Referring Clues

• Get rid of
• It may be living or dead
• Coda's place in a score
• Purpose
• Boundary
• Part to grab hold of
• Finale
• Tackle's neighbor
• Finis
• Objective
• Ultimate point
• Stop
• Cricket wicket
• Omega
• Outer limit
• Deli discard
• Terminal
• Quietus
• Intention
• Ultimate
• Kind of user
• Armageddon
• Windup
• Lineman
• Unpopular slice
• Extreme
• Doom
• Conclusion
• Exterior lineman
• Annihilation
• Denouement
• Pull the plug on
• Tip
• Tackle's teammate
• Goal
• Cut out
• Sign off
• Stoppage
• Period
• See 57-Across
• Not-so-desirable bread slice
• Call off
• Border
• Butt
• Loaf part
• Demise
• Call a halt to
• "Bitter" part
• Finish
• Extremity
• Last page
• One may be on the line
• Last part (appropriately)
• Period's place
• Cutoff point
• Terminus
• Football lineman
• Epilogue
• Come to a halt
• Halt
• Quash
• Wind up
• Word before and after "over"
• Put the kibosh on
• Upshot
• It may be bitter
• Destroy
• This, appropriately
• Run out
• See 65-Across
• Wrap up
• ___-all
• Place to stop
• Swan song
• One may be dead
• At wit's ___
• Eliminate
• Apt answer for this clue
• Top or bottom
• Bitter ___
• Cut short
• Judgment Day
• Bankrupt
• Finish up
• Wind up or down
• Maze goal
• Phase out
• Rear
• Sign-off
• Dissolve
• Put a stopper on
• Termination
• Defensive footballer
• Close
• Tug-of-war position
• Cut off
• Wipe out
• Tail
• Give the coup de grâce
• See 58-Down
• Break off
• Cleaning product with the slogan "It's that fast"
• With 41-Across, go out nicely
• Last
• Prime rib cut
• See 3-Down
• Culmination
• Heel
• Doomsday, with "the"
• T formation participant
• Tight ___
• Potential pass target
• Player next to a tackle
• Caboose, e.g.
• Bring to a halt
• With "of" plus 49-Down, momentous time
• What boring things never seem to do
• Terminate
• The last word, often
• Word after living or dead
• Cessation
• Dead or living follower
• Close down
• Drop the curtain on
• Word after deep or tight
• This answer, vis-à-vis the Across answers
• Quarterback's target
• Conclude
• "Howard's ___" (1992 Oscar winner)
• Wind down or wind up
• Kind of table
• It's sometimes bitter
• Word with game or table
• Last word in movies?
• Football position
• Closing
• June 20, vis-à-vis spring
• Final chapter
• Word found in this puzzle's theme answers
• Wind up or wind down
• Brett Favre target
• Discontinue
• Unpopular slice, for some
• Jeremy Shockey, notably
• Peyton Manning target
• Third from center
• It may be bitter or loose
• Target for Tom Brady
• Week finish?
• Stopping point
• Bring to a conclusion
• Tom Brady target
• NFL lineman
• Final section
• Nip in the bud
• Go no further
• Put a halt to
• "Howards ___" (1992 movie)
• Word with living or dead
• Caboose
• Either half of a domino
• Judgment Day, e.g.
• Nothing follows it
• Caboose's position
• Put a stop to
• Word after tight or loose
• Last stop
• Bring the curtain down on
• Draw to a close
• It may be split or loose
• Scrimmage participant
• His job is on the line
• It may be in sight
• The last word?
• It may be bitter?
• Complete
• Line-of-scrimmage position
• Come to a close
• Outcome
• This Across answer, appropriately
• Abolish
• See 51-Across
• Result
• Often-unwanted slice of bread
• Death
• Delete key neighbor
• Pass catcher
• Lineman furthest from the center
• Limit
• Word with tail or back
• ___-around (football play)
• Draw the curtain on
• Tackle's linemate
• With 1-Across, comic member of a minstrel troupe
• Computer keyboard key
• See 13-Down
• Lands' ___ (clothing retailer)
• Home key neighbor
• Remnant
• Caboose's place
• See 38-Down
• Either extreme of a loaf
• Do the final step of
• Circle's lack
• Last word?
