FALSE IDENTITIES - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 1/7/2001. By Manny Nosowsky.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Skilled felon (4): YEGG
5 Across: "Hold on there!" (4): WHOA
9 Across: Hustles (4): CONS
13 Across: Some engines (6): TURBOS
19 Across: Sphere (4): AREA
20 Across: Snake dancers (4): HOPI
21 Across: Fish with scarlet fins (4): OPAH
22 Across: Mark for greatness (6): ANOINT
23 Across: He's got clout (9): WILLPOWER
25 Across: She sews at home (11): CAROLSINGER
27 Across: Proscribed (5): TABOO
28 Across: Kind of commander (4): NATO
30 Across: Air traveler's choice (5): CLASS
31 Across: The great Ziegfeld (3): FLO
32 Across: He'll thank you kindly (15): ARTAPPRECIATION
35 Across: Too heavy makeup (4): GOOK
36 Across: Prov. on Atlantic Time (3): PEI
37 Across: Open court hearing (4): OYER
38 Across: Equally irate (5): ASMAD
40 Across: Range (4): ROVE
41 Across: Actual (8): TANGIBLE
45 Across: Australian crop pests (4): EMUS
47 Across: Under, in a way (7): SEDATED
49 Across: Conqueror of Northumberland, 954 (5): EDRED
50 Across: Author Lessing (5): DORIS
52 Across: VCR button (3): REC
53 Across: Laundromat machine feature (7): COINBOX
56 Across: Shirt style (4): POLO
57 Across: Poe poem (8): THEBELLS
62 Across: Matches (6): AGREES
63 Across: Spoils (4): HAUL
64 Across: Opera libretto (4): BOOK
65 Across: "Oh, that's silly" (4): POOH
66 Across: Kind of skirt (4): SLIT
67 Across: She's a softy (9): PATTYMELT
69 Across: Start of a conclusion (4): ERGO
70 Across: New Age composer John (4): TESH
71 Across: Propose at a meeting (4): MOVE
72 Across: Orthodontist's concern (4): BITE
73 Across: Hardly a little angel (6): TERROR
75 Across: Uphold (8): ADHERETO
77 Across: Musical epilogue (4): CODA
78 Across: Long-suffering (7): PATIENT
79 Across: Start of a popular round song (3): ROW
80 Across: Dinnertime annoyances (5): CALLS
82 Across: "Star Wars" figure, informally (5): ARTOO
83 Across: Unsavory types (7): SLEAZES
87 Across: "Just a Gigolo" singer, 1985 (4): ROTH
88 Across: The way ferries go (8): TOANDFRO
92 Across: When pinned, it's a lock (4): HASP
93 Across: Church tenets (5): DOGMA
95 Across: Island with a 13th-century cathedral (4): IONA
97 Across: Big Apple subway line, with "the" (3): LEX
98 Across: Ally McBeal, e.g.: Abbr. (4): ATTY
99 Across: He's got a craggy face (15): ROCKYPROMONTORY
104 Across: Measure of conductance (3): MHO
105 Across: Places to drill (5): TEETH
107 Across: "You go not till ___ you up a glass": Hamlet (4): ISET
108 Across: "Do I ___ second?" (5): HEARA
109 Across: She plays her little game (11): PENNYARCADE
112 Across: She has a ghostly pallor (9): LILYWHITE
115 Across: Early source of spices, with "the" (6): ORIENT
116 Across: Challenge, metaphorically (4): HILL
117 Across: Hoskins role in "Hook" (4): SMEE
118 Across: Scott Turow title (4): ONEL
119 Across: Relatives of the Omaha (6): OSAGES
120 Across: Colorless, as writing (4): ARID
121 Across: Brain tests, briefly (4): EEGS
122 Across: Renamed oil company (4): ESSO

Down Answers

1 Down: It puts you off course (3): YAW
2 Down: Asmara is its capital (7): ERITREA
3 Down: Form of dynamite (7): GELATIN
4 Down: Nero's successor (5): GALBA
5 Down: Victor's reaction (5): WHOOP
6 Down: What students want to know (3): HOW
7 Down: Watchful (8): OPENEYED
8 Down: Star in the sky? (6): AIRACE
9 Down: Shade darker than chestnut (5): COCOA
10 Down: ___-Locka, Fla. (3): OPA
11 Down: Garden perennials (8): NARCISSI
12 Down: Yiddish writer Aleichem (6): SHOLOM
13 Down: Provider for Pravda (4): TASS
14 Down: Les États-___ (4): UNIS
15 Down: Former Congressman Dellums (3): RON
16 Down: It's hard to photograph (7): BIGFOOT
17 Down: Classic Bob Marley song (7): ONELOVE
18 Down: Rowed (7): STROKED
24 Down: Short report (3): POP
26 Down: Turner and others (5): LANAS
29 Down: Ran ragged (8): TIREDOUT
32 Down: Well-related (3): APT
33 Down: Something flexible to wear (5): ROLEX
34 Down: Bull: Prefix (5): TAURO
35 Down: She comes to a full stop (11): GRACEPERIOD
39 Down: Yankee Jeter (5): DEREK
42 Down: He's getting a doctor's help (11): GENETHERAPY
43 Down: "Why, ___ delighted!" (4): IDBE
44 Down: Boys in the 'hood (4): BROS
46 Down: She's holding things down (9): MOLLYBOLT
48 Down: Cotillion V.I.P. (3): DEB
51 Down: Operagoer's wear, maybe (5): STOLE
53 Down: ___ spell on (5): CASTA
54 Down: Showed obvious interest in (5): OGLED
55 Down: Like some whiskey (5): IRISH
56 Down: Crown (4): PATE
58 Down: Much sought-after (3): HOT
59 Down: Actor born Laszlo Loewenstein (5): LORRE
60 Down: Prepare to surf? (5): LOGON
61 Down: Missing money (5): SHORT
63 Down: Devastation (5): HAVOC
64 Down: Second in a series (4): BETA
67 Down: Put a lid on it (3): POT
68 Down: Centrally, at sea (8): MIDSHIPS
71 Down: Made kit calls (5): MEWED
73 Down: "Ciao" (4): TATA
74 Down: 007's school (4): ETON
76 Down: Cartoonist Chast (3): ROZ
77 Down: Mask (5): CLOAK
78 Down: Pebble Beach event (5): PROAM
81 Down: Quarterbacking locale? (8): ARMCHAIR
82 Down: Never ever (8): ATNOTIME
83 Down: Suds maker (7): SHAMPOO
84 Down: Suds (7): LATHERS
85 Down: Independent land since 1991 (7): ESTONIA
86 Down: Not so pleased (5): SORER
89 Down: Dutch money (7): FLORINS
90 Down: Alters an assessment (7): RERATES
91 Down: Big oil company, for short (3): OXY
94 Down: "You're mine!" (6): GOTCHA
96 Down: Common threat (6): ORELSE
100 Down: Harvest (5): YIELD
101 Down: "That's for sure" (5): OHYES
102 Down: Not used (3): NEW
103 Down: Deep border lake (5): TAHOE
105 Down: Newcastle's place (4): TYNE
106 Down: Emulates Pac-Man (4): EATS
110 Down: Master of photog. (3): NEG
111 Down: Year in Vigilius's papacy (3): DLI
113 Down: Table part (3): LEG
114 Down: "Rock 'n' Roll Is King" band (3): ELO

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