BRAVING THE ELEMENTS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23176 clues~30-60 minBy John Greenman7/1/1990

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Across

1 Across: Rudimentary (5 letters)
6 Across: Sacred choral piece (5 letters)
11 Across: Scrooge's invectives (4 letters)
15 Across: Scalawags (6 letters)
21 Across: January, in Juárez (5 letters)
22 Across: Massenet's forte (5 letters)
23 Across: Petroleum-cartel inits. (4 letters)
24 Across: Shoulder-to-elbow bones (6 letters)
25 Across: SILVER (16 letters)
28 Across: Rubbed with rubber (6 letters)
29 Across: Sinker (5 letters)
30 Across: Inn's descendant (5 letters)
31 Across: Robert Burns's one (3 letters)
33 Across: Leaking radiator's sound (4 letters)
34 Across: Self-important person (3 letters)
36 Across: Nipa palm (4 letters)
38 Across: Escorted anew (5 letters)
40 Across: Convert into cipher (6 letters)
42 Across: Ferrigno and Rawls (4 letters)
44 Across: Two-toed sloth (4 letters)
46 Across: Put down (3 letters)
47 Across: Vega or Rigel (4 letters)
48 Across: Preceders of xi's (3 letters)
51 Across: KRYPTON (15 letters)
56 Across: Discernment (7 letters)
58 Across: ___ of iniquity (3 letters)
59 Across: Brewer's need (4 letters)
60 Across: Bireme gear (4 letters)
62 Across: Depend (on) (4 letters)
63 Across: Collapsed, with "in" (5 letters)
66 Across: Oriental units of weight (5 letters)
68 Across: Ring up (5 letters)
70 Across: Greek goddesses of the seasons (5 letters)
71 Across: Petri-dish contents (4 letters)
72 Across: Ciro ___, 17th-century Italian painter (5 letters)
73 Across: Bagellike roll (5 letters)
74 Across: Mortise's partner (5 letters)
75 Across: Hero of "Giants in the Earth" (3 letters)
76 Across: Classify (4 letters)
77 Across: Intones (6 letters)
79 Across: Woe (5 letters)
80 Across: Undefiled (8 letters)
82 Across: Pointillist's prop (5 letters)
83 Across: Printing-machine operators (8 letters)
86 Across: Simone's school (5 letters)
87 Across: Undeveloped state (6 letters)
88 Across: Bloody Mary's daughter (4 letters)
89 Across: Apt anagram of aye (3 letters)
90 Across: Swizzles (5 letters)
91 Across: La ___, Milano's opera house (5 letters)
92 Across: Concede (5 letters)
94 Across: Raison d'___ (4 letters)
95 Across: Holmes's creator (5 letters)
96 Across: Where Hercules slew the Hydra (5 letters)
97 Across: Service club (5 letters)
98 Across: Moral nature (5 letters)
99 Across: Mil. truant (4 letters)
100 Across: Dish list (4 letters)
101 Across: Ear: Comb. form (4 letters)
102 Across: Cariou or Deighton (3 letters)
103 Across: Maligns (7 letters)
105 Across: NEON (15 letters)
113 Across: Celestial sphere (3 letters)
114 Across: One of Manhattan's rivers (4 letters)
116 Across: To's companion (3 letters)
117 Across: Getz or Kenton (4 letters)
118 Across: Positive (4 letters)
119 Across: Ef, e.g. (6 letters)
121 Across: ___ cum laude (5 letters)
124 Across: Painting and poetry, e.g. (4 letters)
126 Across: Oomph (3 letters)
127 Across: Dutch or French follower (4 letters)
128 Across: Catch in the act (3 letters)
130 Across: University in Oxford, Ohio (5 letters)
132 Across: Civil War general (5 letters)
134 Across: Like a solarium (6 letters)
136 Across: IRON (16 letters)
141 Across: Mustard-family vegetable (6 letters)
142 Across: Cannel (4 letters)
143 Across: Cove (5 letters)
144 Across: Take flight to unite (5 letters)
145 Across: One of the Furies (6 letters)
146 Across: Brontë's Jane (4 letters)
147 Across: Idyllic spots (5 letters)
