FORTH AND BACK

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23170 clues~30-60 minBy Barry L. Cohen12/26/1982

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Start of the 13th century (4 letters)
5 Across: Puckerel (3 letters)
8 Across: Plebiscite (4 letters)
12 Across: Networks (4 letters)
16 Across: Tennyson poem (4 letters)
20 Across: Part of C.A.A. (4 letters)
21 Across: Bishop (8 letters)
23 Across: Anagram for Roma (4 letters)
24 Across: CB word (4 letters)
25 Across: Rover Boy saw mothers as goddesses (13 letters)
27 Across: Place for an ICBM (4 letters)
28 Across: Egypt's lifeline (4 letters)
29 Across: Jesse Stuart's "___ Heaven" (7 letters)
30 Across: Patricia from Ky. (4 letters)
31 Across: Median strip (4 letters)
32 Across: Keynote (5 letters)
33 Across: Choice (6 letters)
34 Across: Memo abbr. (4 letters)
35 Across: Rattling noise (4 letters)
36 Across: Nero's tutor (6 letters)
37 Across: French Lick is one (3 letters)
38 Across: R.I.P. notice (4 letters)
39 Across: "Do I dare to ___ peach?": T.S.E. (4 letters)
40 Across: "Woe is me!" (4 letters)
41 Across: Peppy N.Y. nine beat bad guys (19 letters)
48 Across: Hope (3 letters)
51 Across: On the market (5 letters)
52 Across: Medical suffix (4 letters)
53 Across: Dupin's creator (3 letters)
54 Across: Riley's life (4 letters)
55 Across: Número ___ (3 letters)
56 Across: Dinesen offering (4 letters)
57 Across: Weigh down (5 letters)
58 Across: Blind alleys (8 letters)
60 Across: Landlord (6 letters)
62 Across: Jets' home (4 letters)
64 Across: House of Lords cry (4 letters)
66 Across: Like argon (5 letters)
67 Across: Bars (7 letters)
69 Across: Wave in la mer (4 letters)
71 Across: Adolf's ally (6 letters)
74 Across: U.S.S.R. range (4 letters)
75 Across: Musial eliminated Wash. Senators (13 letters)
79 Across: It's below the occiput (4 letters)
83 Across: Heckle (6 letters)
85 Across: " . . . leaven of ___": Byron (4 letters)
86 Across: Kind of guest (7 letters)
88 Across: Elicit (5 letters)
91 Across: Davis Cup figure (4 letters)
94 Across: Small village (4 letters)
96 Across: Paradigms (6 letters)
97 Across: Warden of a sort (8 letters)
100 Across: Diarize (5 letters)
102 Across: Bakery employee (4 letters)
104 Across: Symbol of precision (3 letters)
105 Across: Snarl (4 letters)
106 Across: Deposed ring king (3 letters)
107 Across: Jewish month (4 letters)
108 Across: You gotta have miles of it (5 letters)
109 Across: Underwater shocker (3 letters)
110 Across: That guy sketches City Hall grass. Right? (19 letters)
114 Across: Flèche weapon (4 letters)
115 Across: Child, in Puebla (4 letters)
116 Across: Take on (4 letters)
117 Across: Part of an orch. (3 letters)
120 Across: Plantation employee (6 letters)
123 Across: London's "White ___" (4 letters)
124 Across: Feme ___ (spinster) (4 letters)
125 Across: English essayist (6 letters)
128 Across: Globular (5 letters)
129 Across: Told all to the cops (4 letters)
130 Across: Pond, in poesy (4 letters)
131 Across: Sub (7 letters)
132 Across: Con (4 letters)
133 Across: First name in raga (4 letters)
134 Across: Pilfer device for maintaining copter blade (13 letters)
136 Across: Scarsdale, e.g. (4 letters)
137 Across: "___ Rhythm" (4 letters)
138 Across: Film coating (8 letters)
139 Across: City in Sicily (4 letters)
140 Across: Trireme features (4 letters)
