TURNING PHRASES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23166 clues~30-60 minBy Jordan S. Lasher8/12/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Exhausted (5 letters)
6 Across: Short golf shots (5 letters)
11 Across: City in western India (6 letters)
17 Across: "Heaven make thee free ___!": Shak. (4 letters)
21 Across: River to Pamlico Sound (5 letters)
22 Across: Charged (5 letters)
23 Across: Marches or storehouses (6 letters)
24 Across: State tree of Ark. (4 letters)
25 Across: Cobbler's motto? (18 letters)
28 Across: This, in Taxco (4 letters)
29 Across: Moroccan range (3 letters)
30 Across: Scatter (6 letters)
31 Across: A.F.T. rival (3 letters)
32 Across: Huntley (4 letters)
33 Across: Subjoin (6 letters)
36 Across: Conquers Everest (12 letters)
40 Across: Blunder (3 letters)
41 Across: "Yea, team!" (3 letters)
42 Across: Kind of banana or dog (3 letters)
44 Across: Row (4 letters)
45 Across: Very unusual (4 letters)
46 Across: Narrow channel (5 letters)
48 Across: News agcy. (3 letters)
49 Across: Clavicor, e.g. (4 letters)
51 Across: Bawl (3 letters)
52 Across: Balaam's beast (3 letters)
53 Across: Jinx (6 letters)
54 Across: Unit indicating loudness (3 letters)
55 Across: Of a Great Lake (5 letters)
57 Across: Suffix with harp or violin (3 letters)
58 Across: Costa ___ (5 letters)
59 Across: Tumultuous (5 letters)
61 Across: Uses pastels (16 letters)
67 Across: Small whale (3 letters)
68 Across: Develops (7 letters)
69 Across: Unsews (4 letters)
70 Across: ___ Miss, rival of 'Bama (3 letters)
72 Across: Embellish (5 letters)
74 Across: Baphomet, e.g. (4 letters)
75 Across: Hamlet and Borge (5 letters)
77 Across: Tunisian seaport (4 letters)
78 Across: Mapmaking sci. (5 letters)
79 Across: Workaholic's drive (11 letters)
82 Across: Shrewd maneuverer (5 letters)
83 Across: Old English letters (4 letters)
84 Across: Gets one's dander up (5 letters)
85 Across: Antiseptic: Comb. form (4 letters)
86 Across: Glassware ovens (5 letters)
87 Across: Author of "The Wall Street Gang" (3 letters)
88 Across: Actress Merrill (4 letters)
89 Across: Cordage grass (7 letters)
92 Across: Parabasis (3 letters)
93 Across: Columbia River, e.g. (16 letters)
97 Across: Jai alai basket (5 letters)
100 Across: Chick (5 letters)
101 Across: Ezra Pound work (3 letters)
102 Across: U.S.S.R. moon probe (5 letters)
104 Across: Female lobster (3 letters)
105 Across: He has a sponsor (6 letters)
107 Across: Singer Tillis (3 letters)
108 Across: Afternoon hrs. (3 letters)
111 Across: "King Lear" role (4 letters)
112 Across: Pilcorn (3 letters)
113 Across: "Half ___ is . . . " (5 letters)
114 Across: Lateen or Jamie Green (4 letters)
115 Across: Constance or Louise (4 letters)
117 Across: "Be still!" (3 letters)
118 Across: Dir. to Blarney from Killarney (3 letters)
119 Across: Jiffy (3 letters)
120 Across: Go gaga over the roller coaster (12 letters)
124 Across: Past and perfect (6 letters)
126 Across: Boone and Hingle (4 letters)
128 Across: Once named (3 letters)
129 Across: Walton's "The Compleat ___" (6 letters)
130 Across: Fortas (3 letters)
131 Across: Steel ingredient (4 letters)
132 Across: "Her typewriter was broken!" (18 letters)
139 Across: Dido died on one (4 letters)
140 Across: Show plainly (6 letters)
141 Across: Musical flourish (5 letters)
