THE BIG X-WORD
ACROSS
1 Like a truant 5 Waugh and
Templeton 10 Fundamentals 14 Plastic beach toy 18 Cui — 19 Corrupt 20 Jalousie part 21 Little bit 22 Start of a quip by Steven Wright: 4 wds. 25 Lakota 26 Cyrano de — 27 Old card game 28 String 29 Existed 30 Long waxed wicks 32 Sing a certain way 33 Ottoman
and others 37 Gypsy 38 Grandstanders 42 “Simon — ...” 43 Part 2 of quip: 4 wds. 47 — -eared 48 Frazzle 49 Kind of alarm 50 Tequila source 51 Very bad 52 Plastic — Band 53 Graceful girl 54 Stayed in touch 55 Overindulge 56 Crude oil 59 Place near Syr. 60 Expanded 62 Viscount’s better 63 Part 3 of quip 66 Oxford fellows 67 Red salmon 70 Like Austin Powers,
e.g. 71 Low-lying coastal
land 75 Hurt 76 Overhead 78 “— Torino” 79 Cry of approbation 80 Vessels for wine 81 Jar 82 A musketeer 84 Dwarf buffalo 85 Manning, the Giant 86 Part 4 of quip: 3 wds. 88 He’s Jack Sparrow 89 Of an academic
degree 91 Eagle (Var.) 92 Ousts 95 Dromedary feature 96 Orphan calves 99 — Speedy 100 Extemporizes: Hyph. 103 Pitcher’s place 104 Conciliates 109 Nacreous material 110 End of the quip:
5 wds. 112 Beethoven’s “Fur —” 113 Pressure 114 Undermine 115 Early sitcom star 116 Denomination 117 Lambic 118 Had sufficient nerve 119 “Waiting for the
Robert — —”
DOWN
1 Nisan, formerly 2 Had on 3 Unmatched thing 4 Lengthways 5 Reluctant 6 Mythical queen of
Sparta 7 Portray 8 One of fifty: Abbr. 9 Dawdler 10 Moving about 11 Make holy 12 Tea trolley 13 Pen 14 — Rican 15 Pilaster 16 Major star 17 Furnish 21 Great Lakes Indian 23 Race 24 Kind of song 28 Cake of a sort 31 Semicircles 32 Crammed 33 Bar legally 34 “Remember the —!” 35 Extremely flashy 36 Goggle 38 Strike 39 Fred, Wilma and
Pebbles 40 Smithy 41 Film characteristic 44 Bone of the pelvis 45 Stair anagram 46 Philippines native 49 Wheel rim 51 Moon goddess 53 Studied (with “over”) 54 Oscar Fingal
O’flahertie Wills — 55 Full- — 57 Libertines 58 Silk tree 61 Notions 64 Inamorata or
inamorato 65 Darkness 67 Fully satisfied 68 Eye, in combinations 69 Cap part 72 “Star Wars”
contraption 73 Run off 74 Harvests 77 Papal letter 81 Underground stems 82 Like some
dictionaries 83 Ditty 84 Really cute 86 Two-bagger 87 Dal — 90 Craving 93 Spotted 94 Painter
— Mondrian 96 Get around 97 — Mongolia 98 Take pleasure in 100 Simians 101 Mark for removal 102 Secular 103 Lunar “sea” 105 Feet: Comb. form 106 Apostle Paul,
formerly 107 — homo 108 Scottish island 110 Nave 111 Nest egg letters