TURNING PHRASES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23166 clues~30-60 minBy Jordan S. Lasher2/12/1978

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Across

1 Across: Rose essence (5 letters)
6 Across: Hermit or Alaska king (4 letters)
10 Across: Prefix with fix (3 letters)
13 Across: Seal (6 letters)
19 Across: In (6 letters)
20 Across: Pious frauds (9 letters)
22 Across: Lobster ___ (6 letters)
23 Across: Chianti's morning-after legacy (16 letters)
25 Across: Shake-roll connection (6 letters)
26 Across: Tenor role in "The Snow Maiden" (3 letters)
27 Across: Resourceful (6 letters)
28 Across: Coronation of June 2, 1953 (12 letters)
30 Across: French cordial flavoring (4 letters)
32 Across: Formerly (4 letters)
33 Across: Last year's jrs. (3 letters)
34 Across: Eagerly awaiting (4 letters)
35 Across: Yegg's target (4 letters)
36 Across: Anterooms (6 letters)
38 Across: Judge's seat (4 letters)
40 Across: Hua's predecessor (3 letters)
43 Across: Turn out (5 letters)
45 Across: Scandinavian's idols (13 letters)
51 Across: Get on (5 letters)
52 Across: Love affair (16 letters)
55 Across: Hit a high fly (6 letters)
56 Across: Feminists' bill (3 letters)
57 Across: Kind of pity (4 letters)
58 Across: British knight (4 letters)
59 Across: Norwegian composer (5 letters)
60 Across: Nobelist in Literature: 1957 (5 letters)
62 Across: Prophecy of a sort (4 letters)
64 Across: Salt Lake City team (4 letters)
67 Across: Wilde was one (3 letters)
68 Across: Irascible (8 letters)
71 Across: Of yore (3 letters)
74 Across: Morsels (4 letters)
76 Across: Lehar opus: 1911 (3 letters)
77 Across: Pecking wood, e.g. (15 letters)
82 Across: Cheer (3 letters)
83 Across: Schism (4 letters)
85 Across: Ayesha (3 letters)
86 Across: Smith and Jones (8 letters)
87 Across: Singular (3 letters)
88 Across: At a distance (4 letters)
90 Across: Shankar (4 letters)
94 Across: Conquerors of matter (5 letters)
95 Across: Ex ___ (one-sided) (5 letters)
97 Across: City on the Dvina (4 letters)
100 Across: Trig function (4 letters)
102 Across: A.F.L.'s complement (3 letters)
103 Across: Oscar winner: 1942 (6 letters)
104 Across: Mom (16 letters)
109 Across: Chekhov (5 letters)
110 Across: Up on one's vocabulary (13 letters)
111 Across: Guzzle (5 letters)
112 Across: Wee hour (3 letters)
113 Across: Observed (4 letters)
114 Across: City once called Pig's Eye (6 letters)
118 Across: Numerical prefix (4 letters)
121 Across: New World: Abbr. (4 letters)
123 Across: Hole puncher (3 letters)
126 Across: Sun: Prefix (4 letters)
127 Across: Inn unit (4 letters)
128 Across: III (12 letters)
133 Across: Puts on guard (6 letters)
136 Across: W.W. II vessel (3 letters)
137 Across: Familiar with (6 letters)
138 Across: Citation at ophiology convention? (16 letters)
141 Across: London's Haymarket, e.g. (6 letters)
142 Across: Extends (9 letters)
143 Across: In a senectuous way (6 letters)
144 Across: Relaxing (6 letters)
145 Across: Plant (3 letters)
146 Across: Social-athletic org. (4 letters)
147 Across: Curtis and Perkins (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Greek Minerva (6 letters)
2 Down: Office routine (14 letters)
