NICKNAME DROPPING

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23168 clues~30-60 minBy George Rose Smith11/2/1980

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Across

1 Across: Arabic letter (4 letters)
5 Across: Egyptian Christian (4 letters)
9 Across: Lay away (6 letters)
15 Across: Was solicitous (5 letters)
20 Across: Fanaticism (5 letters)
22 Across: ___ fixe (4 letters)
23 Across: Power for a jinrikisha (6 letters)
24 Across: Coeur d'___, Idaho (5 letters)
25 Across: The end (10 letters)
27 Across: Like aged Beethoven (12 letters)
29 Across: Deliverance (6 letters)
30 Across: Moroccan capital (5 letters)
32 Across: "Josh" is his autobiography (5 letters)
33 Across: Bone: Prefix (4 letters)
34 Across: Snaps (6 letters)
36 Across: Vichy prime minister: 1942–44 (5 letters)
38 Across: Certain murals (5 letters)
40 Across: Poet's contraction (3 letters)
41 Across: Printers' marks (5 letters)
43 Across: Metric quart (5 letters)
45 Across: O.T. word (5 letters)
47 Across: Like Mr. Dick (3 letters)
50 Across: Sarcastic (11 letters)
53 Across: Testified (7 letters)
57 Across: Spartan king (4 letters)
59 Across: Cuchulainn's wife (4 letters)
60 Across: Barbizon painter (5 letters)
62 Across: Breakfast serving (6 letters)
63 Across: A pastry, for short (5 letters)
65 Across: Insect appendages (5 letters)
68 Across: Omphalos (5 letters)
70 Across: Metric measure (5 letters)
71 Across: Taws (6 letters)
73 Across: Think (4 letters)
74 Across: Ancient country (4 letters)
76 Across: Drag, as logs (4 letters)
77 Across: Became a keener (7 letters)
79 Across: Emulated Babilonia or Fleming (11 letters)
84 Across: Legal point (3 letters)
85 Across: Crocs' kin (6 letters)
87 Across: Rootstock (5 letters)
88 Across: Popular appetizer (6 letters)
90 Across: The horned horse (3 letters)
92 Across: Fickle, à la M. R. Rinehart (11 letters)
95 Across: Savors (7 letters)
98 Across: "The Years with ___": Thurber (4 letters)
100 Across: Antibodies (4 letters)
101 Across: One of the Aesir (4 letters)
103 Across: Yellowish pink (6 letters)
104 Across: ___ salt (delicate wit) (5 letters)
106 Across: Smears (5 letters)
109 Across: Fortification (5 letters)
111 Across: Defunct defense org. (5 letters)
112 Across: Goth, for one (6 letters)
114 Across: Cassandra's father (5 letters)
116 Across: Dutch cheese (4 letters)
118 Across: Tie (4 letters)
119 Across: Fictitious, as a name (7 letters)
121 Across: Medicine-chest item (11 letters)
125 Across: Culbertson (3 letters)
126 Across: Natural, at Reno (5 letters)
128 Across: Con man who duped 114 Across (5 letters)
129 Across: Made public (5 letters)
131 Across: Biblical king (3 letters)
134 Across: The filthy weed, in Nice (5 letters)
136 Across: Spoils (5 letters)
138 Across: Remain aloof (6 letters)
141 Across: Forearm bone (4 letters)
143 Across: Of a dowry (5 letters)
145 Across: Fates, for instance (5 letters)
147 Across: Mediterranean fish (6 letters)
149 Across: V.I.P. (12 letters)
152 Across: Goblet (10 letters)
154 Across: Perfect (5 letters)
155 Across: Square accounts (6 letters)
156 Across: Man, in Milano (4 letters)
157 Across: Remove stannic coating (5 letters)
158 Across: Pomme de ___ (5 letters)
159 Across: Part of H.S.H. (6 letters)
