El Dorado News-Times

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- BY CALEB MADISON / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

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1 Top 5 Wears 10 Pioneer in computer chess 13 Channel setting on many airport TVs 16 Gets cheeky with? 18 Act on a sudden itch to be hitched 19 Fit for service 20 It may be seeded 21 Even (with) 22 Roger who battled 13 Across 23 Utter 25 Cut, Paste and Print 27 Degree in math? 28 Mountain ____ 29 Copse makeup 30 Title character in a 1943 French novella [6] 35 Zap 37 Pedagogic org. 39 Vote for 40 Pacific capital 41 N.F.L.’s Jaguars, on scoreboard­s 42 Sugar suffix 43 1990 Literature Nobelist Octavio ____ 44 Toner-cartridge contents 46 Is from ancient Rome? 47 The Big Pineapple [4] 50 Rhyme scheme ending a villanelle 52 French word between two surnames 53 Intl. commerce grp. 54 Banded gemstones 55 Bert who sang “If I Only Had the Nerve” 57 Poor People’s Campaign organizer, for short 59 Frequent Bosch setting 60 Capital accumulati­on 61 Dance craze of the 2010s 63 “____ and animals are free” (party slogan in “1984”) 65 “____ Mine” (George Harrison book) 66 Like some lawyers’ work [4] 67 Musical talent 68 Cartograph­er 71 Try to sink one’s teeth into 72 Cheap cooking implement 76 Like, forever 77 Steely Dan’s bestsellin­g album 78 Naval noncoms 80 E’erlasting 81_ ___ one-eighty 82 Bleeping government org.? 84 Trophy figure 86 “Why are you looking at me?” [4] 88 Where It. is 89 Inverse trig function 91 Agcy. that oversaw plants 92 Ones “from Mars” 93 Inits. in some parlors 94 American-born Jordanian queen 95 “Shoo!” 98 Org. behind the Human Genome Project 99 Lewis ____, 1848 Democratic candidate for president 100 11th-century campaign [4] 103 Put in stitches 105 Like the Salt Lake Bees baseball team 106 Decoration for an R.A.F. pilot 107 “Will you let me have a taste?” 112 Clothing associated with Hillary Clinton 115 “Same here” 116 Like many pools and highways 117 Cooperatio­n 118 They begin trading, for short 119 Frankincen­se, e.g. 120 Singer of a famous bath-time song 121 Crooked 122 Barack Obama’s mother 123 Sturm und ____ 124 Garner

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1 Like some radios 2 “Born Sinner” rapper J. ____ 3 17,000+-foot peak near the Equator [4] 4 Guarantee 5 Make airtight, in a way [4] 6 Others of ancient Rome? 7 Band member’s time to shine 8 In public 9 Monster’s moniker 10 Healthy [4] 11 “Don’t ____ hero!” 12 Nightshade family member [5] 13 Prized possession [5] 14 Home of the Gallatin Sch. of Individual­ized Study 15 Take home 17 Unit around one foot? 19 Spending 23 Mich. neighbor 24 Mater ____ 26 One doing routine office work, informally [5] 31 “Wasn’t that fantastic?!” 32 Long 33 Move to protect the king, say 34 Praises highly 35 At all, in dialect 36 Me.-to-Fla. route 38 Color of el mar 45 Butt 48 Flowers native to damp woods 49 “Please, I’ll handle it” 50 Totally LOL-worthy 51 Dave of jazz [4] 56 Supermodel Lima 58 Certain fire sign 59 Like the Greek god Pan 62 Flip out 63 One leading the exercises, for short? [4] 64 Singer Bonnie 66 Sandwich inits. 68 Having as ingredient­s 69 Guinea-pig relative 70 Fruity spirit [6] 73 Vain, temperamen­tal sort [7] 74 Long range 75 Bright lights 77 Band member’s main squeeze? [4] 79 ____ song 82 1940 Disney release [3] 83 Swamp swimmer 85 Woman who took a “roll in ze hay” in “Young Frankenste­in” 87 Pulling off bank jobs [5] 90 Teddy Roosevelt targets 96 Much-swiped item 97 Short trailer 99 Borgia who was an illegitima­te son of Pope Alexander VI 101 Took a breather 102 Message from the marooned 104 Noah of “ER” 108 Grp. with a mission 109 “Sure, sign me up!” 110 Predecesso­r of Rabin 111 What’s lost in “Paradise Lost” 112 Rabbit’s foot 113 It’s inspired 114 Original “Veronica Mars” channel

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