AFTER THE BALL

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23170 clues~30-60 minBy Frances Hansen1/1/1978

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Spikes the coffee (5 letters)
6 Across: Newsy digest (5 letters)
11 Across: Rosters (5 letters)
16 Across: Conform (5 letters)
21 Across: Siouan Sooner (5 letters)
22 Across: Bastard wing (5 letters)
23 Across: "___ down to the seas again" (5 letters)
24 Across: Chutzpah (5 letters)
25 Across: Punctuation mark (5 letters)
26 Across: Galileo, for one (5 letters)
27 Across: Sculpture piece (5 letters)
28 Across: All thumbs (5 letters)
29 Across: Start of a verse (20 letters)
33 Across: Golfer's gear (5 letters)
34 Across: El Bahr (4 letters)
35 Across: Greek peak (4 letters)
36 Across: Antitoxins (4 letters)
40 Across: Bird class (4 letters)
43 Across: Union of two (4 letters)
45 Across: Comaneci's rival (6 letters)
47 Across: Vessel for hyson (6 letters)
49 Across: "___ ask; my wants are few" (7 letters)
51 Across: Nisan, formerly (4 letters)
53 Across: School Shelley attended (4 letters)
55 Across: Kissars (5 letters)
56 Across: "The Swamp Fox" (6 letters)
57 Across: "Buffoons and poets ___ related": Goethe (7 letters)
59 Across: Poet laureate: 1715–18 (4 letters)
61 Across: Employ (3 letters)
62 Across: Guinness and Templeton (5 letters)
63 Across: "Au Clair de la ___" (4 letters)
64 Across: Howl at the moon (3 letters)
66 Across: Social asset (4 letters)
68 Across: More of verse (19 letters)
76 Across: Supermarket lineup (4 letters)
80 Across: Doc's date (4 letters)
81 Across: City once called Last Chance (6 letters)
82 Across: Fourth or real (6 letters)
83 Across: Woodwind (4 letters)
84 Across: Capet, for one (3 letters)
85 Across: Wedding words (3 letters)
86 Across: Possessive pronoun (3 letters)
88 Across: Fitzgerald or Grasso (4 letters)
89 Across: Camera stand (6 letters)
91 Across: "Habanera" singer (6 letters)
94 Across: Chilean statesman (4 letters)
95 Across: Golda (4 letters)
96 Across: More of verse (19 letters)
100 Across: Southwest wind (4 letters)
101 Across: "Fables in Slang" author (3 letters)
102 Across: Bullfighter's attendant (4 letters)
103 Across: Musical group (5 letters)
108 Across: Linen marking (3 letters)
111 Across: Oil-rich land (4 letters)
113 Across: Naïve (7 letters)
116 Across: Split: Comb. form (6 letters)
117 Across: Booth or Newman (5 letters)
119 Across: Places (4 letters)
121 Across: Kiln (4 letters)
122 Across: Tot's transport (7 letters)
123 Across: Projecting rim (6 letters)
125 Across: "A thing of beauty ___ forever" (6 letters)
127 Across: Samoan seaport (4 letters)
129 Across: ___-poly (4 letters)
130 Across: Vols' state (4 letters)
131 Across: ___-Coburg (4 letters)
133 Across: Cousin of etc. (4 letters)
135 Across: Stevenson (5 letters)
137 Across: End of verse (20 letters)
144 Across: Safari boss (5 letters)
147 Across: Slanting (5 letters)
148 Across: Makes equal (5 letters)
149 Across: Practical (5 letters)
150 Across: Deep bell tones (5 letters)
151 Across: Ecological formation (5 letters)
152 Across: Sartre subject (5 letters)
153 Across: Smooth the edges (5 letters)
154 Across: Sound of a wet mop (5 letters)
155 Across: Young or Mature (5 letters)
156 Across: Plaster of paris (5 letters)
