- END
- Word with back or front
- Call it quits
- Close
- Finish
- It may be bitter
- Kind of run or table
- Lineman
- Objective
- On __ (upright)
- Pass-catcher
- Break off
- Curling division
- Deep or dead follower
- Finale
- Finis
- He may be offensive
- Last gasp
- Sign off
- Wind up
- Wrap up
- Cease or desist
- Complete
- Conclusion
- Culmination
- Cut off
- Land's __
- Offensive one perhaps
- Put a stop to
- Remnant
- Run out
- Tail
- Terminus
- Last word
- Drop the curtain
- Terminator's objective?
- I'm about to ___ this man's whole career
- Football position
- Go "pfft"
- One might be tight
- Rear
- Final chapter, e.g.
- Put the kibosh on
- One may be dead or bitter
- Word with bitter or business
- Crusty bread piece
- Bread piece that you could technically use for a sandwich, I guess
- Undesirable slice of bread, perhaps, though maybe you could turn it into croutons or make a panzanella or something
- What a certain song never does
- Reach a conclusion
- Last of all
- Abolish
- Borderline
- Coda
- Come to a conclusion (appropriately)
- Curtains
- Finish up
- First or final cut piece
- Last piece of bread to eat, often
- Moon unit
- Nib
- Phase out
- Termination
- The ___ (appropriately)
- Tight ___
- When the murderer is revealed, often
- Where this answer is, appropriately
- Where this appears, appropriately
- Word after deep or tight
- Come to a close
- After the face off, bow to pressure and then stop (3)
- When the murderer is revealed in mysteries, often
- Wrap things up
- Go kaput
- Denouement
- See 5-Across
- Come to a halt
- Swan song
- Final moment
- Maze's goal
- Stop working
- Butt
- Finish line
- Russ Francis, for one
- The __
- Gridiron position
- Tackle's teammate
- Purpose
- Boundary
- Pass target
- Discontinue
- Epilogue
- This clue's position
- Terminate
- Pull the plug on
- Cease
- It may be in sight
- Knock off
- Quarterback's target
- West ___ Girls (1986 Pet Shop Boys hit)
- Word after tight or split
- Bring to closure
- West ___ Girls (1986 hit)
- Wisdom begins at the ___: Daniel Webster
- Terminal
- Journeys ___ in lovers meeting: Shakespeare
- Word after tight or loose
- Howards ___ (Forster novel)
- With 39 Down, ultimate goal
- The South ___ (Wayne State U.'s student newspaper)
- Closing stages
- Go no further
- Draw to a close
- Prime-rib cut
- Demise
- Suffix location
- Childhood's ___ (Arthur C. Clarke novel)
- Cessation
- Conclude
- Shut down
- Reach the denouement
- Caboose, e.g.
- A dead one can't have one way
- Ruin
- Sit on it
- Put to bed, so to speak
- What a buzzer may signify
- Bottom
- Football Hall of Famer Bruce Smith, e.g.
- One who may get a pass
- The Sopranos had a much-debated one
- Do no more
- Don't go on
- Head or foot, e.g.
- By definition, a line doesn't have one, in math
- Fox-y home?
- Curtains, with "the"
- Cut short
- Go off the deep ___
- Goal
- His job is on the line
- Last word, in literature?
- Posterior or purpose
- The last word in some stories
- Word after tight or wide
- Armageddon
- Call off
- Cutoff point
- Dead or living follower
- Put a halt to
- This clue, vis- -vis this puzzle
- Wind down or wind up
- The ___ (1978 Burt Reynolds movie)
- Stop
- The last word, often
- Call a halt to
- Close down
- Drop the curtain on
- Football lineman
- This answer, vis- -vis the Across answers
- Word after living or dead
- Howard's ___ (1992 Oscar winner)
- It's sometimes bitter
- Kind of table
- Quash
- Brett Favre target
- Bring to a halt
- Closing
- Final chapter
- June 20, vis- -vis spring
- Last word in movies?
- Tip
- Wind up or wind down
- Word found in this puzzle's theme answers
- Word with game or table
- It may be bitter or loose
- Jeremy Shockey, notably
- Peyton Manning target
- Tackle's neighbor
- Third from center
- Unpopular slice, for some
- Bring to a conclusion
- Stopping point
- Target for Tom Brady
- Tom Brady target
- Week finish?
- Howards ___ (1992 movie)
- Judgment Day, e.g.
