GAINING MOMENTUM - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 3/3/1996. By B. Klahn.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Crockett's partner on "Miami Vice" (5): TUBBS
6 Across: Turquoise (4): AQUA
10 Across: 1982 best seller on sexuality, with "The" (5): GSPOT
15 Across: In-tents experience? (4): CAMP
19 Across: To smithereens (5): APART
20 Across: Crescent (4): LUNE
21 Across: Freedom, in Swahili (5): UHURU
22 Across: "Jewel Song," e.g. (4): ARIA
23 Across: Codicil (5): RIDER
24 Across: Monkeyshine (4): DIDO
25 Across: Table game for brooders? (10): MOPINGPONG
27 Across: Symbol on French V.I.P.'s cars? (12): FLEURDELIMOS
30 Across: Ascribe (6): IMPUTE
31 Across: Hard-rock connection (3): ASA
33 Across: Elvis's "A Fool Such___" (3): ASI
34 Across: Umbrella part (3): RIB
35 Across: Social worker (3): ANT
36 Across: One of the family (3): SIB
37 Across: Dish in a cream sauce to remember? (16): CHICKENALAMOKING
43 Across: He follows the news (4): LENO
44 Across: CH3 (chemical) (6): METHYL
45 Across: ___Tin Tin (3): RIN
46 Across: Mideastern jambalaya (5): PILAF
47 Across: Snappish (4): EDGY
48 Across: Like some textbook publishers (4): ELHI
49 Across: Name in a Salinger title (4): ESME
51 Across: Dispatch (4): KILL
52 Across: On one's___ (3): OWN
54 Across: Angel hair, e.g. (5): PASTA
56 Across: Early South African P.M. Jan (5): SMUTS
57 Across: Coins in a Spanish treasure (6): REALES
61 Across: Affianced (8): PROMISED
64 Across: Watered down (4): TAME
65 Across: Japanese emperor beginning 1989 (7): AKIHITO
66 Across: Scuttlebutt (5): RUMOR
67 Across: Bit of dew (9): WATERDROP
70 Across: Very, to Verdi (5): MOLTO
71 Across: Habitual liar (7): ANANIAS
73 Across: Harness part (4): HAME
74 Across: Situated along a river (8): RIPARIAN
76 Across: "The Look of Love" pianist, 1968 (6): MENDES
77 Across: Sported (5): HADON
78 Across: Fear (5): ALARM
79 Across: Emerson's "jealous mistress" (3): ART
80 Across: Battling (4): ATIT
81 Across: Secures (4): ICES
82 Across: Stinky (4): OLID
86 Across: Some game (4): FOWL
89 Across: Baseball's Little Colonel (5): REESE
91 Across: NBC prog. since 1975 (3): SNL
92 Across: Marbles, so to speak (6): SANITY
94 Across: Ron Howard's first TV role (4): OPIE
95 Across: Fashion designer who loves an old Ford? (16): OSCARMODELARENTA
98 Across: Cartoon Chihuahua (3): REN
99 Across: Complete (3): ONE
100 Across: Horned Frogs of coll. football (3): TCU
101 Across: Coddled item (3): EGG
102 Across: Jupiter or Saturn (3): GOD
103 Across: Long-distance auto race (6): ENDURO
105 Across: Hit song by a Beatles janitor? (12): MOPSILOVEYOU
110 Across: Cat's mealtime lament? (10): ITSNOMOUSE
112 Across: Malaria symptom (4): AGUE
113 Across: What a dhoti covers (5): LOINS
116 Across: B, gradewise (4): GOOD
117 Across: Moliere miss (5): ELISE
118 Across: Literally, "injured" (4): LESE
119 Across: "The Untouchables" composer Morricone (5): ENNIO
120 Across: Ustinov in "Quo Vadis?" (4): NERO
121 Across: Hurried over? (5): RERAN
122 Across: Fleet fleet (4): SSTS
123 Across: Doer of good deeds (5): SAINT

Down Answers

1 Down: Seafarer (3): TAR
2 Down: Name in the news (3): UPI
3 Down: Treachery (8): BADFAITH
4 Down: "If We Only Have Love" composer (4): BREL
5 Down: Unevenly colored (7): STREAKY
6 Down: Buzz in space (6): ALDRIN
7 Down: Piccadilly pound (4): QUID
8 Down: Be the basis of (8): UNDERLIE
9 Down: Wind-blown (7): AEOLIAN
10 Down: Judy Garland's real last name (4): GUMM
11 Down: Wave away (4): SHOO
12 Down: Small boxers (4): PUPS
13 Down: Mouth: Prefix (3): ORI
14 Down: Utensil of note (10): TUNINGFORK
15 Down: Fearless Fosdick's creator (4): CAPP
16 Down: Fired up (7): AROUSED
17 Down: Moneymaking operation (7): MINTING
18 Down: Shoulder-length do (7): PAGEBOY
26 Down: Prime meridian std. (3): GMT
28 Down: Like a fifth wheel (7): USELESS
29 Down: "Think" tank? (3): IBM
31 Down: Crown (4): ACME
32 Down: Satirist Silverstein (4): SHEL
35 Down: Japanese airline (3): ANA
38 Down: Cartoon about a Veep? (11): CHIPMONDALE
39 Down: Loss of 1588 (6): ARMADA
40 Down: High spot? (8): OPIUMDEN
41 Down: Good working condition (6): KILTER
42 Down: Reformers' targets (4): ILLS
43 Down: Stimulating jazz singer? (11): LENAHORMONE
50 Down: Cassoulet and others (5): STEWS
51 Down: Where a groundhog shops? (7): KMARMOT
53 Down: Goethe National Museum site (6): WEIMAR
55 Down: Better ventilated (6): AIRIER
56 Down: Stabilizer (8): STEADIER
58 Down: Film on which "Carnival" was based (4): LILI
59 Down: Sundance's heartthrob (4): ETTA
60 Down: Gershwin song of 1930 (4): SOON
61 Down: It's pushed in Hyde Park (4): PRAM
62 Down: Viking character (4): RUNE
63 Down: Mideast's Gulf of___ (4): OMAN
65 Down: Make___of money (5): APILE
68 Down: Irving Berlin's "___Good Girl" (6): THATSA
69 Down: Magic 8 Ball, e.g. (6): ORACLE
72 Down: Celsius, for one (10): ASTRONOMER
75 Down: Paragraph, perhaps (7): PASSAGE
77 Down: Middle of a Latin trio (4): HAEC
81 Down: Caters to (8): INDULGES
83 Down: "Little tongues" (8): LINGUINI
84 Down: "Do___Me" (1992 #1 hit) (4): ITTO
85 Down: Couple (4): DYAD
86 Down: Unfamiliar (7): FOREIGN
87 Down: Shoe style (7): OPENTOE
88 Down: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, since 1917 (7): WINDSOR
90 Down: Needle point? (3): ESE
91 Down: Teas (7): SOCIALS
93 Down: They may have a pair of diamonds (7): ARGYLES
96 Down: Washington, McKinley et al.: Abbr. (3): MTS
97 Down: Overflow controls (6): LEVEES
99 Down: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (3): ORO
104 Down: Destroy (4): UNDO
105 Down: Sierra Club founder John (4): MUIR
106 Down: Peak in myth (4): OSSA
107 Down: Spherical striker (4): PEEN
108 Down: Boot (4): OUST
109 Down: Chaplin's widow (4): OONA
111 Down: ___Miss (3): OLE
114 Down: "House of Incest" author (3): NIN
115 Down: One who can't pass the bar? (3): SOT

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