CHESS MATCHES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23160 clues~30-60 minBy William Lutwiniak9/25/1977

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Falls short (5 letters)
6 Across: Beguile (5 letters)
11 Across: Dicta (5 letters)
16 Across: Track event (4 letters)
20 Across: Play part (5 letters)
21 Across: Second showing (5 letters)
22 Across: ___ loose (free) (5 letters)
23 Across: Inventor Pliny (5 letters)
24 Across: King (23 letters)
28 Across: Flooring (4 letters)
29 Across: Roman times (5 letters)
30 Across: Buggies (5 letters)
31 Across: Raise a nap on (6 letters)
32 Across: Infiltrator (3 letters)
33 Across: Sautés (5 letters)
34 Across: Swivets (5 letters)
35 Across: Ford, often (6 letters)
36 Across: Then, to Pierre (5 letters)
37 Across: Baba and Pasha (4 letters)
38 Across: Liana (4 letters)
39 Across: Queen (23 letters)
49 Across: ___ extent (partly) (6 letters)
50 Across: Long, long time (4 letters)
51 Across: Steeler coach and family (5 letters)
52 Across: Pointed arch (4 letters)
53 Across: Mescal source (5 letters)
54 Across: "Ah, me!" (5 letters)
56 Across: Famed soprano (5 letters)
57 Across: Tightens, as a drum (5 letters)
58 Across: ___ mater (3 letters)
59 Across: ___ noire (4 letters)
60 Across: Truck part (4 letters)
61 Across: Borrower (6 letters)
62 Across: Bishops (23 letters)
69 Across: Radio-tube workers (5 letters)
70 Across: Cask: Abbr. (3 letters)
71 Across: Livy or Ovid (5 letters)
72 Across: Pawns (23 letters)
82 Across: Musical pieces (6 letters)
83 Across: Followed slavishly (4 letters)
84 Across: Fearing that (4 letters)
85 Across: Wolfert (3 letters)
86 Across: ___ left field (5 letters)
87 Across: The Foul Fiend (5 letters)
89 Across: Gossips (5 letters)
90 Across: Bohr and Borge (5 letters)
92 Across: St. Paul's designer (4 letters)
93 Across: Oca or yam (5 letters)
94 Across: Would-be jr. (4 letters)
95 Across: Whirl (6 letters)
96 Across: Knights (23 letters)
101 Across: Garroway (4 letters)
102 Across: Miami's county (4 letters)
103 Across: Friend of Solomon (5 letters)
104 Across: Giant step (6 letters)
107 Across: Anecdote (5 letters)
109 Across: ___ end to (5 letters)
110 Across: Cpl. or sgt. (3 letters)
113 Across: ___ force (by all means): Fr. (6 letters)
114 Across: Roulette bet (5 letters)
115 Across: Oriente native (5 letters)
116 Across: Artery (4 letters)
117 Across: Castles (23 letters)
121 Across: Warmth (5 letters)
122 Across: Nightclub (5 letters)
123 Across: White Sands' county (5 letters)
124 Across: Horatio (5 letters)
125 Across: Letter opener (4 letters)
126 Across: Selected (5 letters)
127 Across: Could and would (5 letters)
128 Across: City on the Aire (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Data (5 letters)
2 Down: ___ off the old block (5 letters)
3 Down: Where the Adige flows (5 letters)
4 Down: Corso money (4 letters)
5 Down: Part of R.S.V.P. (3 letters)
6 Down: Wardrobe (7 letters)
7 Down: Most spiteful (7 letters)
8 Down: Importunes (5 letters)
9 Down: Basks (4 letters)
10 Down: Chemical ending (3 letters)
11 Down: C.S.A. general (7 letters)
12 Down: Relative (5 letters)
13 Down: Monads (5 letters)
14 Down: As an example (4 letters)
15 Down: Cinque follower (3 letters)
16 Down: Philippine port (5 letters)
17 Down: Originate (5 letters)
18 Down: More guileful (5 letters)
19 Down: Third Reich salute (4 letters)
23 Down: Noted prep school (6 letters)
25 Down: Clothe (6 letters)
26 Down: A science (6 letters)
27 Down: Office help (6 letters)
33 Down: Sweetheart (5 letters)
34 Down: Move furtively (5 letters)
35 Down: Perfume bottles (5 letters)
36 Down: U.S.S.R. town (4 letters)
37 Down: Shore bird (6 letters)
38 Down: Odious (4 letters)
39 Down: Public storehouse (5 letters)
40 Down: Straight thinking (5 letters)
41 Down: Newton (5 letters)
42 Down: Prelims (5 letters)
43 Down: ___ sides (everywhere) (5 letters)
44 Down: Lover (5 letters)
45 Down: Glacial deposit (7 letters)
46 Down: Guam's capital (5 letters)
47 Down: Drive back (5 letters)
48 Down: Concurrences (5 letters)
54 Down: "___ in the hand . . . " (5 letters)
55 Down: Charter (5 letters)
56 Down: Glorify (5 letters)
57 Down: Converging (5 letters)
60 Down: Caustic (5 letters)
61 Down: Flaccid (4 letters)
63 Down: Touchdown (7 letters)
64 Down: Incite (5 letters)
65 Down: Mtg. (4 letters)
66 Down: "Ghosts" creator (5 letters)
67 Down: Cavort (5 letters)
68 Down: Sets of type (5 letters)
72 Down: Believes, of yore (5 letters)
73 Down: Dark-eyed beauty (5 letters)
74 Down: Between: Prefix (5 letters)
75 Down: Eucharistic plate (5 letters)
76 Down: Museum offering (5 letters)
77 Down: Run out (6 letters)
78 Down: City of India (5 letters)
79 Down: Shore (5 letters)
80 Down: Garbo (5 letters)
81 Down: Lightened (5 letters)
87 Down: Smooth-tongued (5 letters)
88 Down: Rose's love (4 letters)
89 Down: Ski-lodge offering (5 letters)
90 Down: Bob or Thomas (5 letters)
91 Down: Ancient Armenia (4 letters)
93 Down: Merchant (6 letters)
94 Down: Caught (6 letters)
95 Down: Rifle (6 letters)
97 Down: Diaskeuast (6 letters)
98 Down: Bedecked (7 letters)
99 Down: Controversy (7 letters)
100 Down: Spanish gypsies (7 letters)
104 Down: Be curious (5 letters)
105 Down: ___ lie (fibbed) (5 letters)
106 Down: Grapevine growth (5 letters)
107 Down: ___ through (persevered) (5 letters)
108 Down: Stereotyped (5 letters)
109 Down: Less polluted (5 letters)
110 Down: Sverige's neighbor (5 letters)
111 Down: Was concerned (5 letters)
112 Down: Incenses (5 letters)
113 Down: In ___ way (ailing) (4 letters)
114 Down: Hoofbeat (4 letters)
115 Down: ___ d'Azur (4 letters)
116 Down: Lead or bit (4 letters)
118 Down: Cameroons tribe (3 letters)
119 Down: Soho coin, for short (3 letters)
120 Down: Bad: Prefix (3 letters)

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