MAKING CONNECTIONS - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 138 clues). Published 3/15/2015. By Dan Feyer.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Opportunity (8): PROSPECT
9 Across: So-called Baghdad by the Bay (6): FRISCO
15 Across: "___ at the office" (5): IGAVE
20 Across: Mayor's title (8): HISHONOR
21 Across: Mr. Darcy's creator (6): AUSTEN
22 Across: Circle (5): ORBIT
23 Across: "You can never moor a boat here"? (8): INLETLIE
24 Across: Provide sufficient coverage from risk? (12): INSUREENOUGH
26 Across: Fashion portmanteau (5): SKORT
27 Across: Gets close to (5): NEARS
29 Across: "Have some!" (5): TRYIT
30 Across: Feature of Hawaii's Molokini Crater (4): REEF
32 Across: Some miracle drug pushers (6): QUACKS
35 Across: Bothers (6): EATSAT
39 Across: Atheistic Cuban leader? (13): INFIDELCASTRO
43 Across: Like Columbus (7): GENOESE
44 Across: Low (3): MOO
45 Across: Legendary weeper (5): NIOBE
46 Across: Desk chairs? (10): INBOXSEATS
48 Across: Most common key of Chopin's piano pieces (5): AFLAT
51 Across: Tour grp. (3): PGA
52 Across: Side in the Peloponnesian War (6): SPARTA
53 Across: Hit hard (4): SWAT
54 Across: Unsalvageable (6): RUINED
56 Across: Valentine and others: Abbr. (3): STS
57 Across: Pvt. Pyle's outfit (4): USMC
59 Across: Get on (3): AGE
60 Across: Quechuan "hello"? (11): INCANOPENER
64 Across: ___-Caps (3): SNO
65 Across: Moved a shell (5): OARED
67 Across: Removing a Band-Aid too early? (15): INJURYTAMPERING
70 Across: 2:1, e.g., in the Bible (5): VERSE
73 Across: On (3): LIT
74 Across: Covering first, second and third base? (11): INFIELDGOAL
78 Across: "Hello, Hadrian!" (3): AVE
79 Across: Tear down, in Tottenham (4): RASE
81 Across: A year in Brazil (3): ANO
82 Across: Aristocratic (6): LORDLY
83 Across: Certain tide (4): NEAP
85 Across: Green deli stock (6): CAPERS
87 Across: With 115-Down, 1983 Lionel Richie hit (3): YOU
90 Across: Subjects of some modern school bans (5): SODAS
91 Across: Add to the Video Clip Hall of Fame? (10): INDUCTTAPE
93 Across: Is forbidden to, quaintly (5): MAYNT
95 Across: Genre for Panic! at the Disco (3): EMO
96 Across: Drink that might cause brain freeze (7): SLUSHIE
97 Across: Diet? (13): INTAKECONTROL
101 Across: Jack-in-the-box part (6): HYPHEN
102 Across: "Lucy" star, in tabloids (6): SCARJO
103 Across: Bygone Chevrolet (4): AVEO
104 Across: Madonna's "Into the Groove," originally (5): BSIDE
106 Across: "Do ___!" (5): IEVER
108 Across: Cameron who directed "Jerry Maguire" (5): CROWE
112 Across: Diapers? (12): INFANCYPANTS
117 Across: Popular website whose name is a hint to this puzzle's theme (8): LINKEDIN
119 Across: Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," e.g. (5): FARCE
120 Across: How to make money "the old-fashioned way" (6): EARNIT
121 Across: Disrespectful, in a way (8): SNEERING
122 Across: ___ Mountains (5): SMOKY
123 Across: Heavy-lidded (6): SLEEPY
124 Across: Visitor to a fertility clinic (8): EGGDONOR

