BIRD BOTCHING
Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy William S. McIlrath3/1/1987
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Jalopy (5 letters)
- 6 Across
- Chess moves (5 letters)
- 11 Across
- Comb. of tones (3 letters)
- 14 Across
- Bid (5 letters)
- 19 Across
- Home for an eyas (5 letters)
- 20 Across
- Don's January (5 letters)
- 21 Across
- Hudson contemporary (3 letters)
- 22 Across
- Try out (5 letters)
- 23 Across
- Capistrano copper? (11 letters)
- 25 Across
- Good Scout became an ogler? (9 letters)
- 27 Across
- Flag (4 letters)
- 28 Across
- Check (4 letters)
- 29 Across
- Divided land (7 letters)
- 30 Across
- Cenozoic, e.g. (3 letters)
- 31 Across
- Lallygags (5 letters)
- 32 Across
- Jazzy septet? (6 letters)
- 33 Across
- Discordant (4 letters)
- 37 Across
- Cortege (7 letters)
- 39 Across
- Moats (6 letters)
- 40 Across
- Stout (3 letters)
- 41 Across
- Newman slip? (11 letters)
- 44 Across
- Dallied (5 letters)
- 46 Across
- Prospect (5 letters)
- 48 Across
- Title a shogun had (6 letters)
- 49 Across
- Fomented (6 letters)
- 50 Across
- Stoke-on-Trent product (5 letters)
- 51 Across
- Neighbor of a Laotian (4 letters)
- 52 Across
- Ballerina Shearer (5 letters)
- 53 Across
- "___ Tomorrow," 1959 song (3 letters)
- 54 Across
- Diviner (6 letters)
- 56 Across
- World Series pitcher: 1948 (4 letters)
- 57 Across
- Business abbr. (3 letters)
- 60 Across
- Ancient (3 letters)
- 61 Across
- Sobriquet for a mimic suffering stage fright? (13 letters)
- 64 Across
- Hawaiian timber tree (3 letters)
- 65 Across
- Volsteader's opponent (3 letters)
- 66 Across
- Seed scars (4 letters)
- 67 Across
- Eluvium (6 letters)
- 68 Across
- Decline (3 letters)
- 69 Across
- Asian wild sheep (5 letters)
- 71 Across
- Coffin's "Poems for ___ With Wings" (4 letters)
- 72 Across
- Money in Ankara (5 letters)
- 74 Across
- Valuable fur (6 letters)
- 76 Across
- Muffle (6 letters)
- 79 Across
- Salvo (5 letters)
- 80 Across
- Holmlike (5 letters)
- 81 Across
- Model widgeon? (11 letters)
- 83 Across
- Jacutinga, e.g. (3 letters)
- 84 Across
- Heavyweight champ: 1962-64 (6 letters)
- 85 Across
- Awns (7 letters)
- 89 Across
- Former Algerian rulers (4 letters)
- 91 Across
- Athos, at times (6 letters)
- 92 Across
- Liberal (5 letters)
- 94 Across
- Columnist Kupcinet (3 letters)
- 95 Across
- Soughs (7 letters)
- 97 Across
- Nickname for Haydn (4 letters)
- 98 Across
- Grenoble girlfriend (4 letters)
- 99 Across
- Anser's away, my boys! (9 letters)
- 102 Across
- Dupe at the bar? (11 letters)
- 105 Across
- Visionary (5 letters)
- 106 Across
- Toils (3 letters)
- 107 Across
- Pledged sacredly (5 letters)
- 108 Across
- Rebel (5 letters)
- 109 Across
- Distrustful (5 letters)
- 110 Across
- Compass dir. (3 letters)
- 111 Across
- Reliable (5 letters)
- 112 Across
- Electromagnetic-wave amplifier (5 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Bottle for vinegar, salt, etc. (6 letters)
