THEYDUNIT

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23172 clues~30-60 minBy Maura B. Jacobson11/19/1978

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Thoreau vista (4 letters)
5 Across: Ziegfeld (3 letters)
8 Across: Watch the birdie (4 letters)
12 Across: Certain lights (4 letters)
16 Across: Campus shindig (4 letters)
20 Across: Eye area (4 letters)
21 Across: Mauna ___ (3 letters)
22 Across: Andes native (4 letters)
23 Across: Hennery (4 letters)
24 Across: Designer Gernreich (4 letters)
25 Across: "Some Buried Caesar" (8 letters)
27 Across: "Le Coup de lune" (14 letters)
30 Across: Namesakes of 74 Across (7 letters)
31 Across: Mlle. Signoret (6 letters)
32 Across: Fabric design (8 letters)
33 Across: Seine sight (3 letters)
34 Across: On the stump (7 letters)
36 Across: Curve intersector (6 letters)
37 Across: "The Innocence of Father Brown" (10 letters)
41 Across: Island near Sumatra (4 letters)
43 Across: Do slaloms (3 letters)
44 Across: Actress Prentiss (5 letters)
45 Across: Spinks (4 letters)
46 Across: Female adviser (6 letters)
48 Across: Whodunit award (5 letters)
52 Across: Pitch (4 letters)
53 Across: Beggar's cry (4 letters)
54 Across: "___ longa, vita brevis" (3 letters)
55 Across: Kind of laugh (5 letters)
57 Across: Pi–sigma connection (3 letters)
58 Across: Tallinn native (4 letters)
59 Across: Architect I. M. ___ (3 letters)
60 Across: Zilch (3 letters)
61 Across: Ike's colleague in W.W. II (5 letters)
62 Across: Mob scene (4 letters)
63 Across: Assails (8 letters)
65 Across: Brand of figs (5 letters)
67 Across: Sine qua ___ (3 letters)
68 Across: Soprano Gluck (4 letters)
69 Across: Tomato disease (5 letters)
70 Across: River of Flanders (4 letters)
72 Across: Italian port (5 letters)
74 Across: "A Study in Scarlet" (5 letters)
76 Across: ___ Marple (4 letters)
78 Across: Locusts (7 letters)
80 Across: Nard (4 letters)
81 Across: "The Four of Hearts" (5 letters)
83 Across: Defeated one (5 letters)
84 Across: Reduce to carbon (4 letters)
86 Across: Sheriff's group (5 letters)
90 Across: Cousin's parent (4 letters)
91 Across: Act the mime (3 letters)
93 Across: Swamp plant (5 letters)
95 Across: Contrite one (8 letters)
97 Across: Cleavage (4 letters)
98 Across: Southwest lariat (5 letters)
100 Across: Signify assent (3 letters)
101 Across: Peking idol (3 letters)
102 Across: Art ___ (4 letters)
103 Across: Greek nickname (3 letters)
104 Across: Thick (5 letters)
105 Across: G-man or T-man (3 letters)
106 Across: LaMotta of ring fame (4 letters)
107 Across: Naval noncoms (4 letters)
108 Across: Oblivion (5 letters)
110 Across: Muscle (6 letters)
112 Across: Marquis de ___ (4 letters)
113 Across: Lorelei's milieu (5 letters)
114 Across: D.A. (3 letters)
116 Across: Recipe direction (4 letters)
117 Across: "Thank You, Mr. Moto" (10 letters)
119 Across: Knight's cloak (6 letters)
122 Across: Poirot (7 letters)
124 Across: Keats subject (3 letters)
125 Across: Insurance contracts (8 letters)
127 Across: Norman Vincent's family (6 letters)
128 Across: Over-the-line driver (7 letters)
132 Across: "The Pale Horse" (14 letters)
134 Across: "I, the Jury" (8 letters)
135 Across: Appraise (4 letters)
136 Across: Neighbor of Burma (4 letters)
137 Across: "It is later ___ you think" (4 letters)
138 Across: "McGraw's boy" (3 letters)
