AS THE ROMANS DID

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23172 clues~30-60 minBy Anthony B. Canning11/20/1977

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Across

1 Across: Farewells in No. L (6 letters)
7 Across: Start of a Wolfe title (6 letters)
13 Across: Smoked salmon (3 letters)
16 Across: Insignificant one (5 letters)
21 Across: Yacht basin (6 letters)
22 Across: Ciudad for Castro (6 letters)
23 Across: Amin (3 letters)
24 Across: A thing found (5 letters)
25 Across: X-rated language (13 letters)
27 Across: Revolver (9 letters)
29 Across: X follower (3 letters)
30 Across: Veil (6 letters)
31 Across: Prone (to) (5 letters)
33 Across: Clinic apprentice (6 letters)
34 Across: Stag's mate (4 letters)
35 Across: Scheherazade's forte (5 letters)
36 Across: Listener's phrase (4 letters)
37 Across: Girl of song (3 letters)
40 Across: Xth: Prefix (4 letters)
41 Across: Release (4 letters)
42 Across: Grenade filling (3 letters)
43 Across: Lay off (4 letters)
47 Across: African port (7 letters)
49 Across: Track strips (5 letters)
51 Across: Missile's home (4 letters)
52 Across: Exact (4 letters)
53 Across: A major crime (5 letters)
54 Across: Famed French friends (13 letters)
58 Across: Inquired, in Dogpatch (3 letters)
59 Across: Dubs (6 letters)
61 Across: Radar image (4 letters)
62 Across: "___ peace" (6 letters)
63 Across: Hagen (3 letters)
64 Across: Knievel (4 letters)
65 Across: The Balearics (5 letters)
67 Across: Cavatina (3 letters)
68 Across: Mount in Israel (6 letters)
70 Across: Leo's lair (3 letters)
71 Across: Gardner vehicle of MCMXLVIII (13 letters)
76 Across: Towers (5 letters)
77 Across: Tinker's target (5 letters)
78 Across: III: Prefix (3 letters)
79 Across: Appointed (5 letters)
81 Across: City on the Ganges (5 letters)
84 Across: Curly et al. (13 letters)
89 Across: X x XXX (3 letters)
92 Across: On deck (6 letters)
94 Across: Plat abbrs. (3 letters)
95 Across: Old Greek flasks (5 letters)
96 Across: Hokum (4 letters)
97 Across: Conjunction (3 letters)
98 Across: Space laps (6 letters)
101 Across: Ford (4 letters)
102 Across: Layers (6 letters)
104 Across: Chemical suffix (3 letters)
105 Across: Pride plus VI (13 letters)
109 Across: Less common (5 letters)
110 Across: Refection (4 letters)
112 Across: ___-do-well (4 letters)
113 Across: Bardot's income (5 letters)
114 Across: Eastern name of fame (7 letters)
116 Across: Sparkling-wine city (4 letters)
117 Across: Indian ape (3 letters)
118 Across: Baez (4 letters)
119 Across: Like X-o'clock scholars (4 letters)
120 Across: Thus, to Burns (3 letters)
121 Across: Item stolen while a crowd watches (4 letters)
123 Across: Jupiter's XII (5 letters)
124 Across: Caterpillar hair (4 letters)
125 Across: "___ Need Is Love" (6 letters)
128 Across: Nobelist Neruda (5 letters)
129 Across: Architects' concerns (6 letters)
131 Across: Behan's "Borstal ___" (3 letters)
134 Across: U.S.S.R. enterprise (9 letters)
136 Across: Fortunate finds (13 letters)
139 Across: Kind of sale (5 letters)
140 Across: Tate treasures (3 letters)
141 Across: Vex (6 letters)
142 Across: May or Stewart (6 letters)
143 Across: Backs (5 letters)
144 Across: Sch. affiliate (3 letters)
145 Across: ___ cheese (6 letters)
