NINE OF DIAMONDS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Kurt Mueller7/24/2011

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Across

1 Across: Crackerjack (3 letters)
4 Across: Org. fighting pirates? (5 letters)
9 Across: Pink shade (5 letters)
14 Across: Wyle and Webster (5 letters)
19 Across: Man of mystery (3 letters)
20 Across: Stylish (5 letters)
21 Across: Mountain ridge (5 letters)
22 Across: Hit TV show that ended in 2011 (5 letters)
23 Across: Cuts in a cardboard container? (9 letters)
25 Across: American-born Japanese (5 letters)
26 Across: Prefix with meter or methylene (5 letters)
27 Across: Tax lawyer's find (8 letters)
28 Across: Heel (6 letters)
29 Across: 7'1" former N.B.A. star (5 letters)
30 Across: Feminine suffix (4 letters)
31 Across: Yelled initially? (16 letters)
34 Across: Nursery noise (3 letters)
36 Across: Empty (5 letters)
37 Across: 26 of the 44 U.S. presidents: Abbr. (5 letters)
38 Across: Instruction part (4 letters)
40 Across: Beach site, maybe (4 letters)
42 Across: It might be skipped (4 letters)
44 Across: So-so formal dance? (8 letters)
46 Across: Went far too slowly during the 10K? (12 letters)
54 Across: State symbols of North Dakota and Massachusetts (4 letters)
55 Across: Leader who said "All reactionaries are paper tigers" (3 letters)
56 Across: Slight (7 letters)
57 Across: "Use the Force, ___" (4 letters)
58 Across: Arizona is the only state to have one (3 letters)
59 Across: Attach to (5 letters)
61 Across: "Rocks" (3 letters)
62 Across: Certain helicopter (5 letters)
63 Across: Piece of black-market playground equipment? (17 letters)
69 Across: Cousin of kerplunk (5 letters)
71 Across: ___ for life (3 letters)
72 Across: Purple shade (5 letters)
73 Across: Press (3 letters)
76 Across: It comes out in the wash (4 letters)
77 Across: Northernmost borough of London (7 letters)
81 Across: Freud's one (3 letters)
82 Across: Antlered animal (4 letters)
83 Across: Wool or cotton purchase request? (12 letters)
85 Across: Disgusting advice? (8 letters)
87 Across: Way out (4 letters)
88 Across: 24 hrs. ago (4 letters)
90 Across: Isle of the Inner Hebrides (4 letters)
91 Across: Brown-___ (5 letters)
94 Across: New York's historic ___ Library (5 letters)
97 Across: Top of a ladder?: Abbr. (3 letters)
98 Across: Whiskey bottle dregs? (16 letters)
103 Across: Courtroom entry (4 letters)
107 Across: Corporate shake-up, for short (5 letters)
108 Across: Beyond ___ (6 letters)
109 Across: People whose jobs include giving tours (8 letters)
111 Across: To have, in Le Havre (5 letters)
112 Across: "I don't give ___!" (5 letters)
113 Across: Nobleman after a banquet? (9 letters)
114 Across: Rita Hayworth's femme fatale title role of 1946 (5 letters)
115 Across: Effects of many waterfalls (5 letters)
116 Across: Felt bad (5 letters)
117 Across: Bind (3 letters)
118 Across: Toothpaste brand once advertised as having the secret ingredient GL-70 (5 letters)
119 Across: Not settled (5 letters)
120 Across: Hits and runs (5 letters)
121 Across: Rev.'s address (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: Mosey (5 letters)
2 Down: Perform Hawaiian music, say (5 letters)
3 Down: Shell alternative (5 letters)
4 Down: "Uncle Moses" novelist Sholem (4 letters)
5 Down: Smack (6 letters)
6 Down: French first lady ___ Bruni-Sarkozy (5 letters)
7 Down: Staggering (5 letters)
8 Down: Game tally: Abbr. (3 letters)
9 Down: It was invaded in the War of 1812 (6 letters)
10 Down: Prayer (6 letters)
11 Down: Airlift, maybe (6 letters)
12 Down: Really bugged (5 letters)
13 Down: Orphan girl in Byron's "Don Juan" (5 letters)
14 Down: Seldom (8 letters)
15 Down: Urging at a birthday party (6 letters)
16 Down: I-5 through Los Angeles, e.g. (6 letters)
17 Down: Heckle, e.g. (6 letters)
18 Down: Thou follower? (5 letters)
24 Down: Some volcanoes (7 letters)
28 Down: Doesn't stop, in a way (6 letters)
32 Down: Pitcher part (3 letters)
33 Down: Animal with a snout (5 letters)
35 Down: Urgent transmission, for short (3 letters)
38 Down: Result of a pitch, perhaps (4 letters)
39 Down: Schedule opening (8 letters)
40 Down: Trolley sound (5 letters)
41 Down: Distant (5 letters)
42 Down: Side in checkers (3 letters)
43 Down: Metered praise (3 letters)
44 Down: Tasseled topper (3 letters)
45 Down: Leader exiled in 1979 (4 letters)
47 Down: Not much (7 letters)
48 Down: Nobelist Walesa (4 letters)
49 Down: Queen's request, maybe (5 letters)
50 Down: Skin cream ingredient (4 letters)
51 Down: Adds insult to injury, say (8 letters)
52 Down: Land on the Sea of Azov: Abbr. (3 letters)
53 Down: Cultural org. (3 letters)
59 Down: Stomach area (3 letters)
60 Down: Deferential denial (5 letters)
62 Down: Junk bond rating (3 letters)
64 Down: Something on a hog? (4 letters)
65 Down: Stalk by a stream (4 letters)
66 Down: Feudal lands (5 letters)
67 Down: Ex-governor Spitzer of New York (5 letters)
68 Down: When repeated, a TV sign-off (4 letters)
69 Down: Kind of story (3 letters)
70 Down: Hi-tech organizer (3 letters)
74 Down: Sonoma neighbor (4 letters)
75 Down: Metric wts. (3 letters)
77 Down: Vast, in verse (5 letters)
78 Down: Vietnam's ___ Dinh Diem (3 letters)
79 Down: "What ___?" (3 letters)
80 Down: Towel (6 letters)
82 Down: Reach at a lower level (7 letters)
84 Down: Emoticon, e.g. (8 letters)
86 Down: See 102-Down (3 letters)
89 Down: "___ tu" (Verdi aria) (3 letters)
91 Down: Words following see, hear and speak (6 letters)
92 Down: 1972 Best Actor nominee for "The Ruling Class" (6 letters)
93 Down: Winning length in a horse race (6 letters)
94 Down: Finally (6 letters)
95 Down: Side in a pickup game (6 letters)
96 Down: Minute (6 letters)
97 Down: Swiss quarters? (6 letters)
98 Down: Confederate general who won at Chickamauga (5 letters)
99 Down: Noted 1991 Harvard Law grad (5 letters)
100 Down: Supplied, as data (5 letters)
101 Down: Slot machine symbols, often (5 letters)
102 Down: With 86-Down, what Washington purportedly could not do (5 letters)
104 Down: Boors (5 letters)
105 Down: Banks who was known as Mr. Cub (5 letters)
106 Down: Late bloomer (5 letters)
110 Down: Some notebook screens, for short (4 letters)
113 Down: Fourth notes (3 letters)

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