FORMAL FUNNIES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23162 clues~30-60 minBy Randolph Ross6/1/1997

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Stew (6 letters)
7 Across: Like tea (6 letters)
13 Across: These might play into the wrong hands (8 letters)
21 Across: Two-time Wimbledon winner Gibson (6 letters)
22 Across: It goes "pssst!" (7 letters)
24 Across: Positively planning (8 letters)
25 Across: Funnies romantic (14 letters)
27 Across: ___ of habit (8 letters)
28 Across: Penn name (4 letters)
29 Across: Shade of purple (5 letters)
30 Across: State of agitation (6 letters)
32 Across: Award for Samuel Beckett (4 letters)
33 Across: Features on some stationery (5 letters)
34 Across: Peak of NE Greece (6 letters)
36 Across: Former service site (3 letters)
38 Across: Funnies flapper (13 letters)
43 Across: Shadowy places (9 letters)
48 Across: Exceeded (7 letters)
49 Across: Like some vbs. (3 letters)
50 Across: Capital of Togo (4 letters)
51 Across: H.S. subject (3 letters)
52 Across: Baseball's Duren and Sandberg (5 letters)
53 Across: Talk of the town? (6 letters)
56 Across: The Mustangs: Abbr. (3 letters)
57 Across: Mountain transport (4 letters)
58 Across: Word repeated in "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" (4 letters)
59 Across: Funnies flier (12 letters)
62 Across: In ___ (beset by difficulties) (5 letters)
63 Across: Little one (3 letters)
64 Across: Spoilers (7 letters)
65 Across: Singer Billy Ray (5 letters)
66 Across: W.W. II Japanese aircraft (5 letters)
67 Across: "Far out!" (7 letters)
69 Across: New York Met tenor Alfredo (5 letters)
70 Across: Flavors (5 letters)
71 Across: Another funnies flier (17 letters)
78 Across: Tired of everything (5 letters)
81 Across: "All ___" (1967 Temptations hit) (5 letters)
82 Across: University officials (7 letters)
86 Across: Emulate Romeo and Juliet (5 letters)
87 Across: Like some computer encoding systems (5 letters)
88 Across: They give you fits (7 letters)
92 Across: Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame architect (3 letters)
93 Across: Took steps (5 letters)
94 Across: Funnies victim (12 letters)
96 Across: Strike out (4 letters)
97 Across: Mucho (4 letters)
98 Across: Balmoral, e.g. (3 letters)
99 Across: Untrustworthy types (6 letters)
100 Across: Like some keys (5 letters)
101 Across: Midsummer ___ (June 23) (3 letters)
102 Across: Tree protuberance (4 letters)
104 Across: Part of a drying-out period, maybe (3 letters)
105 Across: Loud voice from the "Iliad" (7 letters)
107 Across: 1960's Maoists (9 letters)
110 Across: Funnies fighter (13 letters)
113 Across: ___ Lingus (3 letters)
114 Across: Professor's prize (6 letters)
116 Across: Ombrometers measure them (5 letters)
117 Across: Carbon compound (4 letters)
120 Across: Check, in a way (6 letters)
122 Across: More or less, informally (5 letters)
123 Across: "Things" (4 letters)
127 Across: Vista (8 letters)
129 Across: Big-eyed funnies character (14 letters)
133 Across: Like a Carreras concert (8 letters)
134 Across: Holes in the head (7 letters)
135 Across: Coveted (6 letters)
136 Across: In peace (8 letters)
137 Across: Feeds a crowd (6 letters)
138 Across: Actress Katharine et al. (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Aphorisms (4 letters)
2 Down: Nobelist Wiesel (4 letters)
