CROAKERS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Frances Hansen11/4/1990

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Prohibits (4 letters)
5 Across: Hector's hometown (4 letters)
9 Across: Contained (4 letters)
13 Across: Tearful comedienne Pitts (4 letters)
17 Across: One of the Waughs (4 letters)
18 Across: Seductively beautiful woman (5 letters)
19 Across: Bakery worker (4 letters)
20 Across: Kin of 18 Across (5 letters)
21 Across: "I'm alive," ___ (10 letters)
23 Across: "Eat your cookie," ___ (10 letters)
25 Across: Do a slow burn (8 letters)
26 Across: Hinder (5 letters)
28 Across: Texas border city (6 letters)
29 Across: Horner's capture (4 letters)
30 Across: Imitated Marceau (5 letters)
31 Across: Oop's abode (4 letters)
32 Across: Tote laboriously (6 letters)
35 Across: Powerful beam (5 letters)
36 Across: William Carlos Williams verse epic (8 letters)
40 Across: Locomotive, e.g. (5 letters)
41 Across: "Storm approaching!," ___ (11 letters)
43 Across: Aujourd'___ (today, in Tours) (3 letters)
44 Across: Chews the fat (4 letters)
45 Across: Tennis units (4 letters)
46 Across: Ben Hur's drag strip (4 letters)
47 Across: Verlaine's birthplace (4 letters)
48 Across: Ditty (3 letters)
49 Across: "You mongrel," ___ (11 letters)
53 Across: First Viscount Templewood (5 letters)
54 Across: In a seemly way (8 letters)
56 Across: Like a road full of furrows (5 letters)
57 Across: Elopement need, maybe (6 letters)
58 Across: Lincoln bills (5 letters)
59 Across: Linton Heathcliff's wife (5 letters)
60 Across: Eunuch's milieu (5 letters)
61 Across: Teed off (6 letters)
63 Across: Henri Christophe's land (5 letters)
64 Across: Mason's activity (8 letters)
67 Across: Burlington's Bean (5 letters)
68 Across: "Have a candy bar," ___ (11 letters)
70 Across: MacDowell's "___ Wild Rose" (3 letters)
71 Across: Like Shangri-La's horizon (4 letters)
72 Across: Usher's offering (4 letters)
73 Across: Novello of "The Lodger" (4 letters)
74 Across: Telegram period (4 letters)
75 Across: "The Sultan of Sulu" playwright (3 letters)
76 Across: "I work in a lab," ___ (11 letters)
80 Across: Reagan's second Attorney General (5 letters)
81 Across: Cardinal and scarlet tanager (8 letters)
83 Across: Plea to a departing one (5 letters)
84 Across: Squiffed (6 letters)
85 Across: Butterfly's sashes (4 letters)
86 Across: Lathered (5 letters)
87 Across: Restrain (4 letters)
88 Across: A Ladd from Huron (6 letters)
91 Across: Brazilian novelist Jorge (5 letters)
92 Across: Field game devised by Indians (8 letters)
96 Across: "Fire's going out!," ___ (10 letters)
98 Across: "I'm dying," ___ (10 letters)
100 Across: Behind which Polonius hid (5 letters)
101 Across: Nut for soft drinks (4 letters)
102 Across: Church pledge (5 letters)
103 Across: Tatum's dad (4 letters)
104 Across: See 42 Down (4 letters)
105 Across: Confederate (4 letters)
106 Across: Mignon trailer (4 letters)
107 Across: Fashion's Oscar ___ Renta (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Kin of tchus and pfuis (4 letters)
2 Down: Turkish standard (4 letters)
3 Down: Last mount Moses climbed (4 letters)
4 Down: Krantz best seller (8 letters)
5 Down: Pole near a tepee (5 letters)
6 Down: German industrial valley (4 letters)
7 Down: Galena or bauxite (3 letters)
8 Down: Aleichem's language (7 letters)
9 Down: Underground water tank (7 letters)
10 Down: Yearned (5 letters)
11 Down: Villain's grimace (4 letters)
12 Down: Mom's title (3 letters)
13 Down: Buttons' replacer (6 letters)
14 Down: La Scala harp (4 letters)
15 Down: Gets the picture (4 letters)
16 Down: Ruin (4 letters)
18 Down: Caused to be arraigned (5 letters)
20 Down: Assuaged, as one's conscience (6 letters)
22 Down: "Oklahoma!" aunt (5 letters)
24 Down: Not so untidy (6 letters)
27 Down: That old ratite bird (4 letters)
30 Down: East China Sea island (5 letters)
31 Down: Gave a hoot (5 letters)
32 Down: Discard as useless (5 letters)
33 Down: Going-to-Jerusalem prop (5 letters)
34 Down: "I teach," ___ (11 letters)
35 Down: "___ people go . . . ": Exodus 5:1 (5 letters)
36 Down: Voight's comical Dink (5 letters)
37 Down: "I let him in," ___ (11 letters)
38 Down: Bizarre (5 letters)
39 Down: "My Day in Court" author (5 letters)
41 Down: Loaf ends (5 letters)
42 Down: With 104 Across, foul play (5 letters)
45 Down: Emulate Fawn and Ollie (5 letters)
47 Down: Exemplar (5 letters)
49 Down: Number of "swans a-swimming" (5 letters)
50 Down: Wedding-gown aisle-sweeper (5 letters)
51 Down: All together, in music (5 letters)
52 Down: Moral precept (5 letters)
53 Down: Made tracks (5 letters)
55 Down: Pirouette (5 letters)
57 Down: Rod of tennis (5 letters)
59 Down: Untouchables, for one (5 letters)
60 Down: Salome danced for him (5 letters)
61 Down: Kind of bear (5 letters)
62 Down: Molder (5 letters)
63 Down: Gets wind of (5 letters)
64 Down: Quay for the Robert E. Lee (5 letters)
65 Down: Hangman's loop (5 letters)
66 Down: Stared slack-jawed (5 letters)
68 Down: Pays attention (5 letters)
69 Down: Poker pot (5 letters)
72 Down: Piercing (6 letters)
74 Down: Coastal region (8 letters)
76 Down: Female oracles (6 letters)
77 Down: Like some vaudeville shows (7 letters)
78 Down: Toward the mouth (4 letters)
79 Down: Clever comeback (7 letters)
80 Down: ___ Castle (Havana fort) (5 letters)
82 Down: Of the north wind (6 letters)
84 Down: "Filthy" money (5 letters)
86 Down: Fragrance (5 letters)
87 Down: Secrete (5 letters)
88 Down: Fellow (4 letters)
89 Down: Super-sandwich (4 letters)
90 Down: Spain's longest river (4 letters)
91 Down: Mil. truant (4 letters)
92 Down: Man from Riga (4 letters)
93 Down: Terrier type (4 letters)
94 Down: Dr. Dolittle's Sophie, e.g. (4 letters)
95 Down: Felix Unger's daughter (4 letters)
97 Down: Trappist cheese (3 letters)
99 Down: Whop (3 letters)

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