ROCK TOUR DOUBLE BILLS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 7/20/1997. By Rich Norris.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Favorite Degas subject (7)
DANCERS
8 Across: Behave (3)
ACT
11 Across: ___-Ball (4)
SKEE
15 Across: It often has its arms out front (3)
PUB
18 Across: Gorged oneself (7)
ATEALOT
19 Across: Classified (8)
PERSONAL
21 Across: "Windsor Forest" poet (4)
POPE
22 Across: Dinner offerings (16)
MEATLOAFPLATTERS
24 Across: Services, in a way (4)
OILS
25 Across: "Mr. Basketball" Holman et al. (4)
NATS
26 Across: Gray remover, maybe (4)
DYER
27 Across: "Suzanne" songwriter (5)
COHEN
28 Across: Orbital point (5)
APSIS
29 Across: "The Simpsons" tavern (4)
MOES
31 Across: Show of affection (9)
SWEETKISS
33 Across: Backgammon piece (5)
STONE
34 Across: Oater affirmative (3)
YUP
36 Across: Engine conduits (5)
HOSES
37 Across: Hits errantly, in golf (6)
SHANKS
38 Across: Impassioned (6)
ARDENT
41 Across: State to be in (3)
ZEN
42 Across: Word with ready or shy (6)
CAMERA
44 Across: Reef (3)
BAR
45 Across: Hair-raising site? (5)
SALON
47 Across: Undercover operation (11)
POLICESTING
52 Across: #2 at the 1994 U.S. Open (5)
STICH
54 Across: Swing voter: Abbr. (3)
IND
55 Across: Lodge (6)
HOSTEL
56 Across: CD-___ (3)
ROM
57 Across: Ice cream parlor order (6)
FRAPPE
59 Across: "La vita nuova" poet (5)
DANTE
60 Across: Captures, in a way (6)
LASSOS
63 Across: Rachmaninoff's "___-tableaux" (6)
ETUDES
64 Across: Indian stringed instruments (5)
VINAS
65 Across: Make up (6)
RECOUP
66 Across: Like some muscles (6)
FLEXED
67 Across: Poop (5)
FACTS
68 Across: Impetuous (6)
MADCAP
69 Across: Listen: Sp. (3)
OIR
70 Across: British noble, briefly (6)
ARISTO
72 Across: "___ in my memory lock'd": Ophelia (3)
TIS
73 Across: Certain berth (5)
UPPER
76 Across: Kind of pie (11)
BOSTONCREAM
79 Across: Community spirit (5)
ETHOS
81 Across: Majors in acting (3)
LEE
82 Across: Ruling groups (6)
JUNTAS
83 Across: Farm resident (3)
ANT
84 Across: Part of a split personality (6)
JEKYLL
86 Across: Orchestral works (6)
SCORES
88 Across: Considerable irritant (5)
THORN
91 Across: Word in many business names (3)
SON
92 Across: "Star Trek" role (5)
UHURA
93 Across: Soup kitchen offering (9)
FREEBREAD
97 Across: Taradiddles (4)
FIBS
100 Across: Puffball relative (5)
MOREL
101 Across: Release upon (5)
LETAT
102 Across: Hotfooted it (4)
SPED
104 Across: Clock sound (4)
TOCK
106 Across: Make money (4)
MINT
107 Across: Health care group (16)
HEARTASSOCIATION
110 Across: Sews up (4)
ICES
111 Across: Reserved (8)
SETASIDE
112 Across: Totals (7)
COMESTO
113 Across: Christie contemporary (3)
TEY
114 Across: Musical syllables (4)
TRAS
115 Across: Never, in Nuremberg (3)
NIE
116 Across: Least irrigated (7)
ARIDEST

Down Answers

1 Down: Butler's expletive (4)
DAMN
2 Down: Col. Hannibal Smith's group (5)
ATEAM
3 Down: Cool (5)
NEATO
4 Down: Relative of an agate (7)
CATSEYE
5 Down: Plumbing piece (3)
ELL
6 Down: Chancel entrance display (4)
ROOD
7 Down: Collar inserts (5)
STAYS
8 Down: Collar (9)
APPREHEND
9 Down: Animator's unit (3)
CEL
10 Down: Parcels (6)
TRACTS
11 Down: "___ Is Love" (1962 hit) (6)
SOTHIS
12 Down: They provide prayer support (5)
KNEES
13 Down: Brings in (5)
EARNS
14 Down: 1997 U.S. Open champ (3)
ELS
15 Down: Long-term pollution concern (15)
POISONAIRSUPPLY
16 Down: Data transmission path (6)
UPLINK
17 Down: Actress Armstrong and others (6)
BESSES
20 Down: Tend the hearth (5)
STOKE
21 Down: Toaster treat (7)
POPTART
23 Down: Couple or so (3)
FEW
28 Down: Word before and after "to" (5)
ASHES
30 Down: Parasol (8)
SUNSHADE
32 Down: Quite a while (3)
EON
35 Down: Fund-raising grp. (3)
PTA
37 Down: Seemed funny (7)
SMELLED
38 Down: Sit-up benefactors (3)
ABS
39 Down: Squeal (3)
RAT
40 Down: Travels of Shane, e.g. (15)
DRIFTERSJOURNEY
41 Down: Locale (4)
ZONE
42 Down: Mention (4)
CITE
43 Down: Breeze through (3)
ACE
46 Down: Items in sync? (4)
LIPS
47 Down: Imaginary (7)
PHANTOM
48 Down: Chaplin and others (5)
OONAS
49 Down: Mil. transports (4)
LSTS
50 Down: "Are you nervous?" response, a la Don Knotts (4)
NOOP
51 Down: Diamond execs (3)
GMS
53 Down: Gist (4)
CRUX
58 Down: Hairsplitters (7)
PEDANTS
59 Down: Pronouncements (5)
DICTA
61 Down: Charge with (8)
ACCUSEOF
62 Down: Bribe money, in slang (4)
SOAP
63 Down: Chacon of the 1962 Mets (4)
ELIO
64 Down: Still-life subject (4)
VASE
65 Down: Hasty (4)
RASH
66 Down: Pocket item (3)
FOB
67 Down: Holiday purchases (4)
FIRS
68 Down: Diamond target (4)
MITT
71 Down: Company that made Photophones (3)
RCA
72 Down: Ford sobriquet (9)
TENNESSEE
74 Down: Sniggler's quest (3)
EEL
75 Down: Fam. reunion attendee (3)
REL
77 Down: Castle features (7)
TURRETS
78 Down: "Paper Moon" actor or actress (5)
ONEAL
80 Down: Breakfast orders, briefly (3)
OJS
83 Down: J.F.K. posting (3)
ARR
85 Down: Emulated Mme. Defarge (7)
KNITTED
86 Down: Kind of meeting (6)
SUMMIT
87 Down: Prize (6)
CHOICE
88 Down: Aquarium acquisitions (6)
TETRAS
89 Down: Track and field events (5)
HEATS
90 Down: Secure (6)
OBTAIN
93 Down: Topps rival (5)
FLEER
94 Down: Gaucho gear (5)
REATA
95 Down: Mil. address (3)
APO
96 Down: Longtime Guy Lombardo record label (5)
DECCA
98 Down: City on the Oregon Trail (5)
BOISE
99 Down: Dumbarton denizens (5)
SCOTS
103 Down: New Look designer (4)
DIOR
105 Down: Measure of speed (4)
KNOT
107 Down: Presidential monogram (3)
HST
108 Down: Star Wars, initially (3)
SDI
109 Down: "___ dreaming?" (3)
AMI

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