DICKENS TAKE 'EM!

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Frances Hansen1/27/1985

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Doesn't give ___ (is heedless) (4 letters)
5 Across
Twist's "twister" (5 letters)
10 Across
One grand (4 letters)
14 Across
He has made it to Mecca (4 letters)
18 Across
Bit of biblical graffiti (4 letters)
19 Across
Cremona name (5 letters)
20 Across
Put to flight (4 letters)
21 Across
Bathe the stage with bathos (5 letters)
23 Across
Seasonal sourpuss (15 letters)
26 Across
___ around (snoops) (5 letters)
27 Across
Square-sail rope (8 letters)
28 Across
Pizazz (5 letters)
29 Across
Economize (6 letters)
30 Across
Reaches (7 letters)
31 Across
Mopes about, Dogpatch style (5 letters)
32 Across
___ line (conform) (4 letters)
33 Across
One-liner (3 letters)
34 Across
Nursery porridge base (5 letters)
35 Across
With suavity (8 letters)
39 Across
Where René cuts the mustard (5 letters)
42 Across
Evil dwarf feared by Little Nell (11 letters)
44 Across
Sheepish comment (3 letters)
45 Across
N.C. college (4 letters)
46 Across
Caron film: 1958 (4 letters)
47 Across
City once called Edessa (4 letters)
48 Across
Cricket sides (3 letters)
49 Across
Crib (3 letters)
50 Across
Servile, selfish hypocrite (11 letters)
54 Across
Sans ___ (carefree) (5 letters)
56 Across
Littoral area (8 letters)
58 Across
Poirot's explanatory word (5 letters)
59 Across
Faulkner's Eula ___ (6 letters)
60 Across
Piquant (5 letters)
61 Across
"___ You Glad You're You?" (5 letters)
62 Across
Felt poorly (5 letters)
63 Across
Grow, as interest on money (6 letters)
65 Across
Traveller or Grani (5 letters)
66 Across
Sluggish (8 letters)
69 Across
Silver salmon (5 letters)
70 Across
Georgiana's pompous, Philistine father (11 letters)
72 Across
Early auto (3 letters)
73 Across
Old French coin (3 letters)
74 Across
River to the Ouse (4 letters)
75 Across
Get under one's skin (4 letters)
76 Across
Letter-shaped beam (4 letters)
77 Across
Miss Russell, informally (3 letters)
78 Across
Copperfield's horrid stepfather (11 letters)
82 Across
Stendhal's real name (5 letters)
83 Across
Arms for a musical army? (8 letters)
85 Across
River of Wagner's "Ring" (5 letters)
86 Across
Quagmire (3 letters)
87 Across
Napoleonic victory site: 1796 (4 letters)
88 Across
One of the Keatons (5 letters)
89 Across
Practice play at 4 Down? (7 letters)
93 Across
Strindberg's land (6 letters)
95 Across
Upright adjuster (5 letters)
96 Across
Anthropophagite (8 letters)
97 Across
Rachet bars (5 letters)
98 Across
Smike's beastly tormentor (15 letters)
100 Across
On ___ (fasting) (5 letters)
101 Across
Quiz (4 letters)
102 Across
Athens seat of higher educ. (5 letters)
103 Across
Hindu's bad-luck day (4 letters)
104 Across
___-bitsy (4 letters)
105 Across
Incisiveness (4 letters)
106 Across
Savoir-___ (5 letters)
107 Across
Deodar or baobab (4 letters)

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One-celled animal (5 letters)
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Confute (5 letters)
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Concerning (5 letters)
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World's largest office building (8 letters)
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Daunting (6 letters)
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Congregational echoes (5 letters)
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Parisian station (4 letters)
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Possessive pronoun (3 letters)
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Tenor Gedda (7 letters)
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Ore-sizing screen (7 letters)
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Targets for Dr. J (5 letters)
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Cry of distaste (4 letters)
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Peak in Colo. (3 letters)
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A target for Reynard (7 letters)
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Old-style love song (6 letters)
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Louisa Gradgrind's vulgar husband (15 letters)
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Shopping-list entry (4 letters)
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Precognition, for short (3 letters)
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Like a famed essayist (5 letters)
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Stir to action (5 letters)
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Calpurnia's robe (5 letters)
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Of inherited factors (5 letters)
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One of the Bermudas (5 letters)
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Rides the waves (5 letters)
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Fit of the sulks (4 letters)
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Uhlan's weapon (5 letters)
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Arafat (5 letters)
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Socialist labor leader: 1855–1926 (4 letters)
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Netman Nastase (4 letters)
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Old Martin's murderous nephew (15 letters)
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"The ___ Doodle," 1937 song (5 letters)
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Riding whip (5 letters)
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Rub the wrong way (5 letters)
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Father of Meriones (5 letters)
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Dramatic Valentine (5 letters)
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Insomniac's quest (5 letters)
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U.S. perennial herb (5 letters)
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Shropshire (5 letters)
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Turgenev's birthplace (4 letters)
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"___ nome," Verdi aria (4 letters)
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Literary Gore (5 letters)
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"There's my wife; look well ___": Spring-Rice (5 letters)
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An Oakley (5 letters)
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Vinegary (5 letters)
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Warming bedtime drink (5 letters)
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Fern-frond formation (5 letters)
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"God is Three, and God ___": Newman (5 letters)
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Actress Patricia (4 letters)
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Made tracks (4 letters)
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Iwo ___ (4 letters)
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Stingless, feckless bee (5 letters)
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Alan of "Wait Until Dark" (5 letters)
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Most long-limbed (8 letters)
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Flower-of-an-hour (7 letters)
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Words on a Wonderland bottle (7 letters)
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W.W. II acronym (5 letters)
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Hot surface from Tennessee (7 letters)
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Nigerian province (5 letters)
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Scads (6 letters)
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French financial house (6 letters)
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Coin stolen by Jessica (5 letters)
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"He is, or ___ has to be": Voltaire (5 letters)
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Cross as ___ (irritable) (5 letters)
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Château-Thierry's river (5 letters)
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A Dinsmore (5 letters)
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Bath, e.g. (3 letters)
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African gully (4 letters)
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Hack (4 letters)
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402, to Fabius (4 letters)
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Network (3 letters)
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The Volga, in ancient days (3 letters)

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