DON'T CON ME!

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Charles M. Deber4/7/1985

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Bench warmer (5 letters)
6 Across
Big birds (4 letters)
10 Across
Bar seat (5 letters)
15 Across
Carriage in Kensington (4 letters)
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Russian skater Rodnina (5 letters)
20 Across
Josip Broz (4 letters)
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Nerve: Comb. form (5 letters)
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Alter (4 letters)
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FARMED OUT WORK (10 letters)
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FREE (10 letters)
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Pool's black ball (5 letters)
28 Across
Jargon (5 letters)
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Scribble (6 letters)
31 Across
Beard of grass (6 letters)
34 Across
Of bees (5 letters)
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BOULEVARDS (7 letters)
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Googly-eyed comedian (6 letters)
37 Across
Malayan boats (5 letters)
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Officer's civvies (5 letters)
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Gone up (5 letters)
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PONDERS (9 letters)
42 Across
Famed N.Y. bldg. (3 letters)
45 Across
Slur over (5 letters)
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Ear: Comb. form (3 letters)
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Annoy (3 letters)
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Fiddler Isaac (5 letters)
50 Across
Draft-board letters (3 letters)
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AT THE SAME TIME (9 letters)
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Wasp (6 letters)
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Sauce staple (6 letters)
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This gets wetter as it dries (5 letters)
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___ of lead (6 letters)
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Rise of opera (7 letters)
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Tear up, as paper (5 letters)
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Intimates (7 letters)
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Truthful (6 letters)
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"___ to be born . . . ": Eccles. 3:2 (5 letters)
67 Across
Fermenting agents (6 letters)
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Part of a cast of thousands (6 letters)
69 Across
ACADEMIC ASSEMBLIES (9 letters)
71 Across
Bribe (3 letters)
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Eliot's Marner (5 letters)
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Miss Piggy to herself (3 letters)
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Mus followers (3 letters)
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Bart or Brenda (5 letters)
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"___ port in a storm" (3 letters)
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NOT SETTLED (9 letters)
84 Across
Palmer, to pals (5 letters)
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What funambulists take (5 letters)
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Take the stump (5 letters)
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"___ Restaurant" (6 letters)
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SUPEREGO (7 letters)
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Heads and shoulders (5 letters)
94 Across
Defames (6 letters)
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Home of the Gewürztraminer grape (6 letters)
96 Across
Biblical mount (5 letters)
97 Across
Farewell, in Fontainebleau (5 letters)
99 Across
PATRONIZING (10 letters)
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IMPORTANT (10 letters)
106 Across
Leap, in Lyon (4 letters)
107 Across
Trace (5 letters)
108 Across
Long-standing quarrel (4 letters)
109 Across
Hundred: Comb. form (5 letters)
110 Across
Dollar bills (4 letters)
111 Across
Velocity (5 letters)
112 Across
Affirmative votes (4 letters)
113 Across
English county (5 letters)

Down

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Girl, to her brother (3 letters)
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Vineyard (3 letters)
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Tease (3 letters)
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LIKE SOME ELECTIONS (8 letters)
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Choir member (8 letters)
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Engrave (4 letters)
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Glove for Fisk (4 letters)
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Southwestern Indian (3 letters)
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Soft drink (7 letters)
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___ bug in a rug (7 letters)
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This goes jointly with a mortise (5 letters)
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Dispossess (4 letters)
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Food scrap (3 letters)
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Golding's "___ the Flies" (6 letters)
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A ___ (deductively) (6 letters)
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Pulls apart (5 letters)
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An Astaire (5 letters)
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Ways (5 letters)
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Type of gel (4 letters)
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August, in Arles (4 letters)
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Iranian coin (4 letters)
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Land units (5 letters)
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Wekas, e.g. (5 letters)
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ERRATICALLY (11 letters)
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Galahad's garb (5 letters)
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Cod's cousin (4 letters)
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Word with chemical or dollar (5 letters)
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She played Sophie (5 letters)
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Turf mavens (5 letters)
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Like shower walls (5 letters)
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SCOUTING OUT (11 letters)
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Minotaur's land (5 letters)
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Some bets (5 letters)
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Individual efforts (5 letters)
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Council site: 1545–63 (5 letters)
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Whines (5 letters)
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Moral standard (5 letters)
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Actress Talmadge (5 letters)
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Canary's comment (5 letters)
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Israeli dances (5 letters)
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___ barrel (in trouble) (5 letters)
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Tablelands (5 letters)
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"___ Woman," Beatles song (5 letters)
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Poison (5 letters)
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Uncomplaining (5 letters)
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Perfume a room (5 letters)
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Three English rivers (5 letters)
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James Taylor's "___ Got a Friend" (5 letters)
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J.F.K. and L.B.J., e.g. (5 letters)
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Mirador (5 letters)
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Iron (5 letters)
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Hammer found in whodunits (4 letters)
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Highlight (8 letters)
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DONATES (8 letters)
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Took it easy (7 letters)
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Sky Bear (4 letters)
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Please (7 letters)
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Becomes innervated (6 letters)
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Movie pioneer (4 letters)
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Gets wind of (6 letters)
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"It's a Sin to Tell ___" (4 letters)
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"So ___ strange . . . ": Tennyson (5 letters)
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Spotless (5 letters)
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Offspring (5 letters)
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Spree (5 letters)
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Trigonometry term (4 letters)
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Kind of tint (4 letters)
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Lemons (4 letters)
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Immerse (3 letters)
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Big Foot's shoe width? (3 letters)
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Electees (3 letters)
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Spenser character (3 letters)
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A year in Nero's reign (3 letters)

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