LABORATORY MAZE - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 142 clues). Published 3/13/2005. By Patrick Merrell.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Speaking sites (6)
ROSTRA
7 Across: D.C. lobbying grp. (3)
NRA
10 Across: Olympian Griffith Joyner, familiarly (5)
FLOJO
15 Across: One covering the infield (4)
TARP
19 Across: Elocuted (6)
ORATED
20 Across: Like most magazine personality tests (9)
SELFRATED
22 Across: Melville work (4)
OMOO
23 Across: Passé (6)
DEMODE
24 Across: Smell victory, in a lab maze? (14)
FOLLOWONESNOSE
26 Across: Attempted activity in "The Barber of Seville" (7)
ELOPING
28 Across: Suffix with ideal (3)
ISM
29 Across: Eye lasciviously (6)
LEERAT
30 Across: Org. with a key-holding eagle in its logo (3)
NSA
31 Across: Cheat, in a lab maze? (13)
GOOVERTHEWALL
37 Across: See to (4)
TEND
39 Across: Computer woe (5)
VIRUS
40 Across: "The Confessions of ___ Turner" (3)
NAT
41 Across: Rights grp. (4)
ACLU
45 Across: Double curve (3)
ESS
48 Across: "Miss ___ Thompson," 1953 musical film (5)
SADIE
50 Across: Part of a food pyramid (8)
STARCHES
53 Across: Hit a dead end mazewise? (21)
GETCAUGHTINAMOUSETRAP
58 Across: Term (8)
DURATION
59 Across: Set (3)
GEL
60 Across: Mark and Shania (6)
TWAINS
61 Across: Asia's ___ Sea (4)
ARAL
62 Across: Assent in les Alpes (3)
OUI
64 Across: Feather holder (9)
HEADDRESS
66 Across: Thither (3)
YON
67 Across: Jazz guitarist Montgomery (3)
WES
69 Across: Begin (5)
START
71 Across: Lab maze runner (3)
RAT
72 Across: Pit sight (3)
TAR
75 Across: Works around town? (9)
STREETART
78 Across: ___ milk (3)
SOY
80 Across: Stuffed food (4)
PITA
81 Across: Materialize (6)
APPEAR
83 Across: Article of the Constitution about the judiciary (3)
III
84 Across: Dove (8)
PEACENIK
87 Across: Get weary solving  a lab maze? (21)
GROWTIREDOFTHERATRACE
92 Across: Salute site (8)
FOREHEAD
93 Across: Done in (5)
SLAIN
94 Across: Make, in arithmetic (3)
ARE
95 Across: Recipe info: Abbr. (4)
AMTS
96 Across: Sch. where Samuel Morse was a professor of art (3)
NYU
98 Across: End of MGM's motto (5)
ARTIS
100 Across: Mag. sales info (4)
CIRC
104 Across: Does some lab maze-solving? (13)
MAKESATESTRUN
109 Across: Book after Ezr. (3)
NEH
110 Across: Head post (6)
TOPJOB
114 Across: Epitome of simplicity (3)
ABC
115 Across: Go over again (7)
ITERATE
117 Across: Solve a lab maze almost inaudibly? (14)
BARELYSQUEAKBY
123 Across: Brave cover (6)
TEEPEE
124 Across: "My Fair Lady" is based on his work (4)
SHAW
125 Across: Foundations (9)
SUBSTRATA
126 Across: Cars known for backfiring? (6)
EDSELS
127 Across: Options for traders (4)
PUTS
128 Across: High lands (5)
MESAS
129 Across: "Tasty!" (3)
YUM
130 Across: Clue for a car mechanic (6)
RATTLE

