THE BIG X-WORD Everyday Words? Not! by James Barrick
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ACROSS
1 Gen. — Nelson
Bradley
5 Roman official of old 10 Privileged ones 15 Pullets
19 Kind of play 20 Upholstered item 21 Angry
22 Jump in skating 23 Speak critically 25 Moving downward 27 Tasty treats
28 Butler of “GWTW” 30 — swiss
31 An Olympian
32 End
33 Gin flavoring 34 Mise-en- —
37 Bulba or
Shevchenko 39 Neighs
43 Sent a message 45 Simple percussion
instrument
48 Gun gp.
49 Lepontine —
50 — of Scilly 52 Colloquialisms 53 Stash
54 Dolores del — 55 Dissuade
56 Express
57 Laura Jeanne —
Witherspoon
58 The “Mad Monk” 60 NFL players 61 Besmirched 62 Drunken one 63 Valleys
64 Ungulate animal 65 Maltreated 67 Arboreal animal 68 Western Indian 71 Cone or cube, e.g. 72 Garb for grads 73 Took out
74 — -relief
75 “On the double!” 76 Come up again
77 A mendicant 78 Jargon
79 Calendar abbr.
80 A wandering away 82 Candlestick 84 Chipper
86 Like some walls 88 Kind of management 89 Stir up
90 Played for stakes 92 Devilkins
94 “Feed a cold, — a
fever”
97 City in France 98 Magnificent
102 Producing happiness 104 Pretentious
nonsense
106 “True —”
107 Came to pass
108 Playing marble 109 “— Kleine
Nachtmusik”
110 Pilaster
111 — -foot oil
112 Mutineer
113 Gather
DOWN
1 Aboral’s opposite 2 — Lisa
3 Et — (and others) 4 Unused pieces
5 One of the Munsters 6 Be rid of
7 Currier’s partner 8 Household god 9 Beseeches
10 Pelts
11 Ridge among
mountains
12 Wide
13 Common abbr. 14 Young plant
15 Hie
16 Word on a door 17 Snow field
18 Luge
24 “— — Grows in
Brooklyn”
26 All’s opposite 29 Pound sign
32 Town —
33 Glistened
34 Bart or Ringo
35 Role in “As You
Like It”
36 Say in protest 38 Van — belt
39 “— Up, Tiger Lily?” 40 Hybrid punctuation
mark
41 Notched
42 Cut
44 Followed a food
regimen 46 Stableman: var. 47 Maps showing
detail
51 To-do
53 Yellow bird 55 Copied
56 Alone on a stage 57 Speedy
59 Take as a given 60 — obscura or
lucida
61 Circus performers 63 Do a coder’s job 64 Brain tissue
65 Org.
66 Make a mess of 67 Nearby
68 Vertical net 69 Surgeon’s knife 70 Lab compound 72 Variety show 73 Sci-fi being 76 Infantry soldier 77 Of top quality:
hyph.
78 Regard
80 Propel
81 Period
83 Part of Campania 85 Typographical
blunders
87 Widen
90 Grain for a mill 91 Moose genus 93 Standard of
perfection 94 Video-game maker 95 Become
96 Mine entrance 97 Ox
98 Seize
99 Dog in “Garfield” 100 Skeletal part
101 Ooze
103 A state: abbr. 105 Mature