TWO STEPS LATE - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 9/10/2006. By Joe DiPietro.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Major-league team with the most season losses, 120, in the 20th century (4): METS
5 Across: Fills positions for (6): STAFFS
11 Across: A mouse moves over it (3): PAD
14 Across: "Get ___!" (3): HIM
17 Across: Former enemy capital (5): HANOI
18 Across: Kind of wrestling (6): INDIAN
19 Across: House painting attire, maybe (8): OLDJEANS
22 Across: Electrolysis particle (5): ANION
23 Across: Whining from execs? (15): SUITCOMPLAINING
25 Across: Be slightly turned on? (14): LUSTALITTLEBIT
27 Across: "Son of Frankenstein" role (4): YGOR
28 Across: Mint family plant (6): SALVIA
29 Across: Rock guitarist Barrett (3): SYD
30 Across: Flight (3): LAM
32 Across: Pens and needles (5): STYLI
35 Across: "Summer of Sam" director (3): LEE
36 Across: Day ___ (3): SPA
39 Across: Laid up (5): INBED
41 Across: "Yikes!" (4): EGAD
42 Across: Fashionable gun? (10): GATINSTYLE
47 Across: Lose resilience (3): SAG
49 Across: Ringside shout (3): OLE
50 Across: Regard (4): DEEM
52 Across: Cheesy snack (6): NACHOS
53 Across: Engineering project begun in 1898 (8): ASWANDAM
55 Across: Usher to, as a table (6): SEATAT
57 Across: Princess of Power (5): SHERA
58 Across: Money in the bag, maybe (6): RANSOM
59 Across: "Well, this pays the rent" (7): ITSAJOB
61 Across: Bug (3): IRK
62 Across: Whit (3): FIG
63 Across: Deletes (5): XSOUT
66 Across: "Then join you with them, like ___ of steel": Shak. (4): ARIB
67 Across: Assistants at a Kate Spade factory? (11): PURSESAIDES
71 Across: Valle del Bove locale (4): ETNA
72 Across: ___ Park, N.J. (5): MENLO
74 Across: NASA vehicle (3): LEM
75 Across: Part of a winning combination (3): TAC
76 Across: Irish-born actress McKenna (7): SIOBHAN
78 Across: Washer setting (6): GENTLE
80 Across: Like James Brown's music (5): FUNKY
82 Across: Snoops (6): PRYERS
83 Across: Someone sexy (8): HOTSTUFF
85 Across: 60 shares, e.g. (6): ODDLOT
87 Across: Cordial (4): WARM
88 Across: The Wildcats of the N.C.A.A. (3): UNH
89 Across: New England hockey hero (3): ORR
90 Across: Unit amount of sunlight seen? (10): RAYPERVIEW
92 Across: Knotted up (4): TIED
94 Across: Central (5): FOCAL
96 Across: Suffix with Ecuador (3): EAN
97 Across: Accident (3): HAP
100 Across: Missouri city, briefly (5): STJOE
102 Across: Flit (about) (3): GAD
103 Across: Equi- equivalent (3): ISO
106 Across: Motivated (6): DRIVEN
109 Across: As recently as (4): ONLY
111 Across: Reunion no-shows? (14): MISSINGCOUSINS
115 Across: Hemlock? (15): DRINKOFDISASTER
118 Across: Go blading (5): SKATE
119 Across: Literary orphan (8): JANEEYRE
120 Across: Swimming (6): NATANT
121 Across: Glacial ice formation (5): SERAC
122 Across: Three of a kind, in poker parlance (3): SET
123 Across: Suffix with bass (3): OON
124 Across: Scenic vistas, briefly (6): SCAPES
125 Across: African antelope (4): ORYX

Down Answers

1 Down: Stick (6): MANUAL
2 Down: Isolate (6): ENISLE
3 Down: Play garden produce like a horn? (14): TOOTVEGETABLES
4 Down: New York's Mount ___ Hospital (5): SINAI
5 Down: No-no's opposite? (4): SISI
6 Down: Letter-shaped fastener (4): TNUT
7 Down: Mine entrances (5): ADITS
8 Down: In a proper manner (5): FITLY
9 Down: Braved (5): FACED
10 Down: High-hatter (4): SNOB
11 Down: Beer can feature (6): POPTAB
12 Down: ___ right (3): ALL
13 Down: W.W. II event (4): DDAY
14 Down: Shaggy sponsor of a sort? (14): HAIRYGODMOTHER
15 Down: Lodge (3): INN
16 Down: N.Y.C. arena (3): MSG
17 Down: "The Laughing Cavalier" artist (4): HALS
20 Down: Sprightly dances (4): JIGS
21 Down: Brief online message (5): ENOTE
24 Down: A. A. for children (5): MILNE
26 Down: Place trailers are in (4): LAST
31 Down: Wires (8): MESSAGES
33 Down: ___ land (4): LALA
34 Down: Footnote word (4): IDEM
37 Down: Grenade part (3): PIN
38 Down: Santa ___ (hot winds) (4): ANAS
39 Down: To whom "We'll always have Paris" was spoken (4): ILSA
40 Down: Time for crowing (4): DAWN
43 Down: Key with three sharps: Abbr. (4): AMAJ
44 Down: Separation (6): SCHISM
45 Down: "Voilà!" (5): THERE
46 Down: Examination of an English royal house? (9): YORKSTUDY
48 Down: Phazyme alternative (4): GASX
50 Down: Raison ___ (5): DETRE
51 Down: Relieving knee pain? (14): EASINGTHEJOINT
53 Down: Uninteresting (4): ARID
54 Down: Cat's sniffer? (14): NOSEBYAWHISKER
55 Down: Kingdom of Broadway (4): SIAM
56 Down: Beat (3): TOP
60 Down: Long jumper (8): BULLFROG
62 Down: Inconstant (6): FICKLE
64 Down: Prevent from making a hit? (5): UNARM
65 Down: Gets some color (4): TANS
68 Down: Wreck site (4): REEF
69 Down: Supermarket chain (5): AANDP
70 Down: Nurse (3): SIP
73 Down: Able to see right through (4): ONTO
77 Down: "Say as he says, ___ shall never go": "The Taming of the Shrew" (4): ORWE
79 Down: Gang land (4): TURF
80 Down: Farm young (4): FOAL
81 Down: Old (4): YORE
83 Down: "Gilligan's Island" dwellings (4): HUTS
84 Down: Attending to a task (4): ONIT
86 Down: F.D.R. plan (3): TVA
90 Down: They meet in the middle (5): RADII
91 Down: ___-European (4): INDO
93 Down: "Go, and catch a falling star" poet (5): DONNE
95 Down: City connected to Philadelphia by the Benjamin Franklin Bridge (6): CAMDEN
98 Down: Where kites may be found (6): AVIARY
99 Down: Canon competitor (6): PENTAX
101 Down: Sommer in the cinema (4): ELKE
103 Down: Ishmael's half-brother (5): ISAAC
104 Down: Rap relative (5): SISTA
105 Down: Ready to be drawn (5): ONTAP
107 Down: "One Good Cop" actress (5): RUSSO
108 Down: Tiny time period: Abbr. (4): NSEC
110 Down: Jerk (4): YOYO
112 Down: ID's with two hyphens (4): SSNS
113 Down: It may be given from father to son (4): GENE
114 Down: PC screens (4): CRTS
115 Down: Station personalities (3): DJS
116 Down: Actress ___ Dawn Chong (3): RAE
117 Down: Back again (3): FRO

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