IT TAKES ALL KINDS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23168 clues~30-60 minBy Nancy Nicholson Joline2/7/1993

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Across

1 Across: Oppose (6 letters)
7 Across: Warm overcoats (7 letters)
14 Across: Walks arrogantly (7 letters)
21 Across: Indolent (6 letters)
22 Across: Cole Porter song; Nelson Eddy film, 1937 (7 letters)
23 Across: Go before (7 letters)
24 Across: Meddler in others' affairs (14 letters)
26 Across: Quebec city on the St. Lawrence (7 letters)
27 Across: Mosaic tiles (8 letters)
28 Across: Ancient bucket-shaped vessel (6 letters)
31 Across: City visited by Tarzan (4 letters)
32 Across: Prom-night item (7 letters)
36 Across: Spanish baby boys (5 letters)
37 Across: Prince Valiant's son (3 letters)
38 Across: "Le ___ de la Rose," Fokine ballet (7 letters)
42 Across: One who has poor penmanship (11 letters)
45 Across: Novelist Rölvaag (3 letters)
48 Across: Yakutsk's river (4 letters)
49 Across: Knightwear (5 letters)
50 Across: Dir. of San Diego from L.A. (3 letters)
51 Across: Fiats (6 letters)
53 Across: "Thou would'st still be ___ ": Moore (6 letters)
56 Across: Some cuts of meat (6 letters)
58 Across: Roadster (8 letters)
60 Across: One who hates marriage (10 letters)
62 Across: A king of Judah (3 letters)
65 Across: Grable, to many W.W. II G.I.'s (5 letters)
66 Across: "Semper fidelis" et al. (6 letters)
67 Across: Sir Henry Irving, e.g. (5 letters)
69 Across: A way up in mil. service (3 letters)
70 Across: Harridan (3 letters)
73 Across: "The ___ Old Moon," 1927 song (4 letters)
76 Across: The law, to Mr. Bumble (3 letters)
77 Across: Coffee variety (5 letters)
78 Across: Govt. sponsor of opera, etc. (3 letters)
79 Across: Screenwriter Diamond (3 letters)
80 Across: Cager Frazier's nickname (5 letters)
82 Across: One who has an aversion to work (9 letters)
86 Across: Fresh (5 letters)
88 Across: Outward appearance (3 letters)
89 Across: Utmost degree (3 letters)
92 Across: Divert (5 letters)
93 Across: Pinch (3 letters)
96 Across: Light submachine gun (4 letters)
97 Across: Highlands headgear (3 letters)
98 Across: Jefferson's bill (3 letters)
99 Across: Select, as a jury (5 letters)
100 Across: Cracklings (6 letters)
102 Across: Eldritch (5 letters)
104 Across: Pismire (3 letters)
105 Across: Editor (10 letters)
109 Across: Reduced to low status (8 letters)
112 Across: Strands (6 letters)
115 Across: Immature (6 letters)
116 Across: Consecrate (6 letters)
117 Across: Tones on a scale (3 letters)
120 Across: Revile (5 letters)
121 Across: Mavourneen's home (4 letters)
122 Across: Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du ___" (3 letters)
123 Across: One who likes dogs (11 letters)
126 Across: Implement for Poseidon (7 letters)
129 Across: Epicede (3 letters)
131 Across: Sabers' less lethal kin (5 letters)
132 Across: Emulates Mark Hopkins (7 letters)
134 Across: Buck or byte preceder (4 letters)
136 Across: Flavoring agent (6 letters)
138 Across: Mexican sandal (8 letters)
143 Across: Raccoonlike mammals of S. America (7 letters)
146 Across: One who designs flags (14 letters)
150 Across: "Tancredi" composer (7 letters)
151 Across: Redcoats, to Minutemen (7 letters)
152 Across: Minn. range (6 letters)
153 Across: ___ cordiale (7 letters)
154 Across: Notwithstanding (7 letters)
155 Across: Places for schussing (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Egyptian Christian church member (4 letters)
2 Down: Pawnee's friend (4 letters)
3 Down: Some units of length (4 letters)
4 Down: "___ Town," 1938 Tracy film (4 letters)
5 Down: Mien (6 letters)
