PLAINS-SPEAKING

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23166 clues~30-60 minBy J. A. Felker1/2/1977

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Across

1 Across: Clean (6 letters)
7 Across: Violently (5 letters)
12 Across: Certain mater (4 letters)
16 Across: Barbecue need (4 letters)
20 Across: Give the cold-shoulder (6 letters)
21 Across: Ship, in Spain (5 letters)
22 Across: On a ___ (carousing) (4 letters)
23 Across: Part of "La Tosca" (5 letters)
24 Across: Connecticut (17 letters)
27 Across: Soviet mountains (5 letters)
28 Across: Infamous marquis (4 letters)
29 Across: More curious (6 letters)
30 Across: Kind of TV audience (4 letters)
31 Across: French painter (6 letters)
32 Across: Turn in a way (5 letters)
33 Across: Studied (5 letters)
34 Across: Good name (6 letters)
35 Across: Miss Lillie et al. (4 letters)
39 Across: Knight of TV (3 letters)
40 Across: Mushroom (4 letters)
41 Across: ___ out (stayed) (5 letters)
42 Across: Merman and Kennedy (6 letters)
44 Across: Slip back (7 letters)
47 Across: Pronto (6 letters)
49 Across: Attack (6 letters)
50 Across: Dreary account (6 letters)
51 Across: Kind of excuse (4 letters)
53 Across: Kind of bag (4 letters)
55 Across: Western gulch (6 letters)
56 Across: Hokkaido port (5 letters)
57 Across: Sick's partner (5 letters)
58 Across: Teen or dog's (3 letters)
59 Across: Auto-race city, for short (4 letters)
60 Across: Certain vote (3 letters)
62 Across: In a while (7 letters)
64 Across: ___ Coeur (5 letters)
66 Across: Corded fabric (3 letters)
67 Across: Ski ___ (4 letters)
68 Across: Thwarts (6 letters)
70 Across: Certain sportsman (5 letters)
71 Across: Follow (5 letters)
73 Across: Decrees (7 letters)
76 Across: Tom (5 letters)
78 Across: John (5 letters)
80 Across: Easy win (6 letters)
82 Across: Northern European (4 letters)
83 Across: Map abbr. (3 letters)
86 Across: Kind of eclipse (5 letters)
87 Across: Lamp owner (7 letters)
90 Across: Suffix for consul or sultan (3 letters)
91 Across: Old alloy (4 letters)
92 Across: Antelope (3 letters)
93 Across: Heat, to Cicero (5 letters)
95 Across: Disagreed loudly (5 letters)
97 Across: Promise (6 letters)
99 Across: Indian flour (4 letters)
101 Across: Kind of house (4 letters)
102 Across: Tropical parrot (6 letters)
103 Across: "___ for Sergeants" (6 letters)
104 Across: Shade of character (6 letters)
106 Across: Irritating (7 letters)
108 Across: Connecting agent (6 letters)
109 Across: Regional bird life (5 letters)
110 Across: Campus org. (4 letters)
111 Across: High, in music (3 letters)
113 Across: Rhode Island denizens (4 letters)
114 Across: Penny ___ (6 letters)
116 Across: Location (5 letters)
118 Across: Spanish paintings (5 letters)
120 Across: Did a sewing job (6 letters)
121 Across: Waste allowance (4 letters)
122 Across: Keep after school (6 letters)
123 Across: Malarial ailment (4 letters)
127 Across: Semblance (5 letters)
128 Across: The works (17 letters)
131 Across: Tore around (5 letters)
132 Across: Skirt style (4 letters)
133 Across: Court decree (5 letters)
134 Across: Songbird (6 letters)
135 Across: Fraternal people (4 letters)
136 Across: Voices (4 letters)
137 Across: Forward (5 letters)
138 Across: Leash, in Paris (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Dim and half (4 letters)
2 Down: Turkish title (4 letters)
3 Down: Trim, in Scotland (4 letters)
4 Down: Actress Lange (4 letters)
5 Down: Actress Mary (3 letters)
6 Down: Insulting words (12 letters)
7 Down: Treated badly (6 letters)
8 Down: Before midi (5 letters)
9 Down: Like a payroll guard (5 letters)
10 Down: Baked-goods worker (4 letters)
11 Down: Drink (3 letters)
12 Down: Clothes (7 letters)
13 Down: Decamp (5 letters)
14 Down: Joined (5 letters)
15 Down: Common verb (3 letters)
16 Down: Working on dirty pans (8 letters)
17 Down: Christmas favorite (18 letters)
18 Down: Narrow waterway (5 letters)
19 Down: Experience (5 letters)
23 Down: " . . . lamb was ___ go" (6 letters)
25 Down: Relative of nah (4 letters)
26 Down: Joe, sometimes (6 letters)
31 Down: Jarred (6 letters)
33 Down: Nitty-gritty (15 letters)
35 Down: Area of L.A. (6 letters)
36 Down: Always, to poets (6 letters)
37 Down: Tough problem (18 letters)
38 Down: Indian soldier (5 letters)
40 Down: Barton (5 letters)
41 Down: "___ Time, Next Year" (4 letters)
43 Down: Minstrel's offering (3 letters)
44 Down: Music abbr. (3 letters)
45 Down: Relative of etc. (4 letters)
46 Down: T.S. and family (6 letters)
48 Down: Tidal flood (5 letters)
50 Down: Kind of leader (4 letters)
52 Down: English composer (4 letters)
54 Down: Drink (4 letters)
57 Down: Triplet (4 letters)
61 Down: Sheep (4 letters)
63 Down: Roof ornament (3 letters)
64 Down: Lollipop or Pinafore (4 letters)
65 Down: Biblical spring (3 letters)
67 Down: Peter or Ivan (4 letters)
69 Down: Quarrel (4 letters)
72 Down: New Deal org. (3 letters)
73 Down: Tea (6 letters)
74 Down: Jungle noise (4 letters)
75 Down: Achieved (3 letters)
77 Down: In ___ (succinct) (12 letters)
78 Down: Miss Korbut (4 letters)
79 Down: Leigh and Marsha (5 letters)
81 Down: Sound (4 letters)
82 Down: Put on cargo (4 letters)
84 Down: Designated (6 letters)
85 Down: Arabian rulers (6 letters)
88 Down: Column order (5 letters)
89 Down: Certain word (4 letters)
91 Down: Active (5 letters)
93 Down: Cheated on an exam (6 letters)
94 Down: Planet inhabitants (4 letters)
96 Down: Work unit (3 letters)
98 Down: Family member (3 letters)
100 Down: Classifies (8 letters)
102 Down: Hard hits (6 letters)
105 Down: Verily (6 letters)
107 Down: Moon goddess (7 letters)
111 Down: Big Dipper star (6 letters)
112 Down: Speech trouble (4 letters)
114 Down: C'est ___ (5 letters)
115 Down: Of a branch (5 letters)
116 Down: Groove (5 letters)
117 Down: Literary form (5 letters)
118 Down: Barbizon painter (5 letters)
119 Down: Poker moves (5 letters)
122 Down: Cat or motor sound (4 letters)
123 Down: Roman years (4 letters)
124 Down: Revs the engine (4 letters)
125 Down: U.S. Indians (4 letters)
126 Down: Italian family (4 letters)
128 Down: Some radio stations (3 letters)
129 Down: Idiot (3 letters)
130 Down: Org. for Saarinen (3 letters)

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