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Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23170 clues~30-60 minBy Kevin G. Der7/26/2009

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Across

1 Across: Do well in the Olympics (5 letters)
6 Across: Choose to take part (5 letters)
11 Across: Modern storage sites (5 letters)
16 Across: Sky Chief company (6 letters)
17 Across: Satisfactory (9 letters)
21 Across: Low soccer score (6 letters)
23 Across: Place in trust (6 letters)
24 Across: Stabilizing track (9 letters)
25 Across: Weaver's supply (6 letters)
26 Across: Word with mail or letter (5 letters)
27 Across: Actor Edward James ___ (5 letters)
28 Across: 2001 headline maker (5 letters)
30 Across: It's worth its weight in gold (5 letters)
31 Across: PC linkup (3 letters)
32 Across: Tweaks (4 letters)
33 Across: Michael of "Juno" and "Superbad" (4 letters)
34 Across: "Ixnay" (3 letters)
35 Across: Bygone leaders (7 letters)
38 Across: Fathers (3 letters)
40 Across: Norse pantheon (3 letters)
41 Across: Another name for 72-Across (7 letters)
45 Across: Center (3 letters)
46 Across: A Marx brother (5 letters)
48 Across: Thither (3 letters)
50 Across: Longtime Susan Lucci role (5 letters)
52 Across: ___-Caps (candy) (3 letters)
53 Across: Tulsa sch. (3 letters)
54 Across: Largest moon of Saturn (5 letters)
55 Across: Subject of a tipster's tip (3 letters)
56 Across: Joe Montana or Jerry Rice, informally (5 letters)
57 Across: Windsor's home: Abbr. (3 letters)
58 Across: Additions to a musical staff (8 letters)
60 Across: ___ but when (5 letters)
62 Across: Blissful (8 letters)
64 Across: Crackerjack (3 letters)
65 Across: Expressed a welcome (9 letters)
68 Across: Org. with spring playoffs (3 letters)
69 Across: Dried seaweed popular in Japanese cuisine (5 letters)
72 Across: Part of Canis Major (4 letters)
73 Across: Boot camp affirmative (4 letters)
75 Across: Fanatic (5 letters)
79 Across: Be more than a dream (5 letters)
80 Across: Lite (5 letters)
82 Across: Clip, e.g. (5 letters)
83 Across: Bring up, perhaps (5 letters)
84 Across: Suffix with magnet (3 letters)
85 Across: 7'6" Ming (3 letters)
87 Across: Green-eyed (7 letters)
89 Across: ___ in Charlie (3 letters)
91 Across: Wall-E's love in "Wall-E" (3 letters)
92 Across: One side of an exchange (3 letters)
93 Across: It may be bid (5 letters)
95 Across: Big band instrument (3 letters)
96 Across: It comes in volumes: Abbr. (5 letters)
98 Across: Cartoon pooch (3 letters)
99 Across: Slugger's stat (3 letters)
100 Across: Tandoor flatbreads (4 letters)
101 Across: Popular (5 letters)
103 Across: Prefix with sphere (4 letters)
104 Across: Galley figure (3 letters)
105 Across: Bones may be found in it (5 letters)
107 Across: Cousin of a clog (5 letters)
109 Across: Oscar winner Patricia and others (5 letters)
111 Across: It's found near the tongue (5 letters)
113 Across: Achilles and Hector (4 letters)
115 Across: Clothes rack abbr. (3 letters)
116 Across: Gridiron scores: Abbr. (3 letters)
117 Across: Scientologist ___ Hubbard (4 letters)
118 Across: Crown covering (6 letters)
120 Across: "Did you start without me?" (7 letters)
124 Across: Rachmaninoff's "___-tableaux" (6 letters)
127 Across: Island where Sundanese and Madurese are spoken (4 letters)
128 Across: Take too much of, briefly (4 letters)
131 Across: Windbag's output (3 letters)
132 Across: Golfer Aoki (4 letters)
135 Across: Certain infection (4 letters)
136 Across: Operatic heroine wooed by Beckmesser (3 letters)
137 Across: 1963 animated film with the song "Higitus Figitus," with "The" (15 letters)
141 Across: ___ Gold, character on "Entourage" (3 letters)
142 Across: Stanford's Big Game rival (3 letters)
143 Across: 1998 animated film featuring the voice of Pierce Brosnan (15 letters)
144 Across: Hollywood, with "the" (3 letters)
