ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23166 clues~30-60 minBy A. J. Santora9/9/1979

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Across

1 Across: Has a meal (4 letters)
5 Across: X (5 letters)
10 Across: Recorded proceedings (4 letters)
14 Across: Minimum (5 letters)
19 Across: Step ___ (go fast) (4 letters)
20 Across: Jael's victim: Judg. 4:5 (6 letters)
21 Across: Put on alert (4 letters)
22 Across: Buyer, in law (6 letters)
24 Across: Harangue a "silents" star (16 letters)
27 Across: None (6 letters)
28 Across: Expiating (7 letters)
29 Across: Search after (4 letters)
30 Across: Lace edging (5 letters)
32 Across: Burnsian refusal (3 letters)
33 Across: Fistfight (5 letters)
34 Across: Toupee: Slang (3 letters)
37 Across: More in want (7 letters)
39 Across: Pastoral verse (5 letters)
41 Across: Source of a beverage (7 letters)
44 Across: Govt. advisory board (3 letters)
45 Across: Approximately (5 letters)
47 Across: Make Ben Casey a believer (15 letters)
52 Across: Kind of assembly (7 letters)
55 Across: Where Castro's revolt began (7 letters)
56 Across: Quartet voice (5 letters)
57 Across: Yachting (4 letters)
58 Across: Gardner (3 letters)
59 Across: Cajole (4 letters)
60 Across: Sharp-edged (4 letters)
62 Across: Hollywood award (5 letters)
65 Across: Some cadets (6 letters)
67 Across: Evaluated (8 letters)
70 Across: Beside one another (7 letters)
72 Across: Followers of hip and tip (5 letters)
73 Across: Fowl feature (6 letters)
75 Across: Dam on the Nile (5 letters)
76 Across: Self-reproach (7 letters)
78 Across: Moll or doll (3 letters)
81 Across: Zero (3 letters)
82 Across: Anything bow-shaped (3 letters)
84 Across: Dijon donkey (3 letters)
85 Across: Upon: Prefix (3 letters)
86 Across: Five and ___ (3 letters)
87 Across: Comparison (7 letters)
89 Across: Hayseed (5 letters)
91 Across: "Star Wars" figures (6 letters)
94 Across: Dead duck (5 letters)
95 Across: Inhuman (7 letters)
97 Across: Airplane maneuver (8 letters)
101 Across: Wading bird (6 letters)
103 Across: Gossip, Yiddish style (5 letters)
104 Across: Sans ___ (nonpareil) (4 letters)
106 Across: Forearm bone (4 letters)
107 Across: Opposite of ecto (3 letters)
108 Across: Prong (4 letters)
110 Across: Santo ___ (Cape Verde island) (5 letters)
112 Across: Beautiful girls (7 letters)
115 Across: Having teeth (7 letters)
117 Across: Sheepish singer (15 letters)
120 Across: Mail (5 letters)
121 Across: Good wood for oars (3 letters)
122 Across: Kibitz (7 letters)
123 Across: Mercutio's friend (5 letters)
125 Across: Warsaw's river (7 letters)
128 Across: Spade or Browne (3 letters)
129 Across: Guitry of theater (5 letters)
134 Across: Second person (3 letters)
135 Across: Limerick, e.g. (5 letters)
137 Across: Dickens girl (4 letters)
139 Across: Cold wind of France (7 letters)
141 Across: Edict (6 letters)
143 Across: Abstruse news analyst (16 letters)
147 Across: Available (6 letters)
148 Across: Air (4 letters)
149 Across: Gridiron official (6 letters)
150 Across: Man is one (4 letters)
151 Across: Former Indian soldier (5 letters)
152 Across: Mimic (4 letters)
153 Across: Approaches (5 letters)
