DIRTY TRICKS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23168 clues~30-60 minBy Warren W. Reich11/28/1982

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Function (6 letters)
7 Across: Eastern bishops (5 letters)
12 Across: ___ spumante (4 letters)
16 Across: O'Casey (4 letters)
20 Across: Corner sitter (6 letters)
21 Across: Tutti-___ (6 letters)
23 Across: Image (4 letters)
24 Across: Spot for gyring and gimbling (4 letters)
25 Across: Sordid abnormality? (13 letters)
27 Across: Raunchy music? (9 letters)
29 Across: City on the Somme (6 letters)
30 Across: Hebrew letter (5 letters)
32 Across: Giants or dwarfs (6 letters)
33 Across: Media control agcy. (3 letters)
36 Across: Rivulets (5 letters)
37 Across: Begot (5 letters)
38 Across: Cenozoic and Mesozoic, e.g. (4 letters)
39 Across: Byron work (4 letters)
41 Across: Spread to dry (3 letters)
42 Across: ___ Manutius, printer-scholar: 1450–1515 (5 letters)
43 Across: Exercises (7 letters)
47 Across: Split (7 letters)
49 Across: Mud-covered impersonator? (10 letters)
52 Across: Pile (3 letters)
53 Across: "JR" author (6 letters)
54 Across: Lee or Spencer (5 letters)
56 Across: Faction (4 letters)
57 Across: Woody's boy (4 letters)
58 Across: Adipose (5 letters)
59 Across: Jacques of song (5 letters)
60 Across: Spot for swinging (5 letters)
62 Across: Wind: Comb. form (5 letters)
63 Across: Ecuadorean river (4 letters)
64 Across: Term at sea (4 letters)
65 Across: Martha from Butte (4 letters)
66 Across: "Gentlemen ___ Blondes" (6 letters)
67 Across: Vane reading (3 letters)
68 Across: Profits from porno? (11 letters)
72 Across: Rouse (6 letters)
73 Across: Henley's waterway (6 letters)
75 Across: Part of a springe (5 letters)
76 Across: Desert, as in a desert (6 letters)
77 Across: Obliterates (6 letters)
78 Across: Uncouth Pancho? (11 letters)
80 Across: Nav. officer (3 letters)
83 Across: Retarded (6 letters)
84 Across: Adriatic wind (4 letters)
85 Across: Love god (4 letters)
86 Across: June 6, 1944 (4 letters)
87 Across: Grippers on horseshoes (5 letters)
88 Across: Metallic disk (5 letters)
89 Across: Welty's "Music from ___" (5 letters)
91 Across: Copal or elemi (5 letters)
92 Across: Pongo and wou-wou (4 letters)
93 Across: Hit the books (4 letters)
94 Across: Dodge (5 letters)
95 Across: Burgage (6 letters)
96 Across: Baton Rouge inst. (3 letters)
97 Across: Ignoble athlete? (10 letters)
100 Across: Saddle straps (7 letters)
101 Across: "Ten Commandments" producer (7 letters)
103 Across: Foamy drink (5 letters)
104 Across: Lake in Kashmir (3 letters)
105 Across: Tropical tree (4 letters)
106 Across: Parson birds (4 letters)
107 Across: Receive eagerly (5 letters)
108 Across: Escritoires (5 letters)
110 Across: ___ de veau (sweetbread) (3 letters)
111 Across: Places for frontals (6 letters)
114 Across: Carman's "___ Airs" (5 letters)
115 Across: Part of Berlin (6 letters)
116 Across: Indecent dances? (9 letters)
118 Across: Obnoxious approach? (13 letters)
124 Across: Hindu peeress (4 letters)
125 Across: Antic (4 letters)
126 Across: Oder feeder (6 letters)
127 Across: Redactor (6 letters)
128 Across: Greek music halls (4 letters)
129 Across: A Dutch treat (4 letters)