• Tail ___
• Computer key under Home
• See 46-Down
• Word "split" in this puzzle's eight longest answers
• Get done with
• One working on a line
• Gridiron position
• Last stage
• Furthest point
• NFL position
• Concluding part
• Stop it
• Be over with
• Fabric fragment
• Quit
• ___ around (football play)
• Go off the deep ___
• Target for Peyton Manning
• Curtain call time
• The last word in some stories
• Participant in some receptions
• Place to burn a candle?
• Part of the line always saved for you
• Last word on the silver screen, sometimes
• Boundary line
• Wrap-up
• 30, in the newsroom
• Spot to stop
• Bitter part?
• Call it quits
• Type of table or zone
• Tackle's line mate
• "Howards ___" (1992 Oscar winner)
• Book's last word
• Where to get in line
• Computer key
• Every streetcar line has one
• It could be tight or loose
• Type of result
• Finish in the DEN?
• Coda's place
• Limiting aspect
• Table type
• Offensive player farthest from the QB
• -30-, to an editor
• Keyboard key
• Cease all action
• QB's target
• Word with bitter or tail
• Curling inning
• Word with run or result
• Word with split or tail
• Author's last word?
• Offensive one
• Kind of table or zone
• It may be bitter or dead
• Finish line
• Omega, in a way
• Word with tight or loose
• Bring down the curtain
• "Howards ___" (1982)
• Only good part of a bad movie?
• Type of table
• Football receiver
• It can be bitter
• Deep place?
• Something to keep in sight
• Defensive ___
• "itter"part
• Suffix location
• Bitter follower, sometimes
• Cease
• Means justifier
• "The ___," next-to-last song on "Abbey Road," ironically
• Fulfillment
• "The ___ of Innocence"
• Bring to a close
• Forster's "Howards ___"
• Come to a conclusion
• Terminate a relationship
• Word with "rear" or "year"
• Squelch
• Share of responsibility
• Land's ___ (southwesternmost point of England)
• Shut down
• You've just reached it
• Where to get in line?
• "The ___ is in sight"
• Drop it
• Write "finis"
• "Howard's ___" (Oscar winner of 1992)
• Give up on
• This, for example, with "the"
• Cut it out
• Tail ___
• Become extinct
• Write finis to
• Last word
• "To what ___?"
• Word with loose or tight
• Expire
• See 38-Across
• Jim Morrison song, with "The"
• Final curtain
• Period's place in a sentence
• Business ___
• Bring to closure
• Crusty bread piece
• Last word on the silver screen
• Cut off(5)
• ___ game
• Type of zone or table
• What's last
• Knock off
• Last word in literature?
• Heel in a bakery
• Close up
• The ___ (famous last words)
• "Zone" or "table" lead-in
• Nothing comes after it
• Certain keyboard key
• Wrap things up
• Beginning's counterpart
• What this is, fittingly
• "This ___ up"
• Last part
• With 28-Down, Anthony Hopkins film
• Final
• This clue's place, aptly enough
• Conclu-sion
• This clue, aptly
• 'When will it all ___?'
• This clue's place, aptly
• This clue's place on the list
• See 34-Down
• Culminate
• Furthermost point
• Maze objective
• Word after loose or tight
• Lineman farthest from the center
• "Split" follower
• One may be tight
• Something sometimes split
• Kill
• The bitter ___
• The final word in storybooks
• Aim
• With 1-Across, a football play, or an apt description of what's hidden in the last part of the answer to each starred clue
• Suspend
• Run its course
• Heel of a loaf
• Last chapter
• See 25-Down
• Back ___
• One may be tight or defensive
• Sew up
• Apt puzzle answer, in this case
• Not go on
• Football position: defensive ___
• Stop going
• *Finish
• Last bit
• Wind down
• Dead-___ street
• Shut off
• Without ___
• Gridiron speedster
• See 60-Across
• You'll reach it at 61-Down
• Rarely-used computer key
• Wideout, in football
• Tip or top
• Maze's goal
• The ___ [fittingly]
• Doors classic, with "The"
• Möbius strip's lack
• Undoing
• Kind of table or user
• English fin
• Bring down the curtain on
• Tight position?
