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1 ____ Page, the Queen of Pinups 7 Flavorful meat coating 15 End-of-week cry 19 O.K. to play, in a way 20 Obsession with a single subject 22 Country's McEntire 23 "We can't play that game - I can't reach it on our shelf!"

25 Operating system developed at Bell Labs 26 Onetime White House family

27 Corroded 28 Sunken-ship sites 30 Travel option for Birthright trips

31 Natural-gas component

34 Dress (up) 35 Standout 36 Turning point in history

38 "My sincerest apologies, but that game is off the table" 43 Unearth 46 Bills 47 Many a Snapchat posting

48 Suit that's hard to get into

51 Old Buick 53 What's plucked in "she loves me, she loves me not"

54 "We can't play that game unless we borrow someone else's" 56 Laughs and laughs 57 French city grid 58 People vis-à-vis gods

59 It's a trek

60 "It ____" ("Who's there?" reply) 61 Show overuse, as a sofa 62 They may have attachments 63 Strand 65 Hammarskjöld once of the U.N. 68 Provisions 70 ____ school

71 Bone connection with convex and concave fittings 73 ____ Mode, woman in "The Incredibles" 75 Word repeated in the openings of "Star Wars" movies 76 "I'm begging you, let's not play that game!" 77 Antinuclear treaty topic

79 Pop-up site 80 Daniel who wrote "Flowers for Algernon"

81 Island greetings 82 Take over 83 Info in dating profiles

85 "No, that game would be over in a flash"

88 One of 26 for Walt Disney 91 Common filler words 92 Common filler words

93 "If you are always trying to be ____, you will never know how amazing you can be": Maya Angelou

96 Praise for a picador 98 Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo

100 Novelist McEwan 101 Grammy winner Mary J. ____

102 Cosmonaut Gagarin 103 "I've finally decided! I'm ..."

109 Small matter 110 "Looking to go somewhere?"

111 Densest natural element

112 Bead source

113 Officials in ancient Rome

114 They vary from past to present

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Isolated hill Surround with light 1996 Robert De Niro/Wesley Snipes psychological thriller 4 Bird in a holiday song

5 "Black ____," Georgia O'Keeffe painting at the Met

6 Ewoks or Jawas, in brief 7 One of academia's Seven Sisters 8 Impersonate 9 It might result in a defensive TD 10 Aviary sound 11 Full of broodiness, say 12 Cheerleader's cheer 13 Synchronized states 14 Narcissist's quality

15 Who you really are

16 M?F?M, e.g.

17 One of the first birds released by Noah after the flood, in legend

18 Kind of number not much seen nowadays

21 "Of course!" 24 Krazy ____ of the comics 29 More villainous 31 Hosp. readout 32 Penalties for illegal bowls in cricket 33 Largest active Antarctic volcano

34 Little 'un 37 Vessels seen in 2004's "Troy" 39 Like albino alligators 40 General ____ chicken

41 Work (up) 42 Things needed in passing? 44 Supervillain in DC Comics

45 More smoky, as Scotch

48 Goals

49 Bird named for a Titan 50 Polling calculations 52 Spill coffee on, maybe 53 Blandishment 55 Actor's honor, informally 56 Rigid 59 Attacked 60 They're shared among friends 63 Whiz

64 Classic work whose "shorter" version comes in two vols. 66 Image on the ceiling of la chapelle Sixtine 67 Classic Pontiacs 69 He's often pictured carrying an hourglass 71 Apply haphazardly 72 It comes just before a period 73 List-ending abbr. 74 Scale site

75 Fleet

76 When doubled, dismiss out of hand 78 Low voices 79 Turn's partner 82 Secondary loan signer

84 D.C. insider 86 Get-go

87 Old vacuum tube 89 Suspect statements?

90 Fix, as a model plane 94 ____-nest 95 Aesop's "The ____ and the Grasshopper"

97 Is for all intents and purposes 98 Taurus or Touareg 99 ____ Marino 101 Big name in speakers

102 Go on and on 104 Tyrant Amin 105 Catch

106 "Despicable Me" protagonist 107 Ominous sight at a beach 108 Go bad Answers below