157 Across: Of space (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Daffy (4 letters)
2 Down: Time-setting phrase (4 letters)
3 Down: Dogie (4 letters)
4 Down: Stuck on oneself (9 letters)
5 Down: Man of La Mancha (5 letters)
6 Down: Easter Island (7 letters)
7 Down: Landi or Dido (6 letters)
8 Down: Ham's eldest son (4 letters)
9 Down: Actor Delon (5 letters)
10 Down: Small cup (8 letters)
11 Down: Thelma of films (6 letters)
12 Down: "Typee" sequel (4 letters)
13 Down: Evict (7 letters)
14 Down: Lawyer's aide (8 letters)
15 Down: Puts away (5 letters)
16 Down: Idi of Uganda (4 letters)
17 Down: "You ___!" (7 letters)
18 Down: Part of a halberd (3 letters)
19 Down: Doozy (3 letters)
20 Down: Asian holiday (3 letters)
30 Down: Odin, to Anglo-Saxons (5 letters)
31 Down: Shakespearean theater (5 letters)
32 Down: Have a bite (3 letters)
37 Down: Curtain color (4 letters)
38 Down: Regrets (4 letters)
39 Down: Church feature (4 letters)
40 Down: Soprano Gluck (4 letters)
41 Down: Small bottle (4 letters)
42 Down: Common French verb (4 letters)
44 Down: Shucks! (6 letters)
46 Down: Scold (6 letters)
48 Down: Exercises an option (6 letters)
50 Down: Like Miss Procter's chord (4 letters)
52 Down: Honey harvesters (4 letters)
54 Down: Part of N.B. (4 letters)
57 Down: Prophetic token (7 letters)
58 Down: Large snail (7 letters)
60 Down: Attacks with vigor (7 letters)
63 Down: Great eighth-century Chinese poet (4 letters)
65 Down: Yang's partner (3 letters)
67 Down: Carved emblem (5 letters)
69 Down: Made of sterner stuff. (7 letters)
70 Down: Mewl (7 letters)
71 Down: Jewish school (5 letters)
72 Down: Afro, beehive, etc. (7 letters)
73 Down: Emporium event (4 letters)
74 Down: Gudrun's husband (4 letters)
75 Down: "Happy New ___!" (4 letters)
76 Down: Fingerstalls (4 letters)
77 Down: Hillside cavity (4 letters)
78 Down: "Le Rouge et le ___": Stendhal (4 letters)
79 Down: Kind of print (5 letters)
87 Down: Numerical suffix (4 letters)
90 Down: Near future (6 letters)
92 Down: Sky Altar (3 letters)
93 Down: ___ beet (6 letters)
94 Down: Celebration in Cádiz (6 letters)
97 Down: Stole or shawl (4 letters)
98 Down: Goddess of hope (4 letters)
99 Down: Colorful S.A. bird (4 letters)
104 Down: Hymn harmonizer (9 letters)
105 Down: Broz (4 letters)
106 Down: Juniper tree: Bib. (4 letters)
107 Down: Conservative (4 letters)
108 Down: Weight (4 letters)
109 Down: Slothful (4 letters)
110 Down: Disguise for Zeus (4 letters)
112 Down: Fanciful (8 letters)
114 Down: One of the fairies (5 letters)
115 Down: Bomb on Broadway (8 letters)
116 Down: Milan's La ___ (5 letters)
118 Down: Divisions in cricket (7 letters)
120 Down: Prufrock's creator (7 letters)
122 Down: " . . . two ___ every question" (7 letters)
124 Down: That, in Taxco (3 letters)
126 Down: Trinculo, e.g. (6 letters)
128 Down: Actor John and family (6 letters)
132 Down: Addis ___ (5 letters)
134 Down: Mississippi sight (5 letters)
136 Down: Island with large oil refineries (5 letters)
138 Down: Elan (4 letters)
139 Down: Most illustrious: Abbr. (4 letters)
140 Down: Cysts (4 letters)
141 Down: Gainer or Mollberg (4 letters)
142 Down: One of Athena's names (4 letters)
143 Down: Holler (4 letters)
144 Down: Air-rifle ammo (3 letters)
145 Down: Golly! (3 letters)
146 Down: Witch bird (3 letters)

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