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