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THE BIG X-WORD

- Threesomes (Mostly) by James Barrick © Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndicatio­n for UFS

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ACROSS

1 Hitchcock’s “The 39 —” 6 Anecdote

10 Line segment in

geometry

15 Jamaica’s national

fruit: var.

19 Lowest deck

20 Old Greek

competitio­n

21 Less civil

22 A euro predecesso­r 23 Where Apia is 24 Timber

25 — acid

26 Type type: abbr.

27 All the time: 4 wds. 31 Sec

32 Bird

33 Lab device

34 Look a long time 37 Crippled

39 Keeps talking

41 CIA cousin

44 Jewel

45 — qua non

46 Get along

47 Kipling’s “Gunga —” 48 Completely: 4 wds. 53 Quantity of beer 54 Swear word

55 Food fish

56 Some students

57 Arch

59 Liq. measures

60 Cable net.

61 Tries for office 62 Pertaining to

animal life

63 Anyone or

everyone: 4 wds. 68 Means of ascent 71 Witnessed

72 College degs.

73 Swab

76 Social concern 77 Comings and — 79 Quite a long time 80 Flavoring plant

81 Clear

82 1958 comedy starring James Stewart and Kim Novak: 4 wds. 86 Goat hair fabric 87 Blue of baseball 88 Cleveland’s waters 89 Mushroom variety 90 Lockup

91 Verbal brickbat 92 Yielded

94 Handled roughly 95 Bargain

97 Antitoxins

98 The dawn personifie­d 99 Like a matinee idol,

perhaps: 4 wds. 107 Japanese city

108 “— — the loneliest

number ...”

109 Dummy

110 Homeric epic

112 Sch. type

113 — nous

114 Come into view 115 Scandinavi­an

116 Himalayan “bigfoot” 117 Lies

118 Whirlpool

119 Frame of iron bars

DOWN

1 Soap pad brand 2 Cable car

3 Tickle Me —

4 Pathetic

5 Feature of some

arches

6 Brownish color 7 Atwitter

8 Crackpot

9 Natural ability 10 Stretched

11 “Of — Bondage” 12 Husband of Frigg 13 Tear

14 Hive occupant: 2 wds. 15 Straighten

16 Friends and

family: 3 wds.

17 Part of QED 18 Spitchcock

28 EU nation

29 Bauxite is one 30 Common contractio­n 34 Short-tailed weasel 35 Drinking bouts 36 Cross with a loop 37 Fibbed 38 Literary collection 39 Elephant-head deity 40 Boats

42 Kind of bean

43 Show backer 44 Factory

45 Hair net 46 Overzealou­s one 49 Rockets of a kind:

abbr.

50 Mexican state 51 Wow

52 Bellows

58 Fawkes or de

Maupassant 60 Biblical mount 62 Discontinu­ed

currency

63 Tiny —

64 “Tristan und —” 65 Kapok tree 66 Bingo-like game 67 Habitation

68 Torn piece

69 Social division 70 Further: 3 wds. 73 Sierra —

74 Looked rudely at 75 Rind

77 Like a smooth talker 78 Vamoose

79 Blyton or Bagnold 80 Bamboozle 83 Wicked one

84 100 square meters 85 Gathering together 91 Gadot of film

92 Halts

93 Bird of prey

94 Whale assemblage 96 Fragrant resin

97 Go around

98 “An — of the People”

99 Painted tinplate 100 English queen

101 Soaks

102 Carriage’s folding

roof

103 Footless

104 Swan genus

105 Star in Cetus

106 Bridge seat

107 Samara

111 One of 26

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