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AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

ACROSS

1 Beef patty 6 Practical

joker 11 Added

honey 16 Zoo sights 17 Blood of the

gods 18 Shrek et al. 19 Pudgy 20 “Who knows?” gesture 21 ___ Aviv 22 Sold-out

sign 23 Manicure

focus

25 An Obama

daughter 27 Armstrong

or Ito 30 Balm 32 Triple crown 33 Coffee

alternativ­e 34 Make holy 36 Fall flowers 38 Mama bear 39 “___

welcome!” 40 Email

provider 42 Homer epic 43 Ship’s

steerer 46 Dreadful 47 In utero 50 Dig further

down 52 Pappy 53 Relatives 54 New Year’s

drink 56 What’shis-name (hyph.) 57 Minute’s 60 60 Bedroom

bureau 61 Pocket

bread 62 Land

measure 64 Sports

venue 66 Aerial artist 68 Duck down 69 Hullabaloo 72 Ship 75 Wrestling

hold 77 Snitched 79 Accounting

book

81 New Haven

collegian 82 Old Egypt 83 Luau dish 84 DeGeneres

or Barkin 85 Meeting

schedule 88 Massive fire 91 Luncheon

on the grass 94 Enlist 96 Road

98 Will of Blue

Bloods 99 Hug

100 Glowing coal 101 Aldrin

walked on it 102 Graceful bird 103 Be made (of) 106 Perfumed 109 “Not in my

___ dreams” 111 Tranquil

113 2016 Olympics city

114 Kimono

sash

115 Bowling

group

118 Slow, in

music

120 Nassau’s

islands

123 Singer

Underwood 125 Fetch

126 Lyricist

Gershwin

127 Oleanna playwright 128 Pitching stat 129 Capital of Spain

132 Six performers 136 Fawn’s mom 137 “All snug in ___ beds ...” 138 Bonn river 139 Turns to mush

141 Saying

142 Sink hole

143 Glamorous

Gardner

144 Baby bear 145 “I do” sayer 147 Golfer

Woods

148 New Orleans

stew

149 Purple

bloom

150 Massive

mammal

151 Nancy Drew,

e.g.

152 Hemmed

and hawed

153 Mr. Fix-it

DOWN

1 Trite

2 Star

brightness 3 Times at bat 4 Denied 5 Same old

thing 6 Doorway 7 Creed in

Rocky IV 8 Carpenters

drummer 9 Throws 10 Sleep 11 Craniums 12 Strong

coffee 13 “___ the season ...” 14 Story 15 Cutthroat (hyph.) 24 2-channel

sound 26 Salon

specialty 28 Not here 29 Placid 31 Roughly 32 Sharp pain 35 Starring roles 37 Blabs 41 Norway

capital

44 In the dark 45 L.A. team 48 Mixed 49 Part of ROTC 51 Sacred song 55 Snatches 58 Diamond

weight

59 ___ Peace

Prize 61 Elephant 63 Duke of jazz 65 Marigolds and

impatiens, e.g. 66 Mounted on 67 Pollywog 68 Sun-EarthMoon event 70 More qualified 71 Ryan in Love

Story 73 Standing

straight 74 Work a

puzzle 76 Director

Spike 78 Little piggy 80 Tom Collins

ingredient 86 Collected bit

by bit 87 Zero 89 Aesop’s tale 90 Smiling 92 Shoemaker 93 Citizen of

21-A

95 1/8 cup 97 Dreadlocke­d

Jamaican 104 Asian wild

ass 105 Southern Cal

mascot

106 On the

wagon

107 Close

108 Rx amounts 109 Evil

110 Looked like 111 Subverted 112 Postponed due to weather (2 wds.)

116 YMCA room 117 Your Song singer (2 wds.)

119 Italian almond cookies 121 Conceal 122 Ship’s spar 124 USA/Europe golf event (2 wds.)

129 Mix at a

mixer

130 Shortage

131 Public

personae 133 Chaperon 134 Shelved

135 Singer

Swift

140 “The sky’s

the ___!”

146 Fleetwood

___

150 Slugger’s

stat

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