GAINING MOMENTUM

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy B. Klahn3/3/1996

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1 Across
Crockett's partner on "Miami Vice" (5 letters)
6 Across
Turquoise (4 letters)
10 Across
1982 best seller on sexuality, with "The" (5 letters)
15 Across
In-tents experience? (4 letters)
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To smithereens (5 letters)
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Crescent (4 letters)
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Freedom, in Swahili (5 letters)
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"Jewel Song," e.g. (4 letters)
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Codicil (5 letters)
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Monkeyshine (4 letters)
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Table game for brooders? (10 letters)
27 Across
Symbol on French V.I.P.'s cars? (12 letters)
30 Across
Ascribe (6 letters)
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Hard-rock connection (3 letters)
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Elvis's "A Fool Such___" (3 letters)
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Umbrella part (3 letters)
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Social worker (3 letters)
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One of the family (3 letters)
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Dish in a cream sauce to remember? (16 letters)
43 Across
He follows the news (4 letters)
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CH3 (chemical) (6 letters)
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___Tin Tin (3 letters)
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Mideastern jambalaya (5 letters)
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Snappish (4 letters)
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Like some textbook publishers (4 letters)
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Name in a Salinger title (4 letters)
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Dispatch (4 letters)
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On one's___ (3 letters)
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Angel hair, e.g. (5 letters)
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Early South African P.M. Jan (5 letters)
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Coins in a Spanish treasure (6 letters)
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Affianced (8 letters)
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Watered down (4 letters)
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Japanese emperor beginning 1989 (7 letters)
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Scuttlebutt (5 letters)
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Bit of dew (9 letters)
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Very, to Verdi (5 letters)
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Habitual liar (7 letters)
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Harness part (4 letters)
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Situated along a river (8 letters)
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"The Look of Love" pianist, 1968 (6 letters)
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Sported (5 letters)
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Fear (5 letters)
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Emerson's "jealous mistress" (3 letters)
80 Across
Battling (4 letters)
81 Across
Secures (4 letters)
82 Across
Stinky (4 letters)
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Some game (4 letters)
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Baseball's Little Colonel (5 letters)
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NBC prog. since 1975 (3 letters)
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Marbles, so to speak (6 letters)
94 Across
Ron Howard's first TV role (4 letters)
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Fashion designer who loves an old Ford? (16 letters)
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Cartoon Chihuahua (3 letters)
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Complete (3 letters)
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Horned Frogs of coll. football (3 letters)
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Coddled item (3 letters)
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Jupiter or Saturn (3 letters)
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Long-distance auto race (6 letters)
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Hit song by a Beatles janitor? (12 letters)
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Cat's mealtime lament? (10 letters)
112 Across
Malaria symptom (4 letters)
113 Across
What a dhoti covers (5 letters)
116 Across
B, gradewise (4 letters)
117 Across
Moliere miss (5 letters)
118 Across
Literally, "injured" (4 letters)
119 Across
"The Untouchables" composer Morricone (5 letters)
120 Across
Ustinov in "Quo Vadis?" (4 letters)
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Hurried over? (5 letters)
122 Across
Fleet fleet (4 letters)
123 Across
Doer of good deeds (5 letters)

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Seafarer (3 letters)
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Name in the news (3 letters)
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Treachery (8 letters)
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"If We Only Have Love" composer (4 letters)
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Unevenly colored (7 letters)
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Buzz in space (6 letters)
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Piccadilly pound (4 letters)
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Be the basis of (8 letters)
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Wind-blown (7 letters)
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Judy Garland's real last name (4 letters)
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Wave away (4 letters)
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Small boxers (4 letters)
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Mouth: Prefix (3 letters)
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Utensil of note (10 letters)
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Fearless Fosdick's creator (4 letters)
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Fired up (7 letters)
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Moneymaking operation (7 letters)
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Shoulder-length do (7 letters)
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Prime meridian std. (3 letters)
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Like a fifth wheel (7 letters)
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"Think" tank? (3 letters)
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Crown (4 letters)
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Satirist Silverstein (4 letters)
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Japanese airline (3 letters)
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Cartoon about a Veep? (11 letters)
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Loss of 1588 (6 letters)
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High spot? (8 letters)
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Good working condition (6 letters)
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Reformers' targets (4 letters)
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Stimulating jazz singer? (11 letters)
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Cassoulet and others (5 letters)
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Where a groundhog shops? (7 letters)
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Goethe National Museum site (6 letters)
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Better ventilated (6 letters)
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Stabilizer (8 letters)
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Film on which "Carnival" was based (4 letters)
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Sundance's heartthrob (4 letters)
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Gershwin song of 1930 (4 letters)
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It's pushed in Hyde Park (4 letters)
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Viking character (4 letters)
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Mideast's Gulf of___ (4 letters)
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Make___of money (5 letters)
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Irving Berlin's "___Good Girl" (6 letters)
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Magic 8 Ball, e.g. (6 letters)
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Celsius, for one (10 letters)
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Paragraph, perhaps (7 letters)
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Middle of a Latin trio (4 letters)
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Caters to (8 letters)
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"Little tongues" (8 letters)
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"Do___Me" (1992 #1 hit) (4 letters)
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Couple (4 letters)
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Unfamiliar (7 letters)
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Shoe style (7 letters)
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Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, since 1917 (7 letters)
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Needle point? (3 letters)
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Teas (7 letters)
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They may have a pair of diamonds (7 letters)
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Washington, McKinley et al.: Abbr. (3 letters)
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Overflow controls (6 letters)
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Treasure of the Sierra Madre (3 letters)
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Destroy (4 letters)
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Sierra Club founder John (4 letters)
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Peak in myth (4 letters)
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Spherical striker (4 letters)
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Boot (4 letters)
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Chaplin's widow (4 letters)
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___Miss (3 letters)
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"House of Incest" author (3 letters)
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One who can't pass the bar? (3 letters)

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