HO, HO, HO

Difficulty: HardGrid: 25x25190 clues~30-60 minBy John M. Samson12/19/1993

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Across

1 Across: Tv excerpts (5 letters)
6 Across: Adjective for an elf (5 letters)
11 Across: Ate like a bird (6 letters)
17 Across: Grated cheese (6 letters)
23 Across: Rousseau or Matisse (5 letters)
24 Across: Copier requirement (5 letters)
25 Across: Darting ballet movement (6 letters)
26 Across: Writer Wylie (6 letters)
27 Across: Landed (5 letters)
28 Across: Woolly, maybe (5 letters)
29 Across: The emu, for one (6 letters)
30 Across: Sampled (6 letters)
31 Across: 1969 Anthony Quinn film (20 letters)
35 Across: Pale aqua (4 letters)
36 Across: Lament (4 letters)
37 Across: "The ___ Love" (Gershwin tune) (4 letters)
38 Across: The Flintstones' "snorkasaurus" (4 letters)
40 Across: Foretells (8 letters)
44 Across: Black suit (6 letters)
46 Across: Longfellow poem (9 letters)
51 Across: Wined and dined (7 letters)
52 Across: James Farmer grp. (4 letters)
53 Across: Be doctor to (4 letters)
55 Across: Toyed with (5 letters)
56 Across: One way to be taken (5 letters)
57 Across: Any Louis from I to XVIII (3 letters)
58 Across: Closefitting (4 letters)
60 Across: Patois (5 letters)
61 Across: William Gaines founded it in 1953 (3 letters)
62 Across: Long-running NBC soap (8 letters)
67 Across: Forbearing (7 letters)
70 Across: Actress Sue ___ Langdon (3 letters)
71 Across: Roosters, in a way (6 letters)
72 Across: Rosie's bolt (5 letters)
73 Across: Like the ankylosaur (7 letters)
76 Across: "Mazel ___!" (3 letters)
79 Across: Jagger's band, with "the" (6 letters)
80 Across: Site of a 1975 "Thrilla" (6 letters)
81 Across: Stadium level (4 letters)
82 Across: Japan's largest lake (3 letters)
83 Across: French world (5 letters)
84 Across: Peyote (6 letters)
85 Across: Early-blooming, in old poetry (5 letters)
89 Across: Reply for Miss O'Hanlon (25 letters)
96 Across: Slowpoke (5 letters)
97 Across: Scroogelike, in a way (6 letters)
98 Across: Nucleus of officers (5 letters)
99 Across: "Great Expectations" hero (3 letters)
100 Across: Nudnik (4 letters)
103 Across: Ten through ace (6 letters)
104 Across: Waco university (6 letters)
105 Across: Piggery (3 letters)
106 Across: ___ kill (doll up) (7 letters)
109 Across: Abdominal ailment (5 letters)
110 Across: Zoom and fisheye (6 letters)
111 Across: Grig (3 letters)
112 Across: Parvenu (7 letters)
114 Across: Beethoven's Sixth (8 letters)
116 Across: Legend locale? (3 letters)
119 Across: Shake like ___ (5 letters)
122 Across: Splinter group (4 letters)
123 Across: Popular card game (3 letters)
124 Across: Sultan Said, e.g. (5 letters)
126 Across: Washer cycle (5 letters)
127 Across: One of the five W's (4 letters)
129 Across: City in northern Brazil (4 letters)
130 Across: Baked holiday treat (7 letters)
132 Across: "26 Miles" island (9 letters)
135 Across: Call to a waitress (6 letters)
137 Across: Embassies (8 letters)
138 Across: Piccadilly Circus statue (4 letters)
139 Across: Ancient temple (4 letters)
140 Across: "So that's what you mean" (4 letters)
141 Across: "Miracle Mile" star (4 letters)
144 Across: Train in a song by 74-Down (20 letters)
155 Across: Hidden (6 letters)
157 Across: John Wayne film set in Africa (6 letters)
158 Across: Wolf herring (5 letters)
159 Across: Elite Navy group (5 letters)
160 Across: Sports racquet (6 letters)
161 Across: Peaceful (6 letters)
162 Across: "All kidding ___ ..." (5 letters)
163 Across: Radiuses' partners (5 letters)
164 Across: Sank a sinker (6 letters)
165 Across: Nobelist Mother (6 letters)
166 Across: Netherworld (5 letters)
167 Across: "Beetle Bailey" intellect (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Bat the breeze (4 letters)
2 Down: Walesa of Warsaw (4 letters)
3 Down: As to (4 letters)
