*This puzzle was described in the New York Times Magazine's 50 Years of Crossword Puzzles article (published on February 16, 1992) as "What an origami swan is to a folded paper airplane, this puzzle is to the average crossword."
*The 116-Down clue in the PDF did indeed read "___-go-brath." "___-go-bragh" is much more common, though the brath spelling does appear online.
*Theme explanation: A word within each theme answer has been replaced with its opposite. For example, the answer to the 34-Across clue is (GO)T, but "go" gets replaced with "come," making the final answer (COME)T.
1 H | 2 E | 3 A | 4 D | 5 L | 6 A | 7 N | 8 D | 9 S | 10 A | 11 F | 12 E | 13 R | 14 S | 15 U | 16 P | 17 P | 18 E | 19 R |
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20 E | N | G | R | A | V | E | R | 21 P | L | A | T | E | 22 A | L | E | R | I | A |
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23 M | A | R | Y | M | A | R | Y | 24 Q | U | I | T | E | C | 25 O | N | T | R | A | R | Y |
26 M | O | S | E | S | 27 B | U | R | N | 28 S | L | I | D | 29 E | Y | E | S |
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30 S | T | 31 E | R | I | L | E | 32 I | L | E | 33 S | ||||||||||
34 C | 35 O | 36 M | 37 E | T | 38 R | U | N | 39 D | 40 A | 41 M | N | 42 R | E | 43 G | 44 A | 45 L | 46 S |
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47 A | D | E | N | 48 P | A | S | T | 49 S | 50 T | O | E | 51 S | 52 C | A | R | A | T |
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53 D | E | M | O | 54 L | I | S | H | 55 P | 56 R | O | D | D | E | 57 D | 58 S | O | R | E |
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59 I | S | O | L | A | T | E | 60 C | R | E | M | E | 61 E | R | 62 O | S | I | V | E |
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63 M | I | S | 64 D | E | A | L | 65 T | R | I | P | E | D | A | L |
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66 E | 67 N | 68 T | 69 A | I | L | 70 R | E | T | A | 71 S | 72 T | E | 73 V | E | R | S | E | S |
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74 N | E | A | T | N | E | 75 S | S | 76 P | L | U | N | 77 D | E | R | ||||||
78 R | E | L | E | A | S | E | 79 E | 80 S | S | E | X | 81 A | L | A | 82 R | 83 M | 84 E | 85 D |
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86 I | D | E | A | 87 S | T | 88 E | P | P | E | D | 89 C | H | E | S | H | I | R | E |
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90 C | L | O | S | 91 E | 92 I | M | P | I | 93 S | 94 C | O | L | D | 95 E | L | I | A |
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96 H | E | F | E | L | 97 L | 98 P | A | N | 99 S | 100 A | N | I | 101 M | A | K | E | R |
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102 S | I | 103 L | L | 104 A | 105 G | I | T | A | 106 T | O | ||||||||||
107 A | 108 S | 109 T | 110 A | 111 M | O | O | 112 R | 113 C | A | N | O | 114 W | O | 115 O | 116 E | 117 D | ||||
118 H | O | W | D | 119 O | E | S | Y | O | 120 U | R | G | A | R | 121 D | E | N | G | R | O | 122 W |
123 T | R | E | A | T | Y | 124 E | S | T | E | E | 125 T | R | E | E | L | I | N | E |
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126 S | T | E | R | E | S | 127 R | E | A | D | S | 128 S | A | D | D | E | N | E | D |
Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.