OH, SAY... - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 7/6/2014. By Daniel C. Bryant.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Serving edges (5): ADINS
6 Across: Husband one's energy, say (6): RESTUP
12 Across: General servant (8): FACTOTUM
20 Across: Salle de bain fixture (5): BIDET
21 Across: Enunciate slowly (6): INTONE
22 Across: Get to (8): IRRITATE
23 Across: First U.S. multimillionaire (5): ASTOR
24 Across: Lawyer who wrote 65-Across (15): FRANCISSCOTTKEY
26 Across: Land's end? (5): SCAPE
27 Across: Throw up (4): LOFT
28 Across: Sound of expiration (3): AHH
29 Across: Skiing destination Val d'___ (5): ISERE
30 Across: Year 24-Across wrote 65-Across (16): EIGHTEENFOURTEEN
35 Across: Any knight (3): SIR
36 Across: Jan. 1 till now (3): YTD
37 Across: Crayola color akin to fern (8): SEAGREEN
40 Across: What the music to 65-Across was, originally (14): BRITISHPUBSONG
47 Across: Some American Indian homes (6): ADOBES
51 Across: As it happens (4): LIVE
52 Across: Better to a rapper, worse to a patient (5): ILLER
53 Across: Herbal Essences shampoo company (7): CLAIROL
54 Across: Standoffish (3): ICY
55 Across: Fixed things? (6): ASSETS
57 Across: James Douglas Muir ___ (TV host's birth name) (4): LENO
60 Across: Looking up (4): ROSY
61 Across: Sun: Sp. (3): SOL
62 Across: Ancient walkway (4): STOA
63 Across: Four-time N.B.A. All-Star Pau ___ (5): GASOL
64 Across: Farm female (3): SOW
65 Across: This puzzle's theme, whose first notes are indicated by shaded squares (21): THESTARSPANGLEDBANNER
72 Across: Camus, to Sartre, for many years (3): AMI
73 Across: Blood-related (5): HEMIC
74 Across: Sports org. founded in 1906 (4): NCAA
75 Across: Book jacket staple (3): BIO
76 Across: It's bound to be turned (4): PAGE
78 Across: Beginner for a while? (4): ERST
79 Across: Star in the Summer Triangle (6): ALTAIR
81 Across: "I should ___ die with pity, / To see another thus": Shak. (3): EEN
82 Across: Country whose national currency is the U.S. dollar (7): ECUADOR
85 Across: French evenings (5): SOIRS
86 Across: "Essays of ___" (4): ELIA
87 Across: What the curious may do (6): PEERIN
88 Across: Performer who gave a memorable rendition of 65-Across in 1991 (14): WHITNEYHOUSTON
93 Across: Setting of James Clavell's "Gai-Jin" (8): YOKOHAMA
95 Across: G.O.P. org. (3): RNC
96 Across: Gator's tail? (3): ADE
99 Across: Mission that 24-Across was on when he wrote 65-Across (16): PRISONEREXCHANGE
107 Across: He prophesied the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem (5): MICAH
110 Across: N.Y.C. subway inits. (3): IRT
111 Across: Cloth for a man of the cloth? (4): ROBE
112 Across: "The Tempest" spirit (5): ARIEL
113 Across: Where 24-Across was inspired to write 65-Across (15): BALTIMOREHARBOR
117 Across: It handles lettres (5): POSTE
118 Across: Later (8): INAWHILE
119 Across: Best Actor nominee for "Venus," 2006 (6): OTOOLE
120 Across: Vanilla (5): PLAIN
121 Across: Inked (8): TATTOOED
122 Across: Symbols of change (6): DELTAS
123 Across: Gossip (5): YENTA

