WORDPLAY'S THE THING

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Arnold Moss6/19/1983

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Flower plots (4 letters)
5 Across
Snares (4 letters)
9 Across
Paterfamilias (4 letters)
13 Across
Birthright salesman (4 letters)
17 Across
Ambler or Knight (4 letters)
18 Across
W.W. II beach (5 letters)
20 Across
Chemical compounds (5 letters)
22 Across
Cuckoo (4 letters)
23 Across
Wood strip (4 letters)
24 Across
Belly dancer's movement? (11 letters)
26 Across
W.W. I admiral (4 letters)
27 Across
Acropolis resident (6 letters)
29 Across
"Measure for Measure" constable (5 letters)
30 Across
Crusaders' foes (8 letters)
32 Across
Mythical Norse giant (4 letters)
33 Across
Albacore and bluefin (5 letters)
35 Across
Lethargy (5 letters)
36 Across
Miserly (8 letters)
40 Across
Liquifies (5 letters)
42 Across
Memorable esthetic dancer (6 letters)
45 Across
___ carte (3 letters)
46 Across
A.k.a. (5 letters)
48 Across
"Sore labour's bath": Shak (5 letters)
50 Across
___ Flow (5 letters)
51 Across
Incline (4 letters)
53 Across
An iris, for short (4 letters)
55 Across
What Shankar plays (5 letters)
57 Across
Makes a boo-boo (4 letters)
58 Across
___ vitae (5 letters)
60 Across
Toast starter (5 letters)
62 Across
Peter and a Wolfe (5 letters)
64 Across
Actress Scala (3 letters)
65 Across
Like the worst of gossips (7 letters)
67 Across
Templeton (4 letters)
69 Across
Deli item (7 letters)
71 Across
Appear (4 letters)
72 Across
Auditioned (5 letters)
74 Across
Plummer role (4 letters)
75 Across
Bright star in Auriga (7 letters)
78 Across
Slammer (4 letters)
79 Across
Alumni groups (7 letters)
83 Across
Brugg's river (3 letters)
84 Across
Semiprecious stones (5 letters)
87 Across
An oil man (5 letters)
89 Across
Take a case to a higher court (5 letters)
90 Across
Bolster (4 letters)
92 Across
Laughton role in 1953 (5 letters)
94 Across
Site of Vance A.F.B. (4 letters)
95 Across
Luxembourg neighbor (4 letters)
96 Across
Gowns, in Granada (5 letters)
98 Across
Kind of resistance (5 letters)
100 Across
Tumbler (5 letters)
103 Across
Heat meas. (3 letters)
104 Across
Stagnating (6 letters)
106 Across
Lithium, e.g. (5 letters)
108 Across
Twaddle (8 letters)
110 Across
Scale (5 letters)
112 Across
Where matzohs are eaten (5 letters)
114 Across
Dinesen product (4 letters)
115 Across
Sea-ears (8 letters)
118 Across
Sensations (5 letters)
120 Across
Some steamers (6 letters)
123 Across
Grant or Lee: Abbr. (4 letters)
124 Across
What Juno saw with? (11 letters)
127 Across
Secular (4 letters)
128 Across
Mahler's "Das Lied von der ___" (4 letters)
129 Across
Germ cell (5 letters)
130 Across
European quart (5 letters)
131 Across
Kahn or Preminger (4 letters)
132 Across
Lat. catchall (4 letters)
133 Across
Mild expletive (4 letters)
134 Across
Passing grades (4 letters)
135 Across
Gist (4 letters)

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Bartók (4 letters)
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Eram, eras, ___ (4 letters)
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Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep? (10 letters)
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Outline (6 letters)
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Albany's wife (7 letters)
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"___ Dreamer . . . " (3 letters)
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Cathedral part (4 letters)
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Commandments word (5 letters)
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Breakwaters (8 letters)
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"Airways, ___": Dos Passos (3 letters)
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Decomposes (4 letters)
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Inventor Howe (5 letters)
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Place securely (8 letters)
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Shipload of gold ingots? (10 letters)
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Egyptian symbol (4 letters)
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Functions (4 letters)
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Stamp book (5 letters)
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Boston fish (5 letters)
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Flat and sharp (5 letters)
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E. Indian palm (4 letters)
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Bird of Paradise constellation (4 letters)
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She wrote "Tender Buttons" (5 letters)
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Food wrapping (5 letters)
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Mild cigar (5 letters)
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Female equines that run after dark? (10 letters)
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Novelist Zona (4 letters)
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Port in S France (4 letters)
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Bliss Carman's "___ Airs" (5 letters)
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Twangy (5 letters)
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"The Divine ___" (5 letters)
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Hero on the Rue de Rivoli? (10 letters)
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Composure (5 letters)
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Strikes out (5 letters)
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George Brett, e.g. (5 letters)
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Fishing devices (5 letters)
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Former treaty org. (5 letters)
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Backwoods cheroot (5 letters)
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Biblical word (5 letters)
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Campaign issue (5 letters)
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"Everything's Coming Up ___" (5 letters)
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Sturm und ___ (5 letters)
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___ pants (5 letters)
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"The Green Pastures" role (5 letters)
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Respectable male goose? (10 letters)
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Steadfast spouse? (10 letters)
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Love-poetry inspirer (5 letters)
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Pancake additive (5 letters)
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Sixty grains (4 letters)
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Heels' forerunners (5 letters)
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Silents' actor Asther (4 letters)
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Match; equal (8 letters)
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Hindered (8 letters)
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Form of wrestling (4 letters)
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He succeeded Nasser (5 letters)
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Brooding Rhode Island Reds (7 letters)
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Train in a ring (4 letters)
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City near the ruins of Carthage (5 letters)
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Like some holidays (5 letters)
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Challenge for Stenmark (6 letters)
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Sun Devils' home (5 letters)
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Vestige (5 letters)
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Pulitzer Prize novelist (4 letters)
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Parks or Wheeler (4 letters)
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L.A. nuisance (4 letters)
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Developer's concern (4 letters)
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Fiber used for cordage (4 letters)
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Burns, for one (4 letters)
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"___ pro nobis" (3 letters)
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A B C's end (3 letters)

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