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Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (23x23 grid, 166 clues). Published 4/18/1976. By Hume R. Craft.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Drays (5): CARTS
6 Across: Director Frank (5): CAPRA
11 Across: Epsom items (5): SALTS
16 Across: Sir Samuel (5): HOARE
21 Across: "Cookery is become ___" (5): ANART
22 Across: Revoke (5): ADEEM
23 Across: Love: It. (5): AMORE
24 Across: Kind of tube (5): INNER
25 Across: Words for some stocks (5): NOPAR
26 Across: Oil source (5): SHALE
27 Across: French town (5): LUNEL
28 Across: Port of Italy (5): GENOA
29 Across: Woman, to Sir Walter Scott (21): AMINISTERINGANGELTHOU
33 Across: ___ anchor (6): LIESAT
34 Across: Literary monogram (3): RLS
35 Across: Bookie's quote (4): ODDS
36 Across: River feeding (7): OUTFLOW
39 Across: Puppeteer Tony (4): SARG
40 Across: ". . . that ___ the malt" (3): ATE
42 Across: Underworld (5): HADES
44 Across: Mutuel-window sign (3): WIN
45 Across: Street cry (4): TAXI
46 Across: Old thicket (4): RONE
48 Across: Ordinal suffix (3): ETH
49 Across: "With unshut ___" (3): EYE
51 Across: Scott's Lucy (6): ASHTON
53 Across: Old Marley, to Dickens (17): ASDEADASADOORNAIL
60 Across: Schumann-___ (5): HEINK
61 Across: Minimal (5): LEAST
62 Across: Greek letter (3): TAU
63 Across: Certain cats (7): MOUSERS
64 Across: Seething (5): ABOIL
65 Across: Raggedy ones (4): ANNS
66 Across: "The Just" (9): ARISTIDES
68 Across: Drinker's woes: Abbr. (3): DTS
70 Across: Story beginning (4): ONCE
71 Across: Turner (3): NAT
72 Across: Fuss (3): ADO
73 Across: Articles (4): THES
74 Across: Chinese guild (3): HUI
76 Across: Take-home item (3): PAY
78 Across: Dallas (6): STELLA
80 Across: Corporate V.I.P. (4): PRES
81 Across: Court action (4): FINE
82 Across: Elianic efforts (6): ESSAYS
86 Across: Word to a firing squad (3): AIM
87 Across: Disgruntled sound (3): OOF
88 Across: Word for St. John: Abbr. (4): BAPT
89 Across: Insect (3): BEE
90 Across: "Cannery ___" (3): ROW
91 Across: Graduate degrees (4): PHDS
94 Across: Dallas campus (3): SMU
96 Across: Like some streetcars (9): OPENSIDED
99 Across: H. H. Munro (4): SAKI
100 Across: Sacks (5): LOOTS
102 Across: Damnable (7): ACCURST
104 Across: U.N. name (3): DAG
105 Across: Greek physician (5): GALEN
106 Across: Oil island (5): ARUBA
107 Across: Francis Bacon, to Izaak Walton (17): SECRETARYOFNATURE
110 Across: Like some fenders (6): INBENT
112 Across: Cheer (3): RAH
113 Across: Meadow grass (3): RIE
114 Across: Like mechanics' hands (4): OILY
115 Across: Conventioneers: Abbr. (4): DELS
116 Across: Muscovite: Abbr. (3): RUS
118 Across: Units of fitness (5): UTILS
120 Across: ___ Magnon (3): CRO
121 Across: Bible book (4): ACTS
125 Across: Felt hat (7): STETSON
127 Across: Give ___ of approval to (4): ANOD
128 Across: Overly (3): TOO
130 Across: Limonite (6): BOGORE
132 Across: Books, to Jonathan Swift (21): THECHILDRENOFTHEBRAIN
136 Across: TV card or box (5): IDIOT
138 Across: Independently (5): APART
139 Across: Lecture (5): ORATE
140 Across: Consumed (5): EATEN
141 Across: Cigar city (5): TAMPA
142 Across: Yes ___! (natch!) (5): SIREE
143 Across: Utah lilies (5): SEGOS
144 Across: Kashmir language (5): SHINA
145 Across: Like Sue (5): SWEET
146 Across: Trudges (5): PLODS
147 Across: Gardens (5): EDENS
148 Across: Moves with care (5): EASES

