THE BIG X-WORD
ACROSS
1 Stardom
5 Climb
10 Float
15 Kind of games 18 — -a-Dale
19 Steps
20 Emulate Daniel Webster 21 Animal fluids 22 Start of a quip by Mitch Hedberg: 5 wds. 26 Determined 27 Eagle’s habitation 28 Goes on and on 29 Risque
30 Fun time
31 Actor — Ledger 32 “— Fideles” 35 Defunct U.K. carrier 36 Establish 37 Defunct airliner 40 Dike
41 Part 2 of quip: 5 wds. 45 “Metamorphoses” poet
46 Penned 47 Irritated
48 — O’Neill Chaplin 49 Naught
50 Hems and — 51 More peeved 52 Ancient city on the Nile
53 Word in a threat 55 French friend 56 Morays
57 Singer — Lopez 58 Novo — honey 60 Part 3 of quip:
2 wds. 63 Itinerary: abbr. 64 Stroll
66 Wavy, in heraldry
67 Expert
69 LA players 73 Warble
74 Takes the bait 76 Getz or Laurel 77 Perfectly 78 Whetstone 79 Trattoria fare 80 Antelope
81 Make mention of 82 Part 4 of quip: 5 wds. 85 Terre —
86 Gob
87 Danube tributary 88 Semiaquatic creature 89 Sodbuster 90 Gather
92 Bowls over 94 Radar screen image 95 Choose
96 Kind of scouting badge
97 Shields
101 End of the quip: 7 wds. 104 Brunch fare 105 Whale constellation 106 Canonical hour 107 Architect — Saarinen 108 Use a wok 109 Places for patches 110 Glacial ridge 111 Attracted
DOWN
1 Clear skies overhead
2 — vera 3 Makes imperfect 4 Backed 5 Smart 6 Chinese weight 7 Patient’s complaint 8 Shelter 9 Intensify 10 Therapy sessions 11 Satellite’s path 12 Urn
13 Letter before theta 14 Provided 15 Burdens: 2 wds. 16 Circle segments 17 “Go team!” 21 Strike
23 Fill with joy 24 Permeate slowly 25 Stage play 30 Decamps 31 Diamond event 32 “Home — 2: Lost in New York”
33 Old Nick 34 Wicked acts
35 Arrive without warning: 2 wds. 36 Idee —
38 Biblical mount 39 Agent: hyph. 41 Composer — Khachaturian 42 Develop 43 Laconic
44 More of a snoop 46 Rorqual
51 Pips
52 Skill 54 Corporate logo
56 Of a peak in Sicily 57 What’s popular now
59 Annex
61 “You’re — your mind!”
62 Afloat in water 64 Bouquet 65 Geology branch 68 Jargon
70 Celery
71 Dull surface 72 Bovine animal
73 “All — glisters ...” 74 Big buildings 75 Doctrines 76 Applies the brakes 79 Water conduit 80 Without teeth 81 Blanketed 83 Vacation locale 84 Arctic aborigine 85 Part of Hispaniola 89 Bloom
91 Narrow backstreet 92 Transition
93 Blond lock
94 — Canyon National Park
95 Railway employee: abbr.
96 Little bit 97 Grassy place 98 Sonny’s ex 99 Exhaust
100 Pack 101 Cannabis variety: var. 102 Cyst
103 Director — Craven