FAIR GAME

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Jeanne Wilson7/27/1986

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Across

1 Across: Fodder (4 letters)
5 Across: Mil. address (3 letters)
8 Across: Disparity (3 letters)
11 Across: Popular Manhattan locale (6 letters)
17 Across: Hominy ___ (5 letters)
19 Across: Skeet device (4 letters)
20 Across: Surface measure (3 letters)
21 Across: Kind of viper (6 letters)
22 Across: Licit (5 letters)
23 Across: Belonging to the past (8 letters)
25 Across: Down Under resident (6 letters)
26 Across: NE African, to Shakespeare (7 letters)
28 Across: Ominous (8 letters)
30 Across: Actress Merkel (3 letters)
31 Across: Used tire (7 letters)
32 Across: Brother of Olive Oyl (6 letters)
33 Across: Very early invention (5 letters)
35 Across: Aggregate (5 letters)
38 Across: Bridge man (7 letters)
40 Across: Henry James novel (11 letters)
46 Across: Penitents (7 letters)
49 Across: Elevated (6 letters)
50 Across: Gibson item (5 letters)
52 Across: Meadow sounds (4 letters)
53 Across: Wide shoe size (3 letters)
55 Across: Articulate to a fault (4 letters)
56 Across: Alice ___, singer for Welk (3 letters)
58 Across: Father of Cainan (4 letters)
60 Across: Average (6 letters)
62 Across: Central African group (4 letters)
63 Across: Utah Beach craft (3 letters)
64 Across: "___ pray" (5 letters)
66 Across: Three ___ a day (6 letters)
67 Across: Suffix for poet (3 letters)
69 Across: Gumshoes (4 letters)
71 Across: Don Juan's emotion (4 letters)
73 Across: David ___ Lilienthal (3 letters)
74 Across: Straightforward (6 letters)
77 Across: Role for Clark (5 letters)
79 Across: 2 x rad. = (3 letters)
81 Across: "___ de Castro," Ferreira play (4 letters)
84 Across: Title for Elizabeth II (6 letters)
85 Across: Geisha's receptacle for perfumes (4 letters)
86 Across: Song from "A Chorus Line" (3 letters)
87 Across: Collection of Scandinavian myths (4 letters)
88 Across: Indonesian island group (3 letters)
89 Across: Quarry of an M.P. (4 letters)
92 Across: Pancake topper (5 letters)
94 Across: Clean shrimp (6 letters)
96 Across: Flatter, in a way (7 letters)
98 Across: Like a Crawford gown (11 letters)
100 Across: Founding family in a Metalious novel (7 letters)
103 Across: Tiny branch (5 letters)
104 Across: Part songs (5 letters)
107 Across: Like "Orlando Furioso" (6 letters)
110 Across: Brandy glass (7 letters)
115 Across: Lardner's "Say It With ___" (3 letters)
116 Across: Brouhahas (8 letters)
118 Across: Mean (7 letters)
119 Across: A name for Aphrodite (6 letters)
122 Across: Anagram for Oriental (8 letters)
124 Across: Old English coin (5 letters)
125 Across: Send back or consign again (6 letters)
126 Across: Hereditary factor (3 letters)
127 Across: He wrote "The Man Without a Country" (4 letters)
128 Across: Actress Berger (5 letters)
129 Across: Quadrille, e.g. (6 letters)
130 Across: Sun. dissertation (3 letters)
131 Across: Kind of play (3 letters)
132 Across: Melampus was one (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Drugstore cowboy (5 letters)
2 Down: Mountain ridge (5 letters)
3 Down: Parsimonious (5 letters)
4 Down: Tread + riser = (5 letters)
5 Down: Greek nickname (3 letters)
6 Down: Annie Oakley (4 letters)
7 Down: Kind of nerve or axis (5 letters)
8 Down: Showy (6 letters)
9 Down: Best: Comb. form (6 letters)
10 Down: Thoracic (8 letters)
11 Down: "___ she blows!" (4 letters)
12 Down: Chit (3 letters)
13 Down: Woolf's "___ Dalloway" (3 letters)
14 Down: Follow, as a consequence (5 letters)
15 Down: Flower under the Pont Neuf (5 letters)
16 Down: Honest transaction (5 letters)
18 Down: A red liqueur (7 letters)
19 Down: What snobs put on (6 letters)
24 Down: Tierra del Fuego native (3 letters)
27 Down: Irish Nationalist leader: 1846–91 (7 letters)
29 Down: One of the Dryads (5 letters)
33 Down: Engaging (7 letters)
34 Down: Straddler (3 letters)
36 Down: More unyielding (7 letters)
37 Down: Nathan, to David (3 letters)
39 Down: Village hub (5 letters)
40 Down: Wits (4 letters)
41 Down: Actress Nazimova (4 letters)
42 Down: Actors' makeup glue (9 letters)
43 Down: Charcoal stove (7 letters)
44 Down: TV ratings (8 letters)
45 Down: What poor planners must go back to (4 letters)
47 Down: Residuum (9 letters)
48 Down: A pinniped (4 letters)
51 Down: Specialists in musical details (8 letters)
54 Down: Kay followers (3 letters)
57 Down: J.E.C.'s arrival time (3 letters)
59 Down: Total (3 letters)
61 Down: Emulate Bob Stanley (7 letters)
65 Down: Soft drink (7 letters)
68 Down: Where to see whips (7 letters)
70 Down: Ho ___ Minh (3 letters)
72 Down: "Oysters ___ season" (3 letters)
74 Down: Mouths (3 letters)
75 Down: St. Philip ___ (4 letters)
76 Down: Prepare (5 letters)
78 Down: Carpenter's tool (4 letters)
80 Down: Causing confusion (7 letters)
82 Down: Stein-Plimpton book (4 letters)
83 Down: Chopin's amie (4 letters)
90 Down: "The Wind in the Willows" character (5 letters)
91 Down: Ferocious felines (8 letters)
93 Down: Sounds of hesitation (3 letters)
95 Down: Lace and rickrack (7 letters)
97 Down: Member of an Argentine people (3 letters)
99 Down: Bearlike (6 letters)
101 Down: A creed (6 letters)
102 Down: Graduated (6 letters)
104 Down: Without equivocation (5 letters)
105 Down: Broadcast (5 letters)
106 Down: Guanaco's kin (5 letters)
108 Down: A king of Judah (3 letters)
109 Down: Oblivion (5 letters)
111 Down: Links sounds (5 letters)
112 Down: Kind of steak (5 letters)
113 Down: Exhilarate (5 letters)
114 Down: Do the roof over (5 letters)
116 Down: Become washed-out (4 letters)
117 Down: Shenshi's capital (4 letters)
120 Down: Ping River feeder (3 letters)
121 Down: "Airways, ___": Dos Passos (3 letters)
123 Down: Picasso's "The ___ Guitarist" (3 letters)

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