LITERARY SOBRIQUETS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23168 clues~30-60 minBy George Rose Smith8/7/1983

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Across

1 Across: Fabricated report (6 letters)
7 Across: Spike the punch (4 letters)
11 Across: Calif. county (4 letters)
15 Across: Navy rank equal to Col. (4 letters)
19 Across: Thoroughfare (6 letters)
20 Across: "The ___ of Greece . . . ": Byron (5 letters)
22 Across: Elsinore courtier (5 letters)
24 Across: To shelter (4 letters)
25 Across: Barrie's "Little Minister" (12 letters)
27 Across: Bolt's "Man for All Seasons" (10 letters)
29 Across: Top of a gamut (3 letters)
30 Across: Colored (6 letters)
31 Across: ___ as a beet (5 letters)
33 Across: Jonathan's cousin (6 letters)
34 Across: Capital of Calvados (4 letters)
35 Across: Cross: Comb. form (5 letters)
36 Across: Procreator (4 letters)
37 Across: Golf or tennis term (3 letters)
40 Across: Felix Krull's creator (4 letters)
41 Across: Calorie (5 letters)
42 Across: Marine shipping cost (8 letters)
46 Across: Wail (7 letters)
48 Across: Hale's "Man Without a Country" (11 letters)
50 Across: Nut, for Nero (3 letters)
51 Across: Treat (6 letters)
52 Across: Listless (5 letters)
53 Across: Bowl (4 letters)
54 Across: Quick cut (4 letters)
55 Across: Kind of act (5 letters)
56 Across: Natural talent (5 letters)
57 Across: Small amount (5 letters)
59 Across: Luigi's foot (5 letters)
60 Across: Tear (4 letters)
61 Across: Goalie Peeters (4 letters)
62 Across: Mark of literature (5 letters)
63 Across: "Laura" lyricist (6 letters)
64 Across: Onassis (3 letters)
65 Across: Steele's "Man Who Saw Through Heaven" (11 letters)
68 Across: China, Japan, etc. (7 letters)
69 Across: Mature ones (6 letters)
71 Across: Very much (5 letters)
72 Across: Prepared (6 letters)
73 Across: Shelters of a kind (7 letters)
75 Across: Chesterton's "Man Who Was Thursday" (11 letters)
77 Across: D.C. monogram (3 letters)
80 Across: Washed away (6 letters)
81 Across: Home of Petruchio's bride (5 letters)
82 Across: Air: Comb. form (4 letters)
83 Across: Key letter (4 letters)
84 Across: Philanthropist (5 letters)
85 Across: Left Bank chapeau (5 letters)
86 Across: Patrick of films (5 letters)
88 Across: Decree in Canada (5 letters)
89 Across: Bombs that bomb (4 letters)
90 Across: Middle East resident (4 letters)
91 Across: Interdict (5 letters)
92 Across: Ina of stage and screen (6 letters)
93 Across: Vane dir. (3 letters)
94 Across: Hubbard's bearer of "A Message to Garcia" (11 letters)
97 Across: "Now, ___ and Vixen!" (7 letters)
98 Across: Study of immunity (8 letters)
100 Across: Met basso (5 letters)
101 Across: Kin in Barcelona (4 letters)
102 Across: Boxers' stats. (3 letters)
103 Across: "Battle Hymn . . . " composer (4 letters)
104 Across: Creator of Alice the Goon (5 letters)
105 Across: Stirs to activity (4 letters)
106 Across: Potassium source (6 letters)
109 Across: "Whither thou ___ . . . " (5 letters)
110 Across: Most delicate (6 letters)
112 Across: Layer or thickness (3 letters)
115 Across: Welty's "Optimist's Daughter" (10 letters)
117 Across: Scott's "Lady of the Lake" (12 letters)
120 Across: Bombeck (4 letters)
121 Across: Permitted (5 letters)
122 Across: Rhone tributary (5 letters)
