TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 10/8/2006. By Fred Piscop.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Fink on (6): RATOUT
7 Across: ___ Reid (the Green Hornet) (5): BRITT
12 Across: Suffix with cannon (3): ADE
15 Across: Coverage grp. (3): HMO
18 Across: Yank out (6): EVULSE
19 Across: Add zip to (6): SEASON
20 Across: Lyric poem (7): RONDEAU
22 Across: Result of a laundry room short? (13): FIREINTHEIRON
24 Across: Third tone of a musical scale (7): MEDIANT
25 Across: Yakked, yakked, yakked (5): RANON
26 Across: Assault verbally (6): RANTAT
27 Across: Run down (3): DIS
28 Across: Vitamin amts. (4): RDAS
29 Across: Nav. rank (3): ENS
30 Across: Sr.'s test (3): GRE
32 Across: Rolodex no. (3): TEL
33 Across: Myrmecologist's interest (3): ANT
34 Across: Josip Broz, familiarly (4): TITO
35 Across: Ecol., e.g. (3): SCI
36 Across: Magi's origin (4): EAST
39 Across: Simple abodes (7): LEANTOS
42 Across: "___ Blu Dipinto di Blu" (3): NEL
43 Across: What a turkey stuffer has? (13): HANDINTHEBIRD
47 Across: Jacked up (7): HOISTED
49 Across: Like many leases (7): ONEYEAR
50 Across: Drink often served hot (4): SAKE
52 Across: ___ scale (4): MOHS
53 Across: "American Idol" judge (5): SIMON
56 Across: Team's burden (4): PLOW
58 Across: Do at the wrong moment (7): MISTIME
60 Across: Strengthen (7): NOURISH
63 Across: Group of notables (7): WHOSWHO
65 Across: Jezebel's husband (4): AHAB
68 Across: Row C, maybe: Abbr. (3): IND
69 Across: Cousin of a herring (4): SHAD
71 Across: One with a six-yr. position (3): SEN
72 Across: Solar wind particles (4): IONS
74 Across: U.K. bestowal (3): OBE
75 Across: Coughed up (4): PAID
77 Across: Spectacles (7): EYEWEAR
79 Across: Has a few (7): TIPPLES
81 Across: More informative (7): NEWSIER
83 Across: Where bills go (4): TILL
86 Across: Clark role (5): RHETT
87 Across: Tommy Dorsey hit "Oh, Look ___ Now" (4): ATME
88 Across: Tiny bit of time: Abbr. (4): NSEC
90 Across: Took it easy (7): COASTED
93 Across: Maximally sore (7): ACHIEST
95 Across: Test for a needed hosiery change? (13): NOSEINTHESOCK
100 Across: Tee off (3): IRE
101 Across: Burst open (7): DEHISCE
103 Across: Hospital supply (4): SERA
104 Across: Iowa college (3): COE
105 Across: Defendant at law: Abbr. (4): RESP
107 Across: Relative of atmo- (3): AER
108 Across: Locale in lilac-time, in an Alfred Noyes poem (3): KEW
110 Across: Old telecom conglomerate (3): ITT
112 Across: Don't just seem (3): ARE
113 Across: ___ morgana (mirage) (4): FATA
114 Across: Singsong syllable (3): TRA
115 Across: Haberdashery item (6): TIETAC
118 Across: Marsh wader (5): HERON
120 Across: Hurried, on a score (7): AGITATO
122 Across: Cause of a beach house phone glitch? (13): SANDINTHELINE
124 Across: Place to play Ping-Pong (7): RECHALL
125 Across: Like some dates (6): PITTED
126 Across: Longtime Disney chief (6): EISNER
127 Across: Many a dogsled driver: Abbr. (3): ESK
128 Across: Daughter of Loki, in Norse myth (3): HEL
129 Across: Blow away (5): FLOOR
130 Across: Halloween bagful (6): TREATS

Down Answers

1 Down: Internet browser button (7): REFRESH
2 Down: Airline to Bogotá (7): AVIANCA
3 Down: Hits the sack (7): TURNSIN
4 Down: Pan lubricant (4): OLEO
5 Down: Not abstinent (5): USING
6 Down: Our base (3): TEN
7 Down: "___ there" (4): BEEN
8 Down: John of Broadway's "Carousel" (5): RAITT
9 Down: Acre resident (7): ISRAELI
10 Down: Fife players (8): TOOTLERS
11 Down: Spike TV, once (3): TNN
12 Down: Evidence of a passer-by in a photo? (12): ARMINTHESHOT
13 Down: Playground retort (7): DOESTOO
14 Down: Cut off (3): END
15 Down: Ostrich's pose? (13): HEADINTHEHOLE
16 Down: Everglades swimmers (8): MANATEES
17 Down: Beat in the market (7): OUTSOLD
19 Down: "Get a Job" syllable (3): SHA
21 Down: Lowdown (4): DIRT
23 Down: ___ of Paris (6): TREATY
27 Down: Vice president after George (3): DAN
31 Down: 1968 Peace Nobelist Cassin (4): RENE
37 Down: Name for a farm dog (4): SHEP
38 Down: Blue shade (4): TEAL
40 Down: Hemingway's "The Nick ___ Stories" (5): ADAMS
41 Down: ___ Valley, Calif. (4): SIMI
44 Down: Kind of prize (4): DOOR
45 Down: Civil-rights leader Roy (5): INNIS
46 Down: Wander in a library (6): BROWSE
48 Down: Popular block puzzle first put out in 1969 (4): SOMA
51 Down: Aussie's neighbor (4): KIWI
53 Down: Unrespectful sort (4): SNIP
54 Down: Macbeth's burial place (4): IONA
55 Down: Off-road vehicle gearshift problem? (13): MUDINTHESTICK
57 Down: Eared plant (5): WHEAT
59 Down: Brand of home perm kits (4): TONI
61 Down: Cows and sows (4): SHES
62 Down: Sandwich for a horse? (12): HAYINTHEROLL
64 Down: Way to serve chop suey (6): ONRICE
66 Down: Look out for, say (4): ABET
67 Down: Oscar title starter (4): BEST
70 Down: G.P.A. spoilers (4): DEES
73 Down: Toot (5): SPREE
76 Down: ___-pointe (ballet position) (4): DEMI
78 Down: Small songsters (5): WRENS
80 Down: Many college profs (4): PHDS
82 Down: Marijuana (4): WEED
84 Down: With 85-Down, old DC Comics spinoff (4): LOIS
85 Down: See 84-Down (4): LANE
87 Down: Farmers' spreads (8): ACREAGES
89 Down: Alexander, e.g. (8): COCKTAIL
91 Down: Unbending (6): STRICT
92 Down: This isn't it (4): THAT
93 Down: Expense report item (7): AIRFARE
94 Down: Grunge rock hub (7): SEATTLE
96 Down: X-ray (7): SEEINTO
97 Down: Egg-shaped instrument (7): OCARINA
98 Down: Noble headwear (7): CORONET
99 Down: Lamenting ones (7): KEENERS
102 Down: Bank offering, for short (3): IRA
106 Down: Way to go (4): PATH
109 Down: United with (5): WEDTO
111 Down: Churchill's "___ Finest Hour" (5): THEIR
116 Down: Seating datum (4): TIER
117 Down: What's more (3): AND
119 Down: Additionally (4): ELSE
121 Down: It may be said to a doctor (3): AAH
122 Down: Lotion letters (3): SPF
123 Down: Plenty worked (up) (3): HET

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