SHAKESPEARE ON SPORTS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23170 clues~30-60 minBy Bert Rosenfield4/23/1978

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Across

1 Across: Deep sleep (5 letters)
6 Across: Awful, in Apulia (6 letters)
12 Across: Remarkable variable star (4 letters)
16 Across: Seer of a sort (5 letters)
21 Across: Sandblaster's target (5 letters)
22 Across: Eloquent speaker (6 letters)
23 Across: Military miscreant (4 letters)
24 Across: Trimmed, as upholstery (5 letters)
25 Across: Mortise's companion (5 letters)
26 Across: Drag through mud (6 letters)
27 Across: Caesura (4 letters)
28 Across: Highest of the Pyrenees (5 letters)
29 Across: W.S. on hockey ("A Midsummer Night's Dream" II, 1) (20 letters)
33 Across: Belfry denizens (4 letters)
34 Across: Alack's partner (4 letters)
35 Across: Gaza or Sunset (5 letters)
36 Across: U.S.N.A. graduate (3 letters)
37 Across: Musical key (8 letters)
39 Across: Northern constellation (3 letters)
40 Across: Armstrong's "Perfect!" (3 letters)
42 Across: Dog star (4 letters)
46 Across: Cockchafers: Var. (5 letters)
47 Across: W.S. on bowling ("The Tempest" I, 1) (16 letters)
53 Across: Poetic word (3 letters)
55 Across: Mae West role (3 letters)
56 Across: Physicist Bohr (5 letters)
57 Across: Latin I verb (3 letters)
58 Across: Rains of film fame (6 letters)
61 Across: Cairn ___ (Scottish peak) (4 letters)
62 Across: Haggard (5 letters)
64 Across: Singer John (5 letters)
66 Across: Seoul soldiers (4 letters)
67 Across: W.S. on football ("Othello" V, 2) (13 letters)
71 Across: Brontë heroine (4 letters)
72 Across: "___ for the Czar" (Glinka opera) (5 letters)
74 Across: Flying spray (4 letters)
75 Across: "Awake and Sing" playwright (5 letters)
76 Across: "Hamlet" segment (3 letters)
78 Across: Marine mammal (7 letters)
80 Across: Numero ___ (3 letters)
81 Across: Some ex-Princetonians (7 letters)
85 Across: Former Mideast initials (3 letters)
86 Across: Lean as ___ (5 letters)
89 Across: Hind's mate (4 letters)
92 Across: ___ and end-all (5 letters)
93 Across: Leave port (4 letters)
96 Across: W.S. on golf ("King John" IV, 1) (13 letters)
100 Across: One-tenth of MLXX (4 letters)
101 Across: Seed covering (5 letters)
103 Across: Yellow-fever mosquito (5 letters)
104 Across: Part of Q.E.D. (4 letters)
105 Across: Keys (6 letters)
107 Across: Dunderhead (3 letters)
108 Across: Sleep: Prefix (5 letters)
110 Across: Cabinet dept. (3 letters)
111 Across: Character in "Turandot" (3 letters)
112 Across: W.S. on baseball ("Othello" III, 3) (16 letters)
118 Across: Thong (5 letters)
122 Across: Graf ___ (4 letters)
123 Across: Clangor (3 letters)
124 Across: Enzyme: Suffix (3 letters)
125 Across: Renounce (8 letters)
128 Across: Golf-club part (3 letters)
130 Across: Poet's concern (5 letters)
132 Across: N.T. book (4 letters)
133 Across: Part of Excalibur (4 letters)
134 Across: W.S. on basketball ("Henry V" III, Prologue) (20 letters)
139 Across: Dungeon sound (5 letters)
141 Across: Litter Lilliputian (4 letters)
142 Across: Fourth of a famous five (6 letters)
143 Across: In the van (5 letters)
145 Across: Ex ___ (5 letters)
146 Across: Arab chieftain (4 letters)
147 Across: Salt marsh (6 letters)
148 Across: Intrinsically (5 letters)
149 Across: Hewers (5 letters)
150 Across: Game in a Reno casino (4 letters)
151 Across: Hamlet's "___ and arrows" (6 letters)
152 Across: Long legs, in Leghorn (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Rank above cpl. (3 letters)
