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Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (21x21 grid, 136 clues). Published 11/17/1985. By Joy L. Wouk.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Thresher's husks of wheat (5): CHAFF
6 Across: Pie part (5): CRUST
11 Across: Balaam's mount (3): ASS
14 Across: Snail's relatives (5): SLUGS
19 Across: Jeopardy (5): PERIL
20 Across: Dispatch (5): HASTE
21 Across: Even if, to Tennyson (3): THO
22 Across: Buddhist caves site (5): KARLI
23 Across: Large: Comb. form (5): MACRO
24 Across: Whirling (5): AREEL
25 Across: Mountain climber's action (9): HOLDINGON
27 Across: Film for which Odets wrote the screenplay: 1936 (20): THEGENERALDIEDATDAWN
30 Across: Concorde, e.g. (3): SST
31 Across: Wry face (4): MOUE
32 Across: Portico (4): STOA
33 Across: On the Java (4): ASEA
36 Across: Gilbert and Sullivan group (16): YEOMENOFTHEGUARD
44 Across: Curaçao city (10): WILLEMSTAD
46 Across: Masons' needs (4): HODS
47 Across: Where to view a gnu (3): ZOO
48 Across: Building wing (5): ANNEX
49 Across: Home of Katharina and Bianca (5): PADUA
51 Across: Sin (3): ERR
52 Across: Field mouse (4): VOLE
53 Across: Chou En-___ (3): LAI
54 Across: Source of Samson's strength (4): HAIR
56 Across: Coward opus (12): PRIVATELIVES
60 Across: Related (3): KIN
61 Across: Honshu port (3): UBE
62 Across: Wind into a ball (4): CLEW
63 Across: Country singer Bandy (3): MOE
64 Across: C. S. Forester opus: 1945 (19): COMMODOREHORNBLOWER
72 Across: Edge (3): HEM
73 Across: Canonical hour (4): NONE
74 Across: Exclamations of worry (3): OYS
75 Across: ___ Filippias, Greek town (3): NEA
77 Across: Shaw opus (12): MAJORBARBARA
82 Across: Mendelssohn's "Lieder ___ Worte" (4): OHNE
83 Across: Windy City time (3): CST
84 Across: Spanish landladies (4): AMAS
85 Across: British swell (3): NOB
86 Across: Slyly derisive (5): SNIDE
88 Across: Follower of D. C. Beard (5): SCOUT
90 Across: Race part (3): LAP
91 Across: Luzon lake (4): TAAL
93 Across: Vivace (10): ANIMATEDLY
95 Across: Shirley Temple vehicle: 1935 (16): THELITTLECOLONEL
100 Across: Wimbledon calls (4): LETS
101 Across: "Prince ___," by R.L.S. (4): OTTO
102 Across: Venom route (4): FANG
103 Across: Life, in Lyon (3): VIE
105 Across: S. E. Morison opus on Columbus (20): ADMIRALOFTHEOCEANSEA
114 Across: Smooth-skinned peach (9): NECTARINE
115 Across: Fifth-century Roman general (5): ASPAR
116 Across: In the least (5): ATALL
118 Across: Bit of land (5): ISLET
119 Across: Bill's possible future (3): ACT
120 Across: Snow, in Sonora (5): NIEVE
121 Across: Conductor-teacher Boulanger (5): NADIA
122 Across: Ecole item (5): LIVRE
123 Across: Bess Truman, ___ Wallace (3): NEE
124 Across: Some are Great (5): DANES
125 Across: Old auto (5): ESSEX

Down Answers

1 Down: Meas. of periodic rate (3): CPM
2 Down: Ardor (4): HEAT
3 Down: Kind of bishop or duke (4): ARCH
4 Down: Burnt offering? (8): FIRESALE
5 Down: Beats (5): FLOGS
6 Down: T. N. Page's "Marse ___" (4): CHAN
7 Down: Steak order (4): RARE
8 Down: Addict (4): USER
9 Down: Irate (9): STEAMEDUP
10 Down: Wear out (6): TELLON
11 Down: "To Catch ___," Hitchcock film (6): ATHIEF
12 Down: Crispin's product (4): SHOE
13 Down: Underestimated (9): SOLDSHORT
14 Down: Winter sportswear (7): SKITOGS
15 Down: Former automobile style (6): LANDAU
16 Down: City renamed Ulan Bator in 1924 (4): URGA
17 Down: Kind of lamp or worm (4): GLOW
18 Down: ___ Fein, Irish society (4): SINN
26 Down: Gone with the trend (5): DATED
28 Down: Sci. of word origins (4): ETYM
29 Down: Pair (3): DUO
33 Down: "___ on the Wild Side": Algren (5): AWALK
34 Down: Of an Egyptian peninsula (6): SINAIC
35 Down: Ecuadorean inshore current (6): ELNINO
37 Down: Caught sight of (6): ESPIED
38 Down: Town near Alma-Ata (4): OTAR
39 Down: "___ Wednesday," H. Lloyd film (3): MAD
40 Down: Crooked, in Caithness (6): THRAWN
41 Down: Black Sea arm (4): AZOV
42 Down: Cameo, for one (4): ROLE
43 Down: Causes (4): DOES
45 Down: Ghoul, perhaps (7): EXHUMER
50 Down: Toxophilites (7): ARCHERS
51 Down: In any way (4): EVER
52 Down: What a belvedere commands (4): VIEW
55 Down: Aug. 1945 weapon (5): ABOMB
57 Down: Worldwide workers' gp. (3): ILO
58 Down: Welsh writer-actor Williams (5): EMLYN
59 Down: Most free (7): LOOSEST
65 Down: Units of elec. conductance (4): MHOS
66 Down: Ham ___ (deli order) (6): ONROLL
67 Down: L.B.J. son-in-law (4): ROBB
68 Down: Bambi's aunt (3): ENA
69 Down: Puccini's "La ___" (6): BOHEME
70 Down: Put into cipher (6): ENCODE
71 Down: Upshot (6): RESULT
76 Down: D.A.'s (5): ATTYS
77 Down: Brewer's need (4): MALT
78 Down: Oriental nurse (4): AMAH
79 Down: Trick (4): JAPE
80 Down: Native of Izmir (9): ANATOLIAN
81 Down: Absence of sense of pain (9): ANALGESIA
82 Down: One-eyed god (4): ODIN
87 Down: Wife of Athamas (3): INO
89 Down: Keyboard instruments (8): CELESTAS
91 Down: Do a chemical measurement (7): TITRATE
92 Down: Famed Persian mystic poet (5): ATTAR
94 Down: Part of T.A.E. (4): ALVA
96 Down: Spend time idly (6): LOITER
97 Down: Spent and sterile (6): EFFETE
98 Down: Margay or serval (3): CAT
99 Down: Present (6): ONHAND
104 Down: Jejune (5): INANE
105 Down: Indigo (4): ANIL
106 Down: Arnaz (4): DESI
107 Down: Year in the reign of Henry II (4): MCLV
108 Down: Head of a tale (4): ONCE
109 Down: Links event (4): OPEN
110 Down: Spelunker's milieu (4): CAVE
111 Down: "___ Tu," 1932 song (4): ERES
112 Down: St. Louis bridge (4): EADS
113 Down: "I cannot tell ___" (4): ALIE
117 Down: Negligent (3): LAX

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