148 Across: Actress Spacek (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: ___ canto (3 letters)
2 Down: Upward: Comb. form (3 letters)
3 Down: Sentences (7 letters)
4 Down: Mars: Comb. form (4 letters)
5 Down: Doone of fiction (5 letters)
6 Down: Super Bowl M.V.P.: 1990 (7 letters)
7 Down: Aperture: Abbr. (3 letters)
8 Down: Rain cats and dogs (4 letters)
9 Down: Boo-boo (5 letters)
10 Down: Sapor (5 letters)
11 Down: Kind of algebra (7 letters)
12 Down: Eliot's cruellest mo. (3 letters)
13 Down: "___ Rebel," 1962 tune (4 letters)
14 Down: Bergman's "___ From a Marriage" (6 letters)
15 Down: TV spy film of 1980 (3 letters)
16 Down: Computer-display pointers (7 letters)
17 Down: " . . . the way of a man with ___": Proverbs (5 letters)
18 Down: MERCURY (15 letters)
19 Down: Fraternity V.I.P. (4 letters)
20 Down: Caesar or Luckman (3 letters)
26 Down: "___ in New York," 1935 song (6 letters)
27 Down: Greece, to Greeks (6 letters)
32 Down: Full (6 letters)
34 Down: Hirt and Jolson (3 letters)
35 Down: Trifle (3 letters)
37 Down: Roast or roaster (3 letters)
39 Down: Henna, e.g. (3 letters)
41 Down: Preserves (4 letters)
43 Down: Passover feast (5 letters)
45 Down: End of a Poe title (5 letters)
49 Down: Prussian cavalryman (5 letters)
50 Down: Eye problem (4 letters)
52 Down: Rubicund (3 letters)
53 Down: COPPER (9 letters)
54 Down: Disks for a deejay (3 letters)
55 Down: Adz and awl (5 letters)
57 Down: Perfume additives (6 letters)
61 Down: Word with body and way (3 letters)
63 Down: "Li'l Abner" cartoonist (4 letters)
64 Down: Ripening device (4 letters)
65 Down: PLATINUM (15 letters)
66 Down: Coat with an alloy of tin and lead (5 letters)
67 Down: Funnyman Johnson (4 letters)
68 Down: Covered with evergreens (5 letters)
69 Down: IODINE (9 letters)
70 Down: Knock over a joint (5 letters)
72 Down: Discomfits (5 letters)
73 Down: Iraqi port (5 letters)
74 Down: Doctor (5 letters)
76 Down: Squirrel away (5 letters)
78 Down: "¿___ usted español?" (5 letters)
79 Down: Beams (5 letters)
81 Down: Herb of the lily family (6 letters)
83 Down: Blueprint (4 letters)
84 Down: A first name in architecture (4 letters)
85 Down: Dundee denials (4 letters)
87 Down: Oysters' hues (5 letters)
90 Down: Seed planter (5 letters)
91 Down: E.M.K. is one (3 letters)
93 Down: Muddies the waters (5 letters)
94 Down: Lab burners (5 letters)
95 Down: Pedestal part (4 letters)
96 Down: Diminish (6 letters)
97 Down: Sand's "Elle et ___" (3 letters)
98 Down: "Frae morn to ___ . . . ": Burns (3 letters)
100 Down: Headcheese, e.g. (4 letters)
101 Down: Social disintegration (6 letters)
102 Down: Archway element (6 letters)
104 Down: Maker of verses (7 letters)
106 Down: Conditions (3 letters)
107 Down: Grouse (7 letters)
108 Down: Thespian Hagen (3 letters)
109 Down: Woodchucks (7 letters)
110 Down: Black gums (7 letters)
111 Down: Bismuth, e.g. (3 letters)
112 Down: Corded fabric (3 letters)
115 Down: Hypnotic state (6 letters)
120 Down: Borne by the wind (5 letters)
122 Down: Singer Osmond (5 letters)
123 Down: Better (5 letters)
125 Down: Strongboxes (5 letters)
127 Down: Double (4 letters)
129 Down: Keep afloat (4 letters)
131 Down: Inactive (4 letters)
133 Down: When Yazdegerd III died (4 letters)
134 Down: Mme., in Madrid (3 letters)
135 Down: However, for short (3 letters)
137 Down: Deface (3 letters)
138 Down: Four-star off. (3 letters)
139 Down: Periods of prosperity (3 letters)
140 Down: Turhan ___, 40's film actor (3 letters)

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