142 Across: Ending of a Kilmer poem (5 letters)
143 Across: Existence (4 letters)
144 Across: Zone (6 letters)
145 Across: Roofing tile (5 letters)
146 Across: Some errata (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Aesop's "The ___ and the Dove" (3 letters)
2 Down: Ornament for Don Ho (3 letters)
3 Down: Abner's radio partner (3 letters)
4 Down: Rhone feeder (5 letters)
5 Down: Like an amateur boxer (12 letters)
6 Down: French vineyard (3 letters)
7 Down: Help (5 letters)
8 Down: Accuse (6 letters)
9 Down: N.J. city or river (7 letters)
10 Down: Office gadget (7 letters)
11 Down: Tintinnabula (5 letters)
12 Down: Any N.F.L. player (3 letters)
13 Down: Actress Charlotte (3 letters)
14 Down: Keys or jacks (7 letters)
15 Down: Strike out (6 letters)
16 Down: Very, in music (5 letters)
17 Down: Oil cartel (4 letters)
18 Down: Reputation earned by inept rodster (19 letters)
19 Down: Meanwhile (7 letters)
20 Down: Refreshment server (7 letters)
26 Down: Out-___ (alfresco) (6 letters)
27 Down: Distrustful (5 letters)
33 Down: Island for reclining and refining (5 letters)
34 Down: Document (5 letters)
35 Down: Hippocratic oath, in a way (19 letters)
37 Down: Warhol movie (5 letters)
38 Down: Rapidity (5 letters)
39 Down: Words of contempt (6 letters)
43 Down: Light refractor (5 letters)
47 Down: Kipling's Rikki-tikki-___ (4 letters)
50 Down: Okinawa's capital (4 letters)
53 Down: Under ___ (perdu) (5 letters)
56 Down: Hardy's returner (6 letters)
57 Down: Part of T.G.I.F. (3 letters)
58 Down: Pipe (5 letters)
60 Down: Defunct Houston hockey team (5 letters)
62 Down: Dandies (5 letters)
63 Down: Slangy suffix with sock (4 letters)
64 Down: Dissocial (7 letters)
65 Down: Fleming heavy (4 letters)
66 Down: Egg white (5 letters)
71 Down: Reno leavers (4 letters)
72 Down: " . . . ___ o'clock scholar" (4 letters)
73 Down: Twelve: Prefix (5 letters)
75 Down: Tree of India (5 letters)
76 Down: Away from the mouth (6 letters)
77 Down: Napped leather (5 letters)
79 Down: Cosmetic (5 letters)
80 Down: Norway's patron saint (4 letters)
81 Down: Run easily (4 letters)
82 Down: Measure pulses (12 letters)
84 Down: Up (5 letters)
88 Down: Deprive a plant of water (6 letters)
89 Down: Ordinal ending (3 letters)
90 Down: Caroline Islands group (4 letters)
91 Down: Battle site northeast of Verdun: 1916 (5 letters)
94 Down: Bear in the air (4 letters)
95 Down: "___ by land . . . " (5 letters)
96 Down: Author May (5 letters)
98 Down: Hector (5 letters)
99 Down: Feeds the kitty (5 letters)
103 Down: Bestud (6 letters)
105 Down: Fuel line (7 letters)
106 Down: Mrs. ___ cow (7 letters)
107 Down: Evil (7 letters)
108 Down: Sycamore (5 letters)
109 Down: Fonteyn and Kidder (7 letters)
110 Down: Adroit: Var. (7 letters)
114 Down: Raglan, e.g. (6 letters)
116 Down: Early center of Christianity (6 letters)
121 Down: Titicaca's milieu (5 letters)
122 Down: Demolition man (5 letters)
123 Down: Vertical (5 letters)
125 Down: Reticular (5 letters)
127 Down: Snick and ___ (4 letters)
133 Down: Suffix with differ or defer (3 letters)
134 Down: Sgt. or cpl. (3 letters)
135 Down: Guevara (3 letters)
136 Down: French painter-sculptor (3 letters)
137 Down: Antique car (3 letters)
138 Down: Ja or da (3 letters)

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