VARIATIONS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23172 clues~30-60 minBy Jordan S. Lasher1/16/1977

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Across

1 Across: Dry up, as lips (4 letters)
5 Across: Goon (4 letters)
9 Across: Cantor and Lupino (4 letters)
13 Across: "If ___ be so bold" (4 letters)
17 Across: Very gentle treatment: Abbr. (3 letters)
20 Across: Louvre name (4 letters)
21 Across: Columnist Barrett (4 letters)
22 Across: Night: Prefix (4 letters)
23 Across: Louvre name (4 letters)
24 Across: "I told you so!" (3 letters)
25 Across: Always (4 letters)
26 Across: Handy Latin abbr. (4 letters)
27 Across: Pear-shaped instrument (4 letters)
28 Across: Frenziedly (4 letters)
29 Across: Period (3 letters)
30 Across: Egret plumes, e.g. (15 letters)
34 Across: River to the North Sea (3 letters)
35 Across: Between res and fas (3 letters)
36 Across: Holy Roman emperor (4 letters)
37 Across: Vance of mystery (5 letters)
38 Across: Prefix for bus (4 letters)
40 Across: Movie group (4 letters)
41 Across: Shoe-repair item (8 letters)
45 Across: Port of Yemen (4 letters)
46 Across: Jot down (4 letters)
47 Across: Cockney charger (4 letters)
48 Across: Entity (4 letters)
49 Across: Of the previous month: Abbr. (3 letters)
50 Across: Matador (6 letters)
52 Across: Highway to Fairbanks (5 letters)
53 Across: Uses a tub (6 letters)
55 Across: Pilgrimage to Mecca (4 letters)
59 Across: Live off the ___ the land (5 letters)
60 Across: Cry of contempt (3 letters)
61 Across: Corporate V.I.P. (4 letters)
63 Across: Sweet coin? (3 letters)
64 Across: One less than a crowd (3 letters)
65 Across: Reign of ___ (6 letters)
68 Across: Toward the stern (5 letters)
71 Across: Collected (with "in") (5 letters)
73 Across: Wastelands (6 letters)
75 Across: Two ___ kind (3 letters)
76 Across: Polynesian canoe (4 letters)
77 Across: Tandem (4 letters)
78 Across: Restless one (4 letters)
80 Across: In medias ___ (3 letters)
81 Across: Bulls or Bullets (4 letters)
83 Across: Slopes transport (4 letters)
84 Across: Surrounded by (4 letters)
85 Across: Certain head of hair (3 letters)
86 Across: Space agcy. (4 letters)
87 Across: Take ___ at (gibe) (4 letters)
88 Across: Seven deadly items (4 letters)
89 Across: Seine or trawl (3 letters)
90 Across: Prefix for sphere (4 letters)
91 Across: Catch sight of (4 letters)
92 Across: Me., N.H., R.I., etc. (4 letters)
93 Across: N.Y. time (3 letters)
94 Across: Enemy (6 letters)
96 Across: Statesman Root (5 letters)
98 Across: Intrusive (5 letters)
99 Across: Swindle (6 letters)
101 Across: Maximal ending (3 letters)
102 Across: Machine part (3 letters)
103 Across: Speak irrationally (4 letters)
105 Across: "No-No" girl, for short (3 letters)
106 Across: Jay Silverheels role (5 letters)
108 Across: She pined for Narcissus (4 letters)
110 Across: Observed (6 letters)
114 Across: Player under a dome (5 letters)
116 Across: ___ the press (6 letters)
118 Across: G.I. address (3 letters)
120 Across: Charles Lamb (4 letters)
121 Across: Thai money (4 letters)
122 Across: Military headwear (4 letters)
123 Across: Cupid (4 letters)
126 Across: Precursor (8 letters)
128 Across: Nobel chemist (4 letters)
129 Across: He: It. (4 letters)
130 Across: ___-car (5 letters)
132 Across: Egyptian god (4 letters)
133 Across: Day of worship: Abbr. (3 letters)
134 Across: Jiff (3 letters)
