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Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23164 clues~30-60 minBy Elaine D. Schorr5/21/1978

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Bam! (5 letters)
6 Across: Participant (6 letters)
12 Across: Nape drape (5 letters)
17 Across: Grover's Corners (4 letters)
21 Across: Robin of ballad fame (5 letters)
22 Across: Nobelist poet: 1913 (6 letters)
23 Across: Plotters or plot (5 letters)
24 Across: "The Great" of Muscovy (4 letters)
25 Across: "A Farewell to Arms" (18 letters)
28 Across: Bingo device (4 letters)
29 Across: Readies the presses (4 letters)
30 Across: Of doves, hawks, etc. (5 letters)
31 Across: ___ den Linden (5 letters)
32 Across: Balt. or N.Y.C. (3 letters)
34 Across: Good points (6 letters)
36 Across: Pole's neighbor (4 letters)
37 Across: British statesman (5 letters)
40 Across: Preconceives (7 letters)
42 Across: Siamese (4 letters)
44 Across: Bob or Tiny Tim (8 letters)
47 Across: Painful peregrinations (5 letters)
48 Across: Equal shares for a trio (6 letters)
50 Across: Wolf or Ranger (4 letters)
51 Across: Suffix with Japan or Nippon (3 letters)
52 Across: Attack (5 letters)
53 Across: "A Majority of One" (12 letters)
56 Across: Apportion (4 letters)
57 Across: Highest of the Pyrenees (5 letters)
58 Across: Calla lilies (5 letters)
59 Across: Inning sextet (4 letters)
60 Across: Dovetail wedge (5 letters)
61 Across: More fastidious (5 letters)
62 Across: Dry, cold wind (4 letters)
63 Across: Kind of fund (5 letters)
65 Across: Larder (6 letters)
66 Across: One of five in "Hamlet" (3 letters)
67 Across: "Lady Be Good" (11 letters)
69 Across: "The Hoosier Poet" (5 letters)
70 Across: Venus's venous fluid (5 letters)
73 Across: Vintage car (3 letters)
74 Across: Reason for a D.S.C. (5 letters)
75 Across: Serve the purpose (5 letters)
76 Across: "The Sound of Music" (11 letters)
82 Across: Filer's aid (3 letters)
85 Across: Things to be done (6 letters)
86 Across: Not watertight (5 letters)
87 Across: Mauritanian (4 letters)
88 Across: Floor, in France (5 letters)
90 Across: Thespian Janis (5 letters)
91 Across: Pointed arch (4 letters)
92 Across: Turkey tot (5 letters)
93 Across: Bulwer-Lytton novel (5 letters)
94 Across: Catalonian cat (4 letters)
95 Across: "The Cat and the Canary" (12 letters)
98 Across: Christie and Ivanovna (5 letters)
99 Across: Princess who became a goddess (3 letters)
100 Across: Deserve (4 letters)
101 Across: Part of H.S.H. (6 letters)
102 Across: That is, to Tacitus (5 letters)
103 Across: Discarded (8 letters)
105 Across: Suffragette Carry (4 letters)
106 Across: Near ringers (7 letters)
109 Across: High home (5 letters)
110 Across: Who or which (4 letters)
112 Across: Not so short (6 letters)
113 Across: Elec. currents (3 letters)
114 Across: City in N.H. (5 letters)
115 Across: Ade book: 1896 (5 letters)
116 Across: "Now hear ___!" (4 letters)
120 Across: Choose greedily (4 letters)
123 Across: "Ah, Wilderness!" (18 letters)
127 Across: Tilden of tennis (4 letters)
128 Across: Stormed (5 letters)
129 Across: Pass, as time (6 letters)
130 Across: Mucilage (5 letters)
131 Across: Thenar (4 letters)
132 Across: Sycophants' replies (5 letters)
133 Across: Russian river (6 letters)
