THE BIG X-WORD

5/1

ACROSS

1 Long narrative poem 5 Country star —

Brooks

10 — globulin 15 Bottom-line concern 19 Imperfection 20 “That’s —”

21 Girder: hyph. 22 Toothed whale 23 Bag

24 Persian wheel 25 Aquarium fish 26 Funny fellow

27 Start of a quip by

Will Rogers: 5 wds. 31 Dendrogram

32 Quite a lot 33 Compass pt.

34 Time

37 Old office worker,

for short

39 Tincture of opium 44 Spring

45 Subatomic particle 46 Pear juice beverage 47 Get with effort

(with “out”) 48 Device used by

cobblers

49 Swelled 50 Mountaintops 52 Racetrack shape 53 Cable channel

54 “— — a Parade” 55 Karloff or Becker 56 Reach a high point 57 Part 2 of quip: 3 wds. 60 U.K. counties 61 Homegrown

62 Letter after chi 63 USNA student

64 — of Tolu

66 Part 3 of quip: 3 wds. 71 Anew

72 Cheese variety 73 Gather

74 Beavers’ creation 76 Spirit in Islamic

demonology

77 Of lords and vassals 78 This one and

the other 79 Banknote 80 Toby contents 81 Stretch

82 Make reference to 83 Forty-niner

84 Tender of livestock 86 Corresponded

88 Hit in baseball

89 Gain

90 Coconut fiber

91 Kind of cotton

92 End of the quip: 4 wds. 101 — Reeve Musk

102 River in England 103 Beat (Hyph.)

104 Meaty mass

106 Annex

107 Insect stage

108 First-aid essential 109 Toledo’s lake

110 Puff of pot

111 Body of works

112 Red wheat

113 Alan-a- —

DOWN

1 Money-move event:

abbr.

2 Conspire

3 Pledge

4 Most dulcet

5 Diving bird

6 Plant with detergent

properties

7 Calhoun or

Cochrane

8 Arith. branch 9 Embolden

10 Gypsy of Spain 11 Furthers

12 Start for physics 13 Chagall or Anthony 14 Nonprofessional

ones

15 Eye part

16 First: abbr. 17 Johnboat cousin 18 London gallery 28 River in Normandy 29 An eternity, nearly 30 — 500 race

34 Grain soaked in

water

35 Tests viva voce

36 Omnium-gatherum 37 Lima bean

38 Pulled

39 Every word of a

language

40 War god

41 Eternal: hyph. 42 Czar’s edict 43 Softens

45 Skulk

46 Beautiful girl 49 Twilight, poetically 50 Atrocious

51 Take as being given 52 Straight-horned

antelope 54 Quechuan 56 Spassky’s game 58 Fluorescent dye 59 Limbless creatures 60 Splash

63 Full-page illustration 64 Barbadian

65 Like a contortionist 66 Establish

67 Uncouth

68 Dress worn by nuns 69 Act histrionically 70 Hammer 72 Paraphernalia 75 Body of standing

water

77 Feverish

79 Got by trickery

81 — -up exercise 82 Nosegay

83 Puccini role

85 Pang

86 Chinese dumpling 87 “Flying Down to —” 88 Penitent one

90 River in Africa 91 Jackpot 92 Salamander 93 Hodgepodge

94 TV detective

Adrian —

95 Franklin or Bombeck 96 Bean or Penn 97 Quahog

98 An astringent 99 Circle dance

of Israel

100 Kite appendage 105 — simple