TO B OR NOT TO B

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Alan Arbesfeld3/30/2003

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Across

1 Across: Large wardrobe (7 letters)
8 Across: Harder to travel, in a way (5 letters)
13 Across: Household name in Verona (7 letters)
20 Across: Filled online orders, say (7 letters)
21 Across: Barker (5 letters)
22 Across: Unity (7 letters)
23 Across: Party college's nickname? (13 letters)
25 Across: Comeback (7 letters)
26 Across: Idyllic spots (5 letters)
27 Across: Hard wood (5 letters)
28 Across: Musical featuring "It's Today" (4 letters)
29 Across: Tippler (3 letters)
30 Across: Tweed nemesis (4 letters)
31 Across: One side of the Bering Strait (4 letters)
33 Across: "Star Trek" navigator (4 letters)
34 Across: Debarkation points: Abbr. (4 letters)
35 Across: Squeaky wheel, maybe? (11 letters)
40 Across: Mrs. Portnoy, in "Portnoy's Complaint" (6 letters)
42 Across: "___ Dieu!" (3 letters)
45 Across: Ostentatious display (4 letters)
46 Across: Easily-wrinkled fabric (5 letters)
47 Across: Spots (5 letters)
48 Across: Flowerlike polyp (7 letters)
50 Across: Directive to a band (5 letters)
51 Across: Tennis star Jelena ___ (5 letters)
53 Across: Narrow cleft (6 letters)
54 Across: Talked-about (5 letters)
55 Across: "West Side Story" number (7 letters)
57 Across: Brain passages (5 letters)
58 Across: Radar screen repair? (11 letters)
60 Across: Abbr. on a sale item (3 letters)
62 Across: Parched (4 letters)
63 Across: Come down heavily (4 letters)
64 Across: "The Lake ___ of Innisfree" (4 letters)
65 Across: Setter settler (4 letters)
66 Across: Thrash (3 letters)
67 Across: Cook lettuce? (11 letters)
71 Across: Father-and-son actors (5 letters)
72 Across: Cardinal, e.g. (7 letters)
74 Across: Thick (5 letters)
75 Across: Boldness (6 letters)
76 Across: Food item (5 letters)
77 Across: Generous granter (5 letters)
78 Across: Edith who wrote "The Outcasts" (7 letters)
79 Across: Bailey bridge material (5 letters)
81 Across: Certain Indian (5 letters)
82 Across: ___-test (4 letters)
83 Across: Napoleonic marshal (3 letters)
84 Across: Slow road crosser (6 letters)
86 Across: Appropriate name for a female fertility clinic? (11 letters)
89 Across: Steakhouse selection (4 letters)
90 Across: In a minute (4 letters)
92 Across: Person of action (4 letters)
93 Across: Author Robert ___ Butler (4 letters)
97 Across: N.L. city (3 letters)
98 Across: Coppertone nos. (4 letters)
99 Across: Three-toed animal (5 letters)
102 Across: Harry Potter's potions professor (5 letters)
103 Across: Relentless flood (7 letters)
105 Across: Cause of Leah's many pit stops? (13 letters)
108 Across: "King Lear" daughter (7 letters)
109 Across: Stand out (5 letters)
110 Across: Oblique (7 letters)
111 Across: Run longer than expected (7 letters)
112 Across: Please, in Potsdam (5 letters)
113 Across: She looks to the future (7 letters)

Down

1 Down: Wan (5 letters)
2 Down: 1970's TV spinoff (5 letters)
3 Down: Palefaces? (5 letters)
4 Down: Willingly taking (6 letters)
5 Down: Wall St. opportunities (4 letters)
6 Down: Make the calls (3 letters)
7 Down: Summer hrs. in D.C. (3 letters)
8 Down: Pain reliever (6 letters)
9 Down: L.B.J. biographer Robert A. ___ (4 letters)
10 Down: Turkmenistan neighbor (4 letters)
11 Down: It "slayeth the silly one": Job (4 letters)
12 Down: It may be seeded (3 letters)
13 Down: Marine formation (5 letters)
14 Down: Ill will (6 letters)
15 Down: Love-crazy Le Pew (4 letters)
16 Down: Half due (3 letters)
17 Down: Without kids? (15 letters)
18 Down: 1991 joiner of the United Nations (7 letters)
19 Down: African pests (7 letters)
24 Down: Big pickle producer (5 letters)
28 Down: Bell insert (4 letters)
31 Down: Dress style (5 letters)
32 Down: Net-surfer's stop (4 letters)
33 Down: Lather (4 letters)
34 Down: Garnish, possibly (5 letters)
36 Down: Does pressing work (5 letters)
37 Down: Hog the mirror (5 letters)
38 Down: "Black Water" novelist (5 letters)
39 Down: Ammonia derivative (5 letters)
41 Down: Jack of "The Great Dictator" (5 letters)
42 Down: Poughkeepsie college (6 letters)
43 Down: Raising hell (7 letters)
44 Down: Like chili peppers? (15 letters)
49 Down: Bog down (4 letters)
50 Down: They're found in the brush (5 letters)
51 Down: Lace mat (5 letters)
52 Down: Previously (4 letters)
54 Down: Unfixed (5 letters)
55 Down: Show case? (5 letters)
56 Down: Molasses (7 letters)
58 Down: Get on (5 letters)
59 Down: Dentist's order (5 letters)
61 Down: How some people get tattoos (6 letters)
63 Down: High sch. disciplinarian (4 letters)
65 Down: Gem devaluer (4 letters)
67 Down: Hoops (5 letters)
68 Down: Fix (5 letters)
69 Down: "I don't ___ bit" (5 letters)
70 Down: Hatred (5 letters)
71 Down: Fragrant oil (5 letters)
73 Down: Tries to lose (5 letters)
75 Down: "Norwegian Wood" instrument (5 letters)
77 Down: ___ Carlo Menotti (4 letters)
78 Down: Golfer Ballesteros (4 letters)
79 Down: Exotic (7 letters)
80 Down: It's big in the Ivy League (7 letters)
81 Down: Certain co. plans (4 letters)
82 Down: Embarrassing guests (5 letters)
85 Down: Vivacity (6 letters)
87 Down: Like some mushrooms (6 letters)
88 Down: Over there (6 letters)
91 Down: Yard ___ (pub order) (5 letters)
94 Down: Borscht server (5 letters)
95 Down: Slender blades (5 letters)
96 Down: Unhip types (5 letters)
98 Down: Song from Dylan's "Desire" (4 letters)
99 Down: Head to the terminal, say (4 letters)
100 Down: It's accessed with a no. (4 letters)
101 Down: Sappho, e.g. (4 letters)
102 Down: Goalie's feat (4 letters)
104 Down: Come together (3 letters)
105 Down: One of the Bushes (3 letters)
106 Down: Not-so-big shot (3 letters)
107 Down: Wrangler competitor (3 letters)

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