PARADOX

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Elizabeth C. Gorski3/30/1997

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Across

1 Across: One may be checkered (4 letters)
5 Across: Night light (4 letters)
9 Across: April honoree (4 letters)
13 Across: Fairy tale figures (4 letters)
17 Across: Baseball's Tommie (4 letters)
18 Across: Devour (5 letters)
20 Across: ___ Fjord (4 letters)
21 Across: Part of a monk's title (5 letters)
22 Across: Beginning of a thought by the 72-Across 102-Across 80-Across (21 letters)
26 Across: Bedtime genie (7 letters)
27 Across: Stamp of approval?: Abbr. (4 letters)
28 Across: Patsies (7 letters)
29 Across: Sushi supplies (4 letters)
30 Across: Scrooge's look (5 letters)
31 Across: Quilters' klatch (3 letters)
32 Across: "Dr. Zhivago" name (4 letters)
34 Across: Type choices (5 letters)
35 Across: Mocking (8 letters)
40 Across: End of the thought (17 letters)
44 Across: ___-de-sac (3 letters)
45 Across: Seat of Garfield County, Okla. (4 letters)
46 Across: Olympics jump (4 letters)
47 Across: Not theirs (4 letters)
48 Across: Canon competitor (4 letters)
49 Across: P.M. hours, to a bard (3 letters)
50 Across: 80-Across's field (10 letters)
54 Across: Practices girth control (5 letters)
55 Across: With grace (8 letters)
58 Across: ___-class (airplane section) (5 letters)
59 Across: Two Tudors (6 letters)
60 Across: Regatta (4 letters)
61 Across: Catch of the day, maybe (5 letters)
62 Across: Somewhat, to Salieri (4 letters)
63 Across: Part of a rainbow (6 letters)
66 Across: Palestrina piece (5 letters)
67 Across: Ale, e.g. (8 letters)
71 Across: Tearjerkers, sometimes (5 letters)
72 Across: Like 80-Across (10 letters)
74 Across: Lacto-___-vegetarian (3 letters)
75 Across: Beer variety (4 letters)
76 Across: Lady Macbeth, for one (4 letters)
77 Across: Crazy quilt (4 letters)
78 Across: Corp. V.I.P.'s (4 letters)
79 Across: "Peer Gynt" character (3 letters)
80 Across: See 22-Across (17 letters)
85 Across: E-mail (8 letters)
87 Across: Bar, at the bar (5 letters)
88 Across: Taxi door info (4 letters)
89 Across: Personals, e.g. (3 letters)
90 Across: Isle on which Apollo was born (5 letters)
91 Across: Protection for some I.R.A.'s (4 letters)
93 Across: Item on a list (7 letters)
97 Across: Each (4 letters)
98 Across: Vexes (7 letters)
102 Across: What 80-Across became in 1996 (21 letters)
106 Across: Start of a Dickens title (5 letters)
107 Across: River to the Fulda (4 letters)
108 Across: Certain string ensemble (5 letters)
109 Across: "Eugene Onegin" mezzo-soprano (4 letters)
110 Across: Famous tiger (4 letters)
111 Across: Root beer brand (4 letters)
112 Across: Eliot character (4 letters)
113 Across: Old news agency (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Dog's "dogs" (4 letters)
2 Down: Mideast title (4 letters)
3 Down: Spotted (4 letters)
4 Down: Bid (8 letters)
5 Down: Only U.N. member whose flag is not rectangular (5 letters)
6 Down: Clears (5 letters)
7 Down: Ear: Prefix (3 letters)
8 Down: Mother Teresa, for one (3 letters)
9 Down: Most enamored (of) (7 letters)
10 Down: Pianist Levant (5 letters)
11 Down: 1982 country hit "Same ___ Me" (3 letters)
12 Down: Gobs (4 letters)
13 Down: Peddled (6 letters)
14 Down: ___ vera (4 letters)
15 Down: "Dumb & Dumber" actress (4 letters)
16 Down: Caesar and others (4 letters)
19 Down: Jump (on) (6 letters)
21 Down: Trickery (6 letters)
23 Down: "That is..." (5 letters)
24 Down: "___ directed" (5 letters)
25 Down: Chutzpah (6 letters)
30 Down: Not go directly (5 letters)
32 Down: Eye makeup (5 letters)
33 Down: Dress style (5 letters)
34 Down: Godliness (5 letters)
35 Down: Oporto's river (5 letters)
36 Down: Young Fontaine role (4 letters)
37 Down: With increased reserve (5 letters)
38 Down: Cuckoo (5 letters)
39 Down: Bar request (5 letters)
40 Down: Trickle (4 letters)
41 Down: Black, yellow and white (6 letters)
42 Down: Jean-Claude Duvalier, e.g. (5 letters)
43 Down: Big bar order (5 letters)
48 Down: Second-fiddle (5 letters)
51 Down: Prefix with linear (5 letters)
52 Down: Plottage (5 letters)
53 Down: Liking (5 letters)
54 Down: Art style, familiarly (4 letters)
56 Down: Rubbish (5 letters)
57 Down: Yard sale staples (4 letters)
59 Down: Associate (6 letters)
61 Down: Roman sandal (5 letters)
62 Down: Jewish holiday (5 letters)
63 Down: Faith in Turkey (5 letters)
64 Down: Static (5 letters)
65 Down: Historical info (5 letters)
66 Down: Gangster's gals (5 letters)
67 Down: Nodule (5 letters)
68 Down: Verb for thou (5 letters)
69 Down: Call to mind (5 letters)
70 Down: Santa ___, Calif. (4 letters)
72 Down: Sit for a photo (4 letters)
73 Down: Nincompoops (5 letters)
76 Down: Erects, as a contraption (6 letters)
78 Down: Loon (8 letters)
80 Down: Duck walk (6 letters)
81 Down: Sorry sorts (7 letters)
82 Down: "It must have been ___ news day" (5 letters)
83 Down: Visit (6 letters)
84 Down: Bit of NASA equipment (5 letters)
86 Down: With a level head (6 letters)
90 Down: In a fog (5 letters)
91 Down: Overexposed to the sun (5 letters)
92 Down: T.S. Eliot book-essay (5 letters)
93 Down: Premed class: Abbr. (4 letters)
94 Down: Computer programming phrase (4 letters)
95 Down: Israel's Abba (4 letters)
96 Down: He once had stable work on TV (4 letters)
99 Down: Degas's "Miss ___ at the Cirque Fernando" (4 letters)
100 Down: Brain scans, for short (4 letters)
101 Down: Timetable listings: Abbr. (4 letters)
103 Down: Rhoda's TV mom (3 letters)
104 Down: Head, in slang (3 letters)
105 Down: Liverpool-to-Newcastle dir. (3 letters)

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