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SEALED WITH A KISS
ACROSS
1 Percussion instrument in a marching band 7 Prefix with sexual 10 Prefix with sexual 14 Animals in a pod 19 Start of a playground taunt 20 Kitchen brand with a palindromic name
21 What an article may come with? 22 Drain, as from soil 23 Fatsis who wrote “Word Freak”
24 Most feathery, as clouds
26 “Thong Song” singer, 2000
27 Sharp, in a way 28 Early tie
30 The ones over here 32 In the capacity of 33 Some Ivy Leaguers 34 Born yesterday, so to speak
36 Calm
38 Comfy slip-on, in brief
39 What an outstretched arm with an open palm can mean
41 Fleet org.
42 It means business 43 Stakes
44 Narrow
46 Group tour vehicle 49 Playground comeback
52 Build up
53 Sci-fi publisher of “Ender’s Game” and “The Wheel of Time”
54 Popular beer brand, briefly
57 With 3-Down, one of the Avengers 59 ____ smear 61 Reduced
63 Opposite of a standing order? 64 “Do me this one favor ... “
67 French vineyards 68 Prats
69 Contrariwise
71 North African capital 72 Nongendered, as language: Abbr. 73 Sui ____
74 Kind of dash
76 Best Supporting Actor winner for “Dallas Buyer’s Club”
78 Prefix with friendly 79 Rules out?
80 West Coast beer brand, in brief 81 “____ ruled the world ... “
83 :
86 Capital of Yemen 87 Kind of modern office plan
2/28/21
89 Smell of a rose 92 Smell of a rosé 95 ____ Fridays 96 Barrister’s deg. 97 Bench tool 99 Quibble
101 Student’s bonus
points
103 Drawn-out
campaigns
105 When doubled, another name for dorado
106 Call ____ night 107 Eighth letter
109 British tennis champ who invented the sweatband
111 ____ impasse 112 Guardian spirits 114 Especially
116 Soubise sauce is made from them 118 Greenish-brown 119 ____ cake
(dim sum dish) 120 Suffix with social
121 “Wheel of Fortune” freebies
122 Sharp
123 Label for Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes
124 Latin king
125 Sea lion, for one
DOWN
1 Word with sound
or solar
2 Few
3 See 57-Across 4 Subsequent
versions 5 Thurman of
“Kill Bill”
6 Word before
and after “a” 7 Turned on
8 Kind of symmetry 9 A pretty capable
sort
10 Singer DiFranco 11 Big name in
bubbly
12 Small woodland
songbird
13 “Town square for the global village of tomorrow,” per Bill Gates
14 Jimmy of the Daily Planet
15 L.L. Bean competitor 16 Medieval helmet 17 Exonerate
18 Prime snorkeling spots
25 Like many stuffed animals
29 PX shopper
31 The Quran, for one 35 Mango Madness and Go Bananas, for two
37 Ones initiating handoffs, for short 39 Some mattresses 40 Indulgence
45 Capital of French Polynesia
47 Show again 48 Caterer’s container 50 A fine mesh this is! 51 Debussy prelude inspired by a water sprite
54 Outcast
55 Out of focus 56 Surface anew, say 57 Post production 58 Without a doubt 60 Turkish officers 62 Timid sort 63 Instrument in “O! Susannah”
64 They’ll be mist 65 Super Bowl of 2022 66 Place with robes and sweaters 70 Seasick sea serpent of old cartoons 71 73 75 77 82 84 85 87 88 90 91
92 93 94 97 98 100 102 104 105 108 110 113 115 117
©2021 New York Times Bank posting Words after throwing a ball Grams
Unbalance Packaging list “L’chaim!”
(a, b), e.g.
Anthem contraction
Suit perfectly France from
France
Singer who founded Fenty Beauty
What ponies express? Field-plowing duo Poem piece Notable point in geometry
U.N. member since 1949: Abbr.
Glittery decoration Listing
Beau ____
Ones with plenty of reservations Blade brand
Days of old
Suffix with court or cash
Deli supply Surveillance org.