The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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1 Temporarily stops running 7 Sport-____ (some vehicles) 11 Contain, as a spewing oil well 14 Military bigwigs 19 “Pick me!”
20 Light bite
21 Excitement
22 GPS suggestion 23 Breakfast trio
26 Classic song
27 ____-backward
28 Smuggler’s unit 29 Record label for Pink and Pitbull 30 Lets off the hook? 32 Otello, in “Otello” 33 Even
34 Act as a go-between 35 “You can skip me” 38 Puppet-show trio 41 Fall guy? 43 “That’s rough!” 44 Some Canadian natives
45 In the tradition of 48 ____ Aldridge, pioneering Shakespearean actor 49 Lost-baggage helpers 52 Ad-biz awards 54 Producer of public radio’s “Radiolab” 55 Spanish seasoning that’s a letter short of its English counterpart 56 Youngest daughter on “black-ish” 57 Hold tightly 58 Dangerous injection 59 Capital city with more than 300 islands 61 Sergey of Google 62 “Nobody’s here but me”
64 Sailing trio
67 Surrounded by
69 “Little Latin ____ Lu” (1960s hit) 70 Effervescent citrus beverage 73 Old Ford vehicles, for short 74 Open 76 Skyrockets 77 Open ____ 78 Strip pokers? 79 Fumes
80 Some skin art
81 Place for RNs
82 Subj. of “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”
83 “lol” alternative 84 Unnecessary extra 85 Gilda of “Saturday
Night Live”
87 Folk trio
92 Rap artist Flo ____ 93 Dinero
95 Throw
96 State a case
98 Director Taika ____ 99 “Star Wars”
nickname
100 Pronoun in Dixie 101 Philosopher
____-tzu
104 Fortune 500 company with an avian symbol 105 Survivor of an all-out brawl … or a hint to 23-, 38-, 64- and 87-Across 110 Battle of Leningrad, e.g. 111 Something ratable by number of Pinocchios 112 Long transmission of folklore, say 113 Charlotte Motor Speedway org. 114 Underworld 115 Camera with a mirror, in brief 116 Hail on a bridge 117 Trash
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1 Sammy on a 1998 cover of Newsweek 2 Heaps
3 Good crosswords provide lots of them
4 Chop (off) 5 John who wrote “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
6 Arts-and-crafts kit trendy in the 1970s-’80s 7 Open, as a bottle of wine
8 “TiK ____”
(Kesha hit)
9 Class for some immigrants, for short
10 Foe of Robin Hood 11 Geographically largest member of NATO 12 Interject
13 In view? 14 Upholsterer’s fabric 15 Certain expensive watch, in slang 16 Autobahn autos 17 Michael of R.E.M. 18 Goes with 24 Jesus on the diamond
25 Big name in laptops 31 Digits ending many prices 32 Baking meas. 33 Eponymous New Mexico tribe 35 Do email scamming 36 Radiant emanations 37 “Huh, you know him, too?!”
39 Stadium section 40 Police procedural beginning in 2003 42 News
45 Words before a year
46 City on the
Rhône
47 Zenith
50 Flee
51 Have ____ with
52 Ernest who wrote “Ready Player One”
53 Tall and thin 54 Joins 57 Classic horror-film locale 58 Actress/singer Hudgens
60 Matches up
61 Makes fuzzy
63 Nursing facility? 65 Huffed and puffed 66 Southern university whose team is the Phoenix 67 ____ Clooney, Barbara Walters’ “most fascinating person” of 2014 68 Litter sounds
71 Chopped up
72 BMW competitor 75 Swerve 76 Letter that, surprisingly, is not the end of the Greek alphabet
79 Assail
80 Campus
building
83 Spirals
84 Charlize Theron’s role in 2015’s “Mad Max” reboot 86 Dr. ____
87 Thick soup
88 Sci-fi stunner 89 One who cries
“Uncle!”?
90 Contradict
91 “Nuts!”
93 Underworld
94 Three sheets to the wind 97 Things near funny bones 98 Load of laundry 101 Pet peeves? 102 Med. school course 103 Fearsome figure
106 Suffer
107 “Forget
about it!”
108 Freudian area of study
109 Cable
alternative