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Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23168 clues~30-60 minBy Jeanette K. Brill6/5/1988

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Across

1 Across: Parisian gangster (6 letters)
7 Across: Cleanse thoroughly (5 letters)
12 Across: Of an armbone (5 letters)
17 Across: The Censor (4 letters)
21 Across: Ameche-Verdon film: 1985 (6 letters)
22 Across: Department of France: 1815-1975 (5 letters)
23 Across: Daughter of Tantalus (5 letters)
24 Across: Words of understanding (4 letters)
25 Across: Fast player with lots of clout (12 letters)
27 Across: Outfielder, at times (10 letters)
29 Across: "___ Been a Long, Long Time" (3 letters)
30 Across: Shock (6 letters)
31 Across: Lessen (5 letters)
33 Across: ___ double take (3 letters)
34 Across: Half of XIV (3 letters)
35 Across: Ancient Celtic priest (5 letters)
37 Across: Bivalve mollusk (7 letters)
41 Across: Hammarskjöld (3 letters)
44 Across: Desires (5 letters)
46 Across: Cast amorous glances (5 letters)
48 Across: Vowel changes in verb forms (7 letters)
50 Across: Battologize (7 letters)
52 Across: One way for runners to score (11 letters)
55 Across: Hanoi holiday (3 letters)
56 Across: Garb (6 letters)
57 Across: Pick up the tab (5 letters)
58 Across: Valley (4 letters)
59 Across: Get one's goat (4 letters)
60 Across: Don (5 letters)
61 Across: Religious composition (5 letters)
62 Across: Germ cell (5 letters)
64 Across: Mistake (5 letters)
65 Across: A son of Seth (4 letters)
66 Across: Criterion for Kelly (9 letters)
68 Across: U.S. financier-philanthropist (6 letters)
69 Across: Ump's relative (3 letters)
70 Across: This can be acute (5 letters)
72 Across: War god (4 letters)
73 Across: "Lili ___" (7 letters)
74 Across: Small land masses (6 letters)
76 Across: Wept (5 letters)
78 Across: Concerning this (6 letters)
79 Across: Irritates (7 letters)
81 Across: Contented sounds (4 letters)
82 Across: Musical ennead (5 letters)
83 Across: "___ Sleepy People" (3 letters)
86 Across: Portion of bacon (6 letters)
87 Across: Yogi Berra was one (9 letters)
90 Across: In the distance (4 letters)
91 Across: Actor John from Baltimore (5 letters)
92 Across: Stadium pentagon (5 letters)
94 Across: Dispatch boat (5 letters)
95 Across: Daily rat race (5 letters)
96 Across: Lettuce variety (4 letters)
97 Across: Player in an old song (4 letters)
98 Across: Gripper of sorts (5 letters)
99 Across: Art of horsemanship (6 letters)
100 Across: Laders' org. (3 letters)
101 Across: Strike-calling umpire (11 letters)
104 Across: Flower part (7 letters)
105 Across: Swivel wheels (7 letters)
107 Across: Water wheel (5 letters)
108 Across: Looks over hastily (5 letters)
110 Across: Crandall or Ennis (3 letters)
111 Across: Come back in (7 letters)
113 Across: More rational (5 letters)
115 Across: Número ___ (3 letters)
116 Across: Ship-shaped clock (3 letters)
117 Across: Position properly (5 letters)
119 Across: Will topic (6 letters)
122 Across: Wood sorrel (3 letters)
125 Across: What a pinch hitter will do (10 letters)
129 Across: At the end, for 25 Across (12 letters)
132 Across: Declare positively (4 letters)
133 Across: Baseball's Pee Wee (5 letters)
134 Across: Standards (5 letters)
135 Across: Nicotinic acid (6 letters)
136 Across: Opposite of raves (4 letters)
137 Across: T. N. Page's "___ Chan" (5 letters)
138 Across: Dutch jurist Huig de ___: 1583-1645 (5 letters)
