BACKWASH

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Seth A. Abel8/27/2006

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Not generic fashion (5 letters)
6 Across: Hurry (5 letters)
11 Across: Complaints (5 letters)
16 Across: Soldier's fare, for short (3 letters)
19 Across: Accustom (5 letters)
20 Across: Appropriate (5 letters)
21 Across: Full-length (5 letters)
22 Across: Anthem contraction (3 letters)
23 Across: Parent's admonishment (17 letters)
26 Across: Records that are easily broken (3 letters)
27 Across: Greets (8 letters)
28 Across: Catchers (4 letters)
29 Across: Drink with a three-leaf logo (6 letters)
31 Across: Water source (3 letters)
32 Across: 26-Across, e.g. (5 letters)
35 Across: Disorder (7 letters)
36 Across: Landon of 1930's politics (3 letters)
39 Across: 1986 Pulitzer-winning novel set in a cattle drive (12 letters)
43 Across: Computer-animated hit film of 1998 (4 letters)
44 Across: Vein holder (4 letters)
46 Across: "In principio ___ Verbum" (4 letters)
47 Across: Hot, in Vegas (7 letters)
49 Across: Delta hub (7 letters)
52 Across: They're hooked (7 letters)
55 Across: Satisfy (5 letters)
58 Across: Paul Theroux novel made into a Harrison Ford film, with "The" (13 letters)
60 Across: Hebrew name meaning "Hill of spring" (7 letters)
62 Across: Biased (8 letters)
63 Across: Solid South, once (4 letters)
65 Across: Thus far (6 letters)
66 Across: "___ my case" (5 letters)
69 Across: Cheering loudly (5 letters)
71 Across: Snap, e.g. (6 letters)
76 Across: ____-free (4 letters)
78 Across: Dangerous place (8 letters)
84 Across: Painting and printing, e.g. (7 letters)
86 Across: 1982 #1 hit with the lyric "living in perfect harmony" (13 letters)
89 Across: Nixon commerce secretary Maurice (5 letters)
90 Across: Dickens boy (7 letters)
92 Across: Certain book addendum (7 letters)
93 Across: Zip (7 letters)
95 Across: Rossetti's "___ Ancilla Domini" (4 letters)
97 Across: ___ II, first man-made object to reach the moon (4 letters)
98 Across: Baker's stock (4 letters)
100 Across: Sign of affection (12 letters)
105 Across: Form W-9 datum: Abbr. (3 letters)
106 Across: Initial progress (7 letters)
108 Across: Response to "am not" (5 letters)
109 Across: Canon camera (3 letters)
111 Across: Black ice, e.g. (6 letters)
112 Across: About (4 letters)
114 Across: Goes for the bells and whistles (8 letters)
119 Across: Suffix with infant (3 letters)
120 Across: TV announcer's exhortation (17 letters)
124 Across: U.S.S.R. successor (3 letters)
125 Across: Reds, once (5 letters)
126 Across: Host of TV's "In Search Of ?" (5 letters)
127 Across: New Mexico county (5 letters)
128 Across: Salon job (3 letters)
129 Across: Candymaker Harry (5 letters)
130 Across: Sends to Hades (5 letters)
131 Across: Spring (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Gifts of greeting (4 letters)
2 Down: One-two connector (4 letters)
3 Down: Water mark? (4 letters)
4 Down: Young's partner in accounting (5 letters)
5 Down: Devastating (6 letters)
6 Down: Un plus sept (4 letters)
7 Down: Invite to one's home (7 letters)
8 Down: Lyon who played Lolita (3 letters)
9 Down: Word of encouragement (3 letters)
10 Down: Gabriel Fahrenheit or Anders Celsius (6 letters)
11 Down: Actor Young of the "Rocky" films (4 letters)
12 Down: Specialist M.D.'s (4 letters)
13 Down: Prefix with system (3 letters)
14 Down: Causing more laughs (7 letters)
15 Down: Strengthen (5 letters)
16 Down: Soft rock? (10 letters)
17 Down: Evangelist's cry (6 letters)
18 Down: Imitation (6 letters)
24 Down: Slimming procedure, briefly (4 letters)
25 Down: One of two rivers forming the Ubangi (4 letters)
30 Down: Personal, often (7 letters)
33 Down: 180-year-old in Genesis (5 letters)
34 Down: Avoid (5 letters)
35 Down: "Halt!" (5 letters)
36 Down: Something to remember (5 letters)
37 Down: Reveal (5 letters)
38 Down: Two-timing (5 letters)
40 Down: More trim (6 letters)
41 Down: Adulterate (6 letters)
42 Down: Minn. neighbor (3 letters)
45 Down: Common Web site content (4 letters)
48 Down: Olympics city after St. Moritz (4 letters)
50 Down: Rapa ___ (Easter Island) (3 letters)
51 Down: More trim (6 letters)
53 Down: Pat (3 letters)
54 Down: Puerto Rico, e.g. (4 letters)
56 Down: Paramedic's need (3 letters)
57 Down: Seth and Abel's mother (3 letters)
59 Down: Pablo Neruda's "___ to Common Things" (4 letters)
61 Down: Online brokerage since 1993 (6 letters)
64 Down: ___ Nostra (4 letters)
67 Down: Curtain raiser? (6 letters)
68 Down: Mug in a pub (4 letters)
70 Down: Founder of the American Shakers (6 letters)
71 Down: Duplicates, briefly (3 letters)
72 Down: Bran material (3 letters)
73 Down: Marmalade ingredient (10 letters)
74 Down: Home of Carthage College (7 letters)
75 Down: Superlative suffix (4 letters)
77 Down: Little squirt (3 letters)
79 Down: "Kid-tested, mother-approved" cereal (3 letters)
80 Down: It can't be good (4 letters)
81 Down: Part of a magical incantation (5 letters)
82 Down: Smooths (5 letters)
83 Down: Ronan ___, "God Bless America" singer at Yankee Stadium (5 letters)
85 Down: Didn't lie? (5 letters)
87 Down: Flower girl, sometimes (5 letters)
88 Down: Some pool sites (5 letters)
91 Down: Bookkeeper's mailing: Abbr. (3 letters)
94 Down: Through (7 letters)
96 Down: Salad morsel (7 letters)
98 Down: Law school class (6 letters)
99 Down: One interested in net savings? (6 letters)
101 Down: Grp. founded in Washington on 4/4/1949 (4 letters)
102 Down: Pulverized (6 letters)
103 Down: Creator of Genesis (4 letters)
104 Down: Somewhat (6 letters)
107 Down: Where a person might get into a habit (5 letters)
110 Down: "___ say ?" (5 letters)
112 Down: Bill producers (4 letters)
113 Down: Site for sore eyes? (4 letters)
115 Down: Sci. class (4 letters)
116 Down: Lord in France (4 letters)
117 Down: Net (4 letters)
118 Down: Part of a piggy bank (4 letters)
121 Down: Originally (3 letters)
122 Down: Kind of operation (3 letters)
123 Down: "Let me think about that ?" (3 letters)

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