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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Alex & Victoria Black2/12/1995

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Liquor shop order (4 letters)
5 Across: Apple variety (5 letters)
10 Across: Carson predecessor (4 letters)
14 Across: Bag, in dialect (4 letters)
18 Across: One of the Bowls (4 letters)
19 Across: Exemplary (5 letters)
20 Across: "_____ when?" (5 letters)
21 Across: Final notice (4 letters)
22 Across: Nest eggs, for short (4 letters)
23 Across: Softly (5 letters)
24 Across: Kind of dish (5 letters)
25 Across: Give the slip to (4 letters)
26 Across: Potholes (20 letters)
30 Across: Makes one (6 letters)
31 Across: Grays (4 letters)
32 Across: Wine holder (3 letters)
33 Across: Claims (7 letters)
36 Across: Part of the familia (3 letters)
37 Across: Addition to a letter (7 letters)
41 Across: First name in hotelkeeping (5 letters)
42 Across: Manicurist (14 letters)
46 Across: Projecting angle (4 letters)
47 Across: Lasso parts (6 letters)
49 Across: Iota (4 letters)
50 Across: Thunder Bay locale: Abbr. (3 letters)
51 Across: Schoenberg's "_____ to Napoleon" (3 letters)
52 Across: Engross (5 letters)
53 Across: Exfoliate (4 letters)
54 Across: Idiosyncrasy (4 letters)
56 Across: Parachute attacks (18 letters)
61 Across: Store fodder (6 letters)
62 Across: Sushi offering (3 letters)
63 Across: Shaky start? (6 letters)
67 Across: Wristwatch (18 letters)
74 Across: Ornery fellow (4 letters)
76 Across: Heart-to-heart (4 letters)
77 Across: Indispensable (5 letters)
78 Across: Literary initials (3 letters)
79 Across: What "+" means: Abbr. (3 letters)
80 Across: "Easy to Be Hard" musical (4 letters)
81 Across: Webster, for one (6 letters)
83 Across: Roman ethicist (4 letters)
84 Across: Utility bill (14 letters)
88 Across: Timekeeper, of sorts (5 letters)
89 Across: Encroachments (7 letters)
90 Across: _____ Brainard, the Absent-Minded Professor (3 letters)
91 Across: Intellectualizes (7 letters)
93 Across: Bus depot abbr. (3 letters)
94 Across: Belt (4 letters)
96 Across: Detects (6 letters)
98 Across: Dust (20 letters)
105 Across: Hatcher of "Lois & Clark" (4 letters)
106 Across: False front (5 letters)
107 Across: Hearing enabled (5 letters)
108 Across: Plant pod (4 letters)
109 Across: Cereal choice (4 letters)
110 Across: Over (5 letters)
111 Across: Admiral Byrd book (5 letters)
112 Across: 1967 folk album (4 letters)
113 Across: Something to break into (4 letters)
114 Across: Opposite of alway (4 letters)
115 Across: Nudges (5 letters)
116 Across: Individual figure (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Minimum wager (4 letters)
2 Down: Goddess of gentle winds (4 letters)
3 Down: Tito, e.g. (4 letters)
4 Down: Right of passage (8 letters)
5 Down: It comes as a shock (6 letters)
6 Down: Activities (6 letters)
7 Down: Early TV's "_____ With Judy" (5 letters)
8 Down: Repairs (5 letters)
9 Down: Gin flavoring (4 letters)
10 Down: Slice (5 letters)
11 Down: Pro's foes (5 letters)
12 Down: Port north of Haifa (4 letters)
13 Down: Create the wheel? (8 letters)
14 Down: Tactful (7 letters)
15 Down: Penetrating wind (4 letters)
16 Down: 1930 hit "The _____ Waltz" (4 letters)
17 Down: It starts in juin (3 letters)
20 Down: Tap (6 letters)
27 Down: Prefix with dose (4 letters)
28 Down: Goes belly up (5 letters)
29 Down: Muslim judge (4 letters)
33 Down: Bookcase site (6 letters)
34 Down: Heavy (6 letters)
35 Down: Hardly partygoers (6 letters)
36 Down: Secure (3 letters)
37 Down: Kind of dog (5 letters)
38 Down: Regulus' constellation, with "the" (4 letters)
39 Down: Thin (4 letters)
40 Down: Hill dweller (3 letters)
42 Down: Author Behn (4 letters)
43 Down: Spumante source (4 letters)
44 Down: Juice server (4 letters)
45 Down: "Good night, _____" (old TV sign-off) (4 letters)
47 Down: Comparatively likable (5 letters)
48 Down: Follicles have them (3 letters)
52 Down: Vexes (5 letters)
53 Down: It gets a tanning (4 letters)
54 Down: Pay obeisance (5 letters)
55 Down: "The doctor _____" (4 letters)
57 Down: Rewards for waiting (4 letters)
58 Down: Without water (4 letters)
59 Down: French preservative (3 letters)
60 Down: Sesame Street dweller (5 letters)
64 Down: Prefix with sphere (6 letters)
65 Down: Overcoat material (6 letters)
66 Down: Bean and others (6 letters)
68 Down: Bushels (5 letters)
69 Down: Home to 19 Congressmen (4 letters)
70 Down: Pusher's pursuer (4 letters)
71 Down: Sculptor Mestrovic (4 letters)
72 Down: Fly catcher (4 letters)
73 Down: W.W. II area: Abbr. (3 letters)
74 Down: '40s boxer Billy (4 letters)
75 Down: Word with friendly or fee (4 letters)
79 Down: Ieoh Ming _____ (3 letters)
80 Down: #1 on a table (8 letters)
81 Down: Physics particle (5 letters)
82 Down: Flushed (3 letters)
83 Down: Winter melons: Var. (8 letters)
85 Down: Brisk, as business (7 letters)
86 Down: Uniforms (4 letters)
87 Down: Having a single foot (6 letters)
88 Down: _____ State (David Letterman's alma mater) (4 letters)
91 Down: Fresh (6 letters)
92 Down: Escapes (6 letters)
94 Down: Nasty (5 letters)
95 Down: North Sea feeder (5 letters)
96 Down: Warmed-over (5 letters)
97 Down: Some Surrealist works (5 letters)
98 Down: Pertaining to flight (4 letters)
99 Down: Neighbor of Armenia (4 letters)
100 Down: Ancient writing (4 letters)
101 Down: Come by (4 letters)
102 Down: Suit material, perhaps (4 letters)
103 Down: Miss Cinders of old comics (4 letters)
104 Down: Groove (4 letters)
105 Down: Cable net (3 letters)

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