MAKING ENDS MEET

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Patrick Blindauer and Tony Orbach7/4/2010

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Across

1 Across: Routine responses? (5 letters)
6 Across: 1961 Charlton Heston/Sophia Loren film (5 letters)
11 Across: "Who ___?" (4 letters)
15 Across: Goes back (4 letters)
19 Across: Words of certainty (5 letters)
20 Across: Unit of energy (5 letters)
21 Across: Sculpture garden setting in N.Y.C. (4 letters)
22 Across: Response to freshness? (4 letters)
23 Across: Technical trouble (11 letters)
25 Across: Uncle of Levi (4 letters)
26 Across: Author John Dickson ___ (4 letters)
27 Across: Puts together (7 letters)
28 Across: Items at one's disposal? (4 letters)
29 Across: Prefix with thesis (4 letters)
30 Across: Actor/comic Brad (7 letters)
32 Across: Helper in herding (13 letters)
37 Across: Bird with meat high in protein (3 letters)
38 Across: Not e'en once (4 letters)
40 Across: Not straight up (5 letters)
41 Across: Sideshow features (6 letters)
42 Across: Collectible book (12 letters)
45 Across: Block legally (5 letters)
47 Across: Carrier in the Star Alliance (3 letters)
48 Across: Cassette knob abbr. (3 letters)
49 Across: Yokel's laugh (3 letters)
50 Across: Big name in trading cards (5 letters)
54 Across: Indonesian vacation spot (4 letters)
56 Across: Bao ___ (former Vietnamese emperor) (3 letters)
57 Across: Line in London (11 letters)
60 Across: Symbol of a boring routine (9 letters)
62 Across: Special ___ (3 letters)
63 Across: Cassette button abbr. (3 letters)
64 Across: Key: Fr. (3 letters)
65 Across: Split (3 letters)
66 Across: Like many an online password (11 letters)
69 Across: World Cup cry (3 letters)
70 Across: Service (3 letters)
71 Across: Rose who rose to fame in the 1980s (3 letters)
72 Across: 50-50, e.g. (3 letters)
73 Across: Small carriage (9 letters)
76 Across: It might have a theater and planetarium (11 letters)
79 Across: Campers, for short (3 letters)
80 Across: "Love surfeits not, ___ like a glutton dies": Shak. (4 letters)
81 Across: Show expanded to four hours in 2007 (5 letters)
82 Across: Chess opening? (3 letters)
83 Across: Itinerary word (3 letters)
84 Across: Marxist, e.g. (3 letters)
85 Across: Bars (5 letters)
87 Across: Singer who played Cyrano in "Cyrano de Bergerac" (12 letters)
93 Across: Caesar, e.g. (6 letters)
96 Across: When daylight saving begins: Abbr. (5 letters)
98 Across: Commercial time of day (4 letters)
99 Across: "___ House," 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young hit (3 letters)
100 Across: Introvert or extrovert (13 letters)
103 Across: Grenache, for one (7 letters)
105 Across: ___ fruit (4 letters)
106 Across: They may be flipped (4 letters)
107 Across: Off (7 letters)
109 Across: Start (4 letters)
110 Across: "Come here often?", e.g. (4 letters)
111 Across: Protector (11 letters)
115 Across: Kin of -ess or -trix (4 letters)
116 Across: Future platypi (4 letters)
117 Across: Offer one's thoughts (5 letters)
118 Across: "Somewhere in Time" actor (5 letters)
119 Across: Suffix with prank (4 letters)
120 Across: Part of 58-Down: Abbr. (4 letters)
121 Across: In a stack (5 letters)
122 Across: Approvals (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Boozehound's sound (3 letters)
2 Down: "Just ___!" ("Hold on!") (3 letters)
3 Down: Prosaic (7 letters)
4 Down: On the say-so of (5 letters)
5 Down: Gift from the well-endowed (10 letters)
6 Down: Bounced (7 letters)
7 Down: Old tales (4 letters)
8 Down: What a mummy might have (5 letters)
9 Down: Agcy. of the U.N. (3 letters)
10 Down: "___ Kommissar" (1983 hit) (3 letters)
11 Down: "Bam!" man in the kitchen (6 letters)
12 Down: Petered out (9 letters)
13 Down: Very successful (5 letters)
14 Down: Seine filler (3 letters)
15 Down: Way out in space (9 letters)
16 Down: Football Hall-of-Famer George (6 letters)
17 Down: Composer of "The Miraculous Mandarin" (6 letters)
18 Down: Parsley parts (6 letters)
24 Down: Some pupils (6 letters)
28 Down: Swedish-born "Chocolat" actress (4 letters)
30 Down: Cowlick tamer (3 letters)
31 Down: Confidant, peut-être (3 letters)
33 Down: Get exactly right (4 letters)
34 Down: 'Vette alternative (3 letters)
35 Down: Little newt (3 letters)
36 Down: Hot (6 letters)
39 Down: Play featuring Mrs. Malaprop, with "The" (6 letters)
43 Down: Española, e.g. (4 letters)
44 Down: Demoiselle's dressing (8 letters)
46 Down: Sudden turns (7 letters)
49 Down: Not just noteworthy (8 letters)
51 Down: Embroidery loops (6 letters)
52 Down: What a forklift may lift (6 letters)
53 Down: Disapproving look (5 letters)
54 Down: Depp title role (6 letters)
55 Down: Famous 12-book story (6 letters)
56 Down: Brooklynese, e.g. (7 letters)
57 Down: Wannabe (5 letters)
58 Down: Alma mater of some engrs. (3 letters)
59 Down: "Cheers" actor Roger (4 letters)
60 Down: Word in many bank names (5 letters)
61 Down: Year that Emperor Frederick I died (4 letters)
67 Down: Not even once, in Nürnberg (3 letters)
68 Down: For nothing (6 letters)
71 Down: "Moving on then ..." (6 letters)
74 Down: Simple (10 letters)
75 Down: German import (4 letters)
77 Down: Resident of New York's Murray Hill, e.g. (9 letters)
78 Down: Batch that's hatched (9 letters)
83 Down: Seductress (4 letters)
84 Down: Relative of fusilli (6 letters)
86 Down: Vessel in an alcove (3 letters)
87 Down: Kitchenware (4 letters)
88 Down: Not in the profession (3 letters)
89 Down: Made fractions ... or factions (7 letters)
90 Down: Pests (7 letters)
91 Down: T. S. Eliot's "Theatre Cat" (3 letters)
92 Down: What's mined to keep? (3 letters)
93 Down: Sonatas and such (6 letters)
94 Down: University V.I.P. (6 letters)
95 Down: Dahl of "A Southern Yankee," 1948 (6 letters)
97 Down: Most outspread (6 letters)
101 Down: True (5 letters)
102 Down: Brick-and-mortar alternative (5 letters)
104 Down: Dancer Jeanmaire (5 letters)
108 Down: "Rule, Britannia" composer (4 letters)
110 Down: Bit of neckwear (3 letters)
111 Down: Herd of elephants? (3 letters)
112 Down: Initials in news (3 letters)
113 Down: 1950 Anne Baxter title role (3 letters)
114 Down: Évian-___-Bains, France (3 letters)

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