3 Down: Pillar of heaven, to Pindar (4 letters)
4 Down: Like a dime (4 letters)
5 Down: Nickname in magazine publishing (3 letters)
6 Down: Ring site (7 letters)
7 Down: Spoiled bunch (6 letters)
8 Down: Work on a tough stain, e.g. (6 letters)
9 Down: 10th-century explorer (4 letters)
10 Down: Got the gold (3 letters)
11 Down: Northern Amer. (3 letters)
12 Down: Cream serving (6 letters)
13 Down: Big-eared funnies character (12 letters)
14 Down: Memo starter (4 letters)
15 Down: Chest protector (7 letters)
16 Down: Raiding grp. (3 letters)
17 Down: Lay to rest (6 letters)
18 Down: "Three men in ___" (4 letters)
19 Down: Actress Petty (4 letters)
20 Down: Old-time dagger (4 letters)
23 Down: Grazing sites (4 letters)
26 Down: "The ___ Sanction" (1970's thriller) (5 letters)
31 Down: Cookbook amt. (3 letters)
33 Down: Johns (4 letters)
34 Down: Dunderheads (6 letters)
35 Down: Doughnutlike (5 letters)
37 Down: French soul (3 letters)
38 Down: Typos (6 letters)
39 Down: Knock down (6 letters)
40 Down: Natural (6 letters)
41 Down: Writer Akins and others (4 letters)
42 Down: Dirty fighter (5 letters)
44 Down: Proper words (5 letters)
45 Down: Like some Christians (6 letters)
46 Down: Science fiction magazine since 1930 (6 letters)
47 Down: Way out (6 letters)
53 Down: Corral (3 letters)
54 Down: Penn., e.g. (3 letters)
55 Down: Anatomical prefix (5 letters)
56 Down: Chocolate ___ (5 letters)
57 Down: Start of a how-to title (6 letters)
59 Down: Ring sport (4 letters)
60 Down: Even (4 letters)
61 Down: Swimming great Diana (4 letters)
62 Down: People of the Sun (6 letters)
64 Down: Based (in) (6 letters)
68 Down: Pilfers (6 letters)
69 Down: Pasted but good (3 letters)
72 Down: Funnies gumshoe (12 letters)
73 Down: Available (5 letters)
74 Down: Become tiresome (4 letters)
75 Down: Places for drawings? (5 letters)
76 Down: Brag (4 letters)
77 Down: "Show Boat" composer (4 letters)
78 Down: Medicine man (6 letters)
79 Down: Breakfast place (6 letters)
80 Down: Like Seurat paintings (6 letters)
83 Down: Inviting, as inspection (6 letters)
84 Down: Do a double take (6 letters)
85 Down: Club name since 1892 (6 letters)
87 Down: Come to mind (5 letters)
88 Down: Cause of jungle fever (6 letters)
89 Down: Lower (5 letters)
90 Down: Ruffle (3 letters)
91 Down: "___ Amigos" (1973 western) (3 letters)
95 Down: "Star Wars" planet (5 letters)
96 Down: Classic Ferrari (4 letters)
100 Down: Where Alice worked (4 letters)
102 Down: Letter before ar (3 letters)
103 Down: Tell tales (7 letters)
105 Down: Barbecue pieces (5 letters)
106 Down: Colorful bird (7 letters)
108 Down: In large supply (6 letters)
109 Down: Date (3 letters)
110 Down: Like some Western law (6 letters)
111 Down: Investigator (6 letters)
112 Down: Plague (6 letters)
115 Down: Collars (4 letters)
117 Down: Heroic poetry (4 letters)
118 Down: Place to be picked up? (4 letters)
119 Down: Lulu (4 letters)
121 Down: Disney's "___ and the Detectives" (4 letters)
122 Down: Writer's Market abbr. (4 letters)
123 Down: Some execs (4 letters)
124 Down: Sponsorship (4 letters)
125 Down: Nautical heading (4 letters)
126 Down: 1917 revolutionaries (4 letters)
128 Down: Kurasawa film (3 letters)
130 Down: Genetic stuff (3 letters)
131 Down: Loony bird (3 letters)
132 Down: One of the "virgins" of "Two Virgins" (3 letters)

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