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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 68 minutes.
ACROSS
1 James of “Alien
Nation”
5 Lead-in to
hazard
8 “My opinion is
...”
13 Tried very hard 19 Tumblers, e.g. 21 Actress Hunt 22 Fatal
23 Start of a riddle 26 Strong metal 27 Vertical line on a
graph
28 Attack like an
alligator
29 Land north of
Mex.
30 — -country
(music genre) 32 Peruvian of yore 34 Toronto Maple — 37 Riddle, part 2 44 Wild party 47 Battle (for) 48 See 60-Down 49 Triumphed 50 “Right now!” 51 First class for
painters
53 City law: Abbr. 54 Sea predator 56 Actor Mickey 57 Paint crudely 58 Riddle, part 3 61 Borgnine of
Hollywood 63 Gulf country 64 Sandler of
“Spanglish” 65 Refine, as metal 66 What a hot rod
may race on 70 Words on an apartment rental sign 74 Strong metal 76 City near Provo 77 Purple Hearts,
e.g.
78 Riddle, part 4 85 Composer
Satie
86 Apple app for
importing video 87 “I suffer so!” 88 Pan coverer 89 Gave for a while 90 Sole servings 91 Buddhism
branch
92 Just kills time 94 Two, in Spain 95 Occupied
96 End of the riddle 100 For the —
(temporarily)
102 Blow a horn
103 Stephen of
“Blackthorn”
104 Flower holder 106 Kailua Bay locale 109 Creator of Tom
Sawyer
112 Gave a monetary
penalty
116 Riddle’s answer 121 Nogales nap
122 How figure
skaters skate
123 Of financial
matters
124 Rich, eggy cakes 125 Entertained
lavishly
126 Boxing ref’s
ruling
127 Court dividers
DOWN
1 Cornfield cries 2 Eight, in Berlin 3 Actor Gross of
“Ellen”
4 “The negotiation
is off!”
5 Severe
6 — -bitty
7 Org. that inspects factories 8 Fighting —
(NCAA team) 9 Utter failure 10 Sever 11 Competitor of
Ben & Jerry’s 12 Yard feature 13 Place to ski 14 Vietnamese
holiday
15 Road sign no. 16 “Banjo on my
knee” song 17 Winery tubs 18 “Frozen” snow
queen
20 “— Hollywood Screen Kiss” (1998 film)
24 Be alive
25 Fifty percent 31 Talk show
emcee, e.g. 33 Egypt’s Sadat 35 Formally abolish 36 Displayed example of a product
37 Gives the slip to 38 Aviation military
branch
39 Fix the pitch of
again 40 Architect
Saarinen 41 Sierra Nevada
evergreen 42 Blister, e.g. 43 Like GIS peeling
potatoes 45 Flower holder 46 Santa’s bagful 50 Egg on
52 “Yes, if memory
serves” 54 Benefit bagful 55 Chewbacca’s
companion
59 — -la-la
60 With 48-Across, record of arrests, slangily 62 Put in financial
distress 66 Gene-splicing
stuff
67 Verifiable
68 No longer
practicing: Abbr. 69 Marcos of the
Philippines 71 Texas city
72 Poet Wylie or
novelist Glyn 73 Double cluck of
reproach 75 Some till bills 77 Sweetie
78 LP player of
old
79 Uganda’s Idi 80 Donator of
services
81 Old TV clown 82 “Fer —!” (“Like,
totally!”)
83 Take responsibility for something 84 Easter flower 92 Spot’s jingler 93 Tennis player
Edberg
96 Fava —
97 Catch sight of 98 Dressed for a
ball
99 Serve, as at a
restaurant
101 Concluding
musical parts
104 “You, over there
...”
105 Dayton locale 107 Horse foot
108 — Reader (eclectic quarterly)
110 “Oh, sure!”
111 Part of a vase 113 Alaska city
114 Revise text
115 “ER” folks
117 Marshall Plan
prez
118 Swallowed
119 Big success
120 Overly