EPITAPH FOR AN INVENTOR

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Frances Hansen6/25/1995

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Across

1 Across: Check (6 letters)
7 Across: Fast time (7 letters)
14 Across: Baked desserts (6 letters)
20 Across: Put through a strainer (6 letters)
21 Across: It's much thanked in March (7 letters)
22 Across: Jinx (6 letters)
23 Across: Start of the epitaph (21 letters)
26 Across: Seventh-inning ritual (7 letters)
27 Across: Type of whale (3 letters)
28 Across: These can be lucky (6 letters)
29 Across: Overly (3 letters)
30 Across: One with a pitchfork (5 letters)
32 Across: Nevada town (3 letters)
33 Across: Start of a well-known hymn (6 letters)
37 Across: Painter of waterlilies (5 letters)
38 Across: Symbol of electric flux (3 letters)
39 Across: Obtain (4 letters)
43 Across: Down-home entertainment (4 letters)
44 Across: Late great Grant (4 letters)
45 Across: "_____ oui!" (certainly): Fr. (4 letters)
46 Across: Gottfried's sister, in opera (4 letters)
47 Across: More of the epitaph (21 letters)
53 Across: Tiverton river (3 letters)
54 Across: Pumped-up body (4 letters)
55 Across: Rough, as a road (5 letters)
56 Across: Simon and Diamond (5 letters)
57 Across: Stare at (7 letters)
59 Across: Beaut (6 letters)
61 Across: Ally of "St. Elmo's Fire" (6 letters)
62 Across: Sites for bookcases (7 letters)
64 Across: Having chairs, maybe (7 letters)
66 Across: Skullcap (6 letters)
69 Across: How to draw an egg (6 letters)
71 Across: Behan's "_____ Boy" (7 letters)
75 Across: Violinist Mischa (5 letters)
76 Across: Connaught county seat (5 letters)
77 Across: Japanese sandal (4 letters)
78 Across: Coded matter (3 letters)
79 Across: More of the epitaph (21 letters)
84 Across: Hospital supplies (4 letters)
85 Across: Be held in esteem (4 letters)
86 Across: Forbes profilees (4 letters)
87 Across: Years ago (4 letters)
88 Across: "_____ bien!" (4 letters)
89 Across: Pacino and Gore (3 letters)
90 Across: Boxer with a 90-9 career record (5 letters)
92 Across: Wasn't serious (6 letters)
94 Across: Puppeteer Baird (3 letters)
95 Across: Steven of Aerosmith (5 letters)
96 Across: Half a sawbuck (3 letters)
97 Across: Aware of (6 letters)
100 Across: Cricket sides (3 letters)
101 Across: Move (7 letters)
105 Across: End of the epitaph (21 letters)
110 Across: Less fleshy (6 letters)
111 Across: Regrouping tactic (7 letters)
112 Across: 1992 Wimbledon winner (6 letters)
113 Across: Takes it easy (6 letters)
114 Across: Computer memory (7 letters)
115 Across: Hardy novel locale, usually (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Kabibble of Kay Kyser's band (3 letters)
2 Down: Architect _____ van der Rohe (4 letters)
3 Down: Natty (4 letters)
4 Down: At all (4 letters)
5 Down: Kind of key (6 letters)
6 Down: Life support? (6 letters)
7 Down: Multitude of occurences (4 letters)
8 Down: Take steps (3 letters)
9 Down: _____-jongg (3 letters)
10 Down: Carol starter (6 letters)
11 Down: Master (6 letters)
12 Down: With full force (5 letters)
13 Down: Falstaff's rascally crony (3 letters)
14 Down: Ill-natured (8 letters)
15 Down: Football's Grier (5 letters)
16 Down: "Bridges of Madison County" setting (4 letters)
17 Down: Neighbor of 16-Down: Abbr. (4 letters)
18 Down: Big winnings (4 letters)
19 Down: Boozehound (3 letters)
24 Down: "Apocalypse Postponed" essayist (3 letters)
25 Down: Tub's problem (7 letters)
30 Down: Teed off (4 letters)
31 Down: Novelist Seton (4 letters)
33 Down: "Long time _____!" (5 letters)
34 Down: Adhesive (5 letters)
35 Down: Paris' Musée de l'_____ (5 letters)
36 Down: Jewish _____ (3 letters)
37 Down: The "M" in M-1 rifle (4 letters)
38 Down: Encouraged, in a way (6 letters)
39 Down: Tries again to make rain (7 letters)
40 Down: "Dallas" Miss (5 letters)
41 Down: _____ as the hills (5 letters)
42 Down: Sucker (5 letters)
44 Down: Food wrapping, informally (5 letters)
45 Down: Rebel (6 letters)
48 Down: Good beating (7 letters)
49 Down: Actor Tom of "Amadeus" (5 letters)
50 Down: Buddy (3 letters)
51 Down: European blackbird (5 letters)
52 Down: Be left (7 letters)
58 Down: Bats (7 letters)
59 Down: Work out (6 letters)
60 Down: Lake of the Ozarks tributary (5 letters)
61 Down: Avowed (5 letters)
63 Down: Triptych side panels (6 letters)
65 Down: Cousins of musettes (5 letters)
66 Down: Half of a Disney duo (5 letters)
67 Down: Inventor Sperry (5 letters)
68 Down: Dean Martin subject (5 letters)
70 Down: Truncate (3 letters)
72 Down: E.C. Bentley detective (5 letters)
73 Down: Within _____ of (near) (5 letters)
74 Down: Filled a hold (5 letters)
76 Down: Hardly intellectual (7 letters)
77 Down: Site of King David's royal residence (4 letters)
80 Down: Rats (8 letters)
81 Down: Farm unit (4 letters)
82 Down: Well up (4 letters)
83 Down: Some fashion tips (3 letters)
90 Down: Go-getter (6 letters)
91 Down: Lough Erne location (6 letters)
92 Down: Common card-table project (6 letters)
93 Down: Incense (6 letters)
94 Down: "John Brown's Body" poet (5 letters)
95 Down: Namely (5 letters)
96 Down: "For shame!" (3 letters)
97 Down: Owl's question? (4 letters)
98 Down: Gaels of college athletics (4 letters)
99 Down: Nordica products (4 letters)
101 Down: Little bit (4 letters)
102 Down: Puzzle solvers' cries (4 letters)
103 Down: 1994 title role for Shirley MacLaine (4 letters)
104 Down: Facility (4 letters)
105 Down: Pugilists' org. (3 letters)
106 Down: Relatives of aves. (3 letters)
107 Down: Shelley's "_____ Skylark" (3 letters)
108 Down: Schlep (3 letters)
109 Down: Fort _____, N.J. (3 letters)

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