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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 67 minutes.

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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

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