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1 Wretched 7 Mount Rainier gateway 13 Hoops statistic 19 Taste 20 In favour of Mideast unity 21 Arty 22 The drive-through diner scene that was cut became a __ 24 Right after this 25 Fall garden? 26 Riverbank residue 27 Parisian season 28 Vote of support 29 What Jill has that Jack doesn’t? 30 Break 31 Stab 32 1956 title film monster 34 Smart 36 The girls who spent the night prioritized chat time at the __ 41 LP’s 33 1/3 44 Browsing annoyances 45 Wordless agreement 46 Sugary ending 47 Reduce 48 Long 50 Shot __: competitive event 51 Privileged people 53 When the dog got loose, some house plants __ 57 False front 63 Get into 64 What a stationary orrery part may represent 65 Clarifying Latin words 67 Grew dimmer 68 Sweetens, as yams 70 Iraqi currency 72 Modified for the better 74 Private 75 Barely sufficient 77 Stroke that makes a rally irrelevant 78 Surrealist German-French painter 79 Gazes fixedly 81 The casual quarterback made an __ 86 Expand 88 Bossy utterance 89 African capital on the 30th parallel 90 ‘It is a __ told by an idiot’: Macbeth 94 What chatty tongues do? 95 Poke fun at 96 Mrs., in Madrid 98 Apply a new hue to 99 A navel ring is a piercing one may __ 105 It has pipes and keys 106 Source of some overhead footage 107 Apple operating system 108 Hadrian’s defence 112 Follow (along) closely 113 ‘It totally happened!’ 115 Memorable first name in soccer 116 Small racer 117 Sailing 118 Indicating stress 120 The fast-learning police cadet had the __ 123 Most trifling 124 Fail to take seriously 125 Red-skinned root 126 Current events? 127 Soaked through 128 Demands and gets
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1 Following 2 Business end of an ax 3 ‘North and South’ trilogy author John __ 4 Track contests 5 Bill’s partner 6 Confided in 7 Showing strain 8 One lining up for food? 9 Took care of the food 10 Strong speaker 11 Be resourceful 12 Prez on a penny 13 Feeling it after a workout 14 Lusters 15 Honorary title 16 Picnic pitcherful 17 NBA’s Steph Curry, frequently 18 Early photograph 20 Sea anemone, e.g. 23 Gives out 28 ‘__ of robins ...’: Kilmer 33 Refrains from 35 The Eiger, for one 37 Secure, as a job or a role 38 ‘Get __’: James Brown biopic 39 Choose at the polls 40 Shipping hazard 41 Bread-making grain 42 Locket, for one 43 Singer/actress known as the ‘Queen of Pop’ 49 Cause to become 50 Mae West’s ‘I used to be Snow White, but I drifted,’ e.g. 51 Icelandic literary work 52 Sidelong glance 54 Consume 55 Kitty 56 Beethoven’s __ 58 Response to the sublime 59 Largest Englishspeaking country 60 Google operating system 61 Cook, as much county fair fare 62 Announcer Hall 66 Gauge on the dash 68 Opposite of trans 69 Hot temper 70 Inane 71 Lowdown 73 ‘Give __ minute’ 76 Often ‘old’ eccentric 77 Big deal 80 Like fireplace logs 82 Within 83 Plant stem joint 84 Final Four org. 85 Moriarty, to Holmes 87 __ longlegs 90 Cheat on one’s sweet, say 91 Freshened up, in a way 92 Slowpoke 93 Often titled stretch 95 Massaged 96 Excalibur, e.g. 97 Put back as it was 100 Not sensible 101 Pecorino __ cheese 102 __ Kingdom 103 Laughing 104 Its capital is Kigali 109 Gelatin garnish 110 ‘Not in the __’ 111 Framework strips 114 Book after John 116 Nine-time US skating champ Michelle 119 Gift with an aloha 120 Brief afterthoughts 121 Metal source 122 Become more intense, as the moon