COUNTERPOINT

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Jay Spry7/24/1977

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Conservatives (5 letters)
6 Across: Liberals (4 letters)
10 Across: ___ de Calais (3 letters)
13 Across: Tin Pan Alley acronym (5 letters)
18 Across: Originated (5 letters)
19 Across: Groundless (4 letters)
20 Across: Nimbus (4 letters)
21 Across: Magna ___ (5 letters)
22 Across: Discord (10 letters)
24 Across: Concord (10 letters)
26 Across: Chemical suffix (3 letters)
27 Across: Feminine endings (5 letters)
28 Across: She (6 letters)
29 Across: He (3 letters)
30 Across: Vassal (4 letters)
32 Across: Cheers (4 letters)
33 Across: Roman's victim: 290 B.C. (6 letters)
34 Across: Simple (4 letters)
35 Across: Like some paper (5 letters)
37 Across: Moves (5 letters)
38 Across: W.W. II theater (3 letters)
40 Across: Exploits (5 letters)
42 Across: Raced (4 letters)
43 Across: Jong (5 letters)
47 Across: Color (5 letters)
48 Across: Inveighed (6 letters)
50 Across: Plumbers' cables (6 letters)
51 Across: Unyielding (11 letters)
54 Across: Yielding readily (9 letters)
57 Across: Legal claim (4 letters)
58 Across: Exercises (6 letters)
59 Across: Furthers (5 letters)
60 Across: Drug (3 letters)
61 Across: Nets (6 letters)
62 Across: Maledictions (6 letters)
64 Across: Group under a col. (3 letters)
67 Across: Rare violin (5 letters)
68 Across: Sex (6 letters)
69 Across: Function (4 letters)
70 Across: Very active (9 letters)
74 Across: Very inactive (11 letters)
76 Across: Warns (6 letters)
77 Across: T.A.E. (6 letters)
79 Across: Is bested or worsted (5 letters)
80 Across: Determine (5 letters)
81 Across: Rock: Comb. form (4 letters)
82 Across: Vulgar; cheap (5 letters)
83 Across: Faulty: Prefix (3 letters)
85 Across: "King Olaf" composer (5 letters)
86 Across: Penitent's emotion (5 letters)
88 Across: Gay deceiver (4 letters)
91 Across: Wheel on a tea wagon (6 letters)
93 Across: High spot (4 letters)
94 Across: Low spot (4 letters)
98 Across: Bambi's cousin (3 letters)
99 Across: Gaucho's milieu (6 letters)
100 Across: Thick (5 letters)
101 Across: Wire measure (3 letters)
102 Across: Flimsy (10 letters)
104 Across: Far from flimsy (10 letters)
107 Across: Galahad's gear (5 letters)
108 Across: Notices (4 letters)
109 Across: Pulitzer Prize novelst (4 letters)
110 Across: Great quantity (5 letters)
111 Across: Target in horseshoes (5 letters)
112 Across: McMahon and Muskie (3 letters)
113 Across: Not so much (4 letters)
114 Across: Spanish playwright (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Events at Belmont (5 letters)
2 Down: Perfume ingredient (5 letters)
3 Down: Dead duck (5 letters)
4 Down: Winner over T.E.D. (3 letters)
5 Down: Pipe joint (3 letters)
6 Down: Chicken ___ (6 letters)
7 Down: Revised (6 letters)
8 Down: Ice masses (5 letters)
9 Down: Bills (4 letters)
10 Down: Certain cattle or canines (9 letters)
11 Down: Musketeer (6 letters)
12 Down: "Paradise Lost" character (5 letters)
13 Down: Israeli port (4 letters)
14 Down: ___ Mateo, Calif. (3 letters)
15 Down: Arson is one (5 letters)
16 Down: Rose essence (5 letters)
17 Down: "Home, Sweet Home" author (5 letters)
20 Down: Balzac's "Une Ténébreuse ___" (7 letters)
23 Down: Night sights (5 letters)
25 Down: Robert ___ (4 letters)
31 Down: Bottle for wine (6 letters)
33 Down: Wraps (6 letters)
34 Down: Ethics (6 letters)
36 Down: Detail (4 letters)
37 Down: Photographs of a sort (6 letters)
39 Down: Beliefs (6 letters)
40 Down: Last word (5 letters)
41 Down: Over (5 letters)
44 Down: D.D.E. (3 letters)
45 Down: These, in Tours (3 letters)
46 Down: Dunderhead (3 letters)
47 Down: Cultivate (4 letters)
48 Down: "The ___ Spain . . . " (6 letters)
49 Down: Competent (4 letters)
50 Down: Shows scorn (6 letters)
52 Down: High aims (6 letters)
53 Down: Banal (5 letters)
55 Down: Forgive (6 letters)
56 Down: Hedda Gabler's creator (5 letters)
61 Down: Off-color (6 letters)
62 Down: Thurible (6 letters)
63 Down: Remarkable: Scot. (4 letters)
64 Down: Chanticleer's realm (5 letters)
65 Down: Like stickum (5 letters)
66 Down: Bride of Angel Clare (4 letters)
67 Down: Sandpaper (6 letters)
68 Down: Segovia's instrument (6 letters)
69 Down: Created a rowdydow (6 letters)
70 Down: Baseball putout (3 letters)
71 Down: Diminutive suffix (3 letters)
72 Down: Soak (3 letters)
73 Down: Informers (9 letters)
75 Down: Noninformer (4 letters)
78 Down: Summarizes (7 letters)
82 Down: ___ powder (decamp) (5 letters)
84 Down: Strikebreaker (4 letters)
85 Down: Caught sight of (6 letters)
86 Down: Perceives (6 letters)
87 Down: Chops to pieces (6 letters)
88 Down: Indian princes (5 letters)
89 Down: Ward off (5 letters)
90 Down: Fate (5 letters)
92 Down: Divert (5 letters)
93 Down: Part of Greater London (5 letters)
95 Down: Spotlight color (5 letters)
96 Down: Popular scent (5 letters)
97 Down: Gluck's "Paride ed ___" (5 letters)
99 Down: Combustible heap (4 letters)
100 Down: Twofold (4 letters)
103 Down: Seoul soldier (3 letters)
105 Down: ___ Nidre, Hebrew prayer (3 letters)
106 Down: French explorer (3 letters)

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