SCRAMBLING AROUND

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23172 clues~30-60 minBy Frances Hansen4/10/1977

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Across

1 Across: Artistic fra (5 letters)
6 Across: Grasshopper hatcheries (5 letters)
11 Across: Tooth (5 letters)
16 Across: Kind of soup (5 letters)
21 Across: Bradley and Sharif (5 letters)
22 Across: Tripoli's land (5 letters)
23 Across: "Do ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot (5 letters)
24 Across: Grab (5 letters)
25 Across: Playful animal (5 letters)
26 Across: Swords (5 letters)
27 Across: Sweet, hot drink (5 letters)
28 Across: Hanged Biblical prince (5 letters)
29 Across: Traditional White House event (23 letters)
33 Across: Trumpet call (6 letters)
34 Across: Skid-row affliction (3 letters)
35 Across: Shea team (4 letters)
36 Across: Lower Loch ___ (3 letters)
37 Across: Pronounce (3 letters)
38 Across: Spill over (4 letters)
40 Across: Ruse (4 letters)
41 Across: Farmer's place (4 letters)
43 Across: Little white lie (3 letters)
46 Across: Long-stemmed (3 letters)
48 Across: Russian sea (4 letters)
49 Across: 68 Across, slangily (3 letters)
51 Across: Unbalanced (4 letters)
55 Across: A hen, to Samuel Butler (23 letters)
62 Across: Sudden gush (5 letters)
63 Across: Schnozzle (5 letters)
64 Across: Comparative suffix (3 letters)
65 Across: "Bye, Bye, ___" (6 letters)
66 Across: Small tower (6 letters)
68 Across: "___ me, sir!" (6 letters)
71 Across: Op. ___ (3 letters)
72 Across: Supreme Being (3 letters)
73 Across: Part of Mao's name (3 letters)
74 Across: Stravinsky (4 letters)
77 Across: Theater district (6 letters)
80 Across: Choir assent (4 letters)
82 Across: Variety headline: 1929 (17 letters)
87 Across: Tan shades: Abbr. (4 letters)
89 Across: U.N. name (6 letters)
90 Across: Curb (4 letters)
91 Across: Cruise port (3 letters)
94 Across: Grand ___ (3 letters)
95 Across: Asian holiday (3 letters)
97 Across: Weak (6 letters)
100 Across: Flaky treats (6 letters)
103 Across: Goddess for whom Easter was named (6 letters)
105 Across: High, in music (3 letters)
107 Across: Urged (5 letters)
110 Across: Give ___ berth to (shun) (5 letters)
111 Across: A rash Easter Bunny does it (23 letters)
116 Across: Draft status (4 letters)
117 Across: H.M. Pulham, e.g. (3 letters)
118 Across: ___ time (never) (4 letters)
119 Across: Eggs for Lucullus (3 letters)
120 Across: Time period (3 letters)
121 Across: Hindu music (4 letters)
124 Across: Hosiery mishap (4 letters)
125 Across: Besides (4 letters)
128 Across: 24 ___ week (poor diet) (3 letters)
131 Across: Morsel (3 letters)
132 Across: Historic Italian town (4 letters)
133 Across: Wea. index (3 letters)
136 Across: Easter ___ (6 letters)
140 Across: Is an intellectual artistic? (23 letters)
145 Across: Practical (5 letters)
146 Across: Nine: Prefix (5 letters)
147 Across: Pneumonia type (5 letters)
148 Across: Songs (5 letters)
149 Across: ___ in one's beer (enriches) (5 letters)
150 Across: Mudd (5 letters)
151 Across: Puttee (5 letters)
152 Across: Rainy-day reserve (5 letters)
153 Across: Tiffs (5 letters)
154 Across: Used a broom (5 letters)
155 Across: Kind of path (5 letters)
156 Across: J.Q. Adams biographer (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Pillages (5 letters)