- NFL lineman
- Word with living or dead
- Caboose
- Either half of a domino
- Final section
- Nip in the bud
- Nothing follows it
- Bring the curtain down on
- Caboose's position
- It may be split or loose
- Last stop
- Scrimmage participant
- Line-of-scrimmage position
- Loaf part
- The last word?
- Finalize
- Extremity
- His career is on the line
- Word after bitter or business
- Bitter follower, sometimes
- Ultimate point
- Howard's ___ (Oscar winner of 1992)
- At wit's ___
- Expire
- The ___ (famous last words)
- Outcome
- Something sometimes split
- Word after loose or tight
- This, with "the"
- Undoing
- Bitter or business follower
- Curling period
- Football receiver
- His job is always on the line
- It may be loose or tight
- Not the beginning
- One can be loose or tight
- Target for Peyton Manning
- Aim
- Word after "The World's" and "This Is the" in 2013 apocalypse comedies
- Word that would have been better placed at 61-Down, but, hey, I'm not perfect
- ___ around
- Position of "FADE TO BLACK" in a screenplay, probably
- Start of something new, often
- Line position
- Omega
- I will ___ you! (threat)
- ___ times (the apocalypse)
- Word before "time" or "zone"
- Candle part
- Final word
- It may be split
- Last word in films?
- Quaterback's target
- Where to get in line?
- Bitter ___
- Limiting aspect
- Split or tight follower
- Word with table or zone
- Epilogue location
- See 11 Down
- Certain lineman
- Fine, in music
- Book's last word
- Eliminate
- Gridiron speedster
- Gridiron target
- See 18-Down
- This answer, appropriately
- Appropriate answer for this clue?
- Become extinct
- Defensive lineman
- Get done with
- Get rid of
- One working on a line
- Computer key under Home
- Either extreme of a loaf
- Intention
- See 46-Down
- Tail __
- Word "split" in this puzzle's eight longest answers
- Circle's lack
- Do the final step of
- Caboose's place
- See 38-Down
- Means justifier
- Bring down the curtain
- Business __
- Heel in a bakery
- You've just reached it
- Apt puzzle answer, in this case
- Sew up
- 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
- Bring down the curtain on
- English fin
- Tight position?
- The World's __: 2013 sci-fi comedy
- Word with living or bitter
- Wrap
- Tight NFL position
- Come to a conclusion
- Object
- Punch line, say
- Stamp out
- Word with game or point
- Last in a sequence
- Word with tight or loose
- Bitter __
- Last part
- Tackle's neighbor on the line
- Z, alphabet-wise
- Close or complete
- Extreme
- Reach its destination, as a trip
- Word with tight or split
- See 28-Down
- With 72-Across, evasive strategy ... and a hint to the last several letters of the four longest Across answers
- Apt answer for this puzzle location
- Coincidentally and aptly, it was also yesterday's last Down answer
- High-__: upscale
- Last word, say
- It might be bitter
- One who may go deep
- See 51-Down
- Deep __: diving area
- Pierre's "fin," to Peter
- Point B, usually
- Tight __: football position
- Series finale, e.g.
- __ of story!
- Last word of a fairy tale
- See 27-Across
- Turn off
- Word with year or rear
- Burt Reynolds film, The ___
- The living ___
- Fitting answer for this clue
- Result
- The final word in movies
- Bring to a close
- -30-
- The last word in movies?
- It may be living
- Leave off
- 30, to a reporter
- Heel, on a loaf
- Result (in)
- See 32 Down
- __ of the line
- Bread heel
- Dead-__ street
- Peter out
- Bitter follower
- Loaf's heel
- Packers position
- User or product leader
- Concluding part
- Fabric fragment
- Quit
- Furthest point
- Last stage
- NFL position
- Be over with
- Stop it
- Close up
- Cut it out
- Drop it
- Give up on
- What's last
- __ game
- Back __
- Furthermost point
- Heel of a loaf
- Keyboard key
- Maze objective
- Call it a day
- Tip or top
- Final stage
- Limit
- Loose __
- Ruination
- With 39 Down, Viking destination
- Cut out
- Ring's lack
- Typical pass catcher
- Wind down
- Cancel
- Circumvented, with 4 Down
- Go last
- Where this is
- Completion
- Final phase
- Ultimate
- Culminate
- Fizzle out
- Low-__
- What this is two from
- Fade out
- Hindmost
- Share of a task
- Tunnel terminus
- Wrap it up
- Bring to completion
- Most remote point
- Ultimate bit
- Follower of business or bitter
- Nearing the __
- The __ (58 Down)
- What a ring lacks
- Bread slice also known as the heel
- Curtains, so to speak
- Cricket wicket
- PC key
- See 15-Across
- Word with loose or tight
- Land's ___ (westernmost point of England)
- Word with rear or year
- Halt
- Often-unwanted slice of bread
- See 51-Across
- Death
- Delete key neighbor
- See 65-Across
- Computer keyboard key
- Draw the curtain on
- Lineman furthest from the center
- See 13-Down
- Tackle's linemate
- With 1-Across, comic member of a minstrel troupe
- Word with tail or back
- ___-around (football play)
- Home key neighbor
- Lands' ___ (clothing retailer)
- Quarterback target
- If the ___ be well, all is well.—Gesta Romanorum.
