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BIG X AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

ACROSS

1 “Golden touch” monarch (2 wds.) 6 Sweaters

with buttons 11 Grateful

Dead fans 16 Milk sugar 18 Aries 19 Drop-leaf ___ 20 Detroit union 21 Newly born 23 Dine 24 Crimson 25 Vote in 28 Heavy sword 30 W. Yorkshire

city

33 Loafer

35 Dog slobber 37 Self 38 Scheduled 40 Pooh’s

donkey pal 42 Merry month 43 Dover souls 44 Singer Minaj 45 Pekoe brewer 48 Vast 50 Spanish

rice dish 53 Wiped clean 56 Eternity 57 Kathie ___

Gifford 58 Come into

view 61 Almost

homered 62 Scotland

neighbor 65 Virginia state

tree

66 Smell

67 Kind of

warden 69 ___ sanctum 71 Sports nut 73 Welsh dog 74 Polar ocean 77 Skiing

category 80 Eyed rudely 82 Leave by the

wayside 84 Scuba tank

gas 86 Italian fashion house 87 B&B 88 Rocky crag 89 Studio stand 90 Hottest

continent 93 Chaplin in

City Lights 96 Washington

port

99 Ohio city

101 Breakfast

nook

103 Eight singers 104 Beach

footwear

105 Stopped

106 Avatar race 108 Talk

110 Off hours

113 Southern

state

116 Link up

118 Baltimore

team

120 Born

121 Hot Springs,

for one

122 New Orleans

team

125 Sewing

staple

127 Holy day

130 African fly 132 Lake craft 133 Puts in piles 134 Legal matter 135 Mollycoddl­e 138 Japanese

cars

142 Tax advisor 143 Immigratio­n

island

145 Pageant

crown

146 Gadget button 148 In pieces

149 Ms. Witherspoo­n 151 “Earth” prefix

152 Fuzzy cap 153 Travel website 156 Aykroyd or Rather

157 Oklahoma city 158 Motorist’s org.

159 Made

possible

162 Domicile 163 Countertop

oven

164 Refrained

from voting

DOWN

1 Apian hybrid (2 wds.) 2 SNL

network 3 Dairy farm

sound 4 Low-calorie

pop (2 wds.) 5 Frontyard

bushes 6 Selfie taker 7 Baby toy 8 Permeate 9 Not inclined 10 Small

apartment 11 Dilly-dally 12 Unorthodox 13 Owns 14 Good hole

card

15 Moon 17 Tic-___-toe 22 Roadster 26 Juan Peron’s

wife 27 Perfume

sampler 29 Over the

moon 31 Waxed

cheese

32 Big man on

campus 34 Covered a

statue 35 Go-getter 36 Film award 39 Strong string 41 Road sign 46 Skyscraper 47 Light lager 49 Wiggly fish 51 With zeal 52 Lionlike 54 Weed out 55 Walk tall 59 Degas or

Poe 60 Jewel 63 Italian

seaport 64 Played

the role 66 Reddish ape 68 A+ 70 Beaming 71 Assisi saint 72 Tall

hoopsters 73 Laugh

heartily 75 Film producer DeMille 76 Greek epic 78 NBA legend

Shaq 79 Donna Summer music

81 Corn spike 83 Hide ___ hair 85 Sticky stuff 91 Silly

92 Horn in 94 Sleep

disorder 95 Andes pack

animal 97 Marching call 98 Craziness

100 Banish

102 Prickly plants 107 Heavenly

altar

109 Pantry pest 111 Walks in 112 Make lovable 113 Greek fabulist 114 Dylan or Costas

115 Pale

116 Short rest 117 Kind of salad 118 Gangster 119 LP material 123 ICU worker 124 Postponed play

126 Hold back 128 Naked

129 Dull pain

131 Lacking

finesse

135 Ping-Pong item

136 Big wine bottle 137 X-rated 139 Canadian capital

140 Vandalize

141 African

desert

144 Wrath

147 21-gun salute 150 Tide type

154 Nova

network

155 Pappy

160 Dental org. 161 Cariou of Blue

Bloods

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