BREAKING A PART - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 136 clues). Published 11/3/2002. By Patrick Berry.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Fluid container (3): SAC
4 Across: Causes redness (6): SHAMES
10 Across: Kind of power (4): VETO
14 Across: Arid Asian region (4): GOBI
18 Across: "What did you say?" (3): HUH
19 Across: Work from Lichtenstein (6): POPART
20 Across: Unreactive (5): INERT
22 Across: ___ Picone (clothing maker) (4): EVAN
23 Across: Disposed of (3): ATE
24 Across: The Washington Monument? (17): ASPIRETOGREATNESS
27 Across: Beats in battle (6): WORSTS
29 Across: Of a color scheme (5): TONAL
30 Across: Spiteful shout (7): SOTHERE
31 Across: Elbow (4): POKE
32 Across: Pigment that's a provitamin (8): CAROTENE
34 Across: Fall (6): AUTUMN
36 Across: Gets married? (10): TAKESAMISS
38 Across: Cheat on a diet (4): NOSH
40 Across: Response to revelations (4): ISEE
41 Across: Contrive (4): BREW
42 Across: Calendar pgs. (3): MOS
43 Across: What the adorable Southern belle had? (11): ACUTEACCENT
46 Across: Raise, as prices (7): STEEPEN
48 Across: Low places (5): VALES
50 Across: Urban reformer Jacob (4): RIIS
51 Across: Cartoon dog (3): REN
52 Across: Unpartnered (4): SOLO
53 Across: Home away from home, maybe (4): DORM
54 Across: Crime-fighting grp. (3): FBI
57 Across: Stops playing hangman after the first wrong guess? (20): QUITSWHILEONEISAHEAD
63 Across: Certain Muslim (5): SUNNI
64 Across: Overhead light? (4): HALO
65 Across: Bros (4): PALS
66 Across: Hotel room listing (5): RATES
67 Across: Compliment paid to an artful hit man? (20): YOUGOTAWAYWITHMURDER
71 Across: Not well-defined (3): DIM
72 Across: Quiet moment (4): LULL
73 Across: Member of the other side (4): ANTI
74 Across: Neither's partner (3): NOR
75 Across: Daughter of Zeus (4): HEBE
76 Across: Stubborn (5): MULEY
78 Across: Brightest star after Sirius (7): CANOPUS
82 Across: Performs "Frère Jacques" in concert? (11): PLAYSAROUND
86 Across: Banquet (3): SUP
87 Across: Put in the hole (4): SANK
88 Across: Food fish (4): CARP
89 Across: Like some verses (4): SUNG
90 Across: Portly sailor? (10): AVASTMATEY
93 Across: Abolitionist senator Charles (6): SUMNER
96 Across: Rafter connectors (8): TIEBEAMS
98 Across: What a celebrity may carry (4): AURA
99 Across: Element in vacuum tube filaments (7): THORIUM
101 Across: Folk/country singer Griffith (5): NANCI
102 Across: Noncompromiser (6): PURIST
104 Across: Official flower of Phoenix? (17): AROSEFROMTHEASHES
107 Across: Kind of operation (3): CIA
108 Across: Carnegie ___ (4): DELI
109 Across: Rising and falling (5): TIDAL
110 Across: Sergeant's yell (6): ATEASE
111 Across: Down (3): ILL
112 Across: Great, slangily (4): ACES
113 Across: Appealing (4): SEXY
114 Across: Security system part (6): SENSOR
115 Across: The pros say it (3): AYE

Down Answers

1 Down: "Man and Superman" playwright (4): SHAW
2 Down: Mechanic's item (8): AUTOPART
3 Down: One of the Five Civilized Nations (8): CHEROKEE
4 Down: Outpourings (6): SPATES
5 Down: Dan Blocker role on 60's TV (4): HOSS
6 Down: Piece of software, for short (3): APP
7 Down: Rum cocktails (7): MAITAIS
8 Down: Bugs (6): ERRORS
9 Down: They serve dictators (6): STENOS
10 Down: Concern of some media watchdogs (8): VIOLENCE
11 Down: Official lang. of Malta (3): ENG
12 Down: Superlatively brief (7): TERSEST
13 Down: Modern ice cream flavor (4): OREO
14 Down: Subject for Gregor Mendel (8): GENETICS
15 Down: Cause of depletion (7): OVERUSE
16 Down: They may play first (7): BASEMEN
17 Down: Favored bunch (3): INS
21 Down: "Ciao!" (4): TATA
25 Down: Work with a shuttle (3): TAT
26 Down: Corpus Christi's day: Abbr. (3): THU
28 Down: Making fun of mercilessly (9): SKEWERING
32 Down: "Let's roll" (4): CMON
33 Down: Entre ___ (4): NOUS
35 Down: Bring in (3): NET
36 Down: "Dinner & A Movie" airer (3): TBS
37 Down: Church chorus (5): AMENS
39 Down: Daring (7): HEROISM
43 Down: Soothing stuff (4): ALOE
44 Down: Hauteur (4): AIRS
45 Down: Edna Ferber novel (8): CIMARRON
47 Down: Leafstalks (8): PETIOLES
48 Down: Proud cry (5): VOILA
49 Down: Cast iron, e.g. (5): ALLOY
52 Down: Wrap (5): SHAWL
53 Down: Its busiest street is Chandni Chowk (5): DELHI
54 Down: Garden party (4): FETE
55 Down: Heavyweight champ of 1934 (4): BAER
56 Down: Air travelers' needs, for short (3): IDS
57 Down: What Sartre said? (4): QUOI
58 Down: Coined word? (4): UNUM
59 Down: Ones who go after big schools? (7): WHALERS
60 Down: Offer thoughts (5): OPINE
61 Down: Very smart (5): NATTY
62 Down: Extinct duck-billed beast (9): HADROSAUR
63 Down: Old cartoonist Hoff (3): SYD
68 Down: Big brass (4): TUBA
69 Down: "Peyton Place" producer Jerry (4): WALD
70 Down: Not likely (to) (5): UNAPT
75 Down: Cause of some staring (8): HYPNOSIS
76 Down: Certain bond, informally (4): MUNI
77 Down: Roughly (8): UNGENTLY
78 Down: Ornery one (4): CUSS
79 Down: Former Rep. Schroeder (8): PATRICIA
80 Down: With reservations (8): UNEASILY
81 Down: What's up? (3): SKY
82 Down: Dell products, in brief (3): PCS
83 Down: Toulouse-___ (7): LAUTREC
84 Down: Top opening (7): ARMHOLE
85 Down: Render obsolete (7): OUTMODE
86 Down: Three-stringed instrument (7): SAMISEN
90 Down: Lover of Dido, in myth (6): AENEAS
91 Down: Give up (6): VACATE
92 Down: Classic German-made rifle (6): MAUSER
94 Down: Before (3): ERE
95 Down: Falling out (4): RIFT
97 Down: "What nonsense!" (3): BAH
100 Down: "Mitla Pass" author (4): URIS
102 Down: Dominican dollar (4): PESO
103 Down: Any "Twilight Zone" episode (4): TALE
104 Down: Oklahoma town (3): ADA
105 Down: Upper limit, informally (3): MAX
106 Down: Undergoes (3): HAS

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