RHYME SANS REASON

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23170 clues~30-60 minBy Harriet Gilson Rosenberg9/30/1984

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Across

1 Across: Very funny comedian (5 letters)
6 Across: One of the Van Dorens (5 letters)
11 Across: Beer type (4 letters)
15 Across: Scans (5 letters)
20 Across: Kind of alcohol (5 letters)
21 Across: Overweight (5 letters)
22 Across: Amorous glance (4 letters)
23 Across: Leon of films (5 letters)
24 Across: A Chan's choppers (12 letters)
27 Across: Was Kong Fay's? (10 letters)
29 Across: Supplement, with "out" (3 letters)
30 Across: Of higher rank (6 letters)
31 Across: Hit a home run (5 letters)
33 Across: Blew the horn (6 letters)
34 Across: Delight (5 letters)
35 Across: Greek city-state (5 letters)
36 Across: He plays Klinger (4 letters)
37 Across: Kid (3 letters)
40 Across: "___ Rheingold" (3 letters)
41 Across: Seine port (5 letters)
42 Across: Jejune (4 letters)
43 Across: Furrow (3 letters)
46 Across: Flat plinth (4 letters)
48 Across: Oddballs in Sid's entourage (14 letters)
52 Across: First of the cardinals (3 letters)
53 Across: Harrison, e.g. (6 letters)
55 Across: " . . . Ruler of the Queen's ___" (5 letters)
56 Across: Mongrels (4 letters)
57 Across: Matures (4 letters)
58 Across: Join (5 letters)
59 Across: John Lindsay's "The ___" (4 letters)
60 Across: Germ (5 letters)
62 Across: Dutch ___ (5 letters)
63 Across: Tibetan goat (5 letters)
64 Across: Sir Robert's monuments (11 letters)
67 Across: Buckskin, e.g. (5 letters)
68 Across: Thy, in Toulon (3 letters)
69 Across: North Carolina cape (4 letters)
70 Across: Lemon in Detroit (4 letters)
71 Across: Overtook (6 letters)
72 Across: Less important (6 letters)
75 Across: Turtle and oxtail (5 letters)
76 Across: Inclined (6 letters)
78 Across: Outer layer (6 letters)
80 Across: A Near Island (4 letters)
81 Across: Orange-red chalcedony (4 letters)
82 Across: Scrap for Spot (3 letters)
85 Across: Growing out (5 letters)
86 Across: Presidential signs of exertion (11 letters)
90 Across: Word with ground or growth (5 letters)
92 Across: Brightened (5 letters)
93 Across: Tears (5 letters)
94 Across: Cool one's heels (4 letters)
95 Across: Millesecond (5 letters)
96 Across: Dyer's apparatus (4 letters)
97 Across: "Muy ___!" (4 letters)
98 Across: Decorate (5 letters)
100 Across: Epic in twelve books (6 letters)
101 Across: ___ Borch, Dutch painter (3 letters)
102 Across: Author's pals (14 letters)
106 Across: Former lightweight champ (4 letters)
107 Across: Heraldic gold colors (3 letters)
108 Across: Conduit bends (4 letters)
109 Across: Jot and tittle (5 letters)
110 Across: Brit. battlewagon (3 letters)
112 Across: Youth org. active in the 60's (3 letters)
113 Across: Cuckoos (4 letters)
114 Across: Mural predecessor (5 letters)
115 Across: Sound from a ranid (5 letters)
117 Across: Shrewd (6 letters)
120 Across: Zeal (5 letters)
121 Across: Jerez product (6 letters)
122 Across: Pigs' digs (3 letters)
125 Across: British writer's huge hands (10 letters)
127 Across: Munro's toadies (12 letters)
130 Across: Yellowish: Comb. form (5 letters)
131 Across: Lilylike plant (4 letters)
132 Across: Kunta of "Roots" (5 letters)
133 Across: Vigilant (5 letters)
134 Across: Aspersions (5 letters)
135 Across: " . . . ___clock scholar" (4 letters)
