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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Anne Fox6/28/1981

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: March figure, for short (5 letters)
6 Across: Thin nail (4 letters)
10 Across: Cheapskate (5 letters)
15 Across: Storied lioness (4 letters)
19 Across: Writer Segal (5 letters)
20 Across: Aussie kangaroo (4 letters)
21 Across: ___ Gay (W.W. II plane) (5 letters)
22 Across: Magician Henning (4 letters)
23 Across: July 3, 1775 (21 letters)
27 Across: Globe (6 letters)
28 Across: Egg: Sp. (5 letters)
29 Across: Veranda (6 letters)
30 Across: G.P.'s (3 letters)
32 Across: Ike's command (3 letters)
33 Across: Discordant (4 letters)
35 Across: October 17, 1777 (21 letters)
46 Across: Russian sea (4 letters)
47 Across: House wing (3 letters)
48 Across: ____ game (pitcher's coup) (5 letters)
49 Across: Of the mouth (4 letters)
50 Across: Stews (5 letters)
52 Across: Thai language (3 letters)
54 Across: Stone marker (5 letters)
55 Across: Part of the arm (5 letters)
56 Across: February 6, 1778 (21 letters)
60 Across: Its capital is Altdorf (3 letters)
61 Across: Manx call (4 letters)
62 Across: 1922 play (4 letters)
63 Across: "Le Coq ___" (3 letters)
64 Across: Beach of Florida (7 letters)
68 Across: Of Norse poetry (5 letters)
71 Across: Custer busters (7 letters)
73 Across: Word with long or now (3 letters)
74 Across: ___-être (Marcel's maybe) (4 letters)
76 Across: Site of Bryce Canyon (4 letters)
78 Across: Lemon (3 letters)
79 Across: July 16, 1779 (21 letters)
87 Across: Texas city (5 letters)
88 Across: Accordion item (5 letters)
89 Across: Arles assent (3 letters)
90 Across: Strength (5 letters)
91 Across: River to the Elbe (4 letters)
92 Across: Nobelist in Chemistry: 1921 (5 letters)
93 Across: Cribbage card (3 letters)
95 Across: Lady of Spain (4 letters)
96 Across: September 23, 1779 (21 letters)
102 Across: La-di-da (4 letters)
103 Across: Eras upon eras (3 letters)
104 Across: Chosen, in Calais (3 letters)
105 Across: Summing, e.g. (6 letters)
109 Across: "___ beaucoup!" (5 letters)
111 Across: Asian wild sheep (6 letters)
116 Across: October 19, 1781 (21 letters)
121 Across: Type of bed (4 letters)
122 Across: ___ sanctum (5 letters)
123 Across: Host (4 letters)
124 Across: City on the Arkansas (5 letters)
125 Across: Aleutian island (4 letters)
126 Across: Certain trainee (5 letters)
127 Across: Pottery pail (4 letters)
128 Across: Companionway (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Stitches (4 letters)
2 Down: Gin (4 letters)
3 Down: Phooey! (4 letters)
4 Down: Hurt (4 letters)
5 Down: Musical intervals (6 letters)
6 Down: Entreat (3 letters)
7 Down: O.T. book (4 letters)
8 Down: Voltaire's real name (6 letters)
9 Down: ___ a turn (cooked perfectly) (6 letters)
10 Down: 100 centavos (4 letters)
11 Down: Business abbr. (3 letters)
12 Down: "Hitchy-___," Kern revue (3 letters)
13 Down: Slippery ___ (3 letters)
14 Down: Bulwark (7 letters)
15 Down: Wife of Skelton or Stengel (4 letters)
16 Down: Polish city (4 letters)
17 Down: Historic waterway (4 letters)
18 Down: City on the Jumna (4 letters)
24 Down: Cheek (5 letters)
25 Down: Novello (4 letters)
26 Down: Grass genus (4 letters)
31 Down: Brooklyn's gift to opera (5 letters)
33 Down: Building stone (6 letters)
34 Down: Game like handball (7 letters)
35 Down: Fishing hook (4 letters)
36 Down: Côte d'___ (4 letters)
37 Down: Volume (4 letters)
38 Down: Golf term (6 letters)
39 Down: Demand as a right (5 letters)
40 Down: Con (4 letters)
41 Down: Pigeon follower (4 letters)
42 Down: African antelope (4 letters)
43 Down: California town (6 letters)
44 Down: Boastful one (6 letters)
45 Down: Changes (6 letters)
51 Down: Predicaments (7 letters)
53 Down: Finishing strip (4 letters)
54 Down: Doll stuffing (7 letters)
55 Down: Conclusions (7 letters)
57 Down: Met basso (5 letters)
58 Down: Land of ___ (3 letters)
59 Down: "Lone Eagle" (5 letters)
64 Down: Phoebes (6 letters)
65 Down: Mandarin, e.g. (6 letters)
66 Down: N.J. governor: 1954–62 (6 letters)
67 Down: Military station (7 letters)
69 Down: Possessive (3 letters)
70 Down: "The Censor" (4 letters)
72 Down: Martin-Preston vehicle (6 letters)
75 Down: " . . . a tale ___ an idiot . . . ": Macbeth (6 letters)
77 Down: Hecate's companion (5 letters)
80 Down: 1933 initials (4 letters)
81 Down: Make over (4 letters)
82 Down: Yucatán Indian (4 letters)
83 Down: Daughter of Tantalus (5 letters)
84 Down: Hep or hip (4 letters)
85 Down: State bird of Hawaii (4 letters)
86 Down: Start of a C. Moore poem (4 letters)
92 Down: Alluring (7 letters)
94 Down: Corporation rule (5 letters)
97 Down: Sheet of stamps (4 letters)
98 Down: Shorten sail (4 letters)
99 Down: Biblical seamstress (6 letters)
100 Down: Bis (6 letters)
101 Down: Magistrates (6 letters)
105 Down: U.S. satellite (4 letters)
106 Down: Part of Q.E.D. (4 letters)
107 Down: Turkish city (4 letters)
108 Down: Asian republic: Var. (4 letters)
109 Down: Cartoonist Walker (4 letters)
110 Down: "La Douce" (4 letters)
112 Down: Cloy (4 letters)
113 Down: ___ breve (4 letters)
114 Down: Actress Virna (4 letters)
115 Down: Munich's river (4 letters)
117 Down: Genetic initials (3 letters)
118 Down: Sake (3 letters)
119 Down: Arikara (3 letters)
120 Down: Man. campus (3 letters)

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