IN CROWD - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 8/12/2001. By Nancy Nicholson Joline.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Teaching device (7)
PARABLE
8 Across: View from Windsor Castle (6)
THAMES
14 Across: ___ Bay, part of Lake Huron (6)
SAGINAW
20 Across: Shrunken (7)
SMALLER
21 Across: Tasmania's capital (6)
HOBART
22 Across: Winner of all four grand slam titles (6)
AGASSI
23 Across: Famous presidential declaration (14)
ICHBINEINBERLINER
25 Across: Person with no pockets (6)
NUDIST
26 Across: Spots (3)
ADS
27 Across: Rosacea and others (5)
ACNES
28 Across: "Cómo ___ usted?" (4)
ESTA
30 Across: One of the 12 tribes of Israel (3)
DAN
31 Across: Plots (5)
PLANS
34 Across: Start of some Spanish place names (3)
LAS
35 Across: Eddie Cantor's "___ Whoopee" (4)
MAKIN
36 Across: Suffix with butyl (3)
ENE
37 Across: Mozart's "___ fan tutte" (4)
COSI
38 Across: Eye-catching beachwear (11)
STRINGBIKINIS
42 Across: Claims, briefly (3)
RTS
43 Across: In all respects (7)
TOTALLY
46 Across: Talking bird of poetry (5)
RAVEN
47 Across: ___ Park, Colo. (5)
ESTES
49 Across: "As Good As It Gets" actor (6)
KINEAR
50 Across: Barbecue item (4)
SPIT
52 Across: Consider again (6)
REHEAR
54 Across: Deposed tyrant (3)
AMIN
55 Across: Casual Friday casualties (4)
TIES
56 Across: Grind (7)
RATRACE
59 Across: Tennessee Williams, to family (3)
TOM
62 Across: They may get a dusting (10)
FINGERPRINTS
66 Across: Speaker accompanier, perhaps (6)
ROADIE
67 Across: ___-B (Gillette division) (4)
ORAL
69 Across: Dynamic opener (4)
AERO
70 Across: Jalopy (4)
HEAP
72 Across: Forty-___ (4)
NINER
73 Across: Ferment (6)
UNREST
75 Across: Like many Hitchcock films (10)
SPINETINGLING
80 Across: Day-___ (3)
GLO
81 Across: Gyrates (7)
ROTATES
83 Across: Name on some Scotch bottles (4)
SARK
84 Across: Gone by (3)
AGO
85 Across: Puts one's foot down (6)
INSISTS
87 Across: Chief Ouray's tribe (4)
UTES
88 Across: "A Passage to India" family (6)
MOORES
92 Across: Pitch (5)
SPIEL
94 Across: Reacts to a shock (5)
REELS
96 Across: Weapon on an 89-Down (7)
ENFIELD
98 Across: Some campaign charges (3)
MUD
99 Across: "My Fair Lady" song (11)
THERAININSPAIN
104 Across: Take off (4)
FLEE
105 Across: Ticket abbr. (3)
ARR
106 Across: It'll hold water (4)
EWER
107 Across: Person looking for a seat? (3)
POL
108 Across: Half of a famous 1930's duo (5)
CLYDE
109 Across: Slant (3)
SPIN
110 Across: "Joseph and His Brothers" novelist (4)
MANN
111 Across: Bobbin (5)
SPOOL
113 Across: Run (for) (3)
VIE
114 Across: More contrived (6)
HOKIER
116 Across: Meal enders (14)
AFTERDINNERMINTS
122 Across: Puts up (6)
ERECTS
123 Across: Kind of fuel (6)
DIESEL
124 Across: Amusement park features (7)
ARCADES
125 Across: Easy ___ (6)
STREET
126 Across: Unveil (6)
EXPOSE
127 Across: Barely (7)
BYANOSE