135 Across: Tennis shortcoming (15 letters)
141 Across: "___ on parle . . . " (3 letters)
142 Across: Besought (4 letters)
144 Across: Town near Milan (4 letters)
145 Across: Pelée output (4 letters)
146 Across: Debauchee (4 letters)
147 Across: Poetry: Abbr. (3 letters)
148 Across: Counting-out word (4 letters)
149 Across: Sometime gym dance (4 letters)
150 Across: World oil assn. (4 letters)
151 Across: Actress Loretta (4 letters)
152 Across: Culminate (3 letters)
153 Across: Canadian Indian (4 letters)
154 Across: J.D. Salinger girl (4 letters)
155 Across: Withered (4 letters)
156 Across: Breaks bread (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Treble or bass (4 letters)
2 Down: Drone's home (4 letters)
3 Down: " . . . against ___ of troubles" (4 letters)
4 Down: One at an early bash in Eden (19 letters)
5 Down: Child's retreat (9 letters)
6 Down: Breakfast fare (7 letters)
7 Down: Merkel et al. (4 letters)
8 Down: Lively dance (5 letters)
9 Down: Like some fillings (6 letters)
10 Down: Pair (7 letters)
11 Down: Pawn to king four, e.g. (16 letters)
12 Down: Suffix with mob or gang (4 letters)
13 Down: Hogg (3 letters)
14 Down: Painful instant for Trigger (15 letters)
15 Down: State of lawlessness (6 letters)
16 Down: Gabs away (4 letters)
17 Down: Demonstration staged by food fish (14 letters)
18 Down: City of Thessaly (7 letters)
19 Down: Discipline (7 letters)
31 Down: Alts. (3 letters)
32 Down: Building agcy. (3 letters)
33 Down: ___ turn (just right) (7 letters)
39 Down: P.I. native (4 letters)
40 Down: Dark brown, to a chestnut (19 letters)
41 Down: Boston (3 letters)
42 Down: Santa ___ (3 letters)
43 Down: Illuminated (3 letters)
44 Down: Ordinal suffix (3 letters)
51 Down: Not as experienced (5 letters)
52 Down: Spring mo. (3 letters)
54 Down: Second phone: Abbr. (3 letters)
56 Down: Interrogated (5 letters)
57 Down: DiMaggio (3 letters)
58 Down: Official scorer's job (16 letters)
62 Down: Duncan's murder ("Macbeth": II, i) (15 letters)
66 Down: Piece of writing (5 letters)
67 Down: Gulch (6 letters)
68 Down: Rental units: Abbr. (4 letters)
69 Down: More diminutive (6 letters)
70 Down: Turkey-stuffing situation (14 letters)
72 Down: "Go fly ___!" (5 letters)
74 Down: Dime-novel stuff (5 letters)
77 Down: Alberta resort (5 letters)
79 Down: ___ Paul Kruger (3 letters)
82 Down: Yolky (4 letters)
86 Down: Stable talk (5 letters)
90 Down: Must (5 letters)
95 Down: Cite (7 letters)
97 Down: ___ cit. (3 letters)
98 Down: Compass reading (3 letters)
100 Down: Yoko ___ (3 letters)
104 Down: 180-degree turn (9 letters)
107 Down: "So sorry!" (4 letters)
109 Down: Awkward one (3 letters)
111 Down: Whitney (3 letters)
112 Down: Prevarication (3 letters)
113 Down: ___ es Salaam (3 letters)
114 Down: Insulting (7 letters)
115 Down: Crusader's foe (7 letters)
117 Down: Fourth of July theme (7 letters)
119 Down: Bakery purchase (7 letters)
122 Down: Wee Willie or Ruby (6 letters)
124 Down: Punctual (6 letters)
125 Down: Erwin (3 letters)
127 Down: Talk it over (3 letters)
131 Down: Guthrie et al. (5 letters)
134 Down: Guesswork, for short (4 letters)
136 Down: Leather flask (4 letters)
137 Down: Scruff (4 letters)
138 Down: Hawkeyes' home (4 letters)
139 Down: After soir (4 letters)
140 Down: Asian holidays (4 letters)
143 Down: Red 1 or Blue 5 (3 letters)

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