FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Victoria Black and Alex F. Black12/27/1987

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Across

1 Across: "Golden Boy" author (5 letters)
6 Across: Coin for Khomeini (5 letters)
11 Across: Crusoe cabana (3 letters)
14 Across: West German seaport (4 letters)
18 Across: Kind of approval (5 letters)
19 Across: Call it a day (6 letters)
20 Across: Cachepot's kin (3 letters)
21 Across: Theater assoc. (4 letters)
22 Across: PING-PONG (12 letters)
24 Across: NERVES OF STEEL (8 letters)
26 Across: Erbium or terbium (7 letters)
27 Across: Floral arrangement (5 letters)
29 Across: Paddle (5 letters)
30 Across: Rover's restrainer (5 letters)
31 Across: Didn't dine at the diner (5 letters)
32 Across: Tar's mop (4 letters)
33 Across: Legal rights (5 letters)
35 Across: MME. DEFARGE, KNITWIT (11 letters)
38 Across: Romulus's escort to heaven (4 letters)
39 Across: Turns' partner (6 letters)
42 Across: Land of Yeats (4 letters)
43 Across: Render, as blubber (3 letters)
45 Across: "OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN . . . " (10 letters)
48 Across: "___ It Romantic?": 1932 song (4 letters)
49 Across: U.S. Open champ: 1976 (4 letters)
50 Across: Japanese dollar (3 letters)
51 Across: Hawk's haven (5 letters)
52 Across: Proust product (5 letters)
54 Across: Brazilian actress Braga (5 letters)
55 Across: Resident of Strasbourg (8 letters)
57 Across: Air (4 letters)
58 Across: Foundry worker (6 letters)
59 Across: SMILING SKIES (15 letters)
63 Across: Hindu music makers (6 letters)
66 Across: Some Fuegians (4 letters)
67 Across: Continental (8 letters)
71 Across: Clunes and McCowen (5 letters)
72 Across: South African statesman (5 letters)
74 Across: Author Myrer (5 letters)
75 Across: Degree from M.I.T. (3 letters)
76 Across: Spot (4 letters)
77 Across: Codger (4 letters)
78 Across: CHASING SKIRTS (10 letters)
80 Across: Prefix for cease or charge (3 letters)
81 Across: Bath for Babette (4 letters)
82 Across: Former labor leader's family (6 letters)
84 Across: Equal (4 letters)
85 Across: PARTIAL POST (11 letters)
88 Across: Dutch painter Jan (5 letters)
90 Across: Middling (4 letters)
91 Across: Spars (5 letters)
92 Across: Man or pumpkin follower (5 letters)
94 Across: Wodehouse goodbyes (5 letters)
96 Across: Frayn's "Noises Off," e.g. (5 letters)
97 Across: Popeye favorite (7 letters)
100 Across: GUEST HOST (8 letters)
102 Across: WORDS WORK WONDERS (12 letters)
106 Across: Model Macpherson (4 letters)
107 Across: Jackie's second spouse (3 letters)
108 Across: Schedules (6 letters)
109 Across: Like lignite (5 letters)
110 Across: Act (4 letters)
111 Across: ___ culpa (3 letters)
112 Across: Its motto is "Friendship" (5 letters)
113 Across: Trade center in India (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: A Siouan (3 letters)
2 Down: Native of Odense (4 letters)
3 Down: Branch of biol. (4 letters)
4 Down: Unending (8 letters)
5 Down: Flower part (6 letters)
6 Down: Profundity (5 letters)
7 Down: Dancer Michio ___ (3 letters)
8 Down: Never, in Nürnberg (3 letters)
9 Down: Awns (7 letters)
10 Down: McCormick's machines (7 letters)
11 Down: Characteristic of earthlings (9 letters)
12 Down: Nobelist in Chemistry: 1934 (4 letters)
13 Down: Methyltrinitrobenzene (3 letters)
14 Down: Greek letters (6 letters)
15 Down: Denizen (10 letters)
16 Down: Thames River town (4 letters)
17 Down: Escapade (4 letters)
19 Down: Guidry and Kittle (4 letters)
23 Down: Sunglo and twankay (4 letters)
25 Down: Nile dam (5 letters)
28 Down: Blanco or Bravo (3 letters)
31 Down: Chevet (4 letters)
32 Down: Struck, old style (4 letters)
33 Down: Collar continuation (5 letters)
34 Down: Attends to pressing matters (5 letters)
36 Down: Caen's river (4 letters)
37 Down: Ade book: 1896 (5 letters)
38 Down: Yucatán Indian (4 letters)
39 Down: Jewish law (5 letters)
40 Down: State (5 letters)
41 Down: Andress film: 1965 (3 letters)
44 Down: Calendar unit (4 letters)
46 Down: Mongols (6 letters)
47 Down: Specialized investment orgs. (5 letters)
48 Down: New Rochelle college (4 letters)
49 Down: Tentacled animal (5 letters)
52 Down: Type types (5 letters)
53 Down: Umps' kin (4 letters)
54 Down: Place in a race (6 letters)
56 Down: Quickly (5 letters)
57 Down: Unused (4 letters)
58 Down: Morocco, to Martine (5 letters)
60 Down: Ballyhoo (4 letters)
61 Down: Hoffman film: 1974 (5 letters)
62 Down: Paving tools (5 letters)
63 Down: Back talk (4 letters)
64 Down: Ancient Troy (5 letters)
65 Down: Having four columns (10 letters)
68 Down: Jessel role (5 letters)
69 Down: Gray (5 letters)
70 Down: ___-do-well (4 letters)
72 Down: Evening, in Evian (4 letters)
73 Down: Single-mindedness (9 letters)
74 Down: Author Rand (3 letters)
77 Down: Chief, in Chiari (4 letters)
78 Down: Ervin and Nunn (4 letters)
79 Down: Wheeler-dealer (8 letters)
81 Down: Novelist Hamilton ___ (5 letters)
82 Down: In the wrong role (7 letters)
83 Down: Actress Parsons (7 letters)
86 Down: Covered with soil (6 letters)
87 Down: Standard for Snead (3 letters)
88 Down: Rouse (4 letters)
89 Down: Card sequence (6 letters)
92 Down: Simon of the Met (5 letters)
93 Down: Mimics (4 letters)
94 Down: Touched a mark (4 letters)
95 Down: Shaft (4 letters)
96 Down: Course cry (4 letters)
98 Down: So long, in Siena (4 letters)
99 Down: Shipboard storage place (4 letters)
101 Down: Sign of Aries (3 letters)
103 Down: Careless (3 letters)
104 Down: City in Paraguay (3 letters)
105 Down: American humorist: 1850-96 (3 letters)

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