A GAGGLE OF GROUPS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23166 clues~30-60 minBy Tap Osborn1/14/1979

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Across

1 Across: Blueprint (4 letters)
5 Across: Lusterless finish (5 letters)
10 Across: Synthetic (6 letters)
16 Across: Ottoman chiefs (4 letters)
20 Across: Yokel (4 letters)
21 Across: Thai, e.g. (5 letters)
22 Across: Dinner party (6 letters)
23 Across: Courage (5 letters)
24 Across: Grunting group (17 letters)
27 Across: Citified (5 letters)
28 Across: Humdrum entree (8 letters)
29 Across: Clerical group (14 letters)
31 Across: Curmudgeon (5 letters)
32 Across: Soul, to Descartes (3 letters)
33 Across: Wide-shoe letters (3 letters)
34 Across: Be fatuously fond (4 letters)
35 Across: Heated (6 letters)
37 Across: Canon cue sign (5 letters)
39 Across: Zoroastrian's god (5 letters)
41 Across: Grandson of Adam (4 letters)
42 Across: Poised (4 letters)
43 Across: Half a gaffe (3 letters)
44 Across: Lose traction (4 letters)
46 Across: Avant-gardist (3 letters)
48 Across: Sandy's alert (3 letters)
49 Across: Religious group (12 letters)
54 Across: Minor, to a lawyer (6 letters)
58 Across: Cover (3 letters)
59 Across: Fashion (4 letters)
60 Across: ___ fille (5 letters)
61 Across: Serves as a mixologist (8 letters)
63 Across: Dessert (3 letters)
64 Across: Diamonds: Slang (3 letters)
65 Across: Aug. 23–Sept. 22 person (5 letters)
66 Across: La. name (4 letters)
67 Across: ___ Pompilius (4 letters)
68 Across: Old car (4 letters)
70 Across: Threadlike structure: Comb. form (5 letters)
71 Across: Mountain pool (4 letters)
72 Across: United (4 letters)
73 Across: Stage profession: Abbr. (4 letters)
75 Across: Criminal group (13 letters)
79 Across: A–F connection (4 letters)
80 Across: Retreat (4 letters)
81 Across: Language of some N.M. Indians (4 letters)
82 Across: Ear benders (5 letters)
83 Across: Window part (4 letters)
85 Across: ___ facto (4 letters)
86 Across: Norman Thomas bloc: Abbr. (4 letters)
87 Across: Tremble with fear (5 letters)
88 Across: Erwin (3 letters)
89 Across: Sphere (3 letters)
92 Across: Win a debate (8 letters)
94 Across: Book size (5 letters)
95 Across: Effete (4 letters)
96 Across: Charge (3 letters)
97 Across: Sadat's predecessor (6 letters)
98 Across: Mendacious group (12 letters)
101 Across: Strive in rivalry (3 letters)
102 Across: Item for a dory (3 letters)
103 Across: March, to Pompey's men (4 letters)
104 Across: Kind of wind or omen (3 letters)
105 Across: Autograph (4 letters)
106 Across: Music guide mark (4 letters)
109 Across: Confound (5 letters)
112 Across: Pedestal part (5 letters)
115 Across: "Scarlet Letter" name (6 letters)
117 Across: Mary's follower (4 letters)
118 Across: Homophone for neigh (3 letters)
119 Across: Parking place (3 letters)
120 Across: Kind of house or ship (5 letters)
121 Across: Stroking group (14 letters)
127 Across: Cagliari's locale (8 letters)
130 Across: Sinclair (5 letters)
131 Across: Very strict group (17 letters)
133 Across: Vaticinators (5 letters)
134 Across: Chitchat, British style (6 letters)
135 Across: Pliny ___, U.S. inventor (5 letters)
136 Across: Developed (4 letters)
137 Across: Slips (4 letters)
138 Across: Author of "The Potting Shed" (6 letters)