130 Across: Inhibit (5 letters)
131 Across: Alarm sounder (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Electrical unit (3 letters)
2 Down: Opponent (3 letters)
3 Down: Angelico, for one (3 letters)
4 Down: Imaret (3 letters)
5 Down: Closet material (5 letters)
6 Down: Holy recluses (8 letters)
7 Down: Off the right path (6 letters)
8 Down: Husks of certain grains (5 letters)
9 Down: "No ifs, ands or ___" (4 letters)
10 Down: Panay tribe (3 letters)
11 Down: With impassivity (8 letters)
12 Down: Broadcast (5 letters)
13 Down: Large amount (4 letters)
14 Down: Kind of head (3 letters)
15 Down: Coach (8 letters)
16 Down: Gush out (6 letters)
17 Down: Title between viscount and marquess (4 letters)
18 Down: Arne oratorio (4 letters)
19 Down: Loch ___ (4 letters)
22 Down: Bogged down (6 letters)
26 Down: More contemptible (5 letters)
28 Down: Event of '29 (5 letters)
31 Down: Coordinate (4 letters)
33 Down: Vessels for liquids (7 letters)
34 Down: Melons (7 letters)
35 Down: Crass OPEC offering? (14 letters)
37 Down: Golf flub (5 letters)
38 Down: French chef's need (5 letters)
40 Down: "___ to bed" (5 letters)
42 Down: From a distance (4 letters)
44 Down: Coarse sweetheart? (14 letters)
45 Down: Pilgrim (6 letters)
46 Down: Trace (5 letters)
48 Down: "___ Walküre" (3 letters)
50 Down: Belgian composer-virtuoso: 1858–1931 (5 letters)
51 Down: Plexus (4 letters)
54 Down: Lock (5 letters)
55 Down: Pawnees' cousins (4 letters)
57 Down: Pico de ___, in the Pyrenees (5 letters)
59 Down: Ice sheets (5 letters)
60 Down: Partner of poesia (5 letters)
61 Down: Weaker (5 letters)
62 Down: Kind of squad (5 letters)
64 Down: ___ forces (5 letters)
66 Down: Elfin beings (5 letters)
68 Down: Xenon and krypton (5 letters)
69 Down: Harden (5 letters)
70 Down: E. E. Hale antihero (5 letters)
71 Down: Tooth (3 letters)
72 Down: Mehta's need (5 letters)
74 Down: Atlanta five (5 letters)
76 Down: Madame Curie (5 letters)
77 Down: Pass (6 letters)
78 Down: U.S. woman since 1920 (5 letters)
79 Down: Plumbum (4 letters)
81 Down: Kenya's capital (7 letters)
82 Down: Sense over syntax (7 letters)
83 Down: Blanch (5 letters)
84 Down: Reveal (4 letters)
86 Down: Blue ___ (dungaree) (5 letters)
88 Down: Propounds (5 letters)
89 Down: Coleridge's "gentle thing" (5 letters)
90 Down: Motor sound (4 letters)
91 Down: Soak flax (3 letters)
93 Down: Pointed stake (8 letters)
94 Down: Overwhelmed (8 letters)
95 Down: Discuss (8 letters)
97 Down: Rave notice (5 letters)
98 Down: Relating to: Suffix (4 letters)
99 Down: Hatchet woman (6 letters)
100 Down: "Communism" author: 1927 (5 letters)
102 Down: Where Firenze is (6 letters)
104 Down: More obtuse (6 letters)
107 Down: ___ salts (5 letters)
108 Down: ___ macabre (5 letters)
109 Down: Nobel, for one (5 letters)
111 Down: Hair style (4 letters)
112 Down: Backpack (4 letters)
113 Down: Harry Warren product (4 letters)
114 Down: Robert or Alan (4 letters)
115 Down: Varmint (4 letters)
117 Down: Repressive force (3 letters)
119 Down: Faugh! (3 letters)
120 Down: Actress Ullmann (3 letters)
121 Down: Follower: Suffix (3 letters)
122 Down: Eur. land (3 letters)
123 Down: Palindromic word (3 letters)

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