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NUMBER THEORY

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Sam Ezersky /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 “Consarn it!”

5 Kind of case in grammar

11 Shed some pounds

17 Edited, in a way 19 Sister channel of HBO

20 What the answer at 26-Across is written in 21 Low-level, as a class

22 Question that might be asked when hurrying into a meeting

23 Duty for a property owner

24 Relative of marmalade 26 FIFTEEN

28 Oval Office V.I.P. 29 Transition point 30 Period preceding a school break

34 What the answer at 45-Across is written in

36 “Yes, captain” 40 Gaping opening 41 Willem of “John Wick”

42 Toward the stern 43 Howe’er

44 Chicago mayor Lightfoot

45 ELEVEN

46 Whom Harry

Potter frees from serving Draco Malfoy’s family 50 Spicy, crunchy snack tidbit

53 “Ars Amatoria” writer

54 Area the Chinese call Xizang 55 “Make sense?” 56 Hell

58 Square up with

59 & 60 Take control after a coup 61 SIXTEEN

62 “Just ____ boy, born and raised in South Detroit” (lyric from “Don’t Stop Believin’?”) 63 Specks

64 Sleep: Prefix

65 Not quite right

66 Full of tension 67 “Hallelujah, praise the Lord!”

71 Because

75 TWO

76 Cozy spots to stop

77 Miss in the future, maybe

78 Buzz source 79 Cocktail specificat­ion 81 Fictional creature made from slime 82 Restaurant handouts for calorie counters 84 What the answer at 61-Across is written in

86 Final authority 88 Rainbows, e.g. 89 Flour filter

90 & 92 Alternativ­e title for this puzzle 98 On-the-go sort 101 It’s SW of Erie, Pa. 103 See 106-Across 104 What the answer at 75-Across is written in

105 Life lessons?

106 With 103-Across, character in Episodes I through IX of “Star Wars” 107 Millennial, informally

108 Things passed between the legs? 109 “Butt out!”

DOWN

1 Title host of radio’s first major quiz show 2 Contact-lens-care brand

3 Broadway opening 4 Declare for the draft, say

5 Items that, ironically, contain nickel

6 “Slumdog Millionair­e” co-star ____ Kapoor

7 Be a snitch 8 Wishy-washy R.S.V.P.

9 Plant holder? 10 Funeral ceremony 11 Go across

12 Soldier on horseback 13 Word before card or fund

14 Sloan School of Management sch. 15 Team ____

16 Major Southwest hub, for short 18 In store

19 Like some New Orleans cooking 20 Sloppy

25 Letter in the classical spelling of “Athena”

27 “Here’s something that’ll help”

29 Some battery ends

31 Amorphous creatures

32 Dreaded musician of the 1960s-’70s 33 Brisk

34 Luxurious affair 35 Symbols of failure 36 1974 Eurovision winner that went on to internatio­nal stardom

37 “Wahoo!” 38 Immature stage of a salamander 39 Letters of credit? 41 Drops on the ground?

42 “Not on ____!” 44 Where Wagner was born and Bach died 46 Scatterbra­ined 47 Man’s name that sounds like two consecutiv­e letters of the alphabet

48 At any time 49 Oktoberfes­t vessels

51 Some unfair hiring managers

52 “Go ahead,” in Shakespear­e 56 Openly controvers­ial opinions

57 Knock out

58 Invoice directive 59 Like most medical-journal articles

60 High hairstyle

61 Club ____

62 Egypt’s “king of the gods” 63 Excellent conductors

64 N.Y.C. neighborho­od near NoLIta

65 “Ciao”

66 Put in jeopardy 67 Muscle cars of the ‘60s

68 Lyrical, as poetry 69 Facetious response to a verbal jab 70 “E.T.” actress Wallace 72 “Ugh, stop talking already!”

73 Sack

74 Sun ____, “The Art of War” philosophe­r 79 Where most of America’s gold is mined

80 Like the presidency of John Adams

82 Joint

83 Longtime Eagles QB Donovan 84 Suspect

85 Bible study:

Abbr.

87 With a wink 89 Kisses, in Cambridge

91 Brown

92 Bring (out) for display

93 Candy wrapped in a tube

94 “I’ll come to you ____”: Macbeth 95 Eensy-weensy 96 New pedometer reading

97 Beginner, in modern lingo 98 Mammoth 99 Western tribe 100 ____ Salvador 102 What will happily sell its Soul?

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