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1 Not fine 7 Expedition 12 Savory jelly 17 Tacks on 19 Mollycoddle 20 Sight on an
English farm 21 Slacker role for Jeff Bridges in “The Big Lebowski” 22 Superenthusiastic 23 Spelman College
graduate, e.g. 24 “____ is an emotion in motion”: Mae West
25 See 30-Across 27 Morning weather
phenomenon 29 See 33-Across 30 With 25-Across, get as much approval from an audience as possible 32 Dalmatians, e.g. 33 With 29-Across, like a deer in headlights 35 N.Y.C.’s first
subway line 36 Singer Mann 38 Michelangelo
masterpiece 40 Sunset
Boulevard sight 42 Utah mountain
range
45 What people tend to do when a rush-hour subway train arrives
47 See 50-Across 48 See 53-Across 50 With 47-Across, not change anyone’s mind, say
52 Forest of Fangorn resident, in fiction
53 With 48-Across, stops wasting time
57 Dawn 59 Eternally
damned 61 Promptness 63 Default
consequence 65 Have an
influence (on) 69 Iraqi port city 70 Mathematical concepts suggested eight times in this puzzle
74 “I’m telling the
truth!”
75 One of the Seven
Dwarfs
77 Yeats’s “The Lake ____ of Innisfree”
78 Bad place for a
fly, in a saying 80 Showy shrub 83 Arch supporter 85 See 90-Across 86 Flat-topped cap 88 See 92-Across 90 With 85-Across, uncomfortably accurate
92 With 88-Across,
sacrificed 94 Place that
processes ore 96 Eponym of the world’s largest church
101 Some teambonding trips 103 State whose capital is Dispur
105 Drum that can be played with a brush
106 Hypotheticals 107 See 113-Across 109 Cleans, as a
deck
112 See 116-Across 113 With 107-Across, bad sort of competition 115 “Freak on a Leash” metal band
116 With 112-Across, “Your misfortune is nothing special” 118 Jocular lead-in
to “macation” 119 List ender 121 Abstract artist de Kooning known for her portraits 123 Obsessive
cleaner, say 125 Important faculty for school
126 Brought home 127 Lively French dance popular in the Baroque era 128 Big name in nail
polish
129 Rug rats
130 Brand whose sales skyrocketed after the release of “E.T.” Down 1 Person who’s being used 2 Sister of Laertes 3 They’re scored from 1 to 5 4 What’s found at one end of a rainbow 5 Comfy-cozy 6 Sources of Norse mythology 7 More throaty 8 Pale
9 Ukr., e.g., once 10 Spanish “I love you”
11 Kind of cuisine that’s often eaten with one’s hands
12 Tied, in scores 13 ____ vide (culinary technique)
14 Do some heavy
lifting
15 “Don’t pay
attention to that” 16 Idle gossip 18 Convince 19 Cracks
20 Actor Dev of
“Lion”
26 Lick (up)
28 Stop the flow of 31 House call? 33 Playful growl 34 Run-____ (hiphop trio) 37 Alternative to an
ellipsis 39 Some clickbait
articles 41 Potentially risky thing to drop in a relationship 43 ____ Woo-shik, co-star of 2019’s “Parasite” 44 ____ cuisine 46 Sanders who played in a World Series and two Super Bowls 49 Charon’s domain 51 Lead-in to self 53 They might be caught in the rain
54 ____ Bator 55 Stun, in a way 56 Hard-hit line
drive
58 One variety of
love 60 Broadway’s ____-Fontanne Theater
62 Heckle
64 Part of a hammer 66 Butter alternative 67 “There warn’t no home like a raft ...” speaker 68 Lavish
celebration 71 Hard Italian
cheese
72 Level, for one 73 Isolated
components 76 Deviation in
flight 79 Exterminator’s
target
81 Was bested by 82 Title horror film
locale
84 Wrote poorly 86 They have your life hanging by a thread
87 They might involve impersonating a dealer 89 Kingdom east of
Babylonia 91 Mini-albums, in
brief
92 Ship with three
banks of oars 93 Fly catcher 95 Dead Sea Scrolls
sect
97 Envelope abbr. 98 Juggling, singing, magic, etc.
99 Scholarly 100 Tells off
102 Just peachy 104 ____ Pro
108 Dental covering similar to a crown
110 Water pipe 111 Dishonest
attack
114 Foe of the Morlocks, in sci-fi
116 Major export of
Tuscany
117 Place to hang
holiday lights 120 Something drawn by a jerk, maybe
122 Sanctuary 124 What a digitigrade stands on