THE MODERN CYNIC

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy M. W. Perry1/28/1996

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Across

1 Across: Waste (4 letters)
5 Across: "Catch!" (4 letters)
9 Across: Pure (6 letters)
15 Across: Canine greeting (3 letters)
18 Across: Stevenson character (4 letters)
19 Across: Sharp (5 letters)
21 Across: Corrida participant (6 letters)
22 Across: Early August arrival (3 letters)
23 Across: "Quanto è bella," e.g. (4 letters)
24 Across: Weather forecast (5 letters)
25 Across: Only Illinois-born President (6 letters)
26 Across: Defile (3 letters)
27 Across: Speaker of this puzzle's quip (14 letters)
30 Across: Soothe (6 letters)
32 Across: Knotted up (5 letters)
33 Across: Petition (3 letters)
34 Across: Wins over (7 letters)
35 Across: Noted writer on poker (6 letters)
38 Across: Foundation (3 letters)
39 Across: Stage planning (5 letters)
40 Across: Part 1 of the quip (15 letters)
45 Across: Island transportation (5 letters)
49 Across: Semiconductor giant (5 letters)
50 Across: Actor's direction (4 letters)
51 Across: Slick (4 letters)
52 Across: Dodge (5 letters)
53 Across: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame architect (3 letters)
54 Across: Kind of movie (4 letters)
55 Across: Remote button (4 letters)
56 Across: "Eat!" (5 letters)
57 Across: Tangle (5 letters)
59 Across: Many a Michener novel (4 letters)
60 Across: "Impression: Sunrise" and others (6 letters)
61 Across: Part 2 of the quip (21 letters)
67 Across: "Britannicus" playwright (6 letters)
68 Across: Be bereft of (4 letters)
69 Across: The Louvre's "Venus d'___" (5 letters)
70 Across: Battery end (5 letters)
71 Across: Reference (4 letters)
72 Across: Betting game, informally (4 letters)
73 Across: "Deep Space Nine" changeling (3 letters)
76 Across: Kim Philby and others (5 letters)
77 Across: Gossip (4 letters)
78 Across: Stitch together (4 letters)
79 Across: Rocky Mountain town (5 letters)
81 Across: Sci-fi writer Anthony (5 letters)
82 Across: Part 3 of the quip (15 letters)
85 Across: Disheveled (5 letters)
87 Across: Facilitate (3 letters)
88 Across: Hobo's lodging (6 letters)
89 Across: Younger son of a Spanish monarch (7 letters)
92 Across: Christmas staple (3 letters)
93 Across: Perspective (5 letters)
95 Across: Reward (6 letters)
96 Across: End of the quip (14 letters)
102 Across: Street of film (3 letters)
103 Across: 1965 Yardbirds hit (6 letters)
105 Across: Nicholas Gage book (5 letters)
106 Across: Leading___ (4 letters)
107 Across: Wolfed (3 letters)
108 Across: On now (6 letters)
109 Across: Australian sheep menace (5 letters)
110 Across: Capacity (4 letters)
111 Across: Club___ (3 letters)
112 Across: Commercial papers (6 letters)
113 Across: First place (4 letters)
114 Across: Kind of dog (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Bygone ruler (4 letters)
2 Down: Prop for Orpheus (4 letters)
3 Down: Frigg's husband (4 letters)
4 Down: Part of "Twelve Days of Christmas" gift (8 letters)
5 Down: Carriage horse (7 letters)
6 Down: Psychologist Havelock___ (5 letters)
7 Down: Pee Wee of Cooperstown (5 letters)
8 Down: Christian and others (4 letters)
9 Down: Threshold (5 letters)
10 Down: "Waiting for the Robert___" (4 letters)
11 Down: Gertrude Lawrence film bio (4 letters)
12 Down: Coat, in old slang (3 letters)
13 Down: Like 1, 2, 3 (6 letters)
14 Down: 1986 Pulitzer novel (12 letters)
15 Down: Place of worship (5 letters)
16 Down: Sphere (5 letters)
17 Down: Return parts (5 letters)
20 Down: Make scores of 60 (7 letters)
28 Down: Streisand film (5 letters)
29 Down: Fully exposed (4 letters)
31 Down: Comedy club on cable TV (9 letters)
34 Down: Stand up to (4 letters)
35 Down: Fragment (4 letters)
36 Down: Movie prefix (4 letters)
37 Down: Hostile to (4 letters)
38 Down: Nancy, in a Sir William Gilbert song (4 letters)
39 Down: ___Food Company (4 letters)
41 Down: Pioneer bacteriologist J.R. (5 letters)
42 Down: Deify (5 letters)
43 Down: Treat with nuts (6 letters)
44 Down: Pre-Jet New York footballer (5 letters)
46 Down: Sound of Washington (5 letters)
47 Down: "Dombey and Son" wife (5 letters)
48 Down: Compact (5 letters)
54 Down: Clearance (4 letters)
55 Down: Mt. Katahdin's locale (5 letters)
57 Down: Peter Parker's alias (9 letters)
58 Down: Superfluous (12 letters)
59 Down: Blister (6 letters)
60 Down: Adjective in cigarette ads (4 letters)
61 Down: "My Three Sons" dog (5 letters)
62 Down: Former enemy capital (5 letters)
63 Down: Molière's "L'___des femmes" (5 letters)
64 Down: First two words of "Dixie" (5 letters)
65 Down: "Fie, thou dishonest___!": "Twelfth Night" (5 letters)
66 Down: Complainer (5 letters)
71 Down: Slicker's home (4 letters)
72 Down: Acorn, e.g. (4 letters)
73 Down: Outdoors (4 letters)
74 Down: Small progress (4 letters)
75 Down: "I'm___you!" (4 letters)
77 Down: Two pills, e.g. (4 letters)
78 Down: Rousted (7 letters)
79 Down: Bowl (5 letters)
80 Down: Sows (8 letters)
83 Down: S.C. Johnson brand (4 letters)
84 Down: Rapture (7 letters)
86 Down: Perplex (6 letters)
89 Down: Girder (5 letters)
90 Down: "Extreme Prejudice" actor (5 letters)
91 Down: Got angry (5 letters)
92 Down: Large canines (5 letters)
93 Down: Outlay (5 letters)
94 Down: Knife wielder's move (5 letters)
96 Down: Contemporary novelist Martin (4 letters)
97 Down: Curse (4 letters)
98 Down: Writer Wiesel (4 letters)
99 Down: ___worship (4 letters)
100 Down: Check out, so to speak (4 letters)
101 Down: Desideratum (4 letters)
104 Down: Coach Parseghian (3 letters)

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