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5 Make a blouse 8 "CHIPS" costar Estrada 12 George Washington's dream 15 Harsh grating sound 19 Compass point

22 Set up 25 Cosmetic additive 26 Longing 27 Cosmonaut Gagarin 28 Mounties' org. 30 Specialty 31 Sports channel 32 Prefix with byte 33 He's in boots

34 ___ contendere (Law) 35 Middle east ruler 36 Timber wolf 37 Take ___ (travel) 38 Plugging away 39 Mosque V.I.P. 40 Evening hrs. 41 Calculating types 42 Average

43 TV'S "Shop

___ You Drop" 44 Sweet things, abbr. 45 Founder of the Parti Quebecois, first name 46 Reasoned

47 It has a Ride Chair, Powder Chair and Easter Chair 50 Canadian ski resort with the biggest vertical in North America 54 Canadian resort, host to many ski events in the 2010 Winter Olympics 56 Mont Tremblant equipment 57 Nothing, in Nice 58 Fathers celebrate it 60 Deviate 61 Biblical suffix

63 Ice hockey org. 64 Actor's prompter 65 Marina sights 67 Pancake maker 69 Teamwork inhibitor 70 Lady Macbeth's malady 74 Comic actor Murphy 77 Meal, informally 78 Capable of diffusion 81 Fats, R and B great 83 Muscle spasm 84 Lord's Prayer starter 85 Doctor involved in space exploration 88 NZ forest tree 89 Sing softly

90 To the right 92 Egyptian, for one 93 Sports ___

(gym garment) 94 Confessed 97 Checks 99 Terra-cotta instrument

102 Like Sanskrit, Hindi and Bengali 105 Tending to annoy 106 Chat room "seems to me" 107 Connubial 109 Alternative to net 110 It may be proper 111 Scott in a Supreme Court case

112 BC ski run for those who can handle steep terrain and tree runs

118 Ski resort in Banff National Park 123 B.C. ski resort 125 Snouts

126 Alas!

127 All the renters on an estate 128 Poem division 130 Went after 136 TV attachments 137 Calf-length skirt 138 Idle one

139 Suffix with social 140 Type of election 141 Army outfit 145 Government security agency down south, abbr. 148 Marine worm

151 City on Lake Geneva 152 Madame, for short 153 Some church music 155 Memoir

158 Manx, e.g. 159 Suffer 160 Egyptian city 165 "Real Housewives" setting on TV 168 Jefferson Davis org. 169 Looks at lustfully 171 Considers

176 Sana'a native

177 "___ bin ein Berliner" 178 Delay firing 181 Reset setting 182 Sturdy work boot 183 Meccan, e.g.

184 Use elbow grease on 186 Afore, old way 187 Hall of fame? 189 Tonto's partner 191 Writer Rosten 192 Says 195 Crenshaw or Hogan 196 Happening and not happening ..... 198 Old-time gumshoe 199 Covert destroyer 205 Christmas tree circler, perhaps 207 __ compos mentis 208 NY subway description 213 Exaggerate 214 Controls 215 Schooner 220 Carbon copy 224 München mister 225 Extent

226 Small amount 227 Fabrics

229 Kind of theater 230 Dorm mate 232 Canadian canal 235 Vacation offering where you can soak up the majesty of the Canadian Rockies 237 Memorable Canadian winter adventure 239 "Très ___!"

243 In order (to) 244 "Cinderella Man" director, Howard 245 More frequently 247 Gold, to Juan 248 Make poor

251 Prefix with -gon 253 Yokel

255 It keeps apart 261 Begin

262 Italian monk 263 "Better Call ___ "on TV

265 Cousin of calypso 266 Arcade coin 267 Dissolute man

268 Wall Street watchdog, for short

269 Contend for superiority 270 Prayer starter 272 Graceful 275 Sidestepped 277 Benchmark

278 Scoop the soup 280 South Australian island 282 Theory

283 Provoke

284 Parting words

286 Bro's partner

287 Real estate offering 289 Attention getters 290 Red ___ (food fish of Japan) 291 Designer Cassini 293 Iran and Iraq are members of this group 294 Snow___

296 Frozen accommodations in Quebec 301 Canadian winter festival that features ice skating on the world's longest rink 305 Canadian Rockies resort that's great for snowboarding 309 Dutch painter Frans 310 Loose garment 311 Mediterranean tourist destination 313 "___ durn tootin'!" 314 In real time 316 Cookie

317 BBC rival 319 "Thanks ___!" 320 Pother 321 Monastery 322 Brandy flavor

324 Slog

325 Benefits

326 Turn tail 327 Pre-stereo

328 City near Phoenix 329 Rulers like Juan Carlos 330 Tax

331 How a river flows 332 Road ___

333 Big laugh 334 Curve-shaped letter 335 Repair shop fig. 336 Nabokov heroine and others 337 "___-wee's Big Adventure" 338 Sailing the Pacific 339 Green Day song 340 Christiania, formally

Down 1 Buccaneers star from their Super Bowl win 2 Vertical 3 Martini's partner 4 Vote

5 Visit

6 Panache 7 Possessive pronoun 8 Ol' Blue ___ (Sinatra) 9 Grapevine tidbits

10 A Van Gogh painting 11 Big name in ballet 12 Website symbol 13 Lassie

14 Circuit

15 IRA category 16 Traffic director 17 1991 Wimbledon winner Michael 18 "It's the cola" sloganeer 19 Golden girl Getty 20 Backbone