Down Answers

1 Down: Sorority letters (4): PHIS
2 Down: Place for curlers (4): RINK
3 Down: Home for King Harald (4): OSLO
4 Down: Shepherd formerly of "The View" (6): SHERRI
5 Down: Stinko (6): POTTED
6 Down: Big picture: Abbr. (3): ENL
7 Down: 50-50 chance (8): COINFLIP
8 Down: It can be sappy (4): TREE
9 Down: Parodist's principle (7): FAIRUSE
10 Down: Charges (6): RUNSAT
11 Down: There's one every year for Person of the Year: Abbr. (3): ISS
12 Down: Political analyst Rothenberg (3): STU
13 Down: Roll by a cashier (5): CERTS
14 Down: Long, unbroken take, in film lingo (4): ONER
15 Down: Certain ancient Greeks (7): IONIANS
16 Down: Small caves (8): GROTTOES
17 Down: ___ Dhabi (3): ABU
18 Down: Bookie's charge (3): VIG
19 Down: Ordinal ending (3): ETH
25 Down: Something you might get two 20s for? (7): EYEEXAM
28 Down: Mideast's Gulf of ___ (5): AQABA
31 Down: Morn's counterpart (3): EEN
33 Down: Bloods' rivals (5): CRIPS
34 Down: Coastal region of Hawaii (4): KONA
36 Down: What the Spanish Armada fought (6): SEAWAR
37 Down: Shakespeare's world? (6): ASTAGE
38 Down: Proven (6): TESTED
39 Down: Japanese porcelain (5): IMARI
40 Down: A drag (5): NOFUN
41 Down: ___ acid (vitamin B9) (5): FOLIC
42 Down: Interlocking piece (3): COG
43 Down: Became peeved (7): GOTSORE
47 Down: Oil-rich land ruled by a sultan (6): BRUNEI
49 Down: Writer Nin (5): ANAIS
50 Down: Pair of fins (6): TENNER
52 Down: Bits of music (7): STRAINS
55 Down: Atty. gen.'s employer (3): DOJ
56 Down: Word with get or smart (3): SET
58 Down: Some ski resort rentals (6): CONDOS
61 Down: Throb (7): PULSATE
62 Down: City about 100 miles ENE of Cleveland, O. (6): ERIEPA
63 Down: Paper featured in the documentary "Page One," for short (3): NYT
64 Down: No. often between 15 and 50 (3): SPF
66 Down: Belligerent, in Britspeak (5): AGGRO
68 Down: Three on a 6 (3): MNO
69 Down: Poorly (3): ILL
70 Down: Go poof (6): VANISH
71 Down: Without variation (6): EVENLY
72 Down: Get educated (on) (6): READUP
75 Down: More outré (5): ODDER
76 Down: Memorable mission (5): ALAMO
77 Down: Disinfecting Wipes brand (5): LYSOL
80 Down: Like light that causes chemical change (7): ACTINIC
81 Down: "Gladiator" locale (5): ARENA
84 Down: Resistance (8): PUSHBACK
86 Down: "Gladiator," for one (4): EPIC
87 Down: Smirnoff of comedy (5): YAKOV
88 Down: "___ Como Va" (Santana hit) (3): OYE
89 Down: Cold (8): UNCARING
92 Down: Country singer Kenny (7): CHESNEY
93 Down: Grandeur (7): MAJESTY
94 Down: "Mazel ___!" (3): TOV
98 Down: Bottom sirloin cut of beef (6): TRITIP
99 Down: Made out (6): NECKED
100 Down: One who takes the bull by the horns (6): TORERO
102 Down: Plant part (5): SEPAL
105 Down: Turns a different shade, say (4): DYES
107 Down: Alternatively (4): ELSE
109 Down: Sleipnir's master, in myth (4): ODIN
110 Down: Drunk's favorite radio station? (4): WINO
111 Down: App creator, perhaps: Abbr. (4): ENGR
112 Down: Uncertainties (3): IFS
113 Down: '60s war zone (3): NAM
114 Down: Back the other way (3): FRO
115 Down: See 87-Across (3): ARE
116 Down: Uptown dir. in N.Y.C. (3): NNE
118 Down: -: Abbr. (3): NEG

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