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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Frances Hansen12/21/2003

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Select (6 letters)
7 Across: "Kojak" star (7 letters)
14 Across: When Romeo talks to Juliet on the balcony (6 letters)
20 Across: They can dish it out (6 letters)
21 Across: Sans sense (7 letters)
22 Across: Bit of progress (6 letters)
23 Across: Start of a Christmas verse (21 letters)
26 Across: Large baskets (8 letters)
27 Across: Fleming or Hunter (3 letters)
28 Across: ___ Park (5 letters)
29 Across: Meadow (3 letters)
30 Across: Fairy tale start (4 letters)
31 Across: Downed a sub, say (3 letters)
32 Across: Indian council setting (5 letters)
36 Across: Like tears (5 letters)
38 Across: Watchdog's greeting (3 letters)
39 Across: Spill the beans (4 letters)
43 Across: Skater's jump (4 letters)
44 Across: "Ad ___ per aspera" (Kansas' motto) (5 letters)
46 Across: Indonesian vacation destination (4 letters)
47 Across: Fashionable beach resort (4 letters)
48 Across: Verse, part 2 (21 letters)
53 Across: "To the Poets," for one (3 letters)
54 Across: The good earth (4 letters)
55 Across: Grayish (4 letters)
56 Across: Cambodian money (5 letters)
57 Across: "___ the fields we go" (3 letters)
58 Across: Use a wok (3 letters)
59 Across: Age following the Stone Age (6 letters)
61 Across: "Under the Volcano" star, 1984 (6 letters)
62 Across: Certain bridge (7 letters)
64 Across: Laundry job (7 letters)
66 Across: Donnybrooks (6 letters)
69 Across: Unspontaneous ones (6 letters)
71 Across: "Wheel of Fortune" buy (3 letters)
72 Across: What Eng. majors get (3 letters)
75 Across: Cousin of a gnu (5 letters)
76 Across: Summers on the Seine (4 letters)
77 Across: One of the Waughs (4 letters)
78 Across: Often-repeated abbr. (3 letters)
79 Across: Verse, part 3 (21 letters)
85 Across: Unwrap, as a gift (4 letters)
86 Across: Not manually, after "on" (4 letters)
87 Across: Female donkey (5 letters)
88 Across: "L'___ c'est moi" (4 letters)
89 Across: Crimefighter of early '60s TV (4 letters)
90 Across: "___ Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (3 letters)
91 Across: Trumpet sound (5 letters)
93 Across: Lifeless (5 letters)
94 Across: 11th-century date (3 letters)
95 Across: Grizzly (4 letters)
96 Across: Goat-legged god (3 letters)
98 Across: Dust busters (5 letters)
100 Across: 50 Cent piece (3 letters)
101 Across: Some wedding embellishments (8 letters)
106 Across: End of the verse (21 letters)
111 Across: "Later" (6 letters)
112 Across: Of the lymph glands (7 letters)
113 Across: Undivided (6 letters)
114 Across: Nonresident doctor (6 letters)
115 Across: Kind of strength (7 letters)
116 Across: Sappho's home (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Sound effect in a western (4 letters)
2 Down: "That's hysterical!" (4 letters)
3 Down: God who presided over the Aesir (4 letters)
4 Down: Actor Ken (4 letters)
5 Down: In one's dotage (6 letters)
6 Down: Cosmetician Lauder (5 letters)
7 Down: Confession recitals (4 letters)
8 Down: "___ a partridge in a pear tree" (3 letters)
9 Down: Winery sight (3 letters)
10 Down: Officially designate (6 letters)
11 Down: Inheritance (6 letters)
12 Down: How Santa travels (5 letters)
13 Down: Orchestra: Abbr. (3 letters)
14 Down: Touchdown site (8 letters)
15 Down: Place to see a Ben Franklin portrait (5 letters)
16 Down: Constant (4 letters)
17 Down: A huge amount (4 letters)
18 Down: Real mouthful (3 letters)
19 Down: Some hosp. cases (3 letters)
24 Down: Span of time (3 letters)
25 Down: Like Santa's visit (6 letters)
30 Down: Norwegian king (4 letters)
32 Down: Off-limits (5 letters)
33 Down: Display (5 letters)
34 Down: Pumpkin eater of the nursery (5 letters)
35 Down: Yalie (3 letters)
36 Down: Hold back (4 letters)
37 Down: Neighbor of Scorpius (3 letters)
38 Down: Gossip (6 letters)
39 Down: Wash whitener (6 letters)
40 Down: Table covers (5 letters)
41 Down: Confuse (5 letters)
42 Down: High-handed (5 letters)
44 Down: Ovid's love elegies (6 letters)
45 Down: Rural carriages (5 letters)
46 Down: Texas river (6 letters)
49 Down: Sch. in upstate N.Y. (7 letters)
50 Down: Courtroom affirmation (3 letters)
51 Down: "Ninotchka" director ___ Lubitsch (5 letters)
52 Down: Part of the Venezuela/ Colombia border (7 letters)
59 Down: Pie-eyed (6 letters)
60 Down: Renaissance fiddle (5 letters)
61 Down: Sunday best (6 letters)
62 Down: Mortise insertions (6 letters)
63 Down: Sugar plums and candy canes (6 letters)
65 Down: Claw (5 letters)
66 Down: Quark-plus-antiquark particle (5 letters)
67 Down: Skip off (5 letters)
68 Down: Puts on, as cargo (5 letters)
70 Down: Kyrgyz city (3 letters)
72 Down: Davis of "Jezebel" (5 letters)
73 Down: Battling (5 letters)
74 Down: "Ivanhoe" author (5 letters)
77 Down: Top-rated (4 letters)
80 Down: Settle once and for all (8 letters)
81 Down: Elizabethan musician (6 letters)
82 Down: Slightly open (4 letters)
83 Down: Wagner's "___ fliegende Hollander" (3 letters)
84 Down: Stimpy's TV pal (3 letters)
91 Down: Defeated (6 letters)
92 Down: Rabbit furs (6 letters)
93 Down: Bonkers (6 letters)
94 Down: Nondrinker by law (5 letters)
95 Down: Mrs. Santa Claus, long ago (5 letters)
96 Down: Pea's place (3 letters)
97 Down: Dancing giddily (5 letters)
98 Down: Drudge of the Internet (4 letters)
99 Down: Last of the House of Stuart (4 letters)
101 Down: Funny ___, 2003 Derby winner (4 letters)
102 Down: Ship positions (4 letters)
103 Down: Smooth-tongued (4 letters)
104 Down: Foreign money (4 letters)
105 Down: Dates (4 letters)
106 Down: Suffix with elephant (3 letters)
107 Down: Loser to Harding in 1920 (3 letters)
108 Down: Like Santa (3 letters)
109 Down: "___ do not!" (3 letters)
110 Down: Part of R.S.V.P. (3 letters)

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