THE BIG X-WORD
ACROSS
1 Highlander
5 Dive bar drinks
10 Branchlet
15 Botch up
19 Qualified
20 Unseen emanations
21 Perfume ingredient
22 — Stanley Gardner
23 Does all that’s possible: 4 wds.
27 Ovals
28 Waistcoat
29 Develops
30 Foot digits
31 Cooks a certain way
33 Look-alike sib
34 Shocked
37 Bedtime treat
38 Occurring at Christmastime only, e.g.
42 Opening
43 Told tales
44 Nimble
45 Stat. in baseball
46 Lose all reason: 5 wds.
53 Palindrome in a palindrome
54 Rose oil
55 Prepare
56 Austrian singer — Lenya
57 Marina del —
58 Shoot the breeze
59 Bivouacs
60 More crowded
61 Playing card
62 Savants
63 Ballpoint brand
64 Reflect
68 Remote dwelling
69 Go after game
70 False show
73 Star sign
74 — by fire
75 Kind of energy
76 Exclude
77 Accepts as is: 4 wds.
81 Cable network
82 Buss
83 Scot’s language
84 Fateful day for Caesar
85 Safety restraint: 2 wds.
88 Outpouring
90 Bladed weapons
92 Bakery item
93 Dundee natives
94 Kind of ’60s lamp
95 Mysterious
98 Code word after delta
99 Pathogen-free
103 Allow to act as desired: 5 wds.
107 “The Green —”
108 Kilns
109 Gets exactly right 110 River in France
111 Indigo dye
112 Stem joints
113 Performing group
114 — -do-well
DOWN
1 Wind 2 Magwitch of “Great Expectations”
3 Israel’s airline: 2 wds.
4 Raise as if by magic
5 Hunting dog
6 Old Germanic letters
7 Desire personified
8 Existed
9 Defunct airliner
10 Hard to chew
11 Urge
12 Utter defeat
13 “The — of the Sixth Happiness”
14 Weekends out of town
15 Sheep breed
16 Samovars
17 Head for the hills
18 T-men and G-men
24 Narrative poem
25 Concluded
26 “Exodus” author Leon —
31 Direct
32 Kerfuffle: hyph.
33 Cotton cloth
34 Ray flower
35 Fierce glance
36 Corny
37 Jewish month
38 Taters
39 Puts one within another
40 Mountain ridge
41 Printer type
43 Dead language
44 Daytime TV fare
47 Milk sugar
48 Old anesthetic
49 Warning on a package
50 Oman neighbor
51 Daughter of Agamemnon
52 — sequitur
59 Plot
60 Alice’s cat
62 Goes by boat
63 Swelling
64 Milkshakes
65 Goddess of peace
66 Lasso
67 Race an engine
68 Summit
69 Contain
70 Place of residence
71 Wickerwork artisan
72 Long lock
74 Ribbed cloth
75 Arranges
78 Closeted scandal
79 Unmixed, as brandy
80 Drink
86 Globetrotter’s passion
87 Ossicle
88 Ski
89 Low quality
90 Most rational
91 Tel —
93 Quick bread
94 Large spoon
95 — mater
96 Hold back (with “in”)
97 City in Colombia
98 Watched
99 Agitated state
100 “God’s Little —”
101 Philosopher — Descartes
102 French river
104 Lacto- — vegetarian
105 Yoko — Lennon
106 Defunct mil. branch