PLANT-ERS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23170 clues~30-60 minBy Mary Virginia Orna6/10/1984

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Antitoxins (4 letters)
5 Across: Abbey Theatre dramatist (5 letters)
10 Across: Lots of land (5 letters)
15 Across: Nile green (3 letters)
18 Across: Speedlight (6 letters)
20 Across: Fracas (5 letters)
21 Across: Consumer of eucalyptus (5 letters)
22 Across: Ending for planet or aster (3 letters)
23 Across: One of "Twelve Angry Men" (12 letters)
25 Across: Stud stakes (5 letters)
26 Across: Fashion (4 letters)
27 Across: Actress Hagen (3 letters)
28 Across: Old French coins (4 letters)
29 Across: Baritone Hawkins (4 letters)
31 Across: "It Happened Tomorrow" actor (9 letters)
33 Across: Decimal base (3 letters)
34 Across: Cuckoopint (4 letters)
36 Across: Catchall abbr. (3 letters)
37 Across: Frequently, to Byron (3 letters)
38 Across: Snoop (5 letters)
39 Across: H. James novelette (11 letters)
43 Across: "___ a Lonesome Old Town" (3 letters)
44 Across: New England sculptor: 1825–61 (5 letters)
45 Across: Feminine suffix (3 letters)
46 Across: Constellation south of Scorpio (3 letters)
47 Across: Keatsian container (3 letters)
49 Across: "___ Shook Up," Presley hit (3 letters)
50 Across: Stable sound (5 letters)
53 Across: Type of pine or grain (6 letters)
56 Across: Essential oil (5 letters)
59 Across: Site of first Olympics (4 letters)
63 Across: Orff's "___ Burana" (7 letters)
65 Across: Chessmen (5 letters)
67 Across: "Wolf!" crier (8 letters)
69 Across: ___ Islands, in Bay of Bengal (7 letters)
70 Across: Singer from Kentucky (15 letters)
72 Across: Pat and Debby (6 letters)
73 Across: Excludes (6 letters)
74 Across: ___-ed-Din, Ottoman statesman (3 letters)
75 Across: Librarian's aid (5 letters)
76 Across: Glinka's "___ for the Czar" (5 letters)
78 Across: Mangles (5 letters)
80 Across: Resource (5 letters)
85 Across: Soul, in Sologne (3 letters)
86 Across: Diplomat Welles (6 letters)
89 Across: Give the nod (6 letters)
95 Across: Noted violist (15 letters)
98 Across: Gene of the P.G.A. (7 letters)
99 Across: Opposite of phenomenal (8 letters)
100 Across: First mayor of N.Y.C. (5 letters)
101 Across: Needlelike (7 letters)
102 Across: Ko-Ko's weapon (4 letters)
103 Across: Valor or virtue (5 letters)
105 Across: Noble (6 letters)
108 Across: Washer cycle (5 letters)
109 Across: ___ gestae (3 letters)
111 Across: Word with time or weed (3 letters)
113 Across: Prefix for pod or corn (3 letters)
114 Across: Gloucester's cape (3 letters)
115 Across: Soprano Lucine (5 letters)
118 Across: Vacation spot (3 letters)
120 Across: Grocery clerk who became a millionaire (11 letters)
125 Across: ___ acid (5 letters)
126 Across: Owns (3 letters)
127 Across: Colony denizen (3 letters)
128 Across: Weld and woad (4 letters)
129 Across: Carson subject (3 letters)
132 Across: Ex-Senator from Indiana (9 letters)
134 Across: Tamarack's kin (4 letters)
136 Across: Moue (4 letters)
138 Across: Year in Trajan's reign (3 letters)
139 Across: Corolla petals (4 letters)
140 Across: Bypass (5 letters)
142 Across: Increase's scion (12 letters)
145 Across: Baseball's Penguin (3 letters)
146 Across: Book by D. S. Freeman (5 letters)
147 Across: Resort on Lake Geneva (5 letters)
148 Across: Bahrain bigwigs (6 letters)
149 Across: Units on N.F.L. fields (3 letters)
150 Across: Macaw (5 letters)
151 Across: Floral-piece fillers (5 letters)
