'TWAS PUZZLING

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Cathy Allis Millhauser9/28/2008

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Butcher shop purchase (5 letters)
6 Across
Some foreign pen pals (4 letters)
10 Across
Photo paper option (5 letters)
15 Across
[How dare you!] (4 letters)
19 Across
Song sung by Gwen in Broadway's "Chicago" (5 letters)
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Radio host/pianist John (4 letters)
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Greek market of old (5 letters)
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"The Lion King" lioness (4 letters)
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When jerks come out? (16 letters)
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X out (4 letters)
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Pertinent to the discussion (7 letters)
28 Across
Kind of dialysis (5 letters)
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Novice (6 letters)
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"A Doll's House" wife (4 letters)
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Wishes undone (4 letters)
33 Across
Some people or food at parties (4 letters)
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Nonkosher sandwiches (4 letters)
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String around a cake box? (12 letters)
41 Across
City near Tel Aviv (3 letters)
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Moistens again (6 letters)
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Once-in-a-lifetime exchange, maybe (4 letters)
47 Across
Texas county, river or forest that's a girl's first name (8 letters)
49 Across
Vinegar: Prefix (5 letters)
50 Across
AOL alternative (3 letters)
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Bridge (9 letters)
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Men or women who pinch? (13 letters)
58 Across
"New Look" designer of 1947 (4 letters)
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Charity's urging (6 letters)
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Orbital point (5 letters)
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Dope (6 letters)
64 Across
Appeal to (3 letters)
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Penseur's thought (4 letters)
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Speck (3 letters)
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Prefix with -crat (4 letters)
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Hair stuff (3 letters)
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Mushroom stalks (6 letters)
73 Across
Dress-up costume piece (5 letters)
75 Across
Month in a Faulkner title (6 letters)
77 Across
One of Woody's stock at Woodstock (4 letters)
78 Across
Nerd's essence? (13 letters)
82 Across
Unlikely to run (9 letters)
87 Across
Legal eagles' org. (3 letters)
88 Across
Come up (5 letters)
89 Across
Capital of South Australia (8 letters)
90 Across
French Polynesia constituents (4 letters)
93 Across
Lauds (6 letters)
94 Across
Thrice, in prescriptions (3 letters)
95 Across
Roast the other side of the marshmallow? (12 letters)
99 Across
Novelist's need (4 letters)
100 Across
W.W. II gun (4 letters)
101 Across
"Let's just leave ___ that" (4 letters)
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Teri Garr's "Young Frankenstein" role (4 letters)
104 Across
Certain celebrant (6 letters)
107 Across
Legislative assemblies (5 letters)
108 Across
"Praise the Lord!" (7 letters)
112 Across
A leveret is a young one (4 letters)
113 Across
Discouraging comment to a cloner? (16 letters)
117 Across
___ Center, home of the New Jersey Nets (4 letters)
118 Across
Pertaining to hair (5 letters)
119 Across
"Almighty" title role for Steve Carell (4 letters)
120 Across
Caustic (5 letters)
121 Across
Eye part (4 letters)
122 Across
Desirable places (5 letters)
123 Across
Kind of difference, oxymoronically (4 letters)
124 Across
"Land ___!" (5 letters)

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Monitor type, for short (3 letters)
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Jolly laugh (4 letters)
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Yak pack (4 letters)
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Big East Conference team, for short (4 letters)
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Attach, as a patch (5 letters)
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Invitation information specification (6 letters)
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Gathering points (6 letters)
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Suffix with book (3 letters)
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Like some eggs or cloth (7 letters)
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They're attractive, but not necessarily to each other (7 letters)
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Shocked (6 letters)
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Awl, for one (4 letters)
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Play about Capote (3 letters)
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Salary (8 letters)
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Bamboozles (5 letters)
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Gyro meat (4 letters)
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"Others" in a Latin phrase (4 letters)
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Crown (4 letters)
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Apple pocketfuls (5 letters)
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Transmitter starter? (5 letters)
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Fencing swords (5 letters)
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The Flintstones' pet (4 letters)
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Uncouth youth (4 letters)
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Poland's Walesa (4 letters)
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Moth, perhaps? (11 letters)
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Altercation (5 letters)
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Trig ratio (4 letters)
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Sun Tzu's "The Art of ___" (3 letters)
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Fabric that really breathes? (11 letters)
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Low tie (6 letters)
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Strawberry of note (6 letters)
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Off-campus local (6 letters)
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City near Milan (4 letters)
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Outback buddy (4 letters)
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Shooting sport (5 letters)
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Second-century year (3 letters)
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St. Louis's ___ Bridge (4 letters)
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Nagpur noble (5 letters)
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Fern germ (5 letters)
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These, to Juan (5 letters)
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Rusty on the diamond (5 letters)
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Utah's lily (4 letters)
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Pitcher of a perfect game, 9/9/65 (6 letters)
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"Vigilant ___ to steal cream": Falstaff (6 letters)
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Walked with a purpose (6 letters)
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Wahine's dance (4 letters)
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Shooting game (4 letters)
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Addams family cousin (3 letters)
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Spaghetti ___ (5 letters)
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Hops kiln (4 letters)
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Analogy phrase (4 letters)
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Battery part (4 letters)
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A large number (5 letters)
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JPEG or text (8 letters)
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Score just before victory, maybe (4 letters)
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Fall mo. (3 letters)
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Weeping (7 letters)
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Rimes with the 1996 hit "Blue" (5 letters)
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Subjects of many legal battles (7 letters)
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Goad (5 letters)
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Garage container (6 letters)
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Native American home (6 letters)
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Waiting at the bank, say (6 letters)
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Beginnings (5 letters)
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Localities (5 letters)
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Dr. with advice in O magazine (4 letters)
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Level (4 letters)
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Monopoly game token (4 letters)
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Whine (4 letters)
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Place to play b-ball (4 letters)
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Give orders like a drill sergeant (4 letters)
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"Night" author Wiesel (4 letters)
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Fact finisher (3 letters)
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Hydroelectric org. (3 letters)
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Mormons, initially (3 letters)

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