146 Across: Cloth-drying frame (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Moslem lord (4 letters)
2 Down: Destroyer in A.D. LXXIX (4 letters)
3 Down: Parisian suburb (4 letters)
4 Down: Shake a leg (3 letters)
5 Down: Formicidae (4 letters)
6 Down: Pitcher Paige (7 letters)
7 Down: Lyrical laments (6 letters)
8 Down: Hesitated orally (5 letters)
9 Down: Hardwood tree (4 letters)
10 Down: MDCCCXII event (3 letters)
11 Down: Finales for Fischer (8 letters)
12 Down: Legendary reptile (8 letters)
13 Down: Plutarch title word (5 letters)
14 Down: Bor's son (4 letters)
15 Down: Numbers or letters (3 letters)
16 Down: XIV lbs., in England (5 letters)
17 Down: Object (7 letters)
18 Down: Set system (4 letters)
19 Down: Claim (4 letters)
20 Down: Sea swallow (4 letters)
26 Down: Danish king called "the Memorable" (6 letters)
28 Down: Adjective for an event in MLXVI (8 letters)
32 Down: D.V.M. (3 letters)
35 Down: X ahead, in golf (5 letters)
36 Down: Entrance (5 letters)
37 Down: Said (6 letters)
38 Down: Succeed (6 letters)
39 Down: Attend (6 letters)
40 Down: Consummated (4 letters)
42 Down: Haberdashery (4 letters)
44 Down: Wound (6 letters)
45 Down: Expulsion (6 letters)
46 Down: Peony parts (6 letters)
48 Down: Straw vote (4 letters)
49 Down: Blossom for Whitman (5 letters)
50 Down: Followers of Ammann (5 letters)
51 Down: Violinist Isaac (5 letters)
55 Down: "___ for thee, Ben!": Thomas Moore (6 letters)
56 Down: Dunkirk's lake (4 letters)
57 Down: Captures (6 letters)
60 Down: Spot (4 letters)
66 Down: File (4 letters)
67 Down: Flier, to Ovid (4 letters)
69 Down: Rubescent (3 letters)
71 Down: Chekhov's first play (6 letters)
72 Down: Sistrunk of football (4 letters)
73 Down: Mon. plus IV (3 letters)
74 Down: Sealed (6 letters)
75 Down: Pundit (4 letters)
77 Down: Wife of Alfonso XIII (3 letters)
80 Down: Flattop fare (4 letters)
81 Down: Jipijapa item (6 letters)
82 Down: Does penance (6 letters)
83 Down: Blackmailer's weapon (6 letters)
85 Down: Chemical compound (5 letters)
86 Down: "___ boy!" (4 letters)
87 Down: French or milk (5 letters)
88 Down: Joe Miller joke (5 letters)
89 Down: Bright, to Brutus (6 letters)
90 Down: Connected series (6 letters)
91 Down: Put on the cuff (6 letters)
93 Down: Chug-a-lugs (8 letters)
96 Down: Jackanapes (4 letters)
99 Down: Parisian's drink (5 letters)
100 Down: Inkling (4 letters)
101 Down: Ed and Keenan (5 letters)
103 Down: Joshua, e.g. (4 letters)
106 Down: Talking foolishly (8 letters)
107 Down: ___ backward (8 letters)
108 Down: Unchanging (6 letters)
111 Down: Natives of XLVII Across (7 letters)
115 Down: Hollywood hopeful (7 letters)
118 Down: Post (3 letters)
119 Down: Browsed, in a way (6 letters)
122 Down: Corporeal channel (5 letters)
123 Down: Colombian cloak (5 letters)
124 Down: Unappetizing (5 letters)
125 Down: Athirst (4 letters)
126 Down: Wolf: Comb. form (4 letters)
127 Down: Lascivious look (4 letters)
128 Down: Bit or lead (4 letters)
129 Down: Paving stone (4 letters)
130 Down: Flatfish (4 letters)
131 Down: "___ ever so humble . . . " (4 letters)
132 Down: Caen's river (4 letters)
133 Down: Nieuport's river (4 letters)
135 Down: Sitter's creation (3 letters)
137 Down: Kind of aircraft: Abbr. (3 letters)
138 Down: Head (3 letters)

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