TRAPPED MOISTURE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21142 clues~30-60 minBy David J. Kahn5/8/2016

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Across

1 Across: Wise ones (5 letters)
6 Across: Suffered from (3 letters)
9 Across: Opened a bit (4 letters)
13 Across: Presto (4 letters)
17 Across: Central courts (5 letters)
18 Across: Dentist's request (4 letters)
19 Across: "O.K., I'm game" (4 letters)
20 Across: Lock opener? (5 letters)
22 Across: Like some statements (5 letters)
23 Across: City in "Slumdog Millionaire" (4 letters)
24 Across: Tricky start to a tennis rally (10 letters)
26 Across: Spoke hesitatingly (5 letters)
27 Across: Advice to captains plagued by pirates? (15 letters)
29 Across: Slyness (3 letters)
30 Across: When repeated, toy on a track (4 letters)
32 Across: Double-crosser (3 letters)
33 Across: The Dixie Chicks, e.g. (4 letters)
34 Across: Sweaty (3 letters)
35 Across: Direction taken by a large pipe? (11 letters)
39 Across: Give the once-over (4 letters)
41 Across: Class taken for kicks? (6 letters)
43 Across: Propose tentatively, with "out" (4 letters)
44 Across: Impress, and then some (3 letters)
47 Across: Musical ___ (5 letters)
50 Across: Segment of the 47-Across (4 letters)
51 Across: Bibbled (5 letters)
53 Across: "Ta-da!" (5 letters)
55 Across: How many a medical problem ends? (4 letters)
56 Across: With 36-Down, New England college town (5 letters)
58 Across: Santa ___, Calif. (3 letters)
59 Across: Beethoven's "Kreutzer," for one (6 letters)
60 Across: Fraction of time: Abbr. (4 letters)
61 Across: Very small distinction (8 letters)
63 Across: Container to keep a canine cool? (9 letters)
65 Across: Timeout sign (3 letters)
66 Across: Magazine with an annual "500" list (3 letters)
67 Across: C.I.A. concern (5 letters)
68 Across: Noggin (3 letters)
69 Across: Part of Pres. Monroe's signature (3 letters)
72 Across: Telegrams sent by those in trouble? (9 letters)
74 Across: Handyman's accessory (8 letters)
76 Across: Mediocre (4 letters)
79 Across: Out of business (6 letters)
80 Across: Nonstandard: Abbr. (3 letters)
81 Across: "That smarts!" (5 letters)
82 Across: Help badly? (4 letters)
83 Across: Country music's K. T. ___ (5 letters)
84 Across: Pay "tribute" to, as a comedian (5 letters)
86 Across: "You ___ Seen Nothing Yet" (1974 #1 hit) (4 letters)
87 Across: 1982 coming-of-age movie (5 letters)
89 Across: Dark time for poets (3 letters)
90 Across: Clinched, with "up" (4 letters)
91 Across: Things held, in a saying (6 letters)
93 Across: Musical curve (4 letters)
95 Across: Conservative's opinion of the Republican presidential candidates? (11 letters)
98 Across: Give the once-over (3 letters)
100 Across: Expanses of H2O (4 letters)
103 Across: "I need a sweater in here!" (3 letters)
104 Across: French suffix that's an anagram of 4-Down (4 letters)
105 Across: Chocolate ___ (3 letters)
108 Across: Oceans? (15 letters)
112 Across: With 45-Down, jazz singer who worked with Woody Herman (5 letters)
114 Across: 1961 movie featuring Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats (10 letters)
115 Across: Within bounds (4 letters)
116 Across: Djokovic rival (5 letters)
117 Across: Canadian rowdy (5 letters)
118 Across: One of the Saarinens (4 letters)
119 Across: ___ weight (4 letters)
120 Across: Actress Patricia and others (5 letters)
121 Across: Animals in un zoolÃ³gico (4 letters)
122 Across: Reddish-brown (4 letters)
123 Across: Chamber worker: Abbr. (3 letters)
124 Across: Safe places (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: One of the Obamas (5 letters)
2 Down: Battling it out (5 letters)
3 Down: Somatotropin, e.g. (11 letters)
4 Down: Samuel Beckett's homeland (4 letters)
5 Down: Desert feline (7 letters)
6 Down: Very powerful (10 letters)
7 Down: Gillette product (4 letters)
8 Down: 1960s secretary of state (8 letters)
9 Down: Real estate and the like (6 letters)
10 Down: Hot time (4 letters)
11 Down: Running rampant (5 letters)
12 Down: Come back (5 letters)
13 Down: Bait holders (7 letters)
14 Down: From the start (4 letters)
15 Down: Tatamis, e.g. (9 letters)
16 Down: Milkman made famous by Zero Mostel (5 letters)
18 Down: Burger topper (5 letters)
21 Down: Pause (4 letters)
25 Down: Dwarf planet more massive than Pluto (4 letters)
28 Down: Long-jawed fishes (4 letters)
31 Down: Rushed (4 letters)
36 Down: See 56-Across (5 letters)
37 Down: Chaplin of "Game of Thrones" (4 letters)
38 Down: "Dallas" family (6 letters)
40 Down: Sugar coating? (5 letters)
41 Down: Longtime "60 Minutes" reporter (5 letters)
42 Down: High retreat (5 letters)
45 Down: See 112-Across (4 letters)
46 Down: How excellent students graduate (8 letters)
48 Down: Be prone (3 letters)
49 Down: Mac key (3 letters)
52 Down: Home on the range (8 letters)
53 Down: Venetian dignitaries of old (5 letters)
54 Down: Proscribed (5 letters)
57 Down: Some of this, some of that (4 letters)
59 Down: Like clogs, say (5 letters)
62 Down: Prelude (5 letters)
63 Down: Poet Mark Van ___ (5 letters)
64 Down: In a masterly manner (4 letters)
67 Down: Taking a dig at? (6 letters)
69 Down: Passover, e.g. (11 letters)
70 Down: Garment cut (5 letters)
71 Down: Leaves alone, in a way (5 letters)
72 Down: Drumpf International, e.g. (5 letters)
73 Down: Magician's skill (4 letters)
74 Down: Go from male to female or vice versa (10 letters)
75 Down: Cooperative leaders? (5 letters)
76 Down: In a blue state (3 letters)
77 Down: Tokyo wrap (3 letters)
78 Down: Beyond comprehension (9 letters)
80 Down: Setting for "The Music Man" (4 letters)
84 Down: Second and third versions (8 letters)
85 Down: Marvel Comics hero (4 letters)
88 Down: Causes of congestion (7 letters)
90 Down: Ticked (4 letters)
92 Down: David Mamet play (7 letters)
94 Down: Some vintage autos (4 letters)
96 Down: Second-largest moon of Uranus (6 letters)
97 Down: Designer of Spain's Guggenheim Museum (5 letters)
98 Down: Tallinn native (4 letters)
99 Down: Google rival (5 letters)
101 Down: Following (5 letters)
102 Down: Fifth-century pontiff (5 letters)
106 Down: The tiniest bit (5 letters)
107 Down: Model wood (5 letters)
109 Down: Baseball executive Epstein (4 letters)
110 Down: Olympian deity (4 letters)
111 Down: Tag in some dictionary definitions (4 letters)
113 Down: Dundee disavowals (4 letters)

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