- Finality.
- Football player.
- Lands ___ Cornwall.
- Consequence.
- Where Liebestod is sung in Tristan.
- Here Faust triumphs.
- Share: Colloq.
- Curtain.
- Peroration.
- Position on a football team.
- Football linesman.
- Gridiron player.
- Pass receiver in football.
- Pass receiver.
- Ultimate state.
- They lived happily ever after.
- Football forward.
- Footballer.
- Lands ___.
- Point of no return.
- Purpose in view.
- Upshot.
- What 30 means, in printers' slang.
- Issue.
- Last word in a movie.
- Short piece of cloth.
- Thirty, in newspaper parlance.
- ___ man.
- ___ table.
- ___ As A Man.
- Position on an eleven.
- Recipient of a forward pass.
- Final point.
- Last piece.
- Stoppage.
- ___ papers.
- Full stop.
- No ___ (a great deal): Colloq.
- When the coda comes.
- Land's ___, cape of England.
- Close out.
- Last.
- Most remote section.
- Dead ___.
- Final cause.
- Leftover.
- Point.
- Scrap.
- The very last word.
- Ultimate aim.
- Word used with dead or the.
- Finite point.
- Kind of most.
- No ___ (very much).
- Top off.
- Book ___.
- Likely pass receiver
- Last word in film
- Word with play or run
- Journey's ___
- Forster's "Howards ___"
- Kind of bridge play
- Elway target
- He may be split
- Position for Russ Francis
- Priestley's "Eden ___"
- This may be tight or loose
- Word with tail or dead
- The ___ of the Affair
- Book or tag
- Deep or book
- One of eleven
- Word with product or table
- Grid lineman
- Kind of paper
- Bitter or dead
- He's often tight, in football
- Minstrel man
- Word with front or rear
- Desinence
- Kind of product
- Means to an ___
- Result of a coup de grâce
- Sinclair's "World's ___"
- ___ line (court boundary)
- The ultimate state
- Where this word comes
- Word with tag or rear
- Fragment
- Last word in many books
- Player who may be tight
- Tight ___, in football
- What a checkmate causes
- Where this word belongs
- Word with run or play
- Eligible pass receiver
- Fate
- He may be tight
- Sake
- Word with head or tail
- Word with split or tight
- Word with tight and open
- ___ product
- Eternity lacks this
- Offensive one, at times
- Pigskin chaser
- Stallworth's position
- Last straw
- See 23 Across
- Split or tight one
- Abrogate
- Sometimes it's bitter
- Word with rear or tight
- Book part
- It might not be in sight
- Kind of play
- Like some products
- Split or tight Jet
- Happy ___, 1977 musical
- Kind of play, in bridge
- Marino target
- A cricket wicket
- Receiver, frequently
- And by opposing ___ them? Hamlet
- Sometimes it is bitter
- Type of table
- Zone for gridders
- Book's final word
- QB's target, often
- Last word, at times
- Wide receiver
- Closure
- Curling inning
- Hindquarters
- It may be dead
- Word before and after "to"
- Period of play in curling
- Expiration
- Coda's place in a score
- Deli discard
- It may be living or dead
- Outer limit
- Part to grab hold of
- Quietus
- Annihilation
- Doom
- Exterior lineman
- Kind of user
- Unpopular slice
- Border
- Not-so-desirable bread slice
- Period
- See 57-Across
- Bitter part
- Last page
- Last part (appropriately)
- One may be on the line
- Period's place
- Command to exit a BASIC program
- Destroy
- Place to stop
- This, appropriately
- Word before and after "over"
- ___-all
- Apt answer for this clue
- One may be dead
- Judgment Day
- Top or bottom
- Bankrupt
- Dissolve
- Maze goal
- Put a stopper on
- Wind up or down
- Defensive footballer
- Tug-of-war position
- Wipe out
- Give the coup de grâce
- See 3-Down
- See 58-Down
- With 41-Across, go out nicely
- Doomsday, with "the"
- Heel
- Player next to a tackle
- Potential pass target
- T formation participant
- With "of" plus 49-Down, momentous time
- This Across answer, appropriately
- What boring things never seem to do
- The ___, next-to-last song on "Abbey Road," ironically
- Defensive ___
- Fulfillment
- Share of responsibility
- Squelch
- This, for example, with "the"
- What this is, fittingly
- Kill
- Last bit
- Not go on
- One may be tight
- Stop going
- Suspend
- ___ of discussion!
