THE BIG X-WORD

5/22

ACROSS

1 Ranch

5 Group of plotters 10 Collect

15 Nautical cry

19 Spicy stew

20 Where Athenians

once gathered

21 Do a certain dance 22 St. Petersburg’s

river

23 Pub serving

24 World

25 Evident

26 Journey by cart 27 Start of a quip by

Louis C.K.: 5 wds. 31 Caviar

32 Annexes

33 — Dawn Chong 34 Disgraced 37 Morganite or

aquamarine 39 Schooner part

44 The — & the Papas 45 Remove: abbr. 46 Weight unit for stones 47 A letter

48 Presently

49 Musical transition 50 Note from a waiter 51 Speaker’s place 52 Favorite —

53 Part 2 of quip: 5 wds. 57 Midday: 2 wds. 59 Sibilate

60 Classes

61 — ferox

62 Sandpiper

64 Done for

65 Item for a

cattleman

68 Wings

69 Cheerful

73 Part 3 of quip: 5 wds. 77 Cotton ball

78 Gainsay

79 Midway attraction 80 Certain reunion

attendee

81 Stop

82 Compass pt.

83 — macabre

85 Long and lean 86 Alla —

87 Frame for

woodcutting

89 Beer brand 91 Wobble

92 An affirmative 93 Relative to a gator 94 Pismire

95 End of the

quip: 5 wds.

104 Hebrew letter 105 Horseless carriages 106 Absolute

107 Short yarn fiber 109 Opera by Verdi 110 Football’s — Rockne 111 One of the Muses 112 Food fish

113 Exits

114 Pigpens

115 Try to discourage 116 Foil cousin

DOWN

1 Coxcomb

2 Et — (and others) 3 Kitchen scrap 4 Driver of a kind 5 Hauled

6 Ice and iron

7 Dish for gravy 8 Singer — Guthrie 9 Elongated

fish: 2 wds. 10 Horrify

11 Sheds

12 Jai —

13 Integument

14 Red wine beverage 15 Hymn

16 Where the

buck stops

17 Kiln

18 Jabber

28 Some votes

29 City in

Cambridgeshire 30 Deprivation

34 Hit hard

35 Red River city 36 With

37 “We’ve Only Just —” 38 Jewish month

39 Injures 40 — Povera 41 “Stop!”, at sea 42 Hanging fishnet 43 Trials

45 Old English

pamphleteer 46 Arca

49 Seamless

50 Take it on the — 51 Platters

53 Family member:

hyph. 54 Pickpocket 55 Ending in a sharp

point

56 Settles

58 Hirsute

62 A going down 63 Not at all exciting 64 Crafty

65 Ore deposits 66 Genus of oats 67 Freshen 68 Aromatic herb 69 Hollows

70 Young bird 71 Purplish color 72 Lawn care tool 74 Eagles

75 Not placed

76 False one 81 Dissembling 83 Active person 84 Indigenous people of South America 86 Stiller and Affleck 88 Doglike creatures 89 Emergencies

90 — and aah 91 POTUS No. 12 93 Hundred: hyph. 95 Buckeye’s home 96 — supra

97 Track down 98 Lady’s ornamental

case

99 Hurried

100 “L’—, c’est moi” 101 One of a pair 102 Noose

103 Dossier

104 Dip

108 Edgar — Masters