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ACROSS

1 “Watch yourself out there”

7 Comic Sweeney 12 ____ All-Star Race (annual event since 1985) 18 Getaway for meditation

19 Rub oil on

21 Fruit dessert 22 Spin-class activity? 24 City with one of the SUNY schools 25 That craft

26 TV host Gibbons 27 What Siri runs on 29 SC Johnson product with a lightning bolt in its logo 30 Wireless-data-and-messaging company 32 Number of appearance­s in a grain holder? 38 ____ Tomé (African capital)

39 Stuck at a ski lodge, say

41 Wallops

42 Like long chances 44 River near the start of an alphabetic­al list 45 Primordial universe matter

47 What people sing when they don’t know the words 49 Au courant, once

50 Storms that don’t offend? 53 Actress Christina 55 God, to Hebrews 57 Staple of Hawaiian cuisine 58 Mammals with webbed feet 60 Business with a guest book

62 French 101 verb 63 Appropriat­e rhyme

for “cache” 65 Robust

66 RC, for one

67 Left college athletics, maybe

69 Lesley of CBS News 71 Nonsense 73 Second hand: Abbr. 74 Loads

76 2016 Disney hit 78 George who founded Industrial Light & Magic 79 “____-hoo!” 80 Position on a steamship 82 Schedule inits. 83 Europe’s largest lake 84 Region of ancient Egypt

86 Makes a quick map of an Egyptian peninsula? 89 Very, in Veracruz 90 Sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a sequel 92 Action at a bris 93 Popular website that

explains the news 94 Lille women: Abbr. 95 Not debut

97 Mint 99 War su ____ (boneless chicken dish) 100 Opening performers that are all mimes? 104 Orchestra tuner 107 Brand with a rabbit symbol

108 “____ little confused” 109 It has a lock, stock and barrel

111 Take in 113 Citroën competitor 116 Rod-and-reel event in old Vietnam? 121 North and South Korea, e.g. 122 Nurse’s outfit 123 Indian appetizer 124 Prince Edward’s earldom

125 Belief

126 High as a kite

DOWN

1 Big party 2 Photoreali­st painter

Richard

3 Order to a pool hustler to suck up some broth?

4 “So vast is ____, so narrow human wit”: Alexander Pope 5 Do not

6 Run the show 7 Rapper with the musicstrea­ming service Tidal

8 Take out, as wine

bottles 9 “Haha”

10 Due east on an old

clock dial 11 Common female

middle name 12 Smoking or ____ 13 Black church inits. 14 Spot on a fern frond 15 TBS late-night show 16 Room with a slanted

roof

17 All systems go

20 Cry to kick off the weekend 21 “Down goes Frazier!”

sportscast­er 23 Relating to the

abdominal cavity 28 Surg. locales 31 Nonstandar­d verb

from Popeye 33 Pastoral poet 34 “____ & Stitch” 35 Common opening bid

in bridge 36 Argument

37 Fruit with greenish-yellow rinds 40 TV’s “Tales From the ____” 42 Suddenly start, as in

fright 43 Strands, as a base

runner 44 German lament 46 Workplaces with a need for speed 48 Government group on

offspring? 50 Felon, to a cop 51 Drink holders 52 Greyhound stop:

Abbr. 54 Plotting (with) 56 Alicia of “Urban

Legend,” 1998 59 Ex-isle of exile 61 Denies

63 Play alone 64 Jerry Lewis, notably 66 “Oh, fudge” 68 Snare-drum sound 70 Rebel in “Henry IV, Part 1”

72 Jai ____ 75 Green-lit 77 Green 80 Tornado warning 81 Raised, as a flag 83 Laissez-faire 85 Pre-practice tests? 87 Lush’s favorite radio station? 88 Drowse

91 Santa makes millions of them every Christmas 94 French month 96 Ingredient in an Aunt Agatha 98 Blinking light 99 Attacks 100 Cast about 101 Chemistry Nobelist Joliot-Curie 102 Understudy’s study 103 Ticket 105 Ignorance, so they say 106 Nerve-racking 110 Think tank, e.g.: Abbr. 112 “Heavens!”

114 It may be pulled after a wrong turn 115 Old law 117 Do something 118 Heat 119 Heater

120 H.R. offering for employees

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