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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Nancy Nicholson Joline4/23/2000

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Across

1 Across: Redemptions (7 letters)
8 Across: Mitterrand's successor (6 letters)
14 Across: 1950's-60's Big Apple mayor (6 letters)
20 Across: Classic ball game (7 letters)
21 Across: Treasure State city (6 letters)
22 Across: Make it (6 letters)
23 Across: Wobbly band members? (14 letters)
25 Across: 1960's "Death Valley Days" host (6 letters)
26 Across: Punta del ___, Uruguayan resort (4 letters)
27 Across: 911 respondent (3 letters)
28 Across: Done for (5 letters)
29 Across: Apollo loved her (6 letters)
30 Across: Easy ___ (5 letters)
32 Across: American Revolutionary leader Deane (5 letters)
34 Across: Visitors from afar (3 letters)
35 Across: Follow (5 letters)
39 Across: Subject of war propaganda (5 letters)
42 Across: Hill, to an Arab (3 letters)
43 Across: It covers ground rapidly (3 letters)
44 Across: Wily style of diplomacy? (13 letters)
47 Across: A little behind (6 letters)
50 Across: Shell thrower (6 letters)
51 Across: Harmony (5 letters)
52 Across: Amazon dangers (8 letters)
54 Across: Curse (7 letters)
56 Across: Land with a queen in Kings (5 letters)
58 Across: Extracts (6 letters)
59 Across: Caesar's farewell (4 letters)
60 Across: Plumbing problem abroad? (9 letters)
62 Across: Member of a force: Abbr. (3 letters)
63 Across: One in swaddles (4 letters)
66 Across: Pentagon concern, for short (3 letters)
68 Across: Rodgers and Hart's "What ___ Man?" (3 letters)
69 Across: Mare's-nest (4 letters)
70 Across: Questionnaire datum (3 letters)
71 Across: Halloween mask? (9 letters)
76 Across: Like New York's Radio City Music Hall, informally (4 letters)
79 Across: Sighter of the Pacific Ocean, 1513 (6 letters)
81 Across: Capri, e.g. (5 letters)
82 Across: Reruns, to summer TV (7 letters)
86 Across: Place of legend (8 letters)
88 Across: Position in 20-Across (5 letters)
91 Across: Tarzan's pet (6 letters)
92 Across: Mountain fortresses: Var. (6 letters)
93 Across: Like an Englishman in the desert? (13 letters)
95 Across: Bond rating (3 letters)
96 Across: George W. Bush, as a collegian (3 letters)
98 Across: Quantity (5 letters)
99 Across: Paths of some streams (5 letters)
100 Across: Pool necessity (3 letters)
101 Across: Attention-getters (5 letters)
103 Across: Sea salvage aid (5 letters)
105 Across: Word with car or game (6 letters)
107 Across: Mata Hari was one (5 letters)
110 Across: Hound (3 letters)
111 Across: Together, musically (4 letters)
115 Across: Call for (6 letters)
116 Across: Assault with crêpes suzette? (14 letters)
119 Across: Wynn of "Dr. Strangelove" (6 letters)
120 Across: It's west of Sherman Oaks (6 letters)
121 Across: Extraction (7 letters)
122 Across: Attempts (6 letters)
123 Across: Conveyed, in a way (6 letters)
124 Across: Made a record of (7 letters)

Down

1 Down: Rights org. (4 letters)
2 Down: Long times in Lima (4 letters)
3 Down: Spinoff group (4 letters)
4 Down: Make artificially better, with "up" (4 letters)
5 Down: Distant (3 letters)
6 Down: Pins down (5 letters)
7 Down: Quite a puzzle (7 letters)
8 Down: Midwest city, familiarly (3 letters)
9 Down: "Shucks" (4 letters)
10 Down: Pelvic parts (4 letters)
11 Down: Realizes (5 letters)
12 Down: Fixed payment (7 letters)
13 Down: Fairy tale locale (6 letters)
14 Down: Some are critical (5 letters)
15 Down: Part (4 letters)
16 Down: Means of communication (9 letters)
17 Down: Ivory or pink? (11 letters)
18 Down: "Dynasty" star (5 letters)
19 Down: Actor Auberjonois (4 letters)
24 Down: Turns, so to speak (6 letters)
30 Down: Modern name for the capital of ancient Galatia (6 letters)
31 Down: Odd, spelled oddly (4 letters)
33 Down: "___ Desire" (1953 Barbara Stanwyck film) (4 letters)
35 Down: They're pressed for cash (4 letters)
36 Down: Exult (4 letters)
37 Down: Bore (4 letters)
38 Down: Musical interval (6 letters)
40 Down: Measurer of brightness (5 letters)
41 Down: Millionaire's toy (5 letters)
43 Down: ___-Ethiopian War, 1935-36 (5 letters)
45 Down: Like some surgery (4 letters)
46 Down: "America, the Beautiful" pronoun (4 letters)
48 Down: Constellation with Canopus (4 letters)
49 Down: Some stockings (5 letters)
52 Down: Settles (4 letters)
53 Down: Alternatives to 747's (4 letters)
55 Down: Subject of a composition (4 letters)
57 Down: Relative of Camembert (4 letters)
60 Down: Directions (4 letters)
61 Down: Chaps (4 letters)
63 Down: ___ ghanouj (eggplant dish) (4 letters)
64 Down: Marble (5 letters)
65 Down: What pregnancies produce? (11 letters)
67 Down: Pupil's place (4 letters)
69 Down: They're blue (6 letters)
71 Down: Seattle athlete, for short (5 letters)
72 Down: Actress Blanchett (4 letters)
73 Down: Young zebra (4 letters)
74 Down: Los ___, Calif. (5 letters)
75 Down: ___ Cove ("Murder, She Wrote" locale) (5 letters)
77 Down: Delineate (4 letters)
78 Down: French journal (6 letters)
80 Down: XXV Olympics site (9 letters)
83 Down: Minus (4 letters)
84 Down: Little ending (4 letters)
85 Down: "___ who?" (4 letters)
87 Down: "Gotcha" (4 letters)
89 Down: Hoo-has (4 letters)
90 Down: Power of old films (6 letters)
93 Down: Wright brothers' craft, e.g. (7 letters)
94 Down: Like a well-grounded argument (7 letters)
97 Down: Didn't hesitate (6 letters)
100 Down: Yuletide handouts (5 letters)
101 Down: W.W. II guns (5 letters)
102 Down: Subsequently (5 letters)
104 Down: "Not ___!" (5 letters)
105 Down: Main road (4 letters)
106 Down: Initial (4 letters)
108 Down: Kind of rock (4 letters)
109 Down: Sound (4 letters)
111 Down: Suit to ___ (4 letters)
112 Down: Not cheap (4 letters)
113 Down: Press (4 letters)
114 Down: Blue-___ (4 letters)
117 Down: Decked (3 letters)
118 Down: USA alternative (3 letters)

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