NEWSPAPER CAPER

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Cathy Millhauser12/12/1993

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Olive's cousin (3 letters)
4 Across: Lets down or out (6 letters)
10 Across: A little night music? (4 letters)
14 Across: Improvisation with leftovers (4 letters)
18 Across: Ref's ring decision (3 letters)
19 Across: ''Do you really _____?'' (6 letters)
20 Across: Kate Nelligan title role, 1985 (5 letters)
22 Across: Land in the water (4 letters)
23 Across: Arctic newspaper? (10 letters)
25 Across: A quarter of Paris (5 letters)
26 Across: Speed (4 letters)
27 Across: It may be on a roll (4 letters)
28 Across: Hades newspaper? (14 letters)
31 Across: Pole, e.g. (4 letters)
32 Across: Anatomize (7 letters)
34 Across: Gable's ''G.W.T.W.'' costar (5 letters)
35 Across: Dynamic beginning (4 letters)
37 Across: Discovery cries (4 letters)
39 Across: Sad, to Sade (6 letters)
43 Across: Hoteliers' newspaper? (13 letters)
49 Across: Rocket flight event (7 letters)
50 Across: Abates (6 letters)
51 Across: Horse hair (4 letters)
52 Across: Middle March (4 letters)
54 Across: Tackle (4 letters)
55 Across: Scrap of scrapple (3 letters)
56 Across: Get the lead out, in a way (5 letters)
58 Across: Agnus _____ (3 letters)
59 Across: Hammett hero (5 letters)
60 Across: Journeys (4 letters)
62 Across: Courthouse newspaper? (10 letters)
65 Across: Result of riddling (5 letters)
66 Across: Fodders for mudders (4 letters)
68 Across: Start of a Faulkner title (3 letters)
69 Across: Spots (4 letters)
71 Across: Part of N.L.R.B. (5 letters)
74 Across: Hairdressers' newspaper? (10 letters)
79 Across: Wee bairns (4 letters)
83 Across: Senora's sayonara (5 letters)
84 Across: Author Levin (3 letters)
85 Across: Sounder (5 letters)
86 Across: Excusez-_____ (3 letters)
87 Across: Not on the rocks (4 letters)
88 Across: Filling for a taco (4 letters)
89 Across: Dough for a taco? (4 letters)
90 Across: Hit man's ''icing'' (6 letters)
93 Across: Thickness measurer (7 letters)
95 Across: Photographers' newspaper? (13 letters)
98 Across: Donahue of ''Father Knows Best'' (6 letters)
99 Across: Tatum's dad (4 letters)
100 Across: A Bates (4 letters)
101 Across: Must, slangily (5 letters)
103 Across: Tee-hees (7 letters)
107 Across: Terribly urgent (4 letters)
111 Across: Disk jockeys' newspaper? (14 letters)
115 Across: Macmillan's predecessor as P.M. (4 letters)
116 Across: Philosopher from Königsberg (4 letters)
117 Across: Union platform? (5 letters)
118 Across: Financial newspaper? (10 letters)
122 Across: Movie Chase (4 letters)
123 Across: Alabama city on the Alabama (5 letters)
124 Across: Slicker (6 letters)
125 Across: Expert (3 letters)
126 Across: Earth's shape (4 letters)
127 Across: Tight closure (4 letters)
128 Across: Oktoberfest souvenirs (6 letters)
129 Across: Eng. Inc. (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: A Musketeer (5 letters)
2 Down: Head of the anatomy class (5 letters)
3 Down: Prophetic son of Beeri (5 letters)
4 Down: First name in etiquette (3 letters)
5 Down: Book after Exod. (3 letters)
6 Down: Lao-tzu's universal (3 letters)
7 Down: Bagnold and Markey (5 letters)
8 Down: Mushes, as potatoes (5 letters)
9 Down: Rock singer Tyler (5 letters)
10 Down: ''To _____ Truth'' (7 letters)
11 Down: Sighing word (4 letters)
12 Down: Corolla components (6 letters)
13 Down: Cutting (5 letters)
14 Down: Nuptial newspaper? (12 letters)
15 Down: On the briny (4 letters)
16 Down: Blind piece (4 letters)
17 Down: Now partner (4 letters)
21 Down: Come-ons? (7 letters)
24 Down: Muriel cigar pitchman of the 50's (6 letters)
29 Down: Caesar's ''veni'' (5 letters)
30 Down: Folklore fiend (4 letters)
32 Down: Stops in (7 letters)
33 Down: Debtor's letters (3 letters)
36 Down: Richmond, Ky., coll. (3 letters)
38 Down: Out of the way (5 letters)
40 Down: Bargain for a burglar? (5 letters)
41 Down: NASDAQ transaction (5 letters)
42 Down: A Bronte heroine's family (5 letters)
43 Down: Stop up (4 letters)
44 Down: Lunch order (4 letters)
45 Down: Luncheon finisher (4 letters)
46 Down: Phony bill collectors (4 letters)
47 Down: Soft mineral (4 letters)
48 Down: Because (6 letters)
49 Down: Put out a new edition (7 letters)
53 Down: _____ Moines (3 letters)
57 Down: Mark of the N.H.L. (7 letters)
59 Down: The lass (3 letters)
61 Down: Western outlaw's newspaper? (12 letters)
63 Down: Omega preceded (3 letters)
64 Down: Gets the suds out (6 letters)
67 Down: Horace's ''_____ Poetica'' (3 letters)
70 Down: Registers (7 letters)
71 Down: Uhlan's weapon (5 letters)
72 Down: Hall's ''Let's Make _____'' (5 letters)
73 Down: Bagel alternative: Var. (5 letters)
75 Down: Rather than, to Cowper (3 letters)
76 Down: Challenge for denture wearers (5 letters)
77 Down: Big cut (4 letters)
78 Down: Elitist, in a way (4 letters)
80 Down: Leave out (4 letters)
81 Down: Author Morrison (4 letters)
82 Down: Omen or ''Open'', e.g. (4 letters)
88 Down: Wide, lacy collars (7 letters)
89 Down: Riot of a kind (5 letters)
91 Down: Sunshine St. (3 letters)
92 Down: Wheel guard (6 letters)
94 Down: Tigger's friend (4 letters)
96 Down: A pass that isn't forward (7 letters)
97 Down: Nasser led it: Abbr. (3 letters)
99 Down: Fluster (6 letters)
102 Down: Scrabble squares (5 letters)
104 Down: Stirs (5 letters)
105 Down: Quality (5 letters)
106 Down: Roman official (5 letters)
108 Down: Perfect (5 letters)
109 Down: Respond to a provocation (5 letters)
110 Down: Brought to a close (5 letters)
111 Down: Leave out (4 letters)
112 Down: Bull, cob or tom, e.g. (4 letters)
113 Down: ''Diana'' singer (4 letters)
114 Down: Sita's husband, in myth (4 letters)
119 Down: Weeks per annum (3 letters)
120 Down: Hankering (3 letters)
121 Down: Condo-ad abbr. (3 letters)

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