LEAP DAY - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 2/29/2004. By Patrick Merrell.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Darkness (5): NIGHT
6 Across: Pack carrier (5): LLAMA
11 Across: Application datum: Abbr. (3): SSN
14 Across: Background of Vladimir Putin, for short (3): KGB
17 Across: Route indicator (5): ARROW
18 Across: Traveler's woe (6): JETLAG
19 Across: Island strings (3): UKE
20 Across: Anti-inflammatory agent (4): ALOE
21 Across: Striped animal (5): OKAPI
22 Across: "The Witches of Eastwick" author (6): UPDIKE
23 Across: A full course? (8): EIGHTEEN
25 Across: Queens contest (8): METSGAME
27 Across: Daughter of Hyperion (3): EOS
29 Across: Strike, essentially (7): PROTEST
30 Across: Thesis basis (4): IDEA
31 Across: Big inits. in news and culture (3): NPR
32 Across: Four fluid ounces (4): GILL
33 Across: Food company with a sun in its logo (4): DOLE
34 Across: Cigarette pkgs. (4): CTNS
36 Across: Empire State Building decor (7): ARTDECO
38 Across: Put in (5): EMBED
42 Across: Shack topper (7): TINROOF
45 Across: Sinatra scat syllable (3): DOO
46 Across: Black bird (3): DAW
47 Across: Express views (5): OPINE
48 Across: Pry (5): SNOOP
49 Across: Take off (6): REMOVE
52 Across: Open, in a way (8): UNBUTTON
54 Across: Writing (5): PROSE
55 Across: 1968 Oscar-winning musical (6): OLIVER
56 Across: Has trouble with words (8): STUTTERS
57 Across: Smell, e.g. (5): SENSE
58 Across: Cuts using a box (6): MITERS
59 Across: Long period (3): EON
60 Across: "It's you ___" (4): ORME
61 Across: Upright at sea (4): MAST
65 Across: Ed.'s in-box filler (3): MSS
68 Across: It's hard, to swallow (6): CAPLET
74 Across: Just above average (5): CPLUS
79 Across: "Enough already!" (8): IVEHADIT
81 Across: Red-faced (6): ABLUSH
82 Across: Hangout (5): HAUNT
83 Across: Spot for Roosevelt (8): FIRESIDE
84 Across: Apt (6): LIABLE
85 Across: Parenthetical passage (5): ASIDE
86 Across: Blows (5): FLUBS
87 Across: Nus to us (3): ENS
89 Across: Co. in a 2000 telecommunications merger (3): GTE
90 Across: Ripen (7): BLOSSOM
92 Across: South Seas monarchy (5): SAMOA
93 Across: "Frankenstein" props (7): TORCHES
95 Across: Kiln (4): OAST
96 Across: 1991 Gerardo hit "___ Suave" (4): RICO
98 Across: Fall's end (4): THUD
99 Across: VJ's employer (3): MTV
100 Across: "Dang!" (4): HECK
104 Across: Chicken go-with (7): NOODLES
107 Across: Term. info (3): ARR
108 Across: Minor minder (8): STAGEMOM
110 Across: Sights (8): TAKESAIM
112 Across: 1966 Mary Martin musical (6): IDOIDO
115 Across: Deadly virus (5): EBOLA
116 Across: Blender sound (4): WHIR
117 Across: Reagan military inits. (3): SDI
118 Across: Run with gates (6): SLALOM
119 Across: Less seen (5): RARER
120 Across: Calendar col. (3): TUE
121 Across: Sinuous sea dweller (3): EEL
122 Across: Administers, with "out" (5): METES
123 Across: It's a secret (5): TRYST

Down Answers

1 Down: Biblical woman from Bethlehem (5): NAOMI
2 Down: Troubled (by) (5): IRKED
3 Down: Worry for a wearer of high heels (5): GRATE
4 Down: Takes a quickie vacation, say (10): HOPSACROSS
5 Down: Bud holder (4): TWIG
6 Down: Molokai resident (5): LEPER
7 Down: Co. name end (3): LTD
8 Down: 2001 biopic (3): ALI
9 Down: Achieve significant progress (10): MAKEITOVER
10 Down: Long-known (6): AGEOLD
11 Down: Challenge, legally (3): SUE
12 Down: Not read something completely (10): SKIPDOWNTO
13 Down: Rio ___, part of the Venezuela/ Colombia boundary (5): NEGRO
14 Down: Swiss abstract painting (4): KLEE
15 Down: Takes a turn (4): GOES
16 Down: Like a shepherd's staff (4): BENT
18 Down: Has ever-changing loyalties (9): JUMPSFROM
20 Down: Seek a lawyer's license (9): ATTEMPTTO
24 Down: Sink a putt (7): HOLEOUT
26 Down: Monumental year? (4): ANNO
28 Down: Source of spills on hills (4): SLED
32 Down: Channel (6): GROOVE
35 Down: Lightweight helmet, in India (5): TOPEE
36 Down: Come out of denial (5): ADMIT
37 Down: Civil rights, e.g. (5): CAUSE
39 Down: Snake, for one (5): BITER
40 Down: Vast, in verse (5): ENORM
41 Down: Like osmium, more than any other known element (5): DENSE
42 Down: 48 in a cup: Abbr. (4): TSPS
43 Down: As to (4): INRE
44 Down: Twelve (4): NOON
50 Down: "The Whiffenpoof Song" singer (3): ELI
51 Down: Drs.' workplaces (3): ERS
53 Down: Cafeteria worker's hairdo (3): BUN
61 Down: Annoys (5): MIFFS
62 Down: St. Teresa's birthplace (5): AVILA
63 Down: Medical supply (5): SERUM
64 Down: Answer continued (9): THEBORDER
65 Down: 16th-century start (3): MDI
66 Down: Answer continued (10): SIDETOSIDE
67 Down: Gregg method user (5): STENO
68 Down: Old White House nickname (3): CAL
69 Down: Answer continued (10): ABIGHURDLE
70 Down: Like chrome hubcaps (6): PLATED
71 Down: Garage jobs (5): LUBES
72 Down: Precitizenship course: Abbr. (3): ESL
73 Down: Answer continued (9): THEBOTTOM
74 Down: Utter breakdown (5): CHAOS
75 Down: Answer continued (10): PASSTHEBAR
76 Down: Physics Nobelist Alvarez (4): LUIS
77 Down: Reverse (4): UNDO
78 Down: Kind of cell (4): STEM
80 Down: Has at (7): ASSAILS
88 Down: Fem. in una casa (4): SRTA
91 Down: Hot rock (4): LAVA
94 Down: Oil used in church rites (6): CHRISM
97 Down: Quit (5): CEASE
99 Down: PC software (5): MSDOS
101 Down: The Eagles of college sports (5): EMORY
102 Down: Nat and Natalie (5): COLES
103 Down: Target competitor (5): KMART
104 Down: Pkg. no. (4): NTWT
105 Down: Aiea locale (4): OAHU
106 Down: Dust Bowl victim (4): OKIE
109 Down: Frobe who played Goldfinger (4): GERT
111 Down: "Thanks a ___!" (3): MIL
113 Down: Husk site (3): OAT
114 Down: Suffix with infant (3): ILE

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