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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 63 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Tea and ale 6 Brunch menu
items
13 Difficult to pin
down 20 Newswoman
Shriver 21 Ancient Italian
region
22 Like adoptees and swindle victims
23 Start of a riddle 25 French scholar
Peter
26 Buddy
27 Sly-fox link 28 Passengerscreening org. 29 Shallowest Great
Lake 30 Crocheted
coverlet
33 Mess up 36 Retina spot that might degenerate 38 Chou En- — 39 Riddle, part 2 42 Running herd 45 Marked with
stripes
46 “Alfie” actress
Long
47 Ghana’s capital 51 Whiz
52 Printing proof,
informally 56 Riddle, part 3 61 Jinx
62 Whim
63 A single time
64 Eastern “way”
65 Shirt tag
information
66 Andre of
tennis
67 Application to
thinning hair
69 Give a job to
71 Zip
72 Abbr. on military
mail 74 Lip 75 Almond
confection
76 Food fish 77 Riddle, part 4 80 Very little, in
recipes 82 — -mo 83 Syrian president
since 2000 84 Scottish seaport
85 Skin art 88 Carts away 92 End of the riddle
98 Prefix with
lingual 99 Novelist or
dramatist
100 Professors’
privileges
101 Provo or Orem
native
104 Doily material 105 Belly muscles
107 Old Russian
space station
108 “Trinity” novelist
Leon
109 Barge in 111 Riddle’s answer 117 Cleaned
thoroughly 118 Runs in
119 Gads about 120 Draft horse’s
gear
121 Person icing a
cake
122 Fashion flair
DOWN
1 X6 carmaker 2 “Go, team!” 3 Distinctive time 4 Coven member 5 Comic — Baron Cohen 6 Female gamete 7 Gibson of “Gallipoli” 8 Ultimate goal 9 Eases 10 Natural gas component 11 Knotted neckwear 12 Declare 13 Approx. airport stats 14 Ritchie Valens hit 15 Small guitar, for short 16 One drafted for service 17 Trapped by habit 18 Manly 19 Win the affection of 24 Pound fraction 28 Shorten 30 Capone and
Pacino
31 Pudgy
32 Big black-andwhite mammal 33 “Yuck!” 34 Football’s Cowboys, on scoreboards 35 Big 1940s
computer 37 Crooning
cowboy Gene 40 Set — (start
wedding plans) 41 R&B singer —
Marie
43 Operate wrongly 44 Ratchet wheel
engagers 48 When doubled,
tot’s train 49 Versatile stoves 50 Peaceful, simple
place 53 “Goodbye, Columbus” author
54 Divide into different districts
55 Some daisies 56 Activist Jagger 57 “No more for
me, thanks” 58 NBA Hall of
Famer Thomas 59 Stoops (to) 60 Go-getters 65 Spreads apart 67 Public unveilings
of products 68 Fishing tools 70 Agra’s Taj — 73 Basil-based
green sauce 75 Propel a bike 77 Allowance 78 Unconfined
79 Big laughs
81 Like some lotteries and liquor stores 86 Diatribes
87 Part of SFPD 89 Take forcibly 90 Monkly title 91 Fish part
92 Like a wise bird 93 Lingua —
94 One who
triumphs
95 Uno or dos 96 Spring blooms 97 Most minimal 102 Wedding cake
layers
103 Knotted
neckwear
106 Mattresses’
places
108 Pre-’91
superpower
110 Suffix with script 111 U.K. military
fliers
112 Mess up
113 Beatified Fr.
woman
114 Wall-climbing
plant
115 Food fish
116 Dir. from Fresno
to L.A.