MAKING ENDS MEET - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 7/4/2010. By Patrick Blindauer and Tony Orbach.

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Across Answers

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

Down Answers

1 Down: Boozehound's sound (3): HIC
2 Down: "Just ___!" ("Hold on!") (3): AMO
3 Down: Prosaic (7): HUMDRUM
4 Down: On the say-so of (5): ASPER
5 Down: Gift from the well-endowed (10): STUDENTAID
6 Down: Bounced (7): EJECTED
7 Down: Old tales (4): LORE
8 Down: What a mummy might have (5): CURSE
9 Down: Agcy. of the U.N. (3): ILO
10 Down: "___ Kommissar" (1983 hit) (3): DER
11 Down: "Bam!" man in the kitchen (6): EMERIL
12 Down: Petered out (9): LOSTSTEAM
13 Down: Very successful (5): SMASH
14 Down: Seine filler (3): EAU
15 Down: Way out in space (9): ESCAPEPOD
16 Down: Football Hall-of-Famer George (6): BLANDA
17 Down: Composer of "The Miraculous Mandarin" (6): BARTOK
18 Down: Parsley parts (6): SPRIGS
24 Down: Some pupils (6): TUTEES
28 Down: Swedish-born "Chocolat" actress (4): OLIN
30 Down: Cowlick tamer (3): GEL
31 Down: Confidant, peut-être (3): AMI
33 Down: Get exactly right (4): NAIL
34 Down: 'Vette alternative (3): GTO
35 Down: Little newt (3): EFT
36 Down: Hot (6): EROTIC
39 Down: Play featuring Mrs. Malaprop, with "The" (6): RIVALS
43 Down: Española, e.g. (4): ISLA
44 Down: Demoiselle's dressing (8): TOILETTE
46 Down: Sudden turns (7): SWERVES
49 Down: Not just noteworthy (8): HISTORIC
51 Down: Embroidery loops (6): PICOTS
52 Down: What a forklift may lift (6): PALLET
53 Down: Disapproving look (5): SNEER
54 Down: Depp title role (6): BRASCO
55 Down: Famous 12-book story (6): AENEID
56 Down: Brooklynese, e.g. (7): DIALECT
57 Down: Wannabe (5): POSER
58 Down: Alma mater of some engrs. (3): RPI
59 Down: "Cheers" actor Roger (4): REES
60 Down: Word in many bank names (5): TRUST
61 Down: Year that Emperor Frederick I died (4): MCXC
67 Down: Not even once, in Nürnberg (3): NIE
68 Down: For nothing (6): INVAIN
71 Down: "Moving on then ..." (6): ANYHOO
74 Down: Simple (10): ELEMENTARY
75 Down: German import (4): AUDI
77 Down: Resident of New York's Murray Hill, e.g. (9): EASTSIDER
78 Down: Batch that's hatched (9): NESTLINGS
83 Down: Seductress (4): VAMP
84 Down: Relative of fusilli (6): ROTINI
86 Down: Vessel in an alcove (3): URN
87 Down: Kitchenware (4): POTS
88 Down: Not in the profession (3): LAY
89 Down: Made fractions ... or factions (7): DIVIDED
90 Down: Pests (7): NOODGES
91 Down: T. S. Eliot's "Theatre Cat" (3): GUS
92 Down: What's mined to keep? (3): ORE
93 Down: Sonatas and such (6): OPUSES
94 Down: University V.I.P. (6): REGENT
95 Down: Dahl of "A Southern Yankee," 1948 (6): ARLENE
97 Down: Most outspread (6): WIDEST
101 Down: True (5): ALIGN
102 Down: Brick-and-mortar alternative (5): ETAIL
104 Down: Dancer Jeanmaire (5): RENEE
108 Down: "Rule, Britannia" composer (4): ARNE
110 Down: Bit of neckwear (3): LEI
111 Down: Herd of elephants? (3): GOP
112 Down: Initials in news (3): UPI
113 Down: 1950 Anne Baxter title role (3): EVE
114 Down: Évian-___-Bains, France (3): LES

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