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9 Dental brand

14 Neaten (up)

19 Jet routes

20 First name in flying history

“____ the Doughnut,” children’s book series 22 Classic saying originated by John Donne

24 Like oxfords, but not

slippers

25 Really put one’s foot

down

26 Shaded

27 ____ O’s (breakfast

cereal)

28 Love, love, love

29 Population grouping,

informally

31 Aid for making a tikibar cocktail

34 Isn’t attending solo,

say

38 Bouncer’s requests,

for short

39 Beethoven title woman (whose identity is unknown) 40 Supreme Egyptian

deity

41 Standing on the

street

44 Carpenter ____

45 Pin number?

48 “Glad to have you

back, dear!”

52 Actor/TV host Joel

55 To take this, paradoxically, might signify taking a stand 56 Wedding exchange

57 The D-backs, on

scoreboards

58 Quack doctor’s

offering

59 London neighborhood west of Covent Garden

62 Most expensive block 64 Kirghizia or

Byelorussia: Abbr.

67 Quick hit

69 Word in the Declaration of Independence but not the Constitution

70 ____ Rachel Wood of

“Westworld”

71 “Can’t you ____?”

72 Post-interruption

question

75 Plant used in making

biofuel

77 ____ Schomburg, Harlem Renaissance figure

78 Haiti’s ____ de la

Tortue

79 Like some coffee and

sprains

82 Heedless

86 “Fantabulous!”

87 First ruler of a united

Hawaii

91 Boot attachment

92 ____ Pre

94 Loan option,

briefly

95 Like a narrow

baseball win

96 Fixture whose name translates to “small horse”

99 Result of the ‘64

Clay/Liston fight

101 Hitting the ground

heavily

light foundry product Wash. neighbor

affection

(on)

110 Super-quality

111 “This one’s all mine!” 113 Like about 97 percent

of U.S. land

117 Óscar ____, 1987 Peace Nobelist from Costa Rica

118 Potful in some Italian

kitchens

121 Given (to)

122 Stock-exchange

worker

123 Makes Don nod?

124 Things that can be

closed with a zip

125 Brains

126 Least spicy

DOWN

1 Trashes

2 ____ shield

3 Bombeck who wrote

“At Wit’s End”

4 Participates

in a mosh pit

5 Los Angeles port

district

6 Sea urchin,

at a sushi bar 7 Took another take

8 Isaac’s firstborn

9 Meditation sounds

10 Click the circular

arrow button, say

11 Aids for sleepyheads 12 Top part of an I.R.S.

form

13 Red morning sky, to

sailors

14 Part of an Italian sub 15 Some pricey

handbags

16 Things Wyoming and

Nevada lack

17 Guy who hosts “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives”

18 Overnighting option 20 It’s been performed more than 1,000 times at the Met

23 Kan. neighbor

30 Title for a lady

32 Be outta sight?

33 Alice in Chains

genre

34 Atlanta hoopster

35 Repeated word in Hozier’s 2014 hit “Take Me to Church” 36 Base of an arch

37 Video call

annoyance

42 Falling-out 43 Mammal’s head and

heart?

44 “Pokémon” cartoon

genre

46 High-ranking

47 Chutzpah

49 Call to mind

50 Like Parmesan and

pecorino

51 “You do it ____ will”

53 Stick (to)

54 That guy

60 Cheri of old “S.N.L.” 61 “With what

frequency?”

62 “The Masque of the

Red Death” writer

63 Duck

64 Tries for a fly

65 Film character who says “That’ll do, Donkey. That’ll do” 66 Payback

68 Christensen of

“Parenthood”

69 Grammy winner

Stefani

73 Classic work by Karel

Capek

74 Whitney for whom a Connecticut museum is named

76 Certain security

officer

79 Prez No. 34 80 Quick pick-me-up?

81 Send forth

83 Atmospheric prefix 84 Ostracize

85 Be left undecided

88 Watered-down rum 89 Common lecture

length

90 Giant in fairy tales? 93 Queen Anne’s royal

family

97 “Let me clarify ... “

98 Trashes

99 Yellow-brick-road traveler

Folds and stretches

lodging lemonade from lemons, so to speak 104Peter of “Casablanca” 105“The Dick Van Dyke

Show” co-star 106Wood stain has a

strong one

107 Tiny ____

112 Hurtful remark

114 Ploy

115 Pocket rockets, in

poker

116 In the event that

119 Symbol on a Junction

Ahead sign

120Future

zygotes