PLACEMENT TEST - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 170 clues). Published 8/28/2005. By Nancy Nicholson Joline.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Turkic people (6): TATARS
7 Across: Series of movements (6): SONATA
13 Across: Patient form info (3): HMO
16 Across: Baron von Trapp (5): GEORG
21 Across: It may be folded for breakfast (6): OMELET
22 Across: Part of Isabella I's realm (6): ARAGON
23 Across: Sch. in Kingston (3): URI
24 Across: Connecticut or Delaware (5): RIVER
25 Across: How this answer is situated (13): NEXTTONOTHING
27 Across: Nothing (3): NIL
28 Across: "Gladiator" setting (5): ARENA
29 Across: Cookout aid (6): STERNO
30 Across: Eyelid afflictions (5): STYES
32 Across: Eventually (7): LATERON
34 Across: Thatching material (5): REEDS
36 Across: Irene ___ ("A Scandal in Bohemia" woman) (5): ADLER
38 Across: Seventh-century Arab caliph (3): ALI
39 Across: March cry (3): HUT
40 Across: Paul Anka #1 hit (5): DIANA
43 Across: Must (5): HASTO
46 Across: Flighty sort? (6): AIRMAN
48 Across: Fuel suffix (3): ANE
49 Across: Up (5): ATBAT
50 Across: How this answer is situated (11): FOLLOWINGUP
52 Across: Purplish (4): PUCE
53 Across: Water carrier (4): DUCT
54 Across: Cassini and others (5): OLEGS
55 Across: Some mil. careerists (4): NCOS
56 Across: Decorative fabrics (6): TOILES
58 Across: Basilica feature (4): APSE
59 Across: Shave (4): PARE
60 Across: How this answer is situated (10): AFTERSHAVE
63 Across: Beer bash need (3): KEG
64 Across: Like Nehru jackets (5): RETRO
66 Across: Made known (8): IMPARTED
70 Across: Possible backache cause (7): LIFTING
74 Across: "Dies ___" (4): IRAE
75 Across: Shepherd's pie ingredients (4): PEAS
77 Across: It gets a licking (4): CONE
78 Across: Goof-offs (6): IDLERS
79 Across: Out of memory? (7): AMNESIC
81 Across: Rennes resident (6): BRETON
83 Across: Gaze dreamily (4): MOON
84 Across: Sight from Taormina (4): ETNA
86 Across: Messieurs' mates: Abbr. (4): MMES
87 Across: Belly-dancers' accouterments (7): TASSELS
88 Across: "Heat" co-star, 1995 (8): ALPACINO
91 Across: Gounod opera (5): FAUST
92 Across: "If the ___ is concealed, it succeeds": Ovid (3): ART
93 Across: How this answer is situated (10): BEFORELONG
96 Across: Long (4): ACHE
98 Across: Certain sorority member (4): ZETA
102 Across: Summer Olympics racers (6): SCULLS
105 Across: Wannabe, often (4): APER
106 Across: Got up (5): STOOD
107 Across: "What a pity!" (4): ALAS
108 Across: Normandy river (4): ORNE
109 Across: How this answer is situated (11): AHEADOFTIME
112 Across: Time (5): EPOCH
113 Across: Topper (3): LID
114 Across: Faculties (6): SENSES
116 Across: Finish second (5): PLACE
117 Across: Resembling a beanpole (5): LANKY
118 Across: Suffix with Capri (3): OTE
119 Across: Identify (3): PEG
120 Across: Prefix with comic (5): SERIO
122 Across: Reference book for a writer (5): ROGET
125 Across: Charles who founded an investment firm (7): MERRILL
127 Across: Start of many sequel titles (5): SONOF
129 Across: Derelict (6): REMISS
132 Across: "That's an ___!" (5): ORDER
133 Across: Oneself (3): EGO
136 Across: How this answer is situated (13): BESIDEONESELF
140 Across: Weeper of myth (5): NIOBE
141 Across: Pal of Rover (3): REX
142 Across: Prayer (6): ORISON
143 Across: Two-timing (6): UNTRUE
144 Across: Thick novels (5): SAGAS
145 Across: Censor's target (3): SEX
146 Across: African scourge (6): TSETSE
147 Across: Ostensible (6): STATED

