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1 Key word #1 5 Plants with intoxicating leaves 10 Mosque no-no 15 Key word #2 19 Bon ____ 20 Songwriter Carmichael 21 Minor snafu 22 Capital known for 300 years as Christiania 23 Ill-fated seducer in “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” 24 1-Across + 15-Across 26 Erupt 27 What a driverless car drives 29 Pageant V.I.P.s 30 Like some soldiers in the American Revolution 32 Farmyard call 33 You may leave when it’s up 34 Endnotes? 35 Portland, Ore.-to-Boise dir. 36 Egg producer 38 The “e” of i.e. 39 ____ Olshansky, first Soviet-born N.F.L. player 41 Villainous 43 1-Across + 122-Across 48 Workers on the board 49 It covers everything quite clearly 50 Decepticon’s foe in “Transformers” 54 Sewing case 55 Clio nominees 57 S.U.V. alternative 59 Moolah 60 Bench warmer 62 Final Four round 64 ____ cards (items used in ESP tests) 65 1-Across + 125-Across 70 15-Across + 122Across 72 Acronym on the S&P 500 73 Galileo, by birth 75 Take off, as a heavy coat? 76 Venice tourist attraction 78 S.U.V. alternative 80 Golfer Ernie 81 Acted like 85 Goldeneye or harlequin 87 Paul who won a Nobel in Physics 89 1962 Paul Anka hit 91 15-Across + 125Across 94 Coat fur 97 Ammonium and others 98 Subj. for Bloomberg News 99 Puts in stitches, say 100 Food that’s an anagram of 98-Across 101 Washing the dishes, e.g. 103 Plantation device 105 Subj. with many irregularities 106 Shabby 108 Sound in “Eleanor Rigby” and “Yesterday” 110 Disdainful sounds 113 “Little” visitor to Slumberland, in old comics 114 122-Across + 125- Across 117 Holder of small doses 118 Former British crown colony in the Mideast 119 TurboTax option 120 As old as the hills 121 Petro-Canada competitor 122 Key word #3 123 Looking for 124 Go well together 125 Key word #4
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1 California resort town 2 V, in physics 3 1997 Samuel L. Jackson film 4 Pilaflike product 5 Pot user? 6 Tic-tac-toe failure 7 “Understand?” 8 Fellow students, generally 9 Brings together 10 “Hook” role 11 Successes in the game Battleship 12 Sister brand of Phisoderm 13 Elation 14 It helps you get ahead 15 Pardner’s mount 16 Glimpses 17 Orioles’ div. 18 He played Chaplin in “Chaplin” 25 Date 28 QB Bobby who purportedly put a curse on the Detroit Lions 31 Germophobe’s need 33 Doesn’t pursue 34 Mustard, but not ketchup: Abbr. 36 Stage prize 37 Old TV adjustment: Abbr. 39 Radiologist, e.g. 40 Biological blueprints 42 Makes up (for) 44 Lucius’s son, in Harry Potter 45 Fancy marble 46 Fidelity offerings, for short 47 Political insults, so to speak 51 Uncle ____ 52 Hershiser who was Sports Illustrated’s 1988 Sportsman of the Year 53 Major ally? 56 Islamic mystics 58 Place for a bust 60 Figurine 61 Stemming from 63 Archenemy of Mattel’s He-Man 65 General interests? 66 Author Wiesel 67 Tournament organizer since ’39 68 “Ha! I was right!” 69 Says, “Read you loud and clear … over,” say 71 Rope in 74 Informer, informally 77 South American tuber 79 Recharge midday 81 Sandpaper and such 82 Creatures that may live inside oysters – hence the name 83 Cable’s ____ Classic 84 Springfield exclamations 86 Male lead in Disney’s “Frozen” 88 Messy food order at a carnival 90 Witty Nash 92 ____ choy 93 Common weddingreception feature 94 Kind of column 95 “Holy ____!” 96 J. Paul Getty and others 102 Literally, “breathless” 103 [You stink!] 104 Ho hi 107 Beast on Skull Island,
informally 108 Low-lying area 109 Robert who oversaw the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm 110 Ophthalmologist’s concern 111 Burkina ____ (African land) 112 Vending machine feature 115 Small songbird 116 Burns’s “before”