TH-TH-TH-THAT'S ALL FOLKS! - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 136 clues). Published 7/29/2007. By Brendan Emmett Quigley.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Basis for the first commercially successful video game (8)
PINGPONG
9 Across: Just folks? (7)
MAANDPA
16 Across: Mugger? (3)
HAM
19 Across: They may have smiles and frowns (9)
EMOTICONS
21 Across: Athlete's slump (7)
OFFYEAR
22 Across: Grosse-___, Québec (3)
ILE
23 Across: Somebody else's soaking dentures? (17)
NOTONESCUPOFTEETH
25 Across: Tour stop (3)
GIG
26 Across: Outstanding (3)
DUE
27 Across: Aviation pioneer Eugene (3)
ELY
28 Across: Palm Beach County city, for short (4)
BOCA
29 Across: One who might stand in front of a map (7)
TEACHER
31 Across: Prefix with sphere (6)
STRATO
33 Across: Life stories (7)
MEMOIRS
36 Across: Yellowish brown (5)
TAWNY
37 Across: Ghost in a battery? (13)
CATHODEWRAITH
41 Across: Experimental figures (4)
DATA
42 Across: Wing: Prefix (4)
PTER
44 Across: Their mascot is Handsome Dan (4)
ELIS
45 Across: Was wistful (6)
SIGHED
47 Across: Thataway (3)
YON
48 Across: Comedian Jay (4)
MOHR
49 Across: Thin opening (4)
SLIT
50 Across: Vegetarian's credo (6)
NOMEAT
52 Across: Prefix with metric (3)
ISO
53 Across: Actress Barbara (4)
BAIN
54 Across: Whence the phrase "Brevity is the soul of wit" (6)
HAMLET
58 Across: Love, in Livorno (5)
AMORE
61 Across: Former pol. div. (3)
SSR
62 Across: Avoid being captured by guitarist Richards? (11)
ESCAPEKEITH
64 Across: 1986 Indy 500 winner (5)
RAHAL
65 Across: Neighbor of a Pole (6)
SLOVAK
67 Across: Fluttering sound (5)
TRILL
68 Across: Deity featured on California's state seal (6)
ATHENA
69 Across: Fed-up cry (5)
IQUIT
70 Across: Baby twins? (11)
DOUBLEYOUTH
74 Across: Bar fig. (3)
ATT
75 Across: Some NCO's (5)
SSGTS
76 Across: Isolate (6)
ENISLE
77 Across: Possessive on Chinese menus (4)
TSOS
78 Across: One of the "Magnificent Seven" (3)
LEE
79 Across: Skywalker portrayer (6)
HAMILL
81 Across: Circle (4)
LOOP
82 Across: Middles: Abbr. (4)
CTRS
83 Across: One of the Bushes (3)
JEB
85 Across: Ballade endings (6)
ENVOIS
88 Across: In a jiffy (4)
SOON
89 Across: Joyous sounds (4)
AAHS
90 Across: Org. with the motto "The power to make it better" (4)
AARP
92 Across: Sherlock at the Space Needle? (13)
SEATTLESLEUTH
95 Across: Drub (5)
CREAM
97 Across: "Unh-unh" (7)
NOSIREE
98 Across: Repeated sounds in "Hey Jude" (6)
NANANA
102 Across: Poet Omar (7)
KHAYYAM
105 Across: "Can that be true?" (4)
ITIS
106 Across: PC linkup (3)
LAN
107 Across: ___ cit. (3)
LOC
108 Across: Magazine with a fold-in (3)
MAD
109 Across: Billionaire's last dollar? (17)
BOTTOMOFTHEWEALTH
114 Across: "What Is ___?" (Tolstoy essay) (3)
ART
115 Across: "Gather Together in My Name" writer (7)
ANGELOU
116 Across: Get set (9)
ORIENTATE
117 Across: ___ degree (3)
NTH
118 Across: Start of a trip in a bathysphere (7)
DESCENT
119 Across: Made blue (8)
SADDENED