Down Answers

1 Down: Boatload (3): TON
2 Down: Actor Leon of "Life With Father" (4): AMES
3 Down: Sermon's basis (4): TEXT
4 Down: Sub (9): ALTERNATE
5 Down: Camp David, e.g. (7): RETREAT
6 Down: Curling item (5): STONE
7 Down: ___ Paulo (3): SAO
8 Down: Leftover morsel (3): ORT
9 Down: Casual turndowns (4): NAHS
10 Down: Hurried, musically (7): AGITATO
11 Down: "Leave It to Beaver" actor (7): TONYDOW
12 Down: Sweetheart (5): ANGEL
13 Down: Barbarian (3): HUN
14 Down: Diagnostic aid, for short (3): MRI
15 Down: Wick holder (7): OILLAMP
16 Down: Au ___ (6): GRATIN
17 Down: Limerick locale (4): EIRE
18 Down: How this answer is situated (8): OVERHAUL
19 Down: Give up (8): RENOUNCE
20 Down: Scholarship winners (8): GRANTEES
26 Down: Doze (3): NOD
31 Down: Rap session? (6): SEANCE
33 Down: ___ maison (indoors): Fr. (3): ALA
35 Down: Farrier (5): SHOER
37 Down: Severity (5): RIGOR
40 Down: 1910's-20's movement (4): DADA
41 Down: Live ___ (4): ITUP
42 Down: Fundamentals (4): ABCS
44 Down: Zouave, by birth (8): ALGERIAN
45 Down: Some Mercedes-Benzes (3): SLS
47 Down: Seller of Alaska, 1867 (6): RUSSIA
50 Down: Ernest who designed Washington's Corcoran gallery (5): FLAGG
51 Down: Fascinated by (4): INTO
52 Down: Goes through (7): PIERCES
54 Down: Starts the betting (5): OPENS
56 Down: Cask control (3): TAP
57 Down: Reproductive cells (3): OVA
60 Down: ___ impasse (4): ATAN
61 Down: Ex-con (7): FREEMAN
62 Down: ___ Bounty (3): HMS
63 Down: Red apéritif (3): KIR
65 Down: Columnist Bombeck (4): ERMA
67 Down: Haul (4): TOTE
68 Down: Organic compound (4): ENOL
69 Down: Vulpine abodes (4): DENS
70 Down: City founded by Pizarro (4): LIMA
71 Down: Teen ___ (4): IDOL
72 Down: Dog (4): FLOP
73 Down: Not easily debunked (7): TENABLE
75 Down: Burlesque props (4): PIES
76 Down: Transported (8): ECSTATIC
80 Down: Feeling superior (4): SMUG
81 Down: Revealed (5): BARED
82 Down: Q-U connection (3): RST
84 Down: Musician Brian (3): ENO
85 Down: Holy scrolls (6): TORAHS
87 Down: Western resort area (5): TAHOE
89 Down: Cartoonist's medium (3): CEL
90 Down: Suppositions (3): IFS
91 Down: Negotiator at Vladivostok, 1974 (4): FORD
94 Down: Sports equipment waved in the air (5): EPEES
95 Down: Lets (6): LEASES
97 Down: Rising star (5): COMER
98 Down: Mexican rebel (9): ZAPATISTA
99 Down: Carolina university (4): ELON
100 Down: Yachter's heading (4): TACK
101 Down: Far from flushed (4): ASHY
102 Down: ___ seal (six-pointed star) (8): SOLOMONS
103 Down: Yardsticks (8): CRITERIA
104 Down: How this answer is situated (8): UNDERDOG
106 Down: "Come ___?" (Italian greeting) (3): STA
109 Down: Reel people (7): ANGLERS
110 Down: Willing interviewees, say (7): OPINERS
111 Down: Tart: Var. (7): FLOOSIE
112 Down: Copper or nickel (7): ELEMENT
114 Down: Oxford's "dreaming ___" (6): SPIRES
115 Down: It may be smoked (3): EEL
121 Down: One with abs of steel? (5): ROBOT
123 Down: Colombian gold (3): ORO
124 Down: Trivial Pursuit edition (5): GENUS
126 Down: Sitcom about the Hart family (4): REBA
128 Down: One pounder (4): FIST
130 Down: Muralist José María ___ (4): SERT
131 Down: Swing around (4): SLUE
134 Down: Ten C-notes (3): GEE
135 Down: Tic-tac-toe loser (3): OXX
137 Down: Couple in Cancún (3): DOS
138 Down: Springfield-to-Boston dir. (3): ENE
139 Down: Satiated (3): FED

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