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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 65 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Bases for hair
plugs
7 Makes out incorrectly, as text
15 Acronym for a
PC character set 20 Without
breaking a sweat 21 Radio-signal
rods 22 Flowerless office
plants
23 Start of a riddle 25 Police actions 26 Serpent
27 Foam at the top
of an espresso 28 Low-carb kind of
diet
29 Highway with a
no.
31 Riddle, part 2 37 In a new way 41 Mornings, for
short
42 Rub away
43 To and — 44 Boorish sort
45 Be incorrect 47 Pigs’ places 48 Merit badge
earner
50 Riddle, part 3 55 “Silence!” 56 Altar vow 57 Hoover product,
in brief 58 Second-largest
city in Algeria 59 Wears a grin 61 Lawn pests 63 Automated PC program that may generate pop-ups 65 Aviating guy,
informally 68 Riddle, part 4 74 Equine, to kids 75 Piccolo, e.g. 76 Comaneci of
gymnastics 77 Neighbor of
Tanzania 80 James who played Brian Piccolo
81 Letter before
upsilon
83 Two, in Peru 84 As neat as — 85 Riddle, part 5 91 Rattan artisan 93 Iraqi money 94 “—War”
(William Shatner novel)
95 Big name in
frozen drinks 96 Noshed
97 Puts in office 99 Ending for
Taiwan
101 Ones running
5,280 feet
103 End of the riddle 106 Party for Biden:
Abbr.
107 Arab bigwigs
108 Maine university
city
110 Texas river to
the Rio Grande 115 Shorthand whiz 116 Riddle’s answer 121 Group dialect
122 Outperformed 123 Online brokerage 124 Eight-item set 125 People feeling
hate
126 Got closer to
DOWN
1 Constructs
clothes
2 “All the Way”
lyricist Sammy 3 On a cruise 4 Connection 5 Common toolbox
item
6 DOS part: Abbr. 7 Bryn —
8 Line down a pant
leg
9 Steps loudly 10 Make a new
chart of
11 Suffix with
acetyl
12 Year, in Lisbon 13 Actor Aykroyd 14 Atlanta-to-tampa
dir.
15 Many ski chalets 16 Rival of Serta 17 Protested about
an injustice 18 What spinning bikes are intended for 19 Mag. edition 24 Killer serve 28 Third deg., often 30 Letter before
iota 32 Boca — 73 Fast races 33 Somber paper 77 Big parrot
notice 78 Uninterested 34 Territory 79 Distinctive facial 35 Wine barrel contour 36 Invaders of 80 Smash-up
ancient Rome 82 Help desk 37 Actor Marc of message
“Star Trek: Deep 86 Had way too Space Nine” much, for short 38 Sweet on 87 End of Caesar’s 39 Nureyev of boast
ballet 88 Strep-studying 40 Guess at JFK or docs
LGA 89 Ending with 41 Ulna locale Harlem 46 Summarizes 90 Grease
47 Big annual 92 North American
Minnesota event plant that’s a 49 Novelist Achebe dye source 51 Sitcom, e.g. 98 Fleur-de- — 52 New Orleans 99 Poland is part of
sub it
53 Quick pace 100 Russell —
54 Title girl in a (chocolatier)
Salinger story 102 Ascribe
60 — opus (great 104 Bit of color
work) 105 Gusto
62 Gas in fuel 106 — good deed
mixtures 109 Rorem and 64 “Dr.” of hip-hop Beatty 65 Attacked like a 111 Poet Pound
wasp 112 Peter the Great, 66 Model-building e.g.
set 113 Aged, quaintly 67 Mimieux of “The 114 Bird feeder tidbit
Reward” 115 — -mo 69 Children’s author 116 100 cents: Abbr.
Carle 117 Yoko of music 70 Family group and art
71 Bring forward as 118 Three R’s gp.
evidence 119 “Tsk!”
72 Violent insurgent 120 Guys