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ACROSS
1 Picked
instrument 6 Type of small
grocery store 12 Blobby light
source
20 Viva voce 21 Spoil, as “my
parade”
22 Roast joke 23 Like baggy
clothes
25 Winter wreath
ornament 26 Gave away
temporarily 27 Money,
informally 29 Jagger of the
Stones 30 “Raggedy” doll 31 Monty Python tune about a logger 37 Addams who
created Morticia 40 Quick attack 41 Cover girl
Macpherson 42 “— gratia” (“by the grace of God”)
43 Dwell in the
company of 46 Outer: Prefix 47 “— the Night” (2007 Joaquin Phoenix film) 49 Had to admit a
goof-up 50 “Behold!,” to
Caesar
53 Totally bummed
out 55 Stuff in a sty 56 Avian hooters 58 Texas banner 61 Big twitch 63 Safari sight 65 Envoy’s asset 66 “There —
comparison” 67 Chinese black tea with a smoky flavor
72 Anita of jazz 75 Env. notice 76 Estrada of TV 77 Ones staring 81 Best Actress winner for
“The Farmer’s Daughter” 84 Grammy winner
Bareilles
87 “And how!” 88 German city on
the Elbe
89 With 115-Down,
“Piece of cake!” 91 Web page 93 Slacks
94 Extra charge 96 Pea-souper in
England 98 Anticavity gp. 99 Supreme Norse
god
101 “I love you,” to
Luisa
103 Jane in an 1847
novel
104 Go bankrupt,
say
108 Del.-to-vt.
direction
110 Bakery treats
111 Snootiness
112 Noisy tigers 116 Cite famous
people as friends 120 Method for calculating a quotient ... or what occurs eight times in this puzzle?
123 Accepted, as
conditions
124 Made flush
125 Maggot, e.g.
126 Sailor’s dining
place
127 Shows as an
“encore”
128 Clifflike
DOWN
1 Tennis need 2 Skin soother 3 Lunch hour 4 “Be right there” 5 Classic theater 6 Liverpool or
Leeds native 7 Horse bit 8 Morse bit 9 Conundrum 10 Of yore
11 Trig measure 12 Slice (off)
13 Zoo attraction 14 Gondola city 15 Smart — (cocky
sort)
16 Guitar riffs 17 Year, in Brazil 18 Roughly half of
all adults 19 Beginning to
mature? 24 Amusement 28 Frightful dino 31 Chilling Chaney 32 Strong desire 33 “Selena” actress,
to her fans 34 Nonalcoholic
beer brand 35 Georgia city
near Atlanta 36 Ornamental
street tree 37 Bivalve mollusks 38 Ask for moola 39 Brand of skin care and cosmetics 40 Turkey, e.g. 44 Pleasant odor 45 Do some yard
maintenance 46 Poet’s twilight 47 Major battle 48 Crude model of a despised person
51 Choke up
52 Give the OK 53 Strong desire 54 Big mil. alliance 57 Dull, dark bluish-
gray 59 Decorative
sewing case 60 Burlap bags 62 Most cunning 64 — uncertain
terms
68 Pricey liver
spread 69 Superhero
creator Lee 70 Agcys., e.g. 71 “Nifty!”
72 Chum from way
back
73 El — (treasure
city) 74 Vying venues 78 Uplift 79 Whirlybird
blade 80 Drawn-out
battle
82 Six-pt. scores 83 Driver’s 180 85 Year, to Caesar 86 Garnet, e.g. 90 Ladd of “Shane” 92 Shows lip-curling contempt 94 Holiday tree 95 “Orinoco Flow”
vocalist 97 Texter’s “I’m
shocked!” 99 Carry to excess 100 Spanish explorer
Hernando
101 Grew vigorously,
old-style
102 Former Disney
exec Michael
105 Sword types
106 Duck type
107 Mosaic maker 108 Autumn mo.
109 Manicurists file
them
112 Divests (of)
113 Ireland, in
Ireland
114 Be a drifter
115 See 89-Across 116 “Rambo” setting,
briefly
117 Era or eon
118 “— Doubtfire” 119 Fluffy lap dog,
for short
121 Safari sight
122 Safari sight