4 Down: Chief exec. (4 letters)
5 Down: December bell ringer (9 letters)
6 Down: Floored (7 letters)
7 Down: Huts (6 letters)
8 Down: "Step ___!" (4 letters)
9 Down: City west of Sparks (4 letters)
10 Down: Not kosher (4 letters)
11 Down: Spread throughout (7 letters)
12 Down: Galahad's mother (6 letters)
13 Down: Spiteful (7 letters)
14 Down: Make a bootee (4 letters)
15 Down: Prefix used in "Ghostbusters" (4 letters)
16 Down: Stag party? (4 letters)
17 Down: Market (6 letters)
18 Down: Wave on the Ebro (3 letters)
19 Down: "Prairie dog," for example (8 letters)
20 Down: Opposed (4 letters)
21 Down: "The First ___" (4 letters)
22 Down: General Wingate (4 letters)
32 Down: "Amos & Andres" star Nicolas (4 letters)
33 Down: One of Niña's companions (6 letters)
34 Down: Dictator Amin (3 letters)
39 Down: Vincent Lopez's theme song (4 letters)
40 Down: Baby buggy (4 letters)
41 Down: Singer McEntire (4 letters)
42 Down: "Zounds!" (4 letters)
43 Down: Cul-de ___ (3 letters)
44 Down: Beats it (6 letters)
45 Down: Standard & ___ (5 letters)
46 Down: Noted California race track (6 letters)
47 Down: Air duct (4 letters)
48 Down: Mystery award (5 letters)
49 Down: Peter of Herman's Hermits (5 letters)
50 Down: Pitched in? (5 letters)
54 Down: Actress Getty (7 letters)
59 Down: Annoying buzzer (4 letters)
63 Down: Ulan ___ (5 letters)
64 Down: "___ came a spider..." (5 letters)
65 Down: "Amazing" magician (5 letters)
66 Down: Deep brownish-green (5 letters)
67 Down: Lobster claws (7 letters)
68 Down: Place where many flights originate (6 letters)
69 Down: Part of TNT (3 letters)
72 Down: Bacon slices (7 letters)
74 Down: See 144-Across (6 letters)
75 Down: Sounded (4 letters)
76 Down: North Pole exports (4 letters)
77 Down: Straw in the wind (4 letters)
78 Down: Discover rival (4 letters)
79 Down: Beams (6 letters)
80 Down: Allocate (7 letters)
84 Down: To the ___ born (6 letters)
86 Down: "Lights out" indicator (4 letters)
87 Down: Twice quatre (4 letters)
88 Down: Agriculture Secretary Mike (4 letters)
90 Down: Big wheels (4 letters)
91 Down: Seclude (7 letters)
92 Down: "___ Stop Loving You" (5 letters)
93 Down: Go-ahead (5 letters)
94 Down: Sherlock Holmes's love Irene ___ (5 letters)
95 Down: City north of San Francisco (5 letters)
101 Down: Erwin of 50's TV (3 letters)
102 Down: First-class (4 letters)
103 Down: ___ ride (thumb) (6 letters)
104 Down: Twiggy brooms (6 letters)
106 Down: Yuletide salutation (5 letters)
107 Down: Museum artifact (5 letters)
108 Down: Turgenev heroine (5 letters)
110 Down: Bucolic byways (5 letters)
113 Down: Darned (4 letters)
114 Down: Stickler (6 letters)
115 Down: Relaxes (9 letters)
116 Down: Deadly shark (4 letters)
117 Down: Have ___ with (4 letters)
118 Down: Sondheim's "The Worst ___ in London" (4 letters)
120 Down: Phone button (8 letters)
121 Down: Trepidation (4 letters)
125 Down: "Pardonnez- ___!" (3 letters)
128 Down: Irrational (7 letters)
129 Down: Los Angeles suburb (7 letters)
130 Down: Capital of Equatorial Guineau, once (7 letters)
131 Down: State workers' union: Abbr. (4 letters)
133 Down: Well-heeled (6 letters)
134 Down: Suffix with lobby or hobby (3 letters)
136 Down: Japanese coats (6 letters)
137 Down: Nanki-Poo's father (6 letters)
141 Down: "Alphabet Song" start (4 letters)
142 Down: Expert (4 letters)
143 Down: Elvis ___ Presley (4 letters)
145 Down: Gambler's marker (4 letters)
146 Down: Lagomorph (4 letters)
147 Down: Brain passage (4 letters)
148 Down: Turkish rooms (4 letters)
149 Down: Ritzy (4 letters)
150 Down: Sight from Sandusky (4 letters)
151 Down: Name in paperback publishing (4 letters)
152 Down: Kind of winds (4 letters)
153 Down: Fizzless (4 letters)
154 Down: Old gas brand (4 letters)
156 Down: Language ending (3 letters)

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