PLAYING WITH MATCHES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Jim Page7/3/1983

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Across

1 Across: Sailors' saint (4 letters)
5 Across: Warp yarn (3 letters)
8 Across: Part of R.S.V.P. (3 letters)
11 Across: Draw out (5 letters)
16 Across: Foreign (5 letters)
17 Across: $5 bill (3 letters)
18 Across: Chemical suffix (3 letters)
19 Across: Shadowboxed (7 letters)
21 Across: Tuskincisor (13 letters)
24 Across: Presidential hopeful (7 letters)
25 Across: Sesame (3 letters)
26 Across: Vega's constellation (4 letters)
27 Across: RaymondKelly (12 letters)
29 Across: Throwshag (10 letters)
32 Across: Inspires wonder (4 letters)
33 Across: A Gershwin (3 letters)
34 Across: Brace (3 letters)
35 Across: Midianite king (4 letters)
36 Across: Loam deposit (5 letters)
39 Across: ___ Shams University, in Cairo (3 letters)
40 Across: Fill the bases (4 letters)
42 Across: London insurance company (6 letters)
44 Across: Used a dory (6 letters)
47 Across: British statesman and family (6 letters)
50 Across: Clare Boothe and Henry (5 letters)
51 Across: Beats (6 letters)
52 Across: Rub clean (5 letters)
53 Across: Platterdisk (12 letters)
56 Across: Ho of Hawaii (3 letters)
57 Across: Shallow-draft vessel (7 letters)
59 Across: Profit's opposite (4 letters)
60 Across: Blind as ___ (4 letters)
64 Across: Same, to Seneca (4 letters)
66 Across: Three-time champ (3 letters)
67 Across: Rickover was one: Abbr. (3 letters)
69 Across: Book by Dos Passos (3 letters)
70 Across: Korean border river (4 letters)
71 Across: ___ Verde National Park (4 letters)
72 Across: Cornea irritant (4 letters)
74 Across: Barrel-binding group (7 letters)
77 Across: Sohrab, to Rustum (3 letters)
78 Across: Dynegravity (12 letters)
81 Across: Straighten ranks (5 letters)
83 Across: Aaron specialties (6 letters)
85 Across: "___ Chan," T. N. Page book (5 letters)
86 Across: "___ Restaurant" (6 letters)
87 Across: Hilliard-Mann song: 1950 (6 letters)
88 Across: Weedy rye grass (6 letters)
89 Across: Feds (4 letters)
90 Across: Blotter target (3 letters)
91 Across: Siberian holes (5 letters)
92 Across: Grim Grimm character (4 letters)
94 Across: Rheine's river (3 letters)
97 Across: Memphis-to-Mobile dir. (3 letters)
98 Across: Mil. units (4 letters)
100 Across: Carboniron (10 letters)
103 Across: Beannoodle (12 letters)
108 Across: Diamond from Brooklyn (4 letters)
109 Across: One of a comic trio (3 letters)
110 Across: Small spaces (7 letters)
111 Across: CarrySenecas (13 letters)
114 Across: Pipe smokers' devices (7 letters)
115 Across: ___ Tin Tin (3 letters)
116 Across: Cat has one to cross (3 letters)
117 Across: Makes an incised mark (5 letters)
118 Across: Dates set for attacks (5 letters)
119 Across: Bullring shout (3 letters)
120 Across: Slip up (3 letters)
121 Across: Pteroid (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Win ___, former radio emcee (6 letters)
2 Down: Stay in hiding (6 letters)
3 Down: Kingsley's "___ in White" (3 letters)
4 Down: "Mon ___," Tati film (5 letters)
5 Down: Declared (7 letters)
6 Down: Smear (6 letters)
7 Down: Big A venture (3 letters)
8 Down: Trickle through (4 letters)
9 Down: Worldwide: Abbr. (4 letters)
10 Down: City near Utah Lake (4 letters)
11 Down: Pindar's last stanza, e.g. (5 letters)
12 Down: Euphemistic expletives (5 letters)
13 Down: Like some heraldic crosses (4 letters)
14 Down: Having a skull (8 letters)
15 Down: Where congers congregate (8 letters)
16 Down: Pituitary-gland hormone (4 letters)
19 Down: Mergansers (5 letters)
20 Down: Rid of grit (6 letters)
22 Down: Freshwater polyps (6 letters)
23 Down: Hairpin turn (3 letters)
28 Down: Squire in "Silas Marner" (4 letters)
30 Down: Trees bearing valuable nuts (5 letters)
31 Down: Pollster of note (6 letters)
36 Down: Saxantler (11 letters)
37 Down: ___ and terminer (4 letters)
38 Down: Ford's lemon (5 letters)
41 Down: A sawbuck has 10 (4 letters)
43 Down: St. ___ (Windward island) (5 letters)
44 Down: College treasurer (6 letters)
45 Down: Outworn (3 letters)
46 Down: Ore analysis (5 letters)
47 Down: Obscure (5 letters)
48 Down: Wear away (5 letters)
49 Down: Roosters on spires (5 letters)
51 Down: Peace officers, oater style (6 letters)
53 Down: Arty parties (6 letters)
54 Down: Like a cliché (5 letters)
55 Down: Creamy dessert (5 letters)
58 Down: Tuareg or Berber (6 letters)
61 Down: Fundamental (5 letters)
62 Down: Byrd book (5 letters)
63 Down: Cahn-Styne products (5 letters)
65 Down: Barbara or Hoople (5 letters)
68 Down: Common code (5 letters)
73 Down: He wrote "Philosopher's Holiday" (5 letters)
75 Down: Black-spotted cat (6 letters)
76 Down: Event on G.W.'s birthday (4 letters)
79 Down: Quebec affirmative (3 letters)
80 Down: Diet (4 letters)
82 Down: Material from flax (5 letters)
83 Down: Showed disapproval (8 letters)
84 Down: Hoover Dam formation (8 letters)
86 Down: Novel by Fielding (6 letters)
87 Down: Expel a lawyer (6 letters)
88 Down: Spode piece (4 letters)
89 Down: Like some pastures (7 letters)
91 Down: F.H.A. concerns (5 letters)
93 Down: Neuter, for one (6 letters)
95 Down: The sensitive plant (6 letters)
96 Down: Squatter in 1889 (6 letters)
98 Down: The Hoosier poet (5 letters)
99 Down: Growls from Fido (5 letters)
100 Down: J.F.K. sight (3 letters)
101 Down: Excessive (5 letters)
102 Down: Stack TV role (4 letters)
104 Down: Fruits for Virgil (4 letters)
105 Down: Kind of dollar (4 letters)
106 Down: Indigo (4 letters)
107 Down: Eat in style (4 letters)
112 Down: Juin, juillet et août (3 letters)
113 Down: Suffix with baron or manor (3 letters)

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