2 Down: "___ greatest!": Ali (5 letters)
3 Down: Eucharist plate (5 letters)
4 Down: Dolls up (6 letters)
5 Down: Where Acre is (6 letters)
6 Down: Small Easter find (4 letters)
7 Down: Two-footed (5 letters)
8 Down: German President: 1919–1925 (5 letters)
9 Down: Do an Easter fun-job (5 letters)
10 Down: Obi (4 letters)
11 Down: Liza, with a Z (8 letters)
12 Down: "Swan Lake" role (6 letters)
13 Down: Nigerian capital (5 letters)
14 Down: ___ for one's money (4 letters)
15 Down: Lay atop (8 letters)
16 Down: Pale color (6 letters)
17 Down: Allot (4 letters)
18 Down: Spanish rhymes (5 letters)
19 Down: Conductor Seiji (5 letters)
20 Down: Coin (5 letters)
30 Down: Pompeia's robe (5 letters)
31 Down: Eskimo boat (5 letters)
32 Down: Hurry (3 letters)
39 Down: Fleming and Lee (4 letters)
40 Down: High dudgeon (5 letters)
42 Down: Actor Bert (4 letters)
43 Down: Lenten duty (4 letters)
44 Down: Computer data (5 letters)
45 Down: "The ___ Opera" (5 letters)
47 Down: Hither's partner (3 letters)
48 Down: Sun-god Ra (4 letters)
49 Down: Big, for short (3 letters)
50 Down: Actress Samantha (3 letters)
52 Down: Shelf (5 letters)
53 Down: Heavenly Hunter (5 letters)
54 Down: Let fly (4 letters)
56 Down: Scattered (6 letters)
57 Down: Like Willie Winkie (3 letters)
58 Down: Last quarter (6 letters)
59 Down: Of nests (5 letters)
60 Down: Sash (3 letters)
61 Down: Giant (5 letters)
67 Down: Sesame (3 letters)
69 Down: Mountain ridge (5 letters)
70 Down: Kind of wit or pick (3 letters)
71 Down: "___ fan tutte" (4 letters)
75 Down: Satiate (4 letters)
76 Down: Kiln: Var. (3 letters)
78 Down: Rio Grande city (6 letters)
79 Down: Ship rope (3 letters)
81 Down: With 93 Down, development in "Little Men" (6 letters)
83 Down: "Ad ___ . . . " (5 letters)
84 Down: Oodles (5 letters)
85 Down: Compass point (3 letters)
86 Down: " . . . eating ___ without salt": Kipling (3 letters)
87 Down: Columnist Heywood (5 letters)
88 Down: Remainder: Fr. (5 letters)
92 Down: "___ Ike" (5 letters)
93 Down: See 81 Down (5 letters)
94 Down: Melon (4 letters)
96 Down: Slippery one (3 letters)
98 Down: Mendicant's line (5 letters)
99 Down: Gauze weave (4 letters)
101 Down: British cultural inst. (3 letters)
102 Down: Bristle (4 letters)
104 Down: Ruler (4 letters)
105 Down: Gasps of delight (3 letters)
106 Down: Rye or rum: Abbr. (3 letters)
108 Down: Yoko (3 letters)
109 Down: Granular snow (4 letters)
112 Down: Doeskin, cowhide, etc. (8 letters)
113 Down: Ovolo design (8 letters)
114 Down: Flight of steps (5 letters)
115 Down: Life raft (5 letters)
122 Down: Super-duper Easter finds (6 letters)
123 Down: Shorthand inventor (3 letters)
124 Down: " . . . not ___ as a well" (6 letters)
126 Down: Suffragist Anthony (6 letters)
127 Down: Main course (6 letters)
128 Down: Certain containers (5 letters)
129 Down: Showed surprise (5 letters)
130 Down: Loos (5 letters)
132 Down: Actress Hope (5 letters)
133 Down: Menu offering (5 letters)
134 Down: Nun's usual garb (5 letters)
135 Down: Silly (5 letters)
137 Down: Paine's doctrine (5 letters)
138 Down: Hindu lamp rite (5 letters)
139 Down: Safecracker's omelet (5 letters)
141 Down: Norwegian fjord (4 letters)
142 Down: Poet's "enough" (4 letters)
143 Down: Isomeric (4 letters)
144 Down: Therefore (4 letters)

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