160 Across: Recluse (4 letters)
161 Across: Soaks (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Cupid (4 letters)
2 Down: Esther Williams' spouse (5 letters)
3 Down: Asinine (5 letters)
4 Down: Sports triumphs (6 letters)
5 Down: Approx. (3 letters)
6 Down: River to the Baltic (4 letters)
7 Down: Flower part (5 letters)
8 Down: Perforated sphere (7 letters)
9 Down: Beside oneself (8 letters)
10 Down: Part of a jury verdict (3 letters)
11 Down: Saw, e.g. (4 letters)
12 Down: Bread spreads (5 letters)
13 Down: No-see-ums (6 letters)
14 Down: Was circumspect (7 letters)
15 Down: Benny's Maxwell (3 letters)
16 Down: Moro or Ray (4 letters)
17 Down: A.F.B. in Texas (5 letters)
18 Down: Growing out (5 letters)
19 Down: Yield precedence (5 letters)
21 Down: S.A. rodent (6 letters)
26 Down: Famed French physicist (6 letters)
28 Down: Horn (6 letters)
31 Down: Cupidinous (4 letters)
35 Down: Jazz dance (5 letters)
37 Down: Lycée event (5 letters)
39 Down: Former cough cures (5 letters)
42 Down: Three-time P.G.A. champ (5 letters)
44 Down: ___ avis (4 letters)
46 Down: Communion wafers (5 letters)
47 Down: "___, I'm Adam" (5 letters)
48 Down: Galore (5 letters)
49 Down: Thingamajig (11 letters)
51 Down: City on the Rhone (5 letters)
52 Down: Rodgers-Hart hit: 1933 (5 letters)
54 Down: Energy-saving way to go (11 letters)
55 Down: Mysterious (5 letters)
56 Down: Sediment (5 letters)
58 Down: Sermon by Buddha (5 letters)
61 Down: Purposive (5 letters)
64 Down: Dress types (5 letters)
66 Down: Kind of tea (5 letters)
67 Down: Chichi (5 letters)
69 Down: Wrinkled (5 letters)
72 Down: Strives for (5 letters)
75 Down: Soupy (5 letters)
78 Down: Cut's companion (5 letters)
80 Down: Relative of tetra (3 letters)
81 Down: ___ miss (5 letters)
82 Down: Play byplay (5 letters)
83 Down: Parisian artist (5 letters)
86 Down: Part of a slip (5 letters)
89 Down: Held sway (5 letters)
90 Down: Persona ___ (5 letters)
91 Down: Lecture material (5 letters)
93 Down: La Plante or Baugh (5 letters)
94 Down: Staff group (5 letters)
96 Down: Universal (5 letters)
97 Down: Like Kilimanjaro (5 letters)
99 Down: Position (5 letters)
102 Down: Gymnast Comaneci (5 letters)
105 Down: Kohoutek, e.g. (5 letters)
107 Down: Snaffles (4 letters)
108 Down: Sir, to Din (5 letters)
110 Down: Hakenkreuzler (5 letters)
113 Down: Battle Born State (6 letters)
115 Down: A species constituting a genus (8 letters)
117 Down: White sheep (6 letters)
120 Down: Prepares to dice chicken (7 letters)
122 Down: Anchor (4 letters)
123 Down: Front porch (7 letters)
124 Down: Like certain Hawthorne tales (6 letters)
127 Down: Autochthonous (6 letters)
130 Down: A Christmas reindeer (6 letters)
131 Down: C.P.A.'s task (5 letters)
132 Down: Lab item (5 letters)
133 Down: Wrath (5 letters)
135 Down: Supply food (5 letters)
137 Down: A subject of the Houyhnhnms (5 letters)
139 Down: Combine (5 letters)
140 Down: Understood (5 letters)
142 Down: Showing a crack (4 letters)
144 Down: Miler's path (4 letters)
146 Down: Execrate (4 letters)
148 Down: Lacrosse teams (4 letters)
150 Down: Caucho (3 letters)
151 Down: Streamlet (3 letters)
153 Down: Soldier at Seoul (3 letters)

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