- 2 Down
- Play the electrician (6 letters)
- 3 Down
- Biblical docking site (6 letters)
- 4 Down
- Favus (4 letters)
- 5 Down
- Grig (3 letters)
- 6 Down
- Bespangled, in a way (7 letters)
- 7 Down
- Loosen (5 letters)
- 8 Down
- Wherewithal (5 letters)
- 9 Down
- Sawlike: Prefix (3 letters)
- 10 Down
- Helios (3 letters)
- 11 Down
- "___ this petty pace . . . ": Macbeth (8 letters)
- 12 Down
- Inspirit (7 letters)
- 13 Down
- Tenets (6 letters)
- 14 Down
- Airy (4 letters)
- 15 Down
- Valkyries' leader (5 letters)
- 16 Down
- Actor in "The Pajama Game" (3 letters)
- 17 Down
- Conductor Queler (3 letters)
- 18 Down
- Ryder of comics (3 letters)
- 24 Down
- Cleanup matter for Hercules (6 letters)
- 26 Down
- Young man (3 letters)
- 29 Down
- Plaster of paris (5 letters)
- 31 Down
- Fatuous (5 letters)
- 32 Down
- Completely: Comb. form (4 letters)
- 34 Down
- Baby Gould's nannies? (10 letters)
- 35 Down
- Nautical term (4 letters)
- 36 Down
- Foxx from St. Louis (4 letters)
- 38 Down
- Frosted (4 letters)
- 39 Down
- Easy (6 letters)
- 42 Down
- It's above Cayuga's waters (6 letters)
- 43 Down
- Helen Hayes's home (5 letters)
- 44 Down
- Threefold (5 letters)
- 45 Down
- Above, to Key (3 letters)
- 46 Down
- Barrel spigot (5 letters)
- 47 Down
- Winter Garden flop? (10 letters)
- 49 Down
- Seethes (5 letters)
- 50 Down
- Lay in (4 letters)
- 51 Down
- Quaver (5 letters)
- 52 Down
- Of morning (5 letters)
- 54 Down
- Buckeye (5 letters)
- 55 Down
- Kind of play (3 letters)
- 56 Down
- Like Samson (6 letters)
- 58 Down
- Go ___ for (support) (5 letters)
- 59 Down
- Small flounder (4 letters)
- 61 Down
- ___ Lung, Chinese emperor: 18th century (5 letters)
- 62 Down
- Adman's attention-getter (6 letters)
- 63 Down
- "Brand" playwright (5 letters)
- 70 Down
- Map abbr. (3 letters)
- 72 Down
- Singer-actress Arnaz (5 letters)
- 73 Down
- Nettles (4 letters)
- 74 Down
- Humor (4 letters)
- 75 Down
- Swiss waterway (4 letters)
- 76 Down
- Separate (8 letters)
- 77 Down
- Diminutive suffixes (5 letters)
- 78 Down
- Suffix with comment (4 letters)
- 79 Down
- Coarse fabric (6 letters)
- 81 Down
- Cavities (7 letters)
- 82 Down
- Spotted (7 letters)
- 84 Down
- Detroit recalls (6 letters)
- 86 Down
- "His ___ forever . . . ": Cowley (6 letters)
- 87 Down
- Melodic (6 letters)
- 88 Down
- Shim, e.g. (6 letters)
- 90 Down
- Calumniate (5 letters)
- 91 Down
- To's opposite (3 letters)
- 92 Down
- " . . . rusting in ___ of tears": F. Thompson (5 letters)
- 93 Down
- Soprano Te Kanawa is one (5 letters)
- 96 Down
- Frightful (4 letters)
- 98 Down
- Pearl Mosque site (4 letters)
- 99 Down
- "___ Blas" (3 letters)
- 100 Down
- Parabasis (3 letters)
- 101 Down
- Formerly named (3 letters)
- 102 Down
- Draft initials (3 letters)
- 103 Down
- Brace (3 letters)
- 104 Down
- Suffix with deferent (3 letters)
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