123 Across: Brought to nought (6 letters)
124 Across: Tissues (4 letters)
125 Across: Female equine (4 letters)
126 Across: Foxx from St. Louis (4 letters)
127 Across: Bed's canopy (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Bingo device (4 letters)
2 Down: Of grandparents (4 letters)
3 Down: Russian river (4 letters)
4 Down: Black bird (3 letters)
5 Down: Midget (4 letters)
6 Down: Devote (8 letters)
7 Down: Lend an ear (6 letters)
8 Down: White with fright (5 letters)
9 Down: Not nude (4 letters)
10 Down: Suffix with auction or profit (3 letters)
11 Down: Bridge bid (7 letters)
12 Down: Jacob's eighth son (5 letters)
13 Down: Jab (4 letters)
14 Down: Purpose (3 letters)
15 Down: Room on wheels (6 letters)
16 Down: Unbalanced (4 letters)
17 Down: Elf (4 letters)
18 Down: Youngster (4 letters)
21 Down: Impressive (7 letters)
23 Down: Jolly good (7 letters)
26 Down: Fatuous (5 letters)
28 Down: Seductive one (5 letters)
32 Down: Hindu attire (4 letters)
35 Down: Lustrous (5 letters)
36 Down: Chef's creation (5 letters)
37 Down: Dawn (6 letters)
38 Down: Resourceful (6 letters)
39 Down: A. C. Doyle's "Veiled Lodger" (13 letters)
40 Down: Beer ingredient (4 letters)
41 Down: Son of Odin (4 letters)
42 Down: Produced on a loom (5 letters)
43 Down: Wilkie Collins's "Woman in White" (13 letters)
44 Down: Cicerones (6 letters)
45 Down: Skillful (6 letters)
47 Down: Cooking staple (4 letters)
48 Down: Proverbial corrupter (5 letters)
49 Down: Water wheel (5 letters)
52 Down: Cornea irritants (5 letters)
54 Down: "Yes ___!" (5 letters)
56 Down: Word on a dollar bill (5 letters)
57 Down: Mystic (5 letters)
58 Down: Medieval guild (5 letters)
59 Down: Intrinsically (5 letters)
61 Down: Whined (5 letters)
62 Down: Papal headdress (5 letters)
63 Down: Swedish seaport (5 letters)
65 Down: More gigantic (5 letters)
66 Down: Swap (5 letters)
67 Down: Opening (5 letters)
68 Down: "___ to the Moon" (5 letters)
70 Down: Grooves (5 letters)
72 Down: Fall flower (5 letters)
73 Down: Barbara Bel ___ (6 letters)
74 Down: Excite (6 letters)
75 Down: Avant-___ (5 letters)
76 Down: Some sunken goods (5 letters)
78 Down: Music buff's purchase (6 letters)
79 Down: Spuds (6 letters)
81 Down: Victor at Lake Erie (5 letters)
83 Down: Breakfast dish (4 letters)
85 Down: U.S. tennis champ: 1937 (5 letters)
86 Down: Gull or kitten (5 letters)
87 Down: Gallic rebel's word (4 letters)
88 Down: Soliloquy opener (4 letters)
90 Down: Wiseacre (7 letters)
91 Down: Does one's bit (7 letters)
92 Down: Cancel; dele (8 letters)
94 Down: Set apart (5 letters)
95 Down: Cajole (7 letters)
96 Down: Controls dishonestly (4 letters)
97 Down: Brooded (5 letters)
99 Down: Family in a 1936 novel (6 letters)
101 Down: Thumped (6 letters)
104 Down: Detector at sea (5 letters)
105 Down: Buff (5 letters)
106 Down: Lammed (4 letters)
107 Down: Bern's river (4 letters)
108 Down: Feeling nothing (4 letters)
109 Down: Nutty (4 letters)
110 Down: Arctic sight (4 letters)
111 Down: Air (4 letters)
112 Down: Gunpowder, for one (4 letters)
113 Down: Abbe or Lois (4 letters)
114 Down: Battle site: Oct. 1914 (4 letters)
116 Down: ___ and haw (3 letters)
118 Down: Small ape (3 letters)
119 Down: Mdse. (3 letters)

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