PLACEMENT TEST

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23170 clues~30-60 minBy Nancy Nicholson Joline8/28/2005

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Across

1 Across: Turkic people (6 letters)
7 Across: Series of movements (6 letters)
13 Across: Patient form info (3 letters)
16 Across: Baron von Trapp (5 letters)
21 Across: It may be folded for breakfast (6 letters)
22 Across: Part of Isabella I's realm (6 letters)
23 Across: Sch. in Kingston (3 letters)
24 Across: Connecticut or Delaware (5 letters)
25 Across: How this answer is situated (13 letters)
27 Across: Nothing (3 letters)
28 Across: "Gladiator" setting (5 letters)
29 Across: Cookout aid (6 letters)
30 Across: Eyelid afflictions (5 letters)
32 Across: Eventually (7 letters)
34 Across: Thatching material (5 letters)
36 Across: Irene ___ ("A Scandal in Bohemia" woman) (5 letters)
38 Across: Seventh-century Arab caliph (3 letters)
39 Across: March cry (3 letters)
40 Across: Paul Anka #1 hit (5 letters)
43 Across: Must (5 letters)
46 Across: Flighty sort? (6 letters)
48 Across: Fuel suffix (3 letters)
49 Across: Up (5 letters)
50 Across: How this answer is situated (11 letters)
52 Across: Purplish (4 letters)
53 Across: Water carrier (4 letters)
54 Across: Cassini and others (5 letters)
55 Across: Some mil. careerists (4 letters)
56 Across: Decorative fabrics (6 letters)
58 Across: Basilica feature (4 letters)
59 Across: Shave (4 letters)
60 Across: How this answer is situated (10 letters)
63 Across: Beer bash need (3 letters)
64 Across: Like Nehru jackets (5 letters)
66 Across: Made known (8 letters)
70 Across: Possible backache cause (7 letters)
74 Across: "Dies ___" (4 letters)
75 Across: Shepherd's pie ingredients (4 letters)
77 Across: It gets a licking (4 letters)
78 Across: Goof-offs (6 letters)
79 Across: Out of memory? (7 letters)
81 Across: Rennes resident (6 letters)
83 Across: Gaze dreamily (4 letters)
84 Across: Sight from Taormina (4 letters)
86 Across: Messieurs' mates: Abbr. (4 letters)
87 Across: Belly-dancers' accouterments (7 letters)
88 Across: "Heat" co-star, 1995 (8 letters)
91 Across: Gounod opera (5 letters)
92 Across: "If the ___ is concealed, it succeeds": Ovid (3 letters)
93 Across: How this answer is situated (10 letters)
96 Across: Long (4 letters)
98 Across: Certain sorority member (4 letters)
102 Across: Summer Olympics racers (6 letters)
105 Across: Wannabe, often (4 letters)
106 Across: Got up (5 letters)
107 Across: "What a pity!" (4 letters)
108 Across: Normandy river (4 letters)
109 Across: How this answer is situated (11 letters)
112 Across: Time (5 letters)
113 Across: Topper (3 letters)
114 Across: Faculties (6 letters)
116 Across: Finish second (5 letters)
117 Across: Resembling a beanpole (5 letters)
118 Across: Suffix with Capri (3 letters)
119 Across: Identify (3 letters)
120 Across: Prefix with comic (5 letters)
122 Across: Reference book for a writer (5 letters)
125 Across: Charles who founded an investment firm (7 letters)
127 Across: Start of many sequel titles (5 letters)
129 Across: Derelict (6 letters)
132 Across: "That's an ___!" (5 letters)
133 Across: Oneself (3 letters)
136 Across: How this answer is situated (13 letters)
140 Across: Weeper of myth (5 letters)
141 Across: Pal of Rover (3 letters)
142 Across: Prayer (6 letters)
143 Across: Two-timing (6 letters)
144 Across: Thick novels (5 letters)
145 Across: Censor's target (3 letters)
146 Across: African scourge (6 letters)
