ABOUT THAT FRUITCAKE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Frances Hansen12/17/2000

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Across

1 Across: Mountain cats (5 letters)
6 Across: Haitian dictator's nickname (7 letters)
13 Across: Site of thousands of flowers (5 letters)
18 Across: Peace in the Mideast? (6 letters)
20 Across: United way? (7 letters)
21 Across: Little gander (6 letters)
22 Across: Start of a verse about holiday fruitcake (21 letters)
25 Across: 1931 sudser about a washed-up prizefighter (8 letters)
26 Across: Seurat's "___ Baignade" (3 letters)
27 Across: Like some pitches (7 letters)
28 Across: See 95-Down (3 letters)
29 Across: Do (5 letters)
31 Across: Literary monogram (3 letters)
32 Across: Small piano (6 letters)
36 Across: "A good servant but a bad master": Bacon (5 letters)
37 Across: 38-Across's milieu (3 letters)
38 Across: Junk, e.g. (4 letters)
42 Across: Brown bagger (4 letters)
43 Across: Unhappy expression (4 letters)
44 Across: Henley crew (4 letters)
45 Across: Movie theater (4 letters)
46 Across: More about that fruitcake (21 letters)
52 Across: Luau fare (3 letters)
53 Across: Cartoon frames (4 letters)
54 Across: Pakistan's chief river (5 letters)
55 Across: Uninspiring talk (5 letters)
56 Across: Eminence (7 letters)
58 Across: Tee-hee (6 letters)
60 Across: Chic (6 letters)
61 Across: Parallel (7 letters)
63 Across: Wasn't paid up at the bar (7 letters)
65 Across: Sanction (6 letters)
68 Across: Cloisonné coating (6 letters)
70 Across: English class activity (7 letters)
74 Across: Mosque priests (5 letters)
75 Across: Newsreel pioneer Charles (5 letters)
76 Across: Embellish (4 letters)
77 Across: Coroner's abbr. (3 letters)
78 Across: Yet more about that fruitcake (21 letters)
83 Across: Its playing fields are famous (4 letters)
84 Across: They're black for witches (4 letters)
85 Across: Oriental au pair (4 letters)
86 Across: ___ doble (two-step dance) (4 letters)
87 Across: Last word of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" (4 letters)
88 Across: Ref's decision (3 letters)
89 Across: Theatrical backdrop (5 letters)
91 Across: Paint basecoat (6 letters)
93 Across: Map abbr. (3 letters)
94 Across: Inclination (5 letters)
95 Across: Barrett of Pink Floyd (3 letters)
96 Across: Adult's cry in a children's game (7 letters)
100 Across: Kind of observatory: Abbr. (3 letters)
101 Across: Parts of Middle Earth (8 letters)
106 Across: Final words about that fruitcake (21 letters)
110 Across: Mideast millionaires (6 letters)
111 Across: Late (7 letters)
112 Across: Kind of inspiration (6 letters)
113 Across: Pair on a bike (5 letters)
114 Across: Bloodshed (7 letters)
115 Across: Makes out (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: "Hey, you" (4 letters)
2 Down: Slip acknowledgment (4 letters)
3 Down: "If He Walked Into My Life" musical (4 letters)
4 Down: Novelist Waugh (4 letters)
5 Down: She had a choice in literature (6 letters)
6 Down: "Hair" producer, 1967 (4 letters)
7 Down: Be in bed, maybe (3 letters)
8 Down: Grand ___ ("Evangeline" setting) (3 letters)
9 Down: Attraction (6 letters)
10 Down: Like lacework (6 letters)
11 Down: Pleasing to the ear (5 letters)
12 Down: So-so mark (3 letters)
13 Down: Emulates the birds and the bees (5 letters)
14 Down: Mille ___ (Minnesota county) (4 letters)
15 Down: "You're the ___ Care For" (1931 hit) (4 letters)
16 Down: Parietal cell secretion (4 letters)
17 Down: Block of Brie? (4 letters)
19 Down: Not accidental (5 letters)
21 Down: Paprika-seasoned stew (7 letters)
23 Down: Meditation class chorus (3 letters)
24 Down: Bull session participants? (7 letters)
29 Down: Really come down (4 letters)
30 Down: Pay one's share, with "up" (4 letters)
32 Down: Gives and takes (5 letters)
33 Down: Vinifera variety (5 letters)
34 Down: It has 25 states (5 letters)
35 Down: 1 and 66: Abbr. (3 letters)
36 Down: Barbers' challenges (4 letters)
37 Down: General Motors division (6 letters)
38 Down: Ancient symbols of resurrection (7 letters)
39 Down: Hand a line to, say (5 letters)
40 Down: How to sign a contract (5 letters)
41 Down: "Our Gang" dog (5 letters)
43 Down: "Moby-Dick" captain (5 letters)
44 Down: Baptism of fire (6 letters)
47 Down: Eye doctor (7 letters)
48 Down: Have coming (5 letters)
49 Down: Toned (3 letters)
50 Down: ___-temps (meanwhile, in Metz) (5 letters)
51 Down: King nicknamed "Longshanks" (7 letters)
57 Down: Name in old politics (7 letters)
58 Down: Extra innings (6 letters)
59 Down: Craters of the Moon locale (5 letters)
60 Down: Big problem for a pilot (5 letters)
62 Down: By (6 letters)
64 Down: Quite silly (5 letters)
65 Down: Carried a torch (for) (5 letters)
66 Down: Play to the rafters (5 letters)
67 Down: Pitcher Martinez (5 letters)
69 Down: Copy cats? (3 letters)
71 Down: Epitomic (5 letters)
72 Down: Headache intensifier (5 letters)
73 Down: Football's ___ Bowl (5 letters)
75 Down: Brightens (7 letters)
76 Down: Its capital is Hagatña (4 letters)
79 Down: Results of getting needled? (7 letters)
80 Down: Looming choice (4 letters)
81 Down: Bypass (4 letters)
82 Down: One whose days are numbered? (3 letters)
89 Down: Beowulf, notably (6 letters)
90 Down: Stalactite site (6 letters)
91 Down: Church council (5 letters)
92 Down: Add just before the deadline (6 letters)
93 Down: "Wayne's World" co-star (5 letters)
94 Down: 1983 Indy 500 winner (5 letters)
95 Down: With 28-Across, some protests (3 letters)
96 Down: "___ first ..." (4 letters)
97 Down: Annual opener (4 letters)
98 Down: Pitcher (4 letters)
99 Down: Foil relative (4 letters)
101 Down: Joint with a cap (4 letters)
102 Down: Singer Matthews (4 letters)
103 Down: Of the ear (4 letters)
104 Down: Non-P.C. wrap (4 letters)
105 Down: Some Fr. martyrs (4 letters)
107 Down: ___ cit. (3 letters)
108 Down: Nabokov novel (3 letters)
109 Down: It may be cut (3 letters)

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