LOCUS-POCUS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23170 clues~30-60 minBy A. J. Santora12/4/1977

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Across

1 Across: Spoofs, in a way (6 letters)
7 Across: Rough spot (5 letters)
12 Across: Loose dress (5 letters)
17 Across: Gist (3 letters)
20 Across: "Rhapsody ___" (6 letters)
21 Across: Sort of court (5 letters)
22 Across: Famed jurist (5 letters)
23 Across: Granular snow (4 letters)
24 Across: Sharpened (6 letters)
25 Across: Where most of this is (11 letters)
27 Across: Sponge spicule (4 letters)
28 Across: Tennis call (3 letters)
29 Across: Fuses (6 letters)
31 Across: Oil drum (6 letters)
32 Across: Perfume oil (5 letters)
33 Across: Dolphin's blind cousin (4 letters)
35 Across: Poetic work (3 letters)
36 Across: Don Ho prop (3 letters)
37 Across: Melee (5 letters)
39 Across: What larvae do (6 letters)
41 Across: Lumbermen or beetles (7 letters)
45 Across: Presumptively (7 letters)
48 Across: Deep sleep (5 letters)
49 Across: Less desiccated (7 letters)
51 Across: Cancel (8 letters)
52 Across: Hole-___ (5 letters)
53 Across: Gain by force (5 letters)
54 Across: Poland China (5 letters)
56 Across: Used up (4 letters)
57 Across: Pongee color (3 letters)
58 Across: Partner of Rogers and Powell (7 letters)
61 Across: Bouquet (5 letters)
62 Across: Man from Big D (3 letters)
63 Across: Camise (5 letters)
64 Across: Fissile rock (5 letters)
65 Across: One of last year's frosh (4 letters)
68 Across: Cooperstown name (4 letters)
72 Across: Where part of this is (10 letters)
75 Across: More pixilated (7 letters)
78 Across: Agents (8 letters)
80 Across: Author of "BUtterfield 8" (5 letters)
81 Across: Butte native (8 letters)
82 Across: Negev and Nefud (7 letters)
83 Across: Where the end of this is (10 letters)
85 Across: N.C.O.'s (4 letters)
86 Across: Yellow flag (4 letters)
87 Across: Kind of Danish (5 letters)
88 Across: Enplane (5 letters)
90 Across: Usti ___Labem, Czechoslovak city (3 letters)
92 Across: Vitality (5 letters)
93 Across: Henna (7 letters)
95 Across: Catch (3 letters)
98 Across: Bread spread (4 letters)
100 Across: Dormouse (5 letters)
101 Across: Christophe's homeland (5 letters)
102 Across: Athenian political subdivision (5 letters)
104 Across: Lengthen (8 letters)
106 Across: Adjective for diamond (7 letters)
108 Across: Demolish (5 letters)
109 Across: Marked with stripes (7 letters)
110 Across: Orphan's new parent (7 letters)
112 Across: Assenting sounds (6 letters)
114 Across: Glyceride (5 letters)
115 Across: One, in Berlin (3 letters)
116 Across: Wildebeest (3 letters)
117 Across: Defendant, in law (4 letters)
119 Across: Medicinal amounts (5 letters)
121 Across: Kind of school (6 letters)
124 Across: American dogwoods (6 letters)
127 Across: Huckle (3 letters)
128 Across: Co-inventor of cordite (4 letters)
129 Across: Where most of this is (11 letters)
131 Across: Unemployed (6 letters)
133 Across: Nursery villain (4 letters)
134 Across: African antelope (5 letters)
135 Across: Vandyke, e.g. (5 letters)
136 Across: Why some products fail (6 letters)
137 Across: Ship-shaped clock (3 letters)
138 Across: Skirt insert (5 letters)
139 Across: Arab land (5 letters)
