Answer: APE
APE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 597 times.
Referring Clues:
- Barbary beast
 - Galoot
 - Imitate
 - Cousin of a lemur
 - Goon
 - Do a Little bit
 - Mimic
 - Act like
 - Large copier
 - "Tarzan" extra
 - King Kong, e.g.
 - Copy
 - Tarzan's foster mother
 - Pithecanthropus relative
 - Uncouth one
 - Burlesque
 - Do an impression of
 - Do, so to speak
 - King Kong
 - Flatter, in a way
 - Go ___ over
 - Make like
 - Go ___
 - One who swings a good deal
 - Rue Morgue culprit
 - Gorilla
 - Do a takeoff on
 - Simian
 - It has long arms
 - Aldous Huxley's "___ and Essence"
 - Copycat
 - Do the same as
 - Jungle swinger
 - Bruiser
 - Animal that beats its chest
 - Lout
 - Big goon
 - One way to go
 - Gibbon, e.g.
 - Orangutan, for one
 - Mirror
 - Gibbon or gorilla
 - Big clod
 - Mock, in a way
 - Copier
 - Simple tool user
 - Gibbon, for one
 - Dian Fossey subject
 - Barbary ___
 - How fans may go
 - Big galoot
 - Chest thumper
 - Big brute
 - How the excited go
 - Tree climber
 - Emulate
 - Yerkes Center inhabitant
 - Parrot
 - Bad way to go?
 - Distant cousin
 - Boorish brute
 - Uncultured one
 - Knuckle dragger
 - Lug
 - Clumsy lug
 - "The Naked ___" (1960's best seller)
 - Human's cousin
 - Lummox
 - Tailless simian
 - Gibbon or orangutan
 - Tree swinger
 - Companion for Tarzan
 - Lubber
 - Companion of Tarzan
 - Big bruiser
 - Big lug
 - Big hairy one
 - Cousin of a human
 - Take off on
 - Donkey Kong, for one
 - Siamang, for one
 - Ursine : bear :: pithecan : ___
 - Impersonate
 - Pal of Tarzan
 - Raiser of Tarzan
 - Koko who communicates through American Sign Language, e.g.
 - Zoo attraction
 - Donkey Kong, e.g.
 - Caricature
 - Long-armed animal
 - Troglodyte
 - Copier at the zoo?
 - Tarzan movie extra
 - Monkey's cousin
 - Rue Morgue perpetrator
 - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" beast
 - King Kong, for one
 - Wild way to go
 - Primatologist's study
 - Tarzan raiser
 - Monkey's uncle?
 - Chimpanzee or gorilla
 - Groomer in the jungle
 - Tarzan's foster mother, e.g.
 - Filmdom's Cornelius or Dr. Zaius
 - "Leggo, you big ___!"
 - Jungle groomer
 - "Great" or "lesser" creature
 - Knuckle-dragger
 - Gorilla, e.g.
 - Hominoid family member
 - Crazy way to go
 - Large copier?
 - Furry relative of humans
 - Distant relative of Scopes?
 - Gorilla, for instance
 - Imitator
 - Mighty Joe Young, for one
 - Large, ungainly fellow
 - Emulate Rich Little
 - Musclebound brute
 - Darwinian ancestor
 - Mighty Joe Young, e.g.
 - King Kong was a big one
 - Mighty Joe Young, notably
 - Breast-beating vegetarian
 - Bananas
 - Tarzan's playing companion, as a youth
 - Filmdom's Cheeta or Clyde
 - Way to go
 - Friend of George of the Jungle
 - Take after
 - Hairy Halloween costume
 - Gorilla in the midst of the five longest across answers
 - Bonobo, for one
 - Friend of Tarzan
 - Tarzan cohort
 - Big lummox
 - Palooka
 - Moviedom's Mighty Joe Young, e.g.
 - Kin, to an evolutionist
 - Bonzo, for one
 - Follow, as in Simon Says
 - King Kong is one
 - Evolutionary ancestor
 - Zoo swinger
 - Do Little work
 - Go wild, with "out"
 - Chimp, for one
 - Class clown, often
 - Form of the Egyptian god Thoth
 - Way to go?
 - Uncouth person
 - Grape ___ (Hanna-Barbera cartoon character)
 - Clumsy person
 - ___ hangers (high motorcycle handlebars)
 - With 6-Down, ancestor from long ago
 - Siamang, e.g.
 - Pongid, e.g.
 - Orangutan, for example
 - Do like
 - Chimp or orang
 - Roughneck
 - Giant copier
 - Thug
 - Chimpanzee, for example
 - "The Hairy ___" (Eugene O'Neill play)
 - Ham, e.g.
 - "George of the Jungle" character
 - "Great" creature
 - Subject for Jane Goodall
 - Big oaf
 - Mock
 - Swinger in the zoo
 - Hairy arm swinger
 - Gibbon or orang
 - O'Neill's "The Hairy __"
 - Knuckle-walking beast
 - Halloween costume
 - Boorish sort
 - Chimp or gorilla
 - Gibraltar denizen
 - Tarzan neighbor
 - Word after go or great
 - Gorilla, for one
 - King Kong, for example
 - Long-armed beast
 - Tailless primate
 - Sound like
 - Clumsy one
 - Gorilla or chimp
 - Go __
 - Echo
 - Chimp, e.g.
 - Kong, e.g.
 - Rainforest inhabitant
 - Chest beater
 - Bonobo, e.g.
 - ''The Hairy ___'' (O'Neill play)
 - Orangutan, e.g.
 - How you go when you lose it?
 - Arm-over-arm swinger
 - Gorilla or gibbon
 - Desmond Morris' was naked
 - Nonhuman primate
 - One of Goodall's group
 - Cornelius or Dr. Zaius, e.g.
 - Jungle creature
 - ''Lemme go, ya big ___''
 - Pet for King Solomon
 - Hairy creature
 - ''Congo'' villain
 - J. Fred Muggs, for one
 - Do an impression
 - Creature in a Huxley title
 - Monkey's uncle, maybe
 - Simious creature
 - Forest resident
 - Primatologist's study, perhaps
 - Filmdom's Dr. Zaius, e.g.
 - Practice "monkey see, monkey do"
 - "Lemme go, ya big ___!"
 - Jane Goodall subject
 - Greystoke raiser
 - Roddy McDowall portrayal of 1968
 - George of the Jungle's pal
 - Associate of Tarzan
 - Do likewise
 - Prosimian's larger cousin
 - It may be great at the zoo
 - Tarzan's cohort
 - Hanna-Barbera had a grape one
 - Barbary primate
 - Primatologist's subject
 - Hairy anthropoid
 - "The Hairy ___" (O'Neill play)
 - Huxley's "___ and Essence"
 - Rue Morgue killer
 - It is naked, in a Desmond Morris title
 - Zoo denizen
 - It's naked in a Desmond Morris title
 - Bonobo or siamang
 - Orangutan
 - Chest-beater
 - Tarzan's protector
 - Fossey focus
 - "The Hairy ---" (O'Neill play)
 - Forest swinger
 - Zoo biggy
 - Donkey Kong or King Kong
 - Distant cousin of humans
 - Mad about, with "over"
 - Zoo beast
 - O'Neill's "The Hairy ___"
 - Chest-thumping critter
 - Breast-beating creature
 - Chimp, for example
 - Terror of the Rue Morgue
 - Common costume for a costume party
 - Practice monkey-see, monkey-do
 - Hairy one
 - Dramatic way to go?
 - Simang, e.g.
 - Big klutz
 - King Kong was one
 - Long-armed primate
 - Chest-beating creature
 - Costume party costume
 - Go ___ (flip)
 - Going ___
 - "Congo" villain
 - Grape ___ (Hanna-Barbera beast)
 - Talk like
 - Clumsy brute
 - Tarzan film beast
 - Great ___
 - Agile tree climber
 - "George of the Jungle" creature
 - Hairy brute of the jungle
 - "Lemme go, ya big ___"
 - Orang or chimp
 - Crazy, metaphorically
 - Kim Hunter played one opposite Charlton Heston
 - Can finish
 - Tailless mammal
 - Dr. Zaius, for one
 - Oafish sort
 - Human cousin
 - Cinematic Heston enemy
 - Human ancestor
 - "Damned dirty" creature
 - Rip off
 - Tailless mammal
 - Mime
 - Monkey
 - Primate
 - "Tarzan" beast
 - Hairy critter
 - Zoo primate
 - "The Hairy ___"
 - CGI star of a 2011 summer blockbuster
 - King Kong, notably
 - Rainforest denizen
 - George of the Jungle's best friend
 - "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ___"
 - Human's hairy cousin
 - Large primate
 - Genetically enhanced creature, in a 2011 film
 - Big animal in the jungle
 - O'Neill's hairy title character
 - Desmond Morris's "The Naked ___"
 - Zoo resident
 - Show no originality
 - Clumsy guy
 - Clumsy fellow
 - Kong, for one
 - Orangutan or chimp
 - Zoo critter
 - Clumsy galoot
 - Zoo creature
 - Zoo favorite
 - IRS employee
 - 'Tarzan' extra
 - One of Tarzan's clique
 - Springtime abbr.
 - Unoriginal one
 - Show unoriginality
 - Gibraltar beast
 - Big galoot
 - Bonzo, e.g.
 - Orang, e.g.
 - Gorilla or chimpanzee
 - Anthropoid
 - Behave like
 - Mock, maybe
 - Tailless zoo creature
 - Do
 - "Kinsman" of Tarzan
 - Uncouth clod
 - Do impressions of
 - Zoo animal that beats its chest
 - Chest-thumping creature
 - Pretend to be
 - Jungle dweller
 - Hairy brute
 - Imitation
 - Lowlands beast
 - Moviedom's Kong or Dunston
 - Tarzan "parent"
 - "Great" beast
 - Simian beast
 - Magilla Gorilla or Mighty Joe Young
 - Make fun of
 - Alarming way to go?
 - Rhesus
 - Pithecologist's concern
 - Animal high on the evolutionary ladder
 - Barbary, for one
 - Go ___: lose it
 - Tarzan's adoptive mother
 - "The Naked ___" (1967 Desmond Morris bestseller)
 - Cornelius or Zira, in a 1968 Heston film
 - Do a send-up
 - Brute
 - Bull in a china shop
 - Goes ___
 - Go ___ (flip out)
 - Primatologlst's subject
 - "Is man an ___ or an angel?": Disraeli
 - "Great" simian
 - Bonobo or gibbon
 - Breast-beating primate
 - Primate house resident
 - Wild way to go?
 - Mimicker
 - Fossey friend
 - Mindlessly mimic
 - Hairy hominoid
 - Professor Bobo of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," e.g.
 - Went ___ (freaked)
 - O'Neill title character
 - Clod
 - Gibbon, for instance
 - Hairy hulk
 - Do monkey see monkey do
 - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" character
 - Oaf
 - Koko who signs, e.g.
 - Antithesis of grace
 - Chimpanzee, e.g.
 - Simian creature
 - Largest arboreal animal, e.g.
 - Tarzan's "mom"
 - Rue Morgue terror
 - "Great" primate
 - Hairy copier
 - Big lunk
 - Gibraltar resident
 - Big, clumsy guy
 - Lemur's kin
 - Big primate
 - "Congo" attacker
 - Go___ (freak out)
 - Chest-beating beast
 - Arboreal critter
 - Breast-beating beast
 - Lug or thug
 - Swinger in the jungle
 - How the wildly excited go?
 - "Great" or "lesser" animal
 - Nonhuman sign language learner
 - Boor
 - Parody
 - Crazy way to go?
 - Big monkey
 - Barbary animal
 - Zoo biggie
 - Say with gestures
 - Lemur cousin
 - Gorilla, for example
 - Gibbon
 - Tarzan tender
 - George of the Jungle's sidekick
 - Hairy zoo creature
 - Powerful primate
 - Animal in Darwin's "The Descent of Man"
 - Pantomime
 - Simian cousin of a 55-Down
 - Huge primate
 - Large creature in a zoo
 - Lemur kin
 - Go ___ (lose it)
 - Big, uncouth guy
 - Primate category
 - Koko or Kong
 - Simian in the center of 17-, 38- and 60-Across
 - Hairy thug
 - Vine connoisseur?
 - Hairy primate
 - Chimp, for instance
 - Hairy beast
 - Kerchak in "Tarzan," e.g.
 - Big bumbler
 - Flatter, maybe
 - Jungle beast
 - Copier jammed into this puzzle's theme answers
 - Jungle chest-beater
 - Tarzan's "mother"
 - Animal with an opposable thumb
 - Powerful jungle creature
 - Make fun of, maybe
 - "Impression"-able creature?
 - Humanlike critter
 - King Kong or Donkey Kong
 - Animal known for impressions
 - A bonobo is what kind of mammal?
 - Do a parody of
 - Jungle primate
 - Sight at Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park
 - Dr. Zaius of moviedom, e.g.
 - Certain primate
 - Beast that imitates
 - Animal that may "arm-swing"
 - Tarzan's friend Cheeta, for one
 - Cheetah, actually
 - Koko, e.g.