Down Answers

1 Down: Welland and Kiel (6): CANALS
2 Down: Mollusk genus (6): ANOMIA
3 Down: Sword (6): RAPIER
4 Down: Infringe (10): TRANSGRESS
5 Down: Narrow ridge (5): STRIA
6 Down: Producers' concern (4): CAST
7 Down: Maintain loyalty (6): ADHERE
8 Down: Harbor or Bailey (5): PEARL
9 Down: Enjoyed (8): RELISHED
10 Down: Closing word (4): AMEN
11 Down: Cuisinier's specialty (6): SALADE
12 Down: Belgica, Gjoa, and Fram, to Roald (14): AMUNDSENSSHIPS
13 Down: Yearns (5): LONGS
14 Down: Kilmer's love (4): TREE
15 Down: Greek-oracle aides (6): SELLOI
16 Down: "Childe Harold was he ___" (5): HIGHT
17 Down: Popular fellow to his peers (12): ONEOFTHEBOYS
18 Down: Ring formation (10): ANNULATION
19 Down: Vintage car (3): REO
20 Down: Pitching record: Abbr. (3): ERA
30 Down: Custer's or news (5): STAND
31 Down: Divinities (8): GODHOODS
32 Down: Food fish (4): TUNA
37 Down: Type of crystalline acid (6): OXONIC
38 Down: Oyster's enemy (6): WINKLE
41 Down: Playhouse, in Italy (6): TEATRO
43 Down: Tiny particles (7): ATOMIES
44 Down: Dracula-like one (7): WEIRDIE
47 Down: Cereal grain (3): OAT
50 Down: Scottish one (3): YAE
52 Down: Sheep of India (3): SHA
53 Down: Lerner and Ladd (5): ALANS
54 Down: France's upper house (5): SENAT
55 Down: He wrote "All hope abandon . . . " (5): DANTE
56 Down: Capuchin monkey (3): SAI
57 Down: ___-Hungarian (6): AUSTRO
58 Down: Poe's Morgue (3): RUE
59 Down: Beachhead craft: Abbr. (3): LST
66 Down: Author Samuel Hopkins (5): ADAMS
67 Down: Exclusive set, to Ward McAllister (14): THEFOURHUNDRED
69 Down: Kind of limit (5): SPEED
72 Down: Ring master (3): ALI
75 Down: Slovenly (6): UNTIDY
77 Down: Ibsen role (3): ASE
79 Down: The Union, to Lincoln (12): LASTBESTHOPE
80 Down: Thumbstalls of old (7): POUCERS
81 Down: Jutting stern of a ship (7): FANTAIL
83 Down: Babylonian abode of dead (5): ARALU
84 Down: Fitter of ox frames (5): YOKER
85 Down: Pearl-caster's targets (5): SWINE
88 Down: Tower over (8): BESTRIDE
89 Down: ___ mercy (plead) (6): BEGFOR
91 Down: Highland wear (6): PLAIDS
92 Down: Stinger (6): HORNET
93 Down: Premium wage (10): DOUBLETIME
95 Down: P.T.A. people (3): MAS
97 Down: Before: Prefix (3): PRE
98 Down: P.I. tree (3): DAO
99 Down: Passive resistance, to Gandhi (10): SATYAGRAHA
101 Down: ___ Gabriel (3): SAN
103 Down: Certain tribunal: Abbr. (3): CCA
105 Down: Sal, e.g. (3): GAL
108 Down: Saved, as a painting (8): RESTORED
109 Down: Teary queen (5): NIOBE
111 Down: Barter: Fr. (4): TROC
117 Down: Release a fastener (6): UNHASP
119 Down: Rich cakes (6): TORTES
120 Down: Fabric (6): COTTON
122 Down: Raccoons' relatives (6): COATIS
123 Down: Chemical compound (6): TRIENE
124 Down: Cassia plants (6): SENNAS
126 Down: Attack (5): SETAT
127 Down: Majorca town (5): ALARO
129 Down: Adult (5): OFAGE
131 Down: Corpulent (5): OBESE
133 Down: Pacific tree (4): IPIL
134 Down: Face part (4): NOSE
135 Down: Dame Myra (4): HESS
136 Down: "___ in the bag" (3): ITS
137 Down: Margery of rhyme (3): DAW

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