CONTINENTAL DIVIDE - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 6/9/1996. By M. Gaffney.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Hoops (7): BASKETS
8 Across: Kind of hunting (7): BIGGAME
15 Across: "Star Wars" director (5): LUCAS
20 Across: Mark Antony's wife before he met Cleopatra (7): OCTAVIA
21 Across: Fine (7): INORDER
22 Across: Kind of layer (5): OZONE
23 Across: With 117-Across, what the answers to the italicized clues have in common (15): THEYALLCONTAINA
25 Across: "Chapter Two" playwright (5): SIMON
26 Across: Shot (4): HYPO
27 Across: Former capital of Nicaragua (4): LEON
28 Across: Novelist Rand (3): AYN
29 Across: Luna's counterpart (3): SOL
31 Across: Knock-knock joke, essentially (3): PUN
32 Across: Protrude, in a way (8): HERNIATE
34 Across: Connective tissues (8): STROMATA
36 Across: View along the highway (italicized) (10): RUBBERNECK
40 Across: Make one two (8): RENUMBER
42 Across: Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie___" (5): AMOUR
43 Across: Atheist leader (5): OHAIR
45 Across: Ballot marks (3): XES
46 Across: The All-wise, of myth (4): ODIN
48 Across: Steakhouse orders (6): TBONES
50 Across: Madonna album (7): EROTICA
52 Across: Exhausts (6): USESUP
54 Across: M.D. spots (3): ORS
55 Across: Eponymous Dutch town (4): EDAM
57 Across: Recital pieces (6): ETUDES
59 Across: Schoenberg's "___to Napoleon" (3): ODE
60 Across: Speech help (8): NOTECARD
63 Across: Free TV commercials, for short (4): PSAS
64 Across: "Rescue 911" host (7): SHATNER
67 Across: Grammy winner Etheridge (7): MELISSA
69 Across: Makes straight (7): NEATENS
71 Across: Flambe (7): JUBILEE
74 Across: Milk product (4): CURD
76 Across: Cultivated (8): GARDENED
80 Across: Actress Hagen (3): UTA
81 Across: Car front (6): GRILLE
83 Across: Mantel piece (4): VASE
84 Across: Cole Porter, collegiately (3): ELI
85 Across: Noted Big Apple restaurant (6): SARDIS
88 Across: Time for "Today" (7): SEVENAM
90 Across: Paint variety (6): DAYGLO
93 Across: Farmer, sometimes (4): HOER
94 Across: Painter Gerard___Borch (3): TER
95 Across: ___Strait (waterway bordering Japan) (5): KOREA
97 Across: As good as new (5): CURED
98 Across: Cuban resort city (8): MARIANAO
101 Across: Mountain demarcation (italicized) (10): TIMBERLINE
103 Across: Month's start (8): THEFIRST
105 Across: Kind of advice (8): FRIENDLY
107 Across: Snitch (3): RAT
108 Across: It may be used in a rubout (3): GAT
109 Across: Chemical suffix (3): INE
110 Across: Rise (4): GOUP
111 Across: "Ooh" follower (4): LALA
115 Across: Oval (5): ARENA
117 Across: See 23-Across (15): EUROPEANCAPITAL
121 Across: Construction support (5): STRUT
122 Across: Racing, as pacers (7): INATROT
123 Across: Catherine the Great, e.g. (7): TSARINA
124 Across: "The Glass Bead Game" novelist (5): HESSE
125 Across: Handout sign (7): TAKEONE
126 Across: Prokofiev's "War___" (7): SONATAS

Down Answers

1 Down: This and that (4): BOTH
2 Down: Hurting (4): ACHY
3 Down: Process part (4): STEP
4 Down: Floor (4): KAYO
5 Down: Adolf's mistress (3): EVA
6 Down: Bar on a boat (6): TILLER
7 Down: City near Pompeii (7): SALERNO
8 Down: High-tech prosthesis (9): BIONICARM
9 Down: Du Maurier's "Jamaica___" (3): INN
10 Down: Reached (5): GOTAT
11 Down: More bleak (6): GRAYER
12 Down: Court situation (4): ADIN
13 Down: Chaps (3): MEN
14 Down: German theologian Thomas (7): ERASTUS
15 Down: "La Bamba" band (italicized) (8): LOSLOBOS
16 Down: Israeli weapon (3): UZI
17 Down: Likening (italicized) (10): COMPARISON
18 Down: Have___ (be able to escape) (5): ANOUT
19 Down: Plant yielding a catartic drug (5): SENNA
24 Down: Classic "S.N.L." characters (9): CONEHEADS
30 Down: Agatha Christie's "N___?" (3): ORM
32 Down: Present (4): HERE
33 Down: Sony co-founder Morita (4): AKIO
34 Down: Three-time Masters winner (5): SNEAD
35 Down: Subject of Cyaxares (4): MEDE
36 Down: Boca___ (5): RATON
37 Down: ___-Latin (ancient Italian) (5): UMBRO
38 Down: Plug (5): BOOST
39 Down: Arch Deluxe part (3): BUN
41 Down: Let go (6): EXCUSE
44 Down: Itinerary segs. (4): RTES
47 Down: Fully exposed (4): NUDE
49 Down: Steadiness, in a way (7): SEALEGS
51 Down: "Try___see!" (5): ITAND
52 Down: Led (in) (7): USHERED
53 Down: A shot (3): PER
56 Down: Less interesting (5): DRIER
58 Down: "Como___?" (5): ESTAS
61 Down: Popular record label (3): EMI
62 Down: Disney collectible (3): CEL
63 Down: Pope, 1605-21 (5): PAULV
65 Down: "So?" (3): AND
66 Down: China's Lao-___ (3): TSE
68 Down: Cornea neighbor (6): SCLERA
70 Down: Trojan War king (9): AGAMEMNON
71 Down: Au___ (menu phrase) (3): JUS
72 Down: Karl Malone's team (4): UTAH
73 Down: Instruments with aneroid cells (italicized) (10): BAROMETERS
75 Down: Stench (4): REEK
77 Down: "Forbidden Paradise" star, 1924 (5): NEGRI
78 Down: ABC sitcom (5): ELLEN
79 Down: Electron tube type (5): DIODE
82 Down: Jolson's "___My Wife to the Thousand Isles" (5): ISENT
83 Down: Marbelize, e.g. (9): VARIEGATE
86 Down: Kind of ear (4): DEAF
87 Down: Water (italicized) (8): IRRIGATE
89 Down: Denial of a sort (4): NOTI
91 Down: "___in the Dark" (Streep film) (4): ACRY
92 Down: Gertrude's 1951 Broadway co-star (3): YUL
94 Down: Envision victory (7): TASTEIT
96 Down: Kidnaps (7): ABDUCTS
99 Down: Where a pct. of one's income may go (3): IRA
100 Down: Famous (6): OFNOTE
102 Down: Westernmost Texas county (6): ELPASO
103 Down: Criticize severely (5): TRASH
104 Down: "Ah Sin" playwright (5): HARTE
106 Down: Glossy proof (5): REPRO
109 Down: Baghdad's land: Var. (4): IRAK
111 Down: Italian cabbage (4): LIRA
112 Down: Working (4): ATIT
113 Down: Turner of the screen (4): LANA
114 Down: Lament for Yorick (4): ALAS
116 Down: Greek consonants (3): NUS
118 Down: Spanish article (3): UNA
119 Down: Seemingly forever (3): EON
120 Down: Long shot? (3): PAN

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