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Sarcastic response to an unsurprising development
14 That makes two of
us!
21 Gold-rush camp that became a state capital
22 Carrier out of Kuala
Lumpur 23 Hormone-therapy
product
24 They’re seen on the flags of Bhutan and Wales
25 Alexanders I-III 26 Legal claim 27 Retailer headquartered in Freeport, Maine 29 “____ Up Offa That
Thing” (1976 hit) 30 “Will be,” in Spanish 31 Map out
32 The Stepford wives in “The Stepford Wives,” it seems 33 Host city of the
2022 FIFA World
Cup
34 ____ Vogue 35 Acronymic devices in atomic clocks and radio telescopes
36 Part of a
woodworking joint 37 ____ the Lucky Rabbit, character in early Disney shorts 40 Much sketch
comedy
41 “Media impressions,” “influencer marketing,” etc., informally 42 Emulate
43 Diamond division 44 Sore spots for kids? 45 QB-protecting
group
46 Difficult
47 San ____, capital founded in 1521 48 Super-sillyous?
Freestyling | Tracy Bennett
50 Apocalyptic scene 4 Planet Earth
55 What nocturnal 5 Actress Mireille polysomnography ____ of TV’s may detect “Hanna” and 56 Mainstay of a sci-fi “Lucky Hank”
defense system 6 Trail behind
57 Canal inspector 7 Made scents? 58 Most serious, in law 8 Lasting for an
59 It’s a question of immeasurable time
timing span
60 Metric weight units 9 How legal papers 61 Actor Wilson of may be signed
“The Office” 10 Die-hard fan, in 62 Month that goes by modern lingo
fast? 11 Turner of American 66 “Jeepers!” history
67 Stops over in 12 Wrapped around
France? 13 Mark who was the 68 Billionaires and world’s highestpaid
such actor in 2017 69 Badly injured 14 Military trainees 70 Elegant and refined 15 Turkish money 71 See 81-Across 16 Port city in Algeria 72 Given the name 17 Badger
73 Peacock show? 18 Having equal angles 74 What a token may 19 Like some golf
resemble courses
75 Pleased as punch 20 They may need 76 Abandon without fillings
warning 28 Snooze
77 Figure in the Hindu 31 Who said, “Football
trinity is not about one or 81 With 71-Across, two or three star participant in some players” fertility treatments 32 Rough fabric with a 82 Picks to win loose weave
83 “The Handmaid’s 33 Investigators: Abbr.
Tale” airer 34 Leave hurriedly, in 84 First Nations group quaint usage of the Great Lakes 35 Capital on the region island of Luzon 85 “Let’s Make a Deal” 36 Passage from one
option party to another 87 Prompt from the 37 “Va-va-voom!”
chronically forgetful 38 It cuts the cheese 90 Accessibility (but not the
concern mustard)
91 Walk in place? 39 Got some shut-eye? 92 Leafs 40 Pulitzer-winning 93 Set of books with poet Gary maps, perhaps 41 Rang, as a bell 42 Use a divining rod 43 Like some
decals 44 Compulsory
payments of old 46 List of ranked
favorites
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Stimulates “Siddhartha” author
3 Where sacrifices
may be made 47 Purchase at a
sports stadium 49 Seasonal Russian
cottages 50 Intruded, with “in” 51 Items usually sold
in boxes of 25 52 Mountaintop homes 53 Enough to go
around
54 Utopias
56 Played the rat 58 Outschemed, in a
way
60 Period from 1945 to
1953
62 Evergreen tree with
fragrant bark 63 Indian dish of potatoes and cauliflower 64 Putt-putt
65 Loads
66 “Carmina Burana”
composer
67 Landed
69 Units of RAM, for
short
70 Character
defamation 72 Family emblems 73 They’re found beside exclamation marks on keyboards
75 Inkling
76 Coup group 77 Sweet stuff in asparagus (if you read it backward)? 78 Many a Shiite
79 It may be raised in an argument 80 Auntie ____
(pretzel chain) 82 Pasta-recipe
instruction
83 Inkling
84 Largest of the
lagomorphs
86 Flag thrower,
informally
88 Time to get back to work:
Abbr. 89 Otherworldly sorts,
for short