END OF THE LINE - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 4/17/2011. By Matt Ginsberg.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Screen grp.? (3): TSA
4 Across: Solzhenitsyn subject (5): GULAG
9 Across: Dives (into) (5): WADES
14 Across: Song accompanied by a harp (5): PSALM
19 Across: Huffington Post buyer in 2011 (3): AOL
20 Across: Lyric muse (5): ERATO
21 Across: Wear down (5): ERODE
22 Across: Tree-lined path in une forêt (5): ALLEE
23 Across: "I used to do drugs. ___": Mitch Hedberg (21): ISTILLDOBUTIUSEDTOTOO
27 Across: Invent (4): COIN
28 Across: Ignores (5): SNUBS
29 Across: Dam result, often (9): RESERVOIR
30 Across: Sends one out of the park (6): HOMERS
33 Across: Alone, in Paris (4): SEUL
35 Across: Lady of Lammermoor (5): LUCIA
36 Across: "The car stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was ___": Anonymous (20): INAPEDESTRIANSPOCKET
42 Across: Mexican Valentine's greeting (5): TEAMO
43 Across: Madre's hermano (3): TIO
44 Across: Recuperate (6): RESTUP
46 Across: Kind of diet (3): FAD
49 Across: "Never mind" (6): SKIPIT
52 Across: Asian flatbread (4): NAAN
55 Across: Mystifying Geller (3): URI
56 Across: Biblical name meaning "hairy" (4): ESAU
58 Across: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it ___": Woody Allen (15): THROUGHNOTDYING
63 Across: Like Jack, it's said (6): NIMBLE
66 Across: Some doors (3): INS
67 Across: Exploding stars (5): NOVAE
68 Across: "Whoever named it necking was ___": Groucho Marx (19): APOORJUDGEOFANATOMY
75 Across: Sci-fi film with a hatching egg on its poster (5): ALIEN
76 Across: Cork's place: Abbr. (3): IRE
77 Across: More moist (6): DEWIER
79 Across: "You know what I hate? Indian givers. ___": Emo Philips (15): NOITAKETHATBACK
86 Across: Affix carelessly, with "on" (4): SLAP
87 Across: Crush, sportswise (3): OWN
88 Across: Whisked mixture (4): ROUX
89 Across: Send continuously, as video (6): STREAM
92 Across: Physicist Georg (3): OHM
93 Across: Cut off (6): DETACH
97 Across: Dinner table command, with "up" (3): SIT
99 Across: Above (5): ONTOP
101 Across: "I don't mean to sound bitter, cold or cruel, but I am ___": Bill Hicks (20): SOTHATSHOWITCOMESOUT
109 Across: Fool's deck (5): TAROT
110 Across: Fashionable '70s dress (4): MIDI
111 Across: Breastbones (6): STERNA
112 Across: Saint's place (9): SUPERDOME
116 Across: Essentials (5): NEEDS
119 Across: Con Ed, e.g.: Abbr. (4): UTIL
120 Across: "I have the heart of a small boy. It ___": Stephen King (21): ISINAGLASSJARONMYDESK
124 Across: Classic role-playing game, for short (5): DANDD
125 Across: Dairy mascot (5): ELSIE
126 Across: Slate, for one (5): EZINE
127 Across: Fooled (3): GOT
128 Across: Out-line? (5): ERASE
129 Across: Perform à la Shakespeare (5): DOEST
130 Across: Place for military supplies (5): DEPOT
131 Across: Mayo container? (3): ANO

