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1 Make less dangerous, in a way 7 Sleep-lab study 12 Some school edicts 16 Small invention 19 Eagle constellation 20 Signature Michael Jackson wear 21 Runway model? 23 Fly swatter? 25 “It seems to me …” 26 Attack order 27 Rationale 28 Trickle 30 “The Good Wife” figures: Abbr. 31 Confer 34 Drool from both sides of the mouth? 38 Screams bloody murder 40 Brought up 41 Narrow lead in baseball 42 Quaker of note? 45 In base 8 47 Sound near a spittoon 50 Brooding music genre 51 Tip of an épée? 53 Sci-fi film with a 2010 sequel 54 Brings in 56 Palindromic girl 57 “58 Busted timer? 60 Illicit sum 62 Anderson of “WKRP” 64 Historic siege site 65 Legendary siege site 66 Desi Arnaz? 70 Unsteady gait 74 Cutting edge 76 Karaoke-bar sight 77 Key of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 79 Winning an Oscar for “Norma Rae”? 81 One of the Gabor sisters 84 Prompt 85 Actress Thomas 87 Reclined 88 Acrophobe’s term for a route through the mountains? 90 Encouraging word 91 Fire place? 92 Attended 93 Soothes 94 One of the Furies 97 Asian territory in Risk 99 Round after the quarters 101 Lament from an unlucky shrimper? 105 Devotee 108 Fallout from the 2000 election? 109 “My bad!” 110 Put off 112 Short flight 114 Nougaty treats 116 Writing “30 and single” when it’s really “50 and married,” e.g.? 120 Reduces to smithereens 121 Cropped up 122 Canadian smacker 123 Morning condensate 124 Chichi 125 Cantina appetizers 126 Go through
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1 Applies gingerly 2 Outfit 3 World Heritage Site in the Andes 4 Oft-married Taylor 5 Keg contents 6 Archer’s battle weapon 7 Forever 8 Like lumberjack jackets 9 O.K. 10 Time for lastminute planning 11 Oxygen-dependent bacterium 12 Card-table cloth 13 Not fully independent 14 Piece corps, briefly? 15 Almost dislocate 16 Violation of Yom Kippur? 17 Batting .200, maybe 18 Queen ____ (pop-music nickname) 22 Don’t bother 24 Give a tonguelashing 29 Veteran 32 A question of time 33 Is unacceptable 35 Virtual address 36 Père d’un prince 37 1961 space chimp 39 Improvise, in a way 42 Isolated 43 Echolocator 44 Softly 46 “Three Billy Goats Gruff” villain 48 Smash up 49 “You win!” 52 Stabilizer of a ship’s compass 53 “Use your head!” 54 CD-____ 55 Ground-beef contaminant 58 Mobile-home resident? 59 Rio Grande city 61 “Downton Abbey” daughter 63 “Jeez!” 67 Flummox 68 De jure 69 Showroom models 71 Residents of 3-Down 72 Trackpad alternative 73 Lean on 75 Astral lion 78 Achieve success 79 Rug dealer’s special? 80 Prepares for a Mr. Universe competition, say 82 “____ the day!” (cry repeated in Shakespeare) 83 Settled the score 85 Ghostly sound 86 Apportion 88 Say, “When I met the Dalai Lama last year,” say 89 “Qué ____?” 91 Sugar 92 Goth-looking, in a way 95 It’s hard to get across 96 Morsel 98 1994 bomb based on an “S.N.L.” character 100 Something to boost 102 Bridge whiz 103 Domineering 104 Actress Thompson of “Creed” 106 River along Avignon 107 “Wanna play?” 111 Anti bodies? 113 Petitioned 114 Whacked 115 Kind of dye 117 The Depression, for one 118 Smoked deli purchase 119 Popinjay