MESSAGE FROM SANTA - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 12/21/2003. By Frances Hansen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Select (6): CHOOSE
7 Across: "Kojak" star (7): SAVALAS
14 Across: When Romeo talks to Juliet on the balcony (6): ACTTWO
20 Across: They can dish it out (6): LADLES
21 Across: Sans sense (7): INANELY
22 Across: Bit of progress (6): INROAD
23 Across: Start of a Christmas verse (21): OHIINTENDTOGOMYROUNDS
26 Across: Large baskets (8): PANNIERS
27 Across: Fleming or Hunter (3): IAN
28 Across: ___ Park (5): ESTES
29 Across: Meadow (3): LEA
30 Across: Fairy tale start (4): ONCE
31 Across: Downed a sub, say (3): ATE
32 Across: Indian council setting (5): TEPEE
36 Across: Like tears (5): SALTY
38 Across: Watchdog's greeting (3): GRR
39 Across: Spill the beans (4): BLAB
43 Across: Skater's jump (4): AXEL
44 Across: "Ad ___ per aspera" (Kansas' motto) (5): ASTRA
46 Across: Indonesian vacation destination (4): BALI
47 Across: Fashionable beach resort (4): LIDO
48 Across: Verse, part 2 (21): BUTIAMHEAVIERBYPOUNDS
53 Across: "To the Poets," for one (3): ODE
54 Across: The good earth (4): LOAM
55 Across: Grayish (4): DRAB
56 Across: Cambodian money (5): RIELS
57 Across: "___ the fields we go" (3): OER
58 Across: Use a wok (3): FRY
59 Across: Age following the Stone Age (6): BRONZE
61 Across: "Under the Volcano" star, 1984 (6): FINNEY
62 Across: Certain bridge (7): TRESTLE
64 Across: Laundry job (7): SORTING
66 Across: Donnybrooks (6): MELEES
69 Across: Unspontaneous ones (6): ROBOTS
71 Across: "Wheel of Fortune" buy (3): ANO
72 Across: What Eng. majors get (3): BAS
75 Across: Cousin of a gnu (5): ELAND
76 Across: Summers on the Seine (4): ETES
77 Across: One of the Waughs (4): ALEC
78 Across: Often-repeated abbr. (3): ETC
79 Across: Verse, part 3 (21): SODOUNLATCHADOORORTWO
85 Across: Unwrap, as a gift (4): OPEN
86 Across: Not manually, after "on" (4): AUTO
87 Across: Female donkey (5): JENNY
88 Across: "L'___ c'est moi" (4): ETAT
89 Across: Crimefighter of early '60s TV (4): NESS
90 Across: "___ Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (3): ITS
91 Across: Trumpet sound (5): BLARE
93 Across: Lifeless (5): INERT
94 Across: 11th-century date (3): MLI
95 Across: Grizzly (4): BEAR
96 Across: Goat-legged god (3): PAN
98 Across: Dust busters (5): MAIDS
100 Across: 50 Cent piece (3): RAP
101 Across: Some wedding embellishments (8): CORSAGES
106 Across: End of the verse (21): ICANNOTFITINSIDEAFLUE
111 Across: "Later" (6): NOTNOW
112 Across: Of the lymph glands (7): ADENOID
113 Across: Undivided (6): ENTIRE
114 Across: Nonresident doctor (6): EXTERN
115 Across: Kind of strength (7): TENSILE
116 Across: Sappho's home (6): LESBOS

Down Answers

1 Down: Sound effect in a western (4): CLOP
2 Down: "That's hysterical!" (4): HAHA
3 Down: God who presided over the Aesir (4): ODIN
4 Down: Actor Ken (4): OLIN
5 Down: In one's dotage (6): SENILE
6 Down: Cosmetician Lauder (5): ESTEE
7 Down: Confession recitals (4): SINS
8 Down: "___ a partridge in a pear tree" (3): AND
9 Down: Winery sight (3): VAT
10 Down: Officially designate (6): ANOINT
11 Down: Inheritance (6): LEGACY
12 Down: How Santa travels (5): ALONE
13 Down: Orchestra: Abbr. (3): SYM
14 Down: Touchdown site (8): AIRSTRIP
15 Down: Place to see a Ben Franklin portrait (5): CNOTE
16 Down: Constant (4): TRUE
17 Down: A huge amount (4): TONS
18 Down: Real mouthful (3): WAD
19 Down: Some hosp. cases (3): ODS
24 Down: Span of time (3): ERA
25 Down: Like Santa's visit (6): YEARLY
30 Down: Norwegian king (4): OLAV
32 Down: Off-limits (5): TABOO
33 Down: Display (5): EXUDE
34 Down: Pumpkin eater of the nursery (5): PETER
35 Down: Yalie (3): ELI
36 Down: Hold back (4): STEM
37 Down: Neighbor of Scorpius (3): ARA
38 Down: Gossip (6): GABBER
39 Down: Wash whitener (6): BLUING
40 Down: Table covers (5): LINEN
41 Down: Confuse (5): ADDLE
42 Down: High-handed (5): BOSSY
44 Down: Ovid's love elegies (6): AMORES
45 Down: Rural carriages (5): SHAYS
46 Down: Texas river (6): BRAZOS
49 Down: Sch. in upstate N.Y. (7): ALFREDU
50 Down: Courtroom affirmation (3): IDO
51 Down: "Ninotchka" director ___ Lubitsch (5): ERNST
52 Down: Part of the Venezuela/ Colombia border (7): ORINOCO
59 Down: Pie-eyed (6): BLOTTO
60 Down: Renaissance fiddle (5): REBEC
61 Down: Sunday best (6): FINERY
62 Down: Mortise insertions (6): TENONS
63 Down: Sugar plums and candy canes (6): TREATS
65 Down: Claw (5): TALON
66 Down: Quark-plus-antiquark particle (5): MESON
67 Down: Skip off (5): ELOPE
68 Down: Puts on, as cargo (5): LADES
70 Down: Kyrgyz city (3): OSH
72 Down: Davis of "Jezebel" (5): BETTE
73 Down: Battling (5): ATWAR
74 Down: "Ivanhoe" author (5): SCOTT
77 Down: Top-rated (4): AONE
80 Down: Settle once and for all (8): NAILDOWN
81 Down: Elizabethan musician (6): LUTIST
82 Down: Slightly open (4): AJAR
83 Down: Wagner's "___ fliegende Hollander" (3): DER
84 Down: Stimpy's TV pal (3): REN
91 Down: Defeated (6): BEATEN
92 Down: Rabbit furs (6): LAPINS
93 Down: Bonkers (6): INSANE
94 Down: Nondrinker by law (5): MINOR
95 Down: Mrs. Santa Claus, long ago (5): BRIDE
96 Down: Pea's place (3): POD
97 Down: Dancing giddily (5): AREEL
98 Down: Drudge of the Internet (4): MATT
99 Down: Last of the House of Stuart (4): ANNE
101 Down: Funny ___, 2003 Derby winner (4): CIDE
102 Down: Ship positions (4): AFTS
103 Down: Smooth-tongued (4): GLIB
104 Down: Foreign money (4): EURO
105 Down: Dates (4): SEES
106 Down: Suffix with elephant (3): INE
107 Down: Loser to Harding in 1920 (3): COX
108 Down: Like Santa (3): FAT
109 Down: "___ do not!" (3): NOI
110 Down: Part of R.S.V.P. (3): SIL

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