CONTINENTAL DIVIDE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy M. Gaffney6/9/1996

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Hoops (7 letters)
8 Across: Kind of hunting (7 letters)
15 Across: "Star Wars" director (5 letters)
20 Across: Mark Antony's wife before he met Cleopatra (7 letters)
21 Across: Fine (7 letters)
22 Across: Kind of layer (5 letters)
23 Across: With 117-Across, what the answers to the italicized clues have in common (15 letters)
25 Across: "Chapter Two" playwright (5 letters)
26 Across: Shot (4 letters)
27 Across: Former capital of Nicaragua (4 letters)
28 Across: Novelist Rand (3 letters)
29 Across: Luna's counterpart (3 letters)
31 Across: Knock-knock joke, essentially (3 letters)
32 Across: Protrude, in a way (8 letters)
34 Across: Connective tissues (8 letters)
36 Across: View along the highway (italicized) (10 letters)
40 Across: Make one two (8 letters)
42 Across: Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie___" (5 letters)
43 Across: Atheist leader (5 letters)
45 Across: Ballot marks (3 letters)
46 Across: The All-wise, of myth (4 letters)
48 Across: Steakhouse orders (6 letters)
50 Across: Madonna album (7 letters)
52 Across: Exhausts (6 letters)
54 Across: M.D. spots (3 letters)
55 Across: Eponymous Dutch town (4 letters)
57 Across: Recital pieces (6 letters)
59 Across: Schoenberg's "___to Napoleon" (3 letters)
60 Across: Speech help (8 letters)
63 Across: Free TV commercials, for short (4 letters)
64 Across: "Rescue 911" host (7 letters)
67 Across: Grammy winner Etheridge (7 letters)
69 Across: Makes straight (7 letters)
71 Across: Flambe (7 letters)
74 Across: Milk product (4 letters)
76 Across: Cultivated (8 letters)
80 Across: Actress Hagen (3 letters)
81 Across: Car front (6 letters)
83 Across: Mantel piece (4 letters)
84 Across: Cole Porter, collegiately (3 letters)
85 Across: Noted Big Apple restaurant (6 letters)
88 Across: Time for "Today" (7 letters)
90 Across: Paint variety (6 letters)
93 Across: Farmer, sometimes (4 letters)
94 Across: Painter Gerard___Borch (3 letters)
95 Across: ___Strait (waterway bordering Japan) (5 letters)
97 Across: As good as new (5 letters)
98 Across: Cuban resort city (8 letters)
101 Across: Mountain demarcation (italicized) (10 letters)
103 Across: Month's start (8 letters)
105 Across: Kind of advice (8 letters)
107 Across: Snitch (3 letters)
108 Across: It may be used in a rubout (3 letters)
109 Across: Chemical suffix (3 letters)
110 Across: Rise (4 letters)
111 Across: "Ooh" follower (4 letters)
115 Across: Oval (5 letters)
117 Across: See 23-Across (15 letters)
121 Across: Construction support (5 letters)
122 Across: Racing, as pacers (7 letters)
123 Across: Catherine the Great, e.g. (7 letters)
124 Across: "The Glass Bead Game" novelist (5 letters)
125 Across: Handout sign (7 letters)
126 Across: Prokofiev's "War___" (7 letters)

Down

1 Down: This and that (4 letters)
2 Down: Hurting (4 letters)
3 Down: Process part (4 letters)
4 Down: Floor (4 letters)
5 Down: Adolf's mistress (3 letters)
6 Down: Bar on a boat (6 letters)
7 Down: City near Pompeii (7 letters)
8 Down: High-tech prosthesis (9 letters)
9 Down: Du Maurier's "Jamaica___" (3 letters)
10 Down: Reached (5 letters)
11 Down: More bleak (6 letters)
12 Down: Court situation (4 letters)
13 Down: Chaps (3 letters)
14 Down: German theologian Thomas (7 letters)
15 Down: "La Bamba" band (italicized) (8 letters)
16 Down: Israeli weapon (3 letters)
17 Down: Likening (italicized) (10 letters)
18 Down: Have___ (be able to escape) (5 letters)
19 Down: Plant yielding a catartic drug (5 letters)
24 Down: Classic "S.N.L." characters (9 letters)
30 Down: Agatha Christie's "N___?" (3 letters)
32 Down: Present (4 letters)
33 Down: Sony co-founder Morita (4 letters)
34 Down: Three-time Masters winner (5 letters)
35 Down: Subject of Cyaxares (4 letters)
36 Down: Boca___ (5 letters)
37 Down: ___-Latin (ancient Italian) (5 letters)
38 Down: Plug (5 letters)
39 Down: Arch Deluxe part (3 letters)
41 Down: Let go (6 letters)
44 Down: Itinerary segs. (4 letters)
47 Down: Fully exposed (4 letters)
49 Down: Steadiness, in a way (7 letters)
51 Down: "Try___see!" (5 letters)
52 Down: Led (in) (7 letters)
53 Down: A shot (3 letters)
56 Down: Less interesting (5 letters)
58 Down: "Como___?" (5 letters)
61 Down: Popular record label (3 letters)
62 Down: Disney collectible (3 letters)
63 Down: Pope, 1605-21 (5 letters)
65 Down: "So?" (3 letters)
66 Down: China's Lao-___ (3 letters)
68 Down: Cornea neighbor (6 letters)
70 Down: Trojan War king (9 letters)
71 Down: Au___ (menu phrase) (3 letters)
72 Down: Karl Malone's team (4 letters)
73 Down: Instruments with aneroid cells (italicized) (10 letters)
75 Down: Stench (4 letters)
77 Down: "Forbidden Paradise" star, 1924 (5 letters)
78 Down: ABC sitcom (5 letters)
79 Down: Electron tube type (5 letters)
82 Down: Jolson's "___My Wife to the Thousand Isles" (5 letters)
83 Down: Marbelize, e.g. (9 letters)
86 Down: Kind of ear (4 letters)
87 Down: Water (italicized) (8 letters)
89 Down: Denial of a sort (4 letters)
91 Down: "___in the Dark" (Streep film) (4 letters)
92 Down: Gertrude's 1951 Broadway co-star (3 letters)
94 Down: Envision victory (7 letters)
96 Down: Kidnaps (7 letters)
99 Down: Where a pct. of one's income may go (3 letters)
100 Down: Famous (6 letters)
102 Down: Westernmost Texas county (6 letters)
103 Down: Criticize severely (5 letters)
104 Down: "Ah Sin" playwright (5 letters)
106 Down: Glossy proof (5 letters)
109 Down: Baghdad's land: Var. (4 letters)
111 Down: Italian cabbage (4 letters)
112 Down: Working (4 letters)
113 Down: Turner of the screen (4 letters)
114 Down: Lament for Yorick (4 letters)
116 Down: Greek consonants (3 letters)
118 Down: Spanish article (3 letters)
119 Down: Seemingly forever (3 letters)
120 Down: Long shot? (3 letters)

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