54 Eagerly expectant 56 “Famous” cookie-maker 57 Ring match 62 Polite address 63 Artful 64 Two Grants 65 Ten-time NBA All-Star Anthony, to fans 66 “Me? Never!” 67 Fourvière locale 68 Yin counterpart 69 Escorted to the penthouse, say 70 For all to see
ACROSS
1 Performs an operation, in a way
5 “One Kiss”
singer __ Lipa 8 Southwestern
building block 13 Buzzing cloud 18 Sans-__: font
style
20 Liberty Mutual’s
industry: Abbr. 21 Toyota’s luxury
division 22 Common newspaper name
23 Saudi neighbor 24 Task for the caregivers of a Trojan War hero?
27 __ optics 28 Tolkien saga,
briefly
29 Forbes rival 30 Vitamin C
source 31 Chicago business district 34 Bootleg booze 36 Method of preserving souvenir tops? 42 March on Washington fig. 43 Split __ soup 46 Most candid 47 Iris covering 49 Bring in 50 Lead 51 Activity in a Toronto pastry shop? 55 Ethiopian capital 58 Aliens, for short 59 Certain lamp resident 60 “Breathe Me” singer 61 Fuel-efficient bikes 63 Bertie played by Hugh Laurie 65 Tall tales about one’s climbing experience? 69 Many an episode of “This Is Us,” e.g.
73 Kir __: French cocktail 74 Naughty
77 To no __: in vain 78 Tallahassee sch. 81 “Some Like It Hot” co-star 84 Greeting that may come with barks and licks? 88 Dry Italian wine 89 __ Major 90 “Let’s go, amigos!” 91 Concession speech deliverer 93 School org. 94 __ drop 95 Rodent who’s really angry he missed the migration? 99 Rizzo of “Midnight Cowboy” 101 Horn of Africa
nation
102 Tubman of Judy Blume’s “Fudge” series
105 SUV stat 108 Taylor Swift’s “Look What You __ Me Do” 109 Genius Bar tablets
114 Good-natured fun leading up to an election? 117 Gymnast
Comaneci 118 On, as an alarm 119 Garlicky
mayonnaise 120 “Da 5 Bloods”
director Spike
121 Serengeti grazer 122 John Irving’s “A Prayer for Owen __” 123 Painter Picasso 124 AARP folks 125 Hook’s sidekick
DOWN
1 Starting from 2 __-glace: rich
sauce
3 Dull 4 Trigonometry
function 5 Cockney, e.g. 6 7UP nickname,
with “the” 7 Kutcher of
“Jobs”
8 Tide alternative 9 Sub station? 10 Team members 11 Anheuser-__ 12 Abbr. on some
cornerstones 13 Christmas Eve
visitor, familiarly 14 Shoe
measurement 15 Boy in “The Kite Runner”
16 Eye care brand 17 Inbox fillers:
Abbr.
19 Some
evergreens 25 Pressing need? 26 Big name in
water purification 32 Growth chart
nos.
33 Printing
measure 35 Portent 36 Wardrobe item on HBO’s “Rome”
37 Taters
38 Klum of “Making
the Cut” 39 Setting of the
2022 film “RRR” 40 Lymph __ 41 Fortitude 43 Smock stain 44 Bert’s BFF 45 Tick off 48 “Illmatic” rapper 49 Just scrapes
(by)
51 Crunch’s rank 52 Disable the security system for, say
53 Zilch 85 Tiki bar drink 86 RSVP cards,
often
87 Sees
91 Asserts without
proof 92 Plumeria
garland
94 Illness
96 “Lara Croft: __
Raider”
97 Inbox fillers 98 Original “SNL” cast member Gilda
99 Turn red, say 100 __ vincit amor 102 Car warranty
call, usually 103 Fabled loser 104 Watson of “Little
Women”
106 “No __”: “Piece
of cake”
107 Fish organ 110 BFFs
111 Singer Lambert 112 Have a meal 113 “Soldier of Love”
singer
115 Space
116 “About Me”
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