OPERATIC OPERATIONS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Alfio Micci9/8/1985

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Across

1 Across: Please (7 letters)
8 Across: S.A. Indian (5 letters)
13 Across: Car décor (6 letters)
19 Across: Composer Saint-Saëns (7 letters)
20 Across: "Moonlight" or "Waldenstein" (6 letters)
21 Across: Uses the oven (6 letters)
22 Across: Puccini cowhand? (21 letters)
25 Across: "Lord, is ___?": Matt. 26:22 (3 letters)
26 Across: Virtue; valor (5 letters)
27 Across: European thrush (5 letters)
28 Across: Like a bairn (3 letters)
30 Across: German appellations (5 letters)
32 Across: Enroll (8 letters)
35 Across: Coin of Iran (4 letters)
36 Across: Waxed (4 letters)
37 Across: Principle (5 letters)
39 Across: Former D.C. nine (4 letters)
41 Across: Brain-wave reading, for short (3 letters)
42 Across: Finance abbr. (3 letters)
43 Across: Cautious (5 letters)
44 Across: Extent (6 letters)
46 Across: Campaigner's concern (7 letters)
48 Across: Cry of satisfaction (5 letters)
49 Across: Turkish coin, to a Londoner (7 letters)
50 Across: Esoteric (6 letters)
51 Across: Like new bills (5 letters)
52 Across: Part of G.I. (4 letters)
53 Across: Remnant (3 letters)
54 Across: Synthetic fabric (6 letters)
55 Across: Mascagni flirt (4 letters)
56 Across: Lotto's kin (4 letters)
57 Across: Father of Diomedes of Thrace (4 letters)
58 Across: Secular (4 letters)
59 Across: Discernible (7 letters)
61 Across: Noted Korean (4 letters)
63 Across: Precollege test, for short (4 letters)
65 Across: Washington's pursuer (4 letters)
67 Across: Show patience (4 letters)
68 Across: Disentangled, as fibers (6 letters)
71 Across: Ending for cash or front (3 letters)
72 Across: Iowa campus town (4 letters)
73 Across: Indistinct (5 letters)
74 Across: Elgar's "___ Variations" (6 letters)
75 Across: Wagnerian hero (7 letters)
77 Across: Covers a bet (5 letters)
78 Across: Lear's eldest daughter (7 letters)
79 Across: Uri or Zug (6 letters)
80 Across: "Dead Souls" author (5 letters)
81 Across: One ___ kind (3 letters)
82 Across: Violinist Bull (3 letters)
83 Across: Yesterday, to Pierre (4 letters)
84 Across: Muscle (5 letters)
85 Across: Norwegian king (4 letters)
87 Across: Tuileries occupants (4 letters)
88 Across: "Travesties" playwright (8 letters)
91 Across: Cremona craftsman (5 letters)
92 Across: "___ Loser," Beatles song (3 letters)
93 Across: "You can ___ horse to water . . . " (5 letters)
94 Across: Inspected the joint (5 letters)
96 Across: Cumberland, e.g. (3 letters)
98 Across: Prokofiev's saucy opus? (21 letters)
106 Across: Unruffled (6 letters)
107 Across: SOS signals (6 letters)
108 Across: John or Jill (7 letters)
109 Across: King and Mason (6 letters)
110 Across: Dickens's Drood (5 letters)
111 Across: Oats container (7 letters)

Down

1 Down: Time-zone abbr. (3 letters)
2 Down: Music to an athlete's ears (3 letters)
3 Down: Soul, in Savoie (3 letters)
4 Down: Of a leg bone (6 letters)
5 Down: Ait (4 letters)
6 Down: Wagner's Parisian pilot? (15 letters)
7 Down: River in SW England (3 letters)
8 Down: Producer Alexander (5 letters)
9 Down: French violinist: 18th century (4 letters)
10 Down: Storm (4 letters)
11 Down: Japanese admiral: 1843–1914 (3 letters)
12 Down: Nonsense (7 letters)
13 Down: Musically increase in vol. (5 letters)
14 Down: Barber, at times (5 letters)
15 Down: Author of "The Sojourner" (8 letters)
16 Down: Verb ending (3 letters)
17 Down: Rockies, e.g. (3 letters)
18 Down: Erhard's therapy (3 letters)
20 Down: Disseminate (5 letters)
23 Down: TV series (4 letters)
24 Down: Sprinkle (4 letters)
28 Down: Mountainous region (6 letters)
29 Down: What Fountain plays in a Mozart opus? (13 letters)
31 Down: Host (4 letters)
32 Down: Dictator's phrase (4 letters)
33 Down: Stableboy in a Smetana opus? (13 letters)
34 Down: Always, poetically (6 letters)
35 Down: Do upholstering (5 letters)
37 Down: Lehár opus about a lady in despair? (11 letters)
38 Down: Wyatt of the West (4 letters)
40 Down: Pips (5 letters)
42 Down: Asian capital (5 letters)
43 Down: Hot pepper (5 letters)
44 Down: Unhappy outcome of a Mozart opus? (15 letters)
45 Down: Nosh (3 letters)
47 Down: Revolutionist in 1789 (5 letters)
48 Down: Treasure ___ (5 letters)
49 Down: Atop, for short (3 letters)
51 Down: Yarn units (5 letters)
52 Down: World's richest man (5 letters)
56 Down: Heals (5 letters)
57 Down: Eagle's perch (5 letters)
60 Down: De Kooning prop (5 letters)
62 Down: Political boss in McKinley's day (5 letters)
63 Down: Intonation (5 letters)
64 Down: Sultans' palaces (6 letters)
66 Down: Wine: Comb. form (3 letters)
69 Down: Iago's wife (6 letters)
70 Down: Pastoral spots (5 letters)
72 Down: From ___ Z (3 letters)
73 Down: Conjurer (4 letters)
76 Down: Folding carriage (8 letters)
77 Down: Affectionate (4 letters)
78 Down: Assault (4 letters)
80 Down: Zoo attraction (7 letters)
84 Down: Old radio's "Vic and ___" (4 letters)
85 Down: Hebrew measures (5 letters)
86 Down: Burden (4 letters)
87 Down: Undulation (6 letters)
89 Down: Garden bloom (5 letters)
90 Down: Does road work (5 letters)
91 Down: Wan (5 letters)
94 Down: Crow's crop (4 letters)
95 Down: Longfellow's bell town (4 letters)
97 Down: Uncouth fellows (4 letters)
98 Down: Cooking abbr. (3 letters)
99 Down: "___ Haw," TV variety show (3 letters)
100 Down: Fumble (3 letters)
101 Down: Long in the tooth (3 letters)
102 Down: A, in Aachen (3 letters)
103 Down: Chem. room (3 letters)
104 Down: Bambi's aunt (3 letters)
105 Down: Surface on a bldg. wall (3 letters)

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