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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 68 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Motion detector,
e.g.
7 Portion out 13 Person sleeping
next to you,often 20 Like many nuclei 21 Surprise attacker 22 Nero or Napoleon 23 “Hello, Dolly!”
star
25 Capital of the
country Georgia 26 Doe’s dear? 27 Alley- — 28 Sousing sort 29 TV’S Cheers, for
one
30 Top pilot
31 Ice sheets 33 1960s-’70s talk
show host
37 She played Bree on “Desperate Housewives”
42 Al Bundy
portrayer Ed 43 Nebraska city 44 Jekyll’s bad side 45 She played the mother on “Lassie” 49 Football’s Joe 51 Country next to
Georgia
53 — a soul
54 “Like — not!” 55 Suffix of beliefs 58 Ending for
serpent 59 Microscope
component
62 Her first Vogue
cover was in 1986 66 Green and Gore 67 — matter of fact 68 Japanese dog 69 Video game
pioneer
72 — glance
75 Music genre for
brooders 76 Co-author of the 2006 bestseller “Three Cups of Tea”
81 Like low-fat
mozzarella 86 Eggs, in labs 87 Pro’s vote
88 Dot in the sea, to
Jorge
89 Actor Baldwin 90 Tunneling rodents 93 What to do after hiding, in a kids’ game
95 “M” star
98 Big snakes
101 — Gras
102 Perfectly
103 “Blue Velvet”
singer
105 “The Color
Purple” novelist 109 In — (irritated) 110 Habited sister
111 Slip- — (some
shoes)
112 Links peg
114 Boatload
115 Pod veggies
119 Affluent Rio
neighborhood
122 Sitcom associated with nine featured first names in this puzzle 125 Hand-held filming
equipment
126 Soviet statesman
Gromyko
127 Lost lady in “The
Raven”
128 Stinging-tentacle
reef dweller
129 “Already?”
130 Got lippy with
DOWN
1 Pouches
2 Coup d’—
3 Comic Dunn
4 Air pollution 5 Iraq export 6 32-Down brand since the early 1900s
7 Curtain
8 Actor Holm 9 French wines 10 Linguistic
expressions 11 Teeth: Prefix 12 Work unit 13 Process by which an electron is emitted 14 Involve in
contention 15 Print resolution
abbr. 16 Baseball’s Ott 17 Popular font
type
18 Puccini opera 19 Iroquois tribe
members 24 Liquor, slangily 29 Elton John’s “—
and the Jets” 31 Italian car 32 Soft drink
34 Zen master’s
question
35 Suffix with form 36 Tony-winning
actress Johns 37 Tennis’ Seles 38 Very valuable
violins
39 “Pest” of kiddie
lit
40 Beet variety 41 Letter stroke 45 Scoff
46 — kwon do
(martial art) 47 Tolkien brute 48 TV “Science Guy”
Bill 50 Frontiersman
Wild Bill —
52 L-P linkup
56 — Lankan 57 Tumbler’s
surface 60 Wildlife-tracking
ID
61 Balletic bend 63 Thanksgiving side
servings
64 Joking type 65 Water barrier 70 Tot amuser
71 Add up to
72 State as fact 73 City in Ohio 74 Luke and Leia’s
father
75 “And on and on”:
Abbr.
77 Architect Ludwig
Mies van der — 78 Eden dweller 79 Actress Greta 80 Jewish month
after Adar 81 Baby food 82 Malted quaff 83 No longer in the
mil., e.g.
84 1973 Jim Croce
hit
85 Gourmet
mushrooms 91 Class for tots, fo
short 92 Buckwheat
noodle of Japan 94 Fail to put in 96 Caviar source 97 The Doors song with a Calif. city in its title 99 Refrain from
imbibing
100 “Holy” council 103 Gives rise to
104 Shiny plastics 105 Jungian inner
personality
106 Fictional sleuth
Arsène
107 Pointless
108 Prefix meaning
“people”
113 Spanish river 115 Bits of wit
116 Baseball’s
Slaughter
117 Farmland unit 118 Shanty
120 Pick-up-sticks
math game
121 Prefix with car 122 Classroom aides
Abbr.
123 Antique Olds 124 Actress Arthur