134 Across: Salts or Downs (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Munro's pen name (4 letters)
2 Down: One-eyed god (4 letters)
3 Down: Firkin (4 letters)
4 Down: "Command Performance" (10 letters)
5 Down: Spot's scrap (3 letters)
6 Down: Wonder of songdom (6 letters)
7 Down: Items discarded by some nuns (6 letters)
8 Down: Struggles (5 letters)
9 Down: Town near Amiens (4 letters)
10 Down: Forage plant (3 letters)
11 Down: Varsity (8 letters)
12 Down: "The Border Minstrel" (5 letters)
13 Down: Sandhurst student (5 letters)
14 Down: What 32 Across is (4 letters)
15 Down: Bottom fish (3 letters)
16 Down: Mauriac's "___ Blood" (8 letters)
17 Down: ___-toe (6 letters)
18 Down: Female gametes (3 letters)
19 Down: Prankster (3 letters)
20 Down: Dir. from Pisa to Verona (3 letters)
26 Down: Cardinals' QB (4 letters)
27 Down: Geographical hub of N.Y. (6 letters)
33 Down: Jazzman Fountain (4 letters)
35 Down: " . . . if ___ west/The Phoenix builds": Carew (6 letters)
38 Down: "The Song and Dance Man" (14 letters)
39 Down: Beard's field (7 letters)
40 Down: Conciliatory (6 letters)
41 Down: "Sleuth" (14 letters)
42 Down: Musial, for short (6 letters)
43 Down: Shakes a leg (4 letters)
44 Down: Array (6 letters)
45 Down: Altercations (4 letters)
46 Down: Like Tom Thumb (5 letters)
47 Down: Ethiopian lake (5 letters)
48 Down: Neighbor of Provincetown (5 letters)
49 Down: Beard boy (5 letters)
53 Down: Small drum (5 letters)
54 Down: Danube feeder (4 letters)
55 Down: Corrosive coating (4 letters)
56 Down: Park for T.A.E. (5 letters)
60 Down: Manx's missing part (4 letters)
63 Down: Sly guy (5 letters)
64 Down: Author Uris (4 letters)
65 Down: Say grace (4 letters)
67 Down: Where Augustus died (4 letters)
68 Down: Milanese music maker (4 letters)
71 Down: "Pagliacci" showman (5 letters)
72 Down: Hair's companion (4 letters)
74 Down: Green, in Grenoble (5 letters)
75 Down: At ___ (immediately) (7 letters)
76 Down: The rear (6 letters)
77 Down: Former Congolese prime minister (4 letters)
78 Down: Essentials (5 letters)
79 Down: Sum (6 letters)
80 Down: Jeweler's eyepiece (5 letters)
81 Down: Take life easy (4 letters)
83 Down: " . . . through ___, darkly": I Cor. 13:12 (6 letters)
84 Down: Aesop character (5 letters)
85 Down: Protection (5 letters)
88 Down: Galahad's mother (6 letters)
89 Down: "Luv," with "The" (10 letters)
91 Down: River in Bavaria (4 letters)
92 Down: Meter man (4 letters)
95 Down: Hang-up of a sort (8 letters)
96 Down: Get ready to serve wine (6 letters)
97 Down: Like parts of the moon (8 letters)
100 Down: "Beowulf" is one (4 letters)
104 Down: Fit for tilling (6 letters)
106 Down: Gossip's interest (6 letters)
107 Down: Apocopates (6 letters)
108 Down: Hebrew letter: Var. (4 letters)
110 Down: Plains abode (5 letters)
111 Down: Takes advice (5 letters)
112 Down: Rubbish (5 letters)
114 Down: Pub vessels (4 letters)
115 Down: Rembrandt's "Lady with ___" (4 letters)
117 Down: Dame Myra (4 letters)
118 Down: "It ___ laugh": Pinero (4 letters)
119 Down: Arrest (4 letters)
120 Down: Fabian's monogram (3 letters)
121 Down: Branco or Bravo (3 letters)
122 Down: Hog's desire (3 letters)
124 Down: "Some ___ meat . . . ": Burns (3 letters)
125 Down: U.N. labor body (3 letters)
126 Down: Unclose: Poetic (3 letters)

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