SHADES OF MEANING
Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Mary Virginia Orna3/7/1982
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Sole of a plow (5 letters)
- 6 Across
- Vichy vineyard (3 letters)
- 9 Across
- Home of the slave (5 letters)
- 14 Across
- Rent (4 letters)
- 18 Across
- Of the blood (5 letters)
- 19 Across
- Layer (3 letters)
- 20 Across
- Alpine crest (5 letters)
- 21 Across
- Dragged in (5 letters)
- 23 Across
- Suffix with argument (5 letters)
- 24 Across
- Remnant (3 letters)
- 25 Across
- Former Mmes. (5 letters)
- 26 Across
- Practical (5 letters)
- 27 Across
- S.A. tree or fruit (6 letters)
- 29 Across
- Popular science writer (6 letters)
- 31 Across
- Ervin or Rayburn (3 letters)
- 33 Across
- Again, to Bizet (3 letters)
- 34 Across
- Gold (21 letters)
- 38 Across
- Uttered (4 letters)
- 39 Across
- Artist ___ Borch (3 letters)
- 40 Across
- Like some sentimental songs (6 letters)
- 41 Across
- Heckler's missile (3 letters)
- 44 Across
- Mamie Eisenhower, ___ Doud (3 letters)
- 45 Across
- Bishop (4 letters)
- 47 Across
- Pickled (6 letters)
- 51 Across
- Unshackle the hackles (7 letters)
- 53 Across
- Piece of the pot (5 letters)
- 55 Across
- Wed (5 letters)
- 56 Across
- Edible tubers (5 letters)
- 57 Across
- Choice (6 letters)
- 59 Across
- Herds of humans (4 letters)
- 62 Across
- Handle clumsily (3 letters)
- 63 Across
- Beguile (6 letters)
- 65 Across
- Cutty ___ (4 letters)
- 66 Across
- Aquiline abodes (6 letters)
- 68 Across
- Blue (21 letters)
- 74 Across
- "Popo" author (6 letters)
- 75 Across
- "Take ___ Train" (4 letters)
- 76 Across
- Proportions (6 letters)
- 77 Across
- Little pocket (3 letters)
- 80 Across
- Bar owner's purchase (4 letters)
- 81 Across
- Perfect models (6 letters)
- 83 Across
- Meccan shrine (5 letters)
- 84 Across
- Architect Jones (5 letters)
- 86 Across
- Oar parts (5 letters)
- 87 Across
- ___ storm (won over, as an audience) (7 letters)
- 89 Across
- Call it a day (6 letters)
- 91 Across
- Loud noise (4 letters)
- 92 Across
- Short word after long (3 letters)
- 93 Across
- Poet's monogram (3 letters)
- 94 Across
- Grate harshly (6 letters)
- 96 Across
- Roble (3 letters)
- 99 Across
- Gobs (4 letters)
- 101 Across
- Red (21 letters)
- 109 Across
- Burrows of N.Y.C. (3 letters)
- 110 Across
- Map abbr. (3 letters)
- 111 Across
- Game dog (6 letters)
- 112 Across
- Song made popular by Al Jolson (6 letters)
- 113 Across
- ___ Gables, Fla. (5 letters)
- 115 Across
- Broadway musical (5 letters)
- 117 Across
- Goddess of dawn (3 letters)
- 119 Across
- Honshu seaport (5 letters)
- 120 Across
- Party boss in McKinley's day (5 letters)
- 121 Across
- Spokes (5 letters)
- 122 Across
- Indy 500 unit (3 letters)
- 123 Across
- Lacoste and Descartes (5 letters)
- 124 Across
- Romanov ruler (4 letters)
- 125 Across
- Filch (5 letters)
- 126 Across
- Pig's digs (3 letters)
- 127 Across
