time (3): ETE
35 Across: ___ Day (8): ALLSOULS
37 Across: Pertaining to church taxes, old-style (6): TITHAL
38 Across: See 83-Across (5): RADIO
40 Across: Ground for a claim (5): TITLE
43 Across: Unbalanced (8): NONLEVEL
47 Across: Testify (6): DEPOSE
49 Across: Tighten (7): TENSEUP
51 Across: Cavern (4): GROT
52 Across: Utter (4): EMIT
54 Across: Descendant of Muhammad the Prophet (4): EMIR
55 Across: Spread out (6): SPARSE
58 Across: Like some traditions (4): ORAL
60 Across: Mount Vernon, e.g. (6): ESTATE
62 Across: Treasured instrument (5): AMATI
64 Across: Dwight Eisenhower's mother's name (3): IDA
65 Across: With judgment (6): SANELY
67 Across: Flushed (4): ROSY
69 Across: Windy City rail system, briefly (3): CTA
70 Across: Noted Russian shrine (10): LENINSTOMB
73 Across: Isn't cautious (with) (14): TAKESLIBERTIES
76 Across: "Buy" or "sell," say (8): STOCKTIP
77 Across: Word in Kansas' motto (5): ASTRA
79 Across: Like (4): ASIF
80 Across: Hopper (4): HARE
81 Across: Mathematician Hein (4): PIET
82 Across: Legalistic adjective (4): SAID
83 Across: With 38-Across, popular entertainment (4): TALK
85 Across: 5.5-point type sizes (6): AGATES
87 Across: View (6): BEHOLD
90 Across: "Description of the World" writer (9): MARCOPOLO
92 Across: Connected (6): ALLIED
93 Across: Mescaline source (6): PEYOTL
94 Across: Kind of vaccine (4): SALK
95 Across: Work on (4): DOTO
96 Across: With the bow, in music (4): ARCO
97 Across: Shade of green (4): LEEK
98 Across: Year the Roman writer Persius died (4): LXII
100 Across: Fictional lawyer (5): MASON
101 Across: Tell-tale weapon? (8): CROSSBOW
106 Across: Reason for coyness, maybe (14): ULTERIORMOTIVE
110 Across: Exercise (10): GETINSHAPE
112 Across: Liaison (3): TIE
113 Across: Subject of Project Blue Book (4): UFOS
114 Across: Put on the shelf (6): RETIRE
116 Across: Kid (3): RIB
117 Across: Blatherskite (5): YENTA
118 Across: Early game score (6): ONEONE
120 Across: Milking area (4): BARN
121 Across: Nut (6): MANIAC
124 Across: "Ah'm ___ it!" (4): AGIN
125 Across: New Jersey ___ (4): NETS
126 Across: Bridge comment (4): PASS
130 Across: Childish doings? (7): RECIPES
132 Across: Earthquake aftermaths (6): HAVOCS
134 Across: Isolate (8): SHUTAWAY
136 Across: Duplicate (5): DITTO
137 Across: More subtle (5): FINER
138 Across: Crayola shade (6): SIENNA
140 Across: Verse style (8): SINGSONG
143 Across: Debussy subject (3): MER
146 Across: Shows level-headedness (15): LISTENSTOREASON
153 Across: Feuding (5): ATWAR
154 Across: Can (3): AXE
155 Across: "An Old-Fashioned Girl" author, 1870 (6): ALCOTT
156 Across: Entertaining thoughts (8): IDEATIVE
157 Across: Cooks (9): FALSIFIES
159 Across: Top (6): BLOUSE
160 Across: Fertilizer ingredients (8): NITRATES
161 Across: Like most paparazzi (9): FREELANCE
162 Across: Volleyball player (6): SETTER
163 Across: Wraps up, so to speak (4): ICES
164 Across: TV drama settings (3): ERS
165 Across: Place for verbal expression (9): ESSAYTEST

