CHOICE WORDS (Hard Clues)

Difficulty: HardGrid: 25x25182 clues~30-60 minBy David J. Kahn6/6/1999

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Doesn't stop cold turkey (9 letters)
10 Across: Chooses (3 letters)
13 Across: First call? (4 letters)
17 Across: Hesitant (6 letters)
23 Across: No longer painful (9 letters)
24 Across: Like a chandelier (8 letters)
26 Across: Kind (6 letters)
27 Across: It may pick up in the afternoon (9 letters)
28 Across: Like most bottles (8 letters)
29 Across: Turn out (6 letters)
30 Across: Hear (3 letters)
31 Across: Fished in crevices (5 letters)
32 Across: Performer of complicated operations (15 letters)
34 Across: Toulouse time (3 letters)
35 Across: ___ Day (8 letters)
37 Across: Pertaining to church taxes, old-style (6 letters)
38 Across: See 83-Across (5 letters)
40 Across: Ground for a claim (5 letters)
43 Across: Unbalanced (8 letters)
47 Across: Testify (6 letters)
49 Across: Tighten (7 letters)
51 Across: Cavern (4 letters)
52 Across: Utter (4 letters)
54 Across: Descendant of Muhammad the Prophet (4 letters)
55 Across: Spread out (6 letters)
58 Across: Like some traditions (4 letters)
60 Across: Mount Vernon, e.g. (6 letters)
62 Across: Treasured instrument (5 letters)
64 Across: Dwight Eisenhower's mother's name (3 letters)
65 Across: With judgment (6 letters)
67 Across: Flushed (4 letters)
69 Across: Windy City rail system, briefly (3 letters)
70 Across: Noted Russian shrine (10 letters)
73 Across: Isn't cautious (with) (14 letters)
76 Across: "Buy" or "sell," say (8 letters)
77 Across: Word in Kansas' motto (5 letters)
79 Across: Like (4 letters)
80 Across: Hopper (4 letters)
81 Across: Mathematician Hein (4 letters)
82 Across: Legalistic adjective (4 letters)
83 Across: With 38-Across, popular entertainment (4 letters)
85 Across: 5.5-point type sizes (6 letters)
87 Across: View (6 letters)
90 Across: "Description of the World" writer (9 letters)
92 Across: Connected (6 letters)
93 Across: Mescaline source (6 letters)
94 Across: Kind of vaccine (4 letters)
95 Across: Work on (4 letters)
96 Across: With the bow, in music (4 letters)
97 Across: Shade of green (4 letters)
98 Across: Year the Roman writer Persius died (4 letters)
100 Across: Fictional lawyer (5 letters)
101 Across: Tell-tale weapon? (8 letters)
106 Across: Reason for coyness, maybe (14 letters)
110 Across: Exercise (10 letters)
112 Across: Liaison (3 letters)
113 Across: Subject of Project Blue Book (4 letters)
114 Across: Put on the shelf (6 letters)
116 Across: Kid (3 letters)
117 Across: Blatherskite (5 letters)
118 Across: Early game score (6 letters)
120 Across: Milking area (4 letters)
121 Across: Nut (6 letters)
124 Across: "Ah'm ___ it!" (4 letters)
125 Across: New Jersey ___ (4 letters)
126 Across: Bridge comment (4 letters)
130 Across: Childish doings? (7 letters)
132 Across: Earthquake aftermaths (6 letters)
134 Across: Isolate (8 letters)
136 Across: Duplicate (5 letters)
137 Across: More subtle (5 letters)
138 Across: Crayola shade (6 letters)
140 Across: Verse style (8 letters)
143 Across: Debussy subject (3 letters)
146 Across: Shows level-headedness (15 letters)
153 Across: Feuding (5 letters)
154 Across: Can (3 letters)
155 Across: "An Old-Fashioned Girl" author, 1870 (6 letters)
156 Across: Entertaining thoughts (8 letters)
157 Across: Cooks (9 letters)
159 Across: Top (6 letters)
160 Across: Fertilizer ingredients (8 letters)
161 Across: Like most paparazzi (9 letters)
162 Across: Volleyball player (6 letters)
163 Across: Wraps up, so to speak (4 letters)
164 Across: TV drama settings (3 letters)
165 Across: Place for verbal expression (9 letters)

