BULLET-BITING TIME

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23168 clues~30-60 minBy Jay Spry3/27/1977

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Across

1 Across: Partly open (4 letters)
5 Across: Pavlov (4 letters)
9 Across: Chooses (4 letters)
13 Across: Solitaire wastepile (5 letters)
18 Across: Hand-dyed fabric (5 letters)
20 Across: Style (4 letters)
21 Across: Air Force unit (5 letters)
22 Across: Type of type (5 letters)
23 Across: Start of a quotation (23 letters)
27 Across: Brouhaha (3 letters)
28 Across: Ferber and others (5 letters)
29 Across: Catches sight of (5 letters)
30 Across: Female rabbit (3 letters)
31 Across: Author Deighton (3 letters)
32 Across: Sunder (4 letters)
34 Across: Hodges (3 letters)
35 Across: Tarbell (3 letters)
36 Across: Record (5 letters)
38 Across: Creeping S. A. plant (6 letters)
41 Across: Concerning (5 letters)
43 Across: City in Italy (4 letters)
44 Across: Delight (6 letters)
46 Across: Tax people (9 letters)
49 Across: Obstacles (5 letters)
53 Across: Kipling subject (5 letters)
54 Across: No-man (4 letters)
55 Across: Links area (3 letters)
56 Across: Notice (4 letters)
57 Across: Spatiates (5 letters)
58 Across: Lofty (6 letters)
60 Across: Transferable pictures (6 letters)
63 Across: Quotation: Part II (3 letters)
64 Across: In the crib (4 letters)
65 Across: Half note (5 letters)
66 Across: Took place (5 letters)
68 Across: Ring around a lagoon (5 letters)
70 Across: Lone Eagle's monogram (3 letters)
71 Across: Stewed (5 letters)
72 Across: E.R.A. or R.B.I. (4 letters)
73 Across: Lampoon (6 letters)
75 Across: Quotation: Part III (23 letters)
81 Across: Liz of TV newscasting (6 letters)
82 Across: Overhanging edge (4 letters)
83 Across: Mother of Aphrodite (5 letters)
84 Across: Noun suffix (3 letters)
85 Across: Pit (5 letters)
86 Across: Rich cake (5 letters)
88 Across: French ___ (5 letters)
89 Across: To-do (4 letters)
90 Across: Quotation: Part IV (3 letters)
91 Across: Empties (6 letters)
93 Across: Author of "Tristram Shandy" (6 letters)
95 Across: Tamerlane was one (5 letters)
96 Across: Alert (4 letters)
98 Across: Mystery-story pioneer (3 letters)
99 Across: Yalies (4 letters)
100 Across: Distaff Astaire (5 letters)
101 Across: Goose genus (5 letters)
103 Across: Consider (9 letters)
107 Across: Hindu ascetics (6 letters)
109 Across: N.Y. team (4 letters)
111 Across: Hebrew measures (5 letters)
112 Across: Fierce looks (6 letters)
114 Across: Push (5 letters)
116 Across: Call ___ day (3 letters)
117 Across: In the style of (3 letters)
118 Across: Pack pipe tobacco (4 letters)
122 Across: W.W. II theater (3 letters)
123 Across: Epoch (3 letters)
125 Across: Kind of case (5 letters)
127 Across: Orange or Indian (5 letters)
129 Across: Call of the riled (3 letters)
130 Across: End of quotation (23 letters)
135 Across: Welcome (5 letters)
136 Across: Doll up (5 letters)
137 Across: Low-lying tract (4 letters)
138 Across: Slipknot (5 letters)
139 Across: Outcries (5 letters)
140 Across: Kernel (4 letters)
141 Across: Trudge (4 letters)
142 Across: Miseries (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Home (5 letters)
2 Down: Argonaut (5 letters)
3 Down: A.B.A. member (3 letters)
4 Down: Full-blown (4 letters)
5 Down: Lion's prey (6 letters)
6 Down: Tennesseans (4 letters)
7 Down: Fruit punch (3 letters)
8 Down: Word (4 letters)
9 Down: City near Paris (7 letters)
10 Down: Bolls (4 letters)
11 Down: Decrepit boat (3 letters)
12 Down: Rushed (4 letters)
13 Down: Abilities (7 letters)
14 Down: Begum's spouse (3 letters)
15 Down: Soup scoop (5 letters)
16 Down: Dark-brown fur (5 letters)
17 Down: Inert gas (4 letters)
19 Down: Small anchors (6 letters)
21 Down: Cicerones (6 letters)
23 Down: Damage (3 letters)
24 Down: "Cinched" (5 letters)
25 Down: Reckon (5 letters)
26 Down: Leaves (4 letters)
33 Down: Bantingized (6 letters)
37 Down: Containers (4 letters)
39 Down: Base on balls (4 letters)
40 Down: Voltaire novel (7 letters)
41 Down: Where Laos is (4 letters)
42 Down: Roomy handbags (5 letters)
43 Down: Bewildered (4 letters)
44 Down: Pompous official (6 letters)
45 Down: Billets-doux (11 letters)
47 Down: Hold back (4 letters)
48 Down: Hard times (10 letters)
50 Down: Fruit-based spread (11 letters)
51 Down: Aim (4 letters)
52 Down: Pen (3 letters)
53 Down: Dogwood petal (5 letters)
54 Down: Event re Texas: 1845 (10 letters)
58 Down: Strive for (5 letters)
59 Down: Aborigines (7 letters)
60 Down: Biblical verb (4 letters)
61 Down: Most South Americans (6 letters)
62 Down: Fence crossing (5 letters)
65 Down: Grumble (6 letters)
67 Down: Deserve (4 letters)
69 Down: Pay dirt (3 letters)
71 Down: Palm leaf (5 letters)
72 Down: Bat a gnat (4 letters)
74 Down: Romeo's emotion (5 letters)
76 Down: Revenue agent: Abbr. (3 letters)
77 Down: Sun. lectures (4 letters)
78 Down: Worshipful (7 letters)
79 Down: Asian wild sheep (6 letters)
80 Down: Zola's "La ___" (5 letters)
85 Down: Thai language (4 letters)
87 Down: ___ a customer (5 letters)
88 Down: Cold-cuts store (4 letters)
89 Down: Cruel one (6 letters)
90 Down: A pair, in Ayr (3 letters)
92 Down: Mimics (4 letters)
94 Down: British meals (4 letters)
95 Down: Require (4 letters)
97 Down: Captain of the Nautilus (4 letters)
102 Down: Goes back (7 letters)
104 Down: Gave off (7 letters)
105 Down: Keep (6 letters)
106 Down: Teach (5 letters)
107 Down: Ballads (5 letters)
108 Down: Part of Spain (6 letters)
110 Down: Sea swallow (4 letters)
113 Down: Stood the gaff (6 letters)
114 Down: Accumulation (5 letters)
115 Down: Uncle Tom's cabin (5 letters)
119 Down: Humble (5 letters)
120 Down: Asch book (5 letters)
121 Down: Cry of contempt (3 letters)
122 Down: Like floating islands (4 letters)
124 Down: Watts' kin (4 letters)
125 Down: Koko's weapon (4 letters)
126 Down: Society tag line (4 letters)
127 Down: European capital (4 letters)
128 Down: " . . . were Paradise ___!" (4 letters)
131 Down: Conger (3 letters)
132 Down: Sonneteer's word (3 letters)
133 Down: Adjective suffix (3 letters)
134 Down: Dovecote sound (3 letters)

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