SILENT FINALES
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1 Late Queen of Soul 7 Places for bears or villains 12 What a recipe may be written on 20 Puts up 21 Veep under Nixon 22 Formal defense 23 Photo caption for the winning team’s M.V.P. being carried off the field? 25 Get an F in physics? 26 Bert of “The Wizard of Oz” 27 Powerful swell 28 In the style of 30 First-generation Japanese-American 31 Houdini feat 33 Rey, to Luke, in “The Last Jedi” 36 Place for a stud to go 38 What you’re effectively saying when you sign a waiver? 41 Longtime athlete on the U.S. Davis Cup team 45 Line through one’s teeth? 47 Torment 48 Full of subtlety 50 Capital of Albania 52 Atlas or Titan, for short 53 Street through the middle of town 54 Energy secretary Chu under Obama 55 ____ neutrality 56 Actress Long 58 Extended diatribe 59 Moon race? 61 Router attachments 63 It’s just below 0: Abbr. 64 Medieval poets 67 Piece of writing that’s half in verse? 70 Some paid rides, informally 71 First leg of an itinerary 72 Avenging spirits in Greek myth 73 Bad thing to hit with a hammer 75 “Casey at the Bat” poet Ernest 77 Wee bit 78 “I’m f-f-freezing!” 80 Coined money 84 Aids for determining pregnancy, e.g. 86 Pizazz 87 Fellini’s “La ____” 88 Inducing forgetfulness 89 Outlook alternative 91 Dollar signs without the bars 92 Word after who or how 93 Dropping the baton in a relay race, e.g.? 98 Bit of ink 99 Optimum 101 Senator Feinstein 103 Blues legend Waters 106 “____ complicated” 107 Area near the shore 109 Publicans’ servings 112 Area near the shore 115 Warning not given on a golf course? 118 Something on the rise today 119 Actress Belafonte 120 Start to inhabit 121 Baja California city 122 “The Zoo Story” playwright 123 Movie trailer, e.g.
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1 Name of what was once the world’s second-largest saltwater lake 2 Tabula ____ 3 “Hematite, magnetite — take your pick”? 4 Line that ended with Nicholas II 5 “____ Grace” (title of address) 6 “To quote myself …” 7 Los Angeles neighborhood next to Beverly Grove 8 Wide-eyed 9 Memo starter 10 Half of a cartoon duo 11 Make official? 12 Super Bowl III M.V.P. 13 Nail polish brand with the colors Teal the Cows Come Home and Berry Fairy Fun 14 Talking-____ (reprimands) 15 Big female role on HBO’s “Westworld” 16 Two things you might find in Sherwood Forest? 17 As long as one can remember 18 Work (up) 19 “The Hallucinogenic Toreador” painter 24 Apartment building V.I.P. 29 Mentally sluggish 32 Producer of “60 Minutes” 33 Seniors’ big night out 34 European stratovolcano 35 Astronauts’ wear 36 Young newts 37 Came down 39 Spike 40 Human Rights Campaign inits. 42 Minor altercation 43 Soccer shot resulting from a corner kick, often 44 Lawn tools 46 Like Tara, several times in “Gone With the Wind”? 49 Singer DiFranco 51 Multi-time music collaborator with Bowie 52 Some magazine perfume ads 53 Conductor 56 Country on the Arctic Circle: Abbr. 57 “Yes for me” 60 The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. 61 Brit. legislators 62 [Shrug] 64 Forcibly oppose 65 Following close behind 66 Some celebrity charity events 68 Shirking work, maybe, for short 69 “The Hurt Locker” menace, briefly 70 Scads of 72 Club known for 66-Down 74 Enterprise starter 76 Barely make (out) 78 Two-masted vessel 79 Small stream 81 Places for specific social classes to park? 82 “Any ____?” 83 Heading in the right direction? 85 Fastener with a flange 86 Bête noire 89 Small bother 90 Pageant whose 1986 runner-up was Halle Berry 94 Procedural spinoff starring LL Cool J 95 Antarctic penguin 96 Person who’s hard to take 97 Most conservative 100 Page of a movie script? 102 1994 tripartite treaty 103 De bene ____ (legal phrase) 104 In those days 105 Tommy of tennis 107 Temporary cover 108 Hopper 110 Writer ____ Stanley Gardner 111 Tiresias, in “Oedipus Rex” 113 Some gametes 114 Join 116 Capitals’ org. 117 Ruby of “A Raisin in the Sun”