Down

1 Down: Soupçon (5 letters)
2 Down: Whistle, maybe (5 letters)
3 Down: Old-time entertainer (11 letters)
4 Down: "Chicago" lyricist Fred (3 letters)
5 Down: Goes back over (7 letters)
6 Down: Shooter's supply (8 letters)
7 Down: 1887 La Scala premiere (6 letters)
8 Down: Hats with tassels: Var. (5 letters)
9 Down: "The Godfather, Part II" character (5 letters)
10 Down: Tough luck, in Britain (9 letters)
11 Down: Medicare cutback proponents? (7 letters)
12 Down: Hit hard (4 letters)
13 Down: "Immediately!" (4 letters)
14 Down: Up (5 letters)
15 Down: Bringing down (7 letters)
16 Down: Crane (7 letters)
17 Down: John Huston's film-directing debut (16 letters)
18 Down: Opposite of smooth (6 letters)
19 Down: Big bird: Var. (4 letters)
20 Down: Chapter (4 letters)
21 Down: "A Loss of Roses" playwright (4 letters)
22 Down: Fantail, for one (4 letters)
25 Down: "It ___" ("Who's there?" response) (3 letters)
33 Down: Cry before disaster (4 letters)
36 Down: Colorado natives (4 letters)
39 Down: Kind of valve (6 letters)
41 Down: Onetime military engineer for Cesare Borgia (15 letters)
42 Down: Seat of Humboldt County, Calif. (6 letters)
44 Down: Examine thoroughly (3 letters)
45 Down: Starve (8 letters)
46 Down: Gave birth to whelps (8 letters)
47 Down: Buyouts, e.g. (5 letters)
48 Down: Actor M. ___ Walsh (5 letters)
49 Down: Log carrier (4 letters)
50 Down: Show fear (4 letters)
53 Down: Kids (6 letters)
56 Down: Was moved by (6 letters)
57 Down: Take over (5 letters)
59 Down: Lily, in Lille (3 letters)
61 Down: The Euphrates crosses it: Abbr. (3 letters)
63 Down: Site of a black hole (6 letters)
66 Down: Web site? (5 letters)
67 Down: Capitalist's concern (4 letters)
68 Down: It's tied at the back (3 letters)
71 Down: Manet, at times (16 letters)
72 Down: Fundamental (5 letters)
74 Down: "Symphonie espagnole" composer (4 letters)
75 Down: Tangy ethnic food (4 letters)
78 Down: One of the Channel Islands (4 letters)
83 Down: Group with Grammy's 1982 Record of the Year (4 letters)
84 Down: Word with sing or string (5 letters)
86 Down: Mailing to a casting director (6 letters)
87 Down: They don't take turns (8 letters)
88 Down: Some canines (8 letters)
89 Down: Nonsense (4 letters)
90 Down: Wing, say (4 letters)
91 Down: Model (5 letters)
92 Down: Upstairs, in Uruguay (6 letters)
93 Down: Igneous rock far beneath the earth's surface (6 letters)
94 Down: Dear people? (4 letters)
96 Down: Intermission ender, maybe (5 letters)
99 Down: Part of a football play diagram (3 letters)
100 Down: Like some bedsheet corners, in Britain (6 letters)
102 Down: Bind, as grass stalks (6 letters)
103 Down: Setting of many Stephen King novels (11 letters)
104 Down: Instrument lens (5 letters)
105 Down: Detaches, in a way (5 letters)
107 Down: Printing amount (3 letters)
108 Down: Poet's eye (3 letters)
109 Down: Rupture (4 letters)
111 Down: Fliers with wedge-shaped tails (4 letters)
115 Down: Sad feeling (9 letters)
119 Down: Six-time Rose Bowl winner, for short (3 letters)
122 Down: Billion years (4 letters)
123 Down: Major fishing area in the Pacific Rim (8 letters)
127 Down: Blows away, so to speak (4 letters)
128 Down: 1979 Duvall title role (7 letters)
129 Down: ___ month (moon phase recurrence) (7 letters)
131 Down: Roy Orbison classic (7 letters)
133 Down: How complainers complain (7 letters)
135 Down: It can put you to sleep (6 letters)
137 Down: "The French Lieutenant's Woman" author (6 letters)
139 Down: Appalachian feature (5 letters)
141 Down: Apology preceder (5 letters)
142 Down: Alpha, beta, gamma, etc. (5 letters)
144 Down: Top dogs (5 letters)
145 Down: Order to a typographer (5 letters)
146 Down: Family dogs (4 letters)
147 Down: Latin pronoun (4 letters)
148 Down: Macintosh, e.g. (4 letters)
149 Down: Plug (4 letters)
150 Down: Anvil locations (4 letters)
151 Down: ___ stroke (3 letters)
152 Down: Spot (4 letters)
158 Down: Rounder than round (3 letters)

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