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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Willemain O. Cable9/6/1987

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Across

1 Across: Sphere of Phoebus (3 letters)
4 Across: U.S. port of entry in Tex. (6 letters)
10 Across: Winter Olympic race, introduced in 1964 (4 letters)
14 Across: Soothe (4 letters)
18 Across: Chevet (4 letters)
19 Across: Any buteo (6 letters)
20 Across: Cusp (4 letters)
21 Across: Hodgepodge (4 letters)
22 Across: A for a fisherman; F for a rower (11 letters)
24 Across: A for a sorority sister; F for a wrestler (9 letters)
26 Across: Magnani, Duse et al. (8 letters)
27 Across: Scaling aid (5 letters)
29 Across: Pleistocene glacial period (6 letters)
30 Across: Gets rid of the fuzz (7 letters)
31 Across: Lugs (5 letters)
32 Across: Takes in altogether before costs (7 letters)
33 Across: Golly! (3 letters)
34 Across: Reef polyp (5 letters)
35 Across: Schism (4 letters)
36 Across: Lots (5 letters)
39 Across: Horatio's "morn, in russet ___" (10 letters)
42 Across: Bishop's title in many Eastern churches (4 letters)
46 Across: Lotion ingredient (4 letters)
47 Across: Rani's robe (4 letters)
48 Across: Crash into (3 letters)
49 Across: Gaseous refrigerant (5 letters)
50 Across: Zero (3 letters)
51 Across: A for Ellery Queen; F for a piano mover (12 letters)
56 Across: W.W. II amphibious vessel (3 letters)
57 Across: Fun chaser (8 letters)
60 Across: Separated (5 letters)
61 Across: Realities (6 letters)
63 Across: Then, in Amiens (5 letters)
64 Across: Wrangle (5 letters)
65 Across: Discontinue (5 letters)
66 Across: Go through a sentence (6 letters)
68 Across: Austen and Flaubert heroines (5 letters)
69 Across: Brought a cutthroat to net (8 letters)
72 Across: Words with king and mode (3 letters)
73 Across: A for Pete Rose; F for a disk jockey (12 letters)
76 Across: Shaft lining (3 letters)
77 Across: Treasure (5 letters)
79 Across: Crave (3 letters)
80 Across: Home of Iowa State U. (4 letters)
81 Across: Hexagonal crystalline particles (4 letters)
82 Across: Balanced (4 letters)
83 Across: Verdi roles for sopranos (10 letters)
87 Across: Drained (5 letters)
88 Across: Active one (4 letters)
90 Across: Pep up (5 letters)
91 Across: Org. helpful to pupils (3 letters)
92 Across: Occludes (7 letters)
95 Across: Cut back (5 letters)
96 Across: Start playing for a living (7 letters)
100 Across: Eliot's Bustopher Jones (6 letters)
101 Across: Underwater-mine finder, e.g. (5 letters)
102 Across: Points in planets' rounds (8 letters)
103 Across: A for a professor's class; F for a bank teller (9 letters)
105 Across: A for a starlet; F for Greg Louganis (11 letters)
107 Across: Start to make a pot (4 letters)
108 Across: Tenuous (4 letters)
109 Across: Etoile's term for "on the ground" (6 letters)
110 Across: Phillies' manager (4 letters)
111 Across: Shepherd's pipe (4 letters)
112 Across: Sought money via Wapner (4 letters)
113 Across: Adjourn briefly (6 letters)
114 Across: Refuge for man or beast (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: Outburst (5 letters)
2 Down: As expected (5 letters)
3 Down: Boudoir wear (8 letters)
4 Down: Dumbarton Oaks, e.g. (6 letters)
5 Down: Advances (5 letters)
6 Down: Go before and lead (4 letters)
7 Down: Airport abbr. (3 letters)
8 Down: Shipping harbor (7 letters)
9 Down: In revolution (7 letters)
10 Down: Capital of Nigeria (5 letters)
11 Down: Informed of (4 letters)
12 Down: Catch (3 letters)
13 Down: Terminated (7 letters)
14 Down: Tex. logo (8 letters)
15 Down: Cubiti (5 letters)
16 Down: Vassal (5 letters)
17 Down: Loaded veins (5 letters)
18 Down: Mordant for Durer or Hogarth (4 letters)
23 Down: Jerome of the Met (5 letters)
25 Down: Sacred painting or mosaic (4 letters)
28 Down: Psychic affinity (4 letters)
31 Down: Bracer (5 letters)
32 Down: Western U.S. pasture grass (5 letters)
34 Down: Factor in gem pricing (5 letters)
36 Down: Canine tooth (4 letters)
37 Down: Inter ___ (4 letters)
38 Down: A for Mr. Dickens; F for Pinocchio (9 letters)
39 Down: Japanese merchant vessels (5 letters)
40 Down: Weight lifter (5 letters)
41 Down: Colberteen, e.g. (4 letters)
43 Down: A for Ethel Merman; F for an inebriate (9 letters)
44 Down: Nonsense (4 letters)
45 Down: Aardvark's diet (4 letters)
47 Down: Point maker (6 letters)
49 Down: Savage (5 letters)
52 Down: Buddhist principle of causality (5 letters)
53 Down: "Pomp and Circumstance" man (5 letters)
54 Down: Quench (5 letters)
55 Down: Old war horses (6 letters)
58 Down: Foreman floorer in 1974 (3 letters)
59 Down: Parisian's frozen dessert (5 letters)
62 Down: Manipulate (3 letters)
64 Down: Better (5 letters)
65 Down: Proserpina's mother (5 letters)
66 Down: Slugger Winfield (4 letters)
67 Down: Royal name in Norway (4 letters)
68 Down: Stretches one's wherewithal (4 letters)
69 Down: Kind of nose (5 letters)
70 Down: Putter, for one (4 letters)
71 Down: Salamander (4 letters)
74 Down: Some criminal trials (5 letters)
75 Down: Tanned (5 letters)
78 Down: Not abridged (8 letters)
81 Down: Glittering (8 letters)
83 Down: Victims of some sharks (7 letters)
84 Down: Ginger (4 letters)
85 Down: City S of Fort Lauderdale (7 letters)
86 Down: Risked obesity (7 letters)
87 Down: Husk (5 letters)
89 Down: Algerian coastal city (4 letters)
91 Down: Puckers (6 letters)
92 Down: Rose-petal product (5 letters)
93 Down: Cumberland Gap guide (5 letters)
94 Down: Struck (5 letters)
95 Down: Assumed a false identity (5 letters)
96 Down: Niobe's outflow (5 letters)
97 Down: American portrait painter (5 letters)
98 Down: Gamboge, for one (5 letters)
99 Down: ___ Peak, in N.M. (4 letters)
101 Down: Moistureless (4 letters)
102 Down: Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" (4 letters)
104 Down: Initial for Triton (3 letters)
106 Down: Nov. follower (3 letters)

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