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- PITCH IMPERFECT | BY PATRICK BLINDAUER | EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS 1 Comment after a bull’s-eye 9 Distress 16 When Hamlet says “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio” 20 Sponsor of classic radio’s “Little Orphan Annie” 21 Lindbergh, e.g. 22 Japanese noodle 23 Warren Buffett’s rule about hugging? 26 Toymaker Rubik 27 Cone head? 28 Actor Stephen 29 Like some prose 30 You are, in español 33 Math ordinal 35 Tiger Stadium sch. 38 Skyscrapin­g 39 Encouragin­g words from slug enthusiast­s? 45 Word said with right or rise 46 Nothing: Fr. 47 Grp. that gets the lead out? 48 Bust supporter 51 Fifth-to-last word in the Lord’s Prayer 53 “Sharp” fashion 56 Creature on the Australian coat of arms 57 Mozart’s “____ kleine Nachtmusik” 58 Tiny powerhouse 59 Rap’s Dr. ____ 60 Hayek of “Frida” 62 Longtime soap actress Hall 64 Shout to one about to be knighted? 69 One side of a quad, say 71 Milo of stage and screen 72 Voice from a phone 73 Take a clothing slogan too seriously? 78 Like Loyola and Xavier universiti­es 82 Clobbers 83 Fish eggs 84 1 + 2, in Germany 86 Prefix with -scope 87 Investment sometimes pronounced as a name 88 Risky 92 Surmise 93 Video-game playing, e.g. 96 ____ Day (Hawaiian holiday) 97 SEAL Team 6 mission 99 Chinese calendar animal 100 Tulle, to brides? 104 Carriage 105 Dundee turndown 106 Messenger of biochemist­ry 107 French film director Clair 108 Gray matter? 110 Have in view 112 ____-d’Oise (French department) 115 “American Greed” channel 118 “After all that hard work, I’ll order some cake”? 124 Latin word on the back of a dollar bill 125 Compact 126 People holding things up 127 Bellyache 128 Antarctic waters 129 “Perfecto!” DOWN 1 Terminal in a computer network 2 Composer Novello 3 Cylindrica­l pasta 4 The matador’s foe 5 Peter and Francis: Abbr. 6 Peg solitaire puzzle brand 7 Burden 8 Member of Generation Z 9 Looney Tunes devil, for short 10 Possible reply to “Where are you?” 11 Confirmati­on, e.g. 12 Thanks, in Hawaii 13 Juillet et août 14 Ibsen’s homeland: Abbr. 15 Hit the ground running? 16 Indian retreats 17 Hook, line and sinker 18 Game for little sluggers 19 Fan part 24 Huge spans 25 Little darling 31 “Climb ____ Mountain” 32 Sicilian six 34 Long race, in brief 36 Top-notch 37 Like most trivia, in the real world 39 Carried on 40 Kemper of “The Office” 41 Try 42 Stoned 43 Derisive cry 44 Mormons, for short 49 What a bandoleer holds 50 Party with pu-pu platters 52 Cotton candy additive 54 Mummy in “The Mummy” 55 Saverin who co-founded Facebook 58 Musical lead-in to -smith 60 Like some losers 61 Up 63 Rogers, Orbison and Yamaguchi 65 Magazine edition: Abbr. 66 “Hey, I want to listen here!” 67 Roman gods 68 Country whose name is one letter different from a mountain 70 Gheorghe ____, former 7’7” N.B.A. player 73 “Ooh, dat hurt!” 74 1-5 on a cellphone screen 75 Precision 76 iRobot vacuum 77 Cape Cod town 79 Cut ties with, in a way 80 Best 81 Law-school class 85 Whom “I saw” on a seesaw, in a tongue twister 88 Peter Pan rival 89 Ring master 90 Play 91 One-named hitmaker of the 1950s-’60s 92 Word with two apostrophe­s 94 Leading 95 Pasta whose name is Italian for “feathers” 98 Sale tag abbr. 101 “Speed” star 102 ____ bean 103 Make secret 104 “Where to Invade Next” filmmaker 108 Letters of invitation? 109 1914 battle site 111 Desires 113 Comparable (to) 114 Golf ’s Champagne Tony 116 City and province of southern Italy 117 Anatomical sac 119 Composer of the Windows 95 start-up sound 120 Some offensive linemen: Abbr. 121 “____ sport!” 122 New York engineerin­g sch. 123 ____ Aviv

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