WEEKEND CROSSWORD

“THE FRENCH DISCONNECTION”

BY JOHN LAMPKIN

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Dropped-jaw stare Like loving caresses Audio units: Abbr.

agcy. First name in erotica Place for a bootee Seedy motel, say Painting of an annoying bricklayer at work?

Japan’s emperor Like many forest roads

Suffer

Least obfuscated Football laterals, e.g. 15th-century foodstained collectible? Beachcomber’s pace Breezy and open Glance Chaotic mess

Bot head? Harbour protector Dutch South Africans Fabulist’s Cheer alternative?

author Chickadee kin Undocumented Nepali?

Peak in Thessaly Big D cager Annoy

PC linkup Mexican mama bears Slip away Popular Oahu beach Dollar for a shot? ‘Hmm’

Dollars for shots? Piles up Captain Hook’s creator J.M. __

Eight furlongs Caught Erstwhile UK recording giant

Kind of trading, briefly

Sweet Sixteen org. With the bow, in music

Of __ mind Qatar’s capital

witch’s download? Refine, as ore Stick on the grill Beat it Jamaican hybrid fruits

90 Fine-tune 91 China-related prefix 92 Irritates

94 Mud, slop, pig, etc.? 98 Mist and such 103 Show great respect

for, perhaps

104 Mythical flapper Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis