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Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23170 clues~30-60 minBy Charles M. Deber3/12/1995

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: '60s labor leader (5 letters)
6 Across: Aristotle treatise (6 letters)
12 Across: They're no gentlemen (4 letters)
16 Across: Filmmaker's special effects shot (5 letters)
21 Across: TV comic Degeneres (5 letters)
22 Across: Fit to till (6 letters)
23 Across: Mule Sal's canal (4 letters)
24 Across: Literature Nobelist Canetti (5 letters)
25 Across: Headline of #36,683 (Ju1y 1, 1958) (17 letters)
28 Across: Explosive liquid (5 letters)
29 Across: Motley (6 letters)
30 Across: Nightclothes, informally (3 letters)
31 Across: Fragrant compound (5 letters)
32 Across: Gym wear (6 letters)
33 Across: Controversial James Lovelock book (4 letters)
35 Across: Marks left (5 letters)
36 Across: Proust hero (5 letters)
37 Across: Headline of #6,256 (Oct. 9, 1871) (14 letters)
43 Across: Holiday stamp (4 letters)
44 Across: Language suffix (3 letters)
47 Across: Eared seals (7 letters)
48 Across: Proboscis (4 letters)
49 Across: Be gracious to (5 letters)
50 Across: Ancient Chinese dynasty (3 letters)
51 Across: Sang like a crow (5 letters)
52 Across: Bull: Prefix (4 letters)
54 Across: It has many feet (4 letters)
55 Across: Assault (5 letters)
57 Across: Headline of #31,545 (June 6, 1944) (16 letters)
62 Across: Slowpoke (5 letters)
63 Across: Part of L.A. (3 letters)
64 Across: "The Cocktail Party" playwright (5 letters)
65 Across: Roofer's concern (5 letters)
66 Across: Alters (6 letters)
68 Across: They can be grand (5 letters)
69 Across: Where clothes spin (5 letters)
70 Across: Ziegfeld, to pals (3 letters)
71 Across: Hootchie _____ (3 letters)
72 Across: Baseball historian Burns (3 letters)
75 Across: Vandals (4 letters)
76 Across: Tiny openings (5 letters)
77 Across: Song sung singly (4 letters)
78 Across: Variety show since 1975: Abbr. (3 letters)
79 Across: Uganda's Amin (3 letters)
80 Across: Dortmund dessert (3 letters)
81 Across: Pipe root (5 letters)
82 Across: Point count bidding pioneer (5 letters)
83 Across: Socials (6 letters)
85 Across: Anthony or Elmo, e.g. (5 letters)
86 Across: Dolphin sense (5 letters)
87 Across: Alphabet trio (3 letters)
90 Across: Mellow Mel (5 letters)
91 Across: Headline of #48,377 (Oct. 3, 1990) (16 letters)
95 Across: Party line (5 letters)
96 Across: Iran's Bani-_____ (4 letters)
97 Across: Hardly trustworthy (4 letters)
98 Across: "All right" (5 letters)
99 Across: Eight-time Norris Trophy winner (3 letters)
100 Across: Cooper's Bumppo (5 letters)
102 Across: Box (4 letters)
104 Across: Comic strip originally called "Li'l Folks" (7 letters)
106 Across: Mao follower (3 letters)
107 Across: Swing around (4 letters)
108 Across: Headline of #26,212 (Oct. 30, 1929) (14 letters)
111 Across: Biological bodies (5 letters)
113 Across: Unwilling (5 letters)
114 Across: Hit obliquely, as a nail (4 letters)
115 Across: Stage actress Martin et al. (6 letters)
117 Across: Malaysian export (5 letters)
118 Across: Comet's path in the sky (3 letters)
119 Across: Eras (6 letters)
125 Across: "Ragged Dick" writer (5 letters)
126 Across: Headline of #27,710 (Dec. 6, 1933) (17 letters)
129 Across: Kind of boom (5 letters)
130 Across: "Beloved" author Morrison (4 letters)
131 Across: Actress Dorothy (6 letters)
132 Across: Olga's successor (5 letters)
133 Across: CBS exec Laurence (5 letters)
134 Across: Church part (4 letters)
135 Across: City on the Willamette (6 letters)
