PARTING THOUGHTS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 132 clues). Published 7/13/2008. By Matt Ginsberg.

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Across Answers

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

Down Answers

1 Down: Very dry (4): BRUT
2 Down: Only female attorney general (4): RENO
3 Down: Sch. known for its discipline (4): ACAD
4 Down: Having grooves (7): STRIATE
5 Down: 'Hood inhabitant (8): HOMEGIRL
6 Down: Existing (6): ACTUAL
7 Down: Crowd in Calais? (5): TROIS
8 Down: Grease up (4): LUBE
9 Down: Propaganda technique introduced by Hitler in "Mein Kampf" (6): BIGLIE
10 Down: M.D.'s who deliver (6): OBGYNS
11 Down: What dead men don't wear, per a 1982 film title (5): PLAID
12 Down: Tasty tubes (5): PENNE
13 Down: Suggestive (4): RACY
14 Down: W.W. I's so-called "U-Boat Alley" (8): IRISHSEA
15 Down: Reptilian, in a way (5): SCALY
16 Down: ___ Abdul-Jabbar (6): KAREEM
17 Down: Tab, e.g. (6): INDENT
18 Down: "Shogun" sequel (6): TAIPAN
21 Down: Soft (7): COTTONY
27 Down: Not exactly (5): QUASI
28 Down: One of two title roles (in the same film) for Spencer Tracy (6): MRHYDE
32 Down: Bellyache (4): BEEF
33 Down: Peppy (9): ENERGETIC
34 Down: Desire, for one (9): STREETCAR
35 Down: Sign in the stands (5): HIMOM
37 Down: Noted bunny lover (6): HEFNER
40 Down: Jason's jiltee (5): MEDEA
41 Down: Matador's move (4): PASE
42 Down: Social worker (3): ANT
43 Down: Scattered (about) (7): STREWED
46 Down: Pirate whose treasure is recovered in Poe's "The Gold-Bug" (4): KIDD
47 Down: Keeper of a flame? (7): GASOVEN
48 Down: Total (5): RUNTO
49 Down: Dickens's shortest novel (9): HARDTIMES
50 Down: Bad guys (9): EVILDOERS
51 Down: Count (on) (4): RELY
53 Down: Benin, until 1975 (7): DAHOMEY
58 Down: Matter of law (3): RES
60 Down: Lassitude (5): ENNUI
62 Down: Deep bleu sea (3): MER
63 Down: Bigmouth, for one (4): BASS
64 Down: Pollen producer (6): STAMEN
66 Down: Hair-raising (5): SCARY
67 Down: Ein Berliner, often (4): HERR
69 Down: "Picnic" playwright (4): INGE
70 Down: Clarifying words (5): IMEAN
74 Down: ESPN sportscaster Dick (6): VITALE
75 Down: Treebeard, e.g. (3): ENT
78 Down: Manuscript encl. (4): SASE
80 Down: Ace's specialty (8): AVIATION
81 Down: Slaves (7): THRALLS
82 Down: Spinachlike plant (5): ORACH
83 Down: Won back (8): REGAINED
88 Down: Unseen part of the moon (7): FARSIDE
89 Down: Marijuana cigarette, slangily (6): SPLIFF
90 Down: Like some Afghan leaders (6): TRIBAL
91 Down: In the cards (6): LIKELY
93 Down: Ecological groupings (6): BIOTAS
94 Down: Not AWOL (6): ONPOST
95 Down: Poe poem that ends "From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven" (6): LENORE
97 Down: Word of thanks (5): MERCI
99 Down: Quickly (5): APACE
100 Down: Edison rival (5): TESLA
101 Down: Cubic decimeter (5): LITER
103 Down: Spend time (with) (4): HANG
104 Down: Cut, say (4): EDIT
105 Down: Give up (4): CEDE
106 Down: Aspirin, e.g. (4): ACID
107 Down: Roger who won the Best Actor Tony for "Nicholas Nickleby" (4): REES

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