ALL IN - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 9/25/2005. By Matt Skoczen.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Dog's owner (6)
MASTER
7 Across: Crit. condition areas (4)
ICUS
11 Across: Go (for) (3)
OPT
14 Across: Famed Chicago hotel (5)
DRAKE
19 Across: Station number (6)
OCTANE
20 Across: Injured, in a way (8)
SPRAINED
22 Across: Like an apartment with new tenants (5)
RELET
23 Across: Dislodging boats that have run aground? (15)
SHALLOWBUSINESS
25 Across: Runs for no purpose (5)
IDLES
26 Across: Long stretch (3)
EON
27 Across: Go for the gold? (3)
PAN
28 Across: Actress MacDowell (5)
ANDIE
29 Across: Beehives, e.g. (5)
UPDOS
30 Across: One calling at peak times? (7)
YODELER
33 Across: Salon worker (6)
TINTER
35 Across: "Horton Hears ___" (4)
AWHO
37 Across: Advice to a husband seeker? (18)
DONTHAVEACALLOWMAN
42 Across: "Lowdown" singer Boz ___ (6)
SCAGGS
45 Across: Photo ID? (3)
UPI
46 Across: Chinese philosopher Chu ___ (3)
HSI
47 Across: Respecting (5)
ANENT
48 Across: Goddess of agriculture (5)
CERES
49 Across: Warm wool (6)
ALPACA
52 Across: Presidential monogram (3)
HST
54 Across: "Don't ___ dumb" (5)
ACTSO
55 Across: Karaoke? (14)
BALLADMOUTHING
61 Across: TKO caller (3)
REF
62 Across: Get (3)
NAB
64 Across: Stairstep measure (4)
RISE
65 Across: Spots (6)
ESPIES
67 Across: Dart (4)
FLIT
69 Across: Medical worker in a billfold picture? (11)
WALLETNURSE
74 Across: Mex. miss (4)
SRTA
75 Across: Glass component (6)
SILICA
77 Across: It may follow a def. (4)
ETYM
78 Across: WB competitor (3)
UPN
80 Across: One of the Ewings, on "Dallas" (3)
VAL
81 Across: Selective Service System, once? (14)
AMERICASCALLUP
86 Across: Be bombastic (5)
ORATE
88 Across: Hellenic vowel (3)
ETA
89 Across: Shows homage (6)
KNEELS
90 Across: First airline with commercial transpacific passenger flights (5)
PANAM
91 Across: Lee foe (5)
MEADE
95 Across: Football linemen: Abbr. (3)
RTS
98 Across: Melbourne-to-Brisbane dir. (3)
NNE
99 Across: [Not again!] and [I can't!] (6)
GROANS
100 Across: Procrastinator's pick-up line? (18)
IMDALLYINGTOSEEYOU
105 Across: Like venison (4)
GAMY
106 Across: Annual Sunday night event, with "the" (6)
OSCARS
107 Across: Insignia (7)
EMBLEMS
111 Across: Bruce who appeared in "Suspicion" (5)
NIGEL
113 Across: Travis who sang "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)" (5)
TRITT
115 Across: Comfy footwear (3)
MOC
116 Across: Shade of green (3)
PEA
117 Across: "We Help Heal" sloganeer (5)
CURAD
118 Across: Where to store extra chandeliers? (15)
BALLROOMCLOSETS
122 Across: Teacher's note on a test (5)
SEEME
123 Across: Subject to change in size, as a picture on a screen (8)
SCALABLE
124 Across: Famous Indy 500 family (6)
UNSERS
125 Across: Neil Armstrong's middle name (5)
ALDEN
126 Across: Halifax hrs. (3)
AST
127 Across: Crosswalk users, for short (4)
PEDS
128 Across: Shirley who sang "Goldfinger" (6)
BASSEY