140 Across: Exempted (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Shah's pelf (5 letters)
2 Down: Start of "The Raven" (9 letters)
3 Down: What this does twice (9 letters)
4 Down: Suburb of Rabat (3 letters)
5 Down: Short skirt (4 letters)
6 Down: "Eyes have they, but they ___" (6 letters)
7 Down: Hit, Biblical style (5 letters)
8 Down: Where vessels nestle (4 letters)
9 Down: Salt Lake City team (4 letters)
10 Down: Acier ingredient (3 letters)
11 Down: "Front porch" (4 letters)
12 Down: Wide-eyed tourist (6 letters)
13 Down: Political pollster (6 letters)
14 Down: Dictator's phrase (4 letters)
15 Down: Become lightheaded (9 letters)
16 Down: Father___, in Wolff's "The Bluebird" (3 letters)
17 Down: Where to find this (13 letters)
18 Down: Eye area (4 letters)
19 Down: Silvertip (4 letters)
23 Down: Zilch (7 letters)
26 Down: Haying machine (5 letters)
30 Down: Kin of calends (4 letters)
32 Down: Pearl Mosque site (4 letters)
34 Down: In the know (4 letters)
38 Down: ___dixit (4 letters)
40 Down: Sectors (5 letters)
41 Down: Ariel, for one (6 letters)
42 Down: Little or Frye (4 letters)
43 Down: Sapient (4 letters)
44 Down: Thus far (3 letters)
46 Down: Magic incantation (4 letters)
47 Down: Holly (4 letters)
48 Down: Take a chair (3 letters)
50 Down: Oscar and Tony (6 letters)
51 Down: Banquet (4 letters)
54 Down: Pharaoh's talisman (6 letters)
55 Down: Strip (4 letters)
59 Down: Switches tracks (6 letters)
60 Down: Colors (5 letters)
61 Down: Worcester or York (5 letters)
64 Down: Thin slice (5 letters)
65 Down: Diverse (6 letters)
66 Down: Giant at 16 (3 letters)
67 Down: School orgs. (4 letters)
68 Down: Torsk (3 letters)
69 Down: Poetic verb (3 letters)
70 Down: Where most of this is (13 letters)
71 Down: ___Rabbit (4 letters)
73 Down: Hale (6 letters)
74 Down: Glistened (5 letters)
75 Down: U.S.-Can. defense org. (5 letters)
76 Down: Snack (3 letters)
77 Down: Important hosp. group (3 letters)
79 Down: "Exodus" hero (3 letters)
81 Down: Soprano Kawana et al. (6 letters)
83 Down: Guthrie (4 letters)
84 Down: Kind of dictum (6 letters)
87 Down: Sinless (4 letters)
89 Down: Profundity (5 letters)
90 Down: Coward (4 letters)
91 Down: "___Want for Christmas . . . " (4 letters)
92 Down: Pianist from N.Y.C. (9 letters)
93 Down: Cardinals' QB (4 letters)
94 Down: Deputy (4 letters)
95 Down: Locale of this phrase (9 letters)
96 Down: Like eggs baked with Gruyère cheese (9 letters)
97 Down: Semisolid (3 letters)
99 Down: Make___scarce (7 letters)
100 Down: Like Apley (4 letters)
101 Down: Fortune (3 letters)
103 Down: Cuckoo's announcement (4 letters)
105 Down: Roscoes (4 letters)
106 Down: Lustrous fabric (5 letters)
107 Down: Porter product (4 letters)
110 Down: Bacterium (6 letters)
111 Down: Blockhead (6 letters)
113 Down: Iroquoian group (6 letters)
116 Down: Hayworth role (5 letters)
118 Down: Radar reading (5 letters)
119 Down: Sunup (4 letters)
120 Down: Musette (4 letters)
122 Down: Far from fragrant (4 letters)
123 Down: Soft throws (4 letters)
124 Down: Actor Sharif (4 letters)
125 Down: Patola (4 letters)
126 Down: Road sign (4 letters)
129 Down: Quagmire (3 letters)
130 Down: Ferdinand was one (3 letters)
132 Down: Manet's "___ Boat" (3 letters)

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