LITERARY CIRCLES - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 140 clues). Published 5/10/2015. By Jacob Stulberg.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Theater purchase: Abbr. (3): TKT
4 Across: Fertility doctor's focus (4): OVUM
8 Across: Little sucker? (3): VAC
11 Across: Mountain-to-mountain transport (7): ROPEWAY
18 Across: Sch. with a Manchester campus (3): UNH
19 Across: Apple product (4): NANO
20 Across: Fail to grant, in court (4): DENY
21 Across: Showed humility (7): ATEDIRT
22 Across: "Spoon River Anthology" poet Edgar ___ Masters (3): LEE
23 Across: California's Rancho ___ (9): CUCAMONGA
25 Across: Appeared amazed (7): GOGGLED
26 Across: Tattler's threat (7): ILLTELL
28 Across: At a high rate (5): OFTEN
29 Across: "___ Folks," Charles Schulz's first strip (3): LIL
30 Across: Scheme (4): PLOY
31 Across: Visibly sad (7): TEARFUL
33 Across: Making environmentally friendly (8): GREENING
38 Across: No. expert (3): CPA
40 Across: One in a jungle trail (3): ANT
41 Across: Walk with swaying hips (11): ROLLINGGAIT
43 Across: Arduous (8): GRUELING
46 Across: Relative of a Great Dane (7): MASTIFF
47 Across: 6 letters? (3): MNO
48 Across: Like cars in a used car lot (6): RESOLD
49 Across: Source of feta cheese (3): EWE
51 Across: Prominent parts (9): SALIENCES
54 Across: Put-on (3): ACT
55 Across: Clinton secretary of state (8): ALBRIGHT
59 Across: Ingratiate (6): ENDEAR
60 Across: Like the American pronunciation of many Polish names (9): BUTCHERED
62 Across: 7 1/2-foot Ming (3): YAO
64 Across: Item extending over a gunwale (3): OAR
65 Across: "Sesame Street" subjs. (3): RRR
66 Across: An airbag can prevent it (9): BROKENRIB
70 Across: Fixer-upper's need, for short (3): TLC
72 Across: Counterpart of Aurora (3): EOS
74 Across: Good part of a record (3): WIN
75 Across: Diverge (9): BRANCHOFF
79 Across: Look good on (6): BECOME
82 Across: Citizen (8): NATIONAL
84 Across: Camera option, for short (3): SLR
85 Across: She's courted in "The Courtship of Miles Standish" (9): PRISCILLA
88 Across: Shipping unit: Abbr. (3): CTN
89 Across: Country that's won the most medals in the history of the Winter Olympics (6): NORWAY
91 Across: + or - thing (3): ION
92 Across: How-to aid (7): DIAGRAM
95 Across: Kind of omelet (8): EGGWHITE
97 Across: 1990 Mike Leigh comedy/drama (11): LIFEISSWEET
100 Across: Maven (3): PRO
101 Across: First word of Dante's "Inferno" (3): NEL
102 Across: "E.T." boy and others (8): ELLIOTTS
103 Across: "Would you let me take a look?" (7): MAYISEE
106 Across: Plagues (4): ILLS
109 Across: Funny (3): ODD
110 Across: Coffee mate? (5): DONUT
111 Across: Lady in "Lady and the Tramp," e.g. (7): SPANIEL
113 Across: Fix, as a braid (7): REWEAVE
117 Across: From the top (9): OVERAGAIN
119 Across: Battery size (3): AAA
120 Across: Put forth (7): EXERTED
121 Across: 107-Down subject (4): RENT
122 Across: Org. concerned with toy safety (4): SPCA
123 Across: ___ Search (Bing forerunner) (3): MSN
124 Across: Renaissance fair wear (7): CORSETS
125 Across: Put on (3): ADD
126 Across: Road ___ (4): TEST
127 Across: Where costumes are worn (3): SET

