THEME CROSSWORD

JOINT VENTURE

ACROSS

1. Succulent plant

5. Musical compositions

10. Titleholder

15. Warfare personified

19. Brook

20. A kind of in-between place

21. Italian Alps city

22. Japanese agent Mr. __

23. Maimed a certain way

25. Timepiece

27. Waterways to the ocean: 2 wds

28. Hippodrome

30. __ Cucamonga

31. Fateful day

32. Shovel

33. Encircle

34. Jazz musician __ Bilk

37. Literary theme

39. Fragrant

43. Monocles

45. Place for a wallet: 2 wds.

48. Baseball stat.

49. “Charlie’s Angels” star Lucy __

50. Across: Prefix

52. Lover’s touch

54. Seine

55. Letters 1,2,3

56. Watery-eyed

57. Italian navigator and explorer

58. Metric weight

60. City on Tokyo Bay

62. Colophony

63. More scraggy

64. A camelid

65. Whiz

66. Units of force

67. Expert ones

69. Familiarly comfortable

70. Freudian concept: Hyph.

73. Guys

74. Paddy __

75. Remove by clipping

76. Research place

77. Numero __

78. Old calculator

80. Bargains

81. Buddy

82. Compass pt.

83. Much involved: Hyph.

85. __ de Beauvoir

88. Proves false

91. Having property

93. Sinclair or Jerry Lee

94. Duck genus

95. Shenanigans

97. Entertainment award

99. Certain Greek islander

102. Half note

103. Sun worship

107. Pants: Hyph.

109. How to propose (with “on”): 2 wds.

111. Toward shelter

112. __ Semple McPherson

113. Vices

114. Composer __ Khachaturian

115. Look

116. Shot of tequila

117. Appraises

118. Big hardcover

DOWN

1. Lifesaving vessels

2. Queue

3. Genus of kalamatas

4. Laments

5. Having wings

6. Most mellow

7. Devilkins

8. Honest __

9. Soft drinks: 2 wds.

10. Cried like a crow

11. Singer Lena Mary Calhoun __

12. ’80s supergroup

13. Rocky and Blue Ridge: Abbr.

14. NFL players

15. Plummer or Bynes

16. Mil. group for students

17. Engrave

18. NYC nabe

24. Core group

26. Reheat

29. Vocal croak

32. Like 1 Across

33. Meet-and- __

34. Ease

35. National tree of Argentina

36. Work hard: 2 wds.

38. Scarlett of Tara

39. Ohio city

40. Athlete’s problem: 2 wds.

41. “Goodnight, __”

42. __ -cousin

44. Cooks a certain way

46. Noted Irish dramatist

47. Room on a cruise ship

51. Hindu deity

53. Cannabis enthusiast

56. “__ __ good one!”

57. Band of 13

59. Lollapalooza

61. Old leather flask

62. With branches

63. Circumvent

65. Bump in a ski run

66. Contest of sorts

67. Curved inward

68. “Beats me!”

69. Taxi drivers

70. Influence

71. Adorned, said of food

72. Instruments

74. Dwindles

75. Crystal-gazers

79. Philippines province

80. Year’s end

84. Far-out painter

86. Famed epic

87. Mongooselike creature

89. Kind of confessor

90. Two-toed sloth

92. Drawing

95. Electrical worker

96. Map with detail

98. Consecrate

99. Crack from dryness

100. Stir up

101. Sword

102. Office note

103. State of agitation

104. Obi accessory

105. Ore stratum

106. Internet sensation 108. Liquor

110. Girl in Sevastopol