ABOUT THAT FRUITCAKE - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 12/17/2000. By Frances Hansen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Mountain cats (5): PUMAS
6 Across: Haitian dictator's nickname (7): PAPADOC
13 Across: Site of thousands of flowers (5): FLOAT
18 Across: Peace in the Mideast? (6): SHALOM
20 Across: United way? (7): AIRLANE
21 Across: Little gander (6): GLANCE
22 Across: Start of a verse about holiday fruitcake (21): SOMEPEOPLELIKETOICEIT
25 Across: 1931 sudser about a washed-up prizefighter (8): THECHAMP
26 Across: Seurat's "___ Baignade" (3): UNE
27 Across: Like some pitches (7): OUTSIDE
28 Across: See 95-Down (3): INS
29 Across: Do (5): PARTY
31 Across: Literary monogram (3): RLS
32 Across: Small piano (6): SPINET
36 Across: "A good servant but a bad master": Bacon (5): MONEY
37 Across: 38-Across's milieu (3): SEA
38 Across: Junk, e.g. (4): SHIP
42 Across: Brown bagger (4): WINO
43 Across: Unhappy expression (4): POUT
44 Across: Henley crew (4): OARS
45 Across: Movie theater (4): CINE
46 Across: More about that fruitcake (21): ANDSOMEPREFERTOHEATIT
52 Across: Luau fare (3): POI
53 Across: Cartoon frames (4): CELS
54 Across: Pakistan's chief river (5): INDUS
55 Across: Uninspiring talk (5): DRONE
56 Across: Eminence (7): STATURE
58 Across: Tee-hee (6): TITTER
60 Across: Chic (6): SWANKY
61 Across: Parallel (7): ALIGNED
63 Across: Wasn't paid up at the bar (7): RANATAB
65 Across: Sanction (6): PERMIT
68 Across: Cloisonné coating (6): ENAMEL
70 Across: English class activity (7): PARSING
74 Across: Mosque priests (5): IMAMS
75 Across: Newsreel pioneer Charles (5): PATHE
76 Across: Embellish (4): GILD
77 Across: Coroner's abbr. (3): DOA
78 Across: Yet more about that fruitcake (21): NOMATTERHOWYOUSLICEIT
83 Across: Its playing fields are famous (4): ETON
84 Across: They're black for witches (4): ARTS
85 Across: Oriental au pair (4): AMAH
86 Across: ___ doble (two-step dance) (4): PASO
87 Across: Last word of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" (4): DENY
88 Across: Ref's decision (3): TKO
89 Across: Theatrical backdrop (5): SCRIM
91 Across: Paint basecoat (6): SEALER
93 Across: Map abbr. (3): MTS
94 Across: Inclination (5): SLANT
95 Across: Barrett of Pink Floyd (3): SYD
96 Across: Adult's cry in a children's game (7): ISEEYOU
100 Across: Kind of observatory: Abbr. (3): NAV
101 Across: Parts of Middle Earth (8): KINGDOMS
106 Across: Final words about that fruitcake (21): FEWPEOPLEYEARNTOEATIT
110 Across: Mideast millionaires (6): AMEERS
111 Across: Late (7): OVERDUE
112 Across: Kind of inspiration (6): DIVINE
113 Across: Pair on a bike (5): TIRES
114 Across: Bloodshed (7): CARNAGE
115 Across: Makes out (5): NECKS

Down Answers

1 Down: "Hey, you" (4): PSST
2 Down: Slip acknowledgment (4): UHOH
3 Down: "If He Walked Into My Life" musical (4): MAME
4 Down: Novelist Waugh (4): ALEC
5 Down: She had a choice in literature (6): SOPHIE
6 Down: "Hair" producer, 1967 (4): PAPP
7 Down: Be in bed, maybe (3): AIL
8 Down: Grand ___ ("Evangeline" setting) (3): PRE
9 Down: Attraction (6): ALLURE
10 Down: Like lacework (6): DAINTY
11 Down: Pleasing to the ear (5): ONKEY
12 Down: So-so mark (3): CEE
13 Down: Emulates the birds and the bees (5): FLITS
14 Down: Mille ___ (Minnesota county) (4): LACS
15 Down: "You're the ___ Care For" (1931 hit) (4): ONEI
16 Down: Parietal cell secretion (4): ACID
17 Down: Block of Brie? (4): TETE
19 Down: Not accidental (5): MEANT
21 Down: Paprika-seasoned stew (7): GOULASH
23 Down: Meditation class chorus (3): OMS
24 Down: Bull session participants? (7): TOREROS
29 Down: Really come down (4): POUR
30 Down: Pay one's share, with "up" (4): ANTE
32 Down: Gives and takes (5): SWAPS
33 Down: Vinifera variety (5): PINOT
34 Down: It has 25 states (5): INDIA
35 Down: 1 and 66: Abbr. (3): NOS
36 Down: Barbers' challenges (4): MOPS
37 Down: General Motors division (6): SATURN
38 Down: Ancient symbols of resurrection (7): SCARABS
39 Down: Hand a line to, say (5): HITON
40 Down: How to sign a contract (5): ININK
41 Down: "Our Gang" dog (5): PETEY
43 Down: "Moby-Dick" captain (5): PELEG
44 Down: Baptism of fire (6): ORDEAL
47 Down: Eye doctor (7): OCULIST
48 Down: Have coming (5): MERIT
49 Down: Toned (3): FIT
50 Down: ___-temps (meanwhile, in Metz) (5): ENTRE
51 Down: King nicknamed "Longshanks" (7): EDWARDI
57 Down: Name in old politics (7): TAMMANY
58 Down: Extra innings (6): TENTHS
59 Down: Craters of the Moon locale (5): IDAHO
60 Down: Big problem for a pilot (5): STALL
62 Down: By (6): NEARTO
64 Down: Quite silly (5): APISH
65 Down: Carried a torch (for) (5): PINED
66 Down: Play to the rafters (5): EMOTE
67 Down: Pitcher Martinez (5): RAMON
69 Down: Copy cats? (3): MEW
71 Down: Epitomic (5): IDEAL
72 Down: Headache intensifier (5): NOISE
73 Down: Football's ___ Bowl (5): GATOR
75 Down: Brightens (7): PERKSUP
76 Down: Its capital is Hagatña (4): GUAM
79 Down: Results of getting needled? (7): TATTOOS
80 Down: Looming choice (4): YARN
81 Down: Bypass (4): OMIT
82 Down: One whose days are numbered? (3): CPA
89 Down: Beowulf, notably (6): SLAYER
90 Down: Stalactite site (6): CAVERN
91 Down: Church council (5): SYNOD
92 Down: Add just before the deadline (6): EDGEIN
93 Down: "Wayne's World" co-star (5): MYERS
94 Down: 1983 Indy 500 winner (5): SNEVA
95 Down: With 28-Across, some protests (3): SIT
96 Down: "___ first ..." (4): IFAT
97 Down: Annual opener (4): SEMI
98 Down: Pitcher (4): EWER
99 Down: Foil relative (4): EPEE
101 Down: Joint with a cap (4): KNEE
102 Down: Singer Matthews (4): DAVE
103 Down: Of the ear (4): OTIC
104 Down: Non-P.C. wrap (4): MINK
105 Down: Some Fr. martyrs (4): STES
107 Down: ___ cit. (3): LOC
108 Down: Nabokov novel (3): ADA
109 Down: It may be cut (3): RUG

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