A MATTER OF DEGREE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Dana Motley5/27/2001

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Across

1 Across
Pop music's ___ and the Waves (7 letters)
8 Across
Finan. planner's suggestion (3 letters)
11 Across
Alt. spelling (3 letters)
14 Across
Kind of shot (3 letters)
17 Across
Decorative bands (7 letters)
18 Across
Some are kosher (5 letters)
21 Across
Noncarbonated drinks (7 letters)
23 Across
Start of a quote (13 letters)
25 Across
Another helping (7 letters)
26 Across
Quote, part 2 (17 letters)
28 Across
Revelation responses (4 letters)
32 Across
"Fargo" director (4 letters)
33 Across
Correct, as a manuscript (6 letters)
34 Across
Quote, part 3 (7 letters)
38 Across
Tournament draw (4 letters)
40 Across
Chatroom chuckle (3 letters)
41 Across
Part of some e-mail addresses (3 letters)
44 Across
Lose-lose situations (8 letters)
46 Across
Like some golf balls (4 letters)
48 Across
One offering a sales incentive (7 letters)
51 Across
___-Magnon (3 letters)
52 Across
First name in architecture (4 letters)
53 Across
Apparent path of the sun (3 letters)
55 Across
Get cozy (6 letters)
56 Across
Quote, part 4 (19 letters)
62 Across
Star Wars inits. (3 letters)
63 Across
Big foot meas. (3 letters)
64 Across
Supermodel Carangi (3 letters)
65 Across
"Rise, Glory, Rise" composer (4 letters)
66 Across
Kitchen tubes (5 letters)
69 Across
Comic writer who produced this puzzle's quote (9 letters)
72 Across
Photographer Adams (5 letters)
73 Across
Cartoonist Soglow (4 letters)
74 Across
Comic Philips (3 letters)
75 Across
Diminutive suffix (3 letters)
76 Across
Plunk (down) (3 letters)
77 Across
Quote, part 5 (19 letters)
84 Across
As a matter of fact: Fr. (6 letters)
85 Across
Count Basie's "___ Darlin'" (3 letters)
86 Across
Word on a door (4 letters)
87 Across
Simple tool user (3 letters)
90 Across
Noted minority group (7 letters)
92 Across
"O mio babbino ___" (Puccini aria) (4 letters)
95 Across
Not all the same (8 letters)
97 Across
Mormons: Abbr. (3 letters)
98 Across
3.0, e.g. (3 letters)
100 Across
El ___ (4 letters)
102 Across
Quote, part 6 (7 letters)
103 Across
Burn (6 letters)
106 Across
Doer in a whodunit (4 letters)
108 Across
Wiggle room (4 letters)
109 Across
Quote, part 7 (17 letters)
116 Across
Basque, e.g. (7 letters)
117 Across
End of the quote (13 letters)
122 Across
Weather (7 letters)
123 Across
"The Addams Family" co-star (5 letters)
124 Across
Champion (7 letters)
125 Across
Computer attachment? (3 letters)
126 Across
Grads.-to-be (3 letters)
127 Across
Venusians, e.g. (3 letters)
128 Across
Spring sight (7 letters)

Down

1 Down
Popeye's alternative, briefly (3 letters)
2 Down
Altar constellation (3 letters)
3 Down
Bolivian export (3 letters)
4 Down
Man on un trono (3 letters)
5 Down
Polo shirt producer (4 letters)
6 Down
Prefix with -algia (4 letters)
7 Down
Like (4 letters)
8 Down
Some spuds (6 letters)
9 Down
Shake hands with again (7 letters)
10 Down
Property recipient (7 letters)
11 Down
An American in Paris? (7 letters)
12 Down
Welding gas (9 letters)
13 Down
Rundown (5 letters)
14 Down
Provide (for) (4 letters)
15 Down
See 80-Down (4 letters)
16 Down
Khrushchev's concern (4 letters)
19 Down
Roomy place? (3 letters)
20 Down
Very, in Würzburg (4 letters)
22 Down
With 39-Down, terrible with pitches (4 letters)
24 Down
G3 or G4 computer (3 letters)
27 Down
It lacks ventral fins (3 letters)
28 Down
Electrically versatile (4 letters)
29 Down
Prince, e.g. (4 letters)
30 Down
Set apart (5 letters)
31 Down
Pilot's hdg. (3 letters)
35 Down
Ferdinand's first lady (6 letters)
36 Down
Miyoshi ___, Best Supporting Actress winner for "Sayonara" (5 letters)
37 Down
Dress with folds (4 letters)
39 Down
See 22-Down (4 letters)
41 Down
Fun-loving fishers (6 letters)
42 Down
Winterize, as an old coat (6 letters)
43 Down
Humperdinck heroine (6 letters)
45 Down
Labor day arrival? (3 letters)
47 Down
Friday program that was never actually shown on Friday (7 letters)
49 Down
Painter Shahn (3 letters)
50 Down
Ghanaian dialect (7 letters)
54 Down
Smart (4 letters)
57 Down
Elaine's home, in Arthurian romance (7 letters)
58 Down
Like some modern-day mapping (7 letters)
59 Down
Phone trio (3 letters)
60 Down
47-Down airing, today (5 letters)
61 Down
Bowl outburst (3 letters)
66 Down
Albright's successor at State (6 letters)
67 Down
Wore a hair shirt (6 letters)
68 Down
Packs (6 letters)
69 Down
Org. with a crack staff? (3 letters)
70 Down
___ nitrate (4 letters)
71 Down
New Haven Ivy Leaguer (3 letters)
72 Down
Lamb or Bacon (6 letters)
76 Down
Western group (5 letters)
78 Down
Early sixth-century date (3 letters)
79 Down
Extinct plant-eater (9 letters)
80 Down
With 15-Down, "This Gun for Hire" star (4 letters)
81 Down
Hot spot (3 letters)
82 Down
When doubled, confidential (4 letters)
83 Down
Concerning one's coming out? (5 letters)
88 Down
Clinton cabinet member (4 letters)
89 Down
Swirl (4 letters)
91 Down
Covers ground quickly (7 letters)
93 Down
Thrust after parrying (7 letters)
94 Down
Blood donation quantity (7 letters)
96 Down
Standing on the street? (3 letters)
99 Down
With a needle: Prefix (3 letters)
101 Down
"The Wah Watusi" singers, with "the" (6 letters)
103 Down
Drought-damaged (4 letters)
104 Down
Madison Avenue awards (5 letters)
105 Down
Early Chinese dynasty (4 letters)
107 Down
West Coast summer hrs. (3 letters)
109 Down
Dreadful (4 letters)
110 Down
Aaron's 2,297 (4 letters)
111 Down
Hand over (4 letters)
112 Down
Oz. and mg. (3 letters)
113 Down
Suffix with game (4 letters)
114 Down
Asian sleuth's comment (4 letters)
115 Down
Dog din (4 letters)
118 Down
Balance beam gripper (3 letters)
119 Down
Core (3 letters)
120 Down
Big 12 member, briefly (3 letters)
121 Down
Poet Hughes (3 letters)

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