CHARADES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Alfio Micci3/30/1980

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Humid (4 letters)
5 Across
"Time ___ the essence" (4 letters)
9 Across
Lecturer's aid (5 letters)
14 Across
Rudiments (3 letters)
17 Across
Notion (4 letters)
18 Across
Sinuses (5 letters)
19 Across
Logrolling contest (5 letters)
20 Across
Emporium (4 letters)
22 Across
Wardens (10 letters)
24 Across
Averse to writing research papers (10 letters)
26 Across
Circus people (8 letters)
27 Across
Seabees' motto (5 letters)
29 Across
Rock salt (6 letters)
30 Across
TV appendage (7 letters)
31 Across
Cant (5 letters)
32 Across
Wild (6 letters)
33 Across
Seine (3 letters)
34 Across
Urgency (5 letters)
35 Across
Cape hartebeest (5 letters)
36 Across
Humane org. (5 letters)
39 Across
Where a native will clue you in (11 letters)
41 Across
Very softly: Mus. dir. (3 letters)
44 Across
Your, in Hanover (4 letters)
45 Across
Gugelhupf (4 letters)
46 Across
Some, in Spain (4 letters)
47 Across
Raja ___, Indian novelist (3 letters)
48 Across
Philippine tree (3 letters)
49 Across
A man's enunciation (11 letters)
53 Across
Choreographer Kurt (5 letters)
55 Across
Elec. unit (3 letters)
56 Across
Hippolyte's sire (4 letters)
57 Across
Racket (5 letters)
58 Across
Ardor (6 letters)
59 Across
Beam (6 letters)
61 Across
Briefly brilliant stars (5 letters)
62 Across
Curtain recently opened (6 letters)
63 Across
Popular health food (6 letters)
64 Across
Sourdough (5 letters)
65 Across
Watson's cry (4 letters)
66 Across
___-la-la (3 letters)
68 Across
Mites (5 letters)
69 Across
Allotments in Cluny (11 letters)
71 Across
Fleming or Smith (3 letters)
72 Across
Trading place: Abbr. (3 letters)
73 Across
Word on a door (4 letters)
74 Across
Lyrical literature (4 letters)
75 Across
Blockhead (4 letters)
76 Across
Compass reading (3 letters)
77 Across
Cutie Knievel guided (11 letters)
81 Across
Tooth surface (5 letters)
82 Across
Triangle (5 letters)
83 Across
"Let's Make ___" (5 letters)
84 Across
Holiday, for short (3 letters)
85 Across
Becoming (6 letters)
87 Across
City east of Erie (5 letters)
88 Across
Some are à trois (7 letters)
92 Across
"Rigoletto" setting (6 letters)
93 Across
Cousin of a union (5 letters)
94 Across
Steep in a pickling solution (8 letters)
95 Across
Hinder nice blokes (10 letters)
97 Across
Country without women (10 letters)
99 Across
Natives of: Suffix (4 letters)
100 Across
Finnish lake, to Swedes (5 letters)
101 Across
Sheeplike (5 letters)
102 Across
Lab burner (4 letters)
103 Across
Tate offering (3 letters)
104 Across
Shipment from Iraq (5 letters)
105 Across
Wendy Darling's dog (4 letters)
106 Across
Quiescence (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Pronouncements (5 letters)
2 Down
Bedeck (5 letters)
3 Down
Egyptian amulet (5 letters)
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G. & S. heroine (8 letters)
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Hindu god of thunder (5 letters)
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Cécile and Jeanne (4 letters)
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Retiree of hockey fame (3 letters)
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Mussolini was one (7 letters)
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Agriculturist (7 letters)
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Sonata movement (5 letters)
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Kind of saxophone (4 letters)
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Architect I. M. (3 letters)
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Fiery bosses (8 letters)
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Menotti heroine (6 letters)
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Washbowl (5 letters)
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Minoan's home (5 letters)
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Concerning (5 letters)
21 Down
Mao ___-tung (3 letters)
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Nine: Comb. form (5 letters)
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Injures (5 letters)
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Feed the kitty (4 letters)
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Divided, as highways (5 letters)
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Papal vestment (5 letters)
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B.S.A. outings (5 letters)
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Birchbark (5 letters)
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Verdi opera (4 letters)
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Fake jewelry (9 letters)
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Shore up an entryway (9 letters)
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Item spent in Praha (5 letters)
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Rainer (5 letters)
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Snead swing (9 letters)
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Former Ph.D. tests (9 letters)
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Luxurious (4 letters)
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Insert mark (5 letters)
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Kind of arch? (5 letters)
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Hole-___ (5 letters)
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Shelter (5 letters)
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Jeweled band (5 letters)
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He wrote "What Maisie Knew" (5 letters)
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Sphere (3 letters)
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Cautions (5 letters)
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Kolinsky, e.g. (3 letters)
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Special position (5 letters)
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Expressed dislike (5 letters)
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Sweet potatoes (4 letters)
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"Three Sisters" character (5 letters)
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He overthrew Fulgencio (5 letters)
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Broadway org. (4 letters)
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Robust (5 letters)
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Hydrocarbon (5 letters)
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Tiresome person grew old (8 letters)
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Wine bottle (8 letters)
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Object (5 letters)
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Gladstones' kin (7 letters)
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Biographer of 53 Down (4 letters)
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Entices (7 letters)
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Craze (5 letters)
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Execrate (6 letters)
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Sci-fi pioneer (5 letters)
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Andalusian song (5 letters)
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Diarize (5 letters)
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Bizarre (5 letters)
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___ cum laude (5 letters)
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Offenbach's "___ Parisienne" (5 letters)
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Short jackets (5 letters)
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Body meeting in Paris (5 letters)
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Year in Luther's time (3 letters)
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Punkie (4 letters)
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Conduit (4 letters)
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Sofia's predecessor (3 letters)
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Dam org. (3 letters)

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