152 Across: Handles crudely (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Virginia, e.g. (5 letters)
2 Down: Chore for Junior (6 letters)
3 Down: Nonsense (3 letters)
4 Down: Solomon Levy's son (4 letters)
5 Down: Singer from Peru (8 letters)
6 Down: North Sea catch (3 letters)
7 Down: Further (4 letters)
8 Down: Bristly plant (6 letters)
9 Down: Descendent of Noah's eldest (6 letters)
10 Down: TV's "___ Pablo" (3 letters)
11 Down: United (8 letters)
12 Down: F.A. Hartley's collaborator (6 letters)
13 Down: Picks (6 letters)
14 Down: Prov. between Man. and Alta. (4 letters)
15 Down: He betters most bettors (6 letters)
16 Down: Slicker (6 letters)
17 Down: Calculating vipers? (6 letters)
18 Down: Plant disease (4 letters)
19 Down: House or box (6 letters)
24 Down: ___ Saint Edmunds, in England (4 letters)
26 Down: A founder and editor of Punch (9 letters)
30 Down: Beige (4 letters)
32 Down: Geyserite, e.g. (4 letters)
35 Down: Spanish Surrealist (4 letters)
40 Down: Floyd Bennett was one (6 letters)
41 Down: "A stitch ___" (6 letters)
42 Down: Architect under Jefferson (7 letters)
48 Down: Tabula ___ (4 letters)
49 Down: Expanse fed by the Syr Darya (4 letters)
50 Down: Defective spot on a plant (4 letters)
51 Down: Billionth: Comb. form (4 letters)
52 Down: Word on a dollar bill (4 letters)
53 Down: ___ Juan Hill (3 letters)
54 Down: Matter, to Matteotti (4 letters)
55 Down: Gardener (4 letters)
57 Down: Maxwell or Zachary (6 letters)
58 Down: Northwest "passage" (5 letters)
60 Down: The Swedish Nightingale (4 letters)
61 Down: " . . . a dagger which ___": MacBeth (4 letters)
62 Down: Charon's river (4 letters)
64 Down: Houston org. (4 letters)
66 Down: Dist. units (3 letters)
68 Down: Hugh Capet was one (3 letters)
70 Down: Pass along (5 letters)
71 Down: Kind of show (5 letters)
73 Down: Mark on Miss Marker (6 letters)
77 Down: Truman's birthplace (5 letters)
78 Down: Godets or gussets (7 letters)
79 Down: Mediterranean sailboat (4 letters)
80 Down: Barley beards (4 letters)
81 Down: London college (4 letters)
82 Down: Swamp (4 letters)
83 Down: "Street Scene" dramatist (9 letters)
84 Down: Bond (3 letters)
86 Down: Dallas campus (3 letters)
87 Down: River to the Caspian (4 letters)
88 Down: Prefix with plane or tone (4 letters)
90 Down: Breastbones (6 letters)
91 Down: Sequence (6 letters)
92 Down: Verve (4 letters)
93 Down: Clears (4 letters)
94 Down: Famed English actor-manager (4 letters)
96 Down: Collections of anecdotes (4 letters)
97 Down: Notion (4 letters)
98 Down: Secular (3 letters)
104 Down: More worthless (8 letters)
106 Down: Stowe novel (4 letters)
107 Down: Mrs. Andre Kostelanetz (8 letters)
110 Down: Apiece (4 letters)
112 Down: ___ Spee (4 letters)
114 Down: Take for granted (6 letters)
115 Down: Head monk's jurisdiction (6 letters)
116 Down: Engaged in drudgery (6 letters)
117 Down: Decks out (6 letters)
118 Down: Lad (6 letters)
119 Down: Graft of a sort (6 letters)
121 Down: Org. created in 1946 (6 letters)
122 Down: Tried hard (6 letters)
123 Down: Author Uris (4 letters)
124 Down: Shun (6 letters)
130 Down: Tinker's target (5 letters)
131 Down: Mannerisms (4 letters)
133 Down: A vamp of the silents (4 letters)
135 Down: Child directive (4 letters)
137 Down: Pack firmly (4 letters)
141 Down: Venus or Minerva (3 letters)
143 Down: Thrash (3 letters)
144 Down: Congou, e.g. (3 letters)

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