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ACROSS
1 Precursor to a
circuit breaker 5 _____ bar 10 Pointed remark 14 Common spa
descriptor
19 “Hello there,
sailor!”
20 Gourmet mushroom with poisonous look-alikes 21 Somewhat
22 Core workout
challenge
23 Looks up from reading “Frankenstein”? 27 Moody North
Yorkshire setting 28 Handy
29 Restless
30 Split hairs?
31 Words exchanged
during an “altar”cation
32 Revise
33 Reads “Catch-22,” “Closing Time” and “Something Happened” — and doesn’t stop there? 39 Atmospheric
driving hazard 42 Came to
43 Assistant
44 The joy of text? 45 Expression of a
grump
47 Cheeky remarks ... or something near the cheek 48 Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 best rap album Grammy winner 50 “Aquaman” actor
Jason
52 English indie-pop
singer Parks 53 Sleek reef
swimmers 55 Borrows “The Color Purple” from the library instead of “The Flowers”? 60 1960s activist
Bobby
62 Word with play or
fight
63 Belgrade resident 64 See 36-Down
65 First in a line of 13
popes
67 Strands
69 Lifewater and Elixir brand
71 “Wow!”
74 Fashion guru Tim 76 “_____ the spirit!”
78 D.E.A. target
81 Listens to
“Tom Jones” on audiobook? 85 Matterhorn range 87 Wheely good invention?
88 Off
89 _____ tube
91 H
92 Conclude by 94 Dawson in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
95 “Chat another
time!” in an I.M. 97 Bolt in a sprint 99 Director Guillermo
_____ Toro
100 Reads “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” so many times its spine splits?
105 Cryptids on snowy
mountains
107 Mars bar with shortbread and chocolate
108 [sigh]
109 Pilot green-lighter,
in brief
111 “Ask away!”
113 Iconic scarecrow
topper
117 Donates some copies of “King Lear” to the Renaissance Festival?
120 Still
121 Curling locale
122 Musical with the song “Another Suitcase in Another Hall”
123 _____ Rachel Wood
of “Westworld”
124 Castles, essentially 125 Chances
126 Not let lapse
127 It can be
outstanding
DOWN
1 “Octopuses can use
tools,” e.g.
2 “This is not good!”
3 Words said while shaking one’s head in disgust
4 One might be found
next to a neck pillow in an airport
shop
5 Suave
6 Decant
7 Painting and
filmmaking
8 Person in a head
set?
9 Keebler cookie with shortbread and chocolate
10 Send away 11 Biblical analogue of Aron in “East of
Eden” 12 High-_____ (kind of jeans or apartment building)
13 South Korean
“Princes of Pop” 14 Jimmies and
corkscrews 15 Debbie of “Fame” and “Grey’s Anatomy”
16 Things often next
to napkins in place settings
17 Spanish Agnes 18 Absolut alternative 24 Put in order 25 Text-writer’s segue 26 Philosopher David 31 Alternative to a
diaphragm
32 Like games marked
1->99
33 Strong wind
34 Pains for
preschoolers 35 Chivalrous avatar of
Vishnu
36 Sounds from a
64-Across
37 Saint associated
with a “fire”
38 Birds on Canadian
dollars
40 Big-eyed
hatchling
41 1989 film for which
Denzel
Washington won best supporting actor
46 Follower of “So” or
“lo”
49 Patronized a
restaurant 50 Homes for cattails
and bulrushes 51 Childhood friend 54 Blueberry-picking
girl of children’s literature
56 “Yuck!”
57 “You’re right about
that!”
58 “You’re not right
about that!” 59 “Chiquitita” singing
group
61 Endurance, so to
speak
66 Scarfs down
68 Norm: Abbr. 70 Geological span 71 Chose
72 QB’s protection 73 Very rarely 75 Ancient home of a
mythical lion 77 Delphic prophet 79 Barbershop
specialty 80 Fiber-_____
82 “I’m in favor”
83 Rat
84 The Big Easy 86 Sound
90 Fabric made from
jute
93 Med. exams with intradermal injections
95 O’er yon
96 “The Muppets”
villain Richman 98 Macroalgae
101 Costa _____
102 Baby birds?
103 Deuces
104 Cold War pact city 106 Use, as influence 109 “Here I come,
weekend!”
110 In _____ veritas 111 Reported
112 Back
113 Abrade, in a way 114 Head: Fr.
115 Horse with
endurance
116 Billowy dress style 118 To’s counterpart 119 Broadway, for one:
Abbr.