2 Down: Seasoning for pizza (7 letters)
3 Down: Cold-remedy component (7 letters)
4 Down: W.S. on tennis ("3 Henry VI" III, 2) (15 letters)
5 Down: Budget item (4 letters)
6 Down: Old Assyrian city (6 letters)
7 Down: "Hard as ___ of ploughman": W.S. (7 letters)
8 Down: Fictional uncle (5 letters)
9 Down: Auricular (4 letters)
10 Down: Stops up (5 letters)
11 Down: In an upright manner (7 letters)
12 Down: Scott hero (7 letters)
13 Down: "___ for Adonais": Shelley (5 letters)
14 Down: ___ ha-Shanah (4 letters)
15 Down: Choir voices (4 letters)
16 Down: Hall of Fame pitcher (5 letters)
17 Down: Popular apple (7 letters)
18 Down: Little or Frye (4 letters)
19 Down: Where Sills' trills give thrills (3 letters)
20 Down: Courtroom vow (3 letters)
30 Down: Domestic deity (3 letters)
31 Down: Mountain: Comb. form (4 letters)
32 Down: "Mene, mene, ___, upharsin" (5 letters)
33 Down: Troublesome (3 letters)
38 Down: No longer new (4 letters)
40 Down: "___ going to St. Ives . . . " (6 letters)
41 Down: Buck or Jesse (5 letters)
43 Down: Having a grayish cast (5 letters)
44 Down: Part of the Malay Archipelago (5 letters)
45 Down: In accord (5 letters)
48 Down: Root or Yale (5 letters)
49 Down: Unyielding (5 letters)
50 Down: Skelton role (4 letters)
51 Down: Slow; dull (5 letters)
52 Down: Compass point (3 letters)
54 Down: C.S.A. general's monogram (3 letters)
58 Down: Stuff (4 letters)
59 Down: Mascagni's temptress (4 letters)
60 Down: Sib (4 letters)
61 Down: Useful catchall (3 letters)
62 Down: Fuddy-duddy (4 letters)
63 Down: Hwy. (3 letters)
65 Down: W.S. on auto racing ("Macbeth" II, 1) (15 letters)
68 Down: Suffix with Taiwan (3 letters)
69 Down: Composition for nine (5 letters)
70 Down: ___ volatile (3 letters)
73 Down: Seventh Greek letter (3 letters)
77 Down: Wrigley Field player (3 letters)
79 Down: Energy unit (3 letters)
80 Down: Kin of "gee-tars" (4 letters)
81 Down: Past (3 letters)
82 Down: Hub (4 letters)
83 Down: Dismounted (4 letters)
84 Down: Cantabs' rivals (4 letters)
86 Down: Oat protein (6 letters)
87 Down: Decorated afresh (5 letters)
88 Down: Soul, in Sedan (3 letters)
89 Down: Where lint may glint (5 letters)
90 Down: Papal crown (5 letters)
91 Down: Dramaturgy is one (3 letters)
93 Down: Nautical ropes (5 letters)
94 Down: Fabulous fabulist (5 letters)
95 Down: Progeny (5 letters)
97 Down: Opposites of trochees (5 letters)
98 Down: Race segment (4 letters)
99 Down: Zilch (3 letters)
102 Down: Thus, in Toledo (3 letters)
106 Down: Alfonso's affirmative (4 letters)
109 Down: More unusual (5 letters)
113 Down: Diplomatic word (7 letters)
114 Down: Mehta or Ozawa (7 letters)
115 Down: Tallinn native (4 letters)
116 Down: Second-sighted woman (7 letters)
117 Down: Crested plover (7 letters)
119 Down: Scolds (7 letters)
120 Down: In any event (7 letters)
121 Down: Ill humor (3 letters)
126 Down: Black teas (6 letters)
127 Down: 601, Roman style (3 letters)
129 Down: Like some buckets (5 letters)
130 Down: Kingsley's "___ White" (5 letters)
131 Down: Pertaining to fissures (5 letters)
132 Down: Spent (5 letters)
134 Down: Mischief (4 letters)
135 Down: Arduous journey (4 letters)
136 Down: Actor Cronyn (4 letters)
137 Down: Chookasian of the Met (4 letters)
138 Down: Dummkopfs (4 letters)
139 Down: Bus. consultant (3 letters)
140 Down: Easygoing (3 letters)
144 Down: Sandra or Ruby (3 letters)

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