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1 Visitor- center handouts
5 Crew supervisor on a
merchant ship
10 QB Patrick who was
2018’ s N. F. L. M. V. P.
17 Like a pub crawler’s
breath, perhaps
18 * Embarrassing pants
mishap?
20 Set apart
21 Relative of “ciao’’
22 “I never met a ____ I
didn’t like’’: Garfield
23 Like some tans
24 * Shipper of British
toilets?
26 Something you might use just for the halibut?
27 ____ Plaines, Ill.
28 Hill worker
29 Modern- day
groundskeeper?
30 Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall and Amy Schumer, for the 2022 Oscars
31 Divides into sectors
33 5- Down, in Spanish
34 “I’m not impressed’’
35 Some sci- fi effects
37 Fast line at the
airport, informally
41 Small figures?
44 * Big fight for a
Disney heroine from Polynesia?
47 Some track- and- field
races
48 “They tell me ... ‘’
50 Impulsive sorts?
51 Spanish gentlemen
52 Standing at the ready
54 Affectionate
attention,
55 Neither blows it nor
crushes it
56 Grabs lunch, say
59 Word with cane or
cone
61 As a friend, in French
64 “That hits the spot!’’
65 Voyage by rocket ... or a feature of the answers to the 12 starred clues?
68 U- Haul offering
69 One rounded up in a
roundup 72 A car that won’t start 7 * Painting of potatoes, is a common one in e. g.? horror films 8 Exhorts 73 Ties again 9
____- Down ( what
76 Pulitzer- winning this is)
novelist Lurie 10 Botch 78 Extreme vexation 11
* Main course featuring
80 Alliance Egyptian snake meat? 81 Symptom of burnout 12 Street smarts
83 Take up a notch 13 Portuguese greeting 86 Singer Abdul 14 “S. N. L.’’ alumna
87 Keg attachment Rudolph
88 * Shortage of slime? 15 Boarding school where
tailcoats are part of
90 Appear the dress code
91 “Is that a challenge?!’’ 16 On its way
92 Part of E. S. L.: Abbr. 17 Show some reluctance 93 Voice of dissent 18 Item tossed into a fire
94 Scratch ( out) at the end of “Citizen
Kane’’
96 Film brand
19 Buddy
98 Seoul singers?
25 “Va- va-____!’’
99 Component of some
30 Set of options
103 Kind of card sold in many international 31 Acne spot, informally airports 32 Brawl site in old
106 Metric for a Met, for westerns
short 34 West of Hollywood
107 Diane Sawyer’s real
first name
109 * Rest spot for a
tabby?
110 Angry and impatient
112 Parent who’s fluent in emojis and modern slang, maybe
114 “Your ____ ran over my dogma’’ ( classic dad joke)
115 Sovereign’s singular
116 * Brew that’s both
bitter and fruity?
117 Tiny arachnids
118 Cries feebly
119 Do some barbering on
120 Language of the
Emerald Isle
DOWN
1 French wine region
2 Series of trade
discounts?
3 Portmanteau
invitations
4 Website overseers, in
brief
5 Image on a postcard
from Yellowstone
6 Western Hemisphere
treaty grp. 35 Agree
36 ____ Goose, cousin of
Donald Duck
38 * Iditarod, for one?
39 Bourbon alternative
40 The start of
something?
41 Byproduct of
composting
42 “Wow, super!’’
43 * Staging of a narc
sting?
45 How a parent serving as the tooth fairy might walk
46 Supported
49 Stephen of “The
Crying Game’’
51 Anguish following a
dance marathon
53 N. F. L. positions that sound like a fast- food chain
55 “I’m sorry, ____, I’m afraid I can’t do that’’ ( line from HAL in “2001’’)
57 Mountain lake 58 Green prefix
60 Fish with a long snout
62 Layer beneath the
earth’s crust
63 Something made off
the cuff?
66 Closing words
67 Office PC setup
70 One- percenters
71 Frustrating process
74 Noted speedway
sponsor
75 What a beehive is
made of
77 * Terrific messenger at
Hogwarts?
79 * Friend in a
competition?
81 Furbys or fidget
spinners, e. g.
82 In the manner of
83 Many millenniums
84 Small batteries
85 “Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you ____!’’: Dr. Seuss
88 Lead- in to X, Y or Z 89 Substance
95 Sign unlikely to have been written by the person it is attached to
97 Hill workers
98 Swell
99 Hindu embodiment
100 Stolen treats in
“Alice’s Adventures
101 Mann of music
102 Mardi ____
103 Knights and
noblemen
104 Privy to
105 Request for
permission
107 TV screen option,
for short
108 Chits
109 Manage
111 Dallas hoopster, for
short
113 Lotta money