Down Answers

1 Down: Telepathy, e.g. (3)
PSI
2 Down: Cable channel for film devotees (3)
AMC
3 Down: Olé (3)
RAH
4 Down: Like Mother Teresa (8)
ALBANIAN
5 Down: Deprives of judgment (5)
BLINDS
6 Down: What settles (4)
LEES
7 Down: Irish lass's name (3)
ERIN
8 Down: 1977 James Brolin thriller (6)
THECAR
9 Down: Obtrudes (6)
HORNSIN
10 Down: Fit (4)
ABLE
11 Down: They may be full of gas (4)
MAINS
12 Down: Poetic preposition (3)
ERE
13 Down: 1973-74 faddist (8)
STREAKER
14 Down: "The Great ___" (1979 film) (6)
SANTINI
15 Down: Request from a thirsty Spaniard (4)
AGUA
16 Down: Wander (3)
GAD
17 Down: Stock no-no (12)
INSIDERTRADING
18 Down: "The Mambo Kings" co-star (7)
ASSANTE
19 Down: Watch (7)
WITNESS
24 Down: Latvian, e.g. (4)
BALT
29 Down: Worker with hides (6)
SKINNER
31 Down: Agt.'s cut (3)
PCT
32 Down: ___-see (4)
LOOK
33 Down: John of "Viva Max!" (4)
ASTI
35 Down: Year in the rule of Ethelred the Unready (3)
MIV
38 Down: Shot putter? (6)
SYRINGE
39 Down: One of football's Fearsome Foursome (5)
GRIER
40 Down: Enables a runner to score, maybe (5)
BATSIN
41 Down: Manage (5)
SEETO
44 Down: Two pages (4)
LEAF
45 Down: Coats (8)
LAMINATES
48 Down: Foil alternative (5)
SARAN
50 Down: Sharpen (5)
STROP
51 Down: "Great Expectations" hero (3)
PIP
53 Down: Going back to repeatedly (8)
HARPINGON
57 Down: Sky over Strasbourg (4)
CIEL
58 Down: First name in architecture (4)
EERO
59 Down: Big music news (4)
TOUR
60 Down: "Yes ___?" (4)
ORNO
61 Down: Gibson fan, say (12)
MARTINIDRINKER
63 Down: Speech stumbles (3)
ERS
64 Down: Figures (5)
THINKS
65 Down: Part: Abbr. (3)
SEG
68 Down: Charter (5)
LEASE
71 Down: El ___, 1942 battle site (6)
ALAMEIN
74 Down: Circus prop (5)
STILT
76 Down: Pancreatic hormone (5)
INSULIN
77 Down: Dines at home (5)
EATSIN
78 Down: Number of coins in the Fontana di Trevi (3)
TRE
79 Down: Foul-up (4)
GOOF
82 Down: Broadcast (6)
STREWN
86 Down: Activity at a sorority (8)
SERENADE
89 Down: See 96-Across (8)
RIFLEMAN
90 Down: Squirming (4)
EELY
91 Down: Place for runners (4)
SLED
92 Down: Big successes (7)
SMASHES
93 Down: Claim (7)
PURPORT
95 Down: Musician's need (3)
EAR
97 Down: Pee ___, Carolina river (3)
DEE
100 Down: "Citizen Kane" inspiration (6)
HEARST
101 Down: Seeds (6)
SPORES
102 Down: Kind of cut (6)
POODLE
103 Down: Pooped (4)
ALLIN
108 Down: Approximately (5)
CIRCA
110 Down: Dole (4)
METE
111 Down: Dance instructor's call (4)
STEP
112 Down: Place to see José Morelos (4)
PESO
113 Down: Damned (4)
VERY
115 Down: Food preserver (3)
ICE
117 Down: Quandary (3)
FIX
118 Down: Pick up (3)
NAB
119 Down: ___-European (3)
INDO
120 Down: French possessive (3)
TES
121 Down: Daytona-to-Vero Beach dir. (3)
SSE

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