• Call it a day
• Consummation
• Omega in america
• This, with "the"
• Bring to a conlusion
• Last word in films?
• "___ of discussion!"
• First or final cut piece
• Rarely used computer key
• The last word in movies?
• With 18-Across, software developer's concern
• Bitter or business follower
• PC key below Home
• "The ___ is near"
• Ultimate act
• Wrap
• Living or dead follower
• You'll reach it after 71 more clues
• Not the beginning
• Hindmost
• "The World's ___": 2013 sci-fi comedy
• Curling period
• It may be loose or tight
• One may get a pass
• Wind (up)
• "30," to an editor
• Word with front or rear
• One can be loose or tight
• His job is always on the line
• Final stage
• Ruination
• Target of some passes
• Curtains
• Word with living or bitter
• "Witches of East ___"
• Word with deep or dead
• Last word, in literature
• Dissolve, as a partnership
• Final one
• Last word of a film?
• Limitation
• "The ___ of the Rainbow"
• "Tight" NFL position
• Curling division
• His career is on the line
• Stamp out
• Object
• Bottom of the ninth, usually
• Testaverde target
• Bread heel
• Punch line, say
• Tight or defensive, e.g.
• Concluding word
• Word with game or point
• "Day's ___"
• Person looking for bombs?
• Consummate
• Ring's lack
• See 74-Down
• Outermost location
• "30" to an editor
• Certain pick in 17-Across
• Final part
• -30-
• The final word in movies
• When the credits roll
• Typical pass catcher
• Fizzle out
• Go last
• Bottom of the ninth, say
• Opposite of beginning
• "___ of days"
• Crusty bread slice
• Apt answer for this puzzle location
• Aspiration
• Not continue
• "Parade's ___" (Ford Madox Ford tetralogy)
• Wind it up
• "Land's ___"
• A O doesn't have one
• Word before game or user
• Stew ___
• Circumvented, with 4 Down
• Where this is
• Last in a sequence
• "Days on ___"
• Last song recorded by all four Beatles, with "the"
• Adjourn
• Cancel
• Maze word
• Dead-___ job
• December 31, e.g.
• Get finished
• One may be bitter
• Decide not to continue
• Appropriate answer for this clue
• Abrogate
• Kind of table or run
• "Childhood's ___"
• Where many enter a line
• See 96-Down
• Caboose's spot
• Final phase
• Football player
• Many an eligible receiver
• ___ of the line
• "30" to editors
• Patootie
• Squash
• Word after "living," "tight" or "dead"
• With 69-Across, ultimate consumer
• Either of two on a defensive line
• Boundry line
• Opposite of start
• Go "pfft"
• Quarterback sacker, perhaps
• Ruin
• Word with bitter or dead
• Tackle's neighbor on the line
• Word after bitter or dead
• Key below Home, on a PC
• Pass target, sometimes
• What a Möbius strip lacks
• With 43-Down, software buyer, e.g.
