APRIL SHOWERS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23164 clues~30-60 minBy Frances Hansen4/6/1980

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Proxy (5 letters)
6 Across: Not together (5 letters)
11 Across: Vestment (5 letters)
16 Across: Relative of rain (4 letters)
20 Across: Possible Easter topper (5 letters)
21 Across: Community character (5 letters)
22 Across: April 5, in old Rome (5 letters)
23 Across: Bogus (5 letters)
24 Across: Dixon/Rose/Warren query (23 letters)
28 Across: Botanist Gray (3 letters)
29 Across: Did a prelaundry job (6 letters)
30 Across: Oligophrenic (5 letters)
31 Across: Stockholm gnome (5 letters)
32 Across: Family-tree twigs: Abbr. (4 letters)
34 Across: Rock group (4 letters)
35 Across: Strength (5 letters)
36 Across: Check (6 letters)
37 Across: Part of speech (4 letters)
39 Across: Gudrun's husband (4 letters)
40 Across: Galosh (4 letters)
41 Across: Kahal/Wheeler/Fain rainy-day advice (23 letters)
52 Across: Remarque or Segal (5 letters)
53 Across: Where to put your dough (4 letters)
54 Across: City celebrated by Cole Porter (5 letters)
55 Across: Fitting (4 letters)
56 Across: Japanese verse form (5 letters)
57 Across: Nectarous (5 letters)
58 Across: Chose (5 letters)
59 Across: Antelope or drum (5 letters)
60 Across: Wonts (4 letters)
61 Across: Paul or Nicholas (5 letters)
62 Across: When Gary Coleman will be 34 (4 letters)
63 Across: Kibitz (6 letters)
64 Across: ___ soup (heavy fog) (3 letters)
65 Across: "___, you noblest English" (4 letters)
66 Across: Wettish (5 letters)
67 Across: Wedge-shaped (7 letters)
68 Across: Gene Kelly exuberance (15 letters)
72 Across: Easel adjunct (7 letters)
76 Across: Carries on (5 letters)
77 Across: " . . . spring time, the ___ pretty ring time": Shak. (4 letters)
78 Across: Rainy-day prize (3 letters)
81 Across: Handsome one (6 letters)
82 Across: "Ooh, that hurts!" (4 letters)
83 Across: Tie for the races (5 letters)
85 Across: Flood follower (4 letters)
86 Across: ___ incognita (5 letters)
87 Across: Alighieri (5 letters)
89 Across: Short-billed rail (5 letters)
90 Across: Cotton cloth (5 letters)
91 Across: Lady Luck reigns here (4 letters)
92 Across: Kind of boom (5 letters)
93 Across: Roll-call response (4 letters)
94 Across: Bucolic (5 letters)
95 Across: Como admission in 1946 (23 letters)
101 Across: Opposite of aweather (4 letters)
102 Across: Abrupt (4 letters)
103 Across: Brahmin (4 letters)
104 Across: Chinese skiff (6 letters)
107 Across: Whack (5 letters)
109 Across: Petty officer (4 letters)
111 Across: Actor Montand (4 letters)
115 Across: Sourdough's concern (5 letters)
116 Across: Rossetti's "___ Beatrix" (5 letters)
117 Across: ___-than-thou (6 letters)
119 Across: U.N. labor body (3 letters)
120 Across: Wood/Fulmer reply to 24 Across (23 letters)
124 Across: Cremona name (5 letters)
125 Across: Emanations (5 letters)
126 Across: Possible port in a storm (5 letters)
127 Across: Scene of Dec.–March rains (5 letters)
128 Across: Springy, in a way (4 letters)
129 Across: Foam; froth (5 letters)
130 Across: Jurymen (5 letters)
131 Across: Side dishes (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Fighting (5 letters)
2 Down: A Canadian transient (5 letters)
