CAPITAL PHRASES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23164 clues~30-60 minBy William Lutwiniak1/28/1979

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Across

1 Across: Pickets (5 letters)
6 Across: Propounded (5 letters)
11 Across: ___ Pradesh, India (5 letters)
16 Across: Robe for Cornelia (5 letters)
21 Across: Swarming (5 letters)
22 Across: Fanon (5 letters)
23 Across: Pulitzer Prize author: 1918 (5 letters)
24 Across: Citified (5 letters)
25 Across: Milkweed extract (5 letters)
26 Across: Of apples (5 letters)
27 Across: Medieval guild (5 letters)
28 Across: Irish goblin (5 letters)
29 Across: Rome (22 letters)
33 Across: Conservative (4 letters)
34 Across: Boundary (4 letters)
35 Across: Les girls (5 letters)
36 Across: Italian article (3 letters)
37 Across: Sinuous shape (3 letters)
38 Across: Crook in a branch (4 letters)
39 Across: Relative of Sèvres (5 letters)
40 Across: Video production (8 letters)
45 Across: Troop group (3 letters)
46 Across: Arkansas toothpick (4 letters)
47 Across: Walt Kelly creation (4 letters)
48 Across: U.S.S.R. river (3 letters)
49 Across: Berlin (22 letters)
57 Across: Glissade (5 letters)
58 Across: W.W. II org. (3 letters)
59 Across: Land of the Cymry (5 letters)
60 Across: Cather's "___ Ours" (5 letters)
61 Across: Asian evergreen (4 letters)
62 Across: Shearer of ballet (5 letters)
64 Across: Not live (5 letters)
65 Across: Lovable (6 letters)
66 Across: Hit letters (3 letters)
67 Across: Disciplinarian (6 letters)
68 Across: Singer Sumac (3 letters)
69 Across: Black Sea resort (4 letters)
70 Across: Panama (23 letters)
78 Across: Part of U.S.N.A. (4 letters)
79 Across: Salt Lake City athlete (3 letters)
80 Across: Siouan Sooners (6 letters)
81 Across: Fishpond occupant (3 letters)
82 Across: Flounder (6 letters)
85 Across: Walk daintily (5 letters)
87 Across: Last of the Mohicans (5 letters)
88 Across: Amphora handle (4 letters)
89 Across: At ___ (confused) (5 letters)
90 Across: Herd of seals (5 letters)
91 Across: Poetic time (3 letters)
92 Across: Till now (5 letters)
93 Across: Vienna (22 letters)
99 Across: SHAEF area (3 letters)
100 Across: Venetians' resort (4 letters)
101 Across: Budget item (4 letters)
102 Across: ___ Gev, Israeli settlement (3 letters)
103 Across: Identical (8 letters)
106 Across: Sparling (5 letters)
108 Across: Habilimented (4 letters)
110 Across: G-man (3 letters)
113 Across: Make known (3 letters)
114 Across: Ho's partner (5 letters)
115 Across: QE2 berth (4 letters)
116 Across: Jungle sound (4 letters)
117 Across: Copenhagen (22 letters)
123 Across: Noxious substance (5 letters)
124 Across: "___ Rookh" (5 letters)
125 Across: Kid (5 letters)
126 Across: Is a party to (5 letters)
127 Across: Beautify (5 letters)
128 Across: Made slick (5 letters)
129 Across: Join (5 letters)
130 Across: Theater seats (5 letters)
131 Across: Backs (5 letters)
132 Across: Resplendence (5 letters)
133 Across: Cooper role (5 letters)
134 Across: Conte (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Intellectual relish (6 letters)
2 Down: Cottonwoods (6 letters)
3 Down: Petrol units (6 letters)
4 Down: Companion of each (5 letters)
5 Down: Numerical prefix (4 letters)
6 Down: Brilliantine (6 letters)
7 Down: Temple or mandarin (6 letters)
8 Down: Palliate (5 letters)
9 Down: "Roast Pig" essayist (4 letters)
10 Down: Rundown (8 letters)
11 Down: Supported (6 letters)
12 Down: Precisely (6 letters)
13 Down: Show biz awards (5 letters)
14 Down: To boot (4 letters)
15 Down: Reduce sail (4 letters)
16 Down: Limber (6 letters)
17 Down: Capricorn, e.g. (6 letters)
18 Down: Agora coin (4 letters)
19 Down: Placid or Como (4 letters)
20 Down: Boswellian collection (3 letters)
30 Down: Thurify (5 letters)
31 Down: "The Man ___" (5 letters)
32 Down: Radiant (5 letters)
38 Down: Cheat on a check (4 letters)
39 Down: Wild sheep (3 letters)
40 Down: ___ down (muted) (5 letters)
41 Down: ___ Benedict (4 letters)
42 Down: Portrayed (5 letters)
43 Down: Hebrew Hades (5 letters)
44 Down: Resembling peat (5 letters)
45 Down: Nobelist in Literature: 1947 (4 letters)
46 Down: ___ David (6 letters)
47 Down: Wroclaw man (4 letters)
49 Down: Extreme (5 letters)
50 Down: Native of Khartoum (5 letters)
51 Down: Star-crossed (6 letters)
52 Down: Agnew (5 letters)
53 Down: Pundit (5 letters)
54 Down: Spider monkey (7 letters)
55 Down: Directs (6 letters)
56 Down: Ink or rubber (5 letters)
57 Down: Window part (4 letters)
62 Down: Title for a chairperson (5 letters)
63 Down: Supplement (7 letters)
64 Down: Melville novel (5 letters)
65 Down: Kin of cabbages (5 letters)
67 Down: Bigot (6 letters)
69 Down: Heathen: It. (6 letters)
71 Down: Wetland (5 letters)
72 Down: Pruritic (5 letters)
73 Down: ___ as a pin (6 letters)
74 Down: Took measured steps (5 letters)
75 Down: Plastic for records (5 letters)
76 Down: LTD's extinct relative (5 letters)
77 Down: Ottoman (4 letters)
82 Down: Men (5 letters)
83 Down: Upper crust (5 letters)
84 Down: "Dead Souls" author (5 letters)
85 Down: Actress Adams (5 letters)
86 Down: "Wishing Will Make ___" (4 letters)
88 Down: Garland's "___ of the Middle Border" (4 letters)
90 Down: Decorous (4 letters)
92 Down: Gobilike (4 letters)
94 Down: Cigar (5 letters)
95 Down: Short: Prefix (5 letters)
96 Down: Let up (8 letters)
97 Down: Tolkien creature (3 letters)
98 Down: Gets the benefit (5 letters)
104 Down: Moslem mendicants (6 letters)
105 Down: Raw pigment (6 letters)
106 Down: Bear of a sort (6 letters)
107 Down: Arthritis, e.g. (6 letters)
108 Down: Shut (6 letters)
109 Down: Hard-hit balls (6 letters)
110 Down: Precede (6 letters)
111 Down: Island annexed by Chile (6 letters)
112 Down: Chichi (6 letters)
114 Down: Cry of surprise (5 letters)
115 Down: Aver (5 letters)
116 Down: Golem, for one (5 letters)
117 Down: Mossback (4 letters)
118 Down: Nero's or Caesar's wife (4 letters)
119 Down: Whip (4 letters)
120 Down: Lament (4 letters)
121 Down: Kelly or Tunney (4 letters)
122 Down: Dutch painter (4 letters)
123 Down: Urchin (3 letters)

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