MUSICAL MENAGERIE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Edward Marchese4/21/1985

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Across

1 Across: N.R.A. man (3 letters)
4 Across: Preceder of cut or fire (5 letters)
9 Across: Israeli dance (4 letters)
13 Across: Leading (5 letters)
18 Across: Middle Easterner (4 letters)
20 Across: Virile (5 letters)
21 Across: Primordial substance (4 letters)
22 Across: Mother-of-pearl (5 letters)
23 Across: Kern musical, with "The" (15 letters)
26 Across: Air or motor follower (5 letters)
27 Across: French school (5 letters)
28 Across: Henry was one (6 letters)
29 Across: Restrain legally (5 letters)
31 Across: Hit song from "The Firefly" (14 letters)
34 Across: European blackbirds (6 letters)
38 Across: Rialto sign (3 letters)
39 Across: Appraise (4 letters)
40 Across: Word-for-word (7 letters)
41 Across: Sphere (3 letters)
44 Across: Former Syr.-Egypt. union (3 letters)
47 Across: Art stand (5 letters)
49 Across: Pearl Mosque site (4 letters)
50 Across: Lute-shaped marine creature (10 letters)
55 Across: Drudge (5 letters)
56 Across: Meat cut (4 letters)
57 Across: Find out (5 letters)
58 Across: Water pots of India (5 letters)
60 Across: Small sum (4 letters)
62 Across: Make picots (3 letters)
63 Across: Krupp steel city (5 letters)
64 Across: Author St. Johns et al. (6 letters)
66 Across: Believes in (6 letters)
68 Across: Popular piano piece (15 letters)
73 Across: Sadat's predecessor (6 letters)
76 Across: "___ with flagons . . . ": Song of Solomon (6 letters)
77 Across: Dog's role in "Peter Pan" (5 letters)
81 Across: Veterans' org. (3 letters)
82 Across: Triangle ratio (4 letters)
85 Across: Fencing feint (5 letters)
86 Across: Eminent (5 letters)
87 Across: Biblical nation (4 letters)
89 Across: Composer of "The Bohemian Girl" (5 letters)
92 Across: Movie western (10 letters)
94 Across: Grayish yellow (4 letters)
95 Across: Rattled (5 letters)
96 Across: "Whoopee!" (3 letters)
97 Across: Be suitable (3 letters)
98 Across: Lie back (7 letters)
100 Across: Altars for Augustus (4 letters)
103 Across: "Old MacDonald" refrain letters (3 letters)
106 Across: "Streetcar" character (6 letters)
107 Across: Birds with loud calls (14 letters)
114 Across: Humpback salmon (5 letters)
116 Across: Mine engineer (6 letters)
117 Across: Aquiline abode (5 letters)
118 Across: Husband of la reine (5 letters)
121 Across: A.k.a. "Christmas Don't Be Late": 1958 (15 letters)
124 Across: Angler's problem (5 letters)
125 Across: Trifle (4 letters)
126 Across: Biting (5 letters)
127 Across: Autocrat (4 letters)
128 Across: Japanese emperor's title (5 letters)
129 Across: Playwright O'Casey (4 letters)
130 Across: "Beau ___" (5 letters)
131 Across: Compass dir. (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: Confronted (5 letters)
2 Down: Northern constellation (5 letters)
3 Down: Boca ___, Fla. (5 letters)
4 Down: Direct with auth. (3 letters)
5 Down: Some NASA takeoffs (5 letters)
6 Down: Pigment for Joseph Turner (5 letters)
7 Down: Clip (5 letters)
8 Down: Not so adamant (6 letters)
9 Down: Water compounds (8 letters)
10 Down: Worn (3 letters)
11 Down: Book by D. S. Freeman (5 letters)
12 Down: Innovative Broadway producer: 1871–1937 (4 letters)
13 Down: Down ___ (destitute) (6 letters)
14 Down: Common arctic sea mammal (8 letters)
15 Down: "The Name of the Rose" author (3 letters)
16 Down: Prepare for battle (3 letters)
17 Down: Frances or Ruby (3 letters)
19 Down: Obstructs (5 letters)
24 Down: At no time, to Keats (4 letters)
25 Down: College in Westchester Co., N.Y. (4 letters)
30 Down: Formal or fashionable attire (8 letters)
32 Down: "Hold ___ horses!" (4 letters)
33 Down: Fir or pine board (4 letters)
35 Down: Cereal fungi (6 letters)
36 Down: Prop for Will Rogers (6 letters)
37 Down: Distorts (6 letters)
40 Down: A brother of Simeon (4 letters)
41 Down: Make eyes at (4 letters)
42 Down: Feels remorse (4 letters)
43 Down: Inclination (4 letters)
45 Down: Musical key (5 letters)
46 Down: ___ Janeiro (5 letters)
48 Down: U.S. missile (3 letters)
51 Down: Laborious travels (5 letters)
52 Down: Oakley and Rooney (6 letters)
53 Down: British carbine (4 letters)
54 Down: Rings of light (5 letters)
59 Down: Tot's hero (5 letters)
61 Down: Spiny, blue-flowered plant (6 letters)
65 Down: Short for infection-causing bacteria (5 letters)
67 Down: Take forcibly (5 letters)
69 Down: The Supreme Court, e.g. (8 letters)
70 Down: Photog's solution (4 letters)
71 Down: Grinding material (5 letters)
72 Down: Big turf winner (5 letters)
73 Down: Designators (6 letters)
74 Down: Wading bird (6 letters)
75 Down: Rare (6 letters)
78 Down: Coral strip (4 letters)
79 Down: Hindu dress (4 letters)
80 Down: Coup d'___ (4 letters)
83 Down: Nucha (4 letters)
84 Down: Sextet in "Little Nellie Kelly" (3 letters)
88 Down: Voice amplifier (8 letters)
90 Down: "Ode to ___": Collins (4 letters)
91 Down: Pre-Roman in Italy (8 letters)
93 Down: Water pitcher (4 letters)
99 Down: Philippine seaport with a repetitive name (6 letters)
101 Down: Oriental baby tender (4 letters)
102 Down: ___ Forest, former English royal park (6 letters)
104 Down: Author Dinesen (4 letters)
105 Down: "Lend less than thou ___": Shak. (5 letters)
107 Down: California-Nevada lake (5 letters)
108 Down: Marner's adopted child (5 letters)
109 Down: "A la Recherche du ___ Perdu": Proust (5 letters)
110 Down: Break out (5 letters)
111 Down: Rebelled (5 letters)
112 Down: Foch and Simone (5 letters)
113 Down: River in NE Spain (5 letters)
115 Down: "Seems, madam! Nay, ___": Hamlet (4 letters)
118 Down: Utah Beach craft (3 letters)
119 Down: Chemical suffix (3 letters)
120 Down: Operated (3 letters)
122 Down: Age, in Asti (3 letters)
123 Down: American humorist: 1850–96 (3 letters)

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