3 Down: Haul (3 letters)
4 Down: Hog plum of India (4 letters)
5 Down: Peruse (4 letters)
6 Down: Handpicked (6 letters)
7 Down: Roof beam (6 letters)
8 Down: Dispute: Abbr. (3 letters)
9 Down: Avifauna (5 letters)
10 Down: Famed diarist (5 letters)
11 Down: Hesperus's undoing (4 letters)
12 Down: He, in Genoa (4 letters)
13 Down: Withdrawn at Belmont (9 letters)
14 Down: Thief of Baghdad, e.g. (5 letters)
15 Down: Costume (5 letters)
16 Down: Sol or ela (4 letters)
17 Down: She, in Marseille (4 letters)
18 Down: High schooler (4 letters)
19 Down: Rand's "___ Shrugged" (5 letters)
20 Down: Like a $3 bill (5 letters)
21 Down: River to the Moselle (4 letters)
24 Down: March (5 letters)
29 Down: ___ gamut (ranged) (6 letters)
31 Down: Group of 100 (6 letters)
36 Down: Elmer of the comics (4 letters)
37 Down: N.C.O. (3 letters)
38 Down: Hit show: Slang (5 letters)
39 Down: Stern (3 letters)
40 Down: Bleat (3 letters)
41 Down: Showery mo. (3 letters)
42 Down: Elect (3 letters)
44 Down: Saturate (6 letters)
46 Down: Vowels or whirlwinds (3 letters)
47 Down: Stowe novel (4 letters)
48 Down: Unaccompanied (4 letters)
49 Down: "Woe," to Caesar (4 letters)
50 Down: Slowly, in music (5 letters)
51 Down: Where Sucre is (7 letters)
52 Down: More farinaceous (7 letters)
53 Down: Helmet of old (5 letters)
54 Down: Bull: Prefix (5 letters)
55 Down: Frown (5 letters)
60 Down: Irish seaport (4 letters)
61 Down: Wife of Thor (3 letters)
63 Down: Pilotless aircraft (7 letters)
65 Down: Line fluffs in "All's Well" (14 letters)
66 Down: Famed suffragist (7 letters)
69 Down: Owns (3 letters)
70 Down: Syringe amts. (3 letters)
72 Down: Tragacanths (4 letters)
73 Down: Pay dirt (3 letters)
75 Down: Luster (5 letters)
78 Down: Grog (3 letters)
79 Down: Conductor Leinsdorf (5 letters)
80 Down: Broadway hit (5 letters)
81 Down: Sevilla's land (6 letters)
84 Down: Late: Sp. (5 letters)
89 Down: River of Orange Free State (4 letters)
91 Down: Very pale (5 letters)
92 Down: Opinion (4 letters)
93 Down: Dope (4 letters)
96 Down: "___ art's sake" (6 letters)
98 Down: Shrub of beet family (9 letters)
99 Down: ___ fashion (haphazardly) (6 letters)
101 Down: Corn unit (3 letters)
103 Down: Caesar's conquest (4 letters)
104 Down: Trinidad's loc. (3 letters)
105 Down: Inlet (3 letters)
106 Down: Doctrine (3 letters)
107 Down: Tea, in Toulon (3 letters)
108 Down: Six-pointers: Abbr. (3 letters)
111 Down: Riding whip (5 letters)
115 Down: Roof covering (6 letters)
116 Down: Jai alai ball (6 letters)
117 Down: Hebrew letters (5 letters)
119 Down: Bottom lines (6 letters)
120 Down: Recess for holding vestments (5 letters)
121 Down: Confuse (5 letters)
122 Down: Groves on prairies (5 letters)
123 Down: Sign symbol (5 letters)
124 Down: Rivaled Niobe (4 letters)
125 Down: Suspicious (5 letters)
128 Down: Caspian feeder (4 letters)
129 Down: "Lord, ___ I?": Matt. 26:22 (4 letters)
130 Down: In proximity (4 letters)
131 Down: Recipe amts. (4 letters)
132 Down: Protagonist (4 letters)
134 Down: Which or who (4 letters)
135 Down: Utah's lily (4 letters)
139 Down: Thai river (3 letters)
140 Down: Itch (3 letters)

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