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Difficulty: HardGrid: 27x27226 clues~30-60 minBy Anne Fox7/4/1976

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: No thing for three (5 letters)
6 Across: Catlike animal (5 letters)
11 Across: ___ off (shed sneakily) (3 letters)
14 Across: Suspend (4 letters)
18 Across: Kind of fish (4 letters)
22 Across: "Hey, there!" (6 letters)
23 Across: Loos (5 letters)
24 Across: Keeper or lock (4 letters)
25 Across: Spread (4 letters)
26 Across: Water: Prefix (4 letters)
27 Across: Uneasy state (6 letters)
28 Across: Where ___ (scene of activity) (5 letters)
29 Across: Cad (4 letters)
30 Across: Hawaiian bird (4 letters)
31 Across: Swear (4 letters)
32 Across: Chess crisis (4 letters)
33 Across: Words by Thomas Dunn English (22 letters)
38 Across: Louisiana Indian (4 letters)
39 Across: Cupid (4 letters)
40 Across: Govt. agency (4 letters)
41 Across: Irish county (6 letters)
42 Across: Old school item (3 letters)
43 Across: In ___ (4 letters)
45 Across: Lulled (6 letters)
49 Across: Certain sets (3 letters)
50 Across: Flemish painter (6 letters)
52 Across: Massachusetts signer (5 letters)
54 Across: Small case (4 letters)
55 Across: Zealous (5 letters)
58 Across: Oro y ___ (Motto of Montana) (5 letters)
60 Across: Sixteen ___ (25 letters)
67 Across: Wells's friend (5 letters)
68 Across: Monotonous situation (3 letters)
69 Across: Tic-___ (6 letters)
70 Across: Surfeit (4 letters)
71 Across: Certain metal fastener (4 letters)
73 Across: Relief org. (3 letters)
74 Across: About: Abbr. (3 letters)
75 Across: Recruit or deal (3 letters)
76 Across: Life story, for short (3 letters)
78 Across: Pirandello (5 letters)
79 Across: What Freedom did, in J.R. Drake poem (23 letters)
90 Across: Marsh (3 letters)
91 Across: Wall hanging (5 letters)
92 Across: "Step ___!" (4 letters)
93 Across: Cape Hatteras sights (5 letters)
94 Across: Crucifix (4 letters)
95 Across: Printing item (3 letters)
96 Across: Kind of mail (3 letters)
97 Across: Prudish (4 letters)
98 Across: Lemons (4 letters)
99 Across: Hokkaido native (4 letters)
100 Across: German greeting (4 letters)
101 Across: Words by Royall Tyler (27 letters)
109 Across: Ready for action (4 letters)
110 Across: Organic compound (4 letters)
111 Across: Presidential nickname (4 letters)
112 Across: Exchange premium (4 letters)
113 Across: Hammarskjöld (3 letters)
114 Across: Public notices (3 letters)
115 Across: Son of Isaac (4 letters)
116 Across: Of the cheek (5 letters)
118 Across: Didn't sink (4 letters)
119 Across: Felix or Larry (5 letters)
121 Across: Cat sound (3 letters)
122 Across: What Revere's pawing horse did: Longfellow (23 letters)
128 Across: Aplomb (5 letters)
130 Across: Paul Bunyan's tool (3 letters)
131 Across: German article (3 letters)
132 Across: School subj. (3 letters)
133 Across: Wrigley Field player (3 letters)
134 Across: Of this or that quality (4 letters)
135 Across: Mint (4 letters)
138 Across: Sarcastic remark (6 letters)
141 Across: New Deal org. (3 letters)
142 Across: Scale (5 letters)
144 Across: Words by Katharine Lee Bates (25 letters)
150 Across: Harbor of Hawaii (5 letters)
151 Across: Home of Lamaism (5 letters)
152 Across: N.C. college (4 letters)
153 Across: In a careless manner (5 letters)
154 Across: State (6 letters)
157 Across: Between sine and non (3 letters)
158 Across: Fame (6 letters)
160 Across: Ariz. Indian (4 letters)
161 Across: Ike's theater (3 letters)
162 Across: Texas city (6 letters)
165 Across: Middling (4 letters)
167 Across: Barge (4 letters)
169 Across: Treaty org. (4 letters)
173 Across: "The blast ___": Whittier (22 letters)
179 Across: Voluble (4 letters)
180 Across: P.I. money (4 letters)
181 Across: Not working (4 letters)
182 Across: Puppeteer (4 letters)
183 Across: Five of a kind (5 letters)
184 Across: Best, in Spain (6 letters)
186 Across: Form of Agnes (4 letters)
187 Across: Curb (4 letters)
188 Across: Combo (4 letters)
189 Across: Catch (5 letters)
190 Across: Baseball hopeful (6 letters)
191 Across: Facile (4 letters)
192 Across: Book ___ (4 letters)
193 Across: Common abbr. (3 letters)
194 Across: Firebugs, for short (5 letters)