Down Answers

1 Down: Remains undecided (5)
PENDS
2 Down: Poker player's declaration (5)
IMOUT
3 Down: Observant one (5)
NOTER
4 Down: Classic muscle car (3)
GTO
5 Down: Batter's material (7)
PINETAR
6 Down: Nocturnal feline (6)
OCELOT
7 Down: Too inquisitive (4)
NOSY
8 Down: Vitamin supplements store (3)
GNC
9 Down: Farm animal, in kidspeak (6)
MOOCOW
10 Down: Tabloid fodder (7)
AFFAIRS
11 Down: In the back (3)
AFT
12 Down: "The Eyes of ___" (public TV science show) (3)
NYE
13 Down: Bug spray ingredient (4)
DEET
14 Down: Cracker spread (4)
PATE
15 Down: Nirvana attainer (5)
ARHAT
16 Down: Good eating and clean living? (15)
HIGHWAYTOHEALTH
17 Down: Not recognizable by (7)
ALIENTO
18 Down: "You've Got Mail" co-star (7)
MEGRYAN
20 Down: Change, as a manuscript, in Britain (7)
SUBEDIT
24 Down: Quinces, e.g. (5)
POMES
30 Down: Heel (3)
CAD
32 Down: Great server (4)
ACER
33 Down: Character actor Alfred (6)
MOLINA
34 Down: Thor Heyerdahl craft (3)
RAI
35 Down: Official seal (6)
SIGNET
38 Down: Spiral: Prefix (5)
HELIC
39 Down: Egyptian god of wisdom (5)
THOTH
40 Down: Something that's turned up (3)
HEM
42 Down: Some residents, by census classification (7)
POSSLQS
43 Down: Very detailed scope? (15)
THOROUGHBREADTH
46 Down: Shortages (7)
DEARTHS
48 Down: Wife, colloquially (6)
MISSIS
49 Down: Its cap. is Regina (4)
SASK
51 Down: Asian nurse (4)
AMAH
53 Down: Comment made with a shrug (7)
BEATSME
54 Down: Garden output (5)
HERBS
55 Down: "A View to ___" (5)
AKILL
56 Down: Ruckus (5)
MELEE
57 Down: One of TV's Munsters (4)
LILY
59 Down: Highly opinionated sorts (7)
RANTERS
60 Down: Lifts up (6)
ELATES
63 Down: Spitting sound (4)
PTUI
66 Down: "La Dolce ___" (4)
VITA
68 Down: Above (4)
ATOP
70 Down: Go (into) (5)
DELVE
71 Down: Borrowed (6)
ONLOAN
72 Down: "Becket" star (6)
OTOOLE
73 Down: Route from Me. to Fla. (5)
USONE
80 Down: Connections (3)
INS
81 Down: Gets bounced by (7)
LOSESTO
82 Down: "Call Me Irresponsible" lyricist (4)
CAHN
83 Down: Actor Hugh of "X-Men" (7)
JACKMAN
84 Down: First woman to earn the Distinguished Flying Cross (7)
EARHART
86 Down: "Am ___ believe this?" (3)
ITO
87 Down: Apostle known as "the Zealot" (7)
STSIMON
88 Down: Line of text? (5)
SERIF
89 Down: Done (7)
ATANEND
91 Down: Reward (3)
PAY
93 Down: Left hurriedly (6)
LITOUT
94 Down: Not impressed (6)
UNAWED
96 Down: "Oops!" (5)
MYBAD
99 Down: Detective Pinkerton (5)
ALLAN
100 Down: Dark time in Italy (5)
NOTTE
101 Down: Suffered (5)
ACHED
103 Down: Rook's spot on a chessboard (4)
AONE
104 Down: Board events: Abbr. (4)
MTGS
106 Down: Fictional princess (4)
LEIA
110 Down: P.I. (3)
TEC
111 Down: World Cup chant (3)
OLE
112 Down: Time sheet abbr. (3)
HRS
113 Down: Put away (3)
ATE

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