3 Down: Part of E.R.A. (5 letters)
4 Down: Not any, to the D.A. (3 letters)
5 Down: Spreads hay (4 letters)
6 Down: Cupids (7 letters)
7 Down: Sulks (5 letters)
8 Down: Provence city (5 letters)
9 Down: "Spring Song" author (4 letters)
10 Down: Tut's cousin (3 letters)
11 Down: Portia saved his skin (7 letters)
12 Down: He wrote "Esther Waters" (5 letters)
13 Down: Under guidance (5 letters)
14 Down: Actor in "The Rain People": 1969 (4 letters)
15 Down: Meek's partner in comics (3 letters)
16 Down: Part of a ship's bow (5 letters)
17 Down: "I loved ___ . . . ": Wither (5 letters)
18 Down: Holm or key (5 letters)
19 Down: Albanian coin (3 letters)
23 Down: Not so rainy (6 letters)
25 Down: Dogpatch name (5 letters)
26 Down: A Brontë (5 letters)
27 Down: Garb formally (6 letters)
33 Down: Noshes (6 letters)
35 Down: Tax or dental compound (5 letters)
36 Down: Sultan's son in "The Arabian Nights" (5 letters)
38 Down: ___ Peak, N.M. (4 letters)
39 Down: Red as ___ (5 letters)
40 Down: "You bet!" (4 letters)
41 Down: Abate, as rain (5 letters)
42 Down: Blot out (5 letters)
43 Down: Skin ailment (5 letters)
44 Down: Like Gray's herd (6 letters)
45 Down: Square (4 letters)
46 Down: Arrogant (6 letters)
47 Down: Emu or ostrich (6 letters)
48 Down: Chew the scenery (5 letters)
49 Down: ___ hand (helped out) (5 letters)
50 Down: On the up and up (5 letters)
51 Down: Do penance (5 letters)
57 Down: Rhone feeder (5 letters)
58 Down: Leaves out (5 letters)
59 Down: Easter ___ (5 letters)
61 Down: Fits of temper (5 letters)
62 Down: "April is the cruellest ___ . . . " (5 letters)
63 Down: Erected (5 letters)
65 Down: Old Rome's port (5 letters)
66 Down: Popular pie (5 letters)
67 Down: Tippy boat (5 letters)
69 Down: Satirical (6 letters)
70 Down: Sinuous Eastern dance (6 letters)
71 Down: Cradle (6 letters)
72 Down: Father: Comb. form (5 letters)
73 Down: Revoke, as a legacy (5 letters)
74 Down: Doone (5 letters)
75 Down: Matriculate (5 letters)
78 Down: "Aïda" debuted here (5 letters)
79 Down: Attorney ___ (5 letters)
80 Down: Ding-a-ling things (5 letters)
83 Down: "___ We All?" (5 letters)
84 Down: Puppeteer Tony (4 letters)
85 Down: Contemptible (6 letters)
87 Down: Senior member (5 letters)
88 Down: Faulkner hero (4 letters)
89 Down: Sylvan spring sound (5 letters)
90 Down: Ian Fleming character (4 letters)
92 Down: Deli offering (6 letters)
96 Down: Large deer (6 letters)
97 Down: Most discerning (7 letters)
98 Down: Singer Yma (5 letters)
99 Down: Baseball plays (7 letters)
100 Down: ___ tube (5 letters)
104 Down: Rascal (5 letters)
105 Down: "___ should have a good memory" (5 letters)
106 Down: An Alou of baseball (5 letters)
107 Down: Aquarium fish (5 letters)
108 Down: Guffaws (5 letters)
109 Down: Game akin to roulette (5 letters)
110 Down: More mature (5 letters)
112 Down: Banky of silents (5 letters)
113 Down: Funny-bone locale (5 letters)
114 Down: Oriental legumes (5 letters)
116 Down: "___ Skies," Berlin prediction (4 letters)
117 Down: Strop (4 letters)
118 Down: Seamstress Betsy (4 letters)
120 Down: Existed (3 letters)
121 Down: Place (3 letters)
122 Down: Sass (3 letters)
123 Down: Shastri of India (3 letters)

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