“Excuses, Excuses!”
ACROSS
1 Jorts fabric
6 North Africa’s — Mountains
11 Cranberry sites
15 TV ads for good causes
19 One who may live by the Strait of Hormuz
20 Go
21 Old Testament twin
22 Actress Wilson of “His Dark Materials”
23 “I always wanted to be a ballerina, but I ... ”
27 Specimen for a volcanologist
28 Gown
29 Long Beach’s location, informally
30 “I —”: Election Day sticker
31 North Carolina university
32 Uniform accessory
33 Ambulance wailers
34 “I always wanted to be a baker, but I ... ”
40 — bar
41 German article
42 Northeastern octet
43 Show clearly
46 Small tastes
48 Vega, e.g.
49 Phony
53 “I always wanted to be a Gregorian monk, but I ... ”
57 Undefeated boxer Laila
58 Means of access
59 Goatee spot
60 Key of Beethoven’s “Eroica”
62 Soy-based frozen dessert brand
65 Think of, as a solution
67 “— Place”: 1990s TV drama
69 Classic Windows catchphrase
70 Bygone Dodge subcompact
71 Messy scuffle
72 Customizable Wii Sports avatar
73 “I always wanted to be a perfumer, but I ... ”
81 French infinitive
83 Give more than a darn?
84 Midday
85 On the clock
86 Setting for many
Stephen King novels
88 After the whistle
90 Wallpaper hanger’s calculation
91 “I always wanted to be a gardener, but I ... ”
98 Sugar shack surrounders
99 Actress Mireille
100 MLB stat
101 Massive old computer
102 Amazon crime series based on Michael Connelly novels
104 Fanny pack’s spot
106 Needle a bit
109 “I always wanted to be a wedding officiant, but I ... ”
113 Not aweather
114 Canine pal of Nermal and Garfield
115 British elevators
116 Pie feature
117 Young 67-Down
118 Batik artist
119 Sherwin-Williams product
120 Toast opener
DOWN
1 “Say So” singer — Cat
2 Some Down Under sprinters
3 Graham in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
4 QB misfire
5 —-of-the-road
6 Pasta specification
7 Till stack
8 Muscles near delts
9 Batting stat
10 Vacillate
11 “You —!”: “Yep!”
12 Dept. of Labor arm
13 Fine —: Irish political party
14 Dine by candlelight, maybe
15 “The Canterbury Tales” character
16 Beverage brewed with solar energy
17 Go to
18 Gets rid of
24 Appliance in some hotel
room closets
25 Reggae pioneer Peter
26 Like a ram or a lamb
31 Balanced
32 Curry of the NBA’s
“Splash Brothers”
33 Bypass
34 Home with cells
35 Tel —, Israel
36 Main points
37 Taking action
38 Captain of industry
39 Novelist Turgenev
40 Family room
44 Pants part
45 Award quartet for John
Legend, for short
47 Grapefruit wedge
48 — guard
50 Lighting effect
51 “Poor, pitiful me!”
52 Puny parasite
54 “... — quit!”
55 Sulu player John
56 Choose
61 Routes without tolls
62 Person of the Year
designator
63 Skip over
64 So-so
65 Some med. plans
66 Company abbr.
67 Guys
68 “Frozen” sister
70 Advent
71 Ramadan, e.g.
74 Essential fatty —
75 Brooks’s country music partner
76 Gets into shape?
77 Castle trench
78 Standard
79 Koala hangout
80 Genre of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
82 Tries to live up to
87 Smart —
89 Most uncanny
91 Cooking oil option
92 Weighed in
93 “The Addams Family”
uncle
94 Foot part
95 Totally worthless
96 Recipe amt.
97 Built for NASA, say
98 Athlete’s award
102 Soul mate?
103 Scrape covered with a Paw Patrol bandage, e.g.
104 Library convenience
105 Memo abbr.
106 Cowpoke’s poker
107 “Will there be anything —?”
108 Dampens
110 Drift off
111 Fjord kin
112 One of five principal resources in the game Catan
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