BOOK BINDING

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23164 clues~30-60 minBy Caleb Madison3/14/2010

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Across

1 Across: Window boxes, for short? (3 letters)
4 Across: Prefix with business (4 letters)
8 Across: F.B.I. scandal of the 1970s-'80s (6 letters)
14 Across: Actress Fox of "CSI" (5 letters)
19 Across: "Let's Talk About Sex" hip-hop group (9 letters)
22 Across: Tony who directed "Michael Clayton" (6 letters)
23 Across: Not just a little bow (6 letters)
24 Across: Plot of a Willa Cather novel? (16 letters)
26 Across: Cool-looking (6 letters)
27 Across: Río contents (4 letters)
28 Across: "Look what ___!" (4 letters)
29 Across: Not so dry (6 letters)
31 Across: Lb. parts (3 letters)
32 Across: Desert bloomers (6 letters)
35 Across: Ship to the New World (4 letters)
38 Across: Beachgoer's item (4 letters)
39 Across: Tennis star nicknamed "Ice Man" (4 letters)
41 Across: Unabridged version of a Philip Roth novella? (22 letters)
47 Across: Maneuver (4 letters)
48 Across: Prepare for planting (4 letters)
49 Across: "Don't believe that!" (7 letters)
50 Across: Warts and all (4 letters)
54 Across: Bobby and others (4 letters)
56 Across: Drifting (7 letters)
60 Across: "Authority is never without ___": Euripides (4 letters)
61 Across: Pocket edition of a D. H. Lawrence novel? (17 letters)
65 Across: Singer Lambert (4 letters)
66 Across: Trapped (6 letters)
67 Across: Things that go through tubes (3 letters)
68 Across: Analogy part (4 letters)
69 Across: Ed who provided the lead voice in "Up" (5 letters)
71 Across: Eyes (5 letters)
72 Across: Most likely (6 letters)
75 Across: "The Closer" star Sedgwick (4 letters)
77 Across: "Frost/Nixon" director's copy of a Graham Greene novel? (21 letters)
85 Across: No longer fresh (4 letters)
86 Across: Takeoff (6 letters)
87 Across: Bachelor's end? (5 letters)
89 Across: Weary (5 letters)
92 Across: It's molded (4 letters)
96 Across: Ear part (3 letters)
97 Across: Not casual (6 letters)
98 Across: Convertible, maybe (4 letters)
99 Across: Final copy of a Cervantes novel? (17 letters)
103 Across: O.T. book read at Purim (4 letters)
104 Across: It's read to the rowdy (7 letters)
105 Across: Suffix at a natural history museum (4 letters)
106 Across: Literary collections (4 letters)
107 Across: 1948 Literature Nobelist (7 letters)
109 Across: Red ___ (4 letters)
112 Across: Form of many Tin Pan Alley tunes (4 letters)
114 Across: Creased copy of a Jack Finney novel? (22 letters)
122 Across: Tennis star Tommy (4 letters)
123 Across: One-named supermodel (4 letters)
124 Across: Sky: Fr. (4 letters)
125 Across: C. S. Lewis land (6 letters)
127 Across: Louvre article? (3 letters)
128 Across: Mass producer, for short (6 letters)
130 Across: Himalayan legend (4 letters)
133 Across: Community hangout, informally (4 letters)
134 Across: "Same here" (6 letters)
137 Across: Illustrations in a Leo Tolstoy novel? (16 letters)
142 Across: Sour (6 letters)
143 Across: Brought up (6 letters)
144 Across: 1957 film dog (9 letters)
145 Across: How a call may be picked up at the office (5 letters)
146 Across: They get added to pounds (6 letters)
147 Across: "A Serious Man" co-director, 2009 (4 letters)
148 Across: Head of state? (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: Mineralogist's job (5 letters)
2 Down: String once used for cellos (6 letters)
3 Down: Not sit up (6 letters)
4 Down: Whatever (3 letters)
5 Down: Mailing HQ (3 letters)
6 Down: Altered mortgage, briefly (4 letters)
