TURNDOWNS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 4/1/2001. By Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Filmmaker Nicolas (4): ROEG
5 Across: "Aye"-catcher? (4): CAPN
9 Across: Cockeyed (5): AMISS
14 Across: Loose talk? (5): SLANG
19 Across: Building support (4): IBAR
20 Across: Department (4): AREA
21 Across: Hairy-chested (5): MANLY
22 Across: Provoking person (5): RILER
23 Across: Turndown #1 (9): NOSIRREEBOB
25 Across: Turndown #2 (11): ITHINKILLPASS
27 Across: Continue (6): KEEPON
28 Across: Architect Mies van der ___ (4): ROHE
30 Across: Lhasa ___ (dog) (4): APSO
31 Across: "Down with!," in Dijon (4): ABAS
32 Across: Part of a test, maybe (7): PLACEBO
34 Across: Ernie of the P.G.A. (3): ELS
35 Across: Pigeonholes (6): LABELS
37 Across: Including (8): ASWELLAS
40 Across: Chucklehead (9): LAMEBRAIN
43 Across: Tuba sound (3): PAH
44 Across: Mormons, initially (3): LDS
45 Across: Developing stage (6): EMBRYO
46 Across: "When hell freezes over!" (5): NEVER
50 Across: Turndown #3 (12): OVERMYDEADBODY
54 Across: Turndown #4 (7): YOUREDAFT
56 Across: Andrea ___ (5): DORIA
57 Across: Like proclamations (6): ISSUED
58 Across: City in Kyrgyzstan (3): OSH
59 Across: Like Brahms's Symphony No. 3 (3): INF
60 Across: Music for which Peter Tosh is famous (6): REGGAE
62 Across: Comparatively agile (6): SPRYER
64 Across: Scold (6): YELLAT
67 Across: Ticklish: Var. (6): GOOSEY
69 Across: In a plucky manner (6): GAMELY
71 Across: Disappearing network TV employee (6): CENSOR
74 Across: Like Midas (6): GREEDY
78 Across: Alley-oop toss, e.g. (6): ASSIST
81 Across: Tony-winning Hagen (3): UTA
82 Across: Deck (out) (3): TOG
84 Across: Cross the threshold (6): STEPIN
86 Across: How tuna is packed (5): INOIL
88 Across: Turndown #5 (7): FATCHANCE
91 Across: Turndown #6 (12): THATSANEGATIVE
93 Across: "La Traviata" mezzo (5): FLORA
94 Across: Redeemed (6): CASHED
97 Across: "___ Box" (1992 pop music release) (3): ONO
98 Across: Dallas cager, briefly (3): MAV
99 Across: Vermin (9): INFESTERS
101 Across: Part of a buffer zone, maybe (8): LANDMINE
104 Across: Undo (6): REPEAL
107 Across: Atmospheric prefix (3): AER
108 Across: Sign of a slip (7): ERASURE
110 Across: Fruitless (4): ARID
111 Across: It may be divided into rows (4): ACRE
113 Across: What an outturned palm may mean (4): WAIT
114 Across: Lampooned (6): SENTUP
118 Across: Turndown #7 (11): NOTONYOURLIFE
121 Across: Turndown #8 (9): GIVEITAREST
123 Across: Potential serve-breaker's score (5): ADOUT
124 Across: Shake like ___ (5): ALEAF
125 Across: Concluded (4): OVER
126 Across: x, y or z (4): AXIS
127 Across: States' rights amendment to the Constitution (5): TENTH
128 Across: Natural sitting spot (5): LEDGE
129 Across: Partner of rules, slangily (4): REGS
130 Across: Kind of price (4): LIST

Down Answers

1 Down: Islanders' place (4): RINK
2 Down: "O" in old radio lingo (4): OBOE
3 Down: Lighten (4): EASE
4 Down: Influenza (6): GRIPPE
5 Down: Sensually (8): CARNALLY
6 Down: It may follow you (3): ARE
7 Down: Titled ladies (9): PEERESSES
8 Down: Fat cat (5): NABOB
9 Down: Troubadour's subject, perhaps (4): AMIE
10 Down: Bath ___ (3): MAT
11 Down: Hospital gizmo (7): INHALER
12 Down: Passes unnoticed (7): SLIPSBY
13 Down: Assn. and org., e.g. (4): SYNS
14 Down: Eastern title of respect (3): SRI
15 Down: His March 1952 marriage was big news (8): LILABNER
16 Down: "We'll ___ there to greet her" (old song lyric) (5): ALLBE
17 Down: Buddha's reputed birthplace (5): NEPAL
18 Down: Common stain (5): GRASS
24 Down: Lucky streak (4): ROLL
26 Down: Kind of nut (4): KOLA
29 Down: Hid (7): HOLEDUP
33 Down: Ones left holding the bag? (7): CADDIES
34 Down: Personify (6): EMBODY
36 Down: Hokkaido native (4): AINU
37 Down: Footless animal (4): APOD
38 Down: Zest (5): SAVOR
39 Down: "I don't see it" (5): WHERE
41 Down: It signals caution (5): AMBER
42 Down: Rogers and others (4): ROYS
47 Down: Sign of secrecy (4): VEIL
48 Down: Irish novelist O'Brien (4): EDNA
49 Down: Slew (4): RAFT
51 Down: Washington bank name since 1840 (5): RIGGS
52 Down: Fictional Mr. (5): MAGOO
53 Down: Ancient language: Abbr. (5): ASSYR
55 Down: "But of course!" (5): OHYES
58 Down: ___ e sempre (now and always): It. (3): ORA
61 Down: Place for a valve (5): AORTA
63 Down: Where Saladin was sultan (5): EGYPT
65 Down: Pitcher of milk? (5): ELSIE
66 Down: Possible cause of a spanking (5): LYING
68 Down: Fragile decoration (3): EGG
70 Down: Times to dream of (7): MANANAS
71 Down: Give a hand? (4): CUFF
72 Down: Catalog card abbr. (4): ETAL
73 Down: Britain's Lord Ismay was its first head (4): NATO
75 Down: It begins "In the days of Ahasuerus ..." (6): ESTHER
76 Down: Part of the gasoline additive M.T.B.E. (5): ETHER
77 Down: Scrolls site (7): DEADSEA
79 Down: "Me, too!" (5): SOAMI
80 Down: Certain missile (5): TITAN
83 Down: In the old days (4): ONCE
85 Down: Tending to set apart (9): ISOLATIVE
87 Down: In the flesh (4): LIVE
89 Down: Hollered (8): CRIEDOUT
90 Down: Mandlikova of tennis (4): HANA
92 Down: Teetotalers (8): NONUSERS
95 Down: By and large (7): ASARULE
96 Down: Directed (7): STEERED
100 Down: Severely scold (4): FLAY
102 Down: Number in Nuremberg (4): DREI
103 Down: Crazy, slangily (6): MENTAL
104 Down: Charged (5): RANAT
105 Down: Sap (5): ERODE
106 Down: Tool attached to a rope (5): PITON
109 Down: Austerity (5): RIGOR
112 Down: Shade of black (4): COAL
113 Down: Ring bearer (4): WIFE
115 Down: Checker, perhaps (4): TAXI
116 Down: "A God in Ruins" novelist (4): URIS
117 Down: Noodge (4): PEST
119 Down: Number in a series (3): NTH
120 Down: Trail (3): LAG
122 Down: Do nothin' at all (3): VEG

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