• Key below "Home" on a PC
• Z, alphabet-wise
• Neighbor of a tackle
• What curtains may signify
• Completion
• Closure
• Close or complete
• Make defunct
• "Howards ___"
• Wind up or wrap up
• Final word
• Last word of a fairy tale
• Film's last words, "The ___"
• Final word, after "The"
• Opposite of begin
• Stop or halt
• The ___ (last words of a film)
• Come to an ___
• Come to an ___ (call it quits)
• "The ___" (last words in a book)
• Come to a finish
• The last word of a book, often
• Word with table or zone
• "The ___" (last words in books)
• "The ___" (last words in a film)
• Finish back in Widnes
• Word printed on a maze
• Button on some cell phones
• "___ of Days" (Schwarzenegger film)
• Defensive position
• Beginning's opposite
• Complete or finish
• Pet Shop Boys song "West ___ Girls"
• Final stages
• It may be reached while binge-watching
• The ___ (movie finale)
• Extinction
• "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's ___ ..." (Semisonic)
• Traveling Wilburys: "___ of the Line"
• What you don't want a good show to do
• Part of the "Line" the Traveling Wilburys were going to
• Doors "My only friend, the ___"
• My Chemical Romance "To the ___"
• The Doors "The ___"
• "Gronk" of the Patriots is one
• Linkin Park "Waiting for the ___"
• Phish "Possum, your ___ is the road"
• Pearl Jam "The ___"
• "Until the ___ of the World" U2
• Pet Shop Boys "West ___ Girls"
• Foreigner "Until the ___ of Time"
• "Childhood's ___" Kiss
• Linkin Park "In the ___"
• Elton John "Club at the ___ of the Street"
• "Down at the ___ of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel"
• Apocalyptica w/ Gavin Rossdale "___ of Me"
• Killers "How did it ___ up like this, it was only a kiss"
• Alice in Chains "Gonna ___ up a big ole pile of them bones"
• Alice in Chains "Gonna ___ up a big ole pile a them bones"
• U2 "Until the ___ of the World"
• Mudvayne album "The ___ of All Things to Come"
• '04 Cure hit "The ___ of the World"
• "From the ___ of the World"
• Killers "It started out with a kiss, how did it ___ up like this"
• Exterminate - object
• Conclude it's a tip
• Finish in sweet surrender
• Last of the big spenders
• Aim - point - finish
• The final goal
• The last thing an extremist wants?
• Finish in seven days
• Last of seven days?
• Object - that's as far as you can go
• Stop a goal
• Close, aim
• Stopping poin
• Cliffhanger's spot
• Last section
• Fitting last word in a crossword grid
• It might be bitter
• See 78 Across
• Extreme point
• Closer?
• Final analysis
• Reach a conclusion
• "Childhood's ___" (Arthur C. Clarke novel)
• "Howards ___" (Forster novel)
• Reach the denouement
• ___ on a high note
• Eventually, in the ___
• Final result, ___ product
• London docks area, the East ___
• Target
• Oddly ignored Kennedy's death
• Part of a movie where the credits roll
• Defensive ___ (football position)
• With 113-Down, product's ultimate consumer
• Yusuf Islam "In the ___"
• Wide receiver
• Fiendish objective?
• Caboose's location on a train
• "___ of the Line" Traveling Wilburys
• "Howards ___" (1992 Emma Thompson movie)
• This clue, to this puzzle
• "All good things must come to an ___"
• Break up
• Stop doing
• Passer's target, maybe
• "It's not the ___ of the world"
• Continue no longer
• Last word of movies?
• Stop taking part in open days
• Target for Dan Marino
• Possibly the deep ulterior motive
• Goal: finality
• A sad fate in Passchendaele
• Last section or part
• What this is two from
• Word after living or receiving
• London Cockney area, the East ___
• Downfall
• Apt word for this entry¨
• Where to join the line
• Word with tight or split
• See 25-Across
• Crusty slice of bread
• Part of EOM
• Member of an NFL line
• Last bit or last bits of the lemon curd
• "30" in editing
• When credits roll
• It's simply the last word!
• Low-___
• Reach its destination, as a trip
• Last entry in this puzzle, fittingly
• London's East ___
• When Porky Pig says "That's all, folks!"
• Word after deep or dead
• Third player from the center
• See 36-Down
• Offensive or defensive gridder
• Final goal?
