OLD-CLUES RUSE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23168 clues~30-60 minBy George Rose Smith9/23/1979

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Let up (6 letters)
7 Across: Hebrew prophet (4 letters)
11 Across: Lean-to (4 letters)
15 Across: "Front porch" (4 letters)
19 Across: Hard as nails, for one (6 letters)
20 Across: Andrea ___ (5 letters)
22 Across: He sang "Start Movin'": 1957 (5 letters)
24 Across: Marquisette (4 letters)
25 Across: Mineral springs (12 letters)
27 Across: Building extensions (10 letters)
29 Across: Bill (3 letters)
30 Across: Showed mercy (6 letters)
31 Across: Vetches (5 letters)
33 Across: Plaid (6 letters)
34 Across: White Sox all-star (4 letters)
35 Across: Desires (5 letters)
36 Across: About (4 letters)
37 Across: U.S. missile (3 letters)
40 Across: Immaterial (4 letters)
41 Across: "Common Sense" author (5 letters)
42 Across: What déjeuners satisfy (8 letters)
46 Across: Cloying or sticky (7 letters)
48 Across: Mine entrance (11 letters)
50 Across: Vein's glory (3 letters)
51 Across: Strads' kin (6 letters)
52 Across: Use a blender (5 letters)
53 Across: Unguis (4 letters)
54 Across: Koko's weapon (4 letters)
55 Across: Heads (5 letters)
56 Across: Not so noble (5 letters)
57 Across: Happy as ___ (5 letters)
59 Across: Execution (5 letters)
60 Across: Citole (4 letters)
61 Across: Gas: Prefix (4 letters)
62 Across: Sheep (5 letters)
63 Across: Logomachize (6 letters)
64 Across: Silkworm (3 letters)
65 Across: Algerian port (11 letters)
68 Across: Locker room V.I.P. (7 letters)
69 Across: Morning Prayer (6 letters)
71 Across: Room in a maison (5 letters)
72 Across: Bowl in Miami (6 letters)
73 Across: "___ one hope . . . ": J. R. Lowell (7 letters)
75 Across: Persian wheel (11 letters)
77 Across: Felt shoe (3 letters)
80 Across: Trigonometric term (6 letters)
81 Across: Youngest son (5 letters)
82 Across: Solemnity (4 letters)
83 Across: Kernel (4 letters)
84 Across: Sun hat (5 letters)
85 Across: Shipworm (5 letters)
86 Across: ___ couture (5 letters)
88 Across: Napoli dish (5 letters)
89 Across: ___ even keel (4 letters)
90 Across: Quitclaim, e.g. (4 letters)
91 Across: Pods of flax (5 letters)
92 Across: Any human (6 letters)
93 Across: Boone or O'Brien (3 letters)
94 Across: Choice part (11 letters)
97 Across: Romberg-Gershwin work (7 letters)
98 Across: Imparts gradually (8 letters)
100 Across: Month in Pamplona (5 letters)
101 Across: Mar slightly (4 letters)
102 Across: A.F.B. in Colorado (3 letters)
103 Across: Vex (4 letters)
104 Across: Specific-gravity scale (5 letters)
105 Across: Somewhat, in music (4 letters)
106 Across: Glutting (6 letters)
109 Across: Fire worshiper (5 letters)
110 Across: Fata morgana (6 letters)
112 Across: Unseal: Poetic (3 letters)
115 Across: Stone monument (10 letters)
117 Across: Polish coins (12 letters)
120 Across: Dash (4 letters)
121 Across: Balzac's birthplace (5 letters)
122 Across: Zenana (5 letters)
123 Across: Halters (6 letters)
124 Across: Help with the dishes (4 letters)
125 Across: Harte (4 letters)
126 Across: Oasis (4 letters)
127 Across: Early cenobite (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Staff mem. (4 letters)