Down Answers

1 Down: Feature of many a Jet Li film (6): TAICHI
2 Down: "Already?" (6): SOSOON
3 Down: Stanza successor (6): ALTIMA
4 Down: Get fixed? (3): GEL
5 Down: 19-Across has a much-used one (3): URL
6 Down: The Beatles during Beatlemania, e.g. (4): LADS
7 Down: Heaps (4): ATON
8 Down: Totally fail (6): GOBUST
9 Down: Diving duds (7): WETSUIT
10 Down: J.F.K.'s successor (3): ARI
11 Down: Forbidding (4): DOUR
12 Down: 1960s doo-wop group with an automotive name, with "the" (6): EDSELS
13 Down: Escorts to a second-floor apartment, say (6): SEESUP
14 Down: First Congolese P.M. Lumumba (7): PATRICE
15 Down: Czech neighbors (7): SLOVAKS
16 Down: Liza Minnelli, for one (4): ALTO
17 Down: First pope to be called "the Great" (4): LEOI
18 Down: "Love ___ leave ..." (4): MEOR
24 Down: Like Inspector Clouseau (5): INEPT
25 Down: Superlative prefix (4): UBER
26 Down: Inside look? (5): DECOR
31 Down: Roger of "Cheers" (4): REES
32 Down: Pierre is there: Abbr. (4): SDAK
34 Down: Scottish psychiatrist R. D. (5): LAING
37 Down: Squirt, e.g. (4): EMIT
38 Down: '13 grad in '11, e.g. (4): SOPH
39 Down: Biblical patriarch "righteous in this generation" (4): NOAH
40 Down: Decorative kit (4): ETUI
41 Down: Become a traitor (4): TURN
45 Down: Glutton (3): PIG
46 Down: Wet lowland (3): FEN
47 Down: ___ Minor (4): ASIA
48 Down: Wettish (4): DAMP
50 Down: Crocus or freesia, botanically (4): IRID
51 Down: Chinese gang (4): TONG
53 Down: Eugene O'Neill's "___ Christie" (4): ANNA
54 Down: Palindromic time (4): NOON
57 Down: Battle of the Atlantic vessel (5): UBOAT
59 Down: Start of a fitness motto (5): USEIT
60 Down: Spot (4): TVAD
61 Down: Fruit that grows in a cluster (4): DATE
62 Down: Cries of pain (5): YEOWS
64 Down: Bugs Bunny's girlfriend (4): LOLA
65 Down: The Phantom of the Opera (4): ERIK
69 Down: Taunt (4): JEER
70 Down: A law ___ itself (4): UNTO
71 Down: Venus and others (4): ORBS
72 Down: Grand slam, e.g. (4): FEAT
73 Down: Whence Venus? (4): MILO
74 Down: When said three times, "Of course, obviously!" (4): YEAH
78 Down: Record stat (3): RPM
79 Down: Sleep precursor (3): NOD
80 Down: Gets charged up? (4): OWES
81 Down: Really liking (4): INTO
82 Down: "Quit your crying" (4): HUSH
83 Down: It's assumed (5): AXIOM
84 Down: Nile menace, informally (4): CROC
85 Down: Vegas attraction (4): KENO
90 Down: Cashpoints (4): ATMS
91 Down: Vintner Claude (4): MOET
94 Down: Doesn't cut (7): ATTENDS
95 Down: Empty pretense (7): CHARADE
96 Down: Garage opener? (5): HARDG
98 Down: F-15, e.g. (7): TWINJET
100 Down: Ann Landers or Ayn Rand: Abbr. (5): PSEUD
102 Down: Drove (along) (6): TOOLED
103 Down: French walled city on the English Channel (6): STMALO
104 Down: Something that can't be patented (4): IDEA
105 Down: Like stadium seating (6): TIERED
106 Down: Daniel of Nicaragua (6): ORTEGA
107 Down: Simultaneity (6): UNISON
108 Down: Admonish, as a child (6): TALKTO
112 Down: Aspect (4): SIDE
113 Down: Org. for part-time soldiers (4): USAR
114 Down: Colada fruit (4): PINA
115 Down: Latin 101 verb (4): ESSE
117 Down: What you might do after retiring (4): DOZE
118 Down: Fabric scrap, say (4): SNIP
121 Down: Family girl (3): SIS
122 Down: 6 letters (3): MNO
123 Down: Thus far (3): YET

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