147 Across: Ostensible (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Boatload (3 letters)
2 Down: Actor Leon of "Life With Father" (4 letters)
3 Down: Sermon's basis (4 letters)
4 Down: Sub (9 letters)
5 Down: Camp David, e.g. (7 letters)
6 Down: Curling item (5 letters)
7 Down: ___ Paulo (3 letters)
8 Down: Leftover morsel (3 letters)
9 Down: Casual turndowns (4 letters)
10 Down: Hurried, musically (7 letters)
11 Down: "Leave It to Beaver" actor (7 letters)
12 Down: Sweetheart (5 letters)
13 Down: Barbarian (3 letters)
14 Down: Diagnostic aid, for short (3 letters)
15 Down: Wick holder (7 letters)
16 Down: Au ___ (6 letters)
17 Down: Limerick locale (4 letters)
18 Down: How this answer is situated (8 letters)
19 Down: Give up (8 letters)
20 Down: Scholarship winners (8 letters)
26 Down: Doze (3 letters)
31 Down: Rap session? (6 letters)
33 Down: ___ maison (indoors): Fr. (3 letters)
35 Down: Farrier (5 letters)
37 Down: Severity (5 letters)
40 Down: 1910's-20's movement (4 letters)
41 Down: Live ___ (4 letters)
42 Down: Fundamentals (4 letters)
44 Down: Zouave, by birth (8 letters)
45 Down: Some Mercedes-Benzes (3 letters)
47 Down: Seller of Alaska, 1867 (6 letters)
50 Down: Ernest who designed Washington's Corcoran gallery (5 letters)
51 Down: Fascinated by (4 letters)
52 Down: Goes through (7 letters)
54 Down: Starts the betting (5 letters)
56 Down: Cask control (3 letters)
57 Down: Reproductive cells (3 letters)
60 Down: ___ impasse (4 letters)
61 Down: Ex-con (7 letters)
62 Down: ___ Bounty (3 letters)
63 Down: Red apéritif (3 letters)
65 Down: Columnist Bombeck (4 letters)
67 Down: Haul (4 letters)
68 Down: Organic compound (4 letters)
69 Down: Vulpine abodes (4 letters)
70 Down: City founded by Pizarro (4 letters)
71 Down: Teen ___ (4 letters)
72 Down: Dog (4 letters)
73 Down: Not easily debunked (7 letters)
75 Down: Burlesque props (4 letters)
76 Down: Transported (8 letters)
80 Down: Feeling superior (4 letters)
81 Down: Revealed (5 letters)
82 Down: Q-U connection (3 letters)
84 Down: Musician Brian (3 letters)
85 Down: Holy scrolls (6 letters)
87 Down: Western resort area (5 letters)
89 Down: Cartoonist's medium (3 letters)
90 Down: Suppositions (3 letters)
91 Down: Negotiator at Vladivostok, 1974 (4 letters)
94 Down: Sports equipment waved in the air (5 letters)
95 Down: Lets (6 letters)
97 Down: Rising star (5 letters)
98 Down: Mexican rebel (9 letters)
99 Down: Carolina university (4 letters)
100 Down: Yachter's heading (4 letters)
101 Down: Far from flushed (4 letters)
102 Down: ___ seal (six-pointed star) (8 letters)
103 Down: Yardsticks (8 letters)
104 Down: How this answer is situated (8 letters)
106 Down: "Come ___?" (Italian greeting) (3 letters)
109 Down: Reel people (7 letters)
110 Down: Willing interviewees, say (7 letters)
111 Down: Tart: Var. (7 letters)
112 Down: Copper or nickel (7 letters)
114 Down: Oxford's "dreaming ___" (6 letters)
115 Down: It may be smoked (3 letters)
121 Down: One with abs of steel? (5 letters)
123 Down: Colombian gold (3 letters)
124 Down: Trivial Pursuit edition (5 letters)
126 Down: Sitcom about the Hart family (4 letters)
128 Down: One pounder (4 letters)
130 Down: Muralist José María ___ (4 letters)
131 Down: Swing around (4 letters)
134 Down: Ten C-notes (3 letters)
135 Down: Tic-tac-toe loser (3 letters)
137 Down: Couple in Cancún (3 letters)
138 Down: Springfield-to-Boston dir. (3 letters)
139 Down: Satiated (3 letters)

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