MASQUERADE - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 10/2/2011. By Eric Berlin.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Tierra en el agua (4): ISLA
5 Across: Horror movie locale, in brief (5): ELMST
10 Across: Run ___ of (5): AFOUL
15 Across: "Whoa! Calm down!" (4): EASY
19 Across: Be featured (in) (4): STAR
20 Across: Words on a Spanish valentine (5): TEAMO
21 Across: Temerity (5): NERVE
22 Across: Choir part (4): ALTO
23 Across: Rods on a cowboy's truck (10): RANCHAXLES
25 Across: Environmentally sound keyboard (10): GREENORGAN
27 Across: Prepare the soil for planting, perhaps (8): ROTOTILL
28 Across: Multicapable (9): VERSATILE
29 Across: DLXXVI doubled (5): MCLII
30 Across: Lily type (5): CALLA
32 Across: Foreign visitors? (3): ETS
33 Across: Only nonsentient zodiac symbol (5): LIBRA
36 Across: In style (4): CHIC
37 Across: Voting to pass (3): FOR
38 Across: Empathetic words (5): ICARE
40 Across: Password preceder, generally (6): USERID
41 Across: Example, for instance: Abbr. (3): SYN
42 Across: 007 strategy (8): BONDPLAN
44 Across: High card up one's sleeve (8): INNERACE
46 Across: Baltimore daily, with "the" (3): SUN
47 Across: ___ voce (5): SOTTO
48 Across: French river or department (4): AUBE
49 Across: Web programs (7): APPLETS
53 Across: Property claims (5): LIENS
55 Across: Some sexy nightwear (7): TEDDIES
60 Across: Clingy wrap (5): SARAN
61 Across: Ties up (5): EVENS
63 Across: Memo abbr. (4): ATTN
65 Across: "To Live and Die ___" (4): INLA
66 Across: Narrow overhang (10): SLIMAWNING
68 Across: Government resister standing ready (10): ALERTREBEL
70 Across: It might be in a belt (4): AMMO
71 Across: More than attentive (4): RAPT
72 Across: Immature egg (5): OVULE
73 Across: East Coast rte. (5): USONE
74 Across: Was sincere (7): MEANTIT
76 Across: Strong point (5): ASSET
78 Across: It often involves a Snellen chart (7): EYEEXAM
80 Across: ___ about (4): ONOR
82 Across: All, in old-time stage directions (5): OMNES
84 Across: Modern address (3): URL
85 Across: Shock a fairy-tale monster (8): JOLTOGRE
89 Across: Nocturnal birds liable to keep people awake (8): LOUDOWLS
91 Across: Take most of (3): HOG
94 Across: Burglar discouragers (6): ALARMS
95 Across: Billiards shot (5): MASSE
97 Across: Fannie ___ (3): MAE
98 Across: "Pastorals" poet (4): POPE
99 Across: Former Portuguese colony in China (5): MACAU
100 Across: Certain game-ending cry (3): GIN
101 Across: Industrial hub of Germany (5): ESSEN
103 Across: 1983 domestic comedy (5): MRMOM
104 Across: Like invalid ballots (9): UNCOUNTED
107 Across: Fries, e.g. (8): POTATOES
109 Across: Soup spoon designed for shellfish (10): CONCHLADLE
111 Across: Last costume at a costume party (10): FINALGUISE
113 Across: Requiem hymn word (4): IRAE
114 Across: Visibly stunned (5): AREEL
115 Across: Michael and Sonny's brother in "The Godfather" (5): FREDO
116 Across: Cleaner target (4): SCUM
117 Across: Five-spots (4): ABES
118 Across: Transport, as across a river (5): FERRY
119 Across: 1999 Broadway revue (5): FOSSE
120 Across: Seasonal worker, say (4): TEMP

