BREAKUPS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23164 clues~30-60 minBy Peter Swift3/13/1988

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Cheat (5 letters)
6 Across: Ski-slope features (5 letters)
11 Across: Tapped lightly (6 letters)
17 Across: Leaping insect (4 letters)
21 Across: Disassembled (5 letters)
22 Across: Do a greenhouse chore (5 letters)
23 Across: Ancient marts (6 letters)
24 Across: Dear, sweet person (4 letters)
25 Across: BIGAMY (11 letters)
27 Across: PLUMBING (11 letters)
29 Across: "Four Saints in ___": Stein (9 letters)
30 Across: Worn-out (6 letters)
32 Across: Mitigates (5 letters)
33 Across: Keys (6 letters)
34 Across: Singer Osmond (5 letters)
35 Across: Shepherds (7 letters)
37 Across: Nursery-rhyme opener (3 letters)
39 Across: U.S.N.A. grad (3 letters)
40 Across: Jacqueline's predecessor (5 letters)
41 Across: Elicits (6 letters)
43 Across: Rockweed, for one (4 letters)
45 Across: GOBLET (12 letters)
47 Across: Advantage (3 letters)
50 Across: Feels dizzy (5 letters)
52 Across: Foams (6 letters)
53 Across: Mountain nymph (5 letters)
54 Across: Native of Zagreb (4 letters)
55 Across: Dumas père's "The Black ___" (5 letters)
56 Across: Proofreader's mark (5 letters)
57 Across: Faulty (5 letters)
58 Across: Share equally (5 letters)
59 Across: Sousaphone's kin (4 letters)
60 Across: Like Death Valley (4 letters)
61 Across: Mont Pelvoux et al., to Henri (5 letters)
62 Across: Swindler (6 letters)
63 Across: Alcove off a kitchen (7 letters)
65 Across: Joint (4 letters)
66 Across: Impedimenta (7 letters)
67 Across: Color preceder (3 letters)
69 Across: HONESTY (13 letters)
73 Across: Beatty or Sparks (3 letters)
74 Across: Anchorite (7 letters)
77 Across: Jacob's first wife (4 letters)
78 Across: Lighthouse room (7 letters)
81 Across: Green (6 letters)
82 Across: Cobs and pens (5 letters)
84 Across: Hogtie (4 letters)
85 Across: Spanish painter-etcher (4 letters)
87 Across: Imperative and indicative (5 letters)
88 Across: Famed insurrectionist Daniel (5 letters)
89 Across: Dull finish (5 letters)
90 Across: Make uneasy (5 letters)
92 Across: Papal name (4 letters)
93 Across: Three-year-old stag (5 letters)
94 Across: Trifle (6 letters)
95 Across: Greek letter (5 letters)
96 Across: Campus gp. (3 letters)
97 Across: GENERATED (12 letters)
99 Across: Gossip (4 letters)
100 Across: Panoplies (6 letters)
101 Across: Upper reaches of space (5 letters)
102 Across: Univ. degree (3 letters)
105 Across: Dawn goddess (3 letters)
106 Across: Abolitionist Tubman (7 letters)
109 Across: Fragrant perfume (5 letters)
110 Across: Moslem month: Var. (6 letters)
112 Across: Anticipate (5 letters)
113 Across: Cousin of thereat (6 letters)
115 Across: Shoe part (9 letters)
118 Across: REARRANGES (11 letters)
121 Across: IMPROPER (11 letters)
123 Across: Author Gardner (4 letters)
124 Across: Faculty (6 letters)
125 Across: River through Tours (5 letters)
126 Across: Down-easter's home (5 letters)
127 Across: Shambles (4 letters)
128 Across: Supernumeraries (6 letters)
129 Across: Penetrate (5 letters)
130 Across: Meara and Sexton (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Lame (4 letters)
2 Down: Red-fleshed fish (4 letters)
3 Down: GIGANTIC (17 letters)
4 Down: Exhorts (5 letters)
5 Down: Founder of "The Tatler" (6 letters)
6 Down: Land areas (6 letters)
7 Down: Parks and Wheeler (5 letters)
8 Down: Co-ops, e.g. (4 letters)
9 Down: Hind (3 letters)
10 Down: Creek (9 letters)
11 Down: More zany (7 letters)
12 Down: Correspond (5 letters)
13 Down: Match (4 letters)
14 Down: A soft cheese (4 letters)
15 Down: Break bread (3 letters)
16 Down: Calendar abbr. (3 letters)
17 Down: Parade tableaux (6 letters)
18 Down: Catch, in a way (5 letters)
19 Down: Shade of red (5 letters)
20 Down: Vorago (5 letters)
26 Down: City on the Orne (4 letters)
28 Down: Adjust a timepiece (5 letters)
31 Down: Chills, in Cuernavaca (5 letters)
34 Down: Mutilated (6 letters)
35 Down: Cougars (5 letters)
36 Down: Kind of rain (4 letters)
37 Down: Starr of football (4 letters)
38 Down: Alaskan native (5 letters)
40 Down: Sir Gerald du ___ of stage (7 letters)
41 Down: Macabre (5 letters)
42 Down: Align (5 letters)
44 Down: Defendant's defense, sometimes (5 letters)
45 Down: Lacedaemon (6 letters)
46 Down: Commune near Naples (6 letters)
47 Down: LIVELIHOOD (17 letters)
48 Down: Excoriate (6 letters)
49 Down: Made uniform (6 letters)
51 Down: Arch (4 letters)
52 Down: Denounce emphatically (6 letters)
54 Down: Squealed to the cops (4 letters)
57 Down: Hebrew alphabet (5 letters)
58 Down: Grunter (3 letters)
61 Down: Old Indian coins (5 letters)
62 Down: Slope (4 letters)
64 Down: Being (4 letters)
65 Down: Wails (5 letters)
66 Down: Binge (6 letters)
67 Down: Concocts, with "up" (6 letters)
68 Down: "La Grande Illusion" director (6 letters)
70 Down: Links star Gary (6 letters)
71 Down: Showy splendor (7 letters)
72 Down: Fought for breath (6 letters)
75 Down: Covers (4 letters)
76 Down: Hikes (3 letters)
79 Down: Expletive (4 letters)
80 Down: Clothed, in a way (5 letters)
82 Down: Legally questionable (5 letters)
83 Down: Crosses a ford (5 letters)
84 Down: One who thwarts (6 letters)
86 Down: Tex. athlete (5 letters)
88 Down: Slapping sound (5 letters)
89 Down: Treat roughly (9 letters)
91 Down: Pillboxes (4 letters)
93 Down: Dam's mate (4 letters)
94 Down: Singer Page (5 letters)
97 Down: Emulate Styron (5 letters)
98 Down: Additional tryouts (7 letters)
100 Down: Stems (6 letters)
102 Down: Pennant (6 letters)
103 Down: Wall St. term (4 letters)
104 Down: Color intensity (6 letters)
106 Down: Zenana (5 letters)
107 Down: Mindful (5 letters)
108 Down: Marsh birds (5 letters)
109 Down: Sports center (5 letters)
110 Down: Barracks sound (5 letters)
111 Down: Lake Nasser dam (5 letters)
113 Down: Victoria ___, Gothic novelist (4 letters)
114 Down: Constantly (4 letters)
115 Down: Simulate: Abbr. (4 letters)
116 Down: Sequestered (4 letters)
117 Down: Sometimes they're private (4 letters)
119 Down: ___ Anne de Beaupré, Que. (3 letters)
120 Down: Make rigorous demands on (3 letters)
122 Down: Long period (3 letters)

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