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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21136 clues~30-60 minBy Joy L. Wouk11/17/1985

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Thresher's husks of wheat (5 letters)
6 Across: Pie part (5 letters)
11 Across: Balaam's mount (3 letters)
14 Across: Snail's relatives (5 letters)
19 Across: Jeopardy (5 letters)
20 Across: Dispatch (5 letters)
21 Across: Even if, to Tennyson (3 letters)
22 Across: Buddhist caves site (5 letters)
23 Across: Large: Comb. form (5 letters)
24 Across: Whirling (5 letters)
25 Across: Mountain climber's action (9 letters)
27 Across: Film for which Odets wrote the screenplay: 1936 (20 letters)
30 Across: Concorde, e.g. (3 letters)
31 Across: Wry face (4 letters)
32 Across: Portico (4 letters)
33 Across: On the Java (4 letters)
36 Across: Gilbert and Sullivan group (16 letters)
44 Across: Curaçao city (10 letters)
46 Across: Masons' needs (4 letters)
47 Across: Where to view a gnu (3 letters)
48 Across: Building wing (5 letters)
49 Across: Home of Katharina and Bianca (5 letters)
51 Across: Sin (3 letters)
52 Across: Field mouse (4 letters)
53 Across: Chou En-___ (3 letters)
54 Across: Source of Samson's strength (4 letters)
56 Across: Coward opus (12 letters)
60 Across: Related (3 letters)
61 Across: Honshu port (3 letters)
62 Across: Wind into a ball (4 letters)
63 Across: Country singer Bandy (3 letters)
64 Across: C. S. Forester opus: 1945 (19 letters)
72 Across: Edge (3 letters)
73 Across: Canonical hour (4 letters)
74 Across: Exclamations of worry (3 letters)
75 Across: ___ Filippias, Greek town (3 letters)
77 Across: Shaw opus (12 letters)
82 Across: Mendelssohn's "Lieder ___ Worte" (4 letters)
83 Across: Windy City time (3 letters)
84 Across: Spanish landladies (4 letters)
85 Across: British swell (3 letters)
86 Across: Slyly derisive (5 letters)
88 Across: Follower of D. C. Beard (5 letters)
90 Across: Race part (3 letters)
91 Across: Luzon lake (4 letters)
93 Across: Vivace (10 letters)
95 Across: Shirley Temple vehicle: 1935 (16 letters)
100 Across: Wimbledon calls (4 letters)
101 Across: "Prince ___," by R.L.S. (4 letters)
102 Across: Venom route (4 letters)
103 Across: Life, in Lyon (3 letters)
105 Across: S. E. Morison opus on Columbus (20 letters)
114 Across: Smooth-skinned peach (9 letters)
115 Across: Fifth-century Roman general (5 letters)
116 Across: In the least (5 letters)
118 Across: Bit of land (5 letters)
119 Across: Bill's possible future (3 letters)
120 Across: Snow, in Sonora (5 letters)
121 Across: Conductor-teacher Boulanger (5 letters)
122 Across: Ecole item (5 letters)
123 Across: Bess Truman, ___ Wallace (3 letters)
124 Across: Some are Great (5 letters)
125 Across: Old auto (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Meas. of periodic rate (3 letters)
2 Down: Ardor (4 letters)
3 Down: Kind of bishop or duke (4 letters)
4 Down: Burnt offering? (8 letters)
5 Down: Beats (5 letters)
6 Down: T. N. Page's "Marse ___" (4 letters)
7 Down: Steak order (4 letters)
8 Down: Addict (4 letters)
9 Down: Irate (9 letters)
10 Down: Wear out (6 letters)
11 Down: "To Catch ___," Hitchcock film (6 letters)
12 Down: Crispin's product (4 letters)
13 Down: Underestimated (9 letters)
14 Down: Winter sportswear (7 letters)
15 Down: Former automobile style (6 letters)
16 Down: City renamed Ulan Bator in 1924 (4 letters)
17 Down: Kind of lamp or worm (4 letters)
18 Down: ___ Fein, Irish society (4 letters)
26 Down: Gone with the trend (5 letters)
28 Down: Sci. of word origins (4 letters)
29 Down: Pair (3 letters)
33 Down: "___ on the Wild Side": Algren (5 letters)
34 Down: Of an Egyptian peninsula (6 letters)
35 Down: Ecuadorean inshore current (6 letters)
37 Down: Caught sight of (6 letters)
38 Down: Town near Alma-Ata (4 letters)
39 Down: "___ Wednesday," H. Lloyd film (3 letters)
40 Down: Crooked, in Caithness (6 letters)
41 Down: Black Sea arm (4 letters)
42 Down: Cameo, for one (4 letters)
43 Down: Causes (4 letters)
45 Down: Ghoul, perhaps (7 letters)
50 Down: Toxophilites (7 letters)
51 Down: In any way (4 letters)
52 Down: What a belvedere commands (4 letters)
55 Down: Aug. 1945 weapon (5 letters)
57 Down: Worldwide workers' gp. (3 letters)
58 Down: Welsh writer-actor Williams (5 letters)
59 Down: Most free (7 letters)
65 Down: Units of elec. conductance (4 letters)
66 Down: Ham ___ (deli order) (6 letters)
67 Down: L.B.J. son-in-law (4 letters)
68 Down: Bambi's aunt (3 letters)
69 Down: Puccini's "La ___" (6 letters)
70 Down: Put into cipher (6 letters)
71 Down: Upshot (6 letters)
76 Down: D.A.'s (5 letters)
77 Down: Brewer's need (4 letters)
78 Down: Oriental nurse (4 letters)
79 Down: Trick (4 letters)
80 Down: Native of Izmir (9 letters)
81 Down: Absence of sense of pain (9 letters)
82 Down: One-eyed god (4 letters)
87 Down: Wife of Athamas (3 letters)
89 Down: Keyboard instruments (8 letters)
91 Down: Do a chemical measurement (7 letters)
92 Down: Famed Persian mystic poet (5 letters)
94 Down: Part of T.A.E. (4 letters)
96 Down: Spend time idly (6 letters)
97 Down: Spent and sterile (6 letters)
98 Down: Margay or serval (3 letters)
99 Down: Present (6 letters)
104 Down: Jejune (5 letters)
105 Down: Indigo (4 letters)
106 Down: Arnaz (4 letters)
107 Down: Year in the reign of Henry II (4 letters)
108 Down: Head of a tale (4 letters)
109 Down: Links event (4 letters)
110 Down: Spelunker's milieu (4 letters)
111 Down: "___ Tu," 1932 song (4 letters)
112 Down: St. Louis bridge (4 letters)
113 Down: "I cannot tell ___" (4 letters)
117 Down: Negligent (3 letters)

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