CROSSWORDIES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Cathy Millhauser6/25/2000

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Swiss Mrs., maybe (4 letters)
5 Across: Comparable to a wet hen (5 letters)
10 Across: They're developed by rowing (4 letters)
14 Across: Whip (4 letters)
18 Across: O.K. Corral figher (4 letters)
19 Across: Get a rise out of? (6 letters)
21 Across: Town on the Vire (4 letters)
22 Across: Nestlé pet food brand (4 letters)
23 Across: 1983 movie cause of heartburn? (11 letters)
25 Across: With 119-Across, country lunch customer of song? (9 letters)
27 Across: Ruhr industrial hub (5 letters)
28 Across: Baldwin, Guinness, etc. (5 letters)
30 Across: Clinch (8 letters)
31 Across: Sweet barbarian? (14 letters)
35 Across: Bee's target on a flower (7 letters)
38 Across: First name in architecture (4 letters)
39 Across: Fleece (4 letters)
43 Across: System starter (3 letters)
44 Across: "Ta-ta" (4 letters)
46 Across: MTV hosts (3 letters)
48 Across: Whaler, for one (6 letters)
50 Across: Fast-food snack? (16 letters)
56 Across: River connected by canal to the Volga (4 letters)
57 Across: Movie dog (4 letters)
58 Across: Vegetable fats (5 letters)
59 Across: Weirdos (8 letters)
61 Across: Greek penultimates (4 letters)
65 Across: Wayside stop (3 letters)
66 Across: Hindu melody pattern (4 letters)
67 Across: ___-com (3 letters)
68 Across: Be a klutzy chef? (21 letters)
75 Across: Globetrotters founder Saperstein (3 letters)
76 Across: Past (4 letters)
77 Across: Past (3 letters)
78 Across: Peak of myth (4 letters)
79 Across: Do a kabob job (8 letters)
81 Across: "Dilbert" creator Adams (5 letters)
83 Across: Iona College player (4 letters)
87 Across: Jot (4 letters)
88 Across: Won't fit, as a sash? (16 letters)
93 Across: Place for Cicero (6 letters)
95 Across: Double header? (3 letters)
96 Across: Early Irish assembly site (4 letters)
97 Across: Certain win, for short (3 letters)
98 Across: Explorer Bering was one (4 letters)
99 Across: Gave the slip (4 letters)
102 Across: Satirize (7 letters)
104 Across: Risk getting clawed? (14 letters)
110 Across: Girlish (8 letters)
114 Across: Strainer (5 letters)
115 Across: Additional (5 letters)
119 Across: See 25-Across (9 letters)
121 Across: Midwest native American on TV? (11 letters)
124 Across: "You Bet Your Life" sponsor De ___ (4 letters)
125 Across: Game-ending declaration (4 letters)
126 Across: TV's ___ Lee (6 letters)
127 Across: Giant chemicals corporation (4 letters)
128 Across: Kind of leopard or goose (4 letters)
129 Across: Offshore (4 letters)
130 Across: Predilection (5 letters)
131 Across: Hourglass part (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Luau, e.g. (4 letters)
2 Down: Stands roars (4 letters)
3 Down: God seen on "Xena: Warrior Princess" (4 letters)
4 Down: Cheery (6 letters)
5 Down: H.S. subject (3 letters)
6 Down: Dry, in Versailles (3 letters)
7 Down: Taj ___ (5 letters)
8 Down: St. Teresa's home (5 letters)
9 Down: Cut (6 letters)
10 Down: L.A. sked abbr. (3 letters)
11 Down: People: Prefix (5 letters)
12 Down: Drug-free (5 letters)
13 Down: Swedish mezzo Anne ___ von Otter (5 letters)
14 Down: Robert Burns was one (4 letters)
15 Down: "Blondie" boy (4 letters)
16 Down: Gush (4 letters)
17 Down: Conflicted (4 letters)
20 Down: Recess (5 letters)
24 Down: Solid (6 letters)
26 Down: One of the King Sisters of 40's music (5 letters)
29 Down: Electronic control systems (6 letters)
32 Down: Andrews Sisters, e.g. (4 letters)
33 Down: Month after Nisan (4 letters)
34 Down: Chain hotel, for short (4 letters)
35 Down: Layer's lair (4 letters)
36 Down: Unoriginal reply (4 letters)
37 Down: Crotchety one (4 letters)
40 Down: Actress Wood of "Diamonds Are Forever" (4 letters)
41 Down: Mrs. Marcos (6 letters)
42 Down: Conditioned reflex researcher (6 letters)
45 Down: Pope Urban II, originally (3 letters)
47 Down: Culottelike garment (5 letters)
48 Down: Papyrus and such (6 letters)
49 Down: Vile (5 letters)
51 Down: Weapon in the game Clue (4 letters)
52 Down: Film director Petri (4 letters)
53 Down: City near Mt. Rose ski area (4 letters)
54 Down: Get ahold of (7 letters)
55 Down: Gem State (5 letters)
60 Down: They may be checked (4 letters)
62 Down: Presently (4 letters)
63 Down: Trespass on (6 letters)
64 Down: Take care of (5 letters)
68 Down: Islamic militant group (5 letters)
69 Down: Let up (6 letters)
70 Down: "Romeo and Juliet" setting (6 letters)
71 Down: Let out (5 letters)
72 Down: Borodin title prince (4 letters)
73 Down: "Forget it, Little Red Hen!" (4 letters)
74 Down: Spread unchecked (4 letters)
80 Down: Somalian model-turned-actress (4 letters)
81 Down: Priers (6 letters)
82 Down: Part of amatol (3 letters)
84 Down: Like Woody Herman's sax (4 letters)
85 Down: Town ENE of 53-Down (4 letters)
86 Down: Where the Rhone and the Saône meet (4 letters)
89 Down: George Ade's "The Sultan of ___" (4 letters)
90 Down: The Oscars, e.g. (4 letters)
91 Down: Graceful galloper (4 letters)
92 Down: Cane material (6 letters)
94 Down: It may be made of buffalo skins (5 letters)
100 Down: Cane, e.g. (5 letters)
101 Down: It may be passed (6 letters)
103 Down: Beast that Apollo slew (6 letters)
105 Down: Forster subject (5 letters)
106 Down: Miss Marple finds them (5 letters)
107 Down: Novelist ___ Tennant (5 letters)
108 Down: 1996 Madonna role (5 letters)
109 Down: PC troubleshooters, for short (5 letters)
110 Down: Overlook (4 letters)
111 Down: Presently (4 letters)
112 Down: The Eagles' "Take ___ the Limit" (4 letters)
113 Down: Indian Ocean vessel (4 letters)
116 Down: Burrow (4 letters)
117 Down: Like "Star Wars" (4 letters)
118 Down: Place to go for a spin (4 letters)
120 Down: "___ minute" (3 letters)
122 Down: Islet (3 letters)
123 Down: "That's news to me!" (3 letters)

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