139 Across: British golf cup (5 letters)
140 Across: Girl in a Salinger tale (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Hyde Park vehicle (4 letters)
2 Down: Magazine founder (4 letters)
3 Down: Pair pulling for each other (16 letters)
4 Down: Unallied (7 letters)
5 Down: Father Prout, humorist (6 letters)
6 Down: Dripping wet (5 letters)
7 Down: Quarrel (4 letters)
8 Down: Shooter for Junior (3 letters)
9 Down: Craze (6 letters)
10 Down: Sum, ___, fui . . . (4 letters)
11 Down: Campus drill org. (4 letters)
12 Down: Paduasoy material (4 letters)
13 Down: Mars: Comb. form (4 letters)
14 Down: Desert fruit (6 letters)
15 Down: Made more savory (6 letters)
16 Down: Hoity-toity group (13 letters)
17 Down: Henry or Althea (6 letters)
18 Down: Red dyestuff: Var. (6 letters)
19 Down: Sight and taste (6 letters)
23 Down: Eat (3 letters)
25 Down: Ambitious bid (4 letters)
26 Down: Poetic masterwork (4 letters)
30 Down: Lambing (7 letters)
32 Down: Asteroid (4 letters)
35 Down: Cosmetic transplant area (5 letters)
36 Down: Shinto temple gateway (5 letters)
37 Down: Affectation (4 letters)
38 Down: Arena gathering (13 letters)
39 Down: Apery expert (4 letters)
40 Down: Nabokov heroine (3 letters)
43 Down: Ordered (4 letters)
45 Down: City in Nigeria (4 letters)
47 Down: Pass receiver (3 letters)
49 Down: "One Fat Englishman" author (4 letters)
50 Down: Coffee blend (5 letters)
51 Down: Algonquian language (6 letters)
52 Down: Iron: Comb. form (5 letters)
53 Down: Attacks (6 letters)
55 Down: Oenological group (16 letters)
56 Down: "A Boy ___ Sue" (5 letters)
57 Down: Hansa's purpose (5 letters)
62 Down: Nine: Prefix (4 letters)
65 Down: What belvederes afford (5 letters)
66 Down: Afterward (5 letters)
69 Down: Rude, clumsy group (13 letters)
70 Down: "My Friend ___" (6 letters)
71 Down: Grow bored with (6 letters)
73 Down: "In like ___ . . . " (5 letters)
74 Down: Neighbor of Naples (5 letters)
76 Down: Classroom for Zeno (4 letters)
77 Down: "___ Succeed . . . " (5 letters)
78 Down: Spectral body (5 letters)
84 Down: Penguins' cousins (4 letters)
86 Down: Shoshonean (7 letters)
87 Down: Recent: Comb. form (4 letters)
88 Down: Endangered mammal (4 letters)
90 Down: Prevail (5 letters)
91 Down: Fashion's Geoffrey (5 letters)
93 Down: Kind of jacket (3 letters)
94 Down: Position (4 letters)
95 Down: Subterfuge (4 letters)
99 Down: Small, in Dogpatch (3 letters)
100 Down: Merry song (4 letters)
105 Down: Otologist's device (7 letters)
106 Down: Section of a contract (6 letters)
107 Down: Kitten, at times (6 letters)
108 Down: Theatrical one (6 letters)
110 Down: Neutralize a cobra (6 letters)
111 Down: East Indian cedar (6 letters)
113 Down: Spread of a sort (4 letters)
114 Down: Deliberate (6 letters)
115 Down: O. Henry (6 letters)
116 Down: Joe ___ of baseball (4 letters)
120 Down: Frankie, the pianist (5 letters)
122 Down: Rural ways: Abbr. (3 letters)
123 Down: A Johnson (4 letters)
124 Down: Use of memory (4 letters)
125 Down: Explorer Hedin (4 letters)
126 Down: Simple (4 letters)
127 Down: Corsican's neighbor (4 letters)
128 Down: Grist for a list (4 letters)
129 Down: "___ forgive those . . . " (4 letters)
132 Down: Author Sarton (3 letters)

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