FIVE-STRING

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Kelsey Blakley9/30/2007

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Starting point (4 letters)
5 Across: Wraps on stage (4 letters)
9 Across: Org. that inspects factories (4 letters)
13 Across: Frog's place (6 letters)
19 Across: ___-pointe (ballet position) (4 letters)
20 Across: Footballer-turned-politician Swann (4 letters)
21 Across: Inn's offering (4 letters)
22 Across: Hungry lion, e.g. (6 letters)
23 Across: *Ice hockey penalty (14 letters)
26 Across: Mame, e.g. (6 letters)
27 Across: Motrin rival (6 letters)
28 Across: They may be high before a competition (5 letters)
29 Across: Purges (4 letters)
31 Across: Companion of a spade (3 letters)
32 Across: Surgically excise (6 letters)
33 Across: Pod that's sometimes pickled (4 letters)
34 Across: *Tongue-in-cheek (9 letters)
36 Across: Côte d'___ (4 letters)
38 Across: Observed (8 letters)
40 Across: *Somewhat in jest (13 letters)
46 Across: Unbroken (6 letters)
50 Across: Dinner spread (4 letters)
51 Across: Food label abbr. (4 letters)
52 Across: Rocky Mtn. highs? (5 letters)
55 Across: Patron saint of metalworkers (4 letters)
56 Across: Not skip a beat? (6 letters)
59 Across: Go-go-go (9 letters)
61 Across: Not go by one's own locomotion (4 letters)
62 Across: Connections (3 letters)
63 Across: Family V.I.P.'s (3 letters)
65 Across: "Myself was stirring ___ the break of day": Shak. (3 letters)
66 Across: Oiled, in a manner (8 letters)
68 Across: *Sign of coming danger (15 letters)
72 Across: To be handled by (8 letters)
75 Across: ___-eyed (3 letters)
76 Across: "TV Funhouse" show, for short (3 letters)
77 Across: Key holder?: Abbr. (3 letters)
80 Across: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" author, 1970 (4 letters)
81 Across: Upshot (9 letters)
85 Across: Lack of variety (6 letters)
87 Across: Special case? (4 letters)
88 Across: Dan ___, former N.B.A. star and coach (5 letters)
89 Across: Roman historian (4 letters)
91 Across: Jazzy Anita (4 letters)
92 Across: Sharp bend (6 letters)
94 Across: *Drifter (13 letters)
98 Across: Colorless, flammable gas (8 letters)
101 Across: Imitator (4 letters)
102 Across: *What "dele" means (9 letters)
105 Across: ___ moss (4 letters)
108 Across: Does just all right (6 letters)
113 Across: Top-notch (3 letters)
114 Across: Israeli statesman Barak (4 letters)
115 Across: Actress/spokeswoman Belafonte (5 letters)
116 Across: Ancient Greek region (6 letters)
117 Across: Tin: Prefix (6 letters)
119 Across: *Barnyard fixture (14 letters)
122 Across: New Hampshire senator John (6 letters)
123 Across: 1965 movie "___ What You Did" (4 letters)
124 Across: Give a come-hither look (4 letters)
125 Across: Toy company whose name is an anagram of 124-Across (4 letters)
126 Across: Corkscrew, e.g. (6 letters)
127 Across: One-liners (4 letters)
128 Across: General ___ chicken (4 letters)
129 Across: Bygone U.S. gas brand (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Annual literary award (5 letters)
2 Down: Silas of the Continental Congress (5 letters)
3 Down: Thompson and Lazarus (5 letters)
4 Down: Relative of 26-Across (5 letters)
5 Down: Jewish crêpe (7 letters)
6 Down: Exclamations of exasperation (3 letters)
7 Down: Religious recluse (9 letters)
8 Down: Derisive gesture (5 letters)
9 Down: Periods in prison, e.g. (7 letters)
10 Down: Old French coins (4 letters)
11 Down: Ad follower (3 letters)
12 Down: City of New Orleans operator (6 letters)
13 Down: *Professional courtesy in pricing (13 letters)
14 Down: First word spoken to earth from the lunar surface (7 letters)
15 Down: Dashed (3 letters)
16 Down: Maker of Bug-B-Gon (5 letters)
17 Down: Fivesome seen in order in the answer to each starred clue (5 letters)
18 Down: Shady sorts? (5 letters)
24 Down: Biotite and phlogopite (5 letters)
25 Down: Home of "The Diane Rehm Show" (3 letters)
30 Down: Put away for good (3 letters)
34 Down: Christopher Morley novel "Kitty ___" (5 letters)
35 Down: Future residents (7 letters)
37 Down: Banquet holder (3 letters)
39 Down: Designer Cassini (4 letters)
40 Down: Some cliff dwellers (4 letters)
41 Down: English playwright Ayckbourn (4 letters)
42 Down: "I'm game!" (4 letters)
43 Down: Backing (3 letters)
44 Down: Landlord, e.g. (5 letters)
45 Down: Development sites (5 letters)
47 Down: Came down (4 letters)
48 Down: Word with bar or color (4 letters)
49 Down: One-to-one, e.g. (4 letters)
53 Down: Card catalog abbr. (4 letters)
54 Down: Chiantis, e.g. (5 letters)
57 Down: Poet who wrote "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" (4 letters)
58 Down: *Time during a graveyard shift (13 letters)
60 Down: Tears to pieces (5 letters)
64 Down: Arch sites (5 letters)
67 Down: Nothing doing? (4 letters)
68 Down: Sea of ___ (7 letters)
69 Down: Newts (4 letters)
70 Down: Stephen Jay ___, author of "The Panda's Thumb" (5 letters)
71 Down: Role in "The Color Purple" (5 letters)
72 Down: Carded, say (4 letters)
73 Down: Grp. conducting Operation Deny Flight (4 letters)
74 Down: Repeated cry at a beer blast (4 letters)
77 Down: Cousin of Spot (4 letters)
78 Down: Beach bash (4 letters)
79 Down: ___ nitrate (4 letters)
82 Down: Lick again (5 letters)
83 Down: Flair (4 letters)
84 Down: Nielsens (9 letters)
86 Down: To-___ (3 letters)
90 Down: Small bark (3 letters)
93 Down: Saint-___, capital of France's Loire department (7 letters)
95 Down: 4-Down's brothers (7 letters)
96 Down: Brings to naught (7 letters)
97 Down: Feminist Germaine (5 letters)
99 Down: Crossword solver, presumably (3 letters)
100 Down: Philosopher Wittgenstein (6 letters)
102 Down: Italian poet Torquato ___ (5 letters)
103 Down: Misbehave (5 letters)
104 Down: "The Family Circus" cartoonist (5 letters)
106 Down: Side flap (3 letters)
107 Down: Rampaging (5 letters)
109 Down: "A Confederacy of Dunces" author (5 letters)
110 Down: Pivots (5 letters)
111 Down: "American Pie" actor Jason (5 letters)
112 Down: Uneducated boor (5 letters)
115 Down: Unaccompanied (4 letters)
118 Down: Novice, maybe (3 letters)
120 Down: Simile's center (3 letters)
121 Down: Day-___ (3 letters)

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