2 Down: Fall for a gag (4 letters)
3 Down: The last word (4 letters)
4 Down: Sleeper (3 letters)
5 Down: Cubits (4 letters)
6 Down: Ravages (8 letters)
7 Down: "Tobacco is ___ weed. I like it.": Hemminger (6 letters)
8 Down: Peloponnesus (5 letters)
9 Down: Toward the mouth (4 letters)
10 Down: Part of R.S.V.P. (3 letters)
11 Down: Spruce (7 letters)
12 Down: Trapper's collection (5 letters)
13 Down: Destinies (4 letters)
14 Down: "Agnus ___" (3 letters)
15 Down: Tiny blossom (6 letters)
16 Down: Forty weekdays (4 letters)
17 Down: Pier of a sort (4 letters)
18 Down: Favor (4 letters)
21 Down: Fred or Adele (7 letters)
23 Down: In control (7 letters)
26 Down: Turn aside (5 letters)
28 Down: More intrepid (5 letters)
32 Down: Part of A.D. (4 letters)
35 Down: Cookie (5 letters)
36 Down: Ghost (5 letters)
37 Down: Wheat or cotton (6 letters)
38 Down: Tommy of links fame (6 letters)
39 Down: Table scraps (13 letters)
40 Down: Galatea's beloved (4 letters)
41 Down: Dido died on one (4 letters)
42 Down: Set on a pedestal (5 letters)
43 Down: Greek letter (13 letters)
44 Down: XXX, to Pierre (6 letters)
45 Down: Noted folk singer (6 letters)
47 Down: Asian evergreen (4 letters)
48 Down: Euterpe's sphere (5 letters)
49 Down: Highland lord (5 letters)
52 Down: "City of Light" (5 letters)
54 Down: Best seller in 1924 (5 letters)
56 Down: Author of "Games People Play" (5 letters)
57 Down: City NW of Madrid (5 letters)
58 Down: Queues (5 letters)
59 Down: Silas ___, U.S. diplomat (5 letters)
61 Down: " . . . in ___ and Ten Cent Store" (5 letters)
62 Down: Young hooter (5 letters)
63 Down: Shade of green (5 letters)
65 Down: In harmony (5 letters)
66 Down: Play byplay (5 letters)
67 Down: Gadfly in Washington (5 letters)
68 Down: Lacking imagination (5 letters)
70 Down: Peregrine (5 letters)
72 Down: Public notices (5 letters)
73 Down: Cephalopods (6 letters)
74 Down: Earhart's copilot (6 letters)
75 Down: Melville book (5 letters)
76 Down: Word in a letter (5 letters)
78 Down: Bring off (6 letters)
79 Down: Alpine abode (6 letters)
81 Down: Some Yalies (5 letters)
83 Down: Belém (4 letters)
85 Down: Companion of end-all (5 letters)
86 Down: Viscount Templewood (5 letters)
87 Down: Ray from Pen Argyl (4 letters)
88 Down: Newel (4 letters)
90 Down: Transport (7 letters)
91 Down: Imperfection (7 letters)
92 Down: Formed by one eruption (8 letters)
94 Down: Detroit eleven (5 letters)
95 Down: Least generous (7 letters)
96 Down: Kokoons (4 letters)
97 Down: Type of précis (5 letters)
99 Down: Being three in one (6 letters)
101 Down: Cabbage or kale (6 letters)
104 Down: City in Vermont (5 letters)
105 Down: Had deep longings (5 letters)
106 Down: Merganser (4 letters)
107 Down: Gudrun's spouse (4 letters)
108 Down: Bunker (4 letters)
109 Down: Stream (4 letters)
110 Down: Star in the Whale (4 letters)
111 Down: Biblical oldster (4 letters)
112 Down: Its capital is Beauvais (4 letters)
113 Down: Hammer part (4 letters)
114 Down: Actual being (4 letters)
116 Down: Rabble (3 letters)
118 Down: Exclamation (3 letters)
119 Down: Gogol tale (3 letters)

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