Down Answers

1 Down: Soupçon (5): TASTE
2 Down: Whistle, maybe (5): ALERT
3 Down: Old-time entertainer (11): PLAYERPIANO
4 Down: "Chicago" lyricist Fred (3): EBB
5 Down: Goes back over (7): REREADS
6 Down: Shooter's supply (8): STEELIES
7 Down: 1887 La Scala premiere (6): OTELLO
8 Down: Hats with tassels: Var. (5): FEZES
9 Down: "The Godfather, Part II" character (5): FREDO
10 Down: Tough luck, in Britain (9): HARDLINES
11 Down: Medicare cutback proponents? (7): AGEISTS
12 Down: Hit hard (4): SLUG
13 Down: "Immediately!" (4): STAT
14 Down: Up (5): ATBAT
15 Down: Bringing down (7): FELLING
16 Down: Crane (7): ERECTOR
17 Down: John Huston's film-directing debut (16): THEMALTESEFALCON
18 Down: Opposite of smooth (6): RUMPLE
19 Down: Big bird: Var. (4): EMEU
20 Down: Chapter (4): PART
21 Down: "A Loss of Roses" playwright (4): INGE
22 Down: Fantail, for one (4): DEER
25 Down: "It ___" ("Who's there?" response) (3): ISI
33 Down: Cry before disaster (4): OHNO
36 Down: Colorado natives (4): UTES
39 Down: Kind of valve (6): AORTIC
41 Down: Onetime military engineer for Cesare Borgia (15): LEONARDODAVINCI
42 Down: Seat of Humboldt County, Calif. (6): EUREKA
44 Down: Examine thoroughly (3): VET
45 Down: Starve (8): EMACIATE
46 Down: Gave birth to whelps (8): LITTERED
47 Down: Buyouts, e.g. (5): DEALS
48 Down: Actor M. ___ Walsh (5): EMMET
49 Down: Log carrier (4): TRAM
50 Down: Show fear (4): PALE
53 Down: Kids (6): TEASES
56 Down: Was moved by (6): PITIED
57 Down: Take over (5): ADOPT
59 Down: Lily, in Lille (3): LYS
61 Down: The Euphrates crosses it: Abbr. (3): SYR
63 Down: Site of a black hole (6): INKPOT
66 Down: Web site? (5): ATTIC
67 Down: Capitalist's concern (4): RISK
68 Down: It's tied at the back (3): OBI
71 Down: Manet, at times (16): STILLLIFEPAINTER
72 Down: Fundamental (5): BASAL
74 Down: "Symphonie espagnole" composer (4): LALO
75 Down: Tangy ethnic food (4): THAI
78 Down: One of the Channel Islands (4): SARK
83 Down: Group with Grammy's 1982 Record of the Year (4): TOTO
84 Down: Word with sing or string (5): ALONG
86 Down: Mailing to a casting director (6): GLOSSY
87 Down: They don't take turns (8): BEELINES
88 Down: Some canines (8): EYETEETH
89 Down: Nonsense (4): HOKE
90 Down: Wing, say (4): MAIM
91 Down: Model (5): POSER
92 Down: Upstairs, in Uruguay (6): ARRIBA
93 Down: Igneous rock far beneath the earth's surface (6): PLUTON
94 Down: Dear people? (4): SIRS
96 Down: Intermission ender, maybe (5): ACTII
99 Down: Part of a football play diagram (3): XOO
100 Down: Like some bedsheet corners, in Britain (6): MITRED
102 Down: Bind, as grass stalks (6): SHEAVE
103 Down: Setting of many Stephen King novels (11): BANGORMAINE
104 Down: Instrument lens (5): OPTIC
105 Down: Detaches, in a way (5): WEANS
107 Down: Printing amount (3): RUN
108 Down: Poet's eye (3): ORB
109 Down: Rupture (4): TEAR
111 Down: Fliers with wedge-shaped tails (4): ERNS
115 Down: Sad feeling (9): EMPTINESS
119 Down: Six-time Rose Bowl winner, for short (3): OSU
122 Down: Billion years (4): AEON
123 Down: Major fishing area in the Pacific Rim (8): CHINASEA
127 Down: Blows away, so to speak (4): AWES
128 Down: 1979 Duvall title role (7): SANTINI
129 Down: ___ month (moon phase recurrence) (7): SYNODIC
131 Down: Roy Orbison classic (7): ITSOVER
133 Down: How complainers complain (7): ANGRILY
135 Down: It can put you to sleep (6): TSETSE
137 Down: "The French Lieutenant's Woman" author (6): FOWLES
139 Down: Appalachian feature (5): ARETE
141 Down: Apology preceder (5): GAFFE
142 Down: Alpha, beta, gamma, etc. (5): STARS
144 Down: Top dogs (5): EXECS
145 Down: Order to a typographer (5): RESET
146 Down: Family dogs (4): LABS
147 Down: Latin pronoun (4): ILLE
148 Down: Macintosh, e.g. (4): SCOT
149 Down: Plug (4): TOUT
150 Down: Anvil locations (4): EARS
151 Down: ___ stroke (3): ATA
152 Down: Spot (4): SITE
158 Down: Rounder than round (3): FAT

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