TOIL AND TROUBLE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Dick Shlakman and Jeff Chen2/2/2014

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Across

1 Across: Turns left (4 letters)
5 Across: Ogles offensively (7 letters)
12 Across: One for the money? (4 letters)
16 Across: Actors Ken and Lena (5 letters)
18 Across: Gettable (7 letters)
19 Across: ___ Foods (5 letters)
20 Across: Cash in (6 letters)
22 Across: Tiny tunneler (7 letters)
23 Across: Big gun (6 letters)
24 Across: Ones doing aerobics (10 letters)
26 Across: Popular British band named after the villain in "Barbarella" (10 letters)
28 Across: Sinister señor (9 letters)
29 Across: Lacoste offering (9 letters)
30 Across: Soul maker (3 letters)
31 Across: Channel showing old Hollywood hits (3 letters)
34 Across: Disposables maker (3 letters)
35 Across: Modus operandi (3 letters)
38 Across: Kind of accounting (4 letters)
39 Across: Bistro glassful (3 letters)
40 Across: Sturdy ones (4 letters)
42 Across: Org. using X-rays (3 letters)
45 Across: Equally, say (6 letters)
47 Across: Tangled (7 letters)
50 Across: Legit (6 letters)
52 Across: Words before and after "my lads" in the United States Merchant Marine anthem (7 letters)
54 Across: ___ acid (5 letters)
55 Across: Sides are often alongside them (7 letters)
56 Across: Entry fee? (4 letters)
57 Across: "Don't look now ..." (4 letters)
59 Across: Bell or shell preceder (4 letters)
61 Across: Regarding (4 letters)
62 Across: Super Bowl successes, for short (3 letters)
63 Across: Key of Bach's most famous Mass (6 letters)
65 Across: Furniture style of Louis XV (6 letters)
67 Across: Dupe (3 letters)
68 Across: ___ the Explorer (4 letters)
70 Across: "That's all folks," for Mel Blanc (7 letters)
72 Across: Batman : Robin :: Green Hornet : ___ (4 letters)
74 Across: Strand, somehow (6 letters)
76 Across: Girl's name meaning "happiness" (7 letters)
77 Across: Squirm (6 letters)
80 Across: John Cusack's co-star in "Say Anything ..." (8 letters)
82 Across: Dir. of the Missouri between S.D. and Neb. (3 letters)
83 Across: Like leftovers, often (8 letters)
85 Across: Born (3 letters)
86 Across: Actor Richard who played Jaws in Bond films (4 letters)
87 Across: Some A.L. (but not N.L.) players (3 letters)
88 Across: It may be indicated with a ring (4 letters)
89 Across: More than pique (3 letters)
90 Across: Too smooth (4 letters)
92 Across: Dudley Do-Right's love (4 letters)
94 Across: Second place? (4 letters)
95 Across: Part of N.R.A.: Abbr. (4 letters)
96 Across: Email button (4 letters)
98 Across: Erne or tern (7 letters)
102 Across: Baloney, in Bristol (4 letters)
104 Across: Entitle to wear vestments (6 letters)
106 Across: Headstrong (7 letters)
107 Across: East Asian stew (6 letters)
110 Across: "Ta-ta!" (8 letters)
112 Across: It may be radical (3 letters)
113 Across: Places where polar bears fish (8 letters)
115 Across: They may be sprayed on (4 letters)
116 Across: HBO competitor (3 letters)
117 Across: Bill's partner (3 letters)
118 Across: Pro (3 letters)
119 Across: Major, for example (4 letters)
120 Across: Poetic rhapsody (3 letters)
121 Across: Soak (up) (3 letters)
122 Across: Summer White House setting: Abbr. (3 letters)
123 Across: "Lady" of the lea (3 letters)
124 Across: Rocky shout-outs (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: Biblical peak (5 letters)
2 Down: Actress Vega of "Spy Kids" (5 letters)
3 Down: Expand (5 letters)
4 Down: Mortimer of old radio (5 letters)
5 Down: Contributors to The Paris Review, e.g. (8 letters)
6 Down: First of 12 in South America (5 letters)
7 Down: Muffs (4 letters)
8 Down: Band with the 1994 album "Monster" (3 letters)
9 Down: "He" and "she" follower (4 letters)
10 Down: Not perform as expected (5 letters)
11 Down: Dance popularized by Michael Jackson (8 letters)
12 Down: "Yep" (5 letters)
13 Down: Iraqi P.M. ___ al-Maliki (5 letters)
14 Down: Like one of the arm bones (5 letters)
15 Down: Destined (for) (5 letters)
17 Down: Like vino de Rioja (4 letters)
19 Down: Gobs (4 letters)
21 Down: Compassion, figuratively (19 letters)
23 Down: Start of many jokes (19 letters)
25 Down: Dos x tres (4 letters)
27 Down: Latin "others" (4 letters)
31 Down: Blue-green (4 letters)
32 Down: Part of many an anniversary celebration (4 letters)
33 Down: Tax-free bond, for short (4 letters)
35 Down: Pair of cymbals in a drum kit (5 letters)
36 Down: Ceaselessly (5 letters)
37 Down: Tautological statement of finality (15 letters)
38 Down: Cavs, on a scoreboard (3 letters)
41 Down: Elbow-bender (3 letters)
42 Down: Superstitious thespian's name for a work of Shakespeare ... from which 21-, 23-, 37-, 58- and 60-Down all come (15 letters)
43 Down: Take care of (5 letters)
44 Down: Cause of an insurance investigation (5 letters)
46 Down: One of 17 on a Monopoly board: Abbr. (3 letters)
48 Down: What a goner has (6 letters)
49 Down: Army threats? (6 letters)
51 Down: Mendoza Mrs. (3 letters)
53 Down: "___ get it!" (3 letters)
55 Down: System prefix (3 letters)
58 Down: A single stroke (12 letters)
60 Down: What the lucky person leads (12 letters)
63 Down: Lively (5 letters)
64 Down: Piqued (5 letters)
65 Down: 500 events (5 letters)
66 Down: Equipped to row (5 letters)
69 Down: Have debts (3 letters)
71 Down: "The Addams Family" nickname (4 letters)
73 Down: ___ Maria (3 letters)
74 Down: Rat (4 letters)
75 Down: Carol (4 letters)
78 Down: Towel designation (4 letters)
79 Down: Elysium (4 letters)
81 Down: Cry before "haw" (3 letters)
84 Down: Big stretch? (3 letters)
91 Down: Moccasin decorations (5 letters)
93 Down: You might bow your head to receive one (3 letters)
94 Down: Play about Capote (3 letters)
95 Down: Famous Titanic victim (5 letters)
97 Down: Zilch (3 letters)
99 Down: One of "The Honeymooners" (5 letters)
100 Down: Drippings appropriately positioned under the circled letters (5 letters)
101 Down: Alternatively (5 letters)
103 Down: "Lo-o-ovely!" (3 letters)
104 Down: Director Preminger (4 letters)
105 Down: You may find a fork in it (4 letters)
108 Down: Prefix with -phile (4 letters)
109 Down: Some reproaches (4 letters)
111 Down: Palindromic cry (3 letters)
114 Down: Intimidate (3 letters)

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