APRIL FOOLERY

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Victoria & Alex F. Black4/26/1987

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Pachyderm driver (6 letters)
7 Across: Strict precision (5 letters)
12 Across: Flew the coop (6 letters)
18 Across: Underworld entrance, to an Italian (6 letters)
19 Across: Lincoln's co-speaker at Gettysburg (7 letters)
22 Across: Luzon seaport (6 letters)
23 Across: Flamboyant financier? (14 letters)
25 Across: London's ___ Garden (6 letters)
26 Across: Propelling device (5 letters)
27 Across: Hebrides island (4 letters)
28 Across: Postage for chain letters? (9 letters)
30 Across: Primes for crimes (5 letters)
32 Across: Most competent (6 letters)
33 Across: Nest for Nesselrode (8 letters)
37 Across: Black (4 letters)
39 Across: Cheroots' kin (7 letters)
44 Across: Creeps (6 letters)
45 Across: Luau locale (5 letters)
47 Across: Motorists' org. (3 letters)
48 Across: ___ the finish (4 letters)
49 Across: Cliff on Kauai (4 letters)
50 Across: Jeanette's jumpy partner? (10 letters)
52 Across: Recently deceased (4 letters)
53 Across: Calm (7 letters)
56 Across: Objective (3 letters)
57 Across: Trouble (3 letters)
58 Across: Title for R.C. archbishops (5 letters)
59 Across: Underground art site in Spain (8 letters)
61 Across: Disposed (5 letters)
63 Across: Purify (6 letters)
64 Across: Provincial ruler in Greece (7 letters)
66 Across: Famed Spanish archbishop-scholar (7 letters)
68 Across: Spa attraction (6 letters)
71 Across: Lecture material (5 letters)
73 Across: Aquatic plane (8 letters)
77 Across: Cut short (5 letters)
78 Across: Ventilate (3 letters)
79 Across: Fold over (3 letters)
81 Across: ___ Virginia Woolf (7 letters)
82 Across: John or tasse preceder (4 letters)
83 Across: Imitation Stone? (10 letters)
86 Across: "Massa's ___ cold, cold ground" (4 letters)
87 Across: Loser to S. Grant (4 letters)
88 Across: David's right-hand man (3 letters)
89 Across: Mr. T's associates (5 letters)
90 Across: Bitterness (6 letters)
92 Across: Last course (7 letters)
94 Across: Pompadour and Bovary (4 letters)
95 Across: Citrus shelter (8 letters)
97 Across: Turning points (6 letters)
99 Across: Dutch genre painter (5 letters)
100 Across: Eire symbols (9 letters)
104 Across: Secular (4 letters)
105 Across: Zones (5 letters)
110 Across: Lift for the Montgolfiers (6 letters)
111 Across: Masked old master? (14 letters)
115 Across: Confine (6 letters)
116 Across: Summit site: 1943 (7 letters)
117 Across: Taker of SAT's (6 letters)
118 Across: Merged resources (6 letters)
119 Across: Melampus and Mopsus (5 letters)
120 Across: Practices extortion (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Fairy queen et al. (4 letters)
2 Down: With, in Wassy (4 letters)
3 Down: German gentleman (4 letters)
4 Down: Neighbor of Calvados (4 letters)
5 Down: In the dark (7 letters)
6 Down: Peak (3 letters)
7 Down: Decant (8 letters)
8 Down: Lendl and Pavlov (5 letters)
9 Down: City south of Leipzig (4 letters)
10 Down: Pizarro's pursuit (3 letters)
11 Down: Off. order (3 letters)
12 Down: Part of a ship's rigging (8 letters)
13 Down: City on the Douro (6 letters)
14 Down: Stromboli flow (4 letters)
15 Down: Allowance after tare (4 letters)
16 Down: Former flyweight champ (4 letters)
17 Down: Dahs' running mates (4 letters)
20 Down: Roly-poly (5 letters)
21 Down: European linden (4 letters)
24 Down: Martin ___, U.S. politico (4 letters)
29 Down: Creator of Gil Blas (6 letters)
31 Down: Strayed Steinbeck vehicle (3 letters)
32 Down: Related to (4 letters)
33 Down: Browning heroine (5 letters)
34 Down: Considering everything (5 letters)
35 Down: Brilliance (5 letters)
36 Down: Stylish subterfuges? (11 letters)
37 Down: Discernment (7 letters)
38 Down: Ruth's in-law (5 letters)
40 Down: Midas touch? (11 letters)
41 Down: Town in N Finland (5 letters)
42 Down: Worn away (5 letters)
43 Down: Actor Guttenberg (5 letters)
46 Down: Wing (3 letters)
47 Down: Aphrodite favorite (6 letters)
50 Down: River in Umbria (4 letters)
51 Down: Rams' ma'ams (4 letters)
54 Down: Lifeless, old style (5 letters)
55 Down: Conway and Holt (4 letters)
58 Down: Country singer Haggard (5 letters)
60 Down: Rx for bruises (6 letters)
62 Down: Faces (7 letters)
63 Down: Middle or high follower (4 letters)
65 Down: Stopper (4 letters)
67 Down: Letter opener (4 letters)
68 Down: Tramped a swamp (5 letters)
69 Down: White poplar (5 letters)
70 Down: Big bites for bookworms (5 letters)
72 Down: Make happy (5 letters)
74 Down: Edwards or Lombardi (5 letters)
75 Down: Where Saul met a witch (5 letters)
76 Down: Suspicious (5 letters)
78 Down: Of a trunk in a trunk (6 letters)
80 Down: Org. playing the Doral (3 letters)
83 Down: Reflected (8 letters)
84 Down: Some spreads (4 letters)
85 Down: These might be mixed (8 letters)
90 Down: Actress Charlotte (3 letters)
91 Down: Poe's "___ Lee" (7 letters)
93 Down: To write, to Pierre (6 letters)
94 Down: Legalese for middle (5 letters)
96 Down: Receipt for René (4 letters)
98 Down: Card game for three (4 letters)
99 Down: Philippine island (5 letters)
100 Down: Packet, e.g. (4 letters)
101 Down: "Ecce ___" (4 letters)
102 Down: Air: Comb. form (4 letters)
103 Down: Heavy hammer (4 letters)
104 Down: Orpheus's instrument (4 letters)
106 Down: Multiflora (4 letters)
107 Down: Boiardo's patron (4 letters)
108 Down: Made a hole-in-one (4 letters)
109 Down: "___ more to be pitied . . . " (4 letters)
112 Down: Cries of surprise (3 letters)
113 Down: Word in genealogy (3 letters)
114 Down: Theologian's deg. (3 letters)

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