TAKE IT FROM THE TOP

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21138 clues~30-60 minBy Joe DiPietro10/23/2011

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Across

1 Across: Onetime propaganda source (4 letters)
5 Across: Portmanteau (3 letters)
8 Across: Obstruct (5 letters)
13 Across: Brings in (5 letters)
18 Across: Funny Johnson (4 letters)
19 Across: See 6-Down (3 letters)
20 Across: Queen City of the Rockies (6 letters)
21 Across: Prefix with light or sound (5 letters)
22 Across: Holiday purchase, informally (8 letters)
24 Across: Tone setters for conductors (12 letters)
26 Across: Item in a certain e-mail folder (11 letters)
28 Across: A couple of Spaniards? (3 letters)
29 Across: E-mail alternatives (3 letters)
30 Across: Source of the Amazon (5 letters)
31 Across: South Carolina's state bird (4 letters)
32 Across: Neurotic Martin Short character (9 letters)
35 Across: Not discounted (4 letters)
36 Across: Give up (4 letters)
38 Across: Start of a 1957 hit song (4 letters)
40 Across: Press and fold, say (5 letters)
41 Across: Pecking order? (3 letters)
42 Across: Oxidized (5 letters)
43 Across: Agree (with) (4 letters)
44 Across: Cousin who's "altogether ooky" (3 letters)
45 Across: Vague early afternoon time (6 letters)
47 Across: Like certain investments (6 letters)
49 Across: Soaked (5 letters)
53 Across: To the point, to lawyers (5 letters)
55 Across: Times ___ (5 letters)
57 Across: Succeed (5 letters)
59 Across: Bridge expert Culbertson (3 letters)
60 Across: Go back and forth (6 letters)
62 Across: Some are cohesive (5 letters)
64 Across: Territory (4 letters)
65 Across: 1985 film based on "King Lear" (3 letters)
66 Across: How some games finish (6 letters)
67 Across: How some cars screech (7 letters)
69 Across: Plant known as "seer's sage" because of its hallucinatory effect (6 letters)
71 Across: Loser (3 letters)
72 Across: Skinny (4 letters)
74 Across: Screenwriter Ephron (5 letters)
75 Across: Somme place (6 letters)
76 Across: Prefix with magnetic (3 letters)
77 Across: Old fishing tool (5 letters)
79 Across: An instant (5 letters)
81 Across: Blowup, of a sort (5 letters)
82 Across: "... but possibly untrue" (5 letters)
84 Across: Peeper protector (6 letters)
86 Across: Wield (6 letters)
88 Across: Uncorking noise (3 letters)
90 Across: His debut album was "Rhyme Pays" (4 letters)
91 Across: Grating (5 letters)
92 Across: W. Hemisphere grp. (3 letters)
95 Across: Queen's land (5 letters)
97 Across: Like average folks, in Britain (4 letters)
98 Across: Enthralled (4 letters)
99 Across: ___ Park, classic Coney Island amusement locale (4 letters)
100 Across: V formation? (9 letters)
102 Across: Shop chopper (4 letters)
104 Across: Bounce (off) (5 letters)
105 Across: Mil. officers (3 letters)
106 Across: Avg. level (3 letters)
107 Across: Change quickly (11 letters)
110 Across: Incredibly nice (12 letters)
115 Across: Matter in statistical mechanics (8 letters)
116 Across: Bulldog (5 letters)
117 Across: Dispatch boats (6 letters)
118 Across: Neighbor of Oman: Abbr. (3 letters)
119 Across: "Pride and Prejudice" actress Jennifer (4 letters)
120 Across: 9-Down holder (5 letters)
121 Across: Pickup line? (5 letters)
122 Across: One of the Chaplins (3 letters)
123 Across: Underworld route (4 letters)

Down

1 Down: Transference of property to pay assessments (7 letters)
2 Down: Asian republic (7 letters)
3 Down: Gets up for the debate? (14 letters)
4 Down: Certain poetic output (6 letters)
5 Down: Reveal (4 letters)
6 Down: With 19-Across, far back (4 letters)
7 Down: Beats it and won't explain why? (17 letters)
8 Down: Proof that a "Jersey Shore" character has an incontinence problem? (21 letters)
9 Down: Heady stuff (3 letters)
10 Down: Entire "Reservoir Dogs" cast, e.g. (3 letters)
11 Down: Athlete's attire, informally (3 letters)
12 Down: Pampers maker, informally (5 letters)
13 Down: Arrests an entire crime syndicate? (15 letters)
14 Down: Inits. in '70s and '80s rock (3 letters)
15 Down: Slayer of his brother Bleda (6 letters)
16 Down: Like some majors (6 letters)
17 Down: Impudent (5 letters)
20 Down: Longtime ESPN football analyst Merril ___ (4 letters)
23 Down: Protected images, for short (3 letters)
25 Down: Russian novelist Maxim (5 letters)
27 Down: Fancified, say (4 letters)
32 Down: Singer Gorme (5 letters)
33 Down: Eschews Mensa material when going to parties? (17 letters)
34 Down: "Drag ___ Hell" (2009 movie) (4 letters)
36 Down: "Star Wars" character ___-Gon Jinn (3 letters)
37 Down: SALT party (4 letters)
39 Down: Dashboard choice (3 letters)
42 Down: Contents of Lenin's Tomb, e.g.? (15 letters)
46 Down: Settle in (4 letters)
47 Down: Aquatic nymph (5 letters)
48 Down: The Wildcats of the N.C.A.A. (3 letters)
50 Down: Merits at least a 20% tip? (14 letters)
51 Down: "Airplane!" woman (6 letters)
52 Down: King or queen (6 letters)
53 Down: Hard Italian cheese (6 letters)
54 Down: Slower to pick up (6 letters)
56 Down: Phone button trio (3 letters)
58 Down: ___ Minor (4 letters)
61 Down: Break down (4 letters)
63 Down: A bar may offer it (5 letters)
68 Down: One-dimensional: Abbr. (3 letters)
70 Down: Flat flooring (4 letters)
73 Down: Minute (3 letters)
78 Down: Scout's mission (5 letters)
80 Down: Assertive comeback (4 letters)
83 Down: 118-Across is in it (4 letters)
85 Down: Super Bowl IV M.V.P. Dawson (3 letters)
87 Down: Scoring stat for N.B.A.'ers (3 letters)
89 Down: Wallop (5 letters)
91 Down: Motorola phone line (4 letters)
93 Down: Departure from the norm (7 letters)
94 Down: Untraditional, as some marriages (7 letters)
95 Down: Charges (6 letters)
96 Down: Give a hard time (6 letters)
99 Down: Soup kitchen implements (6 letters)
100 Down: They're shown by X's, O's and arrows (5 letters)
101 Down: Luggage attachment (5 letters)
103 Down: Some annual bills (4 letters)
104 Down: Major org. representing entertainers and athletes (3 letters)
108 Down: Anita of jazz (4 letters)
109 Down: Desideratum (4 letters)
111 Down: ___ Fit (3 letters)
112 Down: Brooklyn's Flatbush, e.g.: Abbr. (3 letters)
113 Down: Go unused (3 letters)
114 Down: Symbol for electric flux (3 letters)

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