FRACTURED PHRASES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Charles M. Deber10/30/1988

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Across

1 Across: Scoundrel (3 letters)
4 Across: Angels' headgear (5 letters)
9 Across: ___ as the eye can see (5 letters)
14 Across: Fixed or frozen follower (5 letters)
19 Across: Fabulist George (3 letters)
20 Across: Two-line verse (5 letters)
21 Across: Beach (5 letters)
22 Across: Weather, to a poet (5 letters)
23 Across: Israeli airport (3 letters)
24 Across: Tailor trousers (5 letters)
25 Across: Pauline's problem (5 letters)
26 Across: Exhausts (5 letters)
27 Across: Silkworm (3 letters)
28 Across: Routines (4 letters)
29 Across: Frauds (5 letters)
30 Across: Inclination (6 letters)
31 Across: Get lost, after four (16 letters)
35 Across: They may justify means (4 letters)
36 Across: Danish county (3 letters)
37 Across: Appraise (4 letters)
38 Across: Sputtered, as an engine (7 letters)
40 Across: In particular (7 letters)
43 Across: L.B.J. beagle (3 letters)
45 Across: Diamond and Lagerlöf (6 letters)
48 Across: W. S. Porter (6 letters)
49 Across: Mata ___ (4 letters)
50 Across: Devour, after five (9 letters)
53 Across: Penn and Tell, for short (3 letters)
54 Across: Famed marbles (5 letters)
56 Across: Map (4 letters)
58 Across: Selves (4 letters)
59 Across: Max and Buddy (5 letters)
60 Across: Parboils (6 letters)
62 Across: Newman and Revere (5 letters)
63 Across: Bullfrog's sound (5 letters)
66 Across: Right to the jaw, after four (9 letters)
68 Across: "Dames ___," 1968 musical (5 letters)
69 Across: Double features (5 letters)
70 Across: "Mikrokosmos" composer (6 letters)
71 Across: Stadium sounds (5 letters)
73 Across: That, in Toulouse (4 letters)
74 Across: Closefisted (4 letters)
75 Across: Slightest (5 letters)
76 Across: French vineyard (3 letters)
79 Across: Broiled entree, after three (9 letters)
83 Across: Land contract (4 letters)
85 Across: Frightens (6 letters)
87 Across: Eroded, as a river (6 letters)
88 Across: America's Uncle (3 letters)
89 Across: Warehouse function (7 letters)
90 Across: "Alice Doesn't Live Here ___" (7 letters)
94 Across: West African country (4 letters)
96 Across: "Tin ___," 1987 film (3 letters)
97 Across: Osiris's wife (4 letters)
100 Across: Specialization, after eleven (16 letters)
105 Across: Christie's Miss ___ (6 letters)
107 Across: Novelist Sinclair (5 letters)
108 Across: On one's toes (4 letters)
109 Across: Before, to the Bard (3 letters)
110 Across: An Astaire (5 letters)
111 Across: Shoe plate (5 letters)
112 Across: Actress Verdugo (5 letters)
113 Across: Kurosawa movie: 1985 (3 letters)
114 Across: Frenzied (5 letters)
115 Across: Lasagna or linguine (5 letters)
116 Across: Flax fabric (5 letters)
117 Across: 1 or 66, e.g. (3 letters)
118 Across: Chest: Comb. form (5 letters)
119 Across: Skills, in Sevilla (5 letters)
120 Across: Untidy (5 letters)
121 Across: Word of assent (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: Son of Jephunneh (5 letters)
2 Down: Cherish (5 letters)
3 Down: Commemorates (9 letters)
4 Down: Disappointments, after four (12 letters)
5 Down: " . . . and pulled out ___" (5 letters)
6 Down: Numbers game (7 letters)
7 Down: Black Sea port (6 letters)
8 Down: Sun. talk (3 letters)
9 Down: Humane org. (5 letters)
10 Down: Shaves a sheep (6 letters)
11 Down: Style (6 letters)
12 Down: Beard of grain (6 letters)
13 Down: R.C., e.g. (3 letters)
14 Down: Play parts (4 letters)
15 Down: Deli specialties, after seven (12 letters)
16 Down: Sea songstress (5 letters)
17 Down: Correct a text (5 letters)
18 Down: Exams (5 letters)
29 Down: Hitler's architect (5 letters)
30 Down: Freud contemporary (5 letters)
32 Down: Arabian sultanate (4 letters)
33 Down: Frome or Allen (5 letters)
34 Down: Lioness or Lanchester (4 letters)
39 Down: Yalie (3 letters)
40 Down: At this point in time (3 letters)
41 Down: German physicist (3 letters)
42 Down: Baseball's Sparky (4 letters)
44 Down: Parachute strings, after four (9 letters)
46 Down: Breed of cattle (5 letters)
47 Down: Fur piece (5 letters)
49 Down: Certain U.S. resident (7 letters)
50 Down: Baby powder (4 letters)
51 Down: Lasted (7 letters)
52 Down: Mount in Tasmania (4 letters)
55 Down: Dig (4 letters)
57 Down: Wagtail's cousin (4 letters)
59 Down: Dessert, after four (12 letters)
60 Down: Caterpillar's hair (4 letters)
61 Down: Greek portico (4 letters)
62 Down: Leave, after seven (12 letters)
63 Down: Half of DCC (4 letters)
64 Down: American ostriches (5 letters)
65 Down: Tin Man's plea in Oz film (5 letters)
67 Down: Type of school (4 letters)
72 Down: Prof. rank (4 letters)
75 Down: Dud (5 letters)
76 Down: Thanksgiving fruit (9 letters)
77 Down: ___ U.S. Pat. Off. (3 letters)
78 Down: Employ (3 letters)
80 Down: Coal container (3 letters)
81 Down: Bonnie's beau (5 letters)
82 Down: Half: Comb. form (4 letters)
84 Down: City in Ohio (5 letters)
86 Down: Length times width, e.g. (4 letters)
89 Down: Melts (7 letters)
91 Down: Like a small egg (6 letters)
92 Down: Most mature (6 letters)
93 Down: The press is the fourth one (6 letters)
95 Down: Net minder (6 letters)
97 Down: Mohammed descendants (5 letters)
98 Down: Former Egyptian president (5 letters)
99 Down: Dunne or Castle (5 letters)
101 Down: Tiny amounts (5 letters)
102 Down: Queues (5 letters)
103 Down: Speechify (5 letters)
104 Down: Descartes and Lévesque (5 letters)
106 Down: Walesa (4 letters)
111 Down: Nos. man (3 letters)
112 Down: Shade tree (3 letters)

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