HALLOWEENLAND ... - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 10/27/2002. By Nancy Nicholson Joline.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Clout (6): MUSCLE
7 Across: Enterprise officer (5): SPOCK
12 Across: Actor born Alphonso D'Abruzzo (8): ALANALDA
20 Across: Neil Armstrong or John Glenn (6): OHIOAN
21 Across: St. Anthony of ___ (5): PADUA
22 Across: Like a junkyard car (8): TIRELESS
23 Across: ... biographical best seller? (12): MUMMYDEAREST
25 Across: ... TV show? (8): BAYWITCH
26 Across: Sends (5): SHIPS
27 Across: One way to sit (6): PRETTY
28 Across: Powerful advocacy grp. (3): AMA
29 Across: Medical suffix (4): OSIS
31 Across: 1978 Peace Nobelist (5): SADAT
33 Across: Winston Cup org. (6): NASCAR
39 Across: "For shame!" (6): TUTTUT
43 Across: Barbecue offering (3): RIB
44 Across: Irritating sound (5): WHINE
45 Across: Like some foreign films (7): UNRATED
47 Across: ... comic strip character? (13): DADDYWARLOCKS
52 Across: Detective, at times (4): TAIL
53 Across: Break international agreements, maybe (5): REARM
55 Across: Exclusive (4): SOLE
56 Across: It's related (4): TALE
57 Across: ... song by Billy Joel? (11): UPTOWNGHOUL
60 Across: Large swallows (5): SWIGS
62 Across: Retreat (3): DEN
63 Across: Fast writer (5): STENO
64 Across: Showed disrespect (6): SASSED
66 Across: Scenic area, often (8): SEACOAST
68 Across: Caesar, e.g.: Abbr. (3): EMP
70 Across: No-___ (gnat) (5): SEEUM
72 Across: Vote in Vichy (3): NON
73 Across: Onetime prominent South African couple (8): MANDELAS
78 Across: Riot (6): SCREAM
81 Across: VCR button (5): RESET
85 Across: Prefix with catastrophe (3): ECO
86 Across: Congressional measure of 1993 (5): NAFTA
88 Across: ... school official? (11): HEADMONSTER
90 Across: Hearts (4): NUBS
92 Across: Commercial suffix with Jumbo (4): TRON
93 Across: Supercilious look (5): SNEER
94 Across: Raced (4): TORE
95 Across: ... media job? (13): TALKSHOWGHOST
99 Across: Folgers alternative (7): SAVARIN
101 Across: Didn't go to a restaurant (5): ATEIN
102 Across: John (3): LAV
103 Across: Called (6): TERMED
104 Across: "I before E" rule, e.g. (6): LESSON
106 Across: Shades (5): TONES
108 Across: Word said just before opening the eyes (4): AMEN
110 Across: Ballad ending (3): EER
112 Across: 2004 Olympics locale (6): GREECE
114 Across: Three-time Super Bowl site (5): TAMPA
119 Across: ... city? (8): SPOOKANE
124 Across: ... sport? (12): DUCKHAUNTING
126 Across: Like some confrontations (8): TOETOTOE
127 Across: Prefix with -pathy (5): OSTEO
128 Across: Unification Church member (6): MOONIE
129 Across: Sprays (8): AEROSOLS
130 Across: Painting surface (5): GESSO
131 Across: Hammer of note (6): ARMAND

Down Answers

1 Down: Suburban political force (4): MOMS
2 Down: "No sirree" (4): UHUH
3 Down: ___ Valley, city near L.A. (4): SIMI
4 Down: Freebie (4): COMP
5 Down: Decks, as an opponent (7): LAYSOUT
6 Down: ___-all (3): END
7 Down: Boxes (5): SPARS
8 Down: Whittle (down) (4): PARE
9 Down: "The Country Girl" playwright (5): ODETS
10 Down: Pie that may be an eyeful? (7): CUSTARD
11 Down: Late summer singer (7): KATYDID
12 Down: Ready to swing (5): ATBAT
13 Down: Neeson of "Rob Roy" (4): LIAM
14 Down: Nordic (5): ARYAN
15 Down: "What's ___?" (3): NEW
16 Down: 2001 Will Smith role (3): ALI
17 Down: Court call (3): LET
18 Down: Mil. award (3): DSC
19 Down: Neutral shade (3): ASH
24 Down: Prefix with gram (3): EPI
30 Down: Rear (5): STERN
32 Down: Chasm (5): ABYSS
34 Down: Hole-maker (3): AWL
35 Down: In bad condition (4): SHOT
36 Down: Harvest fly (6): CICADA
37 Down: Hocks : horses :: ___ : humans (6): ANKLES
38 Down: "I ___ that!" (6): RESENT
39 Down: People might go for a spin in them (5): TUTUS
40 Down: Not fitting (5): UNAPT
41 Down: Like a sunset at the end of a movie (5): TRITE
42 Down: Like eagles and owls (7): TALONED
46 Down: M.D. and Ph.D. (4): DEGS
47 Down: Refuse (5): DROSS
48 Down: Diverts (6): AMUSES
49 Down: Sends, in a way (4): WOWS
50 Down: Sam Shepard's "___ of the Mind" (4): ALIE
51 Down: Reagan's first Treasury secretary (5): REGAN
54 Down: "Clever me!" (3): AHA
58 Down: Word on a door (5): WOMEN
59 Down: Sponge (5): LEECH
61 Down: What a 93-Across expresses (5): SCORN
65 Down: Pressure (6): DURESS
67 Down: Tepid rating (7): ONESTAR
69 Down: She wrote "Dying / Is an art, like everything else" (5): PLATH
71 Down: Foreordained (5): MEANT
73 Down: Kind of block (6): MENTAL
74 Down: Pointed (6): ACUATE
75 Down: Court figures (6): NOBLES
76 Down: Big top? (4): AFRO
77 Down: Pack (4): STOW
79 Down: Suffix with stock (3): ADE
80 Down: Strasbourg ladies: Abbr. (4): MMES
82 Down: Attack (5): STORM
83 Down: Goosebump-raising (5): EERIE
84 Down: Pollster's determination (5): TREND
87 Down: White, informally (5): ANGLO
89 Down: Harangue (5): ORATE
91 Down: Cross-country ___ (4): SKIS
96 Down: ___-Cat (3): SNO
97 Down: Abject (7): HANGDOG
98 Down: Make hackneyed (7): OVERUSE
100 Down: Monopoly avenue (7): VENTNOR
105 Down: Swell (5): NEATO
106 Down: Cashew and citron (5): TREES
107 Down: Offshoots (5): SECTS
108 Down: Blessing prompter (5): ACHOO
109 Down: Give-hand connection (3): MEA
111 Down: Organic compound (4): ENOL
113 Down: Manages, with "out" (4): EKES
115 Down: Jot (4): ATOM
116 Down: "Dracula" girl (4): MINA
117 Down: Nabokov novel (4): PNIN
118 Down: Like some cheeses (4): AGED
119 Down: Penn., for one (3): STA
120 Down: "Ulalume" poet (3): POE
121 Down: "Star-Spangled Banner" preposition (3): OER
122 Down: Siouan speaker (3): OTO
123 Down: Flattens, for short (3): KOS
125 Down: Ethan's co-star in "Gattaca," 1997 (3): UMA

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