CUE THE OPENING

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Trip Payne5/7/2006

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Across

1 Across: Long narrative poem (6 letters)
7 Across: Outlaw Kelly (3 letters)
10 Across: Uses a ring, maybe (7 letters)
17 Across: Camp Pendleton group (7 letters)
19 Across: Summer treats (4 letters)
21 Across: Brand of sports drink (8 letters)
22 Across: Long time that just flies by? (12 letters)
24 Across: An Easter egg hunt may have one (8 letters)
25 Across: Long bones (5 letters)
26 Across: Nickname of a boxer who converted to Islam? (10 letters)
28 Across: Board member: Abbr. (4 letters)
29 Across: 3 for 2 and 4: Abbr. (3 letters)
30 Across: A camera may be set on this (4 letters)
31 Across: Matter to the jury (3 letters)
32 Across: Mao's grp. (3 letters)
33 Across: Wing, say (7 letters)
36 Across: Supermarket checkout action (4 letters)
39 Across: It gets in the groove (6 letters)
42 Across: Bee product? (18 letters)
47 Across: Befalls (6 letters)
50 Across: Enjoys a hammock (5 letters)
51 Across: Slip into (3 letters)
52 Across: Whom bouncers might bounce (4 letters)
53 Across: Law firm aide, for short (4 letters)
54 Across: Not just approximately (4 letters)
55 Across: Conventioneers' place (5 letters)
57 Across: Duo that might review films based on arcade games? (14 letters)
62 Across: In a workable manner (6 letters)
67 Across: Most fibrous (7 letters)
68 Across: Like some siblings (5 letters)
69 Across: Water color (7 letters)
70 Across: Ticks off (6 letters)
71 Across: What King Arthur's men would like to have seen more of along the way? (14 letters)
73 Across: Offensive basketball position (5 letters)
75 Across: Where a haircut may end (4 letters)
76 Across: Claim of a sort (4 letters)
77 Across: ___ for the long haul (4 letters)
81 Across: Don't chug (3 letters)
82 Across: Stage after pupation (5 letters)
84 Across: Monte ___ (6 letters)
86 Across: "Therefore, I have proven the existence of jalapeños!"? (18 letters)
90 Across: With 40-Down, a 1975 horror novel (6 letters)
91 Across: Some crockery (4 letters)
92 Across: Director's second try (7 letters)
96 Across: 1940's spy grp. (3 letters)
97 Across: Sound made with outstretched neck (3 letters)
99 Across: Rings of islands (4 letters)
101 Across: O.A.S. member: Abbr. (3 letters)
102 Across: Sitarist Shankar (4 letters)
104 Across: Grizzlies who give great interviews? (10 letters)
108 Across: Movie with a posse (5 letters)
110 Across: Photographer's setting (8 letters)
112 Across: Possible response to "My boss is leaving and I hate his replacement"? (12 letters)
114 Across: Fitting into a joint (8 letters)
115 Across: Phrase usually before a colon (4 letters)
116 Across: 1972 U.S. Open champion (7 letters)
117 Across: Stew (7 letters)
118 Across: Cartoonist Avery (3 letters)
119 Across: Got behind, with "for" (6 letters)

Down

1 Down: Printer's unit (6 letters)
2 Down: Pope of 1963-78 (6 letters)
3 Down: Rubber gaskets (6 letters)
4 Down: Printer's unit (4 letters)
5 Down: Speed-skating gold medalist Karin (4 letters)
6 Down: Common Market letters (3 letters)
7 Down: Angina treatment, for short (5 letters)
8 Down: O.A.S. member: Abbr. (4 letters)
9 Down: "Citizen Ruth" actress, 1996 (4 letters)
10 Down: Senators' wear (5 letters)
11 Down: "Trainspotting" star Bremner (4 letters)
12 Down: Short-finned ___ (3 letters)
13 Down: Uncommon delivery (8 letters)
14 Down: It's used with some frequency (8 letters)
15 Down: Singer Brickell (4 letters)
16 Down: Where scenes are seen (4 letters)
18 Down: Title with a number, perhaps (6 letters)
20 Down: Heroine of TV's "Alias," for short (3 letters)
21 Down: Cut back (4 letters)
23 Down: Kook (3 letters)
27 Down: Brunch buffet items (4 letters)
30 Down: Father-and-daughter fighters (4 letters)
32 Down: Small brain size (3 letters)
34 Down: Places for fish (7 letters)
35 Down: Forest sticker (3 letters)
36 Down: Part of a heartbeat (7 letters)
37 Down: Cool ___ (3 letters)
38 Down: Stubborn one (3 letters)
39 Down: Where God sent Jonah (7 letters)
40 Down: See 90-Across (3 letters)
41 Down: Officer with a half-inch stripe: Abbr. (3 letters)
43 Down: Stepped (4 letters)
44 Down: Substantiate (7 letters)
45 Down: Outhouse issue (4 letters)
46 Down: Simple bunk (3 letters)
47 Down: Part of "The Alphabet Song" (5 letters)
48 Down: Italian-born explorer of the New World (5 letters)
49 Down: Blintz relative (5 letters)
54 Down: Destructive stuff (3 letters)
55 Down: Grass and such (7 letters)
56 Down: Disbeliever's cry (4 letters)
58 Down: Sub (4 letters)
59 Down: Hockey stat (7 letters)
60 Down: Mag. staff (3 letters)
61 Down: Grabs some chow? (7 letters)
63 Down: Put a stop to (7 letters)
64 Down: King Louis XII's birthplace (5 letters)
65 Down: "Network" director, 1976 (5 letters)
66 Down: Kind of question (5 letters)
69 Down: Sault ___ Marie (3 letters)
71 Down: Letter before resh (4 letters)
72 Down: Each (4 letters)
74 Down: Trader ___ (3 letters)
77 Down: Test results, sometimes (3 letters)
78 Down: United Feature Synd. partner (3 letters)
79 Down: Warm assent (8 letters)
80 Down: Joan Collins's villain on "Batman" (8 letters)
82 Down: U.N. agcy. (3 letters)
83 Down: With, in Wiesbaden (3 letters)
84 Down: Non-dean's list grades (4 letters)
85 Down: Reading and the like: Abbr. (3 letters)
87 Down: Chanted sounds (3 letters)
88 Down: Device with a scroll wheel (4 letters)
89 Down: Con junction (6 letters)
93 Down: Surpass in gluttony (6 letters)
94 Down: Ominous-sounding phrase (6 letters)
95 Down: Put down roots? (6 letters)
97 Down: Reims's department (5 letters)
98 Down: Universal donor blood type, for short (4 letters)
99 Down: Skintight material (5 letters)
100 Down: Tomfool finish (3 letters)
102 Down: Hindu avatar (4 letters)
103 Down: Fat as ___ (4 letters)
104 Down: Classroom handout (4 letters)
105 Down: E.P.A. pollution meas. (3 letters)
106 Down: Batter's ploy (4 letters)
107 Down: The Auld Sod (4 letters)
108 Down: "In that range" (4 letters)
109 Down: About (4 letters)
111 Down: Plane heading? (3 letters)
113 Down: Onetime Mideast union: Abbr. (3 letters)

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