136 Across: Requested (5 letters)
137 Across: Not so colorful (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Head (4 letters)
2 Down: In a frenzy (4 letters)
3 Down: White or Blue river (4 letters)
4 Down: Chemical suffix (3 letters)
5 Down: Kind of beef (6 letters)
6 Down: Kenya island (7 letters)
7 Down: ___ from the blue (5 letters)
8 Down: Confused struggle (5 letters)
9 Down: Danube feeder (4 letters)
10 Down: Poet's "always" (3 letters)
11 Down: Kind of knot (7 letters)
12 Down: Mean ones (5 letters)
13 Down: Iron follower (4 letters)
14 Down: Clue (3 letters)
15 Down: Registers (7 letters)
16 Down: Slip (5 letters)
17 Down: "I smell ___" (4 letters)
18 Down: Catnap (4 letters)
19 Down: Logger's travois (4 letters)
25 Down: Joplin tango (6 letters)
26 Down: Mate (6 letters)
28 Down: These make flights (6 letters)
32 Down: Designer Cassini (4 letters)
35 Down: Hit the books (4 letters)
36 Down: Brothers, in Bayonne (6 letters)
37 Down: Full-bodied (6 letters)
38 Down: Eleuthère ___ Du Pont (6 letters)
39 Down: Actress Janet's pleas (13 letters)
41 Down: "Bolero" composer (5 letters)
42 Down: Sky blue (5 letters)
43 Down: Team Staubach roots for? (13 letters)
44 Down: Disquiet (6 letters)
45 Down: Tried (6 letters)
47 Down: Conductor Klemperer (4 letters)
49 Down: Make beloved (6 letters)
50 Down: More Nestorian (5 letters)
51 Down: Environment sci. (4 letters)
54 Down: Hoad of tennis (3 letters)
57 Down: Came into being (5 letters)
59 Down: Weapon with a three-sided blade (4 letters)
60 Down: Increase (6 letters)
61 Down: Cats and dogs (4 letters)
62 Down: "Easier said ___ . . . " (4 letters)
65 Down: ___ Bluff National Monument, Neb. (6 letters)
66 Down: Closes (5 letters)
69 Down: Predicament (3 letters)
71 Down: Pillion (3 letters)
73 Down: Say (5 letters)
74 Down: Poverty (4 letters)
75 Down: Grit (4 letters)
76 Down: Hispano's kin (6 letters)
77 Down: Formerly, formerly (4 letters)
78 Down: Horn: Comb. form (6 letters)
79 Down: Medieval catapult (6 letters)
81 Down: Tangle (5 letters)
83 Down: Jog the memory (6 letters)
84 Down: Topic in the hot stove league (6 letters)
86 Down: Applies the third degree (6 letters)
87 Down: Sways (5 letters)
88 Down: ___ Domini (4 letters)
89 Down: GI's at large (5 letters)
90 Down: Employ (3 letters)
91 Down: Number of inches in a span (4 letters)
97 Down: Contradicts (6 letters)
98 Down: Dessert, in Devon (6 letters)
99 Down: Costly (4 letters)
100 Down: Capital of Eritrea (6 letters)
102 Down: Sea-bottom (7 letters)
103 Down: "Rough ___ shake . . . ": Shak. (7 letters)
104 Down: Hernando de ___ (4 letters)
105 Down: Verticillate (7 letters)
111 Down: Logan luggage lugger (6 letters)
113 Down: Borer (5 letters)
114 Down: Novelist Shaw (5 letters)
115 Down: Interstice (5 letters)
116 Down: Remainder, in Rheims (5 letters)
117 Down: Cousins of 113 Down (4 letters)
118 Down: Israel's first king (4 letters)
119 Down: Garment for Susan Jaffe (4 letters)
120 Down: Swiss river into the Rhine (4 letters)
121 Down: Vail gear (4 letters)
122 Down: Ratify (4 letters)
123 Down: Tad (4 letters)
124 Down: North Sea feeder (4 letters)
126 Down: Sump (3 letters)
128 Down: Alias, for short (3 letters)
129 Down: Niger-Congo language (3 letters)

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