21 Start in a tournament 22 Gus Van Sant's "Psycho," e.g.

23 Of a Middle Eastern country 24 Competitive activities 26 Foot divisions 29 Palm Beach sport 30 Diamond features 31 "War of the Worlds" planet 32 Toilet paper

48 Paw

49 Dorothy Parker quality 51 "Green-___ Lady" (Sugarloaf hit) 52 Italy's ___ di Como 53 Obi-wan ___ 55 Break

58 It has a "Dark Side" 59 Suitable

62 Ad ___

64 Around

65 Slope to the sea, to Sean

66 Calls at Fenway Park 67 "The heat ___!" 68 Managed care grps. down south 70 Concert follower 71 Chris Noth on ''Sex and the City'' 72 Bust maker 73 Personal statement intro 75 Anno ___ 76 Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb, e.g. 77 Warning sound 78 Constellation containing Canis Major and Minor 79 Dr. Frankenstein's assistant 80 Beany's TV friend 82 Org. in "The Crying Game" 85 Dam in a stream 86 Moneyed one 87 Lacking depth 89 "The Plague" author 91 Corrode

94 Ten million rupees 95 Give ___ for one's money 96 Company in the UK 98 Hilariously funny thing

100 Fall yard worker 101 Actress Graff 103 Inquisitive

104 Rap doctor 105 Existing, to Caesar 107 Object to 108 Sprinkle on 112 Invitation request 113 Abbr. at the bottom of a business letter 114 Animated explorer 115 Majority

116 "Top Gun" Cruise 117 Tuna type 119 Musical notes 120 Neighbor of Que. 121 Sport ___ (modern vehicles) 122 Like some vbs. 123 Michelangelo style 124 Sandy hue 128 Infraction 129 Needle case 131 Possessive pronoun 132 Doc bloc down south 133 ___ Quentin 134 Directional suffix 135 Make blonde, say 140 Chums

142 Saudi neighbour 143 Hotel chain 144 Homer's TV neighbour 146 Setting for "The hunt for Red October" 147 Then

149 German city 150 Elementary particle 151 Rest atop

153 Prefix with surgery or transmitter 154 Major tourist island 155 Some field workers 156 Neither Rep. nor Dem. 157 Baseball's Master Melvin 159 Distant

160 Cries of regret 161 Green area

162 Bird that doesn't fly 163 ___ out (canceled) 164 Kitchen device 166 Sophia of "Marriage Italian-style" 167 "Caught you!" 170 Game with traps and bunkers

171 Foe of Harry and Ron 172 Years on end 173 Scrambled or fried 174 Miss West

175 Elder

179 Tarzan creator's monogram 180 Compass point 182 Uncle Remus title 184 Wallop

185 News office 188 Musician Yoko 190 "And more" abbr. 193 Bottom duster 194 BMW Series

197 Like some fourth-quarter football kicks 199 Groundskeeper's supply 200 "Hail! " to Caesar 201 Solicit

202 U of M basketball Coach - Johnny __ 203 Golf driving area 204 Elbe tributary 205 Pummel 206 Teleprompter filler 209 "___ have thought ...?"

210 Moore of "A Few Good Men"

211 St. Patrick's Day slogan starter 212 Liquid sediment 216 Canonized Mlle. 217 Knighted one 218 N.F.L. great Hirsch 219 Flips (through) 221 Spanish love 222 Macleans, e.g. 223 George Strait's "All My ___ Live in Texas" 226 Needle 227 Colour delicately 228 Web promotion resources

230 Put on again 231 Nose sensation, US spelling 233 Six-day War nation 234 "Go ahead!" 235 Scooped a prize 236 Vichyssoise ingredients

238 Ran along 239 Career descriptions 240 Hungarian patriot Nagy 241 Fabulous 242 Christmas drink 244 Equip with better weapons 246 Sask. neighbor 249 Spanish exclamations 250 Writer Bagnold 251 Joe Namath and Phil Mickelson 252 Whence St. Clare 253 Peach or tangerine 254 Sing "Bye Bye Birdie," e.g. 255 Drunkards 256 Barely makes a living 257 Analgesic tincture 258 ___ one's own horn 259 Yours, mine and ____ 260 "Around the Sun" band 262 Where St. Pete is 264 One of Sinatra's exes

266 H.S. class 270 Simpson's bus driver, ___ Mann 271 Period in time 273 Russian leader before 1917 274 German painter Nolde 276 Suffix with sulf278 Misinforms 279 Funeral march composer

281 Not at all 284 Counter 285 "Moves like a butterfly, stings like a __" 286 Lawgivers 288 "Gone With the Wind" surname 291 Hateful

292 Ted of "Monk" 293 Uptight 294 Embarrassment 295 Angels' head wear 296 "Who's there?" response

297 Bird shelters 298 Royal band 299 Receded 300 OPEC land 302 "___ Blue"

303 Get ready to drive 304 Extreme 305 Hang-glides 306 Bathsheba's hubby 307 Metric prefixes 308 Pocket 312 Valuable Scrabble holdings 315 "Born Free" lioness 318 He fiddled while Rome burnt 323 Deli loaf

326 Back again