BEARDING THE LIONS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Alfio Micci5/30/1982

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Across

1 Across: Mountain ash (5 letters)
6 Across: Trattoria offering (6 letters)
12 Across: Harbor sights (6 letters)
18 Across: Piqued (5 letters)
19 Across: Ancient Egyptian (6 letters)
20 Across: Doubter of dogma (8 letters)
23 Across: Give the sack to Foch and Ney (12 letters)
25 Across: Call Franchot (8 letters)
26 Across: Single (4 letters)
27 Across: Mr. and Mrs. (5 letters)
28 Across: Strong pulls (4 letters)
30 Across: Struck out (5 letters)
31 Across: Wallach (3 letters)
32 Across: "___ kleine Nachtmusik" (4 letters)
33 Across: Cab customer (4 letters)
34 Across: Extirpate (4 letters)
35 Across: Popular fabric (5 letters)
37 Across: Directing Claude's course (12 letters)
43 Across: Mike shields (5 letters)
45 Across: Relative (5 letters)
46 Across: Alphabetical trio (3 letters)
47 Across: Trevi number (3 letters)
50 Across: Bills collector (6 letters)
52 Across: Corner ___ (trap Irving) (5 letters)
53 Across: Meat cut (8 letters)
55 Across: Military command (6 letters)
56 Across: Ziegfeld star (4 letters)
57 Across: Lyricist David (4 letters)
58 Across: Himalayan creature (4 letters)
59 Across: Presidential nickname (3 letters)
60 Across: "And what is ___ . . . ?" (6 letters)
62 Across: Watchmen (7 letters)
64 Across: ___ May, in "Tobacco Road" (5 letters)
66 Across: Russian John (4 letters)
67 Across: Spooky-sounding city (4 letters)
68 Across: Ready to swing (5 letters)
72 Across: Divide geometrically (7 letters)
74 Across: Cleaned the blackboard (6 letters)
76 Across: Hokkaido, formerly (3 letters)
77 Across: Semicircular recess (4 letters)
80 Across: Sahl (4 letters)
81 Across: Second word in a Wilder title (4 letters)
82 Across: Shreds (6 letters)
84 Across: Submissive ones (8 letters)
86 Across: Bamboozle (5 letters)
87 Across: Author of "Nausea" (6 letters)
88 Across: Kind of code (3 letters)
89 Across: Go-between: Abbr. (3 letters)
90 Across: Give ___ (care) (5 letters)
91 Across: Salt trees (5 letters)
92 Across: Flabbergast George (12 letters)
95 Across: List components (5 letters)
98 Across: Prefix for scope (4 letters)
101 Across: Leeds's river (4 letters)
102 Across: Greek peak (4 letters)
104 Across: Wreath (3 letters)
105 Across: Dispatch boat (5 letters)
107 Across: Mrs. Leonowens (4 letters)
108 Across: Appraise (5 letters)
110 Across: Der ___ (Adenauer) (4 letters)
111 Across: Forsook Learned (8 letters)
113 Across: Coach Edgar Lee (12 letters)
116 Across: Detergent (8 letters)
117 Across: Heroic verse (6 letters)
118 Across: Road sign in Montreal (5 letters)
119 Across: Like a hazardous wintry day (6 letters)
120 Across: Shoemakers, at times (6 letters)
121 Across: "___ Solemnis" (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Went through a safe (6 letters)
2 Down: Baltimore or orchard (6 letters)
3 Down: Admonishing Alexander (11 letters)
4 Down: To ___ (exactly) (4 letters)
5 Down: Thread: Comb. form (3 letters)
6 Down: Leaves in difficulty (7 letters)
7 Down: Swiveling wheel (6 letters)
8 Down: Davis Cup figure (4 letters)
9 Down: Farrow and Slavenska (4 letters)
10 Down: Chum (3 letters)
11 Down: Case (8 letters)
12 Down: Harass (6 letters)
13 Down: Spartan king (4 letters)
14 Down: Genetic inits. (3 letters)
15 Down: Forty-niner's quest (4 letters)
16 Down: Glycerides (6 letters)
17 Down: Garb for Calpurnia (5 letters)
21 Down: Don Juan's mother (4 letters)
22 Down: Relinquish (4 letters)
24 Down: Nice friend (3 letters)
29 Down: Yen (4 letters)
32 Down: Punch used in repoussé work (8 letters)
33 Down: Demon (5 letters)
36 Down: Small amount (4 letters)
38 Down: Have reciprocal effect (8 letters)
39 Down: Frenzied (7 letters)
40 Down: ___ honorables (reparations) (7 letters)
41 Down: Frivolous (5 letters)
42 Down: Cambodia's Lon ___ (3 letters)
44 Down: Mountain: Prefix (4 letters)
47 Down: Article (3 letters)
48 Down: Trumpery (3 letters)
49 Down: Prefix for gram (3 letters)
50 Down: Cyprinoid fish (4 letters)
51 Down: Etc.'s relative (4 letters)
52 Down: Little ones (7 letters)
53 Down: Mutation (7 letters)
54 Down: Vesicle (4 letters)
57 Down: Event for Figaro (8 letters)
61 Down: Italian rice dish (7 letters)
62 Down: "Lost" item in a Milland film (7 letters)
63 Down: Wristbones (8 letters)
65 Down: Brain passage (4 letters)
69 Down: Defeat Peter (11 letters)
70 Down: Côte d'___ (4 letters)
71 Down: Small shark (4 letters)
73 Down: Mature insect (5 letters)
75 Down: Once, once (4 letters)
77 Down: Cutting tool (3 letters)
78 Down: Island food (3 letters)
79 Down: Something for Cerberus (3 letters)
81 Down: Ladd role (5 letters)
83 Down: Ready in Rennes (4 letters)
85 Down: ___ de mer (3 letters)
86 Down: Parlor game (8 letters)
90 Down: A ___ apple (4 letters)
91 Down: Posits (7 letters)
92 Down: Typical of a holiday (6 letters)
93 Down: Became nonproductive, as a well (6 letters)
94 Down: Kind of derby (6 letters)
96 Down: British measures (6 letters)
97 Down: Forty winks (6 letters)
98 Down: After-bath item (4 letters)
99 Down: Knievel (4 letters)
100 Down: "___ but a walking shadow . . . ": Shak. (5 letters)
103 Down: Plaice's place (3 letters)
106 Down: Strauss's "Die Frau ___ Schatten" (4 letters)
107 Down: Dill of the Bible (4 letters)
108 Down: Stringed instrument (4 letters)
109 Down: Mont Blanc is one (4 letters)
110 Down: Town near Teramo (4 letters)
112 Down: Peer Gynt's mother (3 letters)
114 Down: Postal abbr. (3 letters)
115 Down: Penrod's playmate (3 letters)

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