7 Down: Touch, for one (4 letters)
8 Down: Past (3 letters)
9 Down: Storage unit (3 letters)
10 Down: Plethora (4 letters)
11 Down: Unsettling (6 letters)
12 Down: Blood lines (6 letters)
13 Down: Seer (6 letters)
14 Down: Start of the yr. (3 letters)
15 Down: Suffix with Cray- (3 letters)
16 Down: Fuzz buster? (10 letters)
17 Down: Duke Ellington band instrument (10 letters)
18 Down: Carter and Adams (4 letters)
20 Down: Slightest residue (5 letters)
21 Down: Mimicry (5 letters)
23 Down: Lith., e.g., once (3 letters)
25 Down: Boob (5 letters)
30 Down: Kay Thompson title character (6 letters)
33 Down: Savoy peak (3 letters)
34 Down: Was helpless? (6 letters)
36 Down: "There is ___ in 'team'" (3 letters)
37 Down: Stevenson of Illinois (5 letters)
39 Down: Kind of line (3 letters)
40 Down: Marlon Brando, by birth (6 letters)
42 Down: Neighbor of Swed. (4 letters)
43 Down: Spinner (4 letters)
44 Down: Russian pancakes (5 letters)
45 Down: Some blockers: Abbr. (3 letters)
46 Down: Feel like (4 letters)
50 Down: Too (4 letters)
51 Down: Indian P.M. Manmohan ___ (5 letters)
52 Down: Author Calvino (5 letters)
53 Down: Throw around (5 letters)
55 Down: Hit hard (5 letters)
57 Down: Goal-oriented grp.? (3 letters)
58 Down: Shooting site (3 letters)
59 Down: Brought to mind (6 letters)
62 Down: "Gil Blas" author (6 letters)
63 Down: Still (4 letters)
64 Down: Former Wall St. inits. (4 letters)
69 Down: Toy sound? (3 letters)
70 Down: Firefox alternative (6 letters)
72 Down: Byrd's rank: Abbr. (3 letters)
73 Down: Film with the line "Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies" (6 letters)
74 Down: Beat (3 letters)
76 Down: Celebratory cry (3 letters)
78 Down: "Lovely!," in dated slang (3 letters)
79 Down: It's undeniable (4 letters)
80 Down: Stepped (4 letters)
81 Down: Vagrants (5 letters)
82 Down: Vega of "Spy Kids" (5 letters)
83 Down: Fight announcement (5 letters)
84 Down: Bob Marley, e.g. (5 letters)
88 Down: Deli supplies (4 letters)
89 Down: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator (10 letters)
90 Down: Roughly (10 letters)
91 Down: Flower once cultivated for food (6 letters)
93 Down: Rent (3 letters)
94 Down: ___ mode (3 letters)
95 Down: Marina sight (5 letters)
97 Down: South African city of 2.5+ million (6 letters)
98 Down: Biological bristle (4 letters)
99 Down: Mr. and Mrs. (6 letters)
100 Down: Giving nothing away, in a way (5 letters)
101 Down: Bread with chicken tikka masala (4 letters)
102 Down: College locale (4 letters)
104 Down: Seoul soldier (3 letters)
108 Down: Election winners (3 letters)
110 Down: "I don't need to hear that!," informally (3 letters)
111 Down: "Ciao!" (5 letters)
113 Down: Ottoman honorific (3 letters)
115 Down: Locks up (6 letters)
116 Down: Ottoman hospice (6 letters)
117 Down: Sweet drink (6 letters)
118 Down: Old Olds (5 letters)
119 Down: Soviet co-op (5 letters)
120 Down: Not just puff (6 letters)
121 Down: "Uncle!" criers, perhaps (6 letters)
126 Down: Australia's ___ Rock (5 letters)
127 Down: Stretch ___ (4 letters)
128 Down: One of the Jonas brothers (3 letters)
129 Down: Dance typically done to "Hava Nagila" (4 letters)
131 Down: Rash preventer (4 letters)
132 Down: Intro to Chinese? (4 letters)
135 Down: Drag (3 letters)
136 Down: Bolivian bear (3 letters)
138 Down: Noted Palin impressionist (3 letters)
139 Down: O.E.D. entries: Abbr. (3 letters)
140 Down: Coloring (3 letters)
141 Down: Where you might find a long sentence? (3 letters)

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