VERBAL HI-JINKS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Alfio Micci11/16/1980

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Mar (6 letters)
7 Across: Complain (6 letters)
13 Across: Drains (4 letters)
17 Across: ___ and excursions (7 letters)
19 Across: Was fearful (7 letters)
20 Across: Oregon, for one (5 letters)
22 Across: SNRUT (15 letters)
24 Across: Reindeer, to René (5 letters)
25 Across: Irish patriot (5 letters)
26 Across: Plural ending (3 letters)
27 Across: Reply: Abbr. (3 letters)
28 Across: Worked on socks (6 letters)
29 Across: "___ Fideles" (6 letters)
32 Across: Mystery writer Josephine (3 letters)
33 Across: Algonquian (6 letters)
34 Across: AIR (13 letters)
39 Across: Bow (3 letters)
40 Across: Roofed passageway (6 letters)
41 Across: Full of fury (4 letters)
42 Across: Brilliantly colored fish (4 letters)
43 Across: Belfry denizen (3 letters)
46 Across: Shows pleasure (5 letters)
47 Across: An old ruse: Colloq. (5 letters)
48 Across: Argillaceous rock (5 letters)
49 Across: Christian or Roman (3 letters)
50 Across: Roof feature (4 letters)
51 Across: Proscribes (4 letters)
52 Across: DE DE AL AL (11 letters)
55 Across: Scuttle (3 letters)
56 Across: Royal family of Scotland (6 letters)
57 Across: Double quartet (5 letters)
58 Across: Lose (6 letters)
62 Across: Sound of laughter (3 letters)
64 Across: Actress Balin (3 letters)
65 Across: Flammable hydrocarbon (6 letters)
66 Across: Foreigner (5 letters)
67 Across: Taproom (6 letters)
69 Across: Crude abode (3 letters)
70 Across: AP ES (11 letters)
72 Across: French wives: Abbr. (4 letters)
74 Across: Terminate (4 letters)
78 Across: "___ Alone": Romberg (3 letters)
79 Across: Rudimentary seed (5 letters)
80 Across: Robin of balladry (5 letters)
82 Across: "The Wreck of the Mary ___" (5 letters)
83 Across: Palindromic name (3 letters)
84 Across: In a high degree (4 letters)
85 Across: Procure or secure (4 letters)
86 Across: Liquified by heat (6 letters)
87 Across: Beautician Westmore (3 letters)
88 Across: 1,000,1,000 (13 letters)
91 Across: Takes the helm (6 letters)
95 Across: Actress Tanguay (3 letters)
96 Across: Maroon (6 letters)
97 Across: Decanter (6 letters)
98 Across: Linguist Mario A. ___ (3 letters)
99 Across: Agcy. succeeded by N.R.C. (3 letters)
100 Across: Peep show (5 letters)
105 Across: Stradivari's teacher (5 letters)
106 Across: WORL (15 letters)
110 Across: Chief ingredient (5 letters)
111 Across: Annexed (7 letters)
112 Across: Bring to a total (7 letters)
113 Across: Torn (4 letters)
114 Across: Crystal-lined rocks (6 letters)
115 Across: Compound similar to another (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Boy-meets-girl event (4 letters)
2 Down: Cle ___, city in Washington (4 letters)
3 Down: Old MacDonald had one (4 letters)
4 Down: Composer of "Comus" (4 letters)
5 Down: Desserts (8 letters)
6 Down: Ostrich's cousin (3 letters)
7 Down: Serling or Steiger (3 letters)
8 Down: Ram's dam (3 letters)
9 Down: Footed: Comb. form (6 letters)
10 Down: Mangle user (6 letters)
11 Down: Given to gossip (5 letters)
12 Down: Bulldog or final: Abbr. (3 letters)
13 Down: O U T (12 letters)
14 Down: Common contraction (5 letters)
15 Down: Zoo attraction (5 letters)
16 Down: Tendon (5 letters)
18 Down: Triple agents (5 letters)
19 Down: Artificial reservoirs (8 letters)
21 Down: Mother of Helen of Troy (4 letters)
23 Down: Part of a seminar (7 letters)
28 Down: Esprit de corps (6 letters)
30 Down: Sandra or Ruby (3 letters)
31 Down: Site of Sagan's dragons (4 letters)
34 Down: Target for Trottier (4 letters)
35 Down: Odd, in Scotland (4 letters)
36 Down: Year in the reign of Henry IV (4 letters)
37 Down: Oriel part (4 letters)
38 Down: Scorched (5 letters)
39 Down: Separated (5 letters)
42 Down: Flicka's creator (5 letters)
43 Down: Blessed Roman Catholic woman (5 letters)
44 Down: "Stormy Weather" composer (5 letters)
45 Down: Discernment (5 letters)
47 Down: Bounder (3 letters)
48 Down: ___ pan (Chinese abacus) (4 letters)
51 Down: Dandiprat (3 letters)
53 Down: One of the Dionnes, for short (4 letters)
54 Down: Outside: Comb. form (3 letters)
55 Down: APPLAUSE (12 letters)
56 Down: Cordwainer's creation (4 letters)
58 Down: City in Georgia (5 letters)
59 Down: One of the Masseys (5 letters)
60 Down: Enchantress (5 letters)
61 Down: The quiet side (3 letters)
62 Down: By chance (5 letters)
63 Down: Everyone, in Essen (4 letters)
65 Down: Charabanc (3 letters)
67 Down: Reject (5 letters)
68 Down: Orange or Indian (5 letters)
69 Down: Part of H.R.H., sometimes (3 letters)
71 Down: Disinclined (6 letters)
72 Down: Aver (8 letters)
73 Down: Sofia sight (7 letters)
74 Down: Order to a broker (4 letters)
75 Down: Actor Jacques (4 letters)
76 Down: Mountain: Comb. form (4 letters)
77 Down: Robert ___ Warren (4 letters)
81 Down: Speaker's milieu (4 letters)
82 Down: Becalmed state (8 letters)
86 Down: Andy Gump's wife (3 letters)
88 Down: Exaggerate (6 letters)
89 Down: Did carpentry (6 letters)
90 Down: Jet speed units (5 letters)
91 Down: Picket-line crosser (4 letters)
92 Down: Devonshire river (5 letters)
93 Down: Expunge (5 letters)
94 Down: Dine at home (5 letters)
95 Down: Horatian verse form (5 letters)
101 Down: Prefix for sphere or meter (4 letters)
102 Down: Paper quantity (4 letters)
103 Down: Being, in Barcelona (4 letters)
104 Down: Large German dam (4 letters)
106 Down: Joker (3 letters)
107 Down: H.S.T.'s successor (3 letters)
108 Down: Certain servicemen: Abbr. (3 letters)
109 Down: French assent (3 letters)

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