6 Down: Reign of ___: 1793-94 (6 letters)
7 Down: Impulses (5 letters)
8 Down: Actor Herbert from Prague (3 letters)
9 Down: Fed. agency concerned with retirees (3 letters)
10 Down: Use a shuttle (3 letters)
11 Down: Site of ancient Olympics (4 letters)
12 Down: Insurrection (6 letters)
13 Down: Hunting dogs (7 letters)
14 Down: Tom Hanks film: 1984 (6 letters)
15 Down: Musical syllable (3 letters)
16 Down: Kind of room (3 letters)
17 Down: Venous fluid for Aphrodite (5 letters)
18 Down: One who excels at table conversation (13 letters)
19 Down: Actress Purviance (4 letters)
20 Down: Sight attachment (4 letters)
25 Down: Rhine feeder (4 letters)
29 Down: Actresses Merkel and O'Connor (4 letters)
30 Down: Pariah (5 letters)
33 Down: Start of a Hemingway title (6 letters)
34 Down: Breadth; scope (5 letters)
35 Down: Campaign issue in '92 (4 letters)
37 Down: MacArthur hailed from here (8 letters)
38 Down: Kind of dunk (4 letters)
39 Down: Foot: Comb. form (4 letters)
40 Down: Sonny Shroyer role on TV (4 letters)
41 Down: Rebounded (7 letters)
43 Down: City in central Neb. (3 letters)
44 Down: A Shriver (6 letters)
46 Down: Romanian monetary unit (3 letters)
47 Down: Triple this for a wine (3 letters)
49 Down: Songlike (6 letters)
52 Down: ___ Simbel, Egypt (3 letters)
54 Down: Psyche component (3 letters)
55 Down: Kind of bank (4 letters)
57 Down: Leroy Paige, familiarly (7 letters)
59 Down: "___ my word!" (4 letters)
61 Down: Map abbr. (3 letters)
63 Down: London's ___ Square (4 letters)
64 Down: Breed of horse (4 letters)
67 Down: Quantities (7 letters)
68 Down: Thicket (5 letters)
71 Down: Peer Gynt's mother (4 letters)
72 Down: She wrote "Three Weeks" (4 letters)
73 Down: Ailurophobe's word (4 letters)
74 Down: Former queen of Jordan (4 letters)
75 Down: One who studies ants (13 letters)
81 Down: Spellbind (8 letters)
83 Down: ___ Nui (Easter Island) (4 letters)
84 Down: Role for E. Zimbalist Jr. (4 letters)
85 Down: Box (6 letters)
87 Down: Certain (7 letters)
90 Down: Like some roads or plots (6 letters)
91 Down: Straddlers (4 letters)
94 Down: "___ gratia artis" (3 letters)
95 Down: Capital of Azerbaijan (4 letters)
100 Down: Nicaraguan's nap (6 letters)
101 Down: Female swan (3 letters)
103 Down: Bush or Taft (3 letters)
105 Down: Member of a Middle Eastern sect (5 letters)
106 Down: Million chaser (4 letters)
107 Down: What teetotums do (4 letters)
108 Down: Kind of caterpillar (4 letters)
109 Down: Lamb's mother (3 letters)
110 Down: Spanish queen: 1906-31 (3 letters)
111 Down: Leap, like some lovers (5 letters)
113 Down: Falstaff's princely pal (3 letters)
114 Down: R.I.P. notice (4 letters)
118 Down: Gibraltar tourist attractions (4 letters)
119 Down: Bundled, as grain (7 letters)
124 Down: Highlands monster, familiarly (6 letters)
125 Down: A daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta (6 letters)
126 Down: Ruffian (4 letters)
127 Down: Provides new weapons (6 letters)
128 Down: Site of Beersheba (6 letters)
130 Down: Saint-Saëns's "___ Macabre" (5 letters)
133 Down: Elected (5 letters)
134 Down: "Utopia" author (4 letters)
135 Down: N.C. college (4 letters)
137 Down: Love-letter letters (4 letters)
139 Down: Lhasa ___ (Tibetan dog) (4 letters)
140 Down: Fellow (4 letters)
141 Down: "H.M.S. Pinafore" lass (4 letters)
142 Down: Discordia (4 letters)
144 Down: "The ___ Game," 1977 play (3 letters)
145 Down: Neighbor of Que. (3 letters)
147 Down: Poe's "The ___ of the Perverse" (3 letters)
148 Down: One-fifth of CCLX (3 letters)
149 Down: "___ It Be," Beatles song (3 letters)

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