LITERALLY SPEAKING

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Jim Page3/29/1981

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Across

1 Across: Hit the books (4 letters)
5 Across: Dalai ___ (4 letters)
9 Across: Taiwan Strait seaport (4 letters)
13 Across: Greek letters (4 letters)
17 Across: Blockheads, in Brest (4 letters)
18 Across: ___-on-Hudson, N.Y. (6 letters)
20 Across: Jay or Kay (4 letters)
21 Across: Pinsetter's place (4 letters)
22 Across: L (11 letters)
24 Across: Cassini (4 letters)
25 Across: Came down (4 letters)
26 Across: Kind of spring (7 letters)
27 Across: R (12 letters)
30 Across: Contralto Nikolaidi (5 letters)
31 Across: Idle (6 letters)
34 Across: Cozy retreat (4 letters)
35 Across: Gram weight (3 letters)
36 Across: Eng. author (3 letters)
37 Across: Quick-fry (5 letters)
38 Across: "Betty ___" (4 letters)
40 Across: In Dutch it's Rijn (5 letters)
42 Across: Decrees (6 letters)
44 Across: Bd. members (3 letters)
45 Across: "Some ___ meat . . . ": Burns (3 letters)
46 Across: Took 40 winks (6 letters)
49 Across: Mmes., in Cádiz (4 letters)
51 Across: Type of type (6 letters)
55 Across: Bar, legally (5 letters)
56 Across: V (15 letters)
61 Across: Anne or Jeanne: Abbr. (3 letters)
62 Across: Regions (5 letters)
63 Across: Grassland (3 letters)
64 Across: All knotted up (4 letters)
65 Across: El Cordobés bullring foe (4 letters)
67 Across: AL (11 letters)
70 Across: Sonoran Indians (4 letters)
71 Across: Indigo (4 letters)
72 Across: Wine: Comb. form (3 letters)
73 Across: Island near New Guinea (5 letters)
74 Across: Animal pouch (3 letters)
75 Across: O (15 letters)
79 Across: Play about Perón (5 letters)
81 Across: Made the grade (6 letters)
82 Across: Essence (4 letters)
83 Across: Barrymore or Hampton (6 letters)
84 Across: Kin of rds. and sts. (3 letters)
85 Across: "___ Clown" (3 letters)
86 Across: Endurance-race site (6 letters)
89 Across: Vermont ski resort (5 letters)
92 Across: ___ War: 1899–1902 (4 letters)
93 Across: Uncanny (5 letters)
94 Across: Forming a corner: Abbr. (3 letters)
97 Across: Ear: Comb. form (3 letters)
98 Across: Marsh growth (4 letters)
100 Across: Dairy-company devices (6 letters)
102 Across: Galileo taught here (5 letters)
104 Across: Y (12 letters)
107 Across: Albert Speer book (7 letters)
109 Across: Author Sheehy (4 letters)
110 Across: Carty of baseball (4 letters)
111 Across: Y (11 letters)
114 Across: Prefix for blast or carp (4 letters)
115 Across: Agenda entry (4 letters)
116 Across: Sheathe a blade (6 letters)
117 Across: ___ homo (4 letters)
118 Across: Benchley's "The ___" (4 letters)
119 Across: Existence (4 letters)
120 Across: Rim hangings (4 letters)
121 Across: Ending with pun or fun (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Golf great (6 letters)
2 Down: House Speaker Tip (6 letters)
3 Down: City WSW of Paris (6 letters)
4 Down: Ruhr steel center (5 letters)
5 Down: Chaney (3 letters)
6 Down: Panay people (3 letters)
7 Down: Mailer subject (6 letters)
8 Down: Breed of cattle (5 letters)
9 Down: Shortly (4 letters)
10 Down: Stiff, silk net (7 letters)
11 Down: Foretold (6 letters)
12 Down: Safecrackers (5 letters)
13 Down: Land developer's map (4 letters)
14 Down: Deli order (6 letters)
15 Down: " . . . armies clad ___": Milton (6 letters)
16 Down: Sink like a soufflé (6 letters)
18 Down: V.I.P. at tax time (3 letters)
19 Down: Gunnery officer's command (6 letters)
23 Down: Early English money (3 letters)
28 Down: Honeybee's intake (6 letters)
29 Down: Layers (6 letters)
32 Down: Calendar abbr. (3 letters)
33 Down: "___ only a paper moon . . . " (3 letters)
37 Down: Like McCullers's café (3 letters)
39 Down: About (4 letters)
41 Down: Equine ailment (6 letters)
42 Down: Dancer Michio ___ (3 letters)
43 Down: Ribbed fabric (3 letters)
45 Down: King of Tyre (5 letters)
46 Down: Replace, as postage (7 letters)
47 Down: Baltic Sea republic (7 letters)
48 Down: Compounds including vitamin D (7 letters)
49 Down: R.b.i. or e.r.a. (4 letters)
50 Down: Sarasota and Palm Springs (7 letters)
52 Down: "And she ___ our alley": Carey (7 letters)
53 Down: Go over verbally (7 letters)
54 Down: Sneering (7 letters)
56 Down: Recent: Comb. form (5 letters)
57 Down: ___ Good Feeling (5 letters)
58 Down: Saul's grandfather (3 letters)
59 Down: Chip (5 letters)
60 Down: To freeze: Fr. (5 letters)
66 Down: Maxim, redundantly (6 letters)
67 Down: Pays close attention (5 letters)
68 Down: Trilby or tootsy (4 letters)
69 Down: Mail convenience: Abbr. (3 letters)
76 Down: Jimmies (6 letters)
77 Down: Pointed arch (4 letters)
78 Down: "Other Skies" poet (6 letters)
79 Down: Chem. suffix (3 letters)
80 Down: Flemish painter: 16th century (3 letters)
83 Down: New Guinea locale (3 letters)
85 Down: Women's vests (7 letters)
86 Down: He bestrode Traveller (3 letters)
87 Down: Go astray (3 letters)
88 Down: F.D.R.'s secretary et al. (6 letters)
89 Down: Drooped (6 letters)
90 Down: Gridiron's Green Wave (6 letters)
91 Down: Cheap-jewelry alloy (6 letters)
92 Down: Is suited to (6 letters)
93 Down: Refrigerant or fuel (6 letters)
94 Down: Habituate (6 letters)
95 Down: Shade of difference (6 letters)
96 Down: British excise-tax collector (6 letters)
99 Down: Eagle's nest (5 letters)
101 Down: Pallid (5 letters)
102 Down: Roast or roaster (3 letters)
103 Down: Machu Picchu setting (5 letters)
105 Down: Sterne's Dr. (4 letters)
106 Down: Seward Peninsula city (4 letters)
108 Down: ___ Dee (Carolina river) (3 letters)
112 Down: Pt. of the whole (3 letters)
113 Down: Ballerina's ___ seul (3 letters)

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