GIRTH CONTROL

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Olga Kowals12/11/1977

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Buttons up (7 letters)
8 Across: ___ Bell, Brontë pen name (5 letters)
13 Across: Own up (5 letters)
18 Across: Name (7 letters)
19 Across: Horse-opera command (5 letters)
20 Across: Bison (7 letters)
22 Across: Result of a conspirator's diet? (21 letters)
25 Across: Emphasis on yes or no (5 letters)
26 Across: He has creed, will travel (9 letters)
27 Across: Ceremonial Roman chariot (5 letters)
28 Across: Poet's vehicle (3 letters)
29 Across: Loch in Scotland (5 letters)
31 Across: Cosmetician Lauder (5 letters)
32 Across: Caucasian (5 letters)
33 Across: Angel ace (6 letters)
35 Across: Suffix with Johnson or journal (3 letters)
36 Across: Prefix with pod or stere (4 letters)
38 Across: He wrote "I Like It Here" (4 letters)
40 Across: Auto race (5 letters)
42 Across: ___ the hills (5 letters)
43 Across: Numbers man (3 letters)
46 Across: Plaid or ship (6 letters)
48 Across: Subside (6 letters)
51 Across: J.F.K. commanded one (6 letters)
53 Across: Hindmost (5 letters)
54 Across: Uses a compactor (7 letters)
56 Across: Behind schedule (4 letters)
57 Across: Mitch Miller plays it (4 letters)
59 Across: Sluggish, in Sicilia (6 letters)
63 Across: "___ homo" (4 letters)
64 Across: Eat a calorie-free diet? (19 letters)
70 Across: "___ Like It Hot" (4 letters)
71 Across: Madhouse (6 letters)
72 Across: Timberlane of fiction (4 letters)
73 Across: Ballerina's knee bend (4 letters)
74 Across: Dilettante (7 letters)
77 Across: Kemper, in K.C. (5 letters)
82 Across: Trolley noise (6 letters)
85 Across: These have keys (6 letters)
86 Across: Nicklaus collection (6 letters)
87 Across: Astronaut's "Perfect!" (3 letters)
88 Across: City that may make you tired (5 letters)
90 Across: No-no in some diets (5 letters)
93 Across: Dismiss (4 letters)
94 Across: Stringed instrument (4 letters)
95 Across: Marquand's "___ Daughter" (3 letters)
97 Across: Fleming (6 letters)
99 Across: Billiards shot (5 letters)
103 Across: Royal circlet (5 letters)
105 Across: Climber in S.A. (5 letters)
106 Across: Felt shoe (3 letters)
109 Across: Japan's greatest port (5 letters)
110 Across: Extreme (9 letters)
112 Across: Idolize (5 letters)
114 Across: Exercise at a discotheque? (21 letters)
117 Across: ___ shoulders above (7 letters)
118 Across: Scary (5 letters)
119 Across: Tallinn is its capital (7 letters)
120 Across: Rebellion leader: 1786–87 (5 letters)
121 Across: Upbeat (5 letters)
122 Across: Make a new requisition (7 letters)

Down

1 Down: Diet reneger (5 letters)
2 Down: Orchard pest (5 letters)
3 Down: Middle-age bulge (9 letters)
4 Down: Lug (4 letters)
5 Down: "Wonderful Town" role (6 letters)
6 Down: Helm letters (3 letters)
7 Down: What rash dieters lose (7 letters)
8 Down: Take off (5 letters)
9 Down: Optician's product (4 letters)
10 Down: Start of a speech (6 letters)
11 Down: Kravchenko's "___ Freedom" (6 letters)
12 Down: Sidetrack (5 letters)
13 Down: Ear: Comb. form (3 letters)
14 Down: Breakfast fare (8 letters)
15 Down: Burrowing animals (5 letters)
16 Down: Sacred pictures (5 letters)
17 Down: "___ were the days" (5 letters)
20 Down: Conceded (6 letters)
21 Down: Card game for three (4 letters)
23 Down: Snowy (5 letters)
24 Down: Quilter's necessity (6 letters)
30 Down: Poconos pool (4 letters)
34 Down: Dog star (4 letters)
35 Down: Argus's specialty (4 letters)
37 Down: Biggin (3 letters)
38 Down: Alma-___, U.S.S.R. city (3 letters)
39 Down: Botch (3 letters)
41 Down: Baton Rouge inst. (3 letters)
42 Down: Norwegian composer (5 letters)
43 Down: Work in concert (5 letters)
44 Down: Tract of land (5 letters)
45 Down: To ___ (exactly) (4 letters)
47 Down: Nicely lined up (4 letters)
49 Down: Hammett dieter? (7 letters)
50 Down: "___ clock scholar" (4 letters)
52 Down: Cordon ___ (chef) (4 letters)
54 Down: Heart of the matter (4 letters)
55 Down: Foxx (4 letters)
58 Down: Dock (3 letters)
60 Down: Receipt (4 letters)
61 Down: Top authority (4 letters)
62 Down: Bad ___, German spa (3 letters)
64 Down: Chicken, in Calabria (5 letters)
65 Down: Eskimo boat (5 letters)
66 Down: Kind of age (4 letters)
67 Down: Done in (5 letters)
68 Down: "Today ___ man" (4 letters)
69 Down: Glacial ridges (4 letters)
70 Down: Humane org. (4 letters)
75 Down: Mix a salad (4 letters)
76 Down: J. B. Rhine specialty (3 letters)
78 Down: Lorna Doone's lover (4 letters)
79 Down: Man of weighty cantos (9 letters)
80 Down: Avant-gardist (3 letters)
81 Down: Uraeus symbol (3 letters)
83 Down: Bestowed (8 letters)
84 Down: Emulate kanonen (3 letters)
85 Down: Civil (6 letters)
86 Down: Rancho worker (4 letters)
89 Down: Needing a diet (6 letters)
91 Down: Linen or whiskey (5 letters)
92 Down: Yak (7 letters)
95 Down: Matthew Vassar, e.g. (6 letters)
96 Down: Tourists (6 letters)
98 Down: " . . . so very ___ God": Paget (6 letters)
99 Down: Miller (4 letters)
100 Down: Lenten symbol (5 letters)
101 Down: Isaac's mother (5 letters)
102 Down: Czech industrialist (5 letters)
104 Down: Bemused (5 letters)
105 Down: Theater seats (5 letters)
107 Down: Golfer with an "army" (5 letters)
108 Down: Juniper (5 letters)
111 Down: Year in reign of Ethelred II (4 letters)
113 Down: Revolver of a sort (4 letters)
115 Down: Sides of cricket wickets (3 letters)
116 Down: Ibsen character (3 letters)

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