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Crossword Puzzle 2

- “ELONGATION” By MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis xwordedito­r@aol.com ©2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

ACROSS

1 Chunk

5 Spill stopper

8 Beetle in Egyptian hieroglyph­s

14 Old Eurasian

rulers

19 Many a restaurant website page

20 Addr. line

ending

21 Brother of Scar

22 Juice box

go-with

23 Censor of controvers­ial parts of “Messiah”?

26 Hold forth

27 “Top Chef” host

Lakshmi 28 Knish seller

29 __ Morris, “Saved by the Bell” protagonis­t

31 Award for good

plays

32 Bagel feature

34 Spots

36 Emergency

delivery method

38 Family tree

woman

42 Cause of restaurant complaints?

45 Intraoffic­e IT

system

46 Memo start

47 Get around

48 Convention­al

rubies?

53 Choir

accompanim­ent

57 20th-century

Argentine leader

58 Room in Clue

59 Original “Star

Trek” actor

62 Nice way to say

yes?

63 Stubborn animal

64 Family room

65 Group email

function

67 A, in Aachen

69 Sign of a cat

burglar?

74 Shoppe modifier

75 Brand mentioned in the Beatles’ “Come Together”

77 Golf club part

78 “I pity the fool”

speaker

79 Word that’s a homophone of its first letter

80 Willing subjects

82 Melodious

85 BILLY bookcase

sellers

88 Big dipper

90 What people and leopards have in common?

93 Gallery event

96 __ top

97 Kinshasa’s

country, briefly

98 Stallone hero putting more film in his camera?

102 Research

staples

104 Sister of Laertes

105 Like yellow

bananas

107 Look for gifts,

say

108 Green and white

109 Almost never

112 Greenish-blue

114 Allow to fluctuate, as a currency

117 Type of navel

119 Enjoy the track

meet?

123 Can’t live without

124 Bible book read

during Purim

125 Hardly walking

distance

126 Neutral shade

127 Doesn’t do much

128 What a broken escalator can serve as, aptly

129 “Go for it!”

130 Loafer, e.g.

DOWN

1 “This can’t be,”

in texts

2 Faithful spring?

3 Actress

Kendrick

4 Founder of an

Eastern religion

5 Euphoria

6 Providers of

liquid assets?

7 Out of juice

8 Cheese

alternativ­e?

9 Adorable ones

10 “100 Years... 100 Movies” org.

11 Heckle

12 On the briny

13 Chain of pubs with beer and video games

14 General on a

menu

15 Tot toter

16 Peninsula between the

Red Sea and Persian Gulf

17 Sanction

18 Candy store buys

24 Personifie­d things in Pixar’s “Inside Out”

25 Sticky home?

30 Isn’t serious 33 Money in

Münster

35 It may be

cracked

37 Prepare for new planting, as a garden

38 Zero-star fare

39 Not seen often

40 Spellbound

41 On deck

43 Upbeat melody

44 “Master of

None” co-creator Aziz __

49 Book after Daniel

50 Dame Dench

51 First place

52 Musical Lynn

contempora­ry

54 Commits a

hoops violation

55 “__ Lang Syne”

56 River to the

Mediterran­ean

60 “The Masked Singer” panelist Jeong

61 Able, facetiousl­y

66 Radiohead lead singer/ songwriter

Thom

67 Subj. including the study of extinction­s

68 Field of Dreams

setting 69 Nemesis, e.g.

70 Late philanthro­pist Broad

71 Like tadpoles

72 Combine

73 A.G. under

Clinton

76 “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Hines

78 Biscuit whose name describes its shape

81 Part for one

83 Men’s grooming

brand

84 Exams for future

attys. 86 Decent-sized lot

87 Brief periods

89 Summer cabin

site

91 Sport

92 Racing the

deadline

94 Chamber music

work

95 Spirited events?

98 Corkscrew pasta

99 Warmed up the

crowd

100 French fashion

house

101 Agitated state

102 Like Beethoven,

late in life

103 Pie fruit

106 Pie fruit

110 Ones getting a

lot of props?

111 “At Last” singer

James

113 Split

115 A pop

116 Halal cart offering

118 Supergirl symbol

120 Greek X

121 Tolstoy title word

122 Refuse to settle

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