" . . . QUITE CONTRARY"

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Frances Hansen8/21/1983

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Across

1 Across
Came to rest (4 letters)
5 Across
Alaskan seaport (5 letters)
10 Across
N.Y. museum acronym (4 letters)
14 Across
Domicile (5 letters)
19 Across
Sudanese people (4 letters)
20 Across
The 23d is comforting (5 letters)
21 Across
Berber (4 letters)
22 Across
Caused yawns (5 letters)
23 Across
How does your garden grow? (21 letters)
27 Across
How does your garden grow? (8 letters)
28 Across
Vol's state (4 letters)
29 Across
Sleeve type (6 letters)
30 Across
Cash-register reading (6 letters)
31 Across
French governing body (5 letters)
32 Across
Do a cotton-picking job (4 letters)
33 Across
Possessive pronoun (3 letters)
34 Across
Jeanne d'Arc was martyred here (5 letters)
35 Across
He dyes for a living (8 letters)
39 Across
___ Lama (5 letters)
42 Across
How does your garden grow? (11 letters)
44 Across
___ toot (carousing) (3 letters)
45 Across
Arabian Sea gulf (4 letters)
46 Across
Later, alligator (4 letters)
47 Across
Castor, for one (3 letters)
48 Across
904, to Nero (4 letters)
49 Across
Baron's color (3 letters)
50 Across
How does your garden grow? (11 letters)
54 Across
Dog star (4 letters)
55 Across
Whenever (7 letters)
57 Across
"Down ___ the Sugar Cane," 1908 song (5 letters)
58 Across
Treatise on plants (6 letters)
60 Across
Pop (4 letters)
61 Across
Pepsy's penwork (5 letters)
62 Across
Fragrance (4 letters)
63 Across
Pieceworker (6 letters)
65 Across
Stickum (5 letters)
66 Across
Abscam concern (7 letters)
69 Across
Hautboy (4 letters)
70 Across
How does your garden grow? (11 letters)
73 Across
Goal (3 letters)
74 Across
Medieval crucifix (4 letters)
75 Across
Before, poetically (3 letters)
76 Across
Shave an apple (4 letters)
77 Across
Lien on one's house: Abbr. (4 letters)
78 Across
Last month, in a bus. letter (3 letters)
79 Across
How does your garden grow? (11 letters)
84 Across
"Merry Widow" man (5 letters)
85 Across
Go awry, as a plan (8 letters)
87 Across
A Page form Okla. (5 letters)
88 Across
Distinguished dict. (3 letters)
89 Across
Agog (4 letters)
90 Across
Put in a piggery (5 letters)
91 Across
Carryings-on (6 letters)
94 Across
Of a feather (6 letters)
97 Across
A P.M. under George III (4 letters)
98 Across
How does your garden grow? (8 letters)
100 Across
How does your garden grow? (21 letters)
104 Across
Talk gibberish (5 letters)
105 Across
Isinglass (4 letters)
106 Across
Mirador (5 letters)
107 Across
Little monkey (4 letters)
108 Across
Prodded (5 letters)
109 Across
Hamill stunt (4 letters)
110 Across
Mr. Bruce (memorable Dr. Watson) (5 letters)
111 Across
Shrine Bowl team (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Elec. units (4 letters)
2 Down
Navigational device (5 letters)
3 Down
Rainbow: Prefix (5 letters)
4 Down
Man from the Barbary Coast (8 letters)
5 Down
Witches' stock in trade (6 letters)
6 Down
Progeny (5 letters)
7 Down
Russian news agency (4 letters)
8 Down
J–N connection (3 letters)
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Dilettante (7 letters)
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Actress Anna of "The Rose Tattoo" (7 letters)
11 Down
Praying figure (5 letters)
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Deface (3 letters)
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Beame or Burrows (3 letters)
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Double this for a Faulkner book (7 letters)
15 Down
Inimitable Scarecrow at Oz (6 letters)
16 Down
Viva voce (4 letters)
17 Down
Ten: Comb. form (4 letters)
18 Down
Definitely not Mary's garden (4 letters)
24 Down
Raccoon's kin (5 letters)
25 Down
Magazine plea (5 letters)
26 Down
Singing syllables (5 letters)
31 Down
Plumb the depths (5 letters)
32 Down
Seethes (5 letters)
34 Down
Fischer's castle (4 letters)
35 Down
Hold fast (5 letters)
36 Down
How does your garden grow? (10 letters)
37 Down
Louise or Loos (5 letters)
38 Down
Part of U.S.N.A. (5 letters)
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Mrs. Copperfield, née Spenlow (4 letters)
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"You said it, brother!" (4 letters)
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How does your garden grow? (10 letters)
42 Down
In a pet (4 letters)
43 Down
Daft (5 letters)
46 Down
Third largest of the Philippines (5 letters)
48 Down
St.-John's-bread (5 letters)
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Sojourn (4 letters)
51 Down
Reach by radio (5 letters)
52 Down
Cremona name (5 letters)
53 Down
Bridge is his long suit (5 letters)
56 Down
"And so ___" (see 61 Across) (5 letters)
58 Down
Silver, for one (5 letters)
59 Down
Work on copy (4 letters)
61 Down
Librarian's gadget (5 letters)
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Great vessel for grog (5 letters)
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Small change in the agora (5 letters)
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Dodge (5 letters)
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Spinning-wheel sound (4 letters)
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Capital of Latvia (4 letters)
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Norse giant (4 letters)
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Caught wind of (5 letters)
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Assigned to a post: Abbr. (5 letters)
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Where to climb Haleakala (4 letters)
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Ply with healing potions (8 letters)
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Attacked brutally (7 letters)
80 Down
Beadlike pellet (5 letters)
81 Down
Most favorable (7 letters)
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Actor Ralph of "The Waltons" (5 letters)
83 Down
Cowboy's hat (7 letters)
84 Down
Pretend (5 letters)
86 Down
Danish king of England: 1017–35 (6 letters)
88 Down
His moon was for "the Misbegotten" (6 letters)
90 Down
New "Age" (5 letters)
91 Down
Shaded walk (5 letters)
92 Down
Papal court (5 letters)
93 Down
Leopard's immutable markings (5 letters)
94 Down
"Hair" (and other hits) producer (4 letters)
95 Down
Cio-Cio-San's set of boxes (4 letters)
96 Down
Neighbor of Minn. (4 letters)
98 Down
Few: Prefix (4 letters)
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Loretta of "M*A*S*H" (4 letters)
101 Down
Singer Sumac (3 letters)
102 Down
Social reformer Dorothea (3 letters)
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"Exodus" hero (3 letters)

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