CIRCLES IN THE SQUARE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Jeanette K. Brill4/16/1978

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Across

1 Across: Indian princes (5 letters)
6 Across: Deficiency (4 letters)
10 Across: Cockles (5 letters)
15 Across: Cordon bleu (4 letters)
19 Across: Father of Shamgar (5 letters)
20 Across: Dust bowl fugitive (4 letters)
21 Across: Raven's cry (5 letters)
22 Across: Gounod contemporary (4 letters)
23 Across: Person to whom quotation is attributed (10 letters)
25 Across: Metric measure (10 letters)
27 Across: Ancient ascetics (7 letters)
28 Across: California city east of L.A. (6 letters)
30 Across: Like some currents (6 letters)
31 Across: Will subject (6 letters)
33 Across: Hebrew months (5 letters)
35 Across: Sites of knights' fights (5 letters)
36 Across: Top gallant (4 letters)
38 Across: ___ soul (contract with Satan) (8 letters)
41 Across: Soft mineral (4 letters)
43 Across: Commercials (3 letters)
44 Across: Confine (8 letters)
45 Across: Carnival lure (8 letters)
49 Across: Cacophony (5 letters)
51 Across: Detect (4 letters)
52 Across: Former German coin (6 letters)
54 Across: Wine: Comb. form (3 letters)
55 Across: Teem (6 letters)
57 Across: Brahmin (4 letters)
59 Across: Candid (4 letters)
60 Across: Layer (4 letters)
61 Across: Long-shot odds (8 letters)
63 Across: " . . . swift ___ radiant ends": Watson (7 letters)
65 Across: Baghdad's country: Var. (4 letters)
66 Across: Aspen or alder (4 letters)
67 Across: Famed ex-jockey (5 letters)
68 Across: Yorkshireman: Var. (4 letters)
70 Across: Valenciennes, e.g. (4 letters)
73 Across: Pitched woo (7 letters)
75 Across: Fountain drinks (8 letters)
79 Across: African cypress pine (4 letters)
80 Across: Notch made by a saw (4 letters)
81 Across: Allowance for waste (4 letters)
83 Across: Easter shrub (6 letters)
84 Across: Sow's home (3 letters)
85 Across: Hanging jar at Navidad (6 letters)
87 Across: Greek letters (4 letters)
89 Across: Falling short of (5 letters)
90 Across: Clinic clientele (8 letters)
92 Across: Quotation source (8 letters)
95 Across: Violinist ___ Bull (3 letters)
96 Across: Strike hard (4 letters)
97 Across: Arm armor (8 letters)
98 Across: Dirk of yore (4 letters)
99 Across: "Lonesome George" (5 letters)
102 Across: Resort, for short (5 letters)
104 Across: Formosa (6 letters)
106 Across: Accrues (6 letters)
108 Across: Keats and Sappho (6 letters)
111 Across: Cargo carrier's charge (7 letters)
114 Across: Passed bills (10 letters)
116 Across: Of kinship (10 letters)
118 Across: Gershwin's "___, Lucille" (4 letters)
119 Across: Moving force (5 letters)
120 Across: Osmund, for one (4 letters)
121 Across: Clare and Henry (5 letters)
122 Across: British machine gun (4 letters)
123 Across: ___ Alegre, Brazil (5 letters)
124 Across: Hang fire (4 letters)
125 Across: Carved stone pillar (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Form by carving (4 letters)
2 Down: Table-talk items (4 letters)
3 Down: Impromptu jazz performance (10 letters)
4 Down: Relaxing (6 letters)
5 Down: Negative contraction (5 letters)
6 Down: Seafood delicacies (8 letters)
7 Down: Hawaiian fish (3 letters)
8 Down: Diam. × 3.1416 (4 letters)
9 Down: Game akin to lotto (4 letters)
10 Down: The West (8 letters)
11 Down: Spheres of action (6 letters)
12 Down: Sub detector (5 letters)
13 Down: Use a shuttle (3 letters)
14 Down: Mishap on ice (4 letters)
15 Down: Synod attendees (7 letters)
16 Down: Execrates (5 letters)
17 Down: Choose (5 letters)
18 Down: Dix and Knox (5 letters)
24 Down: Beer ingredient (5 letters)
26 Down: Author of 92 Across (6 letters)
29 Down: Spire attachment (4 letters)
32 Down: Pass (6 letters)
34 Down: Slender dagger (8 letters)
36 Down: ___-arms (soldier) (5 letters)
37 Down: Sun-dried brick (5 letters)
39 Down: Matinee idol (4 letters)
40 Down: Upholstered footstool (7 letters)
42 Down: Pharyngeal tissues (8 letters)
44 Down: Madrileño (5 letters)
45 Down: Enervates (4 letters)
46 Down: Beneficiary (4 letters)
47 Down: Draft status (4 letters)
48 Down: Employment (4 letters)
50 Down: Gold Rush name (6 letters)
53 Down: Fine oilstone (4 letters)
56 Down: Soft leather gloves (8 letters)
58 Down: Author of "John Brown's Body" (5 letters)
60 Down: Haberdashery item (6 letters)
62 Down: Potion to dull sorrow (8 letters)
64 Down: Formal speech (7 letters)
67 Down: Kindhearted (4 letters)
69 Down: Utterly defeated (5 letters)
70 Down: Finn's neighbor (4 letters)
71 Down: Field (4 letters)
72 Down: Jargon (4 letters)
74 Down: Domesday Book money (4 letters)
75 Down: "___ Mater" (6 letters)
76 Down: Decree (10 letters)
77 Down: Elizabethan dramatist (5 letters)
78 Down: Hindu garment (5 letters)
82 Down: Numerical suffixes (4 letters)
85 Down: Norman Vincent and Rembrandt (6 letters)
86 Down: "___ Dream," 1937 song (8 letters)
88 Down: Stately court dance (8 letters)
91 Down: Basque's possible ancestor (7 letters)
93 Down: Smith and Fleming (4 letters)
94 Down: Dostoyevsky novel, with "The" (5 letters)
97 Down: Two-pronged weapon (6 letters)
98 Down: Stayed to the end (6 letters)
99 Down: Fish organs (5 letters)
100 Down: ___ a time (singly) (5 letters)
101 Down: G.I.'s "alarm clock" (5 letters)
103 Down: Campaign target (5 letters)
105 Down: Ululates (5 letters)
107 Down: Affront (4 letters)
109 Down: Jaunt (4 letters)
110 Down: Arid (4 letters)
112 Down: Author Greene (4 letters)
113 Down: "Born Free" heroine (4 letters)
115 Down: Short follower of long (3 letters)
117 Down: Chaney or Nol (3 letters)

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