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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Bert H. Kruse2/21/1993

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
"___ for All Seasons" (4 letters)
5 Across
Mum, e.g. (4 letters)
9 Across
Panay native (3 letters)
12 Across
Hooded menace (5 letters)
17 Across
Actress Williams et al. (5 letters)
19 Across
Hormone (8 letters)
21 Across
Title for W.E.B. Du Bois, N.A.A.C.P. co-founder (6 letters)
22 Across
Boston Massacre martyr (14 letters)
24 Across
Finesse (6 letters)
25 Across
River in Wales (3 letters)
26 Across
Monograms of a certain Duke (4 letters)
27 Across
Chum, for one (4 letters)
28 Across
A three-time P.G.A. champ (5 letters)
29 Across
Okla. city or Algonquian (7 letters)
31 Across
Entertainer Vereen (3 letters)
32 Across
Gloves in Campanella's closet (5 letters)
33 Across
Auriculate (5 letters)
34 Across
College founder and adviser to Presidents (11 letters)
39 Across
Greedy one (3 letters)
42 Across
Some Bowe blows (5 letters)
43 Across
Actress Ruby ___ (3 letters)
44 Across
Suit material (5 letters)
45 Across
Department of Peru (3 letters)
46 Across
W.W. II landing craft (3 letters)
47 Across
Surrealism predecessor (4 letters)
49 Across
Telamon (5 letters)
50 Across
Course for young D. H. Williams (4 letters)
51 Across
Basketball legend (11 letters)
54 Across
Le ___ (Clemenceau) (5 letters)
55 Across
Kind of wheel (3 letters)
58 Across
Pot contribution (4 letters)
59 Across
Polynesian chestnuts (5 letters)
60 Across
First name of a January honoree (6 letters)
61 Across
Singer Franklin and namesakes (7 letters)
63 Across
"R.U.R." playwright (5 letters)
64 Across
Naïf, as in a used-car lot (7 letters)
65 Across
Like Basie dance music, e.g. (6 letters)
66 Across
Ancient: Comb. form (5 letters)
67 Across
Wing, to 54 Across (4 letters)
68 Across
Slave-rebellion leader Turner (3 letters)
69 Across
Rosa of Montgomery's bus boycott (5 letters)
70 Across
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman (11 letters)
72 Across
"Bus Stop" dramatist (4 letters)
73 Across
Theme (5 letters)
74 Across
Dandiprats (4 letters)
75 Across
Logos: Abbr. (3 letters)
78 Across
Summer quencher (3 letters)
79 Across
Larynx affliction (5 letters)
80 Across
Doughboys, today (3 letters)
81 Across
Did a smithy's job (5 letters)
83 Across
Loc. of Mayor Dinkins (3 letters)
84 Across
Nobel Peace Prize winner: 1950 (11 letters)
88 Across
Coat with a metal alloy (5 letters)
89 Across
Congressman Clayton Powell Jr. et al. (5 letters)
91 Across
Babylonian sky god (3 letters)
92 Across
Arboreal African rodent (7 letters)
94 Across
Crunching sound (5 letters)
95 Across
Spanish painter (4 letters)
97 Across
Ark unit (4 letters)
98 Across
Inhabitant: Suffix (3 letters)
99 Across
Fats Domino hit of 1954 (6 letters)
100 Across
Celebrated Lincoln Memorial soloist (14 letters)
104 Across
Began (6 letters)
105 Across
In development (8 letters)
106 Across
Quick pick-me-up (5 letters)
107 Across
Valuable strings, briefly (5 letters)
108 Across
Benign bump on the skin (3 letters)
109 Across
Barbary swingers (4 letters)
110 Across
Handle, in Le Havre (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Points the finger at (7 letters)
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Memorable Supreme Court Justice (8 letters)
3 Down
Dakota Indians (8 letters)
4 Down
Initials at Pensacola (3 letters)
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"As might ___ so bright a dame!": Coleridge (6 letters)
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A Spanish queen and namesakes (4 letters)
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N.Y. summer time (3 letters)
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Poppycock (3 letters)
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Secret (6 letters)
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Heyerdahl's "Kon- ___" (4 letters)
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Tuskegee is one: Abbr. (4 letters)
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Harlem Renaissance poet Cullen (7 letters)
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Musical composition (5 letters)
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Educator-author ("Up From Slavery") (12 letters)
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Riotous, in Scotland (4 letters)
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Legacy of Aaron Douglas (3 letters)
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Disburses (6 letters)
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Spicy berry (5 letters)
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Medications (7 letters)
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Oahu instr. (3 letters)
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Emulated Niobe (4 letters)
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Court break for Zina Garrison, e.g. (3 letters)
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A creation of 95 Across (5 letters)
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Confuse (5 letters)
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Kind of admiral (4 letters)
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Meat entree (6 letters)
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___ Kitchen, in Manhattan (5 letters)
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Musician's sweet potato (7 letters)
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Rabbit trap (7 letters)
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Oldie introduced by Ethel Waters: 1924 (5 letters)
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Hts. (4 letters)
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" . . . swine ran violently down ___ place . . . ": Matt. 8:32 (6 letters)
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English river (4 letters)
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Thai money (5 letters)
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Language family (6 letters)
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Heartwood of an E. Indian tree (5 letters)
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Imported rosé (5 letters)
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Eurasian sea (7 letters)
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Eugene ___, memorable conductor (7 letters)
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Botanist who upgraded the South's economy (12 letters)
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___ Brothers of songdom (5 letters)
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Portion of bread, in Britain (4 letters)
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Muslim ruler (6 letters)
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Berlin song (4 letters)
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Kind of toaster (5 letters)
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Sinking (5 letters)
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Becomes less friendly (5 letters)
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Auditory (4 letters)
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Took a hike (7 letters)
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"Of ___ I Sing" (4 letters)
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Pulitzer Prize novelist Toni ___ (8 letters)
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Brooke, once, and Braun, now (8 letters)
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Stuffed (7 letters)
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Kokoon (3 letters)
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Cubic meters (6 letters)
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International easing of discord (7 letters)
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Financial-news editor-publisher: 1855-1928 (6 letters)
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Bromfield's "___ the Day Break" (5 letters)
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Ponds, in Paris (6 letters)
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Spanish landlady (5 letters)
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Free (of) (3 letters)
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Certain Egyptian (4 letters)
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Hootamaganzy (4 letters)
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This has a soffit (4 letters)
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Sheet of stamps (4 letters)
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___ Alamos (3 letters)
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Former Burmese capital (3 letters)
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Piquancy (3 letters)
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Kind of virus (3 letters)

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