BUMPER TO BUMPER

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21136 clues~30-60 minBy R. Ross12/15/1996

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Across

1 Across: Hosp. areas (3 letters)
4 Across: Orbital extreme (5 letters)
9 Across: Fed (4 letters)
13 Across: Mea ___ (5 letters)
18 Across: "I reckon not" (3 letters)
19 Across: ___ Affair (Civil War imbroglio) (5 letters)
20 Across: Michener title (5 letters)
22 Across: 1995 N.B.A. scoring leader (5 letters)
23 Across: Business firm, in France: Abbr. (3 letters)
24 Across: Page 2, usually (5 letters)
25 Across: Ratify (5 letters)
26 Across: Software buyers (5 letters)
27 Across: Wing it (5 letters)
29 Across: Relief pitchers (7 letters)
31 Across: Hardy grass (7 letters)
33 Across: Measuring system (6 letters)
35 Across: Popular sporting fish (7 letters)
37 Across: Gen. Pershing's command: Abbr. (3 letters)
38 Across: Spread the word? (6 letters)
39 Across: Tarlatan skirt (4 letters)
40 Across: Masks (8 letters)
45 Across: Georgia, once: Abbr. (3 letters)
46 Across: Day, to Dayan (3 letters)
48 Across: Campaign pro (3 letters)
49 Across: Sample (3 letters)
50 Across: Divvy up (5 letters)
51 Across: "Behold," to Boethius (4 letters)
52 Across: Harper's Weekly cartoonist (4 letters)
54 Across: Singer Harris (7 letters)
56 Across: The tiniest bit (5 letters)
59 Across: Slugger's stat (3 letters)
62 Across: Opposite of paleo- (3 letters)
63 Across: Def Jam records genre (3 letters)
64 Across: Traffic jam (21 letters)
72 Across: Traffic jam (21 letters)
73 Across: Traffic jam (21 letters)
74 Across: Fleur-de-___ (3 letters)
75 Across: Author Stanislaw (3 letters)
76 Across: Young socialite (3 letters)
77 Across: "The Flowering Peach" playwright (5 letters)
78 Across: He wore a top hat in "Top Hat" (7 letters)
82 Across: First word of "Send in the Clowns" (4 letters)
84 Across: Overdue (4 letters)
86 Across: Earthshaking event (5 letters)
87 Across: White House inits. (3 letters)
89 Across: Sports governing body: Abbr. (3 letters)
91 Across: Author of "The Island of the Day Before" (3 letters)
92 Across: Vacation spot (3 letters)
95 Across: Even more distressing (8 letters)
97 Across: Optimist, of sorts (4 letters)
99 Across: Neptune moon (6 letters)
101 Across: The dovekie is one (3 letters)
102 Across: Film heptad (7 letters)
105 Across: Plan out (6 letters)
106 Across: TV dinner name (7 letters)
110 Across: "Semiramide" composer (7 letters)
112 Across: "Fiddler on the Roof" role (5 letters)
113 Across: Day of la semaine (5 letters)
114 Across: Like some traffic barriers (5 letters)
116 Across: Battlefield V.I.P. (5 letters)
118 Across: Sticky stuff (3 letters)
119 Across: Club publication (5 letters)
120 Across: Paris cultural center (5 letters)
121 Across: Be behind (5 letters)
122 Across: Poetic preposition (3 letters)
123 Across: Troll's cousin (5 letters)
124 Across: Flagstone, e.g. (4 letters)
125 Across: Davis of "Get On the Bus" (5 letters)
126 Across: Wino's woe (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: Prepares to spend the night (7 letters)
2 Down: Al Davis's men (7 letters)
3 Down: Harbor (7 letters)
4 Down: Traffic jam (21 letters)
5 Down: Post's opposite (3 letters)
6 Down: Lord's lackey (4 letters)
7 Down: Put one's foot down (6 letters)
8 Down: Save for a rainy day (7 letters)
9 Down: Traffic jam (21 letters)
10 Down: Jason's wife, in myth (5 letters)
11 Down: Nerve fibers (5 letters)
12 Down: Tot's time-out (3 letters)
13 Down: Traffic jam (21 letters)
14 Down: With risk (8 letters)
15 Down: Groucho expression (4 letters)
16 Down: Auditioner's aim (4 letters)
17 Down: Plus (4 letters)
21 Down: Sault ___ Marie (3 letters)
28 Down: "Cybill" character (3 letters)
30 Down: Popular brand of stationery (5 letters)
32 Down: ___ Jacinto Day (April 21) (3 letters)
34 Down: Kiss flavor: Abbr. (4 letters)
36 Down: Poli ___ (3 letters)
41 Down: Ready to be turned on (10 letters)
42 Down: Best effort (3 letters)
43 Down: Elton's john (3 letters)
44 Down: Good name for a cabin attendant (3 letters)
47 Down: Diving ducks (10 letters)
49 Down: Had a tantrum (7 letters)
51 Down: Fragrant resin (5 letters)
53 Down: Large chain (5 letters)
55 Down: City on the Ocmulgee River (5 letters)
56 Down: Parts of days, in the classifieds (4 letters)
57 Down: Flag (4 letters)
58 Down: Saroyan hero (4 letters)
60 Down: ___ fond farewell to (4 letters)
61 Down: It can cause a shock (7 letters)
65 Down: Asphyxiation cause (5 letters)
66 Down: Diminutive endings (5 letters)
67 Down: Heckled (4 letters)
68 Down: ___ Island (5 letters)
69 Down: Hitchcock title (4 letters)
70 Down: "___ a man who wasn't there" (4 letters)
71 Down: Sheepskin alternatives, for short (4 letters)
78 Down: Matter of fact introduction? (3 letters)
79 Down: One in it for the long term?: Abbr. (3 letters)
80 Down: Prescription abbr. (3 letters)
81 Down: Construction of 1898-1902 (8 letters)
83 Down: Balzac's birthplace (5 letters)
85 Down: Is decisive (4 letters)
88 Down: Mayo, e.g. (3 letters)
90 Down: Words before fame or after lay (7 letters)
92 Down: Pinched pennies (7 letters)
93 Down: Toaster snack (7 letters)
94 Down: Scorpio's brightest star (7 letters)
96 Down: Howard Hughes studio (3 letters)
98 Down: Record holders (6 letters)
100 Down: Incense (3 letters)
103 Down: Synthetic fiber (5 letters)
104 Down: Shearer of "Peeping Tom" (5 letters)
106 Down: Kind of alert (4 letters)
107 Down: Alert (4 letters)
108 Down: Ship to Colchis (4 letters)
109 Down: Bilko, for one: Abbr. (3 letters)
111 Down: Castor's killer (4 letters)
115 Down: Photo ___ (3 letters)
117 Down: Grandson, maybe (3 letters)

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