Down Answers

1 Down: Walk leisurely (5)
MOSEY
2 Down: Blessing preceder (5)
ACHOO
3 Down: Lose a lap (5)
STAND
4 Down: 1960's chess champ Mikhail (3)
TAL
5 Down: Blow-up: Abbr. (3)
ENL
6 Down: Goes back into business (7)
REOPENS
7 Down: Library cataloging datum, briefly (4)
ISBN
8 Down: PC "brain" (3)
CPU
9 Down: ___ Minor (4)
URSA
10 Down: Hélène, for one (6)
SAINTE
11 Down: Mark of a ruler (7)
ONEINCH
12 Down: Money replaced by euros (7)
PESETAS
13 Down: QB stats (3)
TDS
14 Down: Icicle feature (4)
DRIP
15 Down: 1984 Patrick Swayze film, the first movie released with a PG-13 rating (7)
REDDAWN
16 Down: "I'll do that" (7)
ALLOWME
17 Down: Original Clarabell the Clown player (7)
KEESHAN
18 Down: Brief strangers? (3)
ETS
21 Down: Its national anthem is "Jana Gana Mana" (5)
INDIA
24 Down: Imperfection (4)
WART
29 Down: Modern address (3)
URL
31 Down: Beats (out) (5)
EDGES
32 Down: Accesses the Web (6)
LOGSON
34 Down: Hebrew name meaning "He is my God" (5)
ELIHU
36 Down: Can. province (3)
ONT
38 Down: Kind of skirt (4)
HULA
39 Down: Kitchen item: Abbr. (4)
APPL
40 Down: Perfume holder (4)
VIAL
41 Down: They make people raise their hands (5)
OATHS
42 Down: Gobbles (up) (6)
SCARFS
43 Down: Historical novelist Holland (7)
CECELIA
44 Down: Fellini or Godard work (7)
ARTFILM
49 Down: Acronymic pop group name (4)
ABBA
50 Down: Teamster (7)
CARTMAN
51 Down: Tennis score (4)
ADIN
53 Down: Expensive (5)
STEEP
56 Down: Big Ten inits. (3)
MSU
57 Down: Poetic preposition (3)
OER
58 Down: VCR speed meas. (3)
IPS
59 Down: Absolute bliss (7)
NIRVANA
60 Down: Turn dark (7)
GETATAN
63 Down: Look toward (5)
AWAIT
66 Down: R. J. Reynolds pack (6)
SALEMS
68 Down: Bow (3)
TIE
70 Down: Rustic setting (3)
LEA
71 Down: Capts.' inferiors (3)
LTS
72 Down: Flemish painter Jan van ___ (4)
EYCK
73 Down: Dines (4)
SUPS
76 Down: Angler's basket (5)
CREEL
79 Down: "Easy as pie!" (6)
NOPROB
82 Down: Grant and others (5)
CARYS
83 Down: TV comic who wrote "If Roast Beef Could Fly" (4)
LENO
84 Down: Lorgnette piece (4)
LENS
85 Down: 1997 Peter Fonda role (4)
ULEE
87 Down: Humanitarian Wallenberg (5)
RAOUL
91 Down: Foreign flier (3)
MIG
92 Down: Common temple name (7)
EMANUEL
93 Down: In high repute (7)
ADMIRED
94 Down: Half of a double-header, maybe (7)
DAYGAME
96 Down: Certs competitor (7)
TICTACS
97 Down: Menace (7)
SNARLAT
99 Down: Place to work out (7)
GYMCLUB
101 Down: Joke response (3)
LOL
102 Down: Diner feature (5)
GRILL
103 Down: Woman's shoe style (6)
TSTRAP
104 Down: Fair-hiring grp. (4)
EEOC
108 Down: Some blades (5)
EPEES
109 Down: English distance (5)
METRE
110 Down: Smart (5)
SASSY
112 Down: Place of bliss (4)
EDEN
114 Down: "That is ___ expected" (4)
TOBE
115 Down: Fr. ladies (4)
MMES
117 Down: Civil War inits. (3)
CSA
118 Down: Troop grp. (3)
BSA
119 Down: Outmoded (3)
OLD
120 Down: ___ whim (3)
ONA
121 Down: Sound of a leak (3)
SSS

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