145 Across: Notwithstanding that, for short (3 letters)
146 Across: ___ jure (legal term) (4 letters)
147 Across: "The Canterbury Tales" traveler (5 letters)
148 Across: Gun for hire (4 letters)
149 Across: Loser at Gettysburg (3 letters)
150 Across: Heir, perhaps (3 letters)
151 Across: Org. in Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" (3 letters)
152 Across: Gives birth to a kid (5 letters)
153 Across: Bit of cheer (3 letters)
154 Across: Road twist (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: Work together (4 letters)
2 Down: 1981 film in which Helen Mirren plays a sorceress (9 letters)
3 Down: Onetime MTV animated title character and others (6 letters)
4 Down: With 12-Down, 1889 Twain novel (18 letters)
5 Down: Weathercast figure (3 letters)
6 Down: Slothful (6 letters)
7 Down: Underwater families (4 letters)
8 Down: Japanese market: Abbr. (3 letters)
9 Down: Memo header (4 letters)
10 Down: Subtlety (6 letters)
11 Down: Things first on the way up? (3 letters)
12 Down: See 4-Down (18 letters)
13 Down: Perceived to be (6 letters)
14 Down: With 76-Down, 1953 Ava Gardner film ... as depicted elsewhere in this puzzle? (9 letters)
15 Down: ___-Japanese (4 letters)
16 Down: Gumshoe (3 letters)
17 Down: Relative of a grapefruit (4 letters)
18 Down: Does some heavy lifting (7 letters)
19 Down: Red alert? (7 letters)
20 Down: Bilbao bloom (4 letters)
22 Down: W.W. II vessel (3 letters)
27 Down: Kind of inspection (6 letters)
29 Down: ___ Gordimer, Literature Nobelist (6 letters)
35 Down: Aid in finding a station (4 letters)
36 Down: Magical glow (4 letters)
37 Down: River that flows past more than 40 castles (5 letters)
39 Down: Bishop's group (5 letters)
40 Down: 1973 Rolling Stones #1 hit (5 letters)
42 Down: Davy Jones's locker (5 letters)
43 Down: Years in old Rome (4 letters)
44 Down: Drilling grp. (4 letters)
47 Down: One of Iago's victims (6 letters)
49 Down: Words of commitment (4 letters)
51 Down: Five-carbon sugar (6 letters)
59 Down: Culture areas? (4 letters)
60 Down: Passover month (5 letters)
61 Down: Arrive by air (5 letters)
63 Down: "Winnie ___ Pu" (4 letters)
66 Down: Pot-___ (French stew) (5 letters)
67 Down: Overhang (5 letters)
69 Down: Conductor Lockhart and others (6 letters)
70 Down: Rustic transport (6 letters)
71 Down: 2001 Anjelica Huston miniseries, with "The" (13 letters)
72 Down: Some steaks (6 letters)
74 Down: Hot desert winds (6 letters)
76 Down: See 14-Down (13 letters)
77 Down: Magic trick's climax (6 letters)
78 Down: Supreme Egyptian deity (6 letters)
81 Down: Soap box? (5 letters)
82 Down: One of Santa's reindeer (5 letters)
86 Down: Drilling grp. (3 letters)
88 Down: Chairman Arafat (3 letters)
90 Down: ___ Rand, developer of Objectivism (3 letters)
94 Down: Lou's "La Bamba" co-star (4 letters)
97 Down: Rocker Lofgren (4 letters)
101 Down: Temple structure? (4 letters)
102 Down: Quick (4 letters)
106 Down: Result of going out? (4 letters)
108 Down: 1971 Peace Nobelist from Germany (6 letters)
110 Down: AARP concern (6 letters)
112 Down: "Parlez-___ français?" (4 letters)
114 Down: Delays (7 letters)
117 Down: Heroine in Verdi's "Il Trovatore" (7 letters)
118 Down: Gives the heave-ho (6 letters)
119 Down: Arizona native (6 letters)
121 Down: Not pick up (6 letters)
122 Down: Highest worship in Catholicism (6 letters)
123 Down: Antisub weapon (6 letters)
125 Down: Cliff homes: Var. (6 letters)
126 Down: Takes by force (6 letters)
129 Down: ___ number on (5 letters)
130 Down: About (4 letters)
133 Down: What an inflectional ending is added to (4 letters)
134 Down: Certain netizen (5 letters)
137 Down: Area meas. (4 letters)
138 Down: Up in the air (4 letters)
139 Down: Canal sites (4 letters)
140 Down: Emulate some of Goya's work (4 letters)

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