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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 62 minutes.

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ACROSS

1 Bumper-car

carnival ride

7 TV title alien 10 Garden pond fish 13 Cause to blunder 19 Cook too long 20 Ned of NASCAR 22 Ned of “The

D.A.”

23 Appear gradually, as a scene

24 “No, seriously!” 25 Surrounded by 26 Mountain laurel 29 Clumsy type 30 Stocking stuffer 31 It’s charged 32 Alternativ­e to

Chapstick

37 “Old Folks at

Home”

44 Vital artery 45 Spellbound 47 1989-2007

senator Trent 48 Stein fillers 49 Blue spruce 53 Propose a date

to

55 Author Ferber 56 Pro — (in

proportion)

57 “— a customer” 59 Joe of

“Goodfellas” 60 Clinton aide

Myers

62 Susan of

“Goldengirl” 64 Eurasian animal

with antlers 66 “North to the

Future”

70 Used up 74 118-Across was

one

75 Printing goofs 80 Humdinger 81 Reformer Ralph 84 “OK” from Tom Sawyer to Aunt Polly 86 Workplace

welfare org. 87 Fuddy-duddies 89 Topaz

92 Relative of a lutz 93 Bullfight yells 95 Israeli airline 96 Right wrongs 97 Cactus wren

101 Went in

103 To the — power 104 Savings acct.

accrual

105 Hail, basically 106 Some legislator­s (or the theme of this puzzle?)

117 Arrived by plane 118 Opera legend

Pavarotti

119 Make a

comment

120 Response to “You’d never do that!”

121 Ill-fated NASA

mission of 1967 122 And others, to

Ovid

123 Dwelt

124 Round bread of

India 125 Subj. for some

immigrants 126 Passable

DOWN

1 Tip politely, as

one’s hat 2 Human face’s

shape

3 Whoop- — (extravagan­t fanfare) 4 Expanded 5 Sedgwick of

Warhol films 6 Marilyn of

“Niagara”

7 In — (pronto) 8 Desktop

illuminato­r

9 No longer being

detained

10 Sax celebrity 11 Soulful

Redding

12 Really tiny 13 “Saturday Night

Fever” star 14 Hard Italian

cheese

15 “Sure, put me

down”

16 Toenail treatment, informally 17 Astral bear 18 Coffee holder 21 Rambled 27 Mexican city due

south of Dallas 28 Elevate 32 Waiting with —

breath 33 2013 Grammy winner for “Royals” 34 Dunne of classic

films

35 Lieu

36 Chinese ideal 37 California county whose seat is Fairfield

38 Sign word after

“Ye”

39 Stocking

stuffer

40 Worked on a leaf

collection? 41 “You beat me” 42 Tennis tie

43 Up and about 46 Gained access to 50 Refrigerat­ion

fluid

51 Workers with shingles, maybe

52 Kofi, once of the

U.N. 54 Caveman’s

weapon

58 Scrub nurses’

sites, in brief 61 Be hammy 63 Tribal pole

emblem

65 — Mountain (Vermont ski resort)

67 Two fives

68 — Mary-mount

University 69 Stadium’s kin 70 Britcom of the

’90s 71 Pope before Paul

V

72 Coors offering 73 Trade group 76 GPS calculatio­n 77 1941 Oscar

winner Mary 78 Scottish title 79 Emitted a

contented sigh 82 Ending for

golden or New 83 Arnaz of TV 85 Decide on 88 Toned down 90 Outside clearance event, of a sort

91 Quite chubby 94 Bert with lion

lines

98 Not delayed 99 Diamond

substitute

100 Baseball pioneer

Buck

102 Came closer

105 One way to fry

food

106 Chunky slice

107 Garr of films

108 Spellbound

109 Flair

110 Cocooned

insect

111 Son of Seth

112 Head, in Haiti 113 Classroom

Apple, often

114 Glen

115 Bard’s Ireland 116 Revue sketch

117 Pill-ok’ing agcy.

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