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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Richard Silvestri11/8/1987

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Audition award (4 letters)
5 Across: Able follower (5 letters)
10 Across: Gives an R or X (5 letters)
15 Across: Plucky (4 letters)
19 Across: Tony's cousin (4 letters)
20 Across: "In bad company": Bierce (5 letters)
21 Across: Originate (5 letters)
22 Across: City on the Oka (4 letters)
23 Across: Cliff fragment (10 letters)
25 Across: Classifies insects (10 letters)
27 Across: Space agcy. (4 letters)
28 Across: Condition (5 letters)
30 Across: Composed (6 letters)
31 Across: Diminishing (7 letters)
34 Across: Currier's partner (4 letters)
35 Across: Resiliency (4 letters)
36 Across: Jollity (5 letters)
37 Across: Lazy one (5 letters)
39 Across: Province of Spain (8 letters)
43 Across: Author Eliav (4 letters)
44 Across: Metal splinter (12 letters)
47 Across: Stat. for Mattingly (3 letters)
48 Across: Large parrot (3 letters)
49 Across: "The ___ Love . . . ": 1924 song (4 letters)
50 Across: Suffix with Capri (3 letters)
51 Across: Component of E = mc2 (4 letters)
52 Across: Pelagic fliers (4 letters)
54 Across: Track ordeal (10 letters)
58 Across: Chewy nut (5 letters)
59 Across: Mixed (8 letters)
61 Across: "Goodnight" lady (5 letters)
62 Across: Goddess of the moon (6 letters)
63 Across: Extort (5 letters)
64 Across: Knocks silly (5 letters)
65 Across: Miss Muffet's morsels (5 letters)
66 Across: Maroon (6 letters)
68 Across: Excite (5 letters)
69 Across: Makes a nexus (8 letters)
72 Across: Garroway's sign-off (5 letters)
73 Across: Twists blankets (10 letters)
75 Across: Challenge (4 letters)
76 Across: View from Buffalo (4 letters)
77 Across: Night before (3 letters)
78 Across: Yorkshire river (4 letters)
79 Across: Two-decade sleeper (3 letters)
80 Across: Scottish alder (3 letters)
81 Across: Meanest dog (12 letters)
86 Across: French state (4 letters)
87 Across: Breathed (8 letters)
89 Across: Street show (5 letters)
90 Across: The end for Socrates (5 letters)
91 Across: Unique person (4 letters)
92 Across: Millay's "The ___ Tree" (4 letters)
93 Across: Loathe (7 letters)
96 Across: Bambi's creator (6 letters)
99 Across: Problems for lispers (5 letters)
101 Across: Lascivious look (4 letters)
102 Across: Gives radials a go (10 letters)
105 Across: Dye a fabric (10 letters)
110 Across: Verve (4 letters)
111 Across: Forgo (5 letters)
112 Across: Scout master? (5 letters)
113 Across: Lug (4 letters)
114 Across: Liner destination (4 letters)
115 Across: Fix firmly in place (5 letters)
116 Across: Less daft (5 letters)
117 Across: Once, formerly (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Not neg. (3 letters)
2 Down: First of 26 (3 letters)
3 Down: Inlet (3 letters)
4 Down: Arranged in threes (7 letters)
5 Down: Hines and Siepi (5 letters)
6 Down: Route to Fairbanks (5 letters)
7 Down: Asian pen. (3 letters)
8 Down: Alfonso's queen et al. (4 letters)
9 Down: Herpetologist's subject (7 letters)
10 Down: Roof timbers (7 letters)
11 Down: Sign of spring (5 letters)
12 Down: Sesame (3 letters)
13 Down: Nationality ending (3 letters)
14 Down: Attached directly, in botany (7 letters)
15 Down: "Enjoy, Enjoy!" author (6 letters)
16 Down: A Met score (4 letters)
17 Down: Millrose Games, e.g. (4 letters)
18 Down: Otherwise (4 letters)
24 Down: Narrow walk (4 letters)
26 Down: Pyrexia (5 letters)
29 Down: Declare with confidence (4 letters)
31 Down: Frames for drying clothes (6 letters)
32 Down: DePalma's intelligence (12 letters)
33 Down: Balm of ___ (6 letters)
35 Down: Courtroom mallet (5 letters)
36 Down: ___ fool of (dupe) (5 letters)
38 Down: Thrice CLXIX (4 letters)
39 Down: Curriculum ___ (résumé) (5 letters)
40 Down: Packs menus (12 letters)
41 Down: "Ghosts" writer (5 letters)
42 Down: Approach to a pew (5 letters)
44 Down: In one's cups (6 letters)
45 Down: "The Lady ___," 1935 song (5 letters)
46 Down: Cuts of meat (5 letters)
51 Down: Performed a pinochle maneuver (6 letters)
53 Down: Comfort (6 letters)
55 Down: Brightened (5 letters)
56 Down: Tie up (5 letters)
57 Down: Freshen (5 letters)
58 Down: European capital (4 letters)
60 Down: Actor Auberjonois (4 letters)
62 Down: Diurnal phenomenon (6 letters)
64 Down: Saddle afflictions (5 letters)
65 Down: Thicket (5 letters)
66 Down: Assagai (5 letters)
67 Down: Zola's "La ___" (5 letters)
68 Down: Went on wildly (5 letters)
69 Down: Made happen (6 letters)
70 Down: M.A.S.H. procedure (6 letters)
71 Down: Partitions (5 letters)
73 Down: Bremen's river (5 letters)
74 Down: York symbol (4 letters)
81 Down: Twining stems (5 letters)
82 Down: "___ All?": 1929 song (7 letters)
83 Down: Braided (7 letters)
84 Down: Ovine sounds (4 letters)
85 Down: Blotter statistics (7 letters)
86 Down: Qatar is one (7 letters)
88 Down: Powerful (6 letters)
90 Down: Uncloses, to the Bard (4 letters)
92 Down: Annoyance (5 letters)
94 Down: Upper crust (5 letters)
95 Down: Man of La Mancha (5 letters)
96 Down: Footfall (4 letters)
97 Down: One of the Guthries (4 letters)
98 Down: Mythomaniac (4 letters)
100 Down: Ancient ambulatory (4 letters)
103 Down: "___ the Walrus," Beatles song (3 letters)
104 Down: Eve's genesis (3 letters)
106 Down: Miller who dances (3 letters)
107 Down: Rocky pinnacle (3 letters)
108 Down: Part of T.G.I.F. (3 letters)
109 Down: Meadowlands cager (3 letters)

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