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Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Tom McCoy9/4/2016

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Flair (4 letters)
5 Across
Indication of freshness (4 letters)
9 Across
Weak (6 letters)
15 Across
___ bag (party giveaway) (4 letters)
19 Across
Have a one-person apartment, say (9 letters)
21 Across
"Old MacDonald" sounds (6 letters)
22 Across
"Check and ___" (4 letters)
23 Across
Neighbor of Illinois (9 letters)
24 Across
Response to a flatterer (6 letters)
25 Across
Subordinate: Abbr. (4 letters)
26 Across
"That ___ part of our agreement!" (5 letters)
27 Across
Short dagger (8 letters)
29 Across
Flattened at the poles (6 letters)
31 Across
Concorde, e.g. (3 letters)
32 Across
Ball in a socket (3 letters)
34 Across
24 in a caffeine molecule (5 letters)
35 Across
Release from TLC or Alicia Keys (6 letters)
36 Across
Tee seller (7 letters)
39 Across
Like many a lad or lass (3 letters)
40 Across
"Since you didn't hear me the first time ..." (5 letters)
41 Across
Actor Reeves (5 letters)
43 Across
Start of a time capsule direction (6 letters)
45 Across
Retired Steeler Taylor (3 letters)
46 Across
Takes it easy (12 letters)
48 Across
End-of-seminar feature (8 letters)
53 Across
___ letter (college app part) (3 letters)
54 Across
Scads (4 letters)
55 Across
Sources of mescaline (7 letters)
57 Across
Prefix with parasite (4 letters)
58 Across
School in Oxford, informally (7 letters)
60 Across
___-Atlantic (3 letters)
61 Across
Burns's refusal (3 letters)
62 Across
Where bees be (5 letters)
63 Across
Slithy one, to Carroll (4 letters)
64 Across
Diamond head? (7 letters)
66 Across
___ salad (4 letters)
67 Across
Shout made while pointing (5 letters)
69 Across
Cops, with "the" (3 letters)
70 Across
___ Alamos (3 letters)
71 Across
Targeted (7 letters)
74 Across
Spanish prefix with líneas (4 letters)
75 Across
Begin a voyage (7 letters)
77 Across
___ Fresh (Tex-Mex chain) (4 letters)
78 Across
Airport posting, for short (3 letters)
79 Across
Multicolored candy in a yellow package (8 letters)
81 Across
Noted index (12 letters)
84 Across
Grp. sponsoring the Muzzle Loading Championship (3 letters)
85 Across
Footnote material (6 letters)
86 Across
Stemmed (from) (5 letters)
87 Across
Transition (5 letters)
90 Across
Go on (3 letters)
91 Across
1997 film megahit (7 letters)
93 Across
Site of the George Bush Presidential Library (6 letters)
94 Across
Material in two states (5 letters)
96 Across
Droop (3 letters)
97 Across
The "e" of i.e. (3 letters)
100 Across
Descend in a controlled fashion (6 letters)
101 Across
Might be able to do it (8 letters)
104 Across
Oscar-winning Berry (5 letters)
106 Across
The "E" of HOMES (4 letters)
107 Across
Like three men of rhyme (6 letters)
109 Across
Beverage since 1922 (9 letters)
111 Across
Bareilles who sang "Love Song" (4 letters)
112 Across
"Negotiations are off!" (6 letters)
113 Across
Some fuel oils (9 letters)
114 Across
Leave in (4 letters)
115 Across
Gertrude ___, first woman to swim the English Channel (6 letters)
116 Across
Meh (4 letters)
117 Across
Lead-in to Victoria or Albert (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Things aggressive people may throw (5 letters)
2 Down
Turkish money (5 letters)
3 Down
"Cease!" on the seas (5 letters)
4 Down
Answer to "Is Bonn the capital of Deutschland?" (4 letters)
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Kind of camera, for short (3 letters)
6 Down
Releases (6 letters)
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Bio course: Abbr. (4 letters)
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Mani-___ (4 letters)
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"Ready!" (5 letters)
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"It's all good" (9 letters)
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They mind their manors (7 letters)
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Foist (upon) (6 letters)
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Most important piece in échecs (3 letters)
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Relatives of scooters (9 letters)
15 Down
One of two in the Adidas logo (6 letters)
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Sushi go-with (6 letters)
17 Down
Offered for breeding (6 letters)
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"Don't let those guys escape!" (5 letters)
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Choice (11 letters)
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A U.S. flag is a common one (8 letters)
30 Down
Ammonia and lye (5 letters)
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Calvin Coolidge's reputed reply to a woman who bet she could get more than two words out of him (7 letters)
36 Down
Old men (3 letters)
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Red ___ (4 letters)
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Go (for) (3 letters)
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Ocean bottom? (4 letters)
42 Down
And more (8 letters)
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"Going somewhere?" (9 letters)
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"That makes sense" (4 letters)
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Miracle-___ (3 letters)
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Electees (3 letters)
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2022 World Cup host (4 letters)
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Surrounder of la Grande Jatte (5 letters)
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Martians, in "The War of the Worlds" (8 letters)
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Wordsworth work (3 letters)
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Negatives (3 letters)
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Word often replaced with "your" (4 letters)
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Ignoramus (5 letters)
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Big mouths (4 letters)
62 Down
United Nations concern (11 letters)
64 Down
Tangles (4 letters)
65 Down
Behemoths (8 letters)
66 Down
City where Mexico's routes 1 and 2 meet (7 letters)
67 Down
Word that becomes its own synonym when spelled backward (3 letters)
68 Down
Giggle syllable (3 letters)
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Basic form of a word (4 letters)
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Spa sound (3 letters)
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Do to ___ (4 letters)
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Bit (3 letters)
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Simplify (9 letters)
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Just like always (9 letters)
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Big swig (4 letters)
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Neglect (5 letters)
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Number of hills in ancient Rome (3 letters)
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Rx writer (3 letters)
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Optometrist, at times (7 letters)
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Pirate, in old slang (6 letters)
88 Down
Breathe out (6 letters)
89 Down
View in awe (6 letters)
90 Down
Slightly (6 letters)
92 Down
Noted philanthropic family (6 letters)
93 Down
Lock (5 letters)
95 Down
Relative of a weasel (5 letters)
97 Down
Justice Kagan (5 letters)
98 Down
Smooth and glossy (5 letters)
99 Down
Like Calvin Coolidge (5 letters)
102 Down
Neocons, e.g. (4 letters)
103 Down
Ice cream flavor (4 letters)
105 Down
Cain mutiny victim? (4 letters)
108 Down
Positive sign (3 letters)
110 Down
Game-winning line (3 letters)

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