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Awareness Chandi Deitmer 1Lawn game similar
to pŽtanque
6iPad download
9Tear 13Old-Fashioned
option
17Post-surgery
regimen
18In close combat
20Ton o’
21Southwestern
snapshot gallery?
23Like Chartres
Cathedral
24Drummer 25Inert gas
26Diver’s need
27“Cool your jets”
30Alerts to some party planners that their guests have arrived?
33Red tide bloom
34Drag show
accessory
35Puts in
36_ _ tie
37Skating biopic starring Margot Robbie
for subor
40Ending
ex
42“Nailed Ringo
It!” host Nicole the Rainbow” composer 44One searching for a river crossing?
43“Over
47_ _ blues: genre that originated in Mississippi
49Actor
Mahershala
50Yale grads
52“Look on the bright side!”
of getting-to-knowyou questions?
64Audio giant
65Passage cleared
by a neti pot
66PBS-funding org.
67Play-_ _
68Like lech—n
asado
69“No ifs, _ _, or
buts”
70Flipped bar
tables?
75Private aye
77Daredevil Knievel
78“Beach House” singer Carly _ _ Jepsen
79Fawned (over)
82Veto a very large
corsage?
89Some IRAs
92Vampire’s curfew
94Nursery cry
95French star
96Pointless event
at the Olympics?
97Napa product
98Small slitherer
100Last president to keep a White House cow
101Entertainment
at a tailgate
56Troves
party?
107_ _ mitzvah
108Guarantees 109Meat salad in
Lao cuisine
110Pontificate 112Lay into
113Political movement against free enterprise, or a way of reading this puzzle’s long answers?
118Rummikub
pieces
119Familiar turf
120Hyper 121Rich rocks
122Agape 123Many OCS
grads
124Cicely
who wrote the 2021 memoir “Just As I Am”
DOWN 1Wireless
support, maybe
2Ref. that could be considered hi-def.?
3Comedian
Margaret
4Taxi waiting area
5“Likely story”
6Pulsating 7Wretch 8Veterinary patient
9Thorny flowers
10Set of values
11When the sun is
highest
12Bank acct.
addition
13“I’m normally more humble than this ... “
14Gas additive
15Excited 16Includes 19Color quality
20Epithet for Shiva
22Oom-_ _
23Tour stops
26Tennis great
Agassi
27Oliver Twist, for
one
28Palo
_ _, California
29Assistant
with a hunch?
31_ _ chips
32Picked out of a
lineup, briefly
38Quite a spell
39Wheel shaft
41Male title derived
from “brother”
42Hat edge
43Supped 45Steinway
instrument
46Above-thestreet trains
48Scale divs.
51Pro or con
53Basketball commentator Rebecca
54w/o delay
55Cozy spots
56“Mercy me!”
57French film
58Winds 59Plans
down to go public?
60Actor Watanabe
61Roof overhang
62Japanese drama
63_ _ party
68Storage box
70_ _-Magnon
71Tony-winning musical “Dear _ _ Hansen”
72Nero Wolfe
creator Stout
73Oodles
74“Mercy
Mercy Me” singer
76Apple platform
80Takes care of a
draft
81Great _ _
83Sheep trills
84“You’re too
kind!”
85Rotund stove
86“Glass Onion” filmmaker Johnson
87_ _ Romeo: sports
car 88Hairy legend
89Cite 90Like many
summer concerts
91_ _ strength: measure of tolerance
93“Let’s see ... “
97Noisy bird in a dome-shaped nest
99Hazards 102Bow-toting
deity
103Tempting words
in Wonderland
104Bawled 105School basics
106Lab rodent
111Stretched thin
113Cry of discovery
114IM pioneer
115“_ _ Raining Them”: Mila Jam remake celebrating the gender spectrum
116Sign for a
crowded house
117Guy