Down Answers

1 Down: Demean (5): ABASE
2 Down: They're thrown in decathlons (5): DISCI
3 Down: It may have a pet name (5): IDTAG
4 Down: Greenhorn (8): NEOPHYTE
5 Down: Overlapping fugue motifs (7): STRETTI
6 Down: Long arm (5): RIFLE
7 Down: "America's most innovative company" prior to its bankruptcy in 2001 (5): ENRON
8 Down: Locale for this puzzle's shaded squares (5): STAFF
9 Down: Sidekick of TV and film (5): TONTO
10 Down: Where Michael Jordan played college ball: Abbr. (3): UNC
11 Down: Louvre pyramid designer (3): PEI
12 Down: Bit of spawn (7): FISHEGG
13 Down: Sagittarius, with "the" (6): ARCHER
14 Down: ___-Magnon (3): CRO
15 Down: New World monkey (4): TITI
16 Down: Giant Mel and Pirate Ed (4): OTTS
17 Down: Film units (5): TAKES
18 Down: Birth places? (5): UTERI
19 Down: ___ Wolfsheim, gambler in "The Great Gatsby" (5): MEYER
25 Down: Old Nick (5): SATAN
31 Down: MS. managers (3): EDS
32 Down: Initialism in a Beatles title (4): USSR
33 Down: Old car company based in Lansing, Mich. (3): REO
34 Down: Oscar-winning Patricia (4): NEAL
38 Down: Author LeShan (3): EDA
39 Down: Wrinkle-free, say (6): NOIRON
40 Down: Second-rate (5): BLIST
41 Down: Big copier maker (5): RICOH
42 Down: Penn station? (9): IVYLEAGUE
43 Down: Their, singularly (8): HISORHER
44 Down: Crowd-___ (7): PLEASER
45 Down: Last: Abbr. (3): ULT
46 Down: Wanna-___ (3): BES
48 Down: High level in karate (9): BROWNBELT
49 Down: Counterpart of Aurora (3): EOS
50 Down: Winking, maybe (3): SLY
53 Down: Money in hand (8): COLDCASH
55 Down: Italian province or its capital (4): ASTI
56 Down: "Come ___?" (Italian greeting) (3): STA
57 Down: Tarry (3): LAG
58 Down: Immigrant's subj. (3): ESL
59 Down: "Stay out" (7): NOENTRY
63 Down: Health supplement co. (3): GNC
64 Down: River of western Germany (4): SAAR
66 Down: Like mascara in the rain (6): SMEARY
67 Down: Some natl. leaders (3): PMS
68 Down: River isle (3): AIT
69 Down: Political writer Matt (3): BAI
70 Down: Farm refrain (5): EIEIO
71 Down: Farrow of MSNBC (5): RONAN
76 Down: Oomph (3): PEP
77 Down: See 79-Down (3): ACE
79 Down: Get an ___ (77-Down) (3): AON
80 Down: Bit of flimflam (3): LIE
83 Down: God: It. (3): DIO
84 Down: Peeling potatoes, perhaps (4): ONKP
85 Down: Title name in a 2000 Eminem hit (4): STAN
86 Down: Salad green (8): ESCAROLE
88 Down: Sounded like a fan (7): WHIRRED
89 Down: Speed (5): HASTE
90 Down: Texter's qualification (3): IMO
91 Down: "The Hobbit" figure (3): ORC
92 Down: Blue (7): UNHAPPY
94 Down: Player in orange and black (6): ORIOLE
96 Down: Scope (5): AMBIT
97 Down: Princess played by Naomi Watts (5): DIANA
98 Down: Brilliance (5): ECLAT
100 Down: Flynn of old film (5): ERROL
101 Down: Metal worker? (5): ROBOT
102 Down: Menace named after an African river (5): EBOLA
103 Down: City whose name was the source of the word "sherry" (5): XERES
104 Down: Jewish month (5): NISAN
105 Down: "See?" (5): GETIT
106 Down: Justice Kagan (5): ELENA
108 Down: Periodic table abbr. (4): ATWT
109 Down: Sunshine cracker (4): HIHO
114 Down: "O Sole ___" (3): MIO
115 Down: Brick transporter (3): HOD
116 Down: Absorbed (3): ATE

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