 - Animal whose name is a synonym of "parrot"
 - Tarzan's adoptive mother, e.g.
 - Uncouth sort
 - Friend of Fossey
 - Barbary ___ (kind of monkey, really)
 - Chimp or orangutan
 - Wou-wou, e.g.
 - Go ___ (come unglued)
 - Neighbor of Tarzan
 - Moviedom's Dr. Zaius, e.g.
 - "Great" one in Africa
 - An anthropoid primate
 - "Tarzan" creature
 - Stumblebum
 - Chimpanzee or orang
 - Mock by mimicry
 - Rearer of Tarzan
 - Clumsy sort
 - Donkey Kong looks like one
 - Beast in a primate house
 - Play "monkey see, monkey do"?
 - Barbary ___ (a monkey, really)
 - One rampaging in 2018's "Rampage"
 - Heston called one dirty
 - Full-body animal costume
 - Subject for 30-Down
 - "Great" African
 - Friend to Tarzan
 - Powerful African creature
 - Go (freak out)
 - Gelada or pongo
 - Baboon's big cousin
 - Be imitative
 - Mighty animal
 - Parody, in a way
 - Hulking hoodlum
 - Human's closest relative
 - Brachiating beast
 - Fossey or Goodall focus
 - Hardly a sage
 - Animal that can learn sign language
 - Human, for one
 - Hoodlum
 - Big-and-clumsy one
 - Hairy swinger
 - Siamang or orangutan
 - "Tarzan" critter
 - One step down on the evolutionary scale
 - "Great" hominid
 - Hulking thug
 - Silverback, e.g.
 - Animal mimic?
 - Fossey or Goodall subject
 - Many a simian
 - One may walk on its knuckles
 - Certain early "astronaut"
 - Any of Tarzan's adopters
 - Bone smasher in the opening scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
 - Barbary ___ (kind of monkey)
 - Grape ___ (cartoon gorilla)
 - Gorilla or orangutan
 - Tarzan associate
 - Big simian
 - Hairy rainforest dweller
 - "Gorillas in the Mist" primate
 - Monkey relative
 - The largest arboreal animal is one
 - Something studied by a primatologist
 - Clint's Clyde, in a 1978 movie
 - Subject for a primatologist
 - Koko the gorilla, e.g.
 - Big swinger
 - Animal known for imitating
 - Tarzan's Cheeta, for one
 - Chimpanzee, for one
 - Many a tailless primate
 - Hairy, tailless animal
 - Baboon or bonobo (circle this answer's second letter [the only in the grid] for a bonus)
 - Sci-fi's Dr. Zaius, for one
 - Parrot, or a certain primate
 - Animal hidden in "banana peel"
 - "Great" animal
 - Orangutan or gorilla
 - Quite a boor
 - Chimpanzee or bonobo
 - Dr. Cornelius, in a sci-fi film series
 - Monkey's relative
 - Zoo draw
 - Mountain gorilla, for one
 - Bononbo, e.g.
 - Primate with no tail
 - Echo, perhaps
 - Hominid
 - Chimp or gibbon
 - Gorilla Grodd, e.g.
 - Animal closely related to humans
 - Primate smarter than a monkey
 - "Gorillas in the Mist" animal
 - Certain close relative
 - Bad way to go
 - ___ Escape: PlayStation game featuring monkeys
 - Animal such as the abstract painter Congo
 - Halloween costume requiring a full-body suit
 - Animal aptly found in "banana peel"
 - King Kong or Kanzi
 - Gibbon or bonobo
 - Word after big or go
 - Social climber?
 - Human, e.g.
 - Orangutan or chimpanzee
 - Primatologist's animal
 - Terk in "Tarzan," for one
 - Subject for conservationist Dian Fossey
 - Fossey subject
 - Primate such as Cranky Kong
 - Parrot or another animal
 - Baboon or bonobo
 - Gorilla or bonobo
 - Mojo Jojo, e.g.
 - Silvery gibbon, e.g.
 - Member of Tarzan's tribe
 - Sight in Congo's Virunga National Park
 - Leftmost image in the iconic illustration "The March of Progress"
 - Central figure in a classic sci-fi series
 - Mont Blanc, par exemple
 - Kerchak or Kala in Disney's "Tarzan"
 - Chest-beating mammal
 - Hairy zoo animal
 - What some people confuse with a monkey
 - Great beast
 - Hominidae member
 
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