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AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

ACROSS

1 Quilled creature 6 Spicy pie 11 Little yellow

flower 16 Gabs

17 Dryly

amusing 18 Cookout spot 19 Damascus

locale 20 Source of

wool

21 Sick

22 “My country,

___ of ...” 23 Group of eight 25 Shinny up 27 Blah feeling 30 Paradises 32 Comedy 33 Epoch

34 Par for the ___ 36 Climbed

Everest 38 Opponent 39 Lucky number 40 Beer

42 Maui greeting 43 Think up 46 Hindered 47 Ark’s landfall 50 Nun

53 Cariou of

Blue Bloods 54 “Greatest”

boxer 55 Comment 58 Magazine

bosses 59 Orator’s

pedestal 62 Citrus drink 63 Turn to slush 64 Engagement

wear 66 Tennis star

Kvitov· 68 Start a hockey game (2 wds.) 70 ___ Rae

(1979) 71 Nullify 74 Salon

specialty 77 Vipers 79 Flustered 81 Weeping tree 83 Biblical jinx 84 Battle 85 Asner and

Sheeran 86 Bank exam 87 Blunt 90 Narrowmind­ed 93 City of

152-Across 96 Renter 98 Sound

system

100 Picks up a

book

101 Extremist

102 0° on a

compass

103 Fleshy fruit 105 Club for

Tiger

107 Like bullies 110 Independen­ce 113 Washington, D.C. river

115 Went separate ways

117 Fat farm

118 Gardner of films 119 Race-related 122 Natural gift 124 Served a banquet

127 Ohio city

129 Young eel

130 Ryder Cup

team

131 ___ Gras

132 Help

133 Add herbs to 136 Frolic

140 Caesar’s 1002 141 Yummy

142 Long for

143 More modern 145 San Antonio landmark 146 Kind of bracelet

147 “Golly!”

148 Tarnish

149 Dim

151 Mad

152 Pakistan neighbor

153 Kick out 154 Little green man

155 NYC airport 156 Victoria’s Secret clerk 157 Hive residents (2 wds.)

DOWN

1 Braised beef dishes (2 wds.) 2 Reunion

attendees 3 FedEx rival 4 Signify 5 Strangely

beautiful 6 Beach near

L.A. 7 Italian

tourist city 8 Consumed 9 X-rated 10 Corn tuft 11 Made dog noises 12 Switch schools 13 Dawn goddess 14 Vanilla pop (2 wds.) 15 Soft-cover

book 24 Refused 26 Cover girls 28 Half-moon

tide 29 Preowned 31 Get off track 32 Warmed 35 Spoils a

parade 37 African

antelope 41 Jump 44 Leaked,

as a faucet 45 Last Supper

figure 48 Naval bigwig 49 Oklahoma

tribe 51 Eisenhower 52 Aquarium

fish 56 Thank-you

(Fr.) 57 Sprinted 60 Sporty

neckwear 61 Sear a steak 63 Kentucky Derby drink (2 wds.) 65 Abandoned

city (2 wds.) 67 Jeopardy!

questions 68 Shoer of

horses 69 Part of FBI 70 Journalist 72 Hereditary

factors 73 Lake near

Reno

75 Be ready for 76 Speed trap 78 I topper 80 Greek T 82 Hunting dog 88 Caribbean

resort 89 Different 91 Sexy ___:

Beatles 92 Spiked the

punch

94 Of marriage 95 Red-faced 97 “Jack ___ could eat no ...” 99 Love Story author Segal

104 Gabor or

Green 106 Japanese sash

108 Double-cross 109 Rolle of

Good

Times

110 Almanac contents 111 Potato buds 112 Milady

113 Police the area

114 Energy type 115 Abundant

116 Gorgeous 120 Story

121 Striped rodents 123 LBJ’s wife (2 wds.) 125 Melody

126 Wrath

128 Alberta capital 133 Largest desert 134 Heavenly beings

135 Ed of

Modern Family 137 Spanish fleet 138 By a whisker 139 Extravagan­t 144 Stays near shore

150 Mad Hatter’s drink

154 Adams or

Poehler

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