195 Across: Booby-trapped (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Single-celled organism (5 letters)
2 Down: Artery (5 letters)
3 Down: "Of ___" (9 letters)
4 Down: Romaine (3 letters)
5 Down: Predicament (8 letters)
6 Down: Illinois city (5 letters)
7 Down: Steal a football pass (9 letters)
8 Down: Peer: Abbr. (4 letters)
9 Down: Greenland base (4 letters)
10 Down: So long! (4 letters)
11 Down: Demon (5 letters)
12 Down: Ending (5 letters)
13 Down: Hit hard (4 letters)
14 Down: Grand slams, sometimes (6 letters)
15 Down: Kind of clock (5 letters)
16 Down: Home of Hercules's lion (5 letters)
17 Down: Exclamation of surprise (9 letters)
18 Down: Home of Baylor U. (4 letters)
19 Down: Make comparable (6 letters)
20 Down: State capital (6 letters)
21 Down: Love's companions (6 letters)
22 Down: Arizona Indian (4 letters)
24 Down: July 4, 1776 (25 letters)
34 Down: Large bird (3 letters)
35 Down: Sioux City or Sweet (3 letters)
36 Down: New ___ (5 letters)
37 Down: Bail-out gear (5 letters)
44 Down: Word with China or European (4 letters)
46 Down: Used up (3 letters)
47 Down: Actor Alfred (4 letters)
48 Down: Mosque feature (7 letters)
49 Down: Refrain syllable (3 letters)
51 Down: African language group (5 letters)
52 Down: ___ fig (sycamore of Egypt) (5 letters)
53 Down: Dawn goddess (6 letters)
56 Down: Follies name (3 letters)
57 Down: "Now ___ seen everything" (3 letters)
58 Down: Chum (3 letters)
59 Down: Thai language (3 letters)
61 Down: U.S. Indians (5 letters)
62 Down: ___ mater (4 letters)
63 Down: Isolated rock (4 letters)
64 Down: Holy object (4 letters)
65 Down: Consolidated (7 letters)
66 Down: Genus of tropical trees (7 letters)
67 Down: In the pink (3 letters)
72 Down: Like wind chimes (6 letters)
74 Down: One of the Stuarts (8 letters)
76 Down: U.S. editor (3 letters)
77 Down: Conditions (3 letters)
78 Down: Relative of inc. (3 letters)
80 Down: Rub out (5 letters)
81 Down: Math branch (4 letters)
82 Down: African skunk (5 letters)
83 Down: Genus of mussels (4 letters)
84 Down: N.Z. tree (4 letters)
85 Down: Ebsen or Hackett (5 letters)
86 Down: Or ___ (4 letters)
87 Down: Rainbow: Prefix (5 letters)
88 Down: Past (4 letters)
89 Down: Song of 1956 (8 letters)
97 Down: Like a peacock (5 letters)
98 Down: Shore (5 letters)
99 Down: Resin: Var. (5 letters)
100 Down: German philosopher (5 letters)
101 Down: Vagrants (6 letters)
102 Down: Lair (7 letters)
103 Down: Mass. town (7 letters)
104 Down: ___ even keel (4 letters)
105 Down: Arizona river (4 letters)
106 Down: Dupe (4 letters)
107 Down: Old oath (4 letters)
108 Down: Young animal (4 letters)
115 Down: ___ out (get by) (3 letters)
116 Down: Neighbor of U.S.A. (3 letters)
117 Down: Indiana humorist (3 letters)
118 Down: Crusader's foe (7 letters)
119 Down: U.S. missile (5 letters)
120 Down: Ethnical (6 letters)
123 Down: Miss Turner (4 letters)
124 Down: Malicious look (4 letters)
125 Down: Nucha (4 letters)
126 Down: Egyptian under wraps (5 letters)
127 Down: Wane (3 letters)
129 Down: Niña and Pinta, e.g. (5 letters)
135 Down: Truce (9 letters)
136 Down: Row (3 letters)
137 Down: State: Abbr. (3 letters)
138 Down: She-bear: Sp. (3 letters)
139 Down: Alts. (3 letters)
140 Down: Hawaiian port (4 letters)
141 Down: S.C. city (9 letters)
142 Down: ___ hands (4 letters)
143 Down: April 19, 1775 (9 letters)
145 Down: Under, to poets (5 letters)
146 Down: Did a laundry job (5 letters)
147 Down: Exclamation (3 letters)
148 Down: Kind of truck (3 letters)
149 Down: Firefly (8 letters)
154 Down: Kind of doll (6 letters)
155 Down: Daughter of Zeus (6 letters)
156 Down: Sounds (6 letters)
157 Down: Part of N.Y.C. (6 letters)
159 Down: Long time (3 letters)
160 Down: Farm implement (3 letters)
163 Down: Enoch or Eve (5 letters)
164 Down: Very cold (5 letters)
165 Down: Brainy (5 letters)
166 Down: Courtier in "Hamlet" (5 letters)
168 Down: Fingerprints, often (5 letters)
170 Down: Just the same (5 letters)
171 Down: Diffident (5 letters)
172 Down: Hautboy (4 letters)
174 Down: Snug (4 letters)
175 Down: Bone: Prefix (4 letters)
176 Down: Sound of surprise (4 letters)
177 Down: Start of a count-out (4 letters)
178 Down: Story-teller (4 letters)
185 Down: Hawaiian staple (3 letters)

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