• Eternity doesn't have one
• Close out
• See 28-Down
• London's West ___
• This puzzle's last entry, fittingly
• Inning : baseball :: ___ : curling
• Player close to a linebacker
• Omega, alphabetically
• Time for the credits
• Pi doesn't have one
• Latest thing in trendiness
• Dec. 31, to a year
• Book's last word, often
• Burnt barbecue bit
• Famous last word
• Rob Gronkowski's position
• Infinity doesn't have one
• Apt last answer
• "Tight" or "split" player
• Climax
• Bring to an ___
• Either extreme of a line
• Leftover
• Where a tunnel opens
• With 72-Across, evasive strategy ... and a hint to the last several letters of the four longest Across answers
• The ultimate in fiendishness
• Last word of many books
• Share of a task
• Fade out
• Remotest part of Harpenden
• Resolution
• Event studied in eschatology, with "the"
• Derrière
• Word with "business" or "bitter"
• Tackle’s linemate
• The last part
• Wrap it up
• Bring to a finale
• "Tight" or "loose" follower
• Last word, at times
• Coincidentally and aptly, it was also yesterday's last Down answer
• Story's last word
• Last of the golden days
• Deep ___ (pool area)
• Target of some football passes
• **Last word in many books (... 1 to 2)
• Last word, say
• Fiendish finish?
• Fiendish fate?
• Rump
• Period, with "the"
• Z, for the alphabet
• Tunnel terminus
• High-___: upscale
• December 31, for 2020
• or -, for a battery
• Appropriate answer for this spot in the puzzle
• Wrap up or conclude
• "Happily ever after," for many a fairy tale
• London setting of "Call the Midwife" ("East")
• Shallow ___
• Stop and aim
• Redundant follower of "tail"
• Pierre's "fin," to Peter
• Inapt answer for 1-Across
• Caboose location
• Point B, usually
• Redundant word before "result"
• One might be split or bitter
• Ultimate bit
• Word after business or bitter
• See 61-Across
• Bring to a successful conclusion
• Deep ___: diving area
• Bitter part?
• "That's it for now" time
• Last word of a fairy tale, often
• "The Deep ___"
• Be-all and ___-all (essential element)
• Cancel abruptly
• Tight ___: football position
• Tell someone to drop the curtain
• If you're at this, you can say "I'm done"
• Pull the plug
• Finish line's place
• Say, "I'm done now"
• One who may go deep
• Until the ___ of time
• "The ___ of Our Road" (Gladys Knight & the Pips song)
• Wrap up, as a production
• Bring to a definite conclusion
• Like-it-or-loathe-it bread piece
• Be over
• Omega's place
• Heel, e.g.
• See 51-Down
• Means to an ___
• Grand finale
• Front or back
• It's over here
• Period in curling
• Drop the curtain
• Word after "rear" or "tight"
• Destination
• "I'm at my wits' ___!"
• To the bitter ___
• No ___ in sight
• Not just go on hiatus
• Last of seven days?
• Dead ___
• ___ on a positive note
• Come to an ___ (conclude)
• Come to an ___ (close)
• Coda
• Where conclusions are made?
• What follows both the living and dead?
• Boundary's boundary
• Series finale, e.g.
• "This is the ___"
• With 27-Across, fairy tale's closing words
• "It's the ___ of an era!"
• Fitting place for this answer
• K) The ___ (movie finale)
• Cut it out right there and now
• Word with year or rear
• Bring to a finish
• Coda, e.g.
• Lit part of an 11-Down
• Fade to black and cut the sound
• See 27-Across
• Final bit
• Turn off
• Burnt ___ (bit of Kansas City BBQ)
• "At the ___ of the day ..."
• What a boring meeting never seems to do
• "That's it. ___ of story."
• Extra-crusty piece of bread
• "___ of story!"
• The ___ of the line
• Word with tail or tight
• Apt last word for this puzzle
• A split one may need trimming
• Series finale, say
• Boundary limit
• Burnt bit of brisket
• Something "dead" in a haunted corn maze?
• Finish or final part
• Postscript's place
• Appropriate place for this clue
• Fitting place for this clue's answer
• Where Z is in the alphabet
• Rearmost part
• ___ around (football trick play)
• Translation of "fin"
• ___ user
• "The Low ___ Theory": A Tribe Called Quest album
• The 21,728th page of 1989's 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary
• Finish up in Seven Dials
• Dead or bitter
• Ax, so to speak
• Finish up in Harpenden
• Ninth inning, usually
• Seldom-used PC key
• Baseball : inning :: curling : ___
• 63-Down, in this puzzle
• Something a Möbius strip lacks
• Frame : bowling :: ___ : curling
• With 37-Across, ultimate consumer