LITERARY ANATOMY

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Joy L. Wouk10/5/1986

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Across

1 Across: Do a tailoring job (5 letters)
6 Across: Cpl.'s boss (3 letters)
9 Across: Robsart or Carter (3 letters)
12 Across: A Belmont bet (5 letters)
17 Across: Patronage solicitor (6 letters)
19 Across: Professor's milieu (8 letters)
21 Across: Helicopter part (5 letters)
22 Across: Golf-ball cover gum (6 letters)
23 Across: Hemingway opus, with "A" (14 letters)
25 Across: Expanse east of N.A. (3 letters)
26 Across: Collect condensed gas on a surface (6 letters)
28 Across: An Oakley (5 letters)
29 Across: Japanese assembly (4 letters)
30 Across: Wilder opus (17 letters)
34 Across: Permitted (5 letters)
35 Across: Some coll. linemen (3 letters)
36 Across: Swiss poet-philosopher: 1821–81 (5 letters)
41 Across: Presidential selections (7 letters)
44 Across: Haggard opus (3 letters)
46 Across: Rudimentary stem of a seedling (8 letters)
49 Across: Antler parts (6 letters)
50 Across: Butler opus, with "The" (13 letters)
53 Across: A bad way to run (4 letters)
54 Across: Lower Rhine branch (4 letters)
56 Across: Spree (5 letters)
57 Across: "___ Freischütz," von Weber opera (3 letters)
58 Across: Become prevalent (5 letters)
60 Across: Fovea (3 letters)
61 Across: Kind of capital (4 letters)
62 Across: My, in Metz (3 letters)
65 Across: Greene opus (19 letters)
71 Across: ___ Tin Tin (3 letters)
72 Across: Encircle (4 letters)
73 Across: Eur. republic (3 letters)
74 Across: Biblical spy (5 letters)
76 Across: What epigones do (3 letters)
79 Across: Town near Sevilla (5 letters)
81 Across: Lapel clutcher (4 letters)
82 Across: Taboo word (4 letters)
83 Across: Jean Webster book (13 letters)
87 Across: Sport of a sort (6 letters)
89 Across: Winter vehicles (8 letters)
90 Across: H.S. subject (3 letters)
91 Across: Pitched woo (7 letters)
92 Across: "Tanglewood ___" (5 letters)
93 Across: Bk. parts (3 letters)
95 Across: On the ___ (not in use) (5 letters)
96 Across: Hawthorne story (17 letters)
105 Across: Portico in Athens (4 letters)
109 Across: "___ in Portugal," 1953 song (5 letters)
110 Across: Escapes artfully (6 letters)
111 Across: State off. (3 letters)
112 Across: Caroline Miller novel: 1934 (14 letters)
115 Across: "___ for Comedy," Behrman play (6 letters)
117 Across: In the least (5 letters)
118 Across: Early Christian missionaries (8 letters)
119 Across: Burr, at times (6 letters)
120 Across: Emerald, e.g. (5 letters)
121 Across: Layer (3 letters)
122 Across: Gp. established at Bogotá: 1948 (3 letters)
123 Across: Weight allowances (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: In the box, at Shea (5 letters)
2 Down: Unwilling (5 letters)
3 Down: Veil fabric (5 letters)
4 Down: Greek letter (3 letters)
5 Down: Capturing again (8 letters)
6 Down: Boa (5 letters)
7 Down: "Anna Christie" star (5 letters)
8 Down: An insecticide, for short (3 letters)
9 Down: Catkins (6 letters)
10 Down: Pooh's creator (5 letters)
11 Down: "Whiffenpoof" singer (5 letters)
12 Down: Con's opponent (3 letters)
13 Down: Cargo (4 letters)
14 Down: Longfellow town (4 letters)
15 Down: Arrive (4 letters)
16 Down: Once, once (4 letters)
18 Down: Rudimentary roots (7 letters)
19 Down: In progress (5 letters)
20 Down: William ___ Gladstone (5 letters)
24 Down: Asian holiday (3 letters)
27 Down: Fit of pique (4 letters)
31 Down: More furtive (8 letters)
32 Down: Chemistry Nobelist: 1934 (4 letters)
33 Down: Equal share for two (4 letters)
37 Down: Wire measure (3 letters)
38 Down: Froze (4 letters)
39 Down: Different (4 letters)
40 Down: Glass oven (4 letters)
41 Down: I.R.S. experts (4 letters)
42 Down: Medieval helmet (5 letters)
43 Down: Fair structure (5 letters)
44 Down: Antimosquito activity (8 letters)
45 Down: Film computer (3 letters)
46 Down: Diseased parts of wood (7 letters)
47 Down: H.S. subject (3 letters)
48 Down: Moslem scholars (5 letters)
51 Down: R.I.P. item (4 letters)
52 Down: Most questionable (8 letters)
54 Down: New Deal agcy. (3 letters)
55 Down: Spraying devices (7 letters)
59 Down: British med. coverage (3 letters)
61 Down: P.O. service (3 letters)
63 Down: List ending: Abbr. (3 letters)
64 Down: Tie (8 letters)
66 Down: ___ Gay, W.W. II plane (5 letters)
67 Down: Kind of exam (4 letters)
68 Down: Encountered (3 letters)
69 Down: Convey to a distance: Var. (5 letters)
70 Down: French income (5 letters)
75 Down: Red Sox pitcher (4 letters)
76 Down: Mine entrance (4 letters)
77 Down: S.A. rodent (4 letters)
78 Down: Biographer Leon (4 letters)
80 Down: Barfly (3 letters)
81 Down: Links org. (3 letters)
84 Down: Letters for Whitty or Hess (3 letters)
85 Down: Wolverine's former coach (4 letters)
86 Down: Famous lioness (4 letters)
87 Down: Allowing for modification (7 letters)
88 Down: Gives sparingly (8 letters)
91 Down: Did a blacksmith's job (4 letters)
93 Down: Newgate, e.g. (6 letters)
94 Down: They wrote "O'Neill" (5 letters)
95 Down: Partly fermented grape juices (5 letters)
97 Down: Chinese dynasty (3 letters)
98 Down: Hebrew dry measure (5 letters)
99 Down: Beef (5 letters)
100 Down: Famed electrician-inventor (5 letters)
101 Down: Blackthorns (5 letters)
102 Down: Spry (5 letters)
103 Down: Heavenly body (5 letters)
104 Down: Tinker's partner (5 letters)
105 Down: Thick piece (4 letters)
106 Down: London gallery (4 letters)
107 Down: Literary first name (4 letters)
108 Down: With competence (4 letters)
113 Down: Indisposed (3 letters)
114 Down: Winnebago member (3 letters)
116 Down: Pre-1959 Haw. (3 letters)

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