SILLY QUESTIONS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Jean Reed5/25/1980

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Questions (4 letters)
5 Across
Arith. process (4 letters)
9 Across
Fills a truck (5 letters)
14 Across
L–Q connection (4 letters)
18 Across
Elegance (4 letters)
19 Across
Andretti of auto racing (5 letters)
20 Across
___ all (do oneself in) (5 letters)
21 Across
Air: Comb. form (4 letters)
22 Across
During Lent, does ___? (10 letters)
24 Across
What drove ___? (10 letters)
26 Across
Plant of the rose family (6 letters)
27 Across
Net resembling tulle (6 letters)
29 Across
Gatherings of geese (7 letters)
30 Across
Coral reefs (4 letters)
32 Across
Lat. case (5 letters)
33 Across
River at Frankfurt (4 letters)
34 Across
Loathed (5 letters)
37 Across
In one ___ out the other (6 letters)
39 Across
Singing sisters (7 letters)
42 Across
Tree or residue (3 letters)
43 Across
Maxims (6 letters)
45 Across
Of cranial cavities (5 letters)
47 Across
British cans (4 letters)
49 Across
Fashion name (4 letters)
51 Across
Whereness (6 letters)
53 Across
Melchizedek's city (5 letters)
55 Across
___ the Lip (3 letters)
56 Across
What interest does a ___ pay? (9 letters)
58 Across
Incites (5 letters)
60 Across
Court ___ (5 letters)
62 Across
Murphy's ___ bed (7 letters)
63 Across
Alamogordo's county (5 letters)
64 Across
Pigtails (6 letters)
65 Across
Jacob, to Laban (8 letters)
68 Across
Switzerland (8 letters)
70 Across
Quivering trees (6 letters)
72 Across
Name for a movie house (5 letters)
74 Across
Frightened (7 letters)
77 Across
Rent (5 letters)
78 Across
Pernod ingredient (5 letters)
79 Across
Moving stairs (9 letters)
81 Across
Cuckoo (3 letters)
82 Across
Color slightly (5 letters)
84 Across
Start growing (6 letters)
86 Across
He wrote "An Exchange of Eagles": 1977 (4 letters)
87 Across
Compos mentis (4 letters)
89 Across
Show sudden interest (5 letters)
91 Across
Removes a sheepshank (6 letters)
93 Across
Permit: Abbr. (3 letters)
94 Across
Looks after (7 letters)
96 Across
O'Keeffe, e.g. (6 letters)
98 Across
Roger's last name? (5 letters)
100 Across
Picnic ham (4 letters)
101 Across
Operating (5 letters)
102 Across
Some votes (4 letters)
104 Across
Gas stretcher (7 letters)
107 Across
Competition (6 letters)
109 Across
Disturbed the peace (6 letters)
113 Across
What are a candidate's ___? (10 letters)
115 Across
At whom did ___? (10 letters)
117 Across
Cyma recta (4 letters)
118 Across
County in Mont. (5 letters)
119 Across
Error's mate (5 letters)
120 Across
Computer fodder (4 letters)
121 Across
Sordor (4 letters)
122 Across
Rod used in basketry (5 letters)
123 Across
Parabases (4 letters)
124 Across
Once, once (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
German exclamations (4 letters)
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Tour the stores (4 letters)
3 Down
Earthbound bird (4 letters)
4 Down
Like hens' teeth (6 letters)
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W.W. II fliers (3 letters)
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Metric weight (4 letters)
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Fell out (9 letters)
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"Last but ___" (8 letters)
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Brezhnev and some shooting stars (7 letters)
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Start (5 letters)
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Mil. man (3 letters)
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Virgules or twills (9 letters)
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Take both sides (8 letters)
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Simenon's inspector (7 letters)
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"Salvation ___" (4 letters)
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Gen. Wingate: 1903–44 (4 letters)
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Jays' cousins (4 letters)
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War planning date (4 letters)
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"How to ___ Book": Adler (5 letters)
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Bonn is its cap. (4 letters)
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Auberge (3 letters)
31 Down
Like Aphrodite or Nereids (7 letters)
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Post-Mecca Moslem (5 letters)
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Man from Manchuria (5 letters)
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Did George III give ___? (11 letters)
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Opposed, Dogpatch style (4 letters)
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Schnitzler's idle worldling (6 letters)
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What secrets did ___? (11 letters)
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Golf great (5 letters)
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Civil-rights writer (6 letters)
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Grenoble's river (5 letters)
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Plants seed (4 letters)
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Fixes over (6 letters)
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Sun ___-sen (3 letters)
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What we all are (6 letters)
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Shakespearean gem (6 letters)
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Aphra of writing fame (4 letters)
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"___ a star . . . " (6 letters)
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Has creditors (4 letters)
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Delay, old style (6 letters)
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" . . . there I ___ be": H. Van Dyke (6 letters)
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Balzac book: 1832 (5 letters)
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Emptiness (7 letters)
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Wellaway! (4 letters)
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French lawmakers (5 letters)
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Latin diphthongs (3 letters)
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Borne by the wind (5 letters)
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Harsh lawmaker (5 letters)
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Who turned ___? (9 letters)
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What streams did ___? (9 letters)
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Barflies (4 letters)
83 Down
"He that ___ anger . . . ": Prov. 16:32 (8 letters)
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___ words (verbalizes) (8 letters)
88 Down
Makes a cryptogram (7 letters)
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Big cat (7 letters)
92 Down
Young lover (5 letters)
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Morse man's long ones (4 letters)
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Capek play (3 letters)
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Tristram's beloved (6 letters)
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Rope fiber (5 letters)
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Epochal (4 letters)
104 Down
Over the hill (4 letters)
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Theater box (4 letters)
106 Down
Indian of Manitoba (4 letters)
108 Down
Clinton's waterway (4 letters)
110 Down
Snag (4 letters)
111 Down
Highway sign (4 letters)
112 Down
Mild cussword (4 letters)
114 Down
Any of 18 named Louis (3 letters)
116 Down
Mates of pas (3 letters)

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