SOMETHING XTRA - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 136 clues). Published 10/13/1996. By W. R. Williams.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Of a leg bone (6)
TIBIAL
7 Across: Gardening device (7)
TRIMMER
14 Across: Slave driver's exhortation (6)
FASTER
20 Across: "Romanian Rhapsodies" composer (6)
ENESCO
21 Across: Change the dimensions of (7)
RESCALE
22 Across: Drag (6)
INHALE
23 Across: More sore (6)
ACHIER
24 Across: New addition to one's address book? (14)
AFRIENDINDEXED
26 Across: ___-mo (3)
SLO
27 Across: Kind of dog (5)
DEVIL
29 Across: Smooth (4)
IRON
30 Across: Galsworthy genre (4)
SAGA
31 Across: Blunt (4)
DULL
33 Across: Casting out ___ (math procedure) (5)
NINES
35 Across: Son of Judah (4)
ONAN
36 Across: Memory unit (3)
BIT
37 Across: Extra (5)
ADDON
39 Across: Projected amount in a business forecast? (10)
NEXTPROFIT
42 Across: Jubilant gaiety (4)
GLEE
43 Across: Ponderer's phrase (8)
LETMESEE
45 Across: ___ maison (indoors): Fr. (3)
ALA
46 Across: Pungency (8)
TARTNESS
48 Across: F (6)
ESHARP
49 Across: City once named Eva Peron, with "La" (5)
PLATA
51 Across: Boito opera (4)
NERO
52 Across: Suburbs? (12)
EXTERNALCITY
56 Across: "Search for Signs..." Broadway comic (6)
TOMLIN
60 Across: Butt (3)
RAM
62 Across: Faint (5)
SWOON
63 Across: Inner, in anatomy (5)
ENTAL
65 Across: Bullyrag (5)
TEASE
66 Across: "A pity!" (4)
ALAS
68 Across: Tempter (5)
SATAN
70 Across: Wingdings (5)
GALAS
72 Across: Town of July 1944 fighting (4)
STLO
73 Across: Man with a famous lap (5)
SANTA
75 Across: Rolls dem bones (5)
DICES
77 Across: Films (5)
CINES
79 Across: Post-dusk (3)
EEN
80 Across: Video image units (6)
PIXELS
82 Across: The top of Bald Mountain? (12)
THENAKEDAPEX
85 Across: Screenwriter Jack ___ Jr. (4)
EPPS
87 Across: Idyllic spots (5)
EDENS
88 Across: Dances in 4/4 time (6)
MAMBOS
91 Across: Demand in court (8)
SUBPOENA
95 Across: 1970 Jagger film "___ Kelly" (3)
NED
96 Across: Paris's Place de la ___ (8)
BASTILLE
98 Across: "Tarzan" extras (4)
APES
99 Across: Brooch watch? (10)
CAMEOROLEX
102 Across: Scrape away at (5)
ERODE
103 Across: T-shirt size: Abbr. (3)
LGE
104 Across: Cooped (up) (4)
PENT
105 Across: Legislative postscript (5)
RIDER
107 Across: Marketed (4)
SOLD
108 Across: Puccini's "Vissi d'___" (4)
ARTE
110 Across: New sitcom star of 1988 (4)
BARR
111 Across: "American Psycho" novelist (5)
ELLIS
113 Across: Buddy (3)
MAC
114 Across: Where the Politburo members studied? (14)
MARXISTCOLLEGE
119 Across: Via ___ (Roman thoroughfare) (6)
VENETO
121 Across: Conceive (6)
IDEATE
122 Across: Renowned Big Apple restaurant (7)
ELAINES
123 Across: Adviser in Roman myth (6)
EGERIA
124 Across: Looked (6)
SEEMED
125 Across: Craft (7)
SLYNESS
126 Across: Forswears, in short (6)
DOESNT

Down Answers

1 Down: "Let It Be Forgotten" poet (8)
TEASDALE
2 Down: Comprises (8)
INCLUDES
3 Down: "Ecce feles!" (13)
BEHOLDTHEMANX
4 Down: "It ___" (reply to "Who's there?") (3)
ISI
5 Down: Easily passed (4)
ACED
6 Down: "The Millionairess" star, 1960 (5)
LOREN
7 Down: Apprentice (7)
TRAINEE
8 Down: It's automatic (6)
REFLEX
9 Down: Country with a blue and white flag: Abbr. (3)
ISR
10 Down: Sprint rival (3)
MCI
11 Down: Pearl Bailey's middle name (3)
MAE
12 Down: West Coast weather factor (6)
ELNINO
13 Down: New version (7)
REDRAFT
14 Down: A Mickey (4)
FINN
15 Down: Not to mention (3)
AND
16 Down: "___ the One" (1996 movie) (4)
SHES
17 Down: Duty-bound? (7)
TAXABLE
18 Down: "Adonais" and others (7)
ELEGIES
19 Down: Corrects, as archeological records (7)
REDATES
25 Down: Like some Greek islands (6)
IONIAN
28 Down: Creeper (4)
VINE
32 Down: Folk music historian John (5)
LOMAX
34 Down: Buy time (5)
STALL
35 Down: Panegyrics (7)
ORATING
38 Down: "___ to you!" (5)
NERTS
40 Down: Come in second (5)
PLACE
41 Down: Waste allowance (4)
TRET
42 Down: Garden figures (6)
GNOMES
44 Down: Gushes (5)
SPEWS
47 Down: Bring (out) (4)
TROT
49 Down: Ornamental plume (7)
PANACHE
50 Down: Campaign tactics (7)
ATTACKS
53 Down: Kind of test (4)
ROAD
54 Down: Untagged, in tag (5)
NOTIT
55 Down: Bill Clinton, once (5)
YALIE
57 Down: Rubber underclothes? (13)
LATEXBLOOMERS
58 Down: Key (4)
ISLE
59 Down: Storefront item (4)
NEON
60 Down: Horseshoer's tool (4)
RASP
61 Down: Asia's ___ Mountains (4)
ALAI
64 Down: Coast, for example (4)
LAND
67 Down: Precipitous slopes (6)
STEEPS
69 Down: Don't have to (7)
NEEDNOT
71 Down: Splitting points (5)
SEAMS
74 Down: Rival rival (4)
ALPO
76 Down: Mean mien (5)
SNEER
78 Down: Flood (5)
SPATE
81 Down: Work-order detail (4)
SPEC
83 Down: Slashed words? (5)
ANDOR
84 Down: OPEC leaders (5)
EMIRS
86 Down: Respond to testily (6)
SNAPAT
89 Down: Language in an etymology (8)
OLDLATIN
90 Down: Aril (8)
SEEDCOAT
91 Down: Pizzeria supplies (7)
SALAMIS
92 Down: Stay current, computerwise (7)
UPGRADE
93 Down: Hive location (7)
BEETREE
94 Down: Punishes with arbitrary penalties (7)
AMERCES
96 Down: Like an empty hospital (7)
BEDLESS
97 Down: Jump with a twist (4)
AXEL
100 Down: Sign up (6)
ENROLL
101 Down: Feudal lords (6)
LIEGES
106 Down: Split (5)
RIVED
109 Down: Checkup (4)
EXAM
110 Down: Teacher's deg. (4)
BSED
112 Down: Kind of lily (4)
SEGO
115 Down: Devotee's suffix (3)
ITE
116 Down: Establish (3)
LAY
117 Down: Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer Maya (3)
LIN
118 Down: From La. to N.C. (3)
ENE
120 Down: Born (3)
NEE

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