POSITIONAL PLAY

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy David J. Kahn4/14/2002

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Green stuff (5 letters)
6 Across: Special times (4 letters)
10 Across: Summer music (5 letters)
15 Across: Chant syllables (3 letters)
18 Across: Capital of the Asturias kingdom of early Spain (6 letters)
20 Across: Prefix with phobia (4 letters)
21 Across: Lend ___ (5 letters)
22 Across: Fresh, as recruits (3 letters)
23 Across: 007 portrayer (6 letters)
24 Across: Magazine opening? (10 letters)
26 Across: "You ___" (Lionel Richie hit) (3 letters)
27 Across: To you, to Yves (4 letters)
28 Across: Popped up (5 letters)
30 Across: Pull strings? (5 letters)
31 Across: Handle: Lat. (4 letters)
32 Across: Didn't bother (9 letters)
34 Across: Reassuring words (11 letters)
36 Across: Jacques of song (4 letters)
37 Across: Prefix with sphere (3 letters)
38 Across: Echo producer, maybe (5 letters)
39 Across: Spring, summer and fall (14 letters)
46 Across: Scot who invented a vacuum bottle (5 letters)
48 Across: Eastern tie? (3 letters)
49 Across: "The Confessions of Nat Turner" writer (6 letters)
50 Across: ___ caddy (3 letters)
52 Across: Like Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 (3 letters)
53 Across: Curtails (9 letters)
56 Across: Fast sweepers (11 letters)
61 Across: Puzzled (5 letters)
62 Across: It may be snapped in a kitchen (6 letters)
64 Across: Ordinary in the extreme (7 letters)
65 Across: Day-___ (3 letters)
67 Across: Nautical heading (3 letters)
68 Across: "___ Believer" (3 letters)
71 Across: Sorority letter (3 letters)
72 Across: Culpable (7 letters)
76 Across: Speaker booster (6 letters)
79 Across: Sea predators (5 letters)
83 Across: Grilling (11 letters)
86 Across: Precipitately (9 letters)
88 Across: Summer wear (3 letters)
89 Across: Get (3 letters)
90 Across: Unflappable (6 letters)
92 Across: "I get it!" (3 letters)
93 Across: "Sunflowers" setting (5 letters)
96 Across: Order for a thirsty group (14 letters)
100 Across: "Frasier" dog (5 letters)
102 Across: Perennial Olympics powerhouse: Abbr. (3 letters)
103 Across: Lindstrom and Zadora (4 letters)
104 Across: Very important (11 letters)
108 Across: Much weekend TV fare (9 letters)
113 Across: Don Drysdale book "Once ___, Always a Dodger" (4 letters)
114 Across: Some Surrealist art (5 letters)
115 Across: "Later" (5 letters)
116 Across: Sitarist Shankar (4 letters)
117 Across: Like some 1960's fashion (3 letters)
118 Across: One who might get a little chow (10 letters)
120 Across: They may be wild (6 letters)
122 Across: Fan (3 letters)
123 Across: Unsavory one (5 letters)
124 Across: Oldies player (4 letters)
125 Across: Comedy's Cleghorne and others (6 letters)
126 Across: Put away (3 letters)
127 Across: Cape ___ Islands (5 letters)
128 Across: ___ dixit (allegation) (4 letters)
129 Across: Chaotic (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Relating to form (5 letters)
2 Down: Like bluebell leaves (5 letters)
3 Down: ___ vitriol (sulfuric acid) (5 letters)
4 Down: 1970 #1 album (7 letters)
5 Down: Busy activity (3 letters)
6 Down: Record holder? (5 letters)
7 Down: Peewee who wasn't so small (5 letters)
8 Down: Archer of note (4 letters)
9 Down: Lush (3 letters)
10 Down: Bar game (5 letters)
11 Down: Prefix with structural (5 letters)
12 Down: 1988 Olympics site (5 letters)
13 Down: In a 90-Across way (6 letters)
14 Down: California's Fort ___ Dunes (3 letters)
15 Down: Fermented beverage used as an aperitif (10 letters)
16 Down: Where bulrushes grow (10 letters)
17 Down: Worry, informally (5 letters)
19 Down: Tethered (8 letters)
25 Down: These, to Tomás (5 letters)
29 Down: Fancy desk (7 letters)
31 Down: Governmental appointee (4 letters)
33 Down: Wall St. type (3 letters)
34 Down: Response to a naysayer (6 letters)
35 Down: Curtain holder (3 letters)
37 Down: Job ad inits. (3 letters)
39 Down: City down the coast from West Palm (4 letters)
40 Down: Adjoin (4 letters)
41 Down: Isn't put to use (4 letters)
42 Down: Old strings (5 letters)
43 Down: Taco belles?: Abbr. (5 letters)
44 Down: Like some stocks: Abbr. (3 letters)
45 Down: ___-con (3 letters)
47 Down: Recess (4 letters)
51 Down: Hill climber, of sorts (3 letters)
54 Down: Stogie (5 letters)
55 Down: "To your health!" (5 letters)
57 Down: Falco of "The Sopranos" (4 letters)
58 Down: Rap's Dr. ___ (3 letters)
59 Down: ___ the party (5 letters)
60 Down: Early name in home computers (5 letters)
63 Down: Pet form of José (4 letters)
66 Down: Prehistoric (3 letters)
69 Down: Big name in Olympics skiing (5 letters)
70 Down: Arab leader (5 letters)
72 Down: Lead-in for boy or girl (4 letters)
73 Down: Roughly that (10 letters)
74 Down: Football official (10 letters)
75 Down: Time for "Taps" (3 letters)
77 Down: "Baywatch" event (6 letters)
78 Down: Complete array (7 letters)
80 Down: Suffix with Dixie (4 letters)
81 Down: Courtly Arthur (4 letters)
82 Down: Pentagram (4 letters)
84 Down: Hiatus (3 letters)
85 Down: Stat for Jeff Bagwell (3 letters)
87 Down: Fortified position offering protection from enemy fire (8 letters)
91 Down: Doubting comments (3 letters)
94 Down: Old land south of the Dead Sea (4 letters)
95 Down: Paul McCartney, for one (3 letters)
97 Down: Source of income for some (5 letters)
98 Down: Jokester (3 letters)
99 Down: Mostly (7 letters)
101 Down: Novelist Leonard (6 letters)
104 Down: African biter (5 letters)
105 Down: Trevanian novel "The ___ Sanction" (5 letters)
106 Down: Like some tennis shots (5 letters)
107 Down: Lose it (5 letters)
108 Down: Squawks (5 letters)
109 Down: High spot (5 letters)
110 Down: Office staffs? (5 letters)
111 Down: Balances (out) (5 letters)
112 Down: Namby-pamby (5 letters)
115 Down: Half Moon, e.g. (4 letters)
118 Down: Seventh-century date (3 letters)
119 Down: McBride of "Boston Public" (3 letters)
121 Down: American ___ (3 letters)

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