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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Herb L. Risteen7/9/1978
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Marshy tract (3 letters)
- 4 Across
- Vivacity (4 letters)
- 8 Across
- Admitted fact (5 letters)
- 13 Across
- Cacholong (4 letters)
- 17 Across
- Actor Vigoda (3 letters)
- 18 Across
- Resort in Ontario (6 letters)
- 20 Across
- Bay near Nagasaki (5 letters)
- 21 Across
- Do office work (4 letters)
- 22 Across
- Austrian composer (21 letters)
- 26 Across
- Function (7 letters)
- 27 Across
- Overlook (4 letters)
- 28 Across
- Made slick (5 letters)
- 29 Across
- ___ canto (3 letters)
- 30 Across
- "___ Dimittis" (hymn) (4 letters)
- 31 Across
- Troubles (4 letters)
- 33 Across
- Crusading monarch (21 letters)
- 43 Across
- Suffix with sect (5 letters)
- 44 Across
- Western capital (5 letters)
- 45 Across
- King in Kings (4 letters)
- 46 Across
- Collection (3 letters)
- 47 Across
- Parts of pots (4 letters)
- 48 Across
- ___ de combat (4 letters)
- 49 Across
- She wrote "A Certain Smile" (5 letters)
- 51 Across
- Dixie tree (4 letters)
- 52 Across
- Dessert (3 letters)
- 53 Across
- Amiens's river (5 letters)
- 54 Across
- Heavy, gaseous element (5 letters)
- 55 Across
- Bridge expert (5 letters)
- 56 Across
- Condense, in a way (6 letters)
- 58 Across
- ___ energy (5 letters)
- 59 Across
- Blood-bank supporters (6 letters)
- 60 Across
- French author (15 letters)
- 64 Across
- Call to account (6 letters)
- 67 Across
- Partner of true (5 letters)
- 68 Across
- Assembles, as equipment (6 letters)
- 71 Across
- Protection (5 letters)
- 72 Across
- Wooden (5 letters)
- 73 Across
- Companionless (5 letters)
- 75 Across
- Truth, to Confucius (3 letters)
- 77 Across
- Loblolly (4 letters)
- 78 Across
- Stimuli (5 letters)
- 79 Across
- U.S. legislators (4 letters)
- 80 Across
- Apex (4 letters)
- 81 Across
- United (3 letters)
- 82 Across
- Denver building (4 letters)
- 83 Across
- Obliquely (5 letters)
- 85 Across
- Body passage (5 letters)
- 86 Across
- Scandinavian storyteller (21 letters)
- 91 Across
- Out of the wind (4 letters)
- 92 Across
- Bring to ruin (4 letters)
- 93 Across
- Morsel for Dobbin (3 letters)
- 94 Across
- Corrupt (5 letters)
- 97 Across
- Per ___ (4 letters)
- 98 Across
- Bitter taunt (7 letters)
- 102 Across
- British statesman (21 letters)
- 108 Across
- Status quo ___ bellum (4 letters)
- 109 Across
- On a cruise (5 letters)
- 110 Across
- Famous judge (6 letters)
- 111 Across
- Noisy activity (3 letters)
- 112 Across
- Set the pace (4 letters)
- 113 Across
- Showy display (5 letters)
- 114 Across
- Vetch (4 letters)
- 115 Across
- Tavern item (3 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Rotund (3 letters)
- 2 Down
- Spanish river (4 letters)
- 3 Down
- One of the tides (4 letters)
- 4 Down
- Doe or ewe (6 letters)
- 5 Down
- Business abbr. (4 letters)
- 6 Down
- Dissolute man (4 letters)
- 7 Down
- Sooner than (3 letters)
- 8 Down
- Old master (6 letters)
- 9 Down
- Three on ___ (6 letters)
- 10 Down
- Harbor craft (3 letters)
- 11 Down
- Receptacle (3 letters)
- 12 Down
- Barnyard noise (3 letters)
- 13 Down
- Aloof (6 letters)
- 14 Down
- Unpleasant person (4 letters)
- 15 Down
- Tub plant (4 letters)
- 16 Down
- Indecent (4 letters)
- 18 Down
- Native of Pusan (6 letters)
- 19 Down
- Male "dreamboat" (6 letters)
- 23 Down
- Horses' cousins (6 letters)
- 24 Down
- Stubborn as ___ (5 letters)
- 25 Down
- ___ Heights (5 letters)
- 31 Down
- Account exec (5 letters)
- 32 Down
- Smooth out (4 letters)
- 33 Down
- Surrealist (4 letters)
- 34 Down
- Evergreen shrub (5 letters)
- 35 Down
- ___ over (helped along) (5 letters)
- 36 Down
- Powerful projectiles (6 letters)
- 37 Down
- Standard (4 letters)
- 38 Down
- Seine feeder (4 letters)
- 39 Down
- Great Hindu poet (6 letters)
- 40 Down
- City in Illinois (5 letters)
- 41 Down
- Prefix with lace and weave (5 letters)
- 42 Down
- A memorable Claude (5 letters)
- 48 Down
- "___ Lyricae," Watts poem (5 letters)
- 49 Down
- Fruit ___ (5 letters)
- 50 Down
- London's "Before ___" (4 letters)
- 51 Down
- Hammer's companions (5 letters)
- 53 Down
- Lieder (5 letters)
- 54 Down
- City northwest of Paris (5 letters)
- 55 Down
- Swindle (5 letters)
- 57 Down
- Striped textile design (5 letters)
- 58 Down
- Hale and Hari (5 letters)
- 59 Down
- "I am ___, Egypt . . . " (5 letters)
- 61 Down
- Social classes (6 letters)
- 62 Down
- Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest" (4 letters)
- 63 Down
- Monotonous talker (6 letters)
- 64 Down
- Table fowl (5 letters)
- 65 Down
- German poet (5 letters)
- 66 Down
- Miss Moorehead (5 letters)
- 69 Down
- Driver's maneuver (5 letters)
- 70 Down
- Food in Firenze (5 letters)
- 72 Down
- One thousand kilograms (5 letters)
- 73 Down
- Galatea's beloved (4 letters)
- 74 Down
- Napoleon won here in 1796 (4 letters)
- 76 Down
- Colorful fish (4 letters)
- 78 Down
- He wrote "The Counterfeiters" (4 letters)
- 80 Down
- Of the ribs (6 letters)
- 82 Down
- Disintegrates (5 letters)
- 83 Down
- ___ by verdict (5 letters)
- 84 Down
- Mouthlike openings (6 letters)
- 85 Down
- Landscaper's shrub (6 letters)
- 87 Down
- Rodomontaded (6 letters)
- 88 Down
- Jogged (6 letters)
- 89 Down
- Loos and Louise (6 letters)
- 90 Down
- Roman poet (6 letters)
- 94 Down
- River duck (4 letters)
- 95 Down
- "Green Gables" girl (4 letters)
- 96 Down
- Greek vowel (4 letters)
- 98 Down
- Therapeutic agents (4 letters)
- 99 Down
- Moslem lord (4 letters)
- 100 Down
- Scoria (4 letters)
- 101 Down
- Southern France (4 letters)
- 103 Down
- Hammarskjöld (3 letters)
- 104 Down
- ___ loss (3 letters)
- 105 Down
- Dixie sch. (3 letters)
- 106 Down
- G.B.S. was one (3 letters)
- 107 Down
- Achieved (3 letters)
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