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BIG X AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

ACROSS

1 Ice-cream drink 6 First-rate 11 Foretold 16 Entertain 17 “Take me

___ the ball game...”

(2 wds.) 19 Emulate

Astaire

20 Sent a

telegram to 22 Beer mug 23 Baby lion 24 Bert’s Muppet

friend

25 Sells 26 Eisenhower 27 Thumper’s

deer friend 29 Poet Pound 31 Outline 34 Misplace 36 Hidden trove 38 Marry

40 Older than old 42 Chair part 43 Girl

45 High card 46 Tacks on 48 MLB hitting

stat

49 Facing

51 Die

53 Vocalist 55 Silk-___ printing 57 Climbed a mountain 59 Perfect test

score 64 Buyer’s bonus 66 Beard remover 68 Expensive 69 Skywalker’s mentor

70 Moses parted it (2 wds.) 73 Bubbling 74 Breathed in 77 Mad

78 Opinion 81 Academy 84 Stick around 86 Respected

elder

89 Ms.

Witherspoo­n 92 Pioneer 10’s org.

94 Black ___ cattle 95 Ford flop 96 Telling whoppers 97 Sunrise locale 100 Tower city in Genesis

102 Song line

105 “No way!”

107 Far from shore 109 Part of UFO 111 Cavill in

Man of Steel 112 Baby goose 116 Android

117 Turn on

120 Goatish glance 121 Snaky fish 122 Tenant

125 On the beach 126 Pinpointed

129 Inuit abodes 130 Rainforest rodent

131 Fall fruits 133 Becomes mushy 135 Greenland neighbor 138 Computer “brain”

139 Rind

140 Detroit union 141 Dobbin’s dinner 143 Sick

144 July drink (2 wds.) 148 Friendly

152 “I do” locale 153 Batman player West

154 Dior design 156 Emerald Isle 158 Longshot win 159 Bar none

160 Tour de France vehicles

162 Mr.

Tambourine Man singer 164 Squirrel’s snack

165 ___ white shark 167 Pontificat­e 168 Poetic Muse 169 Heavenly hunter 170 Hedren in

The Birds 172 Pelican State 173 Kitties

174 Camelot

queen

DOWN

1 Spaghetti and ___

2 Baton Rouge college

3 Out of the ordinary 4 Pueblo

dwelling 5 Walks in 6 Berkshire school

7 West Pointers 8 Evans of

Dynasty

9 Ace, in blackjack 10 Village

11 Part of VIP 12 Murphy in Dreamgirls 13 Bugs

14 Little piggy 15 Lawn weed 18 Golf course hazard

21 Run in neutral 28 Plumlike shade 30 Gusto 32 Motive 33 Roman emperor

35 Use a fork 37 Persian rugs 39 Old Egypt

41 300, in old Rome

44 Delta fleet 47 Cause for an

SOS

50 Walked like

a duck

52 Kiev locale 54 Suffix for Siam 56 Average grade 58 Screwy 59 Furry

60 Large vase 61 Genetic ID 62 Hurricane

center 63 Evade the draft 65 Gray matter 66 Yellow Beatles boat

67 Sundial’s 7 71 Homer’s “Stupid me!” 72 Crocodile’s cousin

75 Twitter names 76 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes blonde 79 Legit

80 City in the Ruhr 82 Spy for Moses 83 Sheepish 85 TV spots 87 Eggs

88 Wide shoe

width 90 British isle 91 Hit the slopes 93 Commotion 98 Stickum 99 “Evita” dance 100 Aromatic herb (2 wds.)

101 Roll with a hole

103 Spread like wildfire 104 Napoleon’s isle 105 ___ Peace Prize

106 Braised beef dish (2 wds.) 108 MacGraw in Love Story 110 Rocker Bon Jovi 113 Spanish gold 114 Meadow

115 Born

118 Lawn game with wickets 119 Make lace 123 Sixth sense 124 Adds up

127 Not requiring a tie

128 Formosa now 130 St. Michael the ___

132 Card game for one

133 Dove into

home

134 Dine

136 Santa’s helper 137 Active one 139 Buccaneers 142 Deliberate­ly sink 145 Bathhouse 146 Radiate

147 Art stands 149 Men’s hat 150 Kind of hug 151 Look for the Silver ___ 153 Honolulu greeting 155 Europe’s “Boot”

157 The blahs 161 Hold on to 163 Oodles 166 Ostrich kin 171 Boston cream ___

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