136 Across: With it (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Learn via the grapevine (4 letters)
2 Down: Stew (4 letters)
3 Down: Ross national product (4 letters)
4 Down: Song or slug follower (4 letters)
5 Down: "Puppy Love" singer, 1960 (4 letters)
6 Down: Sup (3 letters)
7 Down: Capricorn, e.g. (6 letters)
8 Down: Palindromic Yemeni city (6 letters)
9 Down: Nigerian people (4 letters)
10 Down: Year in Ptolemy's life (3 letters)
11 Down: Iroquoian Indians (7 letters)
12 Down: Il _____ di gravita (6 letters)
13 Down: Bygone Dodge (5 letters)
14 Down: New Look designer (4 letters)
15 Down: D.C. V.I.P. (3 letters)
16 Down: Headline of #40,721 (July 21, 1969) (13 letters)
17 Down: Highly unusual (5 letters)
18 Down: Headline of #19,806 (April 16, 1912) (12 letters)
19 Down: Not bland (4 letters)
20 Down: Those, in Tegucigalpa (4 letters)
26 Down: Texas A&M player (5 letters)
27 Down: Grammarian's topic (5 letters)
32 Down: Ugly Duckling, actually (4 letters)
34 Down: Reply: Abbr. (3 letters)
35 Down: It may be tied (5 letters)
36 Down: Tuxedo junction (4 letters)
37 Down: The "f" in f-stop (5 letters)
38 Down: _____-Turkish War, 1911-12 (5 letters)
39 Down: Singer Lou (5 letters)
40 Down: "..._____ saw Elba" (4 letters)
41 Down: Up-down connector (4 letters)
42 Down: Eskimo people (5 letters)
43 Down: Wood stock sites (5 letters)
45 Down: Author Sidney (7 letters)
46 Down: Diamond datum (3 letters)
49 Down: Color tester (5 letters)
52 Down: Cuts away (5 letters)
53 Down: "My Michael" writer _____ Oz (4 letters)
54 Down: Smooths the way (5 letters)
56 Down: Not, to a Scot (3 letters)
58 Down: "Cannonball Run" co-star (7 letters)
59 Down: Mathematician Turing et al. (5 letters)
60 Down: Put teeth into (7 letters)
61 Down: Productive hen (5 letters)
62 Down: They've got the goods (7 letters)
67 Down: Monetary unit of Peru (3 letters)
68 Down: Headline of #4,110 (Nov. 25, 1864) (13 letters)
69 Down: "What's _____?" (5 letters)
70 Down: Brief incursion (5 letters)
72 Down: Kipling youth (3 letters)
73 Down: Copyholders? (7 letters)
74 Down: Headline of #42,566 (Aug. 9, 1974) (12 letters)
76 Down: Rap sheet info (5 letters)
77 Down: Any lad (5 letters)
81 Down: Off-color (5 letters)
82 Down: Ideal (4 letters)
84 Down: Energy unit (3 letters)
85 Down: Washington _____ (5 letters)
86 Down: Brat's look (5 letters)
87 Down: Equip (5 letters)
88 Down: Proofreading marks (5 letters)
89 Down: To the point (5 letters)
92 Down: European freshwater fish (5 letters)
93 Down: Caspian tributary (4 letters)
94 Down: Pop singer Hendryx (4 letters)
95 Down: Rustic house (3 letters)
96 Down: Actor Erwin et al. (4 letters)
101 Down: "Woe is me!" (4 letters)
102 Down: "First _____ see..." (5 letters)
103 Down: Drink (7 letters)
104 Down: "Israfel" writer (3 letters)
105 Down: Senior Mormon (5 letters)
108 Down: Meryl Streep's 1982 title role (6 letters)
109 Down: Comfortable gait (6 letters)
110 Down: Caterpillar's quarters (6 letters)
112 Down: Type of acid (5 letters)
113 Down: Grebes' cousins (5 letters)
115 Down: Z-like (4 letters)
116 Down: "The Time Machine" people (4 letters)
117 Down: Cut short (4 letters)
118 Down: Give _____ (pull) (4 letters)
120 Down: Catcher Tony (4 letters)
121 Down: Solitaire item (4 letters)
122 Down: Turn over (4 letters)
123 Down: Bangs, e.g. (4 letters)
124 Down: Chair support (4 letters)
126 Down: Educ. grp. (3 letters)
127 Down: Cash alternative (3 letters)
128 Down: From N.M. to N.D (3 letters)

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