139 Across: Mystery awards (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Start of "Hamlet" (4 letters)
2 Down: Larboard (4 letters)
3 Down: Galatea's lover (4 letters)
4 Down: ___ a plea (3 letters)
5 Down: Australian Prime Minister: 1966 (4 letters)
6 Down: Sap (8 letters)
7 Down: Dutch boat (6 letters)
8 Down: Bulb's cousin (4 letters)
9 Down: Mountain nymph (5 letters)
10 Down: "Born in the ___" (3 letters)
11 Down: Instructed again (8 letters)
12 Down: Not dulled by sunlight, as prints (7 letters)
13 Down: Gay tune (4 letters)
14 Down: "Drake" is his epic poem (5 letters)
15 Down: Broadcasting syst. (3 letters)
16 Down: Unlike some scrawls (8 letters)
17 Down: Homopterous insect (6 letters)
18 Down: Rowan (3 letters)
19 Down: Peg for Peete (3 letters)
20 Down: Above, poetically (3 letters)
26 Down: French critic-historian: 19th century (5 letters)
28 Down: Outcry, in Rouen (5 letters)
32 Down: Spleen (4 letters)
36 Down: Turn (6 letters)
38 Down: Wire (5 letters)
39 Down: Where to see Rickey Henderson (14 letters)
40 Down: Hunter beloved by Eos (7 letters)
41 Down: Layette item (6 letters)
42 Down: Bring into harmony (6 letters)
43 Down: Hit or walk (14 letters)
44 Down: Caution (4 letters)
45 Down: Raid (6 letters)
47 Down: Fogies (6 letters)
49 Down: "Tristram Shandy" author (6 letters)
51 Down: Branco and Mayo (4 letters)
53 Down: Penury (4 letters)
54 Down: Former Middle East org. (3 letters)
57 Down: Bridge charges (5 letters)
59 Down: Norse chieftain (5 letters)
61 Down: Certain NCO's (5 letters)
62 Down: Unfailing (4 letters)
63 Down: Entreated (4 letters)
64 Down: Montmartre chapeau (5 letters)
67 Down: Rear (5 letters)
68 Down: ___ nostrum (the Mediterranean) (4 letters)
70 Down: Standish's stand-in (5 letters)
71 Down: ___-do-well (4 letters)
73 Down: "The evil that ___ . . . ": Shak. (5 letters)
75 Down: Title in colonial India (5 letters)
76 Down: Scoter (4 letters)
77 Down: Songwriter Harold (4 letters)
78 Down: Ski jumper ___ Bulau (5 letters)
79 Down: Describing our numbers (6 letters)
80 Down: Situated at the foundation (7 letters)
81 Down: Styx ferryman (6 letters)
82 Down: Water nymphs (6 letters)
84 Down: Falsify (6 letters)
85 Down: Severe trial (6 letters)
88 Down: Helmets for Caesar's men (6 letters)
89 Down: Eye layer (4 letters)
90 Down: American cartoonist (4 letters)
92 Down: "___-porridge hot . . . " (5 letters)
93 Down: Author Stanislaw ___ (3 letters)
95 Down: Needlefishes (4 letters)
97 Down: Small agricultural enterprise (8 letters)
98 Down: Gymnast's activity (8 letters)
99 Down: Chorus reject (8 letters)
101 Down: Star in Cygnus (5 letters)
102 Down: Emphatic negative (7 letters)
103 Down: Kind of bunt (4 letters)
104 Down: Watercourse (5 letters)
106 Down: Soprano Alda's "Men, Women and ___" (6 letters)
109 Down: Most adorable (6 letters)
112 Down: Olympic athlete Johnson (5 letters)
114 Down: Kind of rocket (5 letters)
118 Down: Opposite of a win (4 letters)
120 Down: Foolish person (4 letters)
121 Down: Geraint's wife (4 letters)
122 Down: Grampus (4 letters)
123 Down: French leather (4 letters)
124 Down: Sothern and Harding (4 letters)
125 Down: Breach (3 letters)
126 Down: Eggs, to Ovid (3 letters)
127 Down: Derek vehicle (3 letters)
128 Down: Earl Grey, for one (3 letters)
130 Down: Correlative (3 letters)
131 Down: Carson quip (3 letters)

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