- Gerontius had one (5 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Catches flies (5 letters)
- 2 Down
- Gershwin's "___ Eat Cake" (5 letters)
- 3 Down
- Iranian prime minister in 1962 (5 letters)
- 4 Down
- Boat hoists (6 letters)
- 5 Down
- White (21 letters)
- 6 Down
- Guevara (3 letters)
- 7 Down
- French historian: 1823–92 (5 letters)
- 8 Down
- Author of "Jenny": 1911 (6 letters)
- 9 Down
- Yellow (21 letters)
- 10 Down
- Russian noble house (5 letters)
- 11 Down
- Plushily covered (8 letters)
- 12 Down
- Summer in Sedan (3 letters)
- 13 Down
- Landlord (6 letters)
- 14 Down
- Green (21 letters)
- 15 Down
- Gnaw (3 letters)
- 16 Down
- Pretext, perhaps (5 letters)
- 17 Down
- Vestige (5 letters)
- 22 Down
- Vargueno, e.g. (4 letters)
- 28 Down
- Swiss poet: 1821–81 (5 letters)
- 30 Down
- Nigerian university town (3 letters)
- 32 Down
- Bows (4 letters)
- 35 Down
- Nice notions (5 letters)
- 36 Down
- Rogers or Clark (3 letters)
- 37 Down
- Famed miler (4 letters)
- 41 Down
- TV's Barnaby Jones (5 letters)
- 42 Down
- Cum ___ salis (5 letters)
- 43 Down
- Young sows (5 letters)
- 46 Down
- Women's service org. (3 letters)
- 48 Down
- Draw on a straw (3 letters)
- 49 Down
- Japanese outcast (3 letters)
- 50 Down
- Drop o' the mornin' (3 letters)
- 52 Down
- More withered (5 letters)
- 53 Down
- Blind's splines (5 letters)
- 54 Down
- Alpert (4 letters)
- 58 Down
- Aethelbald's thralls (5 letters)
- 59 Down
- Decoration (5 letters)
- 60 Down
- Pelf for Pizarro (3 letters)
- 61 Down
- Sawmill sound (4 letters)
- 64 Down
- Quarry (4 letters)
- 66 Down
- Sectors (5 letters)
- 67 Down
- Caterpillar parts (5 letters)
- 69 Down
- Garry Moore's "___ Got a Secret" (3 letters)
- 70 Down
- Attention-getting sound (4 letters)
- 71 Down
- Mirthful (5 letters)
- 72 Down
- Lynda Bird's in-laws (5 letters)
- 73 Down
- Violin virtuoso: 1858–1931 (5 letters)
- 77 Down
- Evergreen (3 letters)
- 78 Down
- Cather's "___ of Ours" (3 letters)
- 79 Down
- Smidgen (3 letters)
- 81 Down
- Plato dialogue (3 letters)
- 82 Down
- Balance: Comb. form (5 letters)
- 85 Down
- Purport (4 letters)
- 86 Down
- Windy City border area (8 letters)
- 88 Down
- Culture media (5 letters)
- 90 Down
- Soprano Berger (4 letters)
- 91 Down
- Ebenezer's expletive (3 letters)
- 95 Down
- Aromatic chemicals (6 letters)
- 97 Down
- Holm on the Thames (3 letters)
- 98 Down
- Uses a prie-dieu (6 letters)
- 100 Down
- Brinker, for one (6 letters)
- 101 Down
- "Coffee Cantata" composer (4 letters)
- 102 Down
- One of Tirpitz's pack (5 letters)
- 103 Down
- Three-masted schooners (5 letters)
- 104 Down
- Anatomical meshes (5 letters)
- 105 Down
- Hulled grain (5 letters)
- 106 Down
- Silly (5 letters)
- 107 Down
- Site of a Herculean labor (5 letters)
- 108 Down
- Earthquake (5 letters)
- 114 Down
- Memorabilia (3 letters)
- 116 Down
- Vintner's vessel (3 letters)
- 118 Down
- Hale or Hari (3 letters)
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