RHYME AND REASON

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23168 clues~30-60 minBy Michael Priestley4/19/1981

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Across

1 Across: Hegel's forte (5 letters)
6 Across: Tuileries, e.g. (4 letters)
10 Across: Railroad switch (5 letters)
15 Across: Henry was one (6 letters)
21 Across: Operating (5 letters)
22 Across: Mad scientist's aide (4 letters)
23 Across: Odin, Thor et al. (5 letters)
24 Across: Inundate (6 letters)
25 Across: Airplane glue? (16 letters)
28 Across: Idolized (6 letters)
29 Across: Character in "No Exit" (7 letters)
30 Across: Squama (5 letters)
31 Across: Possesses (3 letters)
33 Across: These make stakes (5 letters)
34 Across: Relative of a maguey (4 letters)
36 Across: Ferrum (4 letters)
37 Across: ___ gentle (trained falcon) (6 letters)
39 Across: Aromatic peripatetic? (15 letters)
46 Across: Confining grind (3 letters)
47 Across: Oosphere (3 letters)
50 Across: Draws water (5 letters)
51 Across: Hawaiian port (4 letters)
52 Across: Nimbi (5 letters)
54 Across: Loire feeder (4 letters)
55 Across: Discordant (4 letters)
56 Across: Enero, e.g. (3 letters)
57 Across: Snoozes (7 letters)
59 Across: Albacore (4 letters)
60 Across: Zola opus (4 letters)
61 Across: Plane curves (9 letters)
64 Across: Rained, e.g. (8 letters)
66 Across: Curtails (8 letters)
68 Across: Taurine complaint (4 letters)
69 Across: Mil. school (3 letters)
70 Across: ___ nous (5 letters)
71 Across: Tennyson poem (4 letters)
72 Across: Shrill or tubular (4 letters)
73 Across: God for Radamès (4 letters)
74 Across: Heliacal (5 letters)
75 Across: Tatami (3 letters)
78 Across: Wear in a nursery rhyme (7 letters)
80 Across: Submerged coral reefs (7 letters)
82 Across: Bx rumblers (3 letters)
83 Across: On the qui vive (5 letters)
85 Across: Start of a counting rhyme (4 letters)
86 Across: Temple enclosures (4 letters)
87 Across: Former president of Chile (4 letters)
89 Across: Veranda, in Waikiki (5 letters)
90 Across: Direction suffix (3 letters)
91 Across: Wind-shielded (4 letters)
92 Across: Greek patron of drama (8 letters)
96 Across: Extra ingredient (8 letters)
98 Across: Winter sight (9 letters)
100 Across: Radio's "Vic and ___" (4 letters)
101 Across: May 15, e.g. (4 letters)
102 Across: Onomatopoeic drumbeat (7 letters)
104 Across: Sound from Sandy (3 letters)
105 Across: "More Pricks ___ Kicks," Beckett book (4 letters)
106 Across: Beget (4 letters)
107 Across: Anoint, old style (5 letters)
108 Across: Peer Gynt's mother (4 letters)
110 Across: Simon and Diamond (5 letters)
111 Across: College subj. (3 letters)
112 Across: Keelbill (3 letters)
113 Across: Cause of prickly heat? (15 letters)
118 Across: Actors' group (6 letters)
121 Across: Reconcile (4 letters)
122 Across: Shipshape (4 letters)
123 Across: Cartes before the courses (5 letters)
125 Across: Boisterous laugh (3 letters)
127 Across: Encircled (5 letters)
129 Across: Inning in polo (7 letters)
134 Across: Revise (6 letters)
136 Across: Union vehicle? (16 letters)
139 Across: Zetetic person (6 letters)
140 Across: "Halt, salt!" (5 letters)
141 Across: Nymph pursued by Pan (4 letters)
142 Across: Region of Indochina (5 letters)
143 Across: Part of H.S.H. (6 letters)
144 Across: Wall vaults (5 letters)
