THE BIG X-WORD
ACROSS
1 Kind of follower
5 — citato
10 Shave sheep
15 Outback
19 Affirm
20 Nostrils
21 Actress — Berry
22 English queen
23 Retread
24 Unbroken horse: var.
25 Standoffish
26 Gang’s hideout
27 Highway crossing
29 Timetable abbr.
31 Start of a quip by Ruth Buzzi: 4 wds.
33 Facilitate
34 Empty
36 Genetic messenger
37 Part 2 of quip: 5 wds.
44 Inventory
45 Marching order
46 Expert
47 “— bygones ...”
49 Vegas hotel
50 Commemorative pillar
52 Gave a thumbs-up
53 Your majesty
54 Currier and —
55 A possessive
56 Clear squares
57 Tonsorial service
58 Wire
60 River in France
61 Scandinavians
62 Part 3 of quip: 4 wds.
66 Term in grammar
70 Sole
71 First
76 Alla —
77 Go on and off
79 Seed cover
80 — contendere
81 Beak part
82 Blusher
83 “League of Legends” queen
84 Soft drink
85 Somewhat blue
86 Ground
87 Dingle
88 Gone up
89 Part 4 of quip: 4 wds.
94 Egg: Prefix
95 Spin
96 — -memoire
97 End of the quip: 3 wds.
102 Work unit
103 Intelligentsia
107 Jewish month
108 Conventional
110 Quick on the uptake
112 Chester — Arthur
113 Shed
114 Leaning
115 Hourglass
116 Result of good service
117 Morays
118 — and penates
119 Minced oath
120 Word in place names
DOWN
1 Roman statesman
2 Tel —
3 Simple
4 Beta version
5 Aboard, in baseball: 2 wds.
6 Interstellar distance
7 Love god
8 Kidney, in anatomy
9 Salad plant
10 Islamic title
11 Actor — Linden
12 “Time Machine” race
13 “Thanks — —!”
14 Corrected
15 European peninsula
16 Sloth
17 Clip
18 Olympian queen
28 Buds
30 Unhinged soliloquy
32 — — even keel
34 Dashboard indicators
35 Candidate
37 Cut
38 Bay window
39 Heat: Prefix
40 Libertine
41 Animal class
42 Trojan War story
43 Gall
44 “Hold on!”
48 Letters
50 Woody plant
51 Rend
52 Fer-de- —
53 Haggard title 56 Primp
57 Drink in long drafts
59 Pierce
60 “Six — —, half dozen ...”
61 Set of steps
63 Some journeys
64 Ho-hum
65 “Exodus” author
66 Lessen for young learners
67 Fear
68 “La Traviata” composer
69 Girl in Cleveland
72 Reduce to ashes
73 Lasso loop
74 Tin Pan —
75 Cash advance
77 “Star Trek” antagonists
78 A chordophone
79 Indigenous Alaskan
82 Sane
83 Extend
86 Deadly sin
87 Growl
88 Went on
90 Misgivings
91 Puts into office
92 Called to
93 Bishops’ hats
97 Manageable
98 Woodwind
99 Tab
100 Part of NB
101 Arab VIP
103 Bean type
104 Inter —
105 Bugle call
106 Part of MIT: abbr.
109 — -de-France
111 Band’s booking