CONCISE CRITIQUES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Jim Page1/4/1987

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Across

1 Across: Figaro, e.g. (6 letters)
7 Across: Supple (5 letters)
12 Across: Network initials (3 letters)
15 Across: An S.S.R. (3 letters)
18 Across: Refrigerant (6 letters)
19 Across: Fauntleroy (5 letters)
20 Across: Sensory organ (4 letters)
21 Across: Choose (3 letters)
22 Across: "The Maine Woods" (12 letters)
24 Across: Busy as ___ (4 letters)
25 Across: Ecol. or anat. (3 letters)
26 Across: Big tops (5 letters)
27 Across: Sunbathing goals (4 letters)
28 Across: "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" (9 letters)
30 Across: Wave on a mer (4 letters)
31 Across: Glut (4 letters)
32 Across: Crook's caper (5 letters)
34 Across: Brooder's perch (5 letters)
35 Across: Frightened horse (6 letters)
37 Across: Roving (6 letters)
39 Across: Uprights (7 letters)
41 Across: Cpl.'s boss (3 letters)
42 Across: "Das Rheingold" role (4 letters)
43 Across: Panay people (3 letters)
44 Across: Like a cat of the 40's (3 letters)
47 Across: Kiln (4 letters)
50 Across: Song and pun followers (5 letters)
52 Across: Makes a précis of (6 letters)
56 Across: An oleoresin (5 letters)
58 Across: Having a gloriole (6 letters)
60 Across: Pay close attention (4 letters)
62 Across: ___ Aviv (3 letters)
63 Across: First Egyptian king (5 letters)
64 Across: Bitter (5 letters)
65 Across: Part of E.E.C. (3 letters)
66 Across: Ski resort in Utah (4 letters)
67 Across: "Olympia" artist (5 letters)
68 Across: "Metaphysics of Morals" (9 letters)
71 Across: Brooklyn institute (5 letters)
72 Across: Claire and Balin (4 letters)
73 Across: Author Hecht (3 letters)
74 Across: January, in Cádiz (5 letters)
75 Across: A Hall of fame (5 letters)
76 Across: "___ that I loved Caesar less . . . ": Shak. (3 letters)
77 Across: Cantrell from Sydney (4 letters)
78 Across: Spat (6 letters)
79 Across: Luggage lugger (5 letters)
80 Across: Jackets once worn by seamen (6 letters)
82 Across: Soviet missiles (5 letters)
84 Across: Ball escort, e.g. (4 letters)
86 Across: "___ Amatoria," Ovid work (3 letters)
87 Across: Have creditors (3 letters)
88 Across: Diamond from Brooklyn (4 letters)
89 Across: Speech pauses (3 letters)
91 Across: Stat producers (7 letters)
95 Across: Gloss (6 letters)
98 Across: Old Turkish coins (6 letters)
102 Across: "The cowl does not make ___" (5 letters)
103 Across: J. R. (5 letters)
105 Across: Actress Gwyn (4 letters)
107 Across: Sign, in a way: Abbr. (4 letters)
108 Across: "As It Was" (9 letters)
110 Across: Play part (4 letters)
111 Across: Garden pest (5 letters)
112 Across: Antiquity, to Poe (3 letters)
113 Across: Royal house: 1461-85 (4 letters)
114 Across: "Three Comrades" (12 letters)
117 Across: S.D. governor: 1965-69 (3 letters)
118 Across: Loser to S. Grant (4 letters)
119 Across: Dispatch boat (5 letters)
120 Across: The ___, Steele periodical (6 letters)
121 Across: L.I., e.g. (3 letters)
122 Across: Gram. case (3 letters)
123 Across: What glaziers take with their work (5 letters)
124 Across: Grani and Bayard (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Roulette player, e.g. (6 letters)
2 Down: Pallas ___ (6 letters)
3 Down: Fleming of films (6 letters)
4 Down: Swaps goods (7 letters)
5 Down: Chemical endings (4 letters)
6 Down: Memorable American caricaturist (3 letters)
7 Down: Emissary (6 letters)
8 Down: He has pressing problems (6 letters)
9 Down: Baseball's Speaker (4 letters)
10 Down: Dearie kin (3 letters)
11 Down: Taina ___, Finnish actress (3 letters)
12 Down: John and Sebastian (6 letters)
13 Down: Trumpeted (4 letters)
14 Down: "Spandau: The Secret Diaries" (9 letters)
15 Down: Gat (6 letters)
16 Down: Ventilating shaft in a mine (6 letters)
17 Down: Long-legged birds (6 letters)
20 Down: Foxboro pros, for short (4 letters)
23 Down: Hagen from Gottingen (3 letters)
28 Down: Hindu's stringed instrument (5 letters)
29 Down: Kind of column (5 letters)
31 Down: Sp. miss (4 letters)
32 Down: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (13 letters)
33 Down: Over, as an oater (5 letters)
36 Down: He has I trouble (6 letters)
38 Down: Saint-Tropez, e.g. (6 letters)
40 Down: Kitchen device (5 letters)
44 Down: Working on a jumper (7 letters)
45 Down: Mother of Richard the Lion-Hearted (7 letters)
46 Down: Winged (7 letters)
48 Down: Upset (6 letters)
49 Down: Widespread S.A. people (7 letters)
51 Down: Deviated from a course (7 letters)
53 Down: Home of the Falcons (7 letters)
54 Down: More insignificant (7 letters)
55 Down: Roofers or critics (7 letters)
57 Down: Noted photographic authority (4 letters)
59 Down: Nimoy, to friends (3 letters)
61 Down: Author Welty (6 letters)
66 Down: Cartoonist Peter (4 letters)
69 Down: Isolate, old style (6 letters)
70 Down: Examine carefully (3 letters)
71 Down: Bath dads (6 letters)
73 Down: More ignoble (5 letters)
77 Down: "Stieglitz: A Memoir-Biography" (9 letters)
78 Down: Unschooled (5 letters)
81 Down: Auctioneer's call (5 letters)
83 Down: Smithy's block (5 letters)
85 Down: Greenish blue (4 letters)
90 Down: Pointed (7 letters)
91 Down: Namesakes of a Hebrew leader (6 letters)
92 Down: U.S.S.R. river (6 letters)
93 Down: Like a field pea (6 letters)
94 Down: Arcane (6 letters)
96 Down: Crate eggs, e.g. (6 letters)
97 Down: Some rockets, for short (6 letters)
99 Down: Permit (6 letters)
100 Down: Ran in a small stream (6 letters)
101 Down: Some are bum (6 letters)
104 Down: Trawler's track (4 letters)
106 Down: Alc. beverage (3 letters)
109 Down: Kansas city (4 letters)
110 Down: Gemayel of Lebanon (4 letters)
111 Down: Congressman's prize (4 letters)
114 Down: Shoot the breeze (3 letters)
115 Down: Lehár work (3 letters)
116 Down: Guidonian notes (3 letters)

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