UNCOMMON LETTERS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Henry Hook2/3/1980

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Across

1 Across: Flirtation (9 letters)
10 Across: ___ vobiscum (3 letters)
13 Across: Eliot called it cruellest (5 letters)
18 Across: Chicago-born actress (11 letters)
20 Across: Secretary between Day and Root (3 letters)
21 Across: Succulent (5 letters)
22 Across: Furniture on casters (11 letters)
23 Across: Fenway Pk. star (3 letters)
24 Across: Shakespearean setting (5 letters)
25 Across: "Grand Old Man of Football" (5 letters)
26 Across: They're often exploded (5 letters)
28 Across: Pay (6 letters)
29 Across: One of Uranus's moons (5 letters)
31 Across: In medias ___ (3 letters)
32 Across: Pen talk (5 letters)
35 Across: Adjective aptly applied to Apley (4 letters)
36 Across: Ozark "encore" (4 letters)
37 Across: Grandiosity of a sort (13 letters)
41 Across: Seaworthy (4 letters)
42 Across: Resort in the Bahamas (6 letters)
43 Across: Austrian contralto: 1803–77 (5 letters)
44 Across: Mrs. Warner's nickname (3 letters)
47 Across: Shetland chapeau (3 letters)
48 Across: He once was Bud's buddy (3 letters)
49 Across: Ictus (6 letters)
51 Across: Irish county (5 letters)
53 Across: Conforming (6 letters)
55 Across: Passover wafer (5 letters)
57 Across: Store-window sign (4 letters)
58 Across: Exculpate (6 letters)
60 Across: Sides of cricket fields (4 letters)
64 Across: Locale of a 1944 novel (5 letters)
65 Across: Gym twist (10 letters)
69 Across: Spreads nitrates (10 letters)
71 Across: Excellent poker hand (5 letters)
72 Across: "Darling, Je Vous ___ Beaucoup" (4 letters)
73 Across: Beatle name (6 letters)
74 Across: Tamiroff (4 letters)
75 Across: Pippin (5 letters)
78 Across: Insipid (6 letters)
82 Across: Bumps on the skin (5 letters)
84 Across: Hedda of fiction (6 letters)
87 Across: Kramden's vehicle (3 letters)
88 Across: "No way!" (3 letters)
89 Across: Loser to H.C.H.: 1928 (3 letters)
90 Across: Search widely (5 letters)
92 Across: Restrain with a chain (6 letters)
95 Across: Pitchfork part (4 letters)
96 Across: She was Tosca on TV in 1955 (13 letters)
98 Across: Mrs. Van Buren, née ___ (4 letters)
99 Across: Coin of Cuba (4 letters)
102 Across: Sierra ___ (5 letters)
103 Across: Mardi Gras V.I.P. (3 letters)
104 Across: Bloodhound's clue (5 letters)
106 Across: Product for overseas sale (6 letters)
108 Across: Callas or Tallchief (5 letters)
110 Across: Vowel sequence (5 letters)
112 Across: Ante (5 letters)
113 Across: Desert coat (3 letters)
115 Across: Principle of minimized hypotheses (11 letters)
119 Across: True's partner (5 letters)
120 Across: Grackle (3 letters)
121 Across: Hawkish (11 letters)
122 Across: "___ of Iwo Jima" (5 letters)
123 Across: Persian unit of length (3 letters)
124 Across: After-dinner drink (9 letters)

Down

1 Down: The fourth Musketeer (9 letters)
2 Down: Piscine pens (9 letters)
3 Down: Fencer's maneuver (7 letters)
4 Down: Sill (5 letters)
5 Down: "Well, ___ be!" (3 letters)
6 Down: Word with some or struck (3 letters)
7 Down: Beak (3 letters)
8 Down: Renowned Missourian (7 letters)
9 Down: She grins and bares it (9 letters)
10 Down: Mr. America's source of pride (8 letters)
11 Down: Drivers' org. (3 letters)
12 Down: Talleyrand's "Affair" (3 letters)
13 Down: Character in the "Iliad" (4 letters)
14 Down: Like Burgess's cow (6 letters)
15 Down: "___ cockhorse . . . " (5 letters)
16 Down: ___ sale (5 letters)
17 Down: Dorothea ___ Dix (5 letters)
18 Down: Wall St. abbr. (3 letters)
19 Down: Winner over T.E.D. (3 letters)
27 Down: After yoo or boo (3 letters)
28 Down: Thrall of puzzledom (4 letters)
30 Down: K–S connection (7 letters)
31 Down: Grid linemen (3 letters)
33 Down: Convent dwellers (4 letters)
34 Down: Delivery to a pub (4 letters)
36 Down: ___ spumante (4 letters)
38 Down: N.C.A.A.'s rival (3 letters)
39 Down: Noted U.S. entomologist: 1879–1943 (4 letters)
40 Down: D.C. group protecting minorities (3 letters)
44 Down: Calif. pearl-fishing center (5 letters)
45 Down: Mrs. Vernon Castle (5 letters)
46 Down: Two Greek philosophers (5 letters)
48 Down: "___ d'Or," 1909 opera (5 letters)
50 Down: Mansard (4 letters)
52 Down: Home of over 25,000 Garden Staters (6 letters)
54 Down: Japanese straw mat (6 letters)
55 Down: XVII times LIX (4 letters)
56 Down: N.R.C. concern (4 letters)
59 Down: Actress Hagen (3 letters)
61 Down: Hew a yew (4 letters)
62 Down: Manumit (4 letters)
63 Down: RR depot (3 letters)
64 Down: Shade of green (5 letters)
65 Down: Southern African fox (5 letters)
66 Down: Jack of old films: 1903–78 (5 letters)
67 Down: Catches red-handed (5 letters)
68 Down: Actress Patricia (4 letters)
70 Down: Damages (7 letters)
76 Down: Rose, for one (4 letters)
77 Down: Set costs of articles before retailing (9 letters)
79 Down: Emulates Gompers (9 letters)
80 Down: 12:51 (9 letters)
81 Down: Quintet in this puzzle (4 letters)
83 Down: Enzyme (3 letters)
84 Down: Used up (4 letters)
85 Down: Detroit offering (4 letters)
86 Down: College near Phila. (8 letters)
87 Down: Bill, in Nice (3 letters)
91 Down: Young zebra (4 letters)
93 Down: Molasses (7 letters)
94 Down: Variety headline word (3 letters)
95 Down: " . . . to reach ___ of God": Wilde (7 letters)
96 Down: What Lot's wife did (6 letters)
97 Down: A.F.T. rival (3 letters)
99 Down: Aphids (5 letters)
100 Down: Paperboy's cry (5 letters)
101 Down: Whence Cugat came (5 letters)
105 Down: "I do not ___ farthing candle . . . for Handel": Lamb (5 letters)
107 Down: Riverfront men (4 letters)
109 Down: Hijack (3 letters)
111 Down: Ust-___, U.S.S.R. plateau (3 letters)
113 Down: Axlike tool (3 letters)
114 Down: Ewe said it (3 letters)
116 Down: Alpine pastureland (3 letters)
117 Down: Year in the 11th century (3 letters)
118 Down: N.C.O. (3 letters)

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