PLAYING A WEIGHTING GAME

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Dale O. Burgener1/10/1988

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Across

1 Across: Cousteau's gear (5 letters)
6 Across: A 1492 discovery (4 letters)
10 Across: Fokker's foe (4 letters)
14 Across: ___ Day, Apr. 14 (5 letters)
19 Across: A Gene Kelly discovery (5 letters)
20 Across: Collections of reminiscences (4 letters)
21 Across: S. American monkey (4 letters)
22 Across: Overhead (5 letters)
23 Across: Humiliate (5 letters)
24 Across: Some Cong. members (4 letters)
25 Across: Anatomical cavity: Comb. form (4 letters)
26 Across: Relish (5 letters)
27 Across: Start of a rhyming quip (21 letters)
31 Across: Lanchester from London (4 letters)
32 Across: Threatening phrase (6 letters)
33 Across: Recipients (9 letters)
34 Across: Last river to cross? (4 letters)
35 Across: Young or old follower (4 letters)
37 Across: The way, in China (3 letters)
38 Across: Some are smart (6 letters)
42 Across: Spur (4 letters)
43 Across: ___ corps (8 letters)
48 Across: Second line of quip (14 letters)
52 Across: Long-gone Venezuelan (6 letters)
53 Across: Region (4 letters)
54 Across: Unctuous (4 letters)
55 Across: Lardaceous (5 letters)
57 Across: Source of poi (4 letters)
58 Across: Echoed others' words (8 letters)
60 Across: Player for Al Davis (6 letters)
62 Across: Cogitative group (5 letters)
63 Across: Man., e.g. (3 letters)
64 Across: Marks of omission (5 letters)
65 Across: Raises (3 letters)
67 Across: Uninteresting (5 letters)
71 Across: Number one for Nicklaus (6 letters)
73 Across: Bits and pieces (8 letters)
78 Across: "___ go bragh" (4 letters)
79 Across: Sotto-voce remark (5 letters)
80 Across: Writer O'Faoláin (4 letters)
81 Across: "Eri tu . . . " is one (4 letters)
82 Across: Motley crowd (6 letters)
84 Across: Third line of quip (14 letters)
88 Across: " . . . ___ power corrupts . . . ": Lord Acton (8 letters)
90 Across: God waited on by the Graces (4 letters)
91 Across: Thigh armor (6 letters)
92 Across: Healer at Valhalla (3 letters)
93 Across: Zola's "The ___-Shop (4 letters)
94 Across: Trim (4 letters)
96 Across: Dock area (9 letters)
101 Across: Official emissary (6 letters)
103 Across: Slight (4 letters)
107 Across: Last line of quip (21 letters)
110 Across: Musical form (5 letters)
111 Across: Bristle (4 letters)
112 Across: Pay the pot (4 letters)
113 Across: Dispatch (5 letters)
114 Across: She created the Moffats (5 letters)
115 Across: N.M. resort town (4 letters)
116 Across: Pop singer DiMucci (4 letters)
117 Across: Separated (5 letters)
118 Across: Dental compound (5 letters)
119 Across: Goofs (4 letters)
120 Across: ___, zwei, drei (4 letters)
121 Across: Football Hall of Famer (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Flower stalk (5 letters)
2 Down: Conspiratorial group (5 letters)
3 Down: Asia-Europe dividers (5 letters)
4 Down: ___ nova, Brazilian dance (5 letters)
5 Down: One more time (4 letters)
6 Down: Thermal unit (6 letters)
7 Down: Suitable for men or women (6 letters)
8 Down: Noisy confusion (5 letters)
9 Down: Taxing person (8 letters)
10 Down: Whalebone device (4 letters)
11 Down: Poet to whom much is ode? (6 letters)
12 Down: Tall story (5 letters)
13 Down: Points the way (7 letters)
14 Down: Key to the world (8 letters)
15 Down: Sternward (5 letters)
16 Down: Exceptionally bright stars (5 letters)
17 Down: Parisian's property (5 letters)
18 Down: European blackbirds (5 letters)
28 Down: "In" places (8 letters)
29 Down: Bismuth or bullion (5 letters)
30 Down: Three-legged stand (6 letters)
34 Down: Glide along a piste (3 letters)
36 Down: Inspiring instructor (7 letters)
38 Down: Kin of P.D.Q. (4 letters)
39 Down: Dr. Z.'s love (4 letters)
40 Down: Sidewalk superintendent (4 letters)
41 Down: Boris of Bulgaria (4 letters)
42 Down: ___ Fawkes Day, Nov. 5 in England (3 letters)
43 Down: Bolardo's patron (4 letters)
44 Down: Jot (4 letters)
45 Down: Coffee-hating Fed. agt.? (4 letters)
46 Down: Bell the cat (4 letters)
47 Down: Branch of biol. (4 letters)
49 Down: Earnings-price ratios (6 letters)
50 Down: "Too soon ___, too late smart" (3 letters)
51 Down: Tablets (4 letters)
56 Down: Author of "Mr. Citizen" (6 letters)
59 Down: Sci-fi suffix for human (3 letters)
60 Down: Devoted apostle (7 letters)
61 Down: "Cakes and ___": Maugham (3 letters)
62 Down: Attention-getting sound (3 letters)
64 Down: Caper (4 letters)
66 Down: Maine symbol (8 letters)
67 Down: Miles or Vague (4 letters)
68 Down: Swift, graceful horse (4 letters)
69 Down: Group in a farrow (4 letters)
70 Down: "___ each life some rain . . . " (4 letters)
72 Down: Widespread (4 letters)
73 Down: One in a hundred, in D.C. (3 letters)
74 Down: Triumphant interjections (4 letters)
75 Down: Mythical pome pitcher (4 letters)
76 Down: Mature (4 letters)
77 Down: Lip (4 letters)
79 Down: Shaky (6 letters)
80 Down: A sib (3 letters)
83 Down: Most wide-awake (8 letters)
85 Down: Singing syllables (5 letters)
86 Down: Like Mom's pies (8 letters)
87 Down: "Norma ___," Field flick (3 letters)
89 Down: Italian seaport (7 letters)
93 Down: Borrower (6 letters)
94 Down: G. C. Scott role (6 letters)
95 Down: ___ of America (Boston) (6 letters)
96 Down: ___ up (catches on) (5 letters)
97 Down: Scorched (5 letters)
98 Down: Hackneyed (5 letters)
99 Down: Boccaccio's "The ___ Heart" (5 letters)
100 Down: Gloomy, to Keats (5 letters)
102 Down: Guardian spirits (5 letters)
103 Down: ___ Flow, British naval base (5 letters)
104 Down: Helmet's nosepiece (5 letters)
105 Down: Ne plus ___ (5 letters)
106 Down: Some sugar sources (5 letters)
108 Down: Colleen (4 letters)
109 Down: Former Iranian ruler (4 letters)

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