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BACK ON THE CHARTS

By Caleb Madison / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Top

5 Wears

10 Pioneer in computer

chess

13 Channel setting on

many airport TVs 16 Gets cheeky with? 18 Act on a sudden itch

to be hitched

19 Fit for service

20 It may be seeded 21 Even (with)

22 Roger who battled

13-Across

23 Utter

25 Cut, Paste and Print 27 Degree in math? 28 Mountain ____ 29 Copse makeup

30 Title character in a 1943 French novella [6]

35 Zap

37 Pedagogic org.

39 Vote for

40 Pacific capital 41 N.F.L.’s Jaguars, on

scoreboards

42 Sugar suffix

43 1990 Literature Nobelist Octavio ____ 44 Toner-cartridge contents

46 Is from ancient Rome? 47 The Big Pineapple [4] 50 Rhyme scheme ending a villanelle 52 French word between

two surnames

53 Intl. commerce grp. 54 Banded gemstones 55 Bert who sang

“If I Only

Had the Nerve” 57 Poor People’s Campaign organizer, for short

59 Frequent Bosch setting

60 Capital accumulation 61 Dance craze of

the 2010s

63 “____ and animals are free” (party slogan in “1984”)

65 “____ Mine” (George

Harrison book) 66 Like some lawyers’

work [4]

67 Musical talent 68 Cartographer

71 Try to sink one’s teeth

into

72 Cheap cooking implement

76 Like, forever

77 Steely Dan’s best-selling album

78 Naval noncoms 80 E’erlasting

81_ ___ one-eighty 82 Bleeping government

org.?

84 Trophy figure 86 “Why are you looking

at me?” [4]

88 Where It. is

89 Inverse trig function 91 Agcy. that oversaw

plants

92 Ones “from Mars” 93 Inits. in some parlors 94 American-born Jordanian queen

95 “Shoo!”

98 Org. behind the Human Genome Project 99 Lewis ____, 1848 Democratic candidate for president

100 11th-century campaign [4]

103 Put in stitches

105 Like the Salt Lake

Bees baseball team 106 Decoration for an

R.A.F. pilot

107 “Will you let me have

a taste?”

112 Clothing associated

with Hillary Clinton 115 “Same here”

116 Like many pools and

highways

117 Cooperation

118 They begin trading,

for short

119 Frankincense, e.g. 120 Singer of a famous

bath-time song

121 Crooked

122 Barack Obama’s

mother

123 Sturm und ____ 124 Garner

DOWN

1 Like some radios 2 “Born Sinner” rapper

J. ____ 3 17,000+-foot peak near

the Equator [4] 4 Guarantee

5 Make airtight, in

a way [4]

6 Others of ancient

Rome?

7 Band member’s time to

shine

8 In public

9 Monster’s moniker 10 Healthy [4]

11 “Don’t ____ hero!” 12 Nightshade family

member [5]

13 Prized possession [5] 14 Home of the Gallatin Sch. of Individualized Study

15 Take home

17 Unit around one foot? 19 Spending

23 Mich. neighbor 24 Mater ____

26 One doing routine office work, informally [5]

31 “Wasn’t that fantastic?!”

32 Long

33 Move to protect the

king, say

34 Praises highly

35 At all, in dialect 36 Me.-to-Fla. route 38 Color of el mar

45 Butt

48 Flowers native

to damp woods 49 “Please, I’ll

handle it”

50 Totally LOL-worthy 51 Dave of jazz [4] 56 Supermodel Lima 58 Certain fire sign 59 Like the Greek god

Pan

62 Flip out

63 One leading the exercises, for short? [4] 64 Singer Bonnie 66 Sandwich inits. 68 Having as ingredients 69 Guinea-pig relative 70 Fruity spirit [6] 73 Vain, temperamental

sort [7]

74 Long range

75 Bright lights

77 Band member’s main

squeeze? [4]

79 ____ song

82 1940 Disney

release [3]

83 Swamp swimmer 85 Woman who took a “roll in ze hay” in “Young Frankenstein” 87 Pulling off bank jobs

[5]

90 Teddy Roosevelt

targets 96 Much-swiped item 97 Short trailer

99 Borgia who was an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI 101 Took a breather 102 Message from the

marooned

104 Noah of “ER”

108 Grp. with a mission 109 “Sure, sign

me up!”

110 Predecessor

of Rabin

111 What’s lost in “Paradise Lost”

112 Rabbit’s foot

113 It’s inspired

114 Original “Veronica

Mars” channel