LITERARY CURVES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23162 clues~30-60 minBy Maura B. Jacobson8/1/1976

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Bargain-priced (5 letters)
6 Across: Worshiper's word (4 letters)
10 Across: Wine additive (4 letters)
14 Across: Houston player (5 letters)
19 Across: Celerity (5 letters)
20 Across: Timor city (4 letters)
21 Across: British composer (4 letters)
22 Across: Nassau's island group (6 letters)
24 Across: Rose yield (5 letters)
25 Across: Cordelia's words? (10 letters)
28 Across: ___ show (solo act) (6 letters)
29 Across: Yorick's words? (23 letters)
32 Across: French islands (4 letters)
33 Across: Mao ___-tung (3 letters)
34 Across: Islamic Almighty (5 letters)
35 Across: "Dombey ___" (6 letters)
38 Across: "___ were a rich man" (3 letters)
40 Across: Teheran native (5 letters)
43 Across: Seep (4 letters)
47 Across: Othello's words? (16 letters)
51 Across: Spoils or solar (6 letters)
53 Across: Make a gaffe (3 letters)
54 Across: Quebec city (5 letters)
55 Across: Dropsy (5 letters)
56 Across: Pull together ___ (7 letters)
57 Across: Both: Prefix (4 letters)
59 Across: Iranian coin (4 letters)
60 Across: Stair part (5 letters)
61 Across: Agnes or Cecil (7 letters)
62 Across: Roadbed items (5 letters)
64 Across: Obeisance, Cockney style (5 letters)
66 Across: Dernier ___ (3 letters)
68 Across: Pay-phone feature (4 letters)
69 Across: Tapir feature (5 letters)
71 Across: Lady Macbeth's words? (15 letters)
77 Across: Cruz and Vague (5 letters)
80 Across: Luzon native (5 letters)
81 Across: Untamed (5 letters)
82 Across: Macbeth's words? (15 letters)
87 Across: Sacred: Prefix (5 letters)
90 Across: Optimistic (4 letters)
91 Across: Before therm or bar (3 letters)
92 Across: Kind of melba (5 letters)
95 Across: Bert and family (5 letters)
97 Across: Candid (7 letters)
100 Across: Defendant's out (5 letters)
104 Across: Kind of eye (4 letters)
106 Across: Vex (4 letters)
107 Across: Embryo cells (7 letters)
108 Across: Violinist's aid (5 letters)
109 Across: Pick-me-up (5 letters)
111 Across: Pasture call (3 letters)
112 Across: Lockup (6 letters)
113 Across: Cleopatra's words? (16 letters)
116 Across: Father of Enos (4 letters)
117 Across: I.e. (5 letters)
118 Across: Plus (3 letters)
119 Across: Oakley et al. (6 letters)
120 Across: Domain (5 letters)
123 Across: Duffer's goal (3 letters)
125 Across: Blasting agents (4 letters)
126 Across: Romeo's words? (23 letters)
137 Across: Doze off (6 letters)
138 Across: Richard III's words? (10 letters)
139 Across: Blazing (5 letters)
140 Across: ___'s Wells Ballet (6 letters)
141 Across: Highlander (4 letters)
142 Across: Hokkaido native: Var. (4 letters)
143 Across: Franck or Romero (5 letters)
144 Across: Hopalong and family (5 letters)
145 Across: Inside: Prefix (4 letters)
146 Across: Flemish river (4 letters)
147 Across: Spanish wheat (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Dialogue on a low level (4 letters)
2 Down: "Music ___ charms . . . " (4 letters)
3 Down: Padua's neighbor (4 letters)
4 Down: Throwback (7 letters)
5 Down: Risky (8 letters)
6 Down: Mine inlets (5 letters)
7 Down: "La Bohème" heroine (4 letters)
8 Down: Biblical country (4 letters)
9 Down: Of Cleo's river (7 letters)
10 Down: Mud volcano (5 letters)
11 Down: "Star ___" (4 letters)
12 Down: Two-toed sloth (4 letters)
13 Down: Blackbird (4 letters)
14 Down: Bubbling (5 letters)
15 Down: ___ song (caroled) (5 letters)
16 Down: Hamlet's words? (15 letters)
17 Down: Oar: Fr. (4 letters)
18 Down: Sharif (4 letters)
23 Down: Not ___ (none) (3 letters)
26 Down: Baseball positions: Abbr. (3 letters)
27 Down: Medium for Ade (5 letters)
30 Down: Morals arbiter (6 letters)
31 Down: Caesar's 551 (3 letters)
35 Down: ___ and a day (5 letters)
36 Down: Shearer and Talmadge (6 letters)
37 Down: Deanna (6 letters)
38 Down: Shaped girder (5 letters)
39 Down: Egyptian peasant (6 letters)
40 Down: D.D.E. et al. (4 letters)
41 Down: Hoarfrost (4 letters)
42 Down: Rebel (6 letters)
44 Down: Verdi opera (6 letters)
45 Down: Enthusiast (6 letters)
46 Down: Ants (6 letters)
48 Down: Threesome (4 letters)
49 Down: Nonconformist (7 letters)
50 Down: I hate: Lat. (3 letters)
51 Down: Vane reading (3 letters)
52 Down: Tuber (3 letters)
56 Down: Verona's river (5 letters)
58 Down: Kate's words? (15 letters)
63 Down: De Lesseps's canal (4 letters)
65 Down: Scoff at (4 letters)
67 Down: Moroccan range (3 letters)
70 Down: Before pod or angle (3 letters)
72 Down: Boxing decision (3 letters)
73 Down: Kind of mad (7 letters)
74 Down: Otherwise (4 letters)
75 Down: Buckingham initials (3 letters)
76 Down: Mizzen or jib (4 letters)
78 Down: "There is ___ in the affairs . . . " (5 letters)
79 Down: Blvds. (3 letters)
82 Down: Explosive sounds (6 letters)
83 Down: Balzac (6 letters)
84 Down: ___ de corps (6 letters)
85 Down: Laryngitic (6 letters)
86 Down: City on the Delaware (6 letters)
88 Down: Geometric figures (6 letters)
89 Down: A.L. player (6 letters)
93 Down: What Sullivan lost (5 letters)
94 Down: Poet Leigh (4 letters)
96 Down: Wild plums (5 letters)
98 Down: Road sign (3 letters)
99 Down: Belonging to: Suffix (3 letters)
101 Down: Trims off (4 letters)
102 Down: "What time ___?" (4 letters)
103 Down: Repository (3 letters)
105 Down: Albanian city (6 letters)
110 Down: Declarer's goal, at bridge (8 letters)
113 Down: Let in (5 letters)
114 Down: Remote (7 letters)
115 Down: More risky (7 letters)
117 Down: U.N. group (3 letters)
121 Down: Relieved (5 letters)
122 Down: Mimics (5 letters)
123 Down: Pope's name, in Rome (5 letters)
124 Down: Landon (3 letters)
125 Down: "___ coffee?" (5 letters)
126 Down: G.P.'s (3 letters)
127 Down: Part of U.A.R. (4 letters)
128 Down: Extinct bird (4 letters)
129 Down: Wise one (4 letters)
130 Down: Pearl Buck heroine (4 letters)
131 Down: Requisite (4 letters)
132 Down: After upsilons (4 letters)
133 Down: Corn bread (4 letters)
134 Down: Not final, in law (4 letters)
135 Down: Rocky eminence (4 letters)
136 Down: Saarinen (4 letters)

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