Down Answers

1 Down: Dutch pot contents (5): TULIP
2 Down: Toll (5): KNELL
3 Down: 1935 poem with one word per line ... as spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters (21): THELOCUSTTREEINFLOWER
4 Down: Start of a reminiscence (4): ONCE
5 Down: Where bills may accumulate (5): VAULT
6 Down: Sullied (7): UNCLEAN
7 Down: Extinct wingless bird (3): MOA
8 Down: California's ___ Freeway (7): VENTURA
9 Down: Common pizzeria name (7): ANGELOS
10 Down: Blue shade (4): CYAN
11 Down: Piece of Tin Pan Alley music (3): RAG
12 Down: Midwest tribe (3): OTO
13 Down: Ahab, e.g. (6): PEGLEG
14 Down: Decorative border (6): EDGING
15 Down: Writer of 3-Down (21): WILLIAMCARLOSWILLIAMS
16 Down: Exist (3): ARE
17 Down: Pay stub abbr. (3): YTD
20 Down: Remove, in a way (4): DOFF
24 Down: Mad magazine cartoonist Drucker (4): MORT
27 Down: Like about 45% of human blood (5): TYPEO
32 Down: Internet troll, intentionally (7): ANGERER
33 Down: Cells that protect neurons (4): GLIA
34 Down: Ransack (5): RIFLE
35 Down: In conclusion: Fr. (5): ENFIN
36 Down: Levi's Stadium athlete, informally (5): NINER
37 Down: Some Pontiacs (4): GTOS
39 Down: One who's much praised (5): ALLAH
42 Down: Capt.'s inferiors (3): LTS
43 Down: Clutch (4): GRAB
44 Down: Cause déjà vu, perhaps (5): RECUR
45 Down: ___ talk (4): IDLE
46 Down: "Family Guy" daughter (3): MEG
50 Down: Certain heiress (5): WIDOW
52 Down: ___ Period, 1603-1868 (3): EDO
53 Down: "___ Arizona Skies" (John Wayne movie) (5): NEATH
56 Down: "Just a minute," in texts (3): BRB
57 Down: Cousin of an aardwolf (5): HYENA
58 Down: Army Rangers beret color (3): TAN
61 Down: Branded footwear (5): CROCS
63 Down: Circle (5): ORBIT
67 Down: Cousins (3): KIN
68 Down: Ones whose work is decreasing? (7): IRONERS
69 Down: Severe penalty (3): BAN
71 Down: Harp's home key (5): CFLAT
73 Down: Liberal arts subj. (3): SOC
76 Down: Da ___, Vietnam (4): NANG
77 Down: Fright wig wearer (5): CLOWN
78 Down: Comic impressionist David (4): FRYE
79 Down: Lie in the hot sun (5): BROIL
80 Down: Thick (5): MIDST
81 Down: Group mailing tool (5): ELIST
83 Down: "31 Days of Oscar" network (3): TCM
85 Down: Mound (4): PILE
86 Down: Code contents (4): LAWS
87 Down: Barrier to some websites (3): AGE
90 Down: River through Deutschland (5): RHEIN
93 Down: What a cousin can be twice (7): REMOVED
94 Down: Done (7): ATANEND
96 Down: Flips (7): GOESAPE
98 Down: What may make you duck down? (6): EIDERS
99 Down: Certain salt (6): IODATE
100 Down: Falafel holder (4): PITA
104 Down: Steppes dwelling (4): YURT
105 Down: "Beowulf" and others (5): EPICS
107 Down: It might have an escalator (5): LEASE
108 Down: Bias (5): SLANT
110 Down: Artist Maar depicted in Picasso's "The Weeping Woman" (4): DORA
112 Down: MCAT topic: Abbr. (4): ANAT
113 Down: ___ room (3): REC
114 Down: Intro to biology? (3): EXO
115 Down: Screen (3): VET
116 Down: Lib. listings (3): EDS
118 Down: Astronomer's std. (3): GST

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