141 Across: Hart or Player (4 letters)
142 Across: Strong wind (4 letters)
143 Across: Minstrel tune (3 letters)
144 Across: Arnaz (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Parts of cranes (5 letters)
2 Down: Farrell's "Bernard ___" (5 letters)
3 Down: Llamas' cousins (6 letters)
4 Down: Up to one's ears (6 letters)
5 Down: Dostoyevsky subject (5 letters)
6 Down: Make peevish (4 letters)
7 Down: Taro product (3 letters)
8 Down: Any well-known entertainer (7 letters)
9 Down: Ottoman Empire founder (5 letters)
10 Down: Cape Dutch (4 letters)
11 Down: Nav. rank (3 letters)
12 Down: "When I ___": W.S.G. (7 letters)
13 Down: Anatole's contemporary (5 letters)
14 Down: Flax pod (4 letters)
15 Down: Hit initials (3 letters)
16 Down: Knotts performing; notices lack of approval (14 letters)
17 Down: Akin to capric (5 letters)
18 Down: Token (5 letters)
19 Down: Betel palm (5 letters)
22 Down: Gallic penny (7 letters)
26 Down: Kind of clause (9 letters)
31 Down: Mondrian contemporary (7 letters)
32 Down: Five, nine or eleven (4 letters)
34 Down: White poplars (6 letters)
35 Down: Salad root (6 letters)
36 Down: Realm of Somnus (5 letters)
38 Down: Ellipsoid (4 letters)
39 Down: Town near Padua (4 letters)
40 Down: Bohr subject (4 letters)
42 Down: Part of a Stein line (7 letters)
43 Down: Harangue (6 letters)
44 Down: Easter shrub (6 letters)
45 Down: Still-life prop (4 letters)
46 Down: Elbe feeder (4 letters)
47 Down: For fear that (4 letters)
48 Down: Gogol's "Taras ___" (5 letters)
49 Down: Peggy of songdom (5 letters)
50 Down: ___ nova (Brazilian dance) (5 letters)
57 Down: Hang (4 letters)
59 Down: Islet (3 letters)
61 Down: Little brat uses needles and wool again (14 letters)
63 Down: Whets (5 letters)
65 Down: Cousin of Saul (5 letters)
68 Down: Mil. banner (3 letters)
70 Down: Guidonian note (3 letters)
72 Down: Kind of degree (3 letters)
73 Down: Corresponding part (7 letters)
76 Down: He sacked Rome in A.D. 410 (6 letters)
77 Down: Ancestors (6 letters)
78 Down: Name in fashion (4 letters)
80 Down: Sharp ridge (5 letters)
81 Down: Martinique site (5 letters)
82 Down: Car named for a tycoon (5 letters)
84 Down: Shoe widths (3 letters)
87 Down: Polaris (9 letters)
88 Down: Forerunners of I (4 letters)
89 Down: W.W. II rocket (4 letters)
90 Down: Mouthward (4 letters)
92 Down: Lifting with effort (7 letters)
93 Down: Finis (6 letters)
95 Down: Novelist Boulle (6 letters)
98 Down: Leathermaker (5 letters)
99 Down: Otherwise (4 letters)
101 Down: Taxco treat (4 letters)
103 Down: European juniper (4 letters)
108 Down: Cab callers (7 letters)
111 Down: Put on a Little act (4 letters)
112 Down: Anserine quality (7 letters)
113 Down: Huckleberry (7 letters)
118 Down: Bivouacked (6 letters)
119 Down: Decorated anew (6 letters)
120 Down: Where to find Goyas (5 letters)
121 Down: Ancient Greek colony (5 letters)
122 Down: Cleverer (5 letters)
123 Down: Advocate (5 letters)
124 Down: Pyongyang's rival (5 letters)
125 Down: Unfeeling (5 letters)
126 Down: They have their pride (5 letters)
127 Down: Chou ___ (5 letters)
129 Down: "Roots" or "Hawaii" (4 letters)
130 Down: N.Y.C. art center (4 letters)
131 Down: Portico (4 letters)
133 Down: Gear (3 letters)
134 Down: Part of a journey (3 letters)
135 Down: Naphtha, e.g. (3 letters)

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