INITIAL DROP
Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21136 clues~30-60 minBy John M. Samson4/3/1983
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Massage (3 letters)
- 4 Across
- Evade (5 letters)
- 9 Across
- Medieval helmet (5 letters)
- 14 Across
- Nobelist in Literature: 1957 (5 letters)
- 19 Across
- Gibbon (3 letters)
- 20 Across
- Kind of squash (5 letters)
- 21 Across
- Charter (5 letters)
- 22 Across
- Ammann's sect (5 letters)
- 23 Across
- Avoir. weights (3 letters)
- 24 Across
- Rent anew (5 letters)
- 25 Across
- Arterial trunk (5 letters)
- 26 Across
- Nouveau ___ (5 letters)
- 27 Across
- English songbird? (10 letters)
- 30 Across
- Certain monuments (6 letters)
- 32 Across
- Half a snicker (3 letters)
- 33 Across
- Supreme Court member: 1955–71 (6 letters)
- 34 Across
- Babilonia et al. (4 letters)
- 36 Across
- Command to a canine (4 letters)
- 37 Across
- Stable (4 letters)
- 38 Across
- Sheppard-Turpin gun (4 letters)
- 39 Across
- Incandescent linguist? (12 letters)
- 42 Across
- Overwhelm (5 letters)
- 45 Across
- Started a pool (5 letters)
- 46 Across
- Big endings (7 letters)
- 49 Across
- To scent, in Sevilla (4 letters)
- 51 Across
- Trip in a ship (4 letters)
- 53 Across
- Playwright Ionesco (6 letters)
- 54 Across
- Ascended (6 letters)
- 57 Across
- Invalidate (4 letters)
- 59 Across
- Cowboy's need (5 letters)
- 60 Across
- Designer with a young lady in mind? (8 letters)
- 62 Across
- He never grew up (8 letters)
- 65 Across
- Musical dir. (3 letters)
- 66 Across
- "Sometimes ___ Goes By" (4 letters)
- 67 Across
- Apprehend (5 letters)
- 69 Across
- Habituate (5 letters)
- 70 Across
- Formerly (4 letters)
- 71 Across
- Pronoun (3 letters)
- 72 Across
- Greek (8 letters)
- 74 Across
- Nast uprooted him? (8 letters)
- 76 Across
- White poplar (5 letters)
- 78 Across
- Va. neighbor (4 letters)
- 79 Across
- Limit (6 letters)
- 80 Across
- Opposite of "exeunt" (6 letters)
- 82 Across
- Actress Allgood (4 letters)
- 84 Across
- Legionnaire's cap (4 letters)
- 85 Across
- Secret (7 letters)
- 87 Across
- "The ___ See of You" (5 letters)
- 89 Across
- Originate (5 letters)
- 93 Across
- Actress who's misbehavin'? (12 letters)
- 96 Across
- Dull one (4 letters)
- 98 Across
- Highlands hillside (4 letters)
- 100 Across
- "___ Old Cowhand" (4 letters)
- 101 Across
- ___ vu (4 letters)
- 102 Across
- Dieter's no-no (6 letters)
- 104 Across
- You, to Johann (3 letters)
- 105 Across
- Confesses (6 letters)
- 107 Across
- Clever actress? (10 letters)
- 109 Across
- Heat-resistant glass (5 letters)
- 111 Across
- Hilo hello (5 letters)
- 113 Across
- Atoll part (5 letters)
- 114 Across
- Song from "A Chorus Line" (3 letters)
- 115 Across
- Ham it up (5 letters)
- 116 Across
- Subsequently (5 letters)
- 117 Across
- Bête follower (5 letters)
- 118 Across
- Poetic preposition (3 letters)
- 119 Across
- Moistened (5 letters)
- 120 Across
- Trample (5 letters)
- 121 Across
- Flout (5 letters)
- 122 Across
- Irish golfer Smyth (3 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Bellamy and Edwards (6 letters)
- 2 Down
- Certain baton strokes (7 letters)
- 3 Down
- Scatter about (7 letters)
- 4 Down
- ___ Hood, "Our Gang" actress (5 letters)
- 5 Down
- Lindy's hurdle (5 letters)
- 6 Down
- Looker (4 letters)
- 7 Down
- W.W. I (8 letters)
- 8 Down
- Hop the Orient Express (7 letters)
- 9 Down
- Beef ___ mode (3 letters)
- 10 Down
- Speed Wagons (4 letters)
- 11 Down
- First First Lady (6 letters)
- 12 Down
- Admiration (6 letters)
- 13 Down
- Gunpowder item (7 letters)
- 14 Down
- Custody (4 letters)
- 15 Down
- Gaston, to Alphonse (3 letters)
- 16 Down
- Actress who deserved her Emmy? (13 letters)
- 17 Down
- Peck's early job (5 letters)
- 18 Down
- Radiance (5 letters)
- 28 Down
- Elbow-wrist link (4 letters)
- 29 Down
- Tartan wraparounds (5 letters)
- 31 Down
- Caine role: 1966 (5 letters)
- 35 Down
- Silk filament (6 letters)
- 37 Down
- Odin's counselor (5 letters)
- 40 Down
- Fatuous (7 letters)
- 41 Down
- Entomb, in a way (5 letters)
- 43 Down
- "___ Flanders" (4 letters)
- 44 Down
- Satisfy (6 letters)
- 47 Down
- Tempts (7 letters)
- 48 Down
- "Gentlemen, be ___ " (6 letters)
- 50 Down
- De Soto contemporary (5 letters)
- 52 Down
- Property incumbrance (4 letters)
- 54 Down
- Short journalistic addendum (7 letters)
- 55 Down
- Lawyer who made his mark? (13 letters)
- 56 Down
- A Khan (3 letters)
- 58 Down
- Defeat soundly (4 letters)
- 60 Down
- ___ Islands, near Fla. (6 letters)
- 61 Down
- Sediment (4 letters)
- 62 Down
- Boz or Ouida (7 letters)
- 63 Down
- Investigate (5 letters)
- 64 Down
- "___ Fables" (6 letters)
- 68 Down
- Razzle-dazzle foursome (4 letters)
- 70 Down
- Have (3 letters)
- 72 Down
- Reddish brown (5 letters)
- 73 Down
- Foray (6 letters)
- 75 Down
- Clubs, e.g. (4 letters)
- 77 Down
- Hit the road (5 letters)
- 81 Down
- Protuberant (5 letters)
- 83 Down
- Will Durant's wife (5 letters)
- 84 Down
- Famous trailblazer? (8 letters)
- 86 Down
- Warmblooded group (7 letters)
- 88 Down
- Commands (7 letters)
- 90 Down
- Soprano Moffo (4 letters)
- 91 Down
- Sequoia (7 letters)
- 92 Down
- Apprentice (7 letters)
- 94 Down
- Scold (6 letters)
- 95 Down
- Altogether (6 letters)
- 97 Down
- Discourages (6 letters)
- 98 Down
- Man, e.g. (5 letters)
- 99 Down
- Nash forte (5 letters)
- 102 Down
- Cubic meter (5 letters)
- 103 Down
- Absolute (5 letters)
- 105 Down
- Fired (4 letters)
- 106 Down
- Noah's eldest son (4 letters)
- 108 Down
- Author Wiesel (4 letters)
- 110 Down
- Summer, in Somme (3 letters)
- 112 Down
- Dadaist Jean ___ (3 letters)
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