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1 Take ____ on

the wild side 6 Cartoonist

Silverstein 10 Before you can say

Jack Robinson 18 Academy Awardwinning Marisa 19 Hip-hop’s

____ Kweli 21 Crisis

connections 22 Boo-boos 23 Brings up 25 “Batman” actress,

1967-68 26 A-list topper 28 Nine-time Pro

Bowler John 30 Curriculum ____ 31 “Traffic” actor, 2000 32 Winter Olympics

event 34 ____-de-France 35 Sat ____

(GPS, to a Brit) 36 “Super Mario Bros.”

actor, 1993 40 Comic-book

onomatopoeia 43 Irish form of Mary 46 Figure on a

foam finger 47 ____ contendere 48 School that lent its

name to a collar 50 Like many

laundromats 52 Seat of Penobscot

County 54 “Bride of Frankenstein” actress, 1935 56 Traditional Filipino dish marinated in vinegar and soy sauce 59 Turn up 60 Bring into harmony 63 Yves’s evening 64 Like many write-in

candidates:Abbr. 65 “Training Day” actor, 2001 71 Old C.I.A. foe 72 Where people

get off 74 Growing art form? 75 “A ____ From

St. Nicholas” 77 Roadside establishment much seen in the Southwest 80 “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” actress, 2000 85 Connive 86 Shaman, e.g. 87 When tripled, a “Seinfeld” catchphrase 88 Eastern European

capital 89 Simple top 91 Cell exchanges 93 Deteriorate 94 “Crash” actor, 2004 97 Scottish form

of John 99 Operate 101 Deliverance

person 102 “Frost/Nixon”

actor, 2008 106 Kidney-related 109 Dame modifier 110 Bear claws

and such 112 What eight actors took on for this puzzle? 115 Written deeply 117 “Mea ____” 118 Daughter of

Oedipus 119 Kama ____ 120 Hermione’s Patronus, in the Harry Potter books 121 Lure in Vegas 122 Leader wearing the Great Imperial Crown 123 10 cc’s and others

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1 Thing whose size is measured in picometers 2 Floored 3 Pal 4 Country singer

Womack 5 What might show participants going neck and neck? 6 Cop 7 Le ____

(French port) 8 “Mr. Blue Sky”

band, for short 9 This way 10 “Gotcha” 11 Word implied on

Opposite Day 12 Ultimate degree 13 Name of five

Norwegian kings 14 Word with

torch or bar 15 Ab ____ (from

the beginning) 16 Genre for

Black Sabbath 17 Lauder of

cosmetics 20 Hotel attendant 24 Proust

protagonist 27 L.G.B.T. magazine

since 1967 29 State as fact 33 Mosque tower 36 Primatologist

Goodall 37 Crash, with “out” 38 Pond growth 39 Emotional

states 40 N, seen from

the side 41 Where I-20, I-65

and I-85 all meet 42 Some advanced researchers, for short 44 Particle named

by Faraday 45 Most caloric 49 Catch 51 Face-to-face

challenges 52 Pot holder 53 1947, for Jackie

Robinson 55 Stripling 56 Depress 57 Ruckus 58 Sphere 61 J.F.K.’s former

____ Terminal 62 “Je ____” (French

words of affection) 64 Suffix with

novel or Nobel 66 Standout

hoopsters 67 City planners’

designation 68 Undoing 69 Leaves a lot

on the table? 70 Nothing 73 Chocolate-coated

snack stick 76 Like some winks 78 Branch of Islam 79 Any of the

Ninja Turtles 81 “Must’ve been

something ____” 82 The Browns,

on a scoreboard 83 Bad spell 84 See 102-Down 86 Vertical landing

spots 89 Program saver 90 Like SEALs 92 Cured and

dried fish 94 Have as a tenant 95 “Dear Evan ____,” Best Musical of 2017 96 Like florists’ flowers that are already in vases 98 Best-selling Japanese manga series 99 ____ Outfitters

(retailer) 100 Where Javert drowned in “Les Misérables” 102 With 84-Down,

bit of black attire 103 Real-time tool for meteorologists 104 Isn’t level 105 Where one might raise a flap about a reservation? 107 So quiet you can

hear ____ drop 108 Isn’t up

to date 111 Early 2000s outbreak, for short 113 Old résident

at Versailles 114 “Star Trek” spinoff, to fans 116 Elevs.