Down Answers

1 Down: U.N. member since '49 (3): ISR
2 Down: Like some newly laundered shirts (7): STARCHY
3 Down: Ointment base (7): LANOLIN
4 Down: Bitterly cold (6): ARCTIC
5 Down: Californie, e.g. (4): ETAT
6 Down: Collection of specialized words (7): LEXICON
7 Down: Green-headed water birds (8): MALLARDS
8 Down: What wavy lines may indicate in a comic strip (5): SMELL
9 Down: Lean-___ (3): TOS
10 Down: Celestial being, in France (4): ANGE
11 Down: Actor José (6): FERRER
12 Down: Trilogy that includes "Agamemnon" (8): ORESTEIA
13 Down: Eye layers (5): UVEAS
14 Down: Carnival follower (4): LENT
15 Down: When the events in flashbacks took place (7): EARLIER
16 Down: Field with unknowns (7): ALGEBRA
17 Down: RR stop (3): STA
18 Down: "___ knight doth sit too melancholy": "Pericles" (3): YON
24 Down: Part of "the many," in Greek (3): HOI
26 Down: Canola, for one (7): OILSEED
28 Down: Clears out of, as a hotel room (7): VACATES
29 Down: Hosts, briefly (3): MCS
31 Down: Cheerful and spirited, as a voice (7): LILTING
34 Down: Singer Ocasek (3): RIC
35 Down: Fruit drink (3): ADE
37 Down: It might have serifs (4): FONT
39 Down: Before long (4): ANON
40 Down: Straight (6): UNBENT
42 Down: ___ Vista (Disney video distributor) (5): BUENA
43 Down: Boiled cornmeal (7): POLENTA
45 Down: Cashew, for one (7): NUTTREE
46 Down: Hit hard, as brakes (6): SLAMON
49 Down: Northeastern Indian state (5): ASSAM
50 Down: ___ d'Or (film award) (5): PALME
51 Down: Italian "first" (5): PRIMA
52 Down: Many a "Damn Yankees" role (7): SENATOR
54 Down: Mutely showed respect (7): SALUTED
56 Down: Truck fuel (6): DIESEL
57 Down: Paper collector (5): INBOX
58 Down: Kagan of the Supreme Court (5): ELENA
59 Down: "The Crucible" locale (5): SALEM
62 Down: Pooh-bah (3): VIP
64 Down: Business card abbr. (3): TEL
67 Down: Gets the water out of (6): WRINGS
68 Down: Many Monopoly spaces (7): AVENUES
69 Down: They might atone (5): RUERS
72 Down: Moved like water into plant roots (7): OSMOSED
75 Down: Very, very funny (7): TOOMUCH
77 Down: Short answers? (4): SOLS
79 Down: Festive time (4): YULE
81 Down: Note to self (8): REMINDER
83 Down: "___ in the kitchen with Dinah" (old song lyric) (8): SOMEONES
85 Down: Bad situation (3): JAM
86 Down: Suffix with Cray- (3): OLA
87 Down: Unfilled spaces (7): LACUNAE
88 Down: Mesmerized states (7): TRANCES
90 Down: Newspaper section that competes with Craigslist (7): WANTADS
91 Down: Hockey team's advantage (7): HOMEICE
92 Down: Smallish marsupial (7): OPOSSUM
93 Down: Prize (3): GEM
96 Down: Elk's weapon (6): ANTLER
98 Down: "The Prisoner" author (6): PROUST
100 Down: "A Free Man of Color" playwright (5): GUARE
102 Down: Veep Agnew (5): SPIRO
103 Down: Part of a business sched. (3): MTG
105 Down: Count ___ (Lemony Snicket villain) (4): OLAF
106 Down: Snakelike (4): EELY
108 Down: Palliative plant (4): ALOE
109 Down: Org. in "Burn After Reading" (3): CIA
110 Down: Round body (3): ORB
111 Down: Opposite of ppp, on scores (3): FFF
112 Down: Hirohito's title: Abbr. (3): EMP

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