- Möbius strip's lack
- Shut off
- The ___ [fittingly]
- Wideout, in football
- Living or dead follower
- One may get a pass
- PC key below Home
- Target of some passes
- With 18-Across, software developer's concern
- Word with deep or dead
- Bottom of the ninth, usually
- Certain pick in 17-Across
- Consummate
- When the credits roll
- A O doesn't have one
- Adjourn
- Bottom of the ninth, say
- Crusty bread slice
- December 31, e.g.
- Last song recorded by all four Beatles, with "the"
- Maze word
- Not continue
- Stew ___
- Many an eligible receiver
- One may be bitter
- Patootie
- Squash
- What a Möbius strip lacks
- What curtains may signify
- ___ of the line
- To what ___?
- Business ___
- Downfall
- See 25-Across
- When credits roll
- Derrière
- Event studied in eschatology, with "the"
- Inning : baseball :: ___ : curling
- Player close to a linebacker
- Where a tunnel opens
- + or -, for a battery
- Period, with "the"
- Rump
- Target of some football passes
- Appropriate answer for this spot in the puzzle
- Be over
- Like-it-or-loathe-it bread piece
- Redundant word before "result"
- See 61-Across
- Word after business or bitter
- What follows both the living and dead?
- A split one may need trimming
- Coda, e.g.
- Extra-crusty piece of bread
- Stub, say
- What a boring meeting never seems to do
- Word with tail or tight
- Jim Morrison song, with "The"
- ...and the other
- Forster's 'Howards _____'
- Greene's 'The -- of the Affair'
- -- zone
- Part of SWAK
- See 34-Down
- Linkin Park "Waiting for the ___"
- My Chemical Romance "To the ___"
- The Doors "The ___"
- Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's ___ ... (Semisonic)
- Doors "My only friend, the ___"
- Part of the "Line" the Traveling Wilburys were going to
- Traveling Wilburys: "___ of the Line"
- What you don't want a good show to do
- See 74-Down
- Elton John "Club at the ___ of the Street"
- Down at the ___ of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel
- Childhood's ___ Kiss
- Until the ___ of the World U2
- Foreigner "Until the ___ of Time"
- Linkin Park "In the ___"
- Pearl Jam "The ___"
- Pet Shop Boys "West ___ Girls"
- Phish "Possum, your ___ is the road"
- This clue, fittingly, vis-a-vis this puzzle
- Cut funding to
- Francis Fukuyama's controversial article "The ___ of History?"
- Overriding concern in "The Prince"
- Word with rear or split
- Come out
- Dénouement
- The ___ of the Tour (2015 David Foster Wallace bio-pic)
- Absolutely destroy, as a competitor
- Adjournment
- Apt answer to a puzzle's final clue
- Author's last word?
- Grid position
- Table type
- Tight or split
- Final word, often
- Word with run or result
- Zone or table lead-in
- Cease all action
- Last word of a film?
- Last word on the silver screen
- Wind it up
- Word with all or result
- Receiver
- Word with split or tail
- Deep place?
- Testaverde target
- Type of zone or table
- Word with deep or tight
- Part to grab hold of, maybe
- Spot to stop
- Howards ___ (1992)
- Type of zone
- Participant in some receptions
- Type of table or zone
- itterpart
- 30, in the newsroom
- Boundary line
- Last word on the silver screen, sometimes
- Part of the line always saved for you
- Place to burn a candle?
- Curtain call time
- This ___ up
- Every streetcar line has one
- Lineman farthest from the center
- Beginning's counterpart
- Certain keyboard key
- Period's place in a sentence
- The ___ is in sight
- 30 to an editor
- Person looking for bombs?
- 30 to editors
- Decide not to continue
- Kind of table or run
- Opposite of start
- Word after "living," "tight" or "dead"
- 30 in editing
- Continue no longer
- Last word of movies?
- Member of an NFL line
- Stop doing
- Third player from the center
- Apt last answer
- Book's last word, often
- Burnt barbecue bit
- Famous last word
- Infinity doesn't have one
- Last word of many books
- Pi doesn't have one
- See 36-Down
- Word with "business" or "bitter"
- Tight or "loose" follower
- **Last word in many books (... 1 to 2)
- December 31, for 2020
- Deep ___ (pool area)
- Z, for the alphabet
- Happily ever after, for many a fairy tale
- Inapt answer for 1-Across
- London setting of "Call the Midwife" ("East")
- No ___ in sight
- One might be split or bitter
- Q, for one country name
- Redundant follower of "tail"
- Word after "deep" or "defensive"
- Word before "table" or "zone"
- I'm at my wits' ___!
- Rear or "dead" follower
- Cancel, as a subscription
- Final chapter, say
- Final word in many fairy tales
- G, for one U.S. state's name
- See 56-Across
- The 30th, for June
- To the ___ of time
- Word after "tight" or "bitter"
- Z's spot, alphabetically
- The ___ is near!
- Last command in a BASIC program
- Last word in a story
- One may be tight or defensive
- Period, for many a sentence
- Word before "game" or "point"
- The Low ___ Theory (A Tribe Called Quest album)
- Friday, for the workweek
- Grand finale, for a fireworks show
- Last word in many a fairy tale
- The last word, in many cases
- Far point
- Loose or bitter follower
- Split or tail
- ____ of the line
- Kind of zone
- QB's frequent target
- Throw in the towel
- Tight or dead
- Howard's ___
- Become, with up
- Start of an ear?
- It can be bitter
- Omega, in a way
- Type of result
- Howards ___ (1982)
- Only good part of a bad movie?
- It may be bitter or dead
- Kind of table or zone
- Offensive one
- Word with bitter or tail
- Computer key
- QB's target
- Finish in the DEN?
- It could be tight or loose
- Coda's place
- Offensive player farthest from the QB
- Write "finis"
- Split follower
- Football position: defensive ___
- The final word in storybooks
- The ___ of Innocence
- Land's ___ (southwesternmost point of England)
- Something to keep in sight
- Dissolve, as a partnership
- Kind of table or user
- Rarely used computer key
- You'll reach it at 61-Down
- Tight or defensive, e.g.
- Dead-___ job
- Word before game or user
- It's not the ___ of the world
- Be-all and ___-all (essential element)
- Last word of a fairy tale, often
- Shallow ___
- Either of two on a defensive line
- Final curtain
- Key below "Home" on a PC
- London's East ___
- London's West ___
- Neighbor of a tackle
- Offensive or defensive gridder
- Pass target, sometimes
- Quarterback sacker, perhaps
- Word after bitter or dead
- Word with bitter or dead
- The ___ of Our Road (Gladys Knight & the Pips song)
- Until the ___ of time
- Last entry in this puzzle, fittingly
- Passer's target, maybe
- This clue, to this puzzle
- When Porky Pig says "That's all, folks!"
- Word after deep or dead
- Word after living or receiving
- ___ on a high note
- Tight or "split" player
- Dec. 31, to a year
- Eternity doesn't have one
- Final part
- Rob Gronkowski's position
- This puzzle's last entry, fittingly
- It's the ___ of an era!
- This is the ___
- Fitting place for this answer
- The beginning of the ___
- To the bitter ___
- At the ___ of the day . . .
- That's it. ___ of story.
- Appropriate place for this answer
- Apt last word for this puzzle
- Burnt ___ (bit of Kansas City BBQ)
- Final bit
- Series finale, say
- He's often tight
- It's found "prematurely" in this puzzle's theme
- Split or tight
- Land's __, England
- This is it
- Page Down neighbor
- Nothing comes after it
- Appropriate location for this answer
- Index's place in a book
- Outro's place, in a song
- ___ of story!
- Bibliography's place in a book, typically
- Epilogue's place in a book
- Changed part of each re-tail phrase in this puzzle
- Reason for being
- Reggie White, for one
- Where to join the line
- Finish off
- Aspiration
- Cliffhanger's spot
- Oklahoma city
- Stopping poin
- December, yearwise
- Fitting last word in a crossword grid
- Last section
- Desired result
- Final piece
- Resolution
- Appropriate answer to this clue
- Grand finale
- Area behind the stumps, in cricket
- Words after living or dead
- There's nothing after it
- Fitting location for this clue
- Word after dead or living