SYNTHETIC SYNONYMS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23168 clues~30-60 minBy Bert H. Kruse6/3/1979

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Across

1 Across: Dutch cheeses (5 letters)
6 Across: Attacks (7 letters)
13 Across: Demure (3 letters)
16 Across: Nincompoop (3 letters)
19 Across: Beverage (5 letters)
20 Across: Boston square (7 letters)
21 Across: Past (3 letters)
22 Across: Berlin avenue (5 letters)
24 Across: Author of "Hiawatha" (13 letters)
26 Across: New Yorkers (9 letters)
28 Across: Poetry (4 letters)
29 Across: Porky's plaint (4 letters)
30 Across: Storehouse (5 letters)
32 Across: Colors (6 letters)
33 Across: Customs (5 letters)
34 Across: Decelerates (5 letters)
35 Across: Let (4 letters)
36 Across: Removes from office (8 letters)
40 Across: Ahab's quarry (5 letters)
41 Across: Soccer great (4 letters)
42 Across: G.I. Jane (3 letters)
45 Across: Stritch and May (7 letters)
46 Across: Easy, vulnerable target (10 letters)
48 Across: Trapper's trophy (4 letters)
49 Across: Inn guest (6 letters)
50 Across: Scenic view (5 letters)
51 Across: Trilby on a Londoner (3 letters)
52 Across: Dealt sparingly (5 letters)
53 Across: Galore (5 letters)
54 Across: Push (5 letters)
55 Across: Debt memo (4 letters)
57 Across: Treelike cactus (6 letters)
58 Across: Desires (4 letters)
59 Across: Growing out (5 letters)
60 Across: Tore (3 letters)
61 Across: A bit more tetched (7 letters)
62 Across: Tupolev-144, e.g. (3 letters)
63 Across: L.A. team (9 letters)
66 Across: Rooks (7 letters)
67 Across: More content (7 letters)
70 Across: Bravo, in Barcelona (3 letters)
71 Across: Memorable chief (7 letters)
72 Across: Draws back (7 letters)
73 Across: Dinner entree (9 letters)
75 Across: Women's service org. (3 letters)
78 Across: Beavers (7 letters)
79 Across: Shanty (3 letters)
80 Across: Aunt in "Oklahoma!" (5 letters)
81 Across: Stowe transport (4 letters)
82 Across: Dress (6 letters)
83 Across: Buzzes (4 letters)
84 Across: "___ needs a good memory" (5 letters)
85 Across: Menace in India (5 letters)
86 Across: Garlic unit (5 letters)
87 Across: Frivolous girl (3 letters)
88 Across: ___ nothing (5 letters)
89 Across: Eddied (6 letters)
90 Across: Honey site (4 letters)
91 Across: G. & S. ship (10 letters)
94 Across: Cat variety (7 letters)
95 Across: Compass dir. (3 letters)
96 Across: Bridge coup (4 letters)
97 Across: Like a certain range (5 letters)
98 Across: Props (8 letters)
99 Across: Hoax (4 letters)
100 Across: Erect (5 letters)
101 Across: Actress Shire (5 letters)
102 Across: Eastern incarnation (6 letters)
105 Across: Asian inn (5 letters)
106 Across: Perdition (4 letters)
107 Across: Skin (4 letters)
111 Across: A view from Cleveland (9 letters)
113 Across: City northwest of Roma (13 letters)
117 Across: Stranger (5 letters)
118 Across: Spenserian hag (3 letters)
119 Across: Circe, e.g. (7 letters)
120 Across: Crime increasing in our time (5 letters)
121 Across: Stop (3 letters)
122 Across: Crop (3 letters)
123 Across: Money in ancient Greece (7 letters)
124 Across: Difficult years (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: She loved Narcissus (4 letters)
2 Down: Elwood, in "Harvey" (4 letters)
3 Down: Throb (4 letters)
4 Down: Avril et mai, e.g. (4 letters)
5 Down: Lose pep (3 letters)
6 Down: Is ambitious (7 letters)
7 Down: Rich biscuits (6 letters)
8 Down: Hose (5 letters)
9 Down: Turpentine resin (3 letters)
10 Down: ___ de France (3 letters)
11 Down: Kind of TV show (8 letters)
12 Down: Heart contraction (7 letters)
13 Down: A cartoonist and cartoon hero (5 letters)
14 Down: Flirt visually (4 letters)
15 Down: "Te" in "Te amo" (3 letters)
16 Down: Without help (5 letters)
17 Down: Garden pest (4 letters)
18 Down: Dry (4 letters)
22 Down: Burning (5 letters)
23 Down: Kind of curve (3 letters)
25 Down: Western dam (6 letters)
27 Down: Quiet (5 letters)
31 Down: Greatly impressed (4 letters)
33 Down: Actor from N.Y.C.: 1939–76 (5 letters)
34 Down: Condition (5 letters)
35 Down: Field trial event (4 letters)
36 Down: Holds up (6 letters)
37 Down: R.I.P. speeches (6 letters)
38 Down: Deer-antelope playground (13 letters)
39 Down: King bested him (5 letters)
40 Down: Makes cloth (6 letters)
41 Down: Solid fuel (4 letters)
42 Down: Famous jockey (13 letters)
43 Down: Astaire's sister et al. (6 letters)
44 Down: Tree on Lebanon's flag (5 letters)
46 Down: Sea duck (6 letters)
47 Down: Like many a model (4 letters)
48 Down: P.R. man's forte (6 letters)
50 Down: Oil-producing rocks (6 letters)
52 Down: Garb for Gandhi (5 letters)
54 Down: Escargots (6 letters)
55 Down: Maskegons' kin (5 letters)
56 Down: Chance (3 letters)
57 Down: Tandy, to Cronyn (6 letters)
59 Down: British, for one (6 letters)
61 Down: Emerson contemporary (6 letters)
64 Down: Owls' sounds (5 letters)
65 Down: Musical high note (3 letters)
66 Down: Nab (6 letters)
68 Down: On the go (6 letters)
69 Down: U.S. painter: 1859–1940 (5 letters)
71 Down: Peak in Thessaly (6 letters)
72 Down: Rope-ladder step (6 letters)
73 Down: Kind of punch (3 letters)
74 Down: Tattle (6 letters)
76 Down: Most unusual (6 letters)
77 Down: Manual arts (6 letters)
78 Down: Hide (5 letters)
79 Down: Cordell (4 letters)
81 Down: Wrong, in Roma (5 letters)
83 Down: Injure (4 letters)
84 Down: He crowned William the Conqueror (5 letters)
85 Down: Mea ___ (5 letters)
87 Down: Realm of Rama I (4 letters)
88 Down: Applicable, old style (8 letters)
89 Down: "Storia di Cristo" author (6 letters)
91 Down: Bright light (5 letters)
92 Down: Lizard: Comb. form (4 letters)
93 Down: Other names (7 letters)
94 Down: ___ puisne (7 letters)
96 Down: Dancer Ted (5 letters)
98 Down: Small pike-perch (6 letters)
99 Down: Equine (5 letters)
100 Down: Moisten (5 letters)
101 Down: Vestige (5 letters)
102 Down: Ga. neighbor (3 letters)
103 Down: Galba's good-bye (4 letters)
104 Down: Sib (4 letters)
105 Down: Sp. lass (4 letters)
107 Down: Reduce (4 letters)
108 Down: If not (4 letters)
109 Down: One in social demand (4 letters)
110 Down: Browns (4 letters)
112 Down: "___ Woman" (3 letters)
114 Down: Hagen (3 letters)
115 Down: Create a lap (3 letters)
116 Down: Produce lace (3 letters)

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