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1 Orbital high point
7 Coder’s major, briefly
14 Babylonian goddess
20 Au Bon Pain alternative
21 101 Dalmatians prequel
22 Torchbearer?
23 Query about which act will perform first at a concert?
25 Pre-Aztec culture of Mexico
26 Pokémon: Detective __
27 Appears to be
28 Israel’s Barak
29 They’re exposed by flip-flops
31 Cocktail shaken in a laundry machine?
36 Tater
40 English soccer star Williamson
42 “Go ahead!”
43 Universal donor type, briefly
44 “Ode to a Zippo”?
49 Makeshift sled
51 Artless nickname?
52 Let 53 Native to the area
55 Clear plastic
57 Lumberyard purchase
60 The devil
61 Refers
62 Legal helper, informally
64 Helped
66 Hotel capacity
67 Be at ease while counting?
73 Harshly criticize
75 Do a nose job?
76 Abbr. before a summary, online
77 Fangs
80 Roper’s rope
83 Japanese for “harbor wave”
88 Prolific English Christmas carol composer John
89 “Wow!”
91 Tag declaration
92 Kingston sch.
93 Periods, essentially
95 Oklahoma farewell?
98 The __ (park in Boston’s Back Bay)
100 The best animal ever?
102 Choir voice
103 Thin and angular
104 Lay it on thick with the judges?
109 Son, in French
111 Eponymous puzzle inventor Rubik
112 What a colon may represent
114 Acts as an intermediary
119 Roman general who defeated Hannibal
122 Choice about whether to order bacon?
124 Crossword neighbor
125 Looked forward to
126 Napoli’s nation
127 Some steaks
128 Birds of prey
129 Crowd
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1 Each
2 Big __ (David Ortiz)
3 Short fun run distance
4 Actress Rowlands
5 Upright
6 Football helmet feature
7 Hosp. heart ward
8 Mined materials
9 Said thoughtfully
10 First pope
11 Repulsive
12 Not taking customers
13 Actor McKellen
14 “Are you done?”
15 Search thoroughly
16 Maintain, as principles
17 Explosive compound
18 It’s worth four high-card points in bridge
19 Suggestion, in brief
24 Not cishet
28 Arab ruler
30 Floppy disk icon
32 Campus military grp.
33 One with privileged access
34 Scored a goal, in hockey or soccer
35 “Hmm, OK”
36 What great songs do
37 Medicine form
38 Word that you can’t spell “unsightly” without, aptly
39 Arabian Sea sailboat
41 Egg layers
45 Late lunch hour, maybe
46 Old nutritional abbr.
47 Ignite
48 Envelope icon
50 Actor Brynner
54 Pacers’ home, informally
56 111-Across creation
58 Clumsy sort
59 Rubbish
61 One in the majority?
63 Sleeve filler
65 Tolkien tree creature
67 Watering hole
68 Leave out
69 Semester, e.g.
70 Jennifer Garner spy show
71 Docs, or their degrees
72 Uncle they actually do talk about in Encanto
73 Back of the neck
74 Tree sacred to Apollo
78 The Dutch, on Olympic scoreboards
79 Sensitive, in a way
81 Draw
82 Actress Taylor-Joy
84 Gaming greenhorn
85 8, for oxygen: Abbr.
86 Bearing
87 “Just doing my best”
89 Letters of urgency
90 Activity where it’s good to be below par
94 Corrida creature
96 Functional
97 Ask for
99 Trample underfoot
101 Capital of Kiribati
105 Tot’s wheels, informally
106 Stuffy-sounding, perhaps
107 Moral code
108 Intentionally deceive
110 “Thus __ the Lord...”
113 __ Ishii (assassin in Kill Bill)
115 Munich’s river 116 Farm tower
117 Irish author Colfer
118 Hitch
119 Retired fast jet: Abbr.
120 Rookie reporter
121 Vow words
122 Battle of Britain fliers: Abbr.
123 Orthodontist’s deg.