A TAXING SITUATION

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23166 clues~30-60 minBy Alfio Micci4/8/1979

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Across

1 Across: Allay (5 letters)
6 Across: Pivotal (5 letters)
11 Across: Epic containing 24 books (5 letters)
16 Across: ___-à-dire (4 letters)
20 Across: Beset (5 letters)
21 Across: P.D.Q. (5 letters)
22 Across: Dipper (5 letters)
23 Across: Polo (5 letters)
24 Across: Start of a verse (23 letters)
28 Across: Rodomontade (4 letters)
29 Across: Douze mois (5 letters)
30 Across: Napoleon: 1814 (5 letters)
31 Across: Chant (6 letters)
32 Across: Diocletian and Julian (4 letters)
33 Across: Painter Jan van der ___ (4 letters)
34 Across: Ryan of L.A. (5 letters)
35 Across: Party man (7 letters)
36 Across: Absquatulated (4 letters)
37 Across: Pastry shell (5 letters)
38 Across: Desert transport (5 letters)
39 Across: Mutism (6 letters)
43 Across: Verbal lumps for umps (4 letters)
44 Across: Water buffalo (4 letters)
45 Across: Caesar's X (3 letters)
48 Across: Note (6 letters)
49 Across: Bread, in Brest (4 letters)
50 Across: Foreigner (5 letters)
52 Across: Subtle emanations (5 letters)
54 Across: Second line of verse (23 letters)
58 Across: Regretful one, in songdom (4 letters)
59 Across: Beldams (4 letters)
60 Across: Gets better (5 letters)
61 Across: Dunne and Rich (6 letters)
62 Across: Fez color (3 letters)
63 Across: Abounding with clay (5 letters)
65 Across: Intrinsically (5 letters)
66 Across: Tasks (6 letters)
67 Across: Brazilian port (5 letters)
68 Across: El Greco's homeland (5 letters)
69 Across: Larceny (5 letters)
70 Across: Practice the horn (6 letters)
72 Across: Fulcrum for an oar (5 letters)
73 Across: Courage (5 letters)
74 Across: Brazier (3 letters)
77 Across: Third-largest island (6 letters)
78 Across: Breathe hard (5 letters)
79 Across: Scriptorium item (4 letters)
80 Across: Stupefy (4 letters)
81 Across: Third line of verse (23 letters)
86 Across: Take the helm (5 letters)
87 Across: Hornswoggles (5 letters)
88 Across: Marchioness (4 letters)
89 Across: Varnish bases (6 letters)
90 Across: Opposite of vert. (3 letters)
91 Across: Courteous bloke (4 letters)
92 Across: That: Fr. (4 letters)
93 Across: Heir's windfall (6 letters)
94 Across: Native of Yugoslavia (5 letters)
96 Across: Brilliance (5 letters)
98 Across: Dickens's Betsey ___ (4 letters)
100 Across: Miserly (7 letters)
103 Across: Pub offering (5 letters)
104 Across: British measure for herring (4 letters)
105 Across: Title for Hess or Evans (4 letters)
109 Across: Danish seaport (6 letters)
110 Across: Disdain (5 letters)
111 Across: Inclination (5 letters)
112 Across: Greek group in W.W. II (4 letters)
113 Across: End of verse (23 letters)
117 Across: Crime laid to Nero (5 letters)
118 Across: Sky over Seville (5 letters)
119 Across: Chinese province (5 letters)
120 Across: Skirt (5 letters)
121 Across: Erect (4 letters)
122 Across: Eve of films (5 letters)
123 Across: Surpass (5 letters)
124 Across: Plant substance (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Land's end (5 letters)
2 Down: "Gypsy Love" composer (5 letters)
3 Down: Iowa church society (5 letters)
4 Down: Black Watch garb (5 letters)
5 Down: Queen before Sofia (3 letters)
6 Down: Okla. city or county (6 letters)
7 Down: Thought (6 letters)
8 Down: Mañana (5 letters)
9 Down: Charley horse (4 letters)
10 Down: Cousin of 6 Down (3 letters)
11 Down: Hollies (6 letters)
12 Down: Roper's item (6 letters)
13 Down: Pastoral poem (5 letters)
14 Down: Berlin graybeard (4 letters)
15 Down: ___ volente (3 letters)
16 Down: Monopoly (6 letters)
17 Down: Baseball statistic (5 letters)
18 Down: High-tea tidbit (5 letters)
19 Down: London landmark (5 letters)
23 Down: Casino game (5 letters)
25 Down: Author of the verse (7 letters)
26 Down: Target of the Pioneer (5 letters)
27 Down: Southern resort (5 letters)
34 Down: U. of Maine town (5 letters)
35 Down: Tropical plant (5 letters)
36 Down: Pulp sources (4 letters)
37 Down: Coconut fibers (5 letters)
38 Down: Salad ingredient (5 letters)
39 Down: Garb for Gawain (5 letters)
40 Down: One of the Philippines (5 letters)
41 Down: "The way of a man with ___" (5 letters)
42 Down: Jeune fille (4 letters)
43 Down: Like old trousers (5 letters)
44 Down: Two on the ___ (5 letters)
45 Down: Helen of soap operas (5 letters)
46 Down: Makes simpler (5 letters)
47 Down: Loch ___ (4 letters)
49 Down: Sacred song (5 letters)
50 Down: Parisian's air-raid alarm (6 letters)
51 Down: Tenant's contract (5 letters)
52 Down: Loose, as a boat (6 letters)
53 Down: Suffix with fraud or flat (5 letters)
55 Down: What "baby makes" (5 letters)
56 Down: V.P.: 1877–81 (7 letters)
57 Down: Chilean export (5 letters)
63 Down: Shooting star (6 letters)
64 Down: Concede (5 letters)
65 Down: Radical European youths (6 letters)
66 Down: Military headdress (5 letters)
67 Down: French maid (5 letters)
68 Down: Abrade (5 letters)
69 Down: Waspish (5 letters)
70 Down: Scout's rider (5 letters)
71 Down: Bid (5 letters)
72 Down: Emulate Circe (5 letters)
73 Down: Ibsen woman (5 letters)
74 Down: Toscanini's birthplace (5 letters)
75 Down: Without life (5 letters)
76 Down: Paperboy (5 letters)
77 Down: Southampton shindig (4 letters)
78 Down: Favorite resort (5 letters)
79 Down: Started a card game (5 letters)
80 Down: Vestige (4 letters)
82 Down: Utopian (5 letters)
83 Down: Ground gripper (5 letters)
84 Down: "Johnny ___," 1948 film (7 letters)
85 Down: Cassini (4 letters)
91 Down: Legendary robot (5 letters)
92 Down: Emulated a limpet (5 letters)
94 Down: Cato's title in 184 B.C. (6 letters)
95 Down: Cassock's relative (5 letters)
96 Down: Principal dancer (6 letters)
97 Down: ___ the cob (6 letters)
98 Down: Sought a victim (6 letters)
99 Down: Estancia (6 letters)
100 Down: Until now (5 letters)
101 Down: Dote on (5 letters)
102 Down: Vice follower (5 letters)
103 Down: Timetable, for short (5 letters)
104 Down: Moved on all fours (5 letters)
105 Down: Probe (5 letters)
106 Down: A.k.a. (5 letters)
107 Down: ___ Gras (5 letters)
108 Down: German city (5 letters)
110 Down: Cooking direction (4 letters)
111 Down: Biblical pronoun (4 letters)
114 Down: Government agcy.: 1948–51 (3 letters)
115 Down: However, for short (3 letters)
116 Down: Celtic Neptune (3 letters)

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