PROMISES, PROMISES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Nancy Scandrett Ross12/30/1990

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Dines late (4 letters)
5 Across
Munch (5 letters)
10 Across
Tribulations (4 letters)
14 Across
Nedda's husband (5 letters)
15 Across
Finery (7 letters)
18 Across
Fainéant (5 letters)
20 Across
Errors at Wimbledon (6 letters)
21 Across
Pericles and Cicero (7 letters)
22 Across
Actress Piper (6 letters)
24 Across
Start of a verse (21 letters)
27 Across
Singer Laine et al. (5 letters)
28 Across
Stengel's wife (4 letters)
29 Across
Composer ___ Hoffmann: Inits. (3 letters)
30 Across
Suitable (3 letters)
31 Across
Deadeye and Rackstraw (4 letters)
32 Across
Bull fiddle (4 letters)
33 Across
"Lakmé," e.g. (5 letters)
36 Across
City NW of Leipzig (5 letters)
38 Across
Harrow's rival (4 letters)
40 Across
Institute in Brooklyn (5 letters)
41 Across
Ross and Palmer (6 letters)
42 Across
Mil. address (3 letters)
45 Across
Endings for lobby and palm (4 letters)
47 Across
Pearl Mosque site (4 letters)
48 Across
Japanese salad plant (3 letters)
49 Across
Verse: Part II (21 letters)
57 Across
___ Bell (Emily Brontë) (5 letters)
58 Across
Shabby (4 letters)
59 Across
The least bit (3 letters)
60 Across
Popular aperitif (3 letters)
61 Across
Greenish blue (4 letters)
62 Across
Prospero's servant (5 letters)
64 Across
Cautious (5 letters)
66 Across
Greek Juno (4 letters)
67 Across
Bowler or boater (3 letters)
68 Across
Neighbor of Md. (3 letters)
69 Across
Secular (4 letters)
70 Across
Jeans fabric (5 letters)
71 Across
Verse: Part III (21 letters)
78 Across
"But is it ___?" (3 letters)
79 Across
Composer Khachaturian (4 letters)
80 Across
Bridge bid (4 letters)
81 Across
Draft org. (3 letters)
82 Across
Nettles (6 letters)
85 Across
Streetcars (5 letters)
86 Across
Command to Gabriel (4 letters)
88 Across
Peep show (5 letters)
89 Across
Euripides tragedy (5 letters)
90 Across
Twofold (4 letters)
92 Across
Curly coiffure (4 letters)
96 Across
Syr. neighbor (3 letters)
97 Across
Australian isl. (3 letters)
98 Across
Louis challenger (4 letters)
99 Across
J. F. Cooper subject (5 letters)
100 Across
End of verse (21 letters)
107 Across
Strict (6 letters)
108 Across
Part of G.P.A. (7 letters)
109 Across
Some women's fashions (6 letters)
110 Across
Less well done (5 letters)
111 Across
Ancient chipped stones (7 letters)
112 Across
Tam-tams (5 letters)
113 Across
Ayers and Hoad (4 letters)
114 Across
Loamy deposit (5 letters)
115 Across
Pulitzer Prize playwright: 1953 (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Limoges item (6 letters)
2 Down
Let go (7 letters)
3 Down
Cores (5 letters)
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Middling (4 letters)
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Throngs (6 letters)
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Cousins of hammerheads (6 letters)
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Guam's capital (5 letters)
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Marshal Dillon (4 letters)
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Drop heavily (4 letters)
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One of the Flintstones (5 letters)
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Anita or Alan of songdom (4 letters)
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Jewish month (4 letters)
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Soap operas (7 letters)
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Arum lily (5 letters)
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"De ___," Seneca essay (3 letters)
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Postulate (6 letters)
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Like breeze-kissed water (6 letters)
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Reality (4 letters)
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Adlai's running mate: 1956 (5 letters)
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Camper's shelter (6 letters)
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Dep. (3 letters)
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Greenish-yellow pear (4 letters)
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E. Power Biggs's instrument (5 letters)
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Henry's last Catherine (4 letters)
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State of France (4 letters)
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Lamarr of films (4 letters)
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At the summit (4 letters)
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Involuntary contractions (4 letters)
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Kind of bull (5 letters)
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Causing jolts (5 letters)
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" . . . the rat /That ___ malt" (6 letters)
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Knight's weapon (6 letters)
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Flattened at the poles (6 letters)
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Metaphor's cousin (6 letters)
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Trouble (3 letters)
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Comprehend (3 letters)
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Plants resembling spinach (6 letters)
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Remote (3 letters)
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Indehiscent fruits (6 letters)
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Night's brightest star (6 letters)
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Birds of passage (6 letters)
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Mine entrances (5 letters)
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Domicile: Abbr. (3 letters)
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Soothes (5 letters)
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Towel word (3 letters)
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The bottom line, to Blass (3 letters)
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Vicuña's cousin (5 letters)
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Salesman's car, frequently (4 letters)
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Appraise (4 letters)
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Ontario Indian (4 letters)
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Guardian's concern (4 letters)
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Dies ___ (4 letters)
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Role in "King Lear" (6 letters)
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Weary (4 letters)
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Southern dish (5 letters)
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Bacon portion (6 letters)
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Advent (7 letters)
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Seed coats (6 letters)
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Banshee's activity (7 letters)
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Actress Clarke of old films (3 letters)
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Kneaded mixtures (6 letters)
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Save (6 letters)
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Projecting rim (6 letters)
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American Beauties (5 letters)
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Mel and Ed of baseball (4 letters)
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Shea areas (5 letters)
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Jalopy (5 letters)
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Post used in air races (5 letters)
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Parched (4 letters)
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Teen detective of fiction (4 letters)
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___ Levi (Yves Montand) (3 letters)
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Market (4 letters)
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Chamber-music piece (4 letters)
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O. Henry title word (4 letters)

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