LITERARY CIRCLES

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Jacob Stulberg5/10/2015

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Across

1 Across: Theater purchase: Abbr. (3 letters)
4 Across: Fertility doctor's focus (4 letters)
8 Across: Little sucker? (3 letters)
11 Across: Mountain-to-mountain transport (7 letters)
18 Across: Sch. with a Manchester campus (3 letters)
19 Across: Apple product (4 letters)
20 Across: Fail to grant, in court (4 letters)
21 Across: Showed humility (7 letters)
22 Across: "Spoon River Anthology" poet Edgar ___ Masters (3 letters)
23 Across: California's Rancho ___ (9 letters)
25 Across: Appeared amazed (7 letters)
26 Across: Tattler's threat (7 letters)
28 Across: At a high rate (5 letters)
29 Across: "___ Folks," Charles Schulz's first strip (3 letters)
30 Across: Scheme (4 letters)
31 Across: Visibly sad (7 letters)
33 Across: Making environmentally friendly (8 letters)
38 Across: No. expert (3 letters)
40 Across: One in a jungle trail (3 letters)
41 Across: Walk with swaying hips (11 letters)
43 Across: Arduous (8 letters)
46 Across: Relative of a Great Dane (7 letters)
47 Across: 6 letters? (3 letters)
48 Across: Like cars in a used car lot (6 letters)
49 Across: Source of feta cheese (3 letters)
51 Across: Prominent parts (9 letters)
54 Across: Put-on (3 letters)
55 Across: Clinton secretary of state (8 letters)
59 Across: Ingratiate (6 letters)
60 Across: Like the American pronunciation of many Polish names (9 letters)
62 Across: 7 1/2-foot Ming (3 letters)
64 Across: Item extending over a gunwale (3 letters)
65 Across: "Sesame Street" subjs. (3 letters)
66 Across: An airbag can prevent it (9 letters)
70 Across: Fixer-upper's need, for short (3 letters)
72 Across: Counterpart of Aurora (3 letters)
74 Across: Good part of a record (3 letters)
75 Across: Diverge (9 letters)
79 Across: Look good on (6 letters)
82 Across: Citizen (8 letters)
84 Across: Camera option, for short (3 letters)
85 Across: She's courted in "The Courtship of Miles Standish" (9 letters)
88 Across: Shipping unit: Abbr. (3 letters)
89 Across: Country that's won the most medals in the history of the Winter Olympics (6 letters)
91 Across: + or - thing (3 letters)
92 Across: How-to aid (7 letters)
95 Across: Kind of omelet (8 letters)
97 Across: 1990 Mike Leigh comedy/drama (11 letters)
100 Across: Maven (3 letters)
101 Across: First word of Dante's "Inferno" (3 letters)
102 Across: "E.T." boy and others (8 letters)
103 Across: "Would you let me take a look?" (7 letters)
106 Across: Plagues (4 letters)
109 Across: Funny (3 letters)
110 Across: Coffee mate? (5 letters)
111 Across: Lady in "Lady and the Tramp," e.g. (7 letters)
113 Across: Fix, as a braid (7 letters)
117 Across: From the top (9 letters)
119 Across: Battery size (3 letters)
120 Across: Put forth (7 letters)
121 Across: 107-Down subject (4 letters)
122 Across: Org. concerned with toy safety (4 letters)
123 Across: ___ Search (Bing forerunner) (3 letters)
124 Across: Renaissance fair wear (7 letters)
125 Across: Put on (3 letters)
126 Across: Road ___ (4 letters)
127 Across: Where costumes are worn (3 letters)

Down

1 Down: Dutch pot contents (5 letters)
2 Down: Toll (5 letters)
3 Down: 1935 poem with one word per line ... as spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters (21 letters)
4 Down: Start of a reminiscence (4 letters)
5 Down: Where bills may accumulate (5 letters)
6 Down: Sullied (7 letters)
7 Down: Extinct wingless bird (3 letters)
8 Down: California's ___ Freeway (7 letters)
9 Down: Common pizzeria name (7 letters)
10 Down: Blue shade (4 letters)
11 Down: Piece of Tin Pan Alley music (3 letters)
12 Down: Midwest tribe (3 letters)
13 Down: Ahab, e.g. (6 letters)
14 Down: Decorative border (6 letters)
15 Down: Writer of 3-Down (21 letters)
16 Down: Exist (3 letters)
17 Down: Pay stub abbr. (3 letters)
20 Down: Remove, in a way (4 letters)
24 Down: Mad magazine cartoonist Drucker (4 letters)
27 Down: Like about 45% of human blood (5 letters)
32 Down: Internet troll, intentionally (7 letters)
33 Down: Cells that protect neurons (4 letters)
34 Down: Ransack (5 letters)
35 Down: In conclusion: Fr. (5 letters)
36 Down: Levi's Stadium athlete, informally (5 letters)
37 Down: Some Pontiacs (4 letters)
39 Down: One who's much praised (5 letters)
42 Down: Capt.'s inferiors (3 letters)
43 Down: Clutch (4 letters)
44 Down: Cause déjà vu, perhaps (5 letters)
45 Down: ___ talk (4 letters)
46 Down: "Family Guy" daughter (3 letters)
50 Down: Certain heiress (5 letters)
52 Down: ___ Period, 1603-1868 (3 letters)
53 Down: "___ Arizona Skies" (John Wayne movie) (5 letters)
56 Down: "Just a minute," in texts (3 letters)
57 Down: Cousin of an aardwolf (5 letters)
58 Down: Army Rangers beret color (3 letters)
61 Down: Branded footwear (5 letters)
63 Down: Circle (5 letters)
67 Down: Cousins (3 letters)
68 Down: Ones whose work is decreasing? (7 letters)
69 Down: Severe penalty (3 letters)
71 Down: Harp's home key (5 letters)
73 Down: Liberal arts subj. (3 letters)
76 Down: Da ___, Vietnam (4 letters)
77 Down: Fright wig wearer (5 letters)
78 Down: Comic impressionist David (4 letters)
79 Down: Lie in the hot sun (5 letters)
80 Down: Thick (5 letters)
81 Down: Group mailing tool (5 letters)
83 Down: "31 Days of Oscar" network (3 letters)
85 Down: Mound (4 letters)
86 Down: Code contents (4 letters)
87 Down: Barrier to some websites (3 letters)
90 Down: River through Deutschland (5 letters)
93 Down: What a cousin can be twice (7 letters)
94 Down: Done (7 letters)
96 Down: Flips (7 letters)
98 Down: What may make you duck down? (6 letters)
99 Down: Certain salt (6 letters)
100 Down: Falafel holder (4 letters)
104 Down: Steppes dwelling (4 letters)
105 Down: "Beowulf" and others (5 letters)
107 Down: It might have an escalator (5 letters)
108 Down: Bias (5 letters)
110 Down: Artist Maar depicted in Picasso's "The Weeping Woman" (4 letters)
112 Down: MCAT topic: Abbr. (4 letters)
113 Down: ___ room (3 letters)
114 Down: Intro to biology? (3 letters)
115 Down: Screen (3 letters)
116 Down: Lib. listings (3 letters)
118 Down: Astronomer's std. (3 letters)

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