Down Answers

1 Down: Maze participant (6)
RODENT
2 Down: Veiled threat (6)
ORELSE
3 Down: Austronesian language (6)
SAMOAN
4 Down: 'Vette option (4)
TTOP
5 Down: Make a new excavation (5)
REDIG
6 Down: Gland prefix (5)
ADENO
7 Down: Bounced check letters (3)
NSF
8 Down: Olds mobile (3)
REO
9 Down: Accompanier of thumbs and ears (3)
ALL
10 Down: Frat rushees, often (5)
FROSH
11 Down: Pros with cons (6)
LAWMEN
12 Down: Plains Indian (3)
OTO
13 Down: Actress Aniston, familiarly (3)
JEN
14 Down: Scott who wrote "Island of the Blue Dolphins" (5)
ODELL
15 Down: Soap made by Dial (4)
TONE
16 Down: Marc Antony's love (4)
AMOR
17 Down: Parks in Alabama (4)
ROSA
18 Down: "Every man will be a ___ if he can": Thoreau (4)
POET
21 Down: Arrives suddenly without formality (7)
FLITSIN
25 Down: Pommes frites seasoning (3)
SEL
27 Down: State biggie (3)
GOV
32 Down: One of a Hindu trinity (6)
VISHNU
33 Down: Q.E.D. part (4)
ERAT
34 Down: Designer Gernreich (4)
RUDI
35 Down: Had passed its expiration date (6)
WASOLD
36 Down: Outermost of the Aleutians (4)
ATTU
38 Down: Transfer (5)
DECAL
41 Down: Play the role of (5)
ACTAS
42 Down: Garbo film "Queen ___" (9)
CHRISTINA
43 Down: Trim (4)
LEAN
44 Down: Deliverer of many pkgs. (4)
USPS
46 Down: Didn't play (3)
SAT
47 Down: ___ generis (unique) (3)
SUI
49 Down: Anticipatory (5)
EAGER
51 Down: Stars, in Kansas' motto (5)
ASTRA
52 Down: Stop from getting dry (5)
REWET
53 Down: Mate's hello (4)
GDAY
54 Down: International coin (4)
EURO
55 Down: Convey (9)
TRANSPORT
56 Down: One taking a gander? (5)
GOOSE
57 Down: Different cuts (5)
MEATS
63 Down: "Let me repeat ?" (5)
ISAID
64 Down: What a tipper tips (3)
HAT
65 Down: Tumbler (5)
DRYER
67 Down: Anger (5)
WRATH
68 Down: Unexplainable (5)
EERIE
70 Down: Chamber groups (5)
TRIOS
73 Down: Suffix with axiom (4)
ATIC
74 Down: Pile maker (4)
RAKE
76 Down: Lauren of "The Love Boat" (5)
TEWES
77 Down: Hand-color, in a way (6)
TIEDYE
79 Down: Gift-giver's urging (6)
OPENIT
80 Down: French writer Georges (5)
PEREC
81 Down: Kodak competitor (4)
AGFA
82 Down: Spring event (4)
PROM
85 Down: Org. with an emergency no. (3)
AAA
86 Down: Geom. point (3)
CTR
88 Down: Captain, e.g. (4)
RANK
89 Down: Freight carrier (7)
FLATCAR
90 Down: Unloaded truck's weight (4)
TARE
91 Down: Home page visits (4)
HITS
97 Down: Olympics chant (6)
USAUSA
99 Down: ___ Lanka (3)
SRI
101 Down: Steamed (6)
INAPET
102 Down: Pass along, as gossip (6)
RETELL
103 Down: Maze reward (6)
CHEESE
104 Down: Unit of matter: Abbr. (3)
MOL
105 Down: Bottomless pit (5)
ABYSM
106 Down: Helps do wrong (5)
ABETS
107 Down: Complete (5)
UTTER
108 Down: "___ lift?" (5)
NEEDA
110 Down: 1/16 of a cup: Abbr. (4)
TBSP
111 Down: Diamond Head's home (4)
OAHU
112 Down: Burlesque landing spot (4)
PRAT
113 Down: Jacob and Abraham, e.g. (4)
JEWS
116 Down: Break (4)
REST
118 Down: Go after (3)
SUE
119 Down: Passers, briefly (3)
QBS
120 Down: "___ Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge" (3)
KAY
121 Down: A.C. unit (3)
BTU
122 Down: Verb for Popeye (3)
YAM

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