SUITING SOUND TO NONSENSE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Arnold Moss8/23/1981

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Across

1 Across: Founder of Dogpatch (4 letters)
5 Across: Nickname for Aqueduct Race Track (4 letters)
9 Across: "¿Quién ___?" (4 letters)
13 Across: Scorch (4 letters)
17 Across: Longfellow's bell town (4 letters)
18 Across: Manila hemp (5 letters)
20 Across: Houdini's real name (5 letters)
22 Across: London's subway (4 letters)
23 Across: French window (4 letters)
24 Across: Shakespeare's tamed shrew (11 letters)
26 Across: Norwegian river (4 letters)
27 Across: Collision (6 letters)
29 Across: Actor Alan from N.Y.C. (5 letters)
30 Across: Guardians of a celestial throne (8 letters)
32 Across: Cockloft (5 letters)
34 Across: Growlers (5 letters)
36 Across: Sea squirt (5 letters)
37 Across: Nobelist in Literature: 1909 (8 letters)
40 Across: Lower or resign (5 letters)
42 Across: Climbing plants (6 letters)
45 Across: Mayan or Mundane (3 letters)
46 Across: Drink noisily (5 letters)
48 Across: English county bordering Wales (5 letters)
50 Across: Staring (5 letters)
51 Across: C.I.A. operatives (4 letters)
53 Across: Kind of tide (4 letters)
55 Across: Philippine mahogany (5 letters)
57 Across: Ariosto's patron (4 letters)
58 Across: Fuliginous (5 letters)
60 Across: "Romola" character (5 letters)
62 Across: Robe for Calpurnia (5 letters)
64 Across: Plural endings (3 letters)
65 Across: On the way (7 letters)
67 Across: Pungent (4 letters)
69 Across: Influential acquaintance (7 letters)
71 Across: Indonesian island (4 letters)
72 Across: Stoneworts (5 letters)
74 Across: "___ Perpetua," Idaho motto (4 letters)
75 Across: Printer's dummy (7 letters)
78 Across: Flanders of fiction (4 letters)
79 Across: Seurat's technique (7 letters)
83 Across: Father, in Arabia (3 letters)
84 Across: Hide the loot (5 letters)
87 Across: Upholstered couches (5 letters)
89 Across: Parts of pippins (5 letters)
90 Across: Glove leather (4 letters)
92 Across: "Slammin' Sam" (5 letters)
94 Across: Betel (4 letters)
95 Across: Starts' partners (4 letters)
96 Across: "Angélique" composer (5 letters)
98 Across: Biblical witch's home (5 letters)
100 Across: "Like ___, all tears": Hamlet (5 letters)
103 Across: Lincoln note (3 letters)
104 Across: ___ blanches (6 letters)
106 Across: Rental sign (5 letters)
108 Across: Word game (8 letters)
110 Across: Medicinal plant (5 letters)
112 Across: Defeated narrowly, with "out" (5 letters)
114 Across: Proboscis (5 letters)
115 Across: Indemnify, in law (8 letters)
118 Across: Tonic water, e.g. (5 letters)
120 Across: Evaluate (6 letters)
123 Across: Napoleon won here in 1796 (4 letters)
124 Across: Vaterland (11 letters)
127 Across: Exchange membership (4 letters)
128 Across: Cruising (4 letters)
129 Across: Noted Cairene (5 letters)
130 Across: Cuttlefish (5 letters)
131 Across: "La Douce" (4 letters)
132 Across: Wide-awake (4 letters)
133 Across: ___ nostrum (4 letters)
134 Across: Some roulette bets (4 letters)
135 Across: Vice prin. (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Moslem judge (4 letters)
2 Down: Mighty mite (4 letters)
3 Down: Decorous reptile (10 letters)
4 Down: Henry Morgan was one (6 letters)
5 Down: " . . . ___ I be best": "Henry VI, Part III" (7 letters)
6 Down: Nigerian native (3 letters)
7 Down: Vasco da ___ (4 letters)
8 Down: Bitter (5 letters)
9 Down: Roundup rider (8 letters)
10 Down: Org. succeeded by the N.R.C. (3 letters)
11 Down: Prejudice (4 letters)
12 Down: ___ Park, Colo. (5 letters)
13 Down: Plumber's problem (8 letters)
14 Down: Young Burmese at home (10 letters)
15 Down: Dugout (4 letters)
16 Down: Quantity of paper (4 letters)
19 Down: Invited (5 letters)
21 Down: Of certain ecological areas (5 letters)
25 Down: Flags (5 letters)
28 Down: Men in front of QB's (4 letters)
31 Down: Ending for margin or Saturn (4 letters)
33 Down: Use an analgesic (11 letters)
35 Down: Lapham of literature (5 letters)
37 Down: Broker's concern (5 letters)
38 Down: Gaseous element (5 letters)
39 Down: Manumit (4 letters)
41 Down: Basis for a civil suit (4 letters)
43 Down: Nahuatl (5 letters)
44 Down: "What thou ___, write in a book . . . " (5 letters)
47 Down: Ziti, e.g. (5 letters)
49 Down: Meetings of McEnroe and Borg (11 letters)
52 Down: Ermine (5 letters)
54 Down: Sacred song (5 letters)
56 Down: Cather's "___ Lady" (5 letters)
59 Down: Christmas-tides (5 letters)
61 Down: Rival of Sparta and Athens (5 letters)
63 Down: Huxley's "___ Hay" (5 letters)
66 Down: Ballyhoos (5 letters)
68 Down: Mythical man of brass (5 letters)
70 Down: "On ___ Old Smokey" (5 letters)
73 Down: Puckish (5 letters)
75 Down: Kind of button (5 letters)
76 Down: Addis ___ (5 letters)
77 Down: Excellent material for furniture (10 letters)
80 Down: Result of solitary sorrow (10 letters)
81 Down: "___ Eat Cake," 1933 musical (5 letters)
82 Down: Curves (5 letters)
85 Down: Posted (4 letters)
86 Down: Wore (5 letters)
88 Down: Song for Horne (4 letters)
91 Down: ___ well (8 letters)
93 Down: Rock-forming mineral (8 letters)
97 Down: Where Achilles sulked (4 letters)
99 Down: Pitch (5 letters)
101 Down: Honduran exports (7 letters)
102 Down: Analysts' concerns (4 letters)
105 Down: Obstructions (5 letters)
107 Down: Tower's territory (5 letters)
109 Down: Where Peter was great (6 letters)
111 Down: " . . . ___ of snow-white horses" (5 letters)
113 Down: Inhibit (5 letters)
115 Down: City map (4 letters)
116 Down: Rambler (4 letters)
117 Down: Wagnerian earth goddess (4 letters)
119 Down: Mellow (4 letters)
121 Down: Yorty and Spade (4 letters)
122 Down: Photo or thermo follower (4 letters)
125 Down: Vandalize (3 letters)
126 Down: Resembling: Suffix (3 letters)

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