COUNTDOWN

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Sam Bellotto Jr.5/29/1983

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Across

1 Across: Charon's crossing (4 letters)
5 Across: Domestic cat (5 letters)
10 Across: Basilica part (4 letters)
14 Across: Annie Oakley (4 letters)
18 Across: Famed race horse (4 letters)
19 Across: School for Siméon (5 letters)
20 Across: Body: Comb. form (5 letters)
21 Across: Moroccan district (4 letters)
22 Across: Rockweed is one (4 letters)
23 Across: Mets or Yankees (11 letters)
25 Across: Stiff collar (4 letters)
26 Across: Schoolyard chums (9 letters)
28 Across: Successor to William II (6 letters)
29 Across: Party popper (4 letters)
30 Across: Needle for Calpurnia (4 letters)
31 Across: Playwright James or Ronald (3 letters)
32 Across: Parts (8 letters)
34 Across: Perplexing situation (7 letters)
38 Across: Dostoyevsky's "Little Mother" (5 letters)
40 Across: Throaty notice (4 letters)
41 Across: Ancient Greek colony (5 letters)
42 Across: Faith, hope, charity et al. (12 letters)
45 Across: Love-letter letters (4 letters)
46 Across: 1.0567 liquid quarts (5 letters)
48 Across: Beaked ganoid (3 letters)
49 Across: Leaves port (5 letters)
52 Across: Abdomen: Comb. form (4 letters)
53 Across: Put ___ (be snobbish) (6 letters)
55 Across: Limb's partner (4 letters)
58 Across: Year in Nero's reign (4 letters)
59 Across: One cause of absence (7 letters)
61 Across: Library treasures (4 letters)
63 Across: Run-of-the-mill (4 letters)
65 Across: Wine cask (3 letters)
66 Across: Welcome sound at a plant (17 letters)
70 Across: I (3 letters)
72 Across: Guthrie (4 letters)
73 Across: Martha of movies (4 letters)
74 Across: Mediterranean vessels (7 letters)
77 Across: Bumpkin (4 letters)
79 Across: Wall Street word (4 letters)
81 Across: Maidservant, in Maidstone (6 letters)
83 Across: Mosquito's cousin (4 letters)
84 Across: Tether (5 letters)
86 Across: Rio Treaty seq. (3 letters)
88 Across: Declares (5 letters)
89 Across: Give it ___ (attempt) (4 letters)
90 Across: "Let grievous . . . wounds/Untwine the ___!": Shak. (12 letters)
94 Across: Lucy's landlady (5 letters)
95 Across: Thin linen (4 letters)
96 Across: Is zetetic (5 letters)
97 Across: Bridge ploy (7 letters)
99 Across: End of a countdown (8 letters)
103 Across: B.&O. and L.I. (3 letters)
104 Across: Gina's darlings (4 letters)
105 Across: Gradient (4 letters)
106 Across: Polo implement (6 letters)
108 Across: Shine (9 letters)
113 Across: "Urbi et ___" (papal benediction) (4 letters)
114 Across: This deserves another (11 letters)
116 Across: Dispatch (4 letters)
117 Across: Calcar (4 letters)
118 Across: Skiddoos (5 letters)
119 Across: Very, to a virtuoso (5 letters)
120 Across: Garage job, for short (4 letters)
121 Across: Viking target (4 letters)
122 Across: Kinski role (4 letters)
123 Across: Thermae (5 letters)
124 Across: Ratites (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Crisp cookie (4 letters)
2 Down: Motorist's duty (4 letters)
3 Down: Hindu asceticism (4 letters)
4 Down: Bony photo (4 letters)
5 Down: King-jack combination (6 letters)
6 Down: Vinegar (6 letters)
7 Down: Major ___ of radio fame (5 letters)
8 Down: Robert and Nellie (4 letters)
9 Down: River in England (3 letters)
10 Down: Where Pres. Carstens works (4 letters)
11 Down: Arabian peers (5 letters)
12 Down: Time-study unit (7 letters)
13 Down: "Dinner ___," 1933 song (7 letters)
14 Down: By dribs and drabs (9 letters)
15 Down: "Flow gently, sweet ___" (5 letters)
16 Down: Quick quaff (5 letters)
17 Down: Submerges (5 letters)
20 Down: Distorting (7 letters)
24 Down: It meets the Saône at Lyon (5 letters)
27 Down: Legal offenses (4 letters)
31 Down: Speed-regulating device (8 letters)
33 Down: My, to Marius (4 letters)
34 Down: Fish: Comb. form (5 letters)
35 Down: Spur part (5 letters)
36 Down: Meekly creeping (10 letters)
37 Down: A-test atoll (6 letters)
38 Down: Episodic (6 letters)
39 Down: Grandfatherly (4 letters)
42 Down: Dep. (3 letters)
43 Down: South Bend team, for short (5 letters)
44 Down: Semiquavers (10 letters)
46 Down: Also-rans (6 letters)
47 Down: Shoe part (6 letters)
50 Down: B'klyn campus (3 letters)
51 Down: Break a Commandment (3 letters)
54 Down: Bags for Blasco (5 letters)
56 Down: Circumventer (6 letters)
57 Down: Emerson works (6 letters)
60 Down: Walk in space, for short (3 letters)
62 Down: Frolics (8 letters)
64 Down: Baseball's Master Melvin (3 letters)
67 Down: Kind of guard (5 letters)
68 Down: Entwines (6 letters)
69 Down: Ambassador (6 letters)
70 Down: Chi. transportation (3 letters)
71 Down: Caught (3 letters)
75 Down: Nostrils (5 letters)
76 Down: Art Deco, e.g. (5 letters)
78 Down: Barnstormers' stunts (9 letters)
80 Down: Colleen (4 letters)
82 Down: Fin (3 letters)
85 Down: Junior's exam (4 letters)
87 Down: Binaural systems, for short (7 letters)
91 Down: "Poet and Saint! . . . The ___ sacred names": Cowley (7 letters)
92 Down: Childhood, in Cherbourg (7 letters)
93 Down: "Leave ___ heaven": Shak. (5 letters)
94 Down: Chisholm Trail town (4 letters)
97 Down: Actress Fawcett (6 letters)
98 Down: Natives of Isfahan (6 letters)
99 Down: Besom, e.g. (5 letters)
100 Down: Pupa predecessor (5 letters)
101 Down: Brownish yellow (5 letters)
102 Down: Fido's tormentors (5 letters)
104 Down: Audacity (5 letters)
107 Down: Illum. devices (4 letters)
108 Down: "___ deal!" (4 letters)
109 Down: Wight or Man (4 letters)
110 Down: Styptic stuff (4 letters)
111 Down: Ban (4 letters)
112 Down: "Hungry ___," Twitty hit (4 letters)
115 Down: Flounder (3 letters)

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