145 Across: Tribune (4 letters)
146 Across: Yorkshire city (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Long sentence (4 letters)
2 Down: Burden of proof (4 letters)
3 Down: Squall (4 letters)
4 Down: Caesar's "video" (4 letters)
5 Down: Oenologists' storerooms (7 letters)
6 Down: Columbary denizen (6 letters)
7 Down: Iron or Stone (3 letters)
8 Down: Gypsies (4 letters)
9 Down: Acute (7 letters)
10 Down: O'Neill was one (6 letters)
11 Down: Shakespearean heroine (6 letters)
12 Down: "The Nifty Fifty" (3 letters)
13 Down: In propinquity (4 letters)
14 Down: Wine and dine (5 letters)
15 Down: Concubine's chamber (3 letters)
16 Down: What diaskeuasts do (6 letters)
17 Down: Unaccompanied (5 letters)
18 Down: Chelonian charge? (12 letters)
19 Down: S-shaped arch (4 letters)
20 Down: Ohio nine (4 letters)
26 Down: Actress Nazimova (4 letters)
27 Down: Something to stow below (5 letters)
32 Down: Guardian of angels? (13 letters)
35 Down: Inflammable liquids (6 letters)
38 Down: ___-Japanese War (5 letters)
39 Down: Custard tarts (5 letters)
40 Down: Malay ruler (5 letters)
41 Down: Hersey town (5 letters)
42 Down: Poet Hopkins (6 letters)
43 Down: Border order (4 letters)
44 Down: Turner and Cole (4 letters)
45 Down: Cask for amontillado (3 letters)
48 Down: Mark Clark was one (7 letters)
49 Down: They rate (7 letters)
53 Down: Scaramouch (6 letters)
54 Down: Comb: Comb. form (5 letters)
56 Down: Sea cow's conceit? (13 letters)
57 Down: Kaolin, e.g. (4 letters)
58 Down: Rhine tributary (3 letters)
61 Down: Elfin creature (4 letters)
62 Down: Saline (5 letters)
63 Down: Butterfingers' cry (4 letters)
65 Down: Smith's comrade in arms (6 letters)
67 Down: Small English bird (6 letters)
69 Down: Singer Redding (4 letters)
72 Down: Keystone State eponym (4 letters)
73 Down: Elbowed (5 letters)
75 Down: Discomfort (7 letters)
76 Down: Lamp rubber (7 letters)
77 Down: Females? (12 letters)
79 Down: Cylindrical (6 letters)
80 Down: Cauldron contents (4 letters)
81 Down: Disturbance (4 letters)
84 Down: Bump the bet (5 letters)
86 Down: Scads (4 letters)
88 Down: Formulated theory (6 letters)
91 Down: Compilation of information (3 letters)
92 Down: Most ominous (6 letters)
93 Down: Hindu title (5 letters)
94 Down: Stu or Mo (5 letters)
95 Down: Import or purport (5 letters)
97 Down: Man of Isfahan (5 letters)
98 Down: Suffix with fun or pun (4 letters)
99 Down: Flatten a flat (4 letters)
103 Down: Relative of a dalmatic (3 letters)
108 Down: Addis ___ (5 letters)
109 Down: So-called (7 letters)
110 Down: Uncultivated (7 letters)
112 Down: "Persuasion" author (6 letters)
114 Down: "My kingdom for ___!" (6 letters)
115 Down: Is entitled to (6 letters)
116 Down: Chocolate trees (6 letters)
117 Down: Coal region (4 letters)
119 Down: Tremble (5 letters)
120 Down: Arizona Indians (5 letters)
123 Down: Rumple (4 letters)
124 Down: Sword of a sort (4 letters)
126 Down: Australasian pepper (4 letters)
128 Down: Ten: Comb. form (4 letters)
130 Down: Cattle, in poesy (4 letters)
131 Down: Welles role (4 letters)
132 Down: "Horrors!" (4 letters)
133 Down: Quantities in radiology (4 letters)
135 Down: Poetic palindrome (3 letters)
137 Down: London's defenders (3 letters)
138 Down: Greek X (3 letters)

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