154 Across: Egyptian solar disk (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Daybeds' kin (5 letters)
2 Down: Conjoin (5 letters)
3 Down: Helmsman (5 letters)
4 Down: Task (5 letters)
5 Down: Shame the "Country Girl" (13 letters)
6 Down: Triple this for a wine (3 letters)
7 Down: Bee chaser (3 letters)
8 Down: Goes wrong (4 letters)
9 Down: Bite a dog (8 letters)
10 Down: Stir up a tennis star (14 letters)
11 Down: Panther or sailboat (3 letters)
12 Down: Torrid Zone region (7 letters)
13 Down: Broadway musical (5 letters)
14 Down: Marquisette (4 letters)
15 Down: Impassioned "Happy Warrior" (14 letters)
16 Down: Appropriate (3 letters)
17 Down: Obdurate court champ of 1953 (12 letters)
18 Down: Of sound quality (5 letters)
20 Down: Bask (3 letters)
23 Down: Stagger (4 letters)
25 Down: Vitamin H (6 letters)
26 Down: Shoe-width size (3 letters)
31 Down: Rocky cliffs (5 letters)
35 Down: Peak in Colorado (3 letters)
36 Down: Diving bird (5 letters)
38 Down: Pater (3 letters)
40 Down: Payable (3 letters)
42 Down: Ending for differ (3 letters)
43 Down: Irish saint (5 letters)
46 Down: Horn sound (4 letters)
47 Down: Imogene (4 letters)
48 Down: Spanish card suit (4 letters)
49 Down: Neighbor of Sumatra (4 letters)
50 Down: Annoyed (5 letters)
51 Down: Lyres of yore (5 letters)
53 Down: Reluctant (6 letters)
54 Down: Cascades peak (6 letters)
57 Down: Dance is one (3 letters)
61 Down: Writer LeShan (3 letters)
63 Down: "Godfather" actor (4 letters)
64 Down: "Lou Grant" actor (5 letters)
66 Down: W.W. II theater (3 letters)
68 Down: "West Side Story" star, to Puerto Ricans (14 letters)
69 Down: Drink from a flask (4 letters)
71 Down: Attack an actor from N.Y.C. (14 letters)
74 Down: Check beneficiary (5 letters)
76 Down: Dun former man-in-blue (13 letters)
77 Down: Heroic work (4 letters)
78 Down: Silenced (6 letters)
79 Down: " . . . in ___ of Light": FitzGerald (6 letters)
80 Down: Light upon a film Bell (12 letters)
83 Down: Reddish horse (4 letters)
88 Down: Writer Wallace (3 letters)
90 Down: Eagle-rider of myth (5 letters)
92 Down: Two ___ kind (3 letters)
93 Down: German bomber (5 letters)
95 Down: Tournament draw (3 letters)
96 Down: Pine (5 letters)
98 Down: Turkish standard (4 letters)
99 Down: Concerning (4 letters)
100 Down: Colleen (4 letters)
102 Down: Belgrade name (4 letters)
105 Down: Nanny and billy (5 letters)
109 Down: Brash (5 letters)
111 Down: Test (8 letters)
113 Down: Eng. lexicon (3 letters)
114 Down: Port on the Black Sea (6 letters)
116 Down: Three, in Rome (3 letters)
117 Down: Abates (7 letters)
118 Down: Denver's time (3 letters)
119 Down: Mrs., in Madrid (3 letters)
123 Down: Fix over (4 letters)
124 Down: Dutch and brick (5 letters)
126 Down: "___ man with seven . . . " (5 letters)
127 Down: Golfer Elder (3 letters)
130 Down: Central halls (5 letters)
131 Down: Alpinist's goal (5 letters)
132 Down: Selassie (5 letters)
133 Down: Stand-in for Standish (5 letters)
136 Down: Lamarr (4 letters)
138 Down: Gelatine flavor (4 letters)
140 Down: "___ Got a Secret" (3 letters)
142 Down: Knock (3 letters)
144 Down: Single (3 letters)
145 Down: Acct. (3 letters)
146 Down: Title Chaplin held (3 letters)

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