LITERALLY SO

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Ashish Vengsarkar and Narayan Venkatasubramanyan8/30/2009

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Singer Lambert, runner-up on the 2009 "American Idol" (4 letters)
5 Across: Talk to shrilly (5 letters)
10 Across: Four-sided figure (5 letters)
15 Across: Halloween purchase (4 letters)
19 Across: "___ by me" (4 letters)
20 Across: Slangy commercial suffix (5 letters)
21 Across: Shelter org. (5 letters)
22 Across: Scuba diver's worry (4 letters)
23 Across: -IRC-MS-ANCES (16 letters)
26 Across: Be a couch potato (4 letters)
27 Across: Mystery writers' awards (7 letters)
28 Across: Person with few possessions (4 letters)
29 Across: Hymn whose second line is "Solvet saeclum in favilla" (8 letters)
31 Across: Breeze (4 letters)
33 Across: Pay stub? (3 letters)
35 Across: Ninny (3 letters)
36 Across: ANTI--VERNMENT UN--ST (19 letters)
45 Across: Urge (4 letters)
46 Across: Maker of Fosamax and Zocor (5 letters)
47 Across: Moscow's home: Abbr. (3 letters)
48 Across: Covered walkway (4 letters)
50 Across: It's music to a musician's ears (6 letters)
52 Across: AR--CL- (14 letters)
57 Across: Size unit of an English soda bottle (5 letters)
58 Across: Like 11-Down: Abbr. (3 letters)
59 Across: Soon (6 letters)
60 Across: "Is ___?" (3 letters)
61 Across: Underground network (5 letters)
66 Across: Shoe brand reputedly named after a Scottish golfer (8 letters)
70 Across: P---ARY CARE PHY-ICIANS (21 letters)
76 Across: Currency union since 1999 (8 letters)
77 Across: Together (5 letters)
78 Across: PBS benefactor (3 letters)
79 Across: Low clouds (6 letters)
82 Across: Stranded messenger? (3 letters)
84 Across: 1991 Tony winner Daisy (5 letters)
86 Across: FI-TH WH--L (14 letters)
92 Across: Tips, e.g. (6 letters)
93 Across: Heart lines: Abbr. (4 letters)
94 Across: Where some people get tips: Abbr. (3 letters)
95 Across: Like the Vietnamese language (5 letters)
97 Across: Like some verbs: Abbr. (4 letters)
98 Across: WHAT A -ANDA DOES IN -EIS-RELY FA-HION (19 letters)
104 Across: Tiny tunneler (3 letters)
105 Across: Tic-tac-toe loser (3 letters)
106 Across: Box lightly (4 letters)
107 Across: Hawaiian massage (8 letters)
112 Across: Met, for one (4 letters)
115 Across: Home of the N.H.L.'s Thrashers (7 letters)
120 Across: Modern home of the biblical Elam (4 letters)
121 Across: W--THL-SS R-AD-TER (16 letters)
124 Across: Stun (4 letters)
125 Across: Take out (5 letters)
126 Across: 8 1/2-pound statue (5 letters)
127 Across: Regarding (4 letters)
128 Across: Bob in the Olympics (4 letters)
129 Across: Connection (5 letters)
130 Across: Fresh (5 letters)
131 Across: Favorite baby sitter, maybe (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Brut rival (4 letters)
2 Down: TV screen meas. (4 letters)
3 Down: "It's Time to Cry" singer, 1959 (4 letters)
4 Down: Hook up (4 letters)
5 Down: Us (8 letters)
6 Down: Gallery event (7 letters)
7 Down: Kung ___ chicken (3 letters)
8 Down: Alternative to satellite (4 letters)
9 Down: Kind of shell (4 letters)
10 Down: Stick in one's craw (6 letters)
11 Down: Pres. when the C.I.A. was created (3 letters)
12 Down: Piece of a newspaper? (4 letters)
13 Down: 1,111 (4 letters)
14 Down: French river craft (6 letters)
15 Down: National monument site since 1965 (11 letters)
16 Down: Skis, boots, masks, etc. (4 letters)
17 Down: Mideast tinderbox (4 letters)
18 Down: ___-Ball (4 letters)
24 Down: Very (4 letters)
25 Down: "___ off?" (4 letters)
30 Down: Bygone flier (3 letters)
32 Down: Fresh (4 letters)
34 Down: Company name that becomes another company name if you move its first letter to the end (4 letters)
36 Down: Mackerellike fish (6 letters)
37 Down: Kind of acid (6 letters)
38 Down: Effluvium (4 letters)
39 Down: Principal location?: Abbr. (3 letters)
40 Down: TV exec's concern (4 letters)
41 Down: Some E.R. cases (3 letters)
42 Down: Chou En-___ (3 letters)
43 Down: ___ Chandler, longtime publisher of the Los Angeles Times (4 letters)
44 Down: All's opposite (4 letters)
45 Down: Icy (5 letters)
49 Down: Dog breeders' org. (3 letters)
51 Down: Send another way (7 letters)
53 Down: Dangerous buildup in a mine (7 letters)
54 Down: Preface online (4 letters)
55 Down: "Excalibur" star Williamson (5 letters)
56 Down: Knotted up (7 letters)
62 Down: Senator Hatch (5 letters)
63 Down: Spanish bear (3 letters)
64 Down: Bygone flier (3 letters)
65 Down: Word often following yes or no (3 letters)
67 Down: Agreement abroad (3 letters)
68 Down: Atlas abbr. (3 letters)
69 Down: Wharton deg. (3 letters)
71 Down: Like the face after a good bawl (11 letters)
72 Down: A.C.C. athlete (4 letters)
73 Down: It typically has lots of horses (6 letters)
74 Down: Isn't inert (6 letters)
75 Down: Less bananas (5 letters)
79 Down: Toledo-to-Columbus dir. (3 letters)
80 Down: N.J. or Pa. route (4 letters)
81 Down: Music in Mysore (4 letters)
83 Down: Architectural pier (4 letters)
85 Down: Tel ___ (4 letters)
87 Down: Cry at a circus (3 letters)
88 Down: W.W. II arena (3 letters)
89 Down: Wii alternative (4 letters)
90 Down: Male delivery (3 letters)
91 Down: Some receivers (4 letters)
92 Down: Dependent on chance (8 letters)
96 Down: Sources of fleece (7 letters)
99 Down: NBC inits. since 1975 (3 letters)
100 Down: Pirated (6 letters)
101 Down: British weights (6 letters)
102 Down: Cry after the rap of a hammer (4 letters)
103 Down: Man's name that's an anagram of 108-Down (4 letters)
107 Down: Caps (4 letters)
108 Down: Exam format (4 letters)
109 Down: Something to be threaded (4 letters)
110 Down: Pure (4 letters)
111 Down: Kind of screen (4 letters)
113 Down: Psyche's love (4 letters)
114 Down: Sub ___ (confidentially) (4 letters)
116 Down: Similar (4 letters)
117 Down: Ship that sailed "the ocean blue" (4 letters)
118 Down: Shore flier (4 letters)
119 Down: On the ocean (4 letters)
122 Down: The Cowboys of the Big 12 Conference (3 letters)
123 Down: They may be cloned (3 letters)

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