SPLITS AND MERGERS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy Patrick Berry3/9/2008

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Across

1 Across: Upper end of a soprano's range (5 letters)
6 Across: Life work? (3 letters)
9 Across: In support of (3 letters)
12 Across: Bishopric (7 letters)
19 Across: Basketballer nicknamed the Diesel (5 letters)
20 Across: Attribute (to) (7 letters)
22 Across: Joins up (7 letters)
23 Across: Concave button (5 letters)
24 Across: "Over my dead body!" / Alert [split] (15 letters)
26 Across: Exchange words? / New beginning [merger] (9 letters)
28 Across: ___ Maria (coffee liqueur) (3 letters)
29 Across: Gift-wrapper's need (4 letters)
30 Across: Strummed instrument (3 letters)
32 Across: "___ my doubts" (5 letters)
33 Across: Animated film character voiced by Matthew Broderick (5 letters)
35 Across: Fine fellow (3 letters)
36 Across: Undecided, you might say (4 letters)
38 Across: Deal (out) (4 letters)
39 Across: Annoying obligations / "No need to check" [split] (11 letters)
42 Across: 1980s "NBC News Overnight" anchor / Feared insect [merger] (8 letters)
44 Across: At full speed (5 letters)
45 Across: "Mazel ___!" (3 letters)
46 Across: "The History ___" (Tony-winning play) (4 letters)
47 Across: Harsh (5 letters)
48 Across: Return flight destinations? (5 letters)
52 Across: Off-limits (5 letters)
55 Across: Get down (6 letters)
56 Across: Plant manager? (3 letters)
58 Across: Figure just above the total (3 letters)
59 Across: Black hole's boundary / Despite the fact that [split] (12 letters)
62 Across: Group migration (8 letters)
64 Across: Like Eton attendees (4 letters)
65 Across: Author of the "Earth's Children" series (4 letters)
66 Across: Social reformer Lucretia (4 letters)
67 Across: "Great Scott!" (4 letters)
68 Across: A little cross? (8 letters)
70 Across: Double sugar / Travel freely? [merger] (12 letters)
74 Across: Get dressed (up) (3 letters)
75 Across: "Feh!" (3 letters)
76 Across: Insects found in trunks (6 letters)
77 Across: Takes off (5 letters)
78 Across: Bag (5 letters)
80 Across: In the cooler (5 letters)
81 Across: Unread messages, usually (4 letters)
83 Across: Mountain SE of ancient Troy (3 letters)
85 Across: It has many sides (5 letters)
86 Across: Commuter's source of entertainment / Actor John or David [split] (8 letters)
90 Across: Martini ingredient / Delta site [merger] (11 letters)
94 Across: Burt's "Stroker Ace" co-star (4 letters)
95 Across: "The Seagull" ingenue (4 letters)
96 Across: Water, to Watteau (3 letters)
97 Across: Fictional blue humanoid (5 letters)
98 Across: Aggressive patriot (5 letters)
99 Across: Fishtank accessory (3 letters)
100 Across: Prefix with potent (4 letters)
102 Across: MapQuest suggestion: Abbr. (3 letters)
103 Across: Franz Liszt, e.g. / Didn't go straight, maybe [split] (9 letters)
106 Across: "Come back now, y'hear?" / Park employee [merger] (15 letters)
110 Across: TV journalist Van Susteren (5 letters)
113 Across: Commentator (7 letters)
114 Across: Using company resources (7 letters)
115 Across: Great white ___ (5 letters)
116 Across: Took too long, as a meeting (7 letters)
117 Across: Superhero name ender (3 letters)
118 Across: Broke bread (3 letters)
119 Across: Finger-lickin' good (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: ___ polloi (3 letters)
2 Down: Overnight site (3 letters)
3 Down: Patrician (7 letters)
4 Down: Della sells hers in "The Gift of the Magi" (4 letters)
5 Down: See 26-Across (4 letters)
6 Down: Keen producers (8 letters)
7 Down: Quarantine (7 letters)
8 Down: Scale's range (6 letters)
9 Down: Taylor's deputy on TV (4 letters)
10 Down: Kimono securer (3 letters)
11 Down: ___ room (3 letters)
12 Down: Gap filler? (6 letters)
13 Down: Occupy (7 letters)
14 Down: Blast furnace input (3 letters)
15 Down: Peacemaker maker (4 letters)
16 Down: #1 hit for Marty Robbins (6 letters)
17 Down: Add surreptitiously (6 letters)
18 Down: Some phosphates, e.g. (6 letters)
21 Down: Observance (4 letters)
25 Down: See 24-Across (5 letters)
27 Down: Modern political acronym (5 letters)
30 Down: Navajo enemy (3 letters)
31 Down: See 42-Across (3 letters)
33 Down: Abrupt increase on a graph (5 letters)
34 Down: Assuages one's guilt (6 letters)
37 Down: Prepares, in a way, as chicken (7 letters)
39 Down: Adult insect (5 letters)
40 Down: California county with Point Reyes National Seashore (5 letters)
41 Down: See 39-Across (3 letters)
43 Down: Origin (4 letters)
44 Down: Complete (4 letters)
47 Down: It's not needed in hydroponics (4 letters)
49 Down: It's clipped at both ends (6 letters)
50 Down: Philippic (6 letters)
51 Down: Game similar to bridge (6 letters)
52 Down: Really appeals to (6 letters)
53 Down: Earthly paradise of Celtic legend (6 letters)
54 Down: Caviar source (6 letters)
55 Down: W.W. II light machine gun (4 letters)
56 Down: See 70-Across (4 letters)
57 Down: Bleeped word (4 letters)
60 Down: Reagan's first secretary of state (4 letters)
61 Down: See 59-Across (4 letters)
62 Down: Pros who practice (4 letters)
63 Down: Violinist Itzhak (7 letters)
66 Down: Four-legged female (4 letters)
69 Down: Napped fabrics (6 letters)
70 Down: "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" star (5 letters)
71 Down: ___ Sea, connected to St. George's Channel (5 letters)
72 Down: It's split (4 letters)
73 Down: At a distance (4 letters)
76 Down: ___ bourguignon (5 letters)
79 Down: See 90-Across (3 letters)
81 Down: 1953 3-D film starring Fernando Lamas (8 letters)
82 Down: Earlier (5 letters)
84 Down: Seat separator (7 letters)
85 Down: See 106-Across (5 letters)
86 Down: Stop up (7 letters)
87 Down: Some campaign fund-raisers (7 letters)
88 Down: See 86-Across (3 letters)
89 Down: Cereal grass (3 letters)
90 Down: Himalayan cedar (6 letters)
91 Down: ___ Quimby, girl of children's lit (6 letters)
92 Down: Chinese province bordering Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar (6 letters)
93 Down: Change genetically (6 letters)
94 Down: ___ franca (6 letters)
98 Down: 2007 title role for Ellen Page (4 letters)
101 Down: "___ be O.K." (4 letters)
103 Down: Chemistry Nobelist Otto (4 letters)
104 Down: See 103-Across (4 letters)
105 Down: Precinct (4 letters)
107 Down: ___ landslide (3 letters)
108 Down: Country singer McGraw (3 letters)
109 Down: What retroviruses contain (3 letters)
111 Down: Preschooler (3 letters)
112 Down: To some extent (3 letters)

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