139 Across: Leprechaun's land (4 letters)
140 Across: Started, at golf (4 letters)
141 Across: Coin receptacle (4 letters)
142 Across: Thesaurus entries: Abbr. (4 letters)
143 Across: Med. degree (3 letters)
144 Across: Rio girl (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Aqua ___ (4 letters)
2 Down: Done with (4 letters)
3 Down: Adjacent (4 letters)
4 Down: "The Glass Key" (15 letters)
5 Down: Small bloom (6 letters)
6 Down: Gehrig and Costello (4 letters)
7 Down: Stable staple (3 letters)
8 Down: Crude metal (7 letters)
9 Down: Kind of show (6 letters)
10 Down: Skedaddle (5 letters)
11 Down: I.R.S. interest (8 letters)
12 Down: Tennis coup (3 letters)
13 Down: "Drury Lane's Last Case" (4 letters)
14 Down: Prices (5 letters)
15 Down: Skyline sights (6 letters)
16 Down: Settled up beforehand (7 letters)
17 Down: Set-to (5 letters)
18 Down: Tooth: Comb. form (5 letters)
19 Down: Chinese dynasty (4 letters)
26 Down: Oil city (5 letters)
28 Down: Aladdin's mentor (5 letters)
29 Down: See 134 Across (6 letters)
31 Down: Spanish thickets (5 letters)
35 Down: Cinema Camille (5 letters)
37 Down: Made happen (6 letters)
38 Down: Dash headlong (6 letters)
39 Down: Namesakes of 81 Across (7 letters)
40 Down: Negligent (6 letters)
42 Down: Brown pigment (6 letters)
44 Down: Small bird: Var. (5 letters)
46 Down: "The Case of the Velvet Claws" (11 letters)
47 Down: Choir member (4 letters)
49 Down: Barbecue need (5 letters)
50 Down: "Oh, give me ___ . . . " (5 letters)
51 Down: Hurdy-gurdy (4 letters)
53 Down: V-mail address (3 letters)
54 Down: Be under the weather (3 letters)
56 Down: ___ Bird Johnson (5 letters)
60 Down: Portia's maid (7 letters)
61 Down: Threatened (7 letters)
62 Down: "The Big Sleep" (15 letters)
64 Down: Sea inlet: Fr. (4 letters)
66 Down: Neither sml. nor lge. (3 letters)
71 Down: Andes echo (3 letters)
73 Down: U.S.S.R. silk city (3 letters)
75 Down: Ancient flask (4 letters)
77 Down: Kind of drum (5 letters)
79 Down: So-so grade (3 letters)
80 Down: Wave coming ashore (7 letters)
81 Down: Paper quantity (5 letters)
82 Down: Not qualified (5 letters)
83 Down: Charters (6 letters)
85 Down: Drake's conquest (6 letters)
87 Down: Intervene (6 letters)
88 Down: "As is" item (6 letters)
89 Down: Eaten away (5 letters)
90 Down: Soviet sea (4 letters)
92 Down: Pub measure (4 letters)
94 Down: Olympus resident (3 letters)
96 Down: "The Purloined Letter" (3 letters)
99 Down: Extra inning (5 letters)
104 Down: Disconnect (6 letters)
105 Down: C.S.A. general and family (8 letters)
106 Down: Bond of spydom (5 letters)
109 Down: Garbed (7 letters)
111 Down: Cesare of opera (5 letters)
112 Down: Passions; emotions (7 letters)
113 Down: Part of R.F.D. (5 letters)
115 Down: Perry Mason's rituals (6 letters)
117 Down: Bond of Georgia (6 letters)
118 Down: Ring-toss game (6 letters)
119 Down: Part of Caesar's wardrobe (5 letters)
120 Down: Winged (5 letters)
121 Down: Paste-on (5 letters)
123 Down: Heathcliff's love (5 letters)
125 Down: Role (4 letters)
126 Down: Scram! (4 letters)
128 Down: Said again: Abbr. (4 letters)
129 Down: Spydom name (4 letters)
130 Down: Step ___ (hurry) (4 letters)
131 Down: Actress Rowlands (4 letters)
133 Down: Q–U connection (3 letters)
134 Down: Turf (3 letters)

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