IT'S GOING TO COST YOU - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 9/12/2010. By Paula Gamache.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Obstinate type (3)
- ASS
- 4 Across: Electronic music pioneer Robert (4)
- MOOG
- 8 Across: Boost (5)
- ADDTO
- 13 Across: Straw hat (6)
- BOATER
- 19 Across: Cry after poor service? (3)
- LET
- 20 Across: River with the Reichenbach Falls (4)
- AARE
- 21 Across: Some commercial signs (5)
- NEONS
- 22 Across: Remove ropes from (6)
- UNLASH
- 23 Across: Bad news on Wall Street (8)
- BEARMARKET
- 25 Across: What Fels-Naptha banished, in old ads (12)
- TATTLETALEGRAY
- 27 Across: Where N.B.A. coach Rick Pitino played college ball (5)
- UMASS
- 28 Across: Relating to songbirds (6)
- OSCINE
- 30 Across: Boost (8)
- INCREASE
- 31 Across: French ice cream flavorer (6)
- MENTHE
- 33 Across: "So nice!" (3)
- AHH
- 34 Across: Excited call to a crew (6)
- LANDHO
- 36 Across: Three squares (10)
- REGULARMEALS
- 39 Across: Classic camera maker (5)
- LEICA
- 44 Across: How to address a brother (3)
- FRA
- 47 Across: Large group in a 23-Across (7)
- SELLERS
- 48 Across: Heavenly body that humans will never set foot on (9)
- GASPLANET
- 52 Across: Alderaan royal (4)
- LEIA
- 54 Across: Jet boat brand (6)
- SEADOO
- 55 Across: Alternatively, in Internet lingo (4)
- OTOH
- 56 Across: When said three times, a W.W. II cry (4)
- TORA
- 57 Across: Followers (8)
- ACOLYTES
- 59 Across: Like some doughnuts and windows (10)
- DOUBLEGLAZED
- 61 Across: Unit of star measurement (7)
- SOLARMASS
- 62 Across: Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," e.g. (9)
- MONODRAMA
- 65 Across: Deli nosh (5)
- KNISH
- 66 Across: High-fiber, low-fat cereal ingredient (7)
- OATBRAN
- 67 Across: Mandela's presidential successor (5)
- MBEKI
- 72 Across: Hazards for marine life (9)
- OILSLICKS
- 75 Across: Blow it (7)
- BUBBLEGUM
- 77 Across: Arc de Triomphe and Nelson's Column (10)
- WARMEMORIALS
- 81 Across: Bet in craps (8)
- PASSLINE
- 82 Across: Strong (4)
- HALE
- 83 Across: Part of MHz (4)
- MEGA
- 84 Across: Company that introduced NutraSweet (6)
- SEARLE
- 87 Across: Botanical bristle (4)
- SETA
- 88 Across: Tough rubber? (9)
- INKERASER
- 90 Across: Relax (7)
- UNLOOSE
- 92 Across: Angelo or Antonio (3)
- SAN
- 93 Across: Connect with (5)
- TIETO
- 94 Across: Neutral space (10)
- MIDDLEGROUND
- 97 Across: Diminish (6)
- LESSEN
- 101 Across: Mezzanotte is one (3)
- ORA
- 102 Across: Crime scene evidence (6)
- PRINTS
- 106 Across: Merely routine (8)
- PROFORMA
- 110 Across: Levels (6)
- STRATA
- 113 Across: Works in the music business (5)
- OPERA
- 114 Across: April, May and June (12)
- CALENDARMONTHS
- 116 Across: Blah-blah-blah (8)
- IDLEGOSSIP
- 118 Across: Subject of the 2008 biography "Somebody" (6)
- BRANDO
- 119 Across: Bête ___ (5)
- NOIRE
- 120 Across: "Super!" (4)
- NEAT
- 121 Across: Object of many a court order (3)
- TAP
- 122 Across: Some flowering shrubs (6)
- SENNAS
- 123 Across: Overthrow, e.g. (5)
- ERROR
- 124 Across: Hair goops (4)
- GELS
- 125 Across: Like a three-card monte player (3)
- SLY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Contents of a sleeve (5)
- ALBUM
- 2 Down: Request for face time (5)
- SEEME
- 3 Down: David Bowie single with the lyric "If we can sparkle he may land tonight" (5)
- STARMAN
- 4 Down: Reed sites (7)
- MARSHES
- 5 Down: Flavor associated with Chardonnay (3)
- OAK
- 6 Down: Treat in a blue wrapper (4)
- OREO
- 7 Down: Contends for valedictorian, say (9)
- GETSALLAS
- 8 Down: See 9-Down (8)
- ANTIHERO
- 9 Down: James known for playing an 8-Down (4)
- DEAN
- 10 Down: "Let's hear it!" (6)
- DOTELL
- 11 Down: It does a bang-up job (3)
- TNT
- 12 Down: Singer K. T. ___ (5)
- OSLIN
- 13 Down: Relative of Rover (5)
- BUTCH
- 14 Down: Doing really well (7)
- ONAROLL
- 15 Down: Assert without proof (4)
- ALLEGE
- 16 Down: Butler's place (4)
- TARA
- 17 Down: Those, to Tomás (4)
- ESAS
- 18 Down: "Seven Seas of ___" (early Queen hit) (4)
- RHYE
- 24 Down: Galaxy sci. (4)
- ASTR
- 26 Down: Squelch (3)
- END
- 29 Down: "___, I'm sure" (5)
- CHARMED
- 32 Down: Disgorges (6)
- EGESTS
- 35 Down: About equal to (8)
- ASGOODAS
- 37 Down: "___ Gold" (5)
- ULEES
- 38 Down: Kyushu volcano (3)
- ASO
- 40 Down: "Do I dare to ___ peach?" (4)
- EATA
- 41 Down: "Rinkitink ___" (L. Frank Baum book) (4)
- INOZ
- 42 Down: Smear with wax, old-style (4)
- CERE
- 43 Down: Slightly (4)
- ATAD
- 44 Down: Hooch holder at a ballgame (5)
- FLASK
- 45 Down: Intel mission (5)
- RECON
- 46 Down: Provençal sauce (5)
- AIOLI
- 49 Down: Take ___ for the worse (5)
- ATURN
- 50 Down: Japanese noodle (4)
- SOBA
- 51 Down: Throat stuff (4)
- PHLEGM
- 53 Down: Frightens (4)
- ALARMS
- 58 Down: Swiftian brute (5)
- YAHOO
- 59 Down: Unhip sort (4)
- DORK
- 60 Down: Farm newborns (5)
- LAMBS
- 62 Down: "L'Après-midi d'un faune" poet Stéphane ___ (8)
- MALLARME
- 63 Down: Lift innovator (4)
- OTIS
- 64 Down: "ER" network (3)
- NBC
- 66 Down: ___ orange (5)
- OSAGE
- 68 Down: Crude qty. (4)
- BBLS
- 69 Down: Mournful songs (5)
- ELEGIES
- 70 Down: ___ Kinte of "Roots" (5)
- KUNTA
- 71 Down: "Um ... well ... it's like ..." (5)
- IMEAN
- 73 Down: "___ la Douce" (4)
- IRMA
- 74 Down: Fabrications (4)
- LIES
- 75 Down: He taught Mowgli the law of the jungle (5)
- BALOO
- 76 Down: Depletes (6)
- USESUP
- 77 Down: Slightest amount (4)
- WHIT
- 78 Down: Emporio ___ (4)
- ARMANI
- 79 Down: Actress Sommer (4)
- ELKE
- 80 Down: Sports competition (4)
- MEET
- 81 Down: Dividing fairly, say (9)
- PRORATING
- 84 Down: South of France (3)
- SUD
- 85 Down: Check person (8)
- ENDORSER
- 86 Down: Brand for hay fever sufferers (5)
- ALLEGRA
- 89 Down: Watts who hosted a 1990s talk show (7)
- ROLONDA
- 91 Down: Implants (7)
- ENROOTS
- 95 Down: Behind bars (6)
- INSTIR
- 96 Down: Quick swims (4)
- DIPS
- 98 Down: Mathematician Paul (5)
- ERDOS
- 99 Down: Smugness (3)
- SMARM
- 100 Down: It joins the Rhône at Lyon (5)
- SAONE
- 103 Down: Places for some newborns (5)
- NESTS
- 104 Down: "Perry Mason" scene (5)
- TRIAL
- 105 Down: Tear-jerking (5)
- SAPPY
- 106 Down: Chem. pollutants (4)
- PCBS
- 107 Down: In short supply (4)
- RARE
- 108 Down: Pearl Buck heroine (4)
- OLAN
- 109 Down: George Manville ___, English adventure writer (4)
- FENN
- 111 Down: "Comin' ___ the Rye" (4)
- THRO
- 112 Down: Chick's tail? (4)
- ADEE
- 115 Down: Neither's partner (3)
- NOR
- 117 Down: Permitted (3)
- LEGAL
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