TURNDOWNS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon4/1/2001

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Filmmaker Nicolas (4 letters)
5 Across: "Aye"-catcher? (4 letters)
9 Across: Cockeyed (5 letters)
14 Across: Loose talk? (5 letters)
19 Across: Building support (4 letters)
20 Across: Department (4 letters)
21 Across: Hairy-chested (5 letters)
22 Across: Provoking person (5 letters)
23 Across: Turndown #1 (9 letters)
25 Across: Turndown #2 (11 letters)
27 Across: Continue (6 letters)
28 Across: Architect Mies van der ___ (4 letters)
30 Across: Lhasa ___ (dog) (4 letters)
31 Across: "Down with!," in Dijon (4 letters)
32 Across: Part of a test, maybe (7 letters)
34 Across: Ernie of the P.G.A. (3 letters)
35 Across: Pigeonholes (6 letters)
37 Across: Including (8 letters)
40 Across: Chucklehead (9 letters)
43 Across: Tuba sound (3 letters)
44 Across: Mormons, initially (3 letters)
45 Across: Developing stage (6 letters)
46 Across: "When hell freezes over!" (5 letters)
50 Across: Turndown #3 (12 letters)
54 Across: Turndown #4 (7 letters)
56 Across: Andrea ___ (5 letters)
57 Across: Like proclamations (6 letters)
58 Across: City in Kyrgyzstan (3 letters)
59 Across: Like Brahms's Symphony No. 3 (3 letters)
60 Across: Music for which Peter Tosh is famous (6 letters)
62 Across: Comparatively agile (6 letters)
64 Across: Scold (6 letters)
67 Across: Ticklish: Var. (6 letters)
69 Across: In a plucky manner (6 letters)
71 Across: Disappearing network TV employee (6 letters)
74 Across: Like Midas (6 letters)
78 Across: Alley-oop toss, e.g. (6 letters)
81 Across: Tony-winning Hagen (3 letters)
82 Across: Deck (out) (3 letters)
84 Across: Cross the threshold (6 letters)
86 Across: How tuna is packed (5 letters)
88 Across: Turndown #5 (7 letters)
91 Across: Turndown #6 (12 letters)
93 Across: "La Traviata" mezzo (5 letters)
94 Across: Redeemed (6 letters)
97 Across: "___ Box" (1992 pop music release) (3 letters)
98 Across: Dallas cager, briefly (3 letters)
99 Across: Vermin (9 letters)
101 Across: Part of a buffer zone, maybe (8 letters)
104 Across: Undo (6 letters)
107 Across: Atmospheric prefix (3 letters)
108 Across: Sign of a slip (7 letters)
110 Across: Fruitless (4 letters)
111 Across: It may be divided into rows (4 letters)
113 Across: What an outturned palm may mean (4 letters)
114 Across: Lampooned (6 letters)
118 Across: Turndown #7 (11 letters)
121 Across: Turndown #8 (9 letters)
123 Across: Potential serve-breaker's score (5 letters)
124 Across: Shake like ___ (5 letters)
125 Across: Concluded (4 letters)
126 Across: x, y or z (4 letters)
127 Across: States' rights amendment to the Constitution (5 letters)
128 Across: Natural sitting spot (5 letters)
129 Across: Partner of rules, slangily (4 letters)
130 Across: Kind of price (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Islanders' place (4 letters)
2 Down: "O" in old radio lingo (4 letters)
3 Down: Lighten (4 letters)
4 Down: Influenza (6 letters)
5 Down: Sensually (8 letters)
6 Down: It may follow you (3 letters)
7 Down: Titled ladies (9 letters)
8 Down: Fat cat (5 letters)
9 Down: Troubadour's subject, perhaps (4 letters)
10 Down: Bath ___ (3 letters)
11 Down: Hospital gizmo (7 letters)
12 Down: Passes unnoticed (7 letters)
13 Down: Assn. and org., e.g. (4 letters)
14 Down: Eastern title of respect (3 letters)
15 Down: His March 1952 marriage was big news (8 letters)
16 Down: "We'll ___ there to greet her" (old song lyric) (5 letters)
17 Down: Buddha's reputed birthplace (5 letters)
18 Down: Common stain (5 letters)
24 Down: Lucky streak (4 letters)
26 Down: Kind of nut (4 letters)
29 Down: Hid (7 letters)
33 Down: Ones left holding the bag? (7 letters)
34 Down: Personify (6 letters)
36 Down: Hokkaido native (4 letters)
37 Down: Footless animal (4 letters)
38 Down: Zest (5 letters)
39 Down: "I don't see it" (5 letters)
41 Down: It signals caution (5 letters)
42 Down: Rogers and others (4 letters)
47 Down: Sign of secrecy (4 letters)
48 Down: Irish novelist O'Brien (4 letters)
49 Down: Slew (4 letters)
51 Down: Washington bank name since 1840 (5 letters)
52 Down: Fictional Mr. (5 letters)
53 Down: Ancient language: Abbr. (5 letters)
55 Down: "But of course!" (5 letters)
58 Down: ___ e sempre (now and always): It. (3 letters)
61 Down: Place for a valve (5 letters)
63 Down: Where Saladin was sultan (5 letters)
65 Down: Pitcher of milk? (5 letters)
66 Down: Possible cause of a spanking (5 letters)
68 Down: Fragile decoration (3 letters)
70 Down: Times to dream of (7 letters)
71 Down: Give a hand? (4 letters)
72 Down: Catalog card abbr. (4 letters)
73 Down: Britain's Lord Ismay was its first head (4 letters)
75 Down: It begins "In the days of Ahasuerus ..." (6 letters)
76 Down: Part of the gasoline additive M.T.B.E. (5 letters)
77 Down: Scrolls site (7 letters)
79 Down: "Me, too!" (5 letters)
80 Down: Certain missile (5 letters)
83 Down: In the old days (4 letters)
85 Down: Tending to set apart (9 letters)
87 Down: In the flesh (4 letters)
89 Down: Hollered (8 letters)
90 Down: Mandlikova of tennis (4 letters)
92 Down: Teetotalers (8 letters)
95 Down: By and large (7 letters)
96 Down: Directed (7 letters)
100 Down: Severely scold (4 letters)
102 Down: Number in Nuremberg (4 letters)
103 Down: Crazy, slangily (6 letters)
104 Down: Charged (5 letters)
105 Down: Sap (5 letters)
106 Down: Tool attached to a rope (5 letters)
109 Down: Austerity (5 letters)
112 Down: Shade of black (4 letters)
113 Down: Ring bearer (4 letters)
115 Down: Checker, perhaps (4 letters)
116 Down: "A God in Ruins" novelist (4 letters)
117 Down: Noodge (4 letters)
119 Down: Number in a series (3 letters)
120 Down: Trail (3 letters)
122 Down: Do nothin' at all (3 letters)

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