PARTING THOUGHTS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21132 clues~30-60 minBy Matt Ginsberg7/13/2008

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Across

1 Across: Having chutzpah (5 letters)
6 Across: Home of the Braves: Abbr. (3 letters)
9 Across: Hale-___ (comet seen in 1997) (4 letters)
13 Across: Take a chance (6 letters)
19 Across: Page facing a verso (5 letters)
20 Across: Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials, with "The" (8 letters)
22 Across: Enigmas (6 letters)
23 Across: Take heat from? (5 letters)
24 Across: Downhill racer (8 letters)
25 Across: Poet John who wrote "Lives of X," an autobiography in verse (6 letters)
26 Across: Last request, part 1 (21 letters)
29 Across: Rains in Spain (5 letters)
30 Across: Twigs, perhaps (6 letters)
31 Across: Animal more closely related to the mongoose than the dog (5 letters)
32 Across: Inhuman (7 letters)
35 Across: Groundbreaking inventions? (4 letters)
36 Across: Cabinet inits. since 1979 (3 letters)
38 Across: Part of a range: Abbr. (3 letters)
39 Across: Records (6 letters)
40 Across: Not maj. (3 letters)
41 Across: Endorsers, typically (6 letters)
44 Across: Election ending? (3 letters)
45 Across: Request, part 2 (17 letters)
52 Across: Barney's buddy, in cartoondom (4 letters)
54 Across: Veiled comment? (3 letters)
55 Across: "Sense and Sensibility" author (6 letters)
56 Across: "Thumbs way up!" review (4 letters)
57 Across: Unlike drive, reverse has just one (4 letters)
59 Across: Lord's land (7 letters)
61 Across: With 95-Across, chef whose recipes are used on the International Space Station (6 letters)
63 Across: National Institutes of Health location (8 letters)
65 Across: Request, part 3 (3 letters)
66 Across: How good investors invest (8 letters)
68 Across: Profitless (6 letters)
69 Across: Bill (7 letters)
71 Across: On Soc. Sec., typically (4 letters)
72 Across: "The King and I" setting (4 letters)
73 Across: Park ___ (6 letters)
76 Across: Disfigure (3 letters)
77 Across: God, in Granada (4 letters)
79 Across: Request, part 4 (17 letters)
84 Across: ___ culpa (3 letters)
85 Across: Actress Mimieux of "Where the Boys Are" (6 letters)
86 Across: Supply in a loft (3 letters)
87 Across: Alludes (to) (6 letters)
89 Across: Lambert airport's home: Abbr. (3 letters)
92 Across: "___ pig's eye!" (3 letters)
93 Across: Created (4 letters)
95 Across: See 61-Across (7 letters)
96 Across: ___ ballerina (5 letters)
98 Across: Salma Hayek, for one (6 letters)
101 Across: 1970s Renault (5 letters)
102 Across: End of the request (21 letters)
108 Across: European carrier (6 letters)
109 Across: Part of many an autobiography's author credit (8 letters)
110 Across: Morticia, to Fester, on "The Addams Family" (5 letters)
111 Across: Gander : goose :: tercel : ___ (6 letters)
112 Across: More chic (8 letters)
113 Across: Clothing retailer Bauer (5 letters)
114 Across: Erica Jong's phobia, ostensibly (6 letters)
115 Across: "Yonder window," according to Romeo (4 letters)
116 Across: Uno + due (3 letters)
117 Across: Actions (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Very dry (4 letters)
2 Down: Only female attorney general (4 letters)
3 Down: Sch. known for its discipline (4 letters)
4 Down: Having grooves (7 letters)
5 Down: 'Hood inhabitant (8 letters)
6 Down: Existing (6 letters)
7 Down: Crowd in Calais? (5 letters)
8 Down: Grease up (4 letters)
9 Down: Propaganda technique introduced by Hitler in "Mein Kampf" (6 letters)
10 Down: M.D.'s who deliver (6 letters)
11 Down: What dead men don't wear, per a 1982 film title (5 letters)
12 Down: Tasty tubes (5 letters)
13 Down: Suggestive (4 letters)
14 Down: W.W. I's so-called "U-Boat Alley" (8 letters)
15 Down: Reptilian, in a way (5 letters)
16 Down: ___ Abdul-Jabbar (6 letters)
17 Down: Tab, e.g. (6 letters)
18 Down: "Shogun" sequel (6 letters)
21 Down: Soft (7 letters)
27 Down: Not exactly (5 letters)
28 Down: One of two title roles (in the same film) for Spencer Tracy (6 letters)
32 Down: Bellyache (4 letters)
33 Down: Peppy (9 letters)
34 Down: Desire, for one (9 letters)
35 Down: Sign in the stands (5 letters)
37 Down: Noted bunny lover (6 letters)
40 Down: Jason's jiltee (5 letters)
41 Down: Matador's move (4 letters)
42 Down: Social worker (3 letters)
43 Down: Scattered (about) (7 letters)
46 Down: Pirate whose treasure is recovered in Poe's "The Gold-Bug" (4 letters)
47 Down: Keeper of a flame? (7 letters)
48 Down: Total (5 letters)
49 Down: Dickens's shortest novel (9 letters)
50 Down: Bad guys (9 letters)
51 Down: Count (on) (4 letters)
53 Down: Benin, until 1975 (7 letters)
58 Down: Matter of law (3 letters)
60 Down: Lassitude (5 letters)
62 Down: Deep bleu sea (3 letters)
63 Down: Bigmouth, for one (4 letters)
64 Down: Pollen producer (6 letters)
66 Down: Hair-raising (5 letters)
67 Down: Ein Berliner, often (4 letters)
69 Down: "Picnic" playwright (4 letters)
70 Down: Clarifying words (5 letters)
74 Down: ESPN sportscaster Dick (6 letters)
75 Down: Treebeard, e.g. (3 letters)
78 Down: Manuscript encl. (4 letters)
80 Down: Ace's specialty (8 letters)
81 Down: Slaves (7 letters)
82 Down: Spinachlike plant (5 letters)
83 Down: Won back (8 letters)
88 Down: Unseen part of the moon (7 letters)
89 Down: Marijuana cigarette, slangily (6 letters)
90 Down: Like some Afghan leaders (6 letters)
91 Down: In the cards (6 letters)
93 Down: Ecological groupings (6 letters)
94 Down: Not AWOL (6 letters)
95 Down: Poe poem that ends "From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven" (6 letters)
97 Down: Word of thanks (5 letters)
99 Down: Quickly (5 letters)
100 Down: Edison rival (5 letters)
101 Down: Cubic decimeter (5 letters)
103 Down: Spend time (with) (4 letters)
104 Down: Cut, say (4 letters)
105 Down: Give up (4 letters)
106 Down: Aspirin, e.g. (4 letters)
107 Down: Roger who won the Best Actor Tony for "Nicholas Nickleby" (4 letters)

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