SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
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1 What flowers eventually do 5 Children’s character who sings “I Love Trash” 10 Ending with bald or bold 14 Issa of “The Lovebirds” 17 On the drink 18 Must pay back 19 Gross-sounding plant? 20 Toll maker 21 List from 1 to ... 22 Overhead lights? 23 Spirit of a culture 24 Shoots the breeze 25 One might help with a connection 27 Apt facial hair for a teacher? 30 “Excuse me ... “32 Rumrunner, e.g. 33 Lime-A-____ (alcoholic beverage) 34 Daughter of Polonius, in Shakespeare 37 Admitted it, with “up” 38 ¥ 39 Bob Marley and the Wailers, for one 41 Passionate (about) 42 Chills 46 Button often denoted by a right arrow 47 China makes up much of it 50 Big brass 51 Like almost all prime numbers 52 Lay down, in a way 54 Word before shot and after hot 55 Spiritual object 56 Words with “with words” 57 It “lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar,” per Percy Bysshe Shelley 60 Bea Arthur was one before her acting career 61 Church minister 64 Breakfast brand tagline 65 Taking Rx drugs 66 People in a long line, perhaps 67 Covered in long, soft hair 68 Jupiter and Mars 69 It’s spineless 70 Private aid grp. 71 “Vital” things 73 Stock paper, for short? 76 Orchestral prelude to an opera 78 Fairy-tale sibling 80 Beer ____, drinking/running event 81 Deems right 82 Apt name for a landscaper? 83 “On the other hand, I could be wrong” 86 Crony 87 One of a pair of kitchen tools 90 Like anomalies 91 Chrysler offering of the 1980s 93 Wrestling duos 95 Over-the-counter seller 96 Engaged in some circular reasoning 99 Put on 102 First line in a news story 103 Congas and bongos 104 ____ room 106 Name that rhymes with “edgy” 107 You are: Sp. 108 Essays 109 Attack tactic 110 Dragon-roll ingredients 111 Foreign exchange abbr. 112 Big name in skate shoes 113 Cartomancy medium 114 Broadway musical centered on two girls in love, with “The”
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1 Affable 2 Golfer Aoki 3 Help out 4 Pay attention 5 “How fancy!” 6 Exchange 7 Big star 8 Many, many 9 The “R” of Edward R. Murrow 10 Kicked the ball between the legs of, in soccer slang 11 What Beatles music did at Abbey Road, famously 12 Clean extensively 13 Back talk 14 Undergo a chemical change 15 A Greek letter? 16 Something ____ 19 Goes off on 20 Things that might get written down on sticky notes 26 “Scary” Spice Girl 28 Response to “Who’s there?” 29 Some purchases for Christmas displays 31 Unaccounted for, for short 34 Ish 35 Identified 36 On edge 38 Safecrackers, in old-fashioned slang 40 Rapper Kool Moe ____ 42 Sight at a winery 43 Body feature that approximately 10 percent of people have 44 Plumbing pipe known as a trap 45 Brings under control 48 Chord whose notes are played in succession 49 Comedian’s stage prop 50 Welsh guy 52 Something intricately detailed and impressive 53 Without 54 Expecting, in slang 56 Most valued card in the deck 58 Rock type 59 Big name in chicken 60 Dream idly 61 Chinese qipao, e.g. 62 Jazz pianist Blake who composed “Shuffle Along” 63 Unrivaled 64 The Evian Championship is one of its majors: Abbr. 68 Formal festivities 70 Critic’s pick? 72 Absolute beaut 73 Resident of the capital of Manitoba 74 Plod perseveringly 75 Ballet jump 77 Zilch 78 Maker of Ding Dongs and Twinkies 79 Puts up 80 Cooking ahead of time, say 82 Chickpeas and peanuts, for two 84 1/1 ‘til present: Abbr. 85 “La” place in L.A. 87 Actress Anna of “True Bloods” 88 News updates, with “the” 89 “Othello” character who quips, “They are all but stomachs, and we all but food” 91 Beer parties 92 Granted through a treaty 93 Land in Rome 94 On the wagon 96 ____ cheese 97 Purchase for the den 98 Mission cancellation 100 Title Disney character from Hawaii 101 Polite agreement 105 What you might get on a log flume ride