NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: ACTION STARS
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1 Kind of marker 8 Auto-sharing company 14 Solid 20 Attack 21 Harshly bright 22 Earning a Purple Heart, say 23 ____ into a major film star 25 7Up, in old ads, with “the” 26 Vale 27 Salacious look 28 Sibling of Helios and Selene, in myth 30 Something to shoot with, briefly 31 “Phooey!” 34 ____ for just the right film role 39 Many a suit has one, for short 42 New employee 43 “You think I won’t!” 44 Bio word 45 Radius, for one 47 ____ Doggie of old cartoons 48 Psychedelic experience 52 ____ several film-making awards 54 Maker of business jets 55 Spellbound 56 Hybrid citrus fruits 57 “The Lion King” villain 59 Stick close to 60 Went after 64 Something that turns up when you snap your fingers? 65 Pay dirt 66 ____ a new film adaptation 69 ____ two film studios against each other 71 ____ nova (musical style of the late Middle Ages) 72 Like businesses on Yelp 73 Land near a wharf 74 Org. with the magazine America’s 1st Freedom 75 Spellbound 76 Leader who was Time’s 2007 Person of the Year 77 Italy’s Isola d’____ 81 “Ha! I was right!” 83 ____ for meatier film roles 87 Brisk tempo 89 Cads 90 Like food 91 “Despicable Me” supervillain 92 Evidence of a brawl 94 Baylor’s home 95 Salon offering 96 ____ the film deal 99 Giggled 101 Honey ____ Clusters (breakfast cereal) 102 Milne character 103 Java neighbor 104 Church recess 108 Too much, in music 111 ____ himself as a big-screen film star 117 “If you say so” 118 Strive 119 Actions of environmental extremists 120 Stacking game 121 Pines 122 Confronts
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1 Lash 2 Lady’s man 3 Country singer Lovett 4 First African-American Disney princess 5 Spike TV’s former name 6 “____ be my honor” 7 Sunbathing locale 8 Jewelry chain 9 Borodin’s prince 10 1993 accord grp. 11 Surveillance device 12 Middle word in a mall map phrase 13 Cash in 14 “Quiet down!” 15 Half a score 16 Story ____ 17 Immunity enhancer 18 French city near the Belgian border 19 Modern greeting 24 ____ noire 29 Student taking Contracts, maybe 32 Villagers the Grinch stole from in Dr. Seuss 33 Surround 34 Hogwarts groundskeeper 35 Native New Yorkers 36 Eco-friendly building certification, for short 37 Runner-up’s amount in an auction 38 New York team 39 Goya subject 40 Speak for oneself? 41 Some rounds 43 Settled a score old-style 46 Got going 47 Aslant 49 Seafood order 50 Temper 51 Summoned, in a way 53 In bankruptcy 57 Michael ____, Brett Halliday detective 58 Things to chew on 61 Aid for a big painting project 62 Naval conflict 63 Put up 64 Straggles 66 December temp 67 Morris who directed “The Fog of War” 68 Like you wouldn’t believe 69 Gable part 70 Singer Marie 73 In line 76 Buzz, so to speak 78 Pride-parade letters 79 Actor Lugosi 80 Yemen seaport 82 Laura of “Blue Velvet” 83 Hindu honorifics 84 “A likely story!” 85 Tie (up) 86 Western tribe 88 1993 accord city 93 “Yippee!” 94 “I’m waiting …?” 96 “Roger that” 97 Vast 98 Betray 99 “The Twilight Zone” episodes, e.g. 100 Poet who wrote, “In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost” 103 Capital NW of Jungfrau 105 Some info holders 106 ____ lily 107 Depiction in Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” 109 ____ se 110 Tire measure: Abbr. 112 Benefit 113 Unwinding spot 114 Word before and after “yes,” in the Army 115 Home-appliance giant 116 Swell