ALTAR-ATIONS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Joy L. Wouk6/2/1985

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Across

1 Across: Avoid formal nuptials (5 letters)
6 Across: Château story (5 letters)
11 Across: Embarrass (5 letters)
16 Across: Poke (3 letters)
19 Across: Unit of capacitance (5 letters)
20 Across: Ancient stringed instrument (5 letters)
21 Across: Malory's "___ d'Arthur" (5 letters)
22 Across: Gone by (3 letters)
23 Across: J. M. Barrie opus (17 letters)
26 Across: Mover's need (3 letters)
27 Across: Incipient grads (3 letters)
28 Across: Groups in coops (6 letters)
29 Across: Old English letter (3 letters)
30 Across: He abdicated for love (6 letters)
32 Across: A rival of Babylonia (4 letters)
33 Across: Musical syllables (4 letters)
35 Across: Where cows browse (3 letters)
36 Across: Carson McCullers opus (21 letters)
46 Across: Hound's sound (4 letters)
47 Across: Golden or Walden (4 letters)
48 Across: Suffix with Brooklyn or Israel (3 letters)
49 Across: Excessive sentimentality (3 letters)
50 Across: " . . . Shrew" musical (10 letters)
54 Across: Place (3 letters)
55 Across: Lugged a thug to the jug (5 letters)
57 Across: Baseball stat. (3 letters)
58 Across: International aid org.: 1943–47 (5 letters)
59 Across: Rumanian city (4 letters)
61 Across: Traveler's need (6 letters)
62 Across: Pusher's activity (9 letters)
64 Across: Self-defense system (6 letters)
65 Across: Evelyn Waugh opus (19 letters)
69 Across: Vampires (6 letters)
70 Across: Tend to move (toward) (9 letters)
71 Across: Furniture wheel (6 letters)
72 Across: Mine, in Metz (4 letters)
74 Across: "Ad ___ per aspera," Kansas motto (5 letters)
75 Across: Handle clumsily (3 letters)
78 Across: Tequila, e.g. (5 letters)
79 Across: Japanese woman diver (3 letters)
80 Across: Rarity, to J. R. Lowell (10 letters)
82 Across: Bambi's aunt (3 letters)
83 Across: Hippie's home (3 letters)
84 Across: "___ your pardon!" (4 letters)
85 Across: Thessalian mountain (4 letters)
86 Across: Poe opus, with "The" (21 letters)
94 Across: Altar on high (3 letters)
95 Across: "Middletown" co-author (4 letters)
96 Across: Climbing, twining stem (4 letters)
97 Across: Australian marsupial (6 letters)
100 Across: Opp. of masculine (3 letters)
101 Across: Cozy; familiar (6 letters)
104 Across: Woolf's "___ Dalloway" (3 letters)
107 Across: Nest-egg acct. (3 letters)
108 Across: Browning opus (17 letters)
112 Across: Where to find cattails (3 letters)
113 Across: Rose-colored dye (5 letters)
114 Across: Humiliate (5 letters)
115 Across: Lout (5 letters)
116 Across: England's Isle of ___ (3 letters)
117 Across: Hit hard (5 letters)
118 Across: Daisy cutter's relative (5 letters)
119 Across: Prenuptial events (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Newts (4 letters)
2 Down: Bert of "leonine" fame (4 letters)
3 Down: Pyrite and galena (4 letters)
4 Down: Chum (3 letters)
5 Down: Safe, as some mushrooms (6 letters)
6 Down: Inter, as a Pharaoh (6 letters)
7 Down: End: Comb. form (4 letters)
8 Down: Retired (4 letters)
9 Down: Engagement gift (8 letters)
10 Down: A descendant of Aaron (3 letters)
11 Down: Halfway between bow and stern (9 letters)
12 Down: Nonsense! (4 letters)
13 Down: Skill (3 letters)
14 Down: Addison's partner (6 letters)
15 Down: Kept control over (6 letters)
16 Down: Sumatran neighbor (4 letters)
17 Down: Chinese gelatin (4 letters)
18 Down: Uniting force (4 letters)
24 Down: Mine vehicle (4 letters)
25 Down: Spruce (4 letters)
31 Down: Handful of cotton (3 letters)
32 Down: Napoleons I and III: Abbr. (4 letters)
34 Down: Country address: Abbr. (3 letters)
36 Down: Tad (4 letters)
37 Down: "Next of skin" (4 letters)
38 Down: Lohengrin's love (4 letters)
39 Down: Eastern Church bishop (6 letters)
40 Down: Take turns (6 letters)
41 Down: Needle case (4 letters)
42 Down: Rainy (3 letters)
43 Down: Light (6 letters)
44 Down: Bruited (6 letters)
45 Down: Part of "G.W.T.W." (4 letters)
51 Down: Less clear (7 letters)
52 Down: Make beloved (6 letters)
53 Down: ___ Kringle (5 letters)
55 Down: N.J. river or bay (7 letters)
56 Down: Winged ant (5 letters)
59 Down: Madagascan lemur (5 letters)
60 Down: Taj Mahal site (4 letters)
61 Down: Biographer of artists: 1511–74 (6 letters)
62 Down: "We ___ please" (5 letters)
63 Down: Othello's betrayer (4 letters)
64 Down: "Gunsmoke" role (5 letters)
65 Down: Nantyglo and ___, Wales (6 letters)
66 Down: Scaramouch (6 letters)
67 Down: Gets around (6 letters)
68 Down: Appearance (6 letters)
71 Down: Music symbol (4 letters)
72 Down: Eastern nurse (4 letters)
73 Down: Small, rich cupcake (9 letters)
75 Down: Door sign (4 letters)
76 Down: Handle, to Henri (4 letters)
77 Down: Tear's partner (4 letters)
79 Down: Fitting (3 letters)
80 Down: Largest Arab emirate (8 letters)
81 Down: He loved Carmen (4 letters)
84 Down: Charged atom (3 letters)
87 Down: Sci. room (3 letters)
88 Down: Emulates Bryan (6 letters)
89 Down: Understand thoroughly (6 letters)
90 Down: Song of praise (4 letters)
91 Down: ___ dictum (6 letters)
92 Down: Dace or plaice (4 letters)
93 Down: Not in anyone's possession (6 letters)
97 Down: Man and ___ (4 letters)
98 Down: Turgenev's birthplace (4 letters)
99 Down: "___ happy returns!" (4 letters)
100 Down: Glass material (4 letters)
102 Down: Judah's second son (4 letters)
103 Down: Gds. (4 letters)
104 Down: Debatable (4 letters)
105 Down: Peignoir (4 letters)
106 Down: ""The ___ the limit!" (4 letters)
109 Down: That, in Toledo (3 letters